The True Motives behind the U.S – Israel Bombings of Iran and Their Foreseeable Consequences
“Without a debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed —and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment —the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution —not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply ‘give the public what it wants’ —but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.“
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. President, 1961-1963, (in a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961).
“Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats nor with weapons that sow destruction, pain and death, but only through a dialogue that is reasonable, authentic and responsible. Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions, I address… a heartfelt appeal to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.”
Pope Leo XIV (1955- ), (words spoken in St. Peter’s Square, Sunday, March 2, 2026, following the illegal military attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran, which notably killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei).
“We are finally putting America First. Our policy of war, regime change and nation-building is being replaced by the pursuit of American interests… It is the job of our military to protect our security, not to be the policemen of the world.”
Donald Trump (1946- ), Republican candidate, (in a speech during the presidential campaign of 2024).
“The time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American writer, (in his 1845 short story “The system of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”).
On Saturday, February 28, the U.S. Trump administration and the Israeli Netanyahu government launched unlawful, joint and unprovoked missile attacks against the country of Iran (pop. 93 million), on the basis of a series of shifting, false or unproven claims. Such military attacks have ignited a wider conflict in the Middle East, created economic disruptions worldwide, and could lead to a Third World War.
So far, there have been almost 2,000 deaths, including Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 175 school girls, aged 7 to 12, and their teachers, when their all-girl Tayyebeh School, in the town of Minab in Southern Iran, was completely destroyed by a U.S. missile. Such barbarous acts could one day lead to accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
More often that not, U.S. mainstream media rarely go deeper than the official narrative and propaganda, while they do not reinforce the latter. It is easier for them, with some worthy exceptions, to reproduce literally the government’s lies and omissions and to ignore the politicians’ misdeeds at home and abroad, especially those they commit abroad and which lend themselves to bursts of patriotism.
However, it is a fact that wars of aggression are expressly unlawful under Article 39 of the United Nations Charter, which both the United States and Israel governments have signed. [Art.39: The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken. in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.].
Moreover, it is also a fact that the U.S. government has used its veto more than 50 times at the 15-member U.N. Security Council to give diplomatic and legal protection to Israel for its crimes and violations of the terms of the U.N. Charter.
Last year, on September 18, 2025, the Trump administration cast its 6th veto against a resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and that Israel lift all restrictions on aid deliveries to its inhabitants. It’s as if Israel were the 6th country to have a veto right in the Security Council!
It is difficult to know if it is Israel and the important Zionist political donors in the U.S. who control the U.S. government, or if it is the American government that uses Israel as part of its foreign policy in the Middle East.
I) President Donald Trump’s close association with Israel and rich campaign donors is a danger for the United States and for the world
Politician Donald Trump’s huge financial support by rich American Zionists is well documented. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election and during Donald Trump’s first term, superrich casino owner Sheldon Adelson is reported by Newsweek to have contributed to the Republican candidate’s election over $424 million. After Adelson’s death in 2021, according to Forbes News, his widow Miriam Sheldon gave $95 million to the pro-Donald Trump ‘Preserve America’ Political Action Committee (PAC).
Indeed, since its January 2010 controversial decision on ‘Citizens United v. FEC’, the U.S. Supreme Court opened wide the floodgates of nearly unlimited amounts of campaign money that ultra rich individuals, corporations and unions can spend during an election.
This has made it easier for lobbyists and wealthy private interests to elect candidates to high office who can be receptive to their demands for lower taxes, deregulation and targeted public expenditures, in the military sector, among others.
It is a power that the rich American oligarchy has on a daily basis, while ordinary Americans can only exert influence when they vote, every two years… if they think it’s still worth the trouble to go vote.
II) American elections, when big money flows freely
U.S. elections do not matter much anymore because the real issue is which political party can get the most money from the very rich and lie about defending the lower and middle classes against the very rich.
That is pretty much what real estate mogul Donald Trump did during the last three electoral campaigns. He has collected huge sums of money from very rich donors and made false promises to lower and middle-income voters.
III) The Israeli government, D. Trump and the Epstein international pedophilia sex ring
Recent history shows that Neocon advisors have had great success in persuading some incumbent presidents, low in public polls, to launch an unlawful war of aggression abroad, to stir up patriotism among the least informed part of the electorate, and thus to rise in the polls.
In a George W. Bush-like decision to go ahead with a war of choice against Iraq in March 2023, (under false pretenses), Donald Trump could also believe, in 2026, that a war of aggression against Iran could help him rise in the polls and solidify his support among Republican Congress members. Moreover, this could simultaneously help him drown out his involvement in the Epstein political-sexual scandal under a barrage of war news.
Indeed, now that the so-called ‘withheld by accident’ Epstein Files and FBI documents about Trump’s perversion with young girls have finally been made public, this could explain why the current American president would like to assume the posture of a ‘commander-in-chief’ and why he is doing everything in his power to cover up his involvement in the sex scandal of the century.
Moreover, other documents of the Epstein Files about the international network of sexual exploitation of underage girls have also revealed that this was a front in order to compromise, blackmail and extort money and other advantages from a powerful group of politicians and wealthy individuals in several countries, with the help of Israel and people connected to its intelligence facilities and to other intelligence agencies.
It will take more time, possibly years, before the entire Epstein saga and all its fallout might be completely known.
Conclusion
The unlawful war of aggression, launched jointly against Iran by the American and Israeli governments, on Saturday, February 28, 2026, and in defiance of international law, is yet another example of military excesses, which undermine world peace and world order, create chaos, violate national sovereignty and devastate the global economy.
However, without the active military participation of the U.S. Trump government and its defense of Israel at the U.N. Security Council, such an unprovoked military attack against Iran, which could escalate into a global military conflict, could not have occurred or would not have had the same scope.
Indeed, after only a year and a few months in power, it is as if someone had suggested to Donald Trump, at the beginning of his second term, the rogue project of destroying everything, (American democracy, world peace, international trade, etc.), and that this would be good for his personal glory!
On the one hand, domestically, Trump has violated his oath of office by imposing an autocratic administration, in defiance of the U.S. Constitution and the constitutional powers of the elected Congress.
On the other hand, internationally, Donald Trump has made mafia-boss-like threats and launched illegal military attacks against many countries, in his insane quest for world dominance, in addition to adopting destabilizing economic policies that have been condemned by the vast majority of economists.
The consequences are clear for everyone to see: 1- a deep political division currently reigns in the United States, with some citizens being killed while simply exercising their right to protest; and 2- the global economy could regress 100 years and could be plunged into another global economic depression, like that of 1929-1939.
In such a context of domestic, external and general political, economic and military chaos, the primary responsibility of Democratic and Republican elected officials in the U.S. Congress should be to take concrete steps to put an end to the authoritarian and disastrous orientation that has taken hold in their country.
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This article was originally published on the author’s blogsite, Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay.
International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book about morals “The code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles” of the book about geopolitics “The New American Empire“, and the recent book, in French, “La régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018“. He was Minister of Trade and Industry (1976-79) in Quebec’s Lévesque government. He holds a Ph.D. in international finance from Stanford University.
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Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
Featured image by Jeff Kowalksy/AFP/Getty Images of People gather for a “Hands off Iran, Lebanon and Palestine” rally and march in downtown Detroit, Michigan, on March 7
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