Independent journalist Kit Klarenberg posted an article on his website yesterday, asking the question: “War with Iran: Made in Britain?” The details he provides add up to a resounding “yes!” He goes back only to Oct. 7, 2023 reporting that, since then, “there have been ominous indications for some time [that] Britain has sought to ignite a wider conflict across West Asia—and all-out war between Iran and Israel, and its Western puppetmasters, upon the precipice of which we now teeter, has been London’s objective all along.”
He notes that just 24 hours after the Hamas attack, that is, before the Israeli response had even begun to come together, “veteran client ‘journalist’ Robert Peston took to ‘X’ to publish explosive insight provided to him by nameless ‘government and intelligence sources’: ‘Hamas’ attack on Israel has the potential to be as destabilizing to global security as Putin’s attack on Ukraine.… [Benjamin] Netanyahu is highly likely to retaliate. Biden and the U.S. would try to limit the scope of any Israeli strike on Iran, but would neither want or be able to veto it. There is a risk of this crisis spreading well beyond the Middle East…. We are in the early stages of a conflict with ramifications for much of the world.’” Peston’s journalistic career stretches back 40 years, during which he’s worked for nearly every major British press outlet, except for the tabloids.
Klarenberg writes that “there are unambiguous, deeply ominous insinuations that Britain has played a key role, both overtly and covertly, in shaping the theatre in West Asia for industrial scale upheaval ever since October 7th 2023. In addition to London’s opaque conniving in Lebanon pre-invasion, Bashar Assad’s government fell in Syria in December 2024. At the time, Benjamin Netanyahu took personal credit—but subsequent disclosures indicate MI6 were grooming Assad’s replacements, Al Qaeda and ISIS-offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, for power since at least 2023.
“The obvious question is what Britain seeks to gain from unalloyed chaos endlessly reverberating throughout West Asia,” he says. But in trying to answer that question, he misses the bigger picture, which is the frenetic effort to prevent the ongoing collapse of the London-centered imperial financier system by fomenting wars all over the world to destroy any possibility of the organization of an alternative system. Instead, he chalks up what the British are doing in Iran to an effort to recreate the MI6/CIA success in organizing the 1953 coup against the elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh, after Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil resources away from the British.
