Will a False-Flag Attack Be Used to Justify War Against Iran?

Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if Israel or the United States strike its suspected nuclear-weapons sites. About a fifth of world-traded oil (17.3 million barrels per day) gets shipped through the strait. By closing it Iran could drive up oil prices and perhaps send the American economy back into recession. Iran hopes its threat will deter the Obama administration from joining with or authorizing Israeli military strikes against Iran.

The two aircraft carriers that the United States already had sent to the strait were recently joined by the U.S.S. Enterprise, which is the oldest carrier in the fleet and due to be decommissioned next year. Cynics have pointed out that one reason America would put an old carrier in harm's way is to manufacture a casus belli that will lead the American public to support war against Iran. Israel could use its submarines to sink the Enterprise; the U.S. and Israel could then blame the attack on Iran; the media would pass the charge on and the gullible public would accept it unthinkingly.

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This may sound outlandish but remember that the Bush administration concocted a false justification for our second war against Iraq. Iraq wasn't developing WMDs, it had no connection with the 9-11 attacks, and it posed no threat to the U.S. If and when America strikes Iran, there probably won't be any better justification than there was for the Iraq war.