Day 15: Yes, the US DOES Have a Plan - Spanning Decades with Implications Far Beyond Iran

- The US has been working towards this war on Iran throughout the entire 21st century spanning multiple presidential administrations;

- The region was reshaped by US invasions and the arming of extremists under Bush, the “Arab Spring,” the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” and subsequent additional wars under Obama, the collapse of Syria under Biden, and launching direct war with Iran under Trump;

- The war on Iran constitutes multiple phases of economic, political, covert, and direct military aggression hoping to collapse it just as Iraq was over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s;

- US control over Iran and the Middle East directly serves wider geopolitical objectives regarding the isolation and containment of Russia and especially China;

- Part of the US appearing to "not" have a plan is to avoid talking about how long and costly this war on Iran is and likely will need to be, and the larger more dangerous objective it fits into in regards to Russia and China;

References:

Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent: Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East (2009):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG781.sum.pdf
US DoD - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine Hold a Press Briefing (Mar. 13, 2026):
https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4434484/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-air-force-gen-da/
The New Yorker - The Redirection (2007):
https://archive.ph/3ZB70
Politico - The Iranian exile group that played Washington for this moment (Mar. 3, 2026):
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/the-iranian-exile-group-that-played-washington-for-this-moment-00808052?utm_content=topic/news&utm_source=flipboard
VOA - US to Remove Iran Group From Terror List (2012):
https://www.voanews.com/a/1512438.html
US State Department - Delisting MEK (2012):
https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/09/198443.htm
NYT - US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://archive.ph/cvBTH
US State Department (YouTube) - Secretary Clinton Addresses Youth Movement Summit (Oct. 2009):
https://youtu.be/OcBG7B6sgOk?si=HpFobzP55k5V4Qap
The New Atlas - 2011 - Year of the Dupe (2011):
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-of-dupe.html
Reuters - Israel says its air strikes destroyed most of Syria's strategic weapons stockpiles (Dec. 2024):
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-incursion-into-syria-reaches-25-km-southwest-damascus-security-sources-2024-12-10/


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