Israel has lied and lied and lied about their genocidal ethnic cleansing war crime in Gaza and their murderous theft in the West Bank, so why the Christ would they tell the truth about Iran?
Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian Blogger whose scathing criticisms of Israeli foreign policy have marked her out as the new Pilger, her latest expose on the lies Israel is telling about Iran is a must read…
Iran and Israel are at war, with the US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course means we’ll be spending the foreseeable future getting bashed in the face with lies from the most powerful people in the world.
The most immediately obvious of these is the Netanyahu-promoted narrative that Israel initiated this conflict because Iran was on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon. With absolutely no self-consciousness or sense of irony, the Israeli prime minister followed the attacks with a statement accusing Iran of “genocidal rhetoric” which it has backed up “with a program to develop nuclear weapons.” Israel, as we all know, has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal, and its leaders are presently committing genocide in Gaza while spouting genocidal rhetoric.
“And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time,” Netanyahu claimed. “It could be a year. It could be within a few months — less than a year. This is a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.”
The western political/media class have been dutifully promoting this line and uncritically parroting Israel’s claim that its unprovoked attack on Iran was “preemptive”, but there is absolutely no evidence that any of this is true.
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent literally decades falsely claiming that Iran was a year or two away from developing a nuke, only to have the calendar prove him wrong with the passage of time over and over again.
US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard testified just weeks ago that “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
As journalist Séamus Malekafzali recently noted on Twitter, one of the strongest arguments that Iran had not reversed its decision to refrain from obtaining nuclear weapons is that Iranian nuclear scientists have been publicly expressing frustration about the fact that their government won’t allow them to construct a nuke. They want to do it, but Tehran won’t let them.
Hegseth: Iran is “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon”
2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community: “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” pic.twitter.com/fPPcF2IKQk
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 12, 2025
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth helped pave the way for Netanyahu’s claims this past Wednesday when he told the Senate that “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon.”
This claim by Hegseth was swiftly scooped up and promoted by warmongers like Tom Cotton who said that Hegseth had “confirmed that Iran’s terrorist regime is actively working towards a nuclear weapon.”
Cotton’s claim was then picked up by war pundit Mark Levin, who has been personally lobbying Trump to green light an attack on Iran, sarcastically quipping on Twitter, “So, SecDef Hegseth must by lying, too. Everyone’s lying except the isolationists, Koch-heads, Islamists, Chatsworth Qatarlson and their media propagandists.”
But let’s back up and look at what Hegseth actually said. He did not say “Iran is building a nuclear weapon.” He said “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon.”
If the US had intelligence that Iran was building a nuke, Hegseth would have just said so. But instead he performed this freakish verbal gymnastics stunt muttering about indications of something that might kinda sorta look like a nuclear weapon, which his fellow Iran hawks then falsely took and ran with as a positive assertion that Iran was building a nuke.
There are other lies being circulated to help market this war as well. As Moon of Alabama notes, the Washington Post’s odious war propagandist David Ignatius is pushing the narrative that Iran has been cultivating a relationship with de-facto al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adel. The lie that Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda was used two decades ago to sell the invasion of Iraq.
At the same time, Trumpian pundits are currently circulating the narrative that the United States is full of Iranian “sleeper cells” who could activate at any moment and begin attacking Americans. The most egregious of these is Laura Loomer’s repeatedclaims that there are “millions” of such cells awaiting Iran’s orders to strike — possibly the single most bat shit insane claim I have ever seen anyone with any major platform make, since it would mean a very sizable percentage of the US population is actually a secret Iranian proxy army.
The fountain of lies is just getting started. There will be more. Believe nothing unless it is substantiated by mountains of evidence. These freaks have been caught lying to sell wars to the public far too many times for any of their claims to be taken on faith.
…turns out the weapons of mass destruction America invaded Iraq for are now in Iran!
You are being scammed into a new Western War and we should all be sickened by our collective immorality.
We must expel the Israeli Ambassador immediately and cancel holiday visas for IDF in NZ.
As the fog of war settles, here are the 5 things we know:
1 -This is not a ‘pre-emptive’ strike!
This is not a bloody ‘pre-emptive’ strike, so dump the pretence of justification now…
…this can’t be described as ‘pre-emptive’ because there was no immediate attack to pre-empt!
2 – MSM will immediately suck up to Israel
The mainstream media will immediately begin framing all narratives as sympathetic to Israel…
…look at our own zionist friendly RNZ…
…RNZ are attempting top frame the issue as Israel being the victim!
3 – Zionist Apologists gonna grift
Here is the NZ franchise of the zionist apologists spinning away…
…old threats as a justification for starting a war? Come on. We are adults and this bullshit justification is beneath our collective mana.
4 – Here comes the cost to our economy
This illegal war is going to cost us in NZ…
…thanks Israel. When you go to fuel up your car next month, thank Netanyahu’s need to continue war so he’s never charged with corruption.
