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June 22, 2025—Your life, in as little as a few days or weeks, could
end in an “accidental thermonuclear war,” triggered by the dropping of
a tactical nuclear device on Iran, either by a renegade Israel, or by
the United States, or by Israel with the agreement of the United
States. What happens next, will be determined by the reports regarding
the successful, or unsuccessful, destruction of the sites.
Here is a question: if the sites were not destroyed, or if Iran
announces it is able to rebuild, what will happen then? Will the use
of tactical nuclear weapons be the next step?
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 United
States, once an anti-imperial nation, as a battering ram against the
BRICS, starting with Iran.
With its attack on Iran, the United States has rejected what its
greatest diplomat, President John Quincy Adams, characterized 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 United States out of war, President Donald 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 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 Defense, 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.”
Stop and think about what the following report
from Newsweek, June 20, actually
means. “The Trump administration has not taken anything ‘off the
table,’ including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, if it decides
to take military action against the underground Iranian nuclear
facility at Fordow, Fox News reported, citing a White House official.”
In response to these reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the
only responsible thing: “There have been a lot of speculations. This
would be a catastrophic development, but there are so many
speculations that in fact, it’s impossible to comment on them."
No matter what you are told, by the White House, by the
Pentagon, or anyone else, there is no such thing as the use of one
“tactical” nuclear weapon. In the words of Annie
Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, “If
nuclear war begins, it doesn’t end until there is a nuclear holocaust.
And it happens so fast. There is no quickly going to your secret
bunker.”
What does Russia do, if America, or Israel, deploys the first
nuclear bomb used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago? Last
week, America’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, wrote to
President Trump, “No president in my lifetime has been in a position
like yours. Not since Truman in 1945.”
Let this be clear: President Truman dropping the atomic bomb in
1945 was not essential to ending
the war. Dropping the bomb on an already surrendering Japan was
necessary to begin the next world
war, planned by Britain’s Winston Churchill one month after Franklin
Roosevelt died in April 1945. In May, Churchill proposed “Operation
Unthinkable,” a plan to immediately nuke the Soviet Union with
American-made bombs, to “impose the will of the United States and the
British Empire,” in the plan’s actual words.
The use of nuclear weapons has always been wrong, has never been
necessary, and is never other than a tool of imperial force. We, the
people of the United States, and we, the people of the world, must
stop the madness of governments and fanatics. The nations of the
Global Majority, and especially the BRICS nations, of which Iran is a
member, must have their voices heard. Nations should not be brought to
the conclusion that the only way to retain and defend their
sovereignty is to build nuclear weapons.
In Southwest Asia, we need a consortium of regional countries,
working with the United States, Russia and China, to create a nuclear
weapons-free zone--which has to include Israel joining the IAEA and
signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as Iran did. A crash program for
the peaceful use of nuclear power as an energy source, for water
desalination and other purposes, needs to involve all nations in the
region. A New Security and Development Architecture, based on
diplomacy, not assassinations and war, must result from actions taken
in the next hours and days.
The period ahead is more dangerous than the time of the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Now is the time to act. Circulate this message.
Discuss it in every way possible. Get on the phone to Congress and go
to their offices. Read and circulate the Ten
Principles for A New Security and Development Architecture proposed by
Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
It is up to the people to save themselves, and civilization itself,
by speaking out and acting up. The world needs to hear from free
citizens that say, “No to assassinations, regime changes, and
thermonuclear war!” It is time, now, to change our world, before there
is no world left to change.
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