Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof

Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof Could it be that  Israel ’s 30-year narrative about  Iran  - one that persuaded  US  President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression - was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv?  Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for decades, might Israel’s real fear be that a stronger Iran would undermine its unique leverage over Washington, threatening its status as the region’s sole - and unmonitored - nuclear power?  Might large parts of the globe be facing economic meltdown simply so that Israel can remain the Middle East’s top dog - an unaccountable apartheid state  committing genocide  against the  Palestinian  people and ethnically cleansing southern  Lebanon ? We got a definitive answer last week, care of the New York Times. It is an uncompromising yes to all of these questions.  The newspaper reported that Netanyahu not only mis-sold Trump on the idea of quick regime change in Iran following a short “shock and awe” bombing campaign. He also identified to the White House who was going  to replace  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader.  Read more:  Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof

Original source: Middle East Eye