IRAN: US/Israeli "False Flag" attack may be underway

[James H. Fetzer]

IRAN: US/Israeli "False Flag" attack may be underway

Jim Fetzer and Joshua Blakeney

Several warnings of an imminent "false flag" attack by the Israeli-influenced United States on one of its own warships, which will be attributed to Iran, have been reported by several reliable sources. In recent years "false-flag" terrorism has been utilized multiple times by US and Israeli political actors to provide pretexts for otherwise unjustifiable, anti-Islamic military excursions. The plan is to justify an all-out assault on Iran based upon a new fabricated "Pearl Harbor".

Israel is the primary motivator behind the attempts to destabilize Iran. US traditional foreign policy was one of attempting to foster stability in the Middle East for oil markets. The Zionist impulse, conversely, is to destabilize all potential regional hegemons and carve the Middle East up into ethno-religious statelets. Thus, since the fraudulent events of 9/11, we've seen a policy of Middle East disintegration being pursued by Israeli-influenced American politicians. Indeed, recently released CIA memos reveal that Mossad agents have been posing as CIA agents and conscripting anti-Iranian terrorists.

Former Israeli intelligence officer, Avi Perry, startlingly wrote in a January 9th Jerusalem Post article of a forthcoming " Pearl Harbor' scenario, in which Iran [will] launch…a "surprise" attack on the US navy," giving the US "the perfect rationalization to finish them [Iran] off." Tellingly, Perry chose to put the word "surprise" in quotation marks. Is Perry telling us something?

Perry asserts: "[an] Iranian attack on an American military vessel will serve as a justification and a pretext for a retaliatory move by the US military against the Iranian regime." However, Perry identifies "a US aircraft carrier" as the likely target of this imagined Iranian attack.

USS Vincennes returns to San Diego (October 1988)

We beg to differ. There are major indications that the vessel of choice is to be the USS Vincennes. The fourth USS Vincennes (CG-49) is a US Navy Ticonderoga class Aegis guided missile cruiser. On July 3, 1988, the ship shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 civilian passengers on board, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children.

This would be an ideal vessel for the staged provocation as it could be easily sold to the world as having been Iranian retribution for the 1988 downing of Flight 655. That way the evident lack of motive for Iran to provoke the US and Israeli military titans will be replaced by a perceived "motive." No one will stop to ask themselves why Iran would thereby invite its own national annihilation.

If we were to believe the Wikipedia version of history, the Vincennes has already been scrapped. The Wikipedia article for the Vincennes states, "The Vincennes was completely scrapped by 23 November 2011." If that were true it could not be used as the target of this "false-flag" attack. Yet we have photographic and testimonial evidence suggesting otherwise.

The USS Vincennes afloat in Puget Sound. The ship has an orange hue.

It cannot have been "completely scrapped" and still be afloat in Puget Sound.

A reliable source interviewed by one of us has brought us up to speed on the latest developments:

"We now know what that INACTIVE Ticonderoga class AEGIS missile cruiser got towed out of here under cover of darkness for. It'll likely be the sacrificial lamb that starts the war with Iran….

"Why else would they move it when all the rest sit at a buoy here for months before they finally leave to be sunk?

"I told this to a former 9/11 Truth person back when that ship got moved that it was likely to be used for a FALSE FLAG attack. Well, we'll soon see if I was right about this one."

Since the ship left Puget Sound in the dead of night about two months ago, it's most probable location today is at the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain for safe keeping until the time comes for its deployment. The ship would have been refurbished and repainted and provided with remote control capabilities.

"That is the only location in the region outside of Haifa Harbor where she could probably be at least partially concealed by cocooning the superstructure to make it less obvious who she is. Meanwhile, the US Navy is compiling a list of casualties based upon deceased sailors, very much as was the case on 9/11," we were advised.

Former Israeli false-flag attacks, such as on the USS Liberty in 1967, and the Argentine attacks in 1992 and in 1994, demonstrate Israel's willingness to attack US targets, on the one hand, and its own people, on the other. It's highly probable that, having shipped the Vincennes into an acceptable location, that the Mossad, which has also been implicated in the events of 9/11, would do the rest of the dirty work. Or the United States, which has become Israel's lackey, might blow up one of its own ships, which would be a literal and a figurative sign of how low the US has sunk.

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"As a Marine Corps officer, I swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic", Jim Fetzer observes. "Neither I nor any other officer I know ever swore allegiance to the State of Israel. Our leaders are not only betraying our own Constitution but have turned our nation into a servant of an unworthy, brutal and tyrannical master, who couldn't care less about the best interests of American citizensand our own leaders not only permit this to happen but actually promote it."

In light of recent "deep political events" in Iran, including the recent murder of Iranian nuclear physicist Professor Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, it would not be surprising if the US and Israel were to raise the ante by implementing a fraudulent trigger incident, which may very well ignite World War III.

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Because of the pervasiveness of US-Israeli deceptions, an increasing number of public intellectuals are awakening to the prospect of these fraudulent events BEFORE THEY HAPPEN, as appears to be the case with this initiative. We can't be certain about all of this, because we are on the outside, looking in. Perhaps the USS Vincennes actually has been scrapped. But on this point the world can rest assured: they haven't scrapped the plan!

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth and the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.

Joshua Blakeney is a graduate student at the University of Lethbridge, member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Staff Writer at Veterans Today.

[Albert Doyle]

It's possible that the first stage of this false flag event has already occurred. When the Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to take down a Delta Airlines aircraft with the failed crotch bomb a Teheran student protest erupted the next day right on schedule. It's possible CIA or Mossad planned for this crotch device to work and expected the student revolt to occur in Iran the day after a successful terrorist attack with high American body count. Since they couldn't tell everybody the false flag plan had failed and the revolt was off it went on on schedule the next day as planned.

[Keith Millea]

It's possible CIA or Mossad planned for this crotch device to work

I don't know Albert.It's my take that the dude was set up to be a patsy.That C4 only caught fire,Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab wasn't given anything to detonate it.All he got was burnt nutz,and a room at the Super-Max.

[Albert Doyle]

Could be. The effect would be the same with the CIA designed arab springs as phase 2 of the War On Terror. Soon after Tunisia and Egypt had their revolutions. Notice they used the "CIA had no idea this was about to happen" with these revolutions just like with 9-11.

[Ed Jewett]

Thank God there are still a few people like Jim Fetzer around.

[Ed Jewett]

Ex-Israeli Intelligence Officer: "Pearl Harbor" Style Attack Will Be Pretext For War On Iran

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Jerusalem Post article implies US will stage provocation to justify military assault
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, January 13, 2012

Former Israeli intelligence officer Avi Perry writes that a "surprise" Pearl Harbor-style Iranian attack on an American warship in the Persian Gulf will provide the pretext for the US to launch all-out warfare against Iran.

Given the fact that former Vice President Dick Cheney's office openly considered staging a false flag attack on a US vessel in the Persian Gulf to blame it on Iran as a pretext for war, Perry's summation of how "2012 will see to a new war," cannot be taken lightly.Under the headline The looming war with Iran, Perry writes;

Iran, just like Nazi Germany in the 1940s, will take the initiative and "help" the US president and the American public make up their mind by making the first move, by attacking a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

The Iranian attack on an American military vessel will serve as a justification and a pretext for a retaliatory move by the US military against the Iranian regime. The target would not be Iran's nuclear facilities. The US would retaliate by attacking Iran's navy, their military installations, missile silos, airfields. The US would target Iran's ability to retaliate, to close down the Strait of Hormuz. The US would then follow by targeting the regime itself.
Elimination of Iran's nuclear facilities? Yes. This part would turn out to be the final act, the grand finale. It might have been the major target, had the US initiated the attack. However, under this "Pearl Harbor" scenario, in which Iran had launched a "surprise" attack on the US navy, the US would have the perfect rationalization to finish them off, to put an end to this ugly game.

Perry's use of quotation marks around the word "surprise" comes across as a literary device to imply that the so-called "surprise" attack will not be a surprise at all.Of course, the Pearl Harbor attack, which provided the pretext for America's formal entry into World War Two, was not a "surprise" by any means, it was known well ahead of time.Released Freedom of Information Act files prove that weeks before the December 7 attack by the Japanese, the United States Navy had intercepted eighty-three messages from Admiral Yamamoto which gave them details of precisely when and where the attack would take place.It's also completely nonsensical that Iran would actively seek to provide the world's pre-eminent nuclear superpower with an easy excuse to justify an attack by deliberately targeting US warships in the Persian Gulf. Perry's article seems to be a tongue-in-cheek admission that the US or Israel will manufacture such an attack.This presumption need not delve into the murky realm of conspiracy theories history tells us that fake naval attacks have been staged on numerous occasions to hoodwink the American people into supporting wars of aggression.Remember the Maine? The battleship USS Maine blew up while it was stationed in Havana harbor in February 1898. Although a Navy investigation could not find the cause of the explosion, the American media, led by pioneer of "yellow journalism" William Randolph Hearst, immediately blamed Spanish saboteurs, whipping the public into a war fever.When Hearst sent his reporter Frederick Remington to investigate, little of note could be established about the disaster. When Remington asked to be recalled, Hearst told him, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war.
"Hundreds of editorials demanded that the Maine and American honor be avenged. Many Americans agreed. Soon a rallying cry could be heard everywhere in the papers, on the streets, and in the halls of Congress: "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain."As a result of an incident that many consider to either be an accident or a deliberate false flag attack by the US on its own ship, the US was at war with Spain within months.Over 60 years later, another staged naval event, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, was used as a pretext for the United States to launch the Vietnam war.President Johnson told the American public that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" against a U.S. destroyer on "routine patrol" in the Tonkin Gulf. Leaked cables and recordings of White House telephone conversations later proved that the incident was completely manufactured, and that "our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets there were no PT boats there," according to Navy squadron commander James Stockdale, who was flying over the scene that night.There was almost a 21st century version mirror of the Gulf of Tonkin incident in January 2008, when the US government announced that it had been "moments" away from opening fire on a group of Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz after the boats allegedly broadcast a warning that they were about to attack a US vessel.The Iranian warning later turned out to be of dubious origin, but the incident led to a discussion in Vice-President Dick Cheney's office about how to start a war with Iran by launching a false flag attack at sea, according to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh.The January 2008 Strait of Hormuz incident taught Cheney and other administration insiders that, "If you get the right incident, the American public will support it". Hersh said: "There were a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build, we in our shipyard', build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives".Given the dangerous nature of overlapping Iranian and US/Israeli naval drills set to take place in the same region at some point within the next two weeks, the potential for another staged incident at sea that will be exploited as a pretext for war remains a potent threat.*********************Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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[Keith Millea]

FWIW

There is an alleged photo of the USS Vincennes (CG-49),being scrapped at Brownsville Texas,on another forum.What can be said about this apparent contradiction?????

[Albert Doyle]

Wikipedia:


" The Vincennes was decommissioned on 29 June 2005 at San Diego and stricken the same date. She was mothballed at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Naval Base Kitsap, which is located in Bremerton, Washington. As of 2008 she was slated for scrapping within the next five years along with her sisters Thomas S. Gates and Yorktown.[1]
On 9 July 2010, a contract to scrap Vincennes was issued to International Shipbreaking, Brownsville, Tx.[SUP][3][/SUP] As of 21 Nov 2010, Ex-Vincennes arrived via Panama Canal to International Shipbreaking in Brownsville, Texas. The Vincennes was completely scrapped by 23 November 2011.[SUP][4] "




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[Keith Millea]

Thanks Albert:

Maybe James would like to comment.......

[Albert Doyle]

US Navy website:


" USS VINCENNES was the third ship in the TICONDEROGA - class and the first cruiser in that class equipped with the three-legged main mast. Stricken from the Navy list on June 29, 2005, she was sold for scrapping to International Shipbreaking of Brownsville, Tx., on July 9, 2010. VINCENNES arrived under tow at Brownsville on November 21, 2010, and has since been broken up.