5 – Trump has no control over Israel but is supporting
Despite telling Netanyahu not to attack while he was negotiating, Israel did and despite pretending he’s not supporting the attack, we know they are…
…Trump is the enabler and has as much blood on his hands as Netanyahu.
What happens now?
Israel and America will lie and lie and lie about Iran to justify their latest war crime, that’s what happens now.
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Trump has told Israel that if they want more weapons to wipe out Palstinians they must also attack Iran Because the USA CAN NOT BE SEEN TO BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED .Also while the world is watching Iran Israel can carry on the genocide in Gazza and starve more women and children faster than before .Just another diversion .And trump cant say he knows nothing because he pulled his own people out before hand so clearly he knew the day and time it would go down .This is really a USA attack on Iran .
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/iran-syria/#toc-pos-factsfigures
Sooo… Amatzia Baram was an advisor to Bush jnr on Iraq, he was one of many people who claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, so believing anything he has to say in the “essay” you provide is problematic at best, as he has consistently been proven to say whatever neocons in the State Department pay him to say.
Hate whoever you like. Iran regime still top of the pops when it comes to pure evil. Arab countries and world (other than Daily Blog and a handful of losers) celebrate regimes demise.
Why is Israel allowed nuclear weapons and Iran not both are under the control of a small group of fanatics that do not represent the general population.
Simply untrue. The Iranian revolutionary government has popular support and is run by thoroughly decent and moral- indeed one of the least democratic stances imposed by Ayatollah Khamenei is to prohibit the building of nuclear weapons.
The zionist regime also has popular support, 82% of ‘israelis’ openly admit they want to ethnically cleanse Gaza. The ‘israeli’ is universally evil, they must be dealt to.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000
So MK, you support the killing of young women by the peace loving Regimes Religious Police for not wearing prescribed clothing. I’d also be interested on your views on the penalty for apostasy.
BULLSHIT – the Iranian government is corrupt as most people know and they treat gay people and anyone else they choose to with their evils ways.
This is not to say that they should have bombed Iran for the US at all.
I loath Israel and everything it stands for but please do not try to make out that Iran is a lovely place for all its citizens.
I don’t like Netanyahu either. But in this case he has done the world a favour. A perfect world would see the end of him, Iran and Iran’s proxies.
President Kennedy was alarmed and wanted to stop Israehell getting nuclear weapons. Plus Robert Kennedy wanted AIPAC registered as a Foreign Agent . JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn’t he?
America’s last decent President and we all know what happened to him. And his brother.
” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. It is one of several pro-Israel lobbying organizations in the United States, and it has been called one of the most influential lobbying groups in the country. ” Wikipedia.
Technically the organization Kennedy shut down was the American Zionist Council- AIPAC was created after they murdered them.
That’s just an antisemitic conspiracy theory though, of course. No-one ask what Jack Ruby’s real last name was, or why the ‘mob’ connections he had were to guys with names like Meyer Lansky.
Because Israel is owned by the USA who supply the arms and tech to make nukes .
Gordon, it’s the other way around. How many wars has Israel fought for the US? Zero. How many wars has the US fought for Israel? Plenty, including the one Israel has just instigated.
Its a kind of chicken/egg situation, who tells who what to do?
I mean it’s pretty easy to tell. Even back in 1968, the enemy bombed the USS Liberty, a practically unarmed US renaissance ship, which they knew (from the fact that it was flying a US flag the size of a tennis court among other things) was a US ship, and then they ordered their little puppet LBJ who they put in place after murdering JFK to cover it up including forcing all the sailors to be sworn to secrecy.
The zionists have been holding the whip hand for a minimum of 55 years.
Trump is the President of peace remember???? Now Iran eminently needs to build a lot of nuclear weapons as future deterrence
Trump was the idiot that got rid of the deal that was struck with Iran under the Obama administration.
Thanks GW, it’s obvious that Trump and Netanyahu are among the most dangerous people on the planet although those delusional fools who support them are also responsible for enabling such destructive behavior. You would think that it’s easy to understand the concept that all human lives are important however many people from all sides of society do not support this idea.
Sadly we are seeing the rise in that type of thinking here in NZ in the last 18 months .The contrast from the previous government to the current one is massive and not for the better .
Bonnie advocates that all human lives matter whilst at the same time celebrating the murder of Jews on Oct 7 and never speaking up for the hostages. What hypocrisy!
So to summarise:
Israel IS allowed nuclear weapons.
Iran is NOT allowed nuclear weapons.
Iran is run by a bunch of religious extremists.
Israel is run by ……………wait a moment while I think about that one.
Oil prices will rise (which means all prices will rise).
The old “Weapons of Mass Destruction” bullshit rolled out again. Oh well, I guess Bob the First will be walking around with an erection because of it all.
Trump and all the other US politicians, with few exceptions, are a bunch of Groveling Goys doing Israel’s bidding in return for a fat pile of shekels.
Whether Left or Right, I think we can all agree that we all have a common Jew problem.
More vile anti semitism from George Eliot. You are a cowardly bigot.
“Vile antisemitism”? Now I’m certain.
Why don’t you explain to everyone what you mean by the “common Jew problem”? And what your solution for it is? The stage is yours and I’m certain everyone is fascinated to hear? or are you now lost for words George Eliot?
The first casualty of war is truth.
” Israel’s propaganda machine has been running full steam, lobbing claims about the amount of weapons-grade uranium Iran allegedly possesses, how many nuclear bombs it could thus produce, and how urgently Israel needed to strike at a perceived moment of weakness. This cavalcade almost obscures the extent to which the narrative surrounding the outbreak of this war has become one obscene contradiction, in which what one sees from President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can mean everything to everyone ”
Israel’s justification for its attack hinged again on the specter of the “preemptive strike.” It’s a mythos dating back to the fiction that Egypt was planning an imminent attack on Israeli forces in 1967, and thus Israel was justified in “preemptively” destroying Egypt’s military power and occupying the Sinai, the Golan, the West Bank, and Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attack-netanyahu-trump
And yet you are so certain of the truth? It cuts both ways.
Sammy, no human being believes you shysters. We know that whatever you accuse humans of, you are doing yourself.
The U.K is fully involved against Iran without an official declaration of war.
” A British spy destroyer in the Sea of Oman was stopped by the Navy of the Iranian Army and forced to change its course.
The British destroyer, which had entered the northern Indian Ocean last night with the purpose of guiding Israeli missiles into Iranian territory, was identified in a timely manner by the intelligence systems of the Iranian Navy. Combat drones of the Navy issued warnings, preventing the destroyer from continuing its path toward the Persian Gulf.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233148/Iran-s-Navy-intercepts-UK-spy-destroyer-in-Sea-of-Oman
Iran took no further action.
Look at the death toll in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria thanks to the meddling of Iran. And they back Putin. Fact.
We know your ISIS puppets destroyed Syria, zionist. You will pay.
Which planet Earth do you live on? Life sounds terrible in whatever parallel universe you inhabit.
Israel has started bombing natural Gas reserves in Iran and Netenyahu has indicated in the pass he would like to bombs oil fields in Iran !!! Sanctioning Israel would be in New Zealand’s strategic economic advantage. As NZ only exported just over $12 million worth of products and produce to Israel while we imported $178.39 million worth of products from Israel. Whereas NZ exported nearly $2.4 billion of exports to the Middle East and North Africa in 2024, 5.25 % of New Zealand’s total exports. Thus if New Zealand puts sanctions on Israel it could be in the strategic interest of NZ Farmers and could potentially lead to more tariff free exports. Thus NZ farmers out thier start for your own economic interest start putting pressure on the NZ government to put full economic diplomatic sanctions on Israel including and no visa entry for Israeli citizens until Israel stops using food as a weapon of war in Gaza ie 9000 trucks carrying aid Denied entry into Gaza by Israel causing a famine And end its war on civilians including women and children in Gaza Lebanon Iran . And for any wanker who claims i am antisemetic my wife’s grandfather was jewish and was betrayed to the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz dealth camp And my late and beautiful mother n law was forced into child slave labour by the Nazis. Peter Marra not afraid to use my Real name
I’m watching from all sides. In summary the Israeli first strike was fairly impressive in terms of planning and execution. Loud cheers emminated but they hadn’t considered that Iran is very large. Very obviously the Iranian regime has stood firm and responded cleverly. They sent their slow drones and old technology to attract Israeli air defense. Probably all intercepted but denuded interceptor rockets. Next up second strikes. Irans air defense now operational, Israeli strikes less effective. Iran launched ballistics and hypersonics, seems iron dome is iron sieve. Now Israel calling for US backup which is pissing off Zhelensky who also needs the US missiles.
One comment today was that Russian rocketry has been far more voluminous than anything Israel or Iran possess and it hasn’t destroyed Ukraine. On that basis neither Iran nor Israel can succeed.
Of course Iran supplies Putin with drones to kill Ukrainians
Did anybody question Gabbard about the June 2024 IAEA report that Iran has increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium from 121.5 kilograms to 142.1 kilograms in just a few months? Because there’s no civilian use for that level of U-235 enrichment.
14 th Jult “The Israeli embassy in New Zealand has shut as part of a worldwide closure of the country’s diplomatic missions,.”….
Is this a clue that Israel is going to do something so very very bad that it’s WORSE than their present Ghetto Liquidation and ethnic cleansing
“As Israel Attacks Iran, a U.S. Army Colonel’s Dire Warning About Israel’s Nukes is More Prescient Than Ever”
https://www.uncaptured.media/p/as-israel-attacks-iran-a-us-army
Where the heck is Gaby? The latest unconfirmed reports is the Israeli military is hiding underground in hospitals, Gaza moment anyone? Israelis running around screaming in fear as Iranian hyper supersonic missiles hit Jerusalem, Gaza moment anyone? But the biggest laugh so far is when Israels initial strike hit an apartment killing 20 Iranian including woman and children and suddenly it’s Iran crossed a red line” when the favor is returned yeah nah.