These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025.
Amos Hochstein, a former top advisor to Biden, revealed in a Sunday interview that the Biden administration had prepped for bombing Iran if re-elected in 2024.
During a Face the Nation interview, Margaret Brennan asked Hochstein, “In July 2024 Secretary Blinken claimed Iran was one or two weeks away from having enough fissile material breakout capacity to eventually make a weapon if Iran had decided to do so. There were indirect negotiations that the Biden administration did, but it went nowhere. So when President Trump argues that he did what no other president would, is it just simply that the bill was coming due and it fell on his watch?”
Hochstein responded, “I do think there’s a certain element to that, and that’s why I was supportive of President Trump joining in in June to take the strikes that we had thought internally in the Biden administration, we may have to take if there was a second term. We thought that the spring, summer of 2025 was probably, we may have to be there in the same place. And we did, we did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.”
Hochstein, notably an Israeli-born IDF veteran, is also reported to have played a key role in the Biden administration’s encouragement of Israel’s devastating bombardment of Lebanon in September 2024. His suggestion that an attack on Iranian nuclear sites “may have had to happen” during a hypothetical second Biden term is inaccurate.
In March 2025, US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress affirming that the intelligence community believed Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon and that Supreme Leader Khomeini [sic] had not authorized the nuclear weapons program, contradicting claims by Trump and Antony Blