britain declares war on iran

Sir Rupert Murdoch's {Sunday Times} of London published a British Empire declaration of war against Iran, using its puppet state, Israel, as the cover to claim credit for the Jan. 11th killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan and the other nuclear scientists, going back to the first such assassination in January 2010.  


The gloating article is called "The World Inside Mossad's War on Tehran," and it describes a minute by minute account of the surveillance of Roshan, and how the attacks are planned and carried out in the "heart of Tehran" by Israeli agents, who can strike at any time.


"For Israel it was a classic assassination mission. `What is seen in espionage films as a simple operation is a result of hard work, many months of intelligence gathering and a well-trained team,' said a source who released details, impossible to verify, to {The Sunday Times}.


That said, the {Sunday Times} has now officially announced that Israel is carrying out a covert war, so they raise the question, "the worry is, how will Iran respond?"


The {Times} writes:

"Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has used assassination as a national weapon, striking targets abroad ranging from Palestinians who killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, to enemies on the streets of Amman and a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel room in 2010," writes the {Times}.


"Now Iran is the target. In the past two years assassins have attacked five scientists in the state nuclear program, killing four of them. Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence agency, is widely believed to be responsible....

"There has also been a series of mysterious explosions. Last November a blast hit a military base used by the Revolutionary Guards, killing General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, head of Iran's ballistic missile program."


The British game is play up the Israeli role--which is actually orchestrated by the British "mother"--knowing that if Iran can be provoked into counter-attacking, it will be against the United States, and U.S.-strategic assets.


At the same time, the Brits have inserted themselves, through their "special relationship cousin" America, deep into the policy and decision-making process about war against Iran and Syria. 


In May 2011, just after the Navy Seals assassination of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, Obama made a trip to London where he set up the U.S.-U.K. Joint Strategy Board, which is an integration of the U.S. National Security Council and the corresponding British council. 


Then, two weeks ago, British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond made his first trip to the U.S. and signed, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta a statement of intent on aircraft carrier cooperation, where British pilots will be eventually flying off from U.S. aircraft carriers since the British Empire eliminated its carriers long ago, due to austerity.


And, what do we get out of all of this?