Spot on, Trump defo green lighted the Israeli attacks on Iran!

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The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony on West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government, preserve the petrodollar system, prevent de-dollarization, divide BRICS, and break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwH780cEcEQ

How Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/14/israel-war-iran-us-trump-support/

US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/10/us-saudi-arabia-sell-oil-dollars-chinese-yuan/

Topics
0:00 US support for Israeli attacks
4:38 Goals of US-Israeli war on Iran
10:13 Israel: outpost of US empire
14:35 US imperial strategy
16:28 Geopolitics of West Asia (Middle East)
17:50 Oil and gas
21:11 Geostrategic chokepoints
24:53 Axis of Resistance
28:33 Syria: Fall of Assad government
31:44 US plan to overthrow 7 countries
33:54 Iranian Revolution
35:53 Anti-colonial movements
39:14 Dedollarization
41:49 Petrodollar and OPEC oil embargo
47:05 Super Imperialism
49:36 Petrodollar challenge
52:43 BRICS
55:55 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
58:53 Iran-Russia-China partnership
1:04:05 US divide-and-conquer strategy
1:06:03 Outro

The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained

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