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I could see China or Russia entering the war on the side of Iran against America a year or two into the conflict. If not militarily at least China would break its economic ties with America. Why would they want America to control the most important piece of strategic territory not only in the Middle East, but on the planet. Also if America could control Iran it would give the US access to strike through Western China and southern Russia.
Iran is strategically important to Russia through its ties to Syria. Syria provides Russia with a warm-water port--which is why the Russians have been Syrian allies for half a century.
And also, Russia is Iran's proxy in the 1400-year-long Sunni/Shiite war, just as the US is Saudi Arabia's proxy.
Pompeo went and changed his itinerary to visit us forces Iraq due to Iran crisis
There is no crisis! The USS Lincoln was scheduled to be in this area long before this nonsense about "Israeli intelligence has given us a report of Iranian plans to….blah, blah, blah….", the Secretary of the Navy has already admitted this. This entire episode only proves that these people cannot be trusted any more than the neocons of Bush, Cheney and Rice could be trusted.
Don't believe the hype, it's the same as the Gulf of Tonkin, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and American students in fear for their lives in Grenada.
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