Searching For Truth In Post-Truth Era
He has not been seen in public since the war began. Rumour has it that he has taken shelter in a secret place or has left the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu declared that his forces would eliminate the Supreme Leader of Iran. Finally, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei appeared on video on June 26, 2025 for the first time since US airstrikes hit Iranian nuclear sites. He informed the international community that the US-Israeli attacks did not “achieve anything significant” and the US would “definitely pay a heavy price” if it attacks Iran again, stressing: “Tehran has access to key US centres in the region and can take action whenever it deems necessary.“
Ayatollah Khamenei further claimed that US President Donald John Trump and his military generals were lying about Iran’s losses. He slammed the top US officials for repeatedly making a false claim that the US strikes “obliterated” the ability of the Islamic Republic to produce nuclear weapons. The problem is that this is the Era of Post-truth and most of the political leaders are big liars. Hence, it is quite difficult to understand who says what and the severity of destruction. It has also become a common phenomenon for all sides involved in a conflict to declare victory, when a war breaks out.
The Breakdown of International Law
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter (Volume 39, No. 26, June 26, 2025): How the acute crisis around Iran will play out remains highly uncertain at this point? President Trump proclaimed on June 23 (Washington DC time) that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire, and that the war would end soon. But as we know, his statements are not reliable. In reality, the situation could quickly escalate into a global warfare, with the attendant danger of the use of nuclear weapons, and at the very least with tremendous destruction and loss of lives in the entire South-West Asia region.
What is certain, though, is that the unprecedented US attacks with bunker busters against uranium enrichment sites in Iran, ordered by President Trump and carried out in the middle of the night of June 22, signify the complete breakdown of international law, as we know it. There can be no doubt that this aggression – even if Tehran and all major actors had been informed beforehand of what was to come and even if the damage was more show than substance – had no basis in international law or under the UN Charter. This was not the first such case, of course, albeit the most far-reaching. The US attacks follow on the illegal war of aggression launched by Israel’s crazed regime against Iran, and the horrendous genocide which the international community has tolerated in Gaza for 18 months.
The decision by the Trump Administration was all the more perfidious, as Donald Trump had just given the Iranian leaders a two-week deadline to restart the negotiations, which they had only broken off after the massive surprise attacks launched one week earlier by Israel (with Washington DC’s green light), and after the Israelis had killed one of the top Iranian negotiators. But the responsibility of the Europeans and of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not be forgotten. It was the UK, France and Germany that had initiated a resolution at the IAEA on June 12, then endorsed by the US, which accused Iran of non-compliance with its nuclear obligations in order to serve as justification for the Israeli attacks launched the next day. As the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, admitted on June 18 that his agency had “no proof” that Iran has been developing a nuclear bomb. (According to insider Alastair Crooke, the software used by the IAEA to assess nuclear threats is an AI programme supplied by Palantir, the company of war-hawk Peter Thiel, which was financed by the CIA.)
Nonetheless, diplomatic efforts are underway to put an end to the escalation, both from some members of the UN Security Council, namely China, Russia and Pakistan, and from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with its 57 member nations.
In the US itself, opposition to the war policy from the Democratic Party hacks is purely opportunistic, but popular protests, provided they grow, are more likely to convince President Trump to follow through on his promise to end American involvement in forever wars, in particular if it comes from his MAGA movement.
The chaos and breakdown of the current order that are now obvious to all have one redeeming feature, and that is, that it could accelerate the emergence of a new security and development architecture.
What Next? Will Israel/US Escalate To Tactical Nuclear Weapons?
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter (Volume 39, No. 26, June 26, 2025): The Schiller Institute issued a statement on June 22, hours after President Trump ordered the attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran, for the widest possible circulation. It is also being distributed by The LaRouche Organisation in the US, with a special focus on Manhattan and Washington DC, under the title: Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?, which is US Independence Day.
Your life, in as little as a few days or weeks, could end in an “accidental thermonuclear war”, the statement warns. If the sites bombed on June 22 were not destroyed, or if the capacities can be rebuilt, will a tactical nuclear device be used against Iran, “either by a renegade Israel, or by the US, or by Israel with the agreement of the US?” Here follow extensive quotes from the SI statement.
The driving force for these events is not in the Middle East. It is in the global shift in economic power away from the bankrupt trans-Atlantic NATO Anglosphere nations, inhabited by the golden billion, to the seven billion other people in the world, typified by the BRICS nations. Iran, a member of the BRICS, wants nuclear power, not nuclear weapons. The intent of the War Party is to use the US, once an anti-imperial nation, as a battering ram against the BRICS, starting with Iran.
With its attack on Iran, the US has rejected what its greatest diplomat, (sixth US) President John Quincy Adams, characterised as its very nature: “(America) goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy… She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own… she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”
By breaking his pledge that he would keep the US out of war, President Trump has now fallen into the policy-grip of the War Party. If you think that means “the Israelis”, you are mistaken. They are the match, but who sets the fires? Is that the role that Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, Sir Richard Dearlove, Sir Peter Mandelson and others from the City of London are playing in Washington DC right now? Are we watching a reprise of London’s role in starting the Iraq War, in particular giving George Bush his infamous sixteen words – “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” -when there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Is this similar to the role that the British Ministry of Defence, through its Project Alchemy, has played in the attacks deep into Russian territory that also threaten nuclear war?
Israel has nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and has had them for over 60 years. That ugly, open secret is why nations, like Iran, whatever you may choose to think of their policies, have acted as they have. If the Iranian sites were in fact not destroyed, the danger is that some crazy from the bowels of the Pentagon will now propose, “The only ‘dead certain’ way forward is to use ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons.”
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