Since then, it has had a single-point item on its agenda – to engineer a massive US-led assault on Iran or, failing that, to cripple the country through harsh sanctions, which would encourage regime change through domestic dissent. This effort is accompanied by deliberate provocations – killings of Iran’s nuclear scientists, sabotaging of its nuclear facilities, and, recently, skirmishes with Iranian naval vessels in the Western Indian Ocean. These are accompanied by constant bombardments of Iranian assets in Syria and Iraq, which are said to number several hundred just in 2020. Since 2001,
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