Why Does the US Target Iran?
June 28, 2025•915 words
"The U.S. has sought to maintain a unipolar world in which its power is unchallenged, often under the guise of promoting freedom and democracy." ~ Noam Chomsky
"The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system." ~ Henry Kissinger
"A unipolar world is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today's world. The model itself is flawed because at its basis there is no moral foundation for modern civilization." ~ Vladimir Putin
"The United States is attempting to maintain its imperial dominance through military means while ignoring the economic and political consequences of such a strategy." ~ Chalmers Johnson
After I viewed the podcast from the Geopolitical Economy Report (link below, a must watch podcast), I wrote some ideas that came to my mind... Please keep in mind, I read and research historical, political, economic, and current articles and books related to what I write.
You are not merely witnessing history, you are living within a grand game of imperialistic unipolar power, where every move is calculated decades ahead.
To understand U.S. policy toward Iran, don't think of in simple terms of spontaneity or reactive diplomacy. The targeting of Iran is not arbitrary. It is deliberate. It is strategic. And it is rooted in a singular crime: the refusal to submit its autonomy.
In the heart of Washington’s most secure war rooms with the cia, 5 eyes, MI6, FBI and Israel's mossad spies, and Congress men and women, Iran is not viewed as a sovereign nation but as an impediment, an obstacle that must be removed to safeguard the architecture of American hegemony in the Middle East.
At the center of this architecture lies the petrodollar. The U.S. dollar must remain the currency of global oil trade, ensuring that the profits flow back into U.S. treasuries, funding the American military, and uphold a hegemony funded not by production, but by financial leverage and military threat.
When Iran dares to sell oil in China's yuan, India's rupees, or gold, it is not merely conducting trade, it is declaring rebellion against American hegemony.
This is not a financial decision; the American administration and Congress see such action from Iran as being monetary defiance. And in the language of empire, independence financial decisions invites retaliation, with economic sanctions, assassinations of political and religious leaders to try to destabilize Iran, including regime change, and military bombing.
The American playbook is not new.
Since the 1950s, U.S. foreign policy has followed a predictable script: install compliant leaders, isolate the autonomous, disrupt regional unity, and encircle independence with instability. The American empire expands not through creation, but through controlled fragmentation.
Iran threatens this model.
Geographically and economically, Iran is vital to emerging global networks. It forms a key link in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, anchors Russia’s southern trade corridor, and participates in BRICS to champion a multipolar world. A stable, autonomous Iran inspires other nations to imagine life beyond the reach of Washington’s dollar, political regime changes, and drones.
Thus, the American response is predictable: sanctions, asset seizures, covert operations, and manipulation of regime change, and the final step of failed States. The goal is not punishment, but siege. A fractured Iran is easier to manipulate. A divided Iran cannot lead a coalition, and it cannot be a cornerstone of BRICS, supporting American administration and Congress "archrivals" of China and Russia in a multipolar geopolitical world. Even though it is against international law, Iran will continue to be a target of political and religious assassinations and military bombings by the USA and it's 51st State, Israel.
It must be very frustrating for the Governor of the 51st State of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the American Administration and Congress bipartisan knowing that out of 750 American military bases around the world not one military base is situated in Iran. In fact, Iran and Yemen are the only countries in the Middle East that do not have American military bases. An empire not being able to control the oil from those two countries would be extremely frustrating.
Israel, often portrayed as an ally, is more accurately a 51st State of America, mainly an USA operating base, an immovable American military asset from which shadow wars are waged and regional ethnic cleansing and genocide enforced upon the anthropologically, historically indigenous Palestinian peoples of Palestine. The American rhetoric is always about installing democracy in the global South and in the Middle East, but the true strategy is about geopolitical and economic ownership, control, and easy access to oil, gas, minerals, influence, and obedience to the empire.
At its core, this is not a clash of civilizations or ideologies, it is a struggle between power and independence.
And in the sphere of influence of the American empire, independence is intolerable when it challenges the American hegemony of control. Iran’s true offense is not aggression, but autonomy. And in the eyes of empire, autonomy is treason.
If you were an empire in decline, watching the world shift toward new spheres of influence such as BRICS and the de-dollarization, how far would you go to silence a nation such as the historically proud... Indigenous Persian people that refuse to kneel?!
https://youtu.be/3DEXReFGb24?si=GDV0d8iX4aqa0wo9
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/un-says-new-gaza-aid-system-leads-to-mass-killings-8780224