Washington nuclear conference promotes US campaign against Iran, North Korea
President Barack Obama opened the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington Monday, a two-day event that, in the guise of promoting disarmament and opposing terrorism, seeks to line up international support for the US campaign to isolate, pressure and ultimately overthrow the governments of Iran and North Korea. Far from representing a break from the aggressive approach of the preceding Bush administration, the Obama policy is an effort to accomplish the same goal—US military domination of the Middle East. PressTV: 'West has no evidence against Iran'. + Iran says US summit political show. AFP: Egypt: Press both Iran, Israel on nukes. Fars News Agency: Afghan Official: US Moves [in Afghanistan] to Increase Military Threat against Iran. Haaretz: Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran could spark global catastrophe. DprogramNet: ‘Israel may drag US into new war’.
AWIP/Edward S. Herman & David Peterson: The Iran Threat in the Age of Real-Axis-of-Evil Expansion:
The real threat that Iran poses to the United States and Israel is that of a local rival to Israel which might hamper Israel's dispossession and expansion program in the Palestinian Territories, as well as U.S. domination of this region of the world. From a global viewpoint, the real threat is that Iran's independence and refusal to grovel might lead to a war of aggression against it by Israel and/or the United States, and such a war could in turn spark an even larger conflagration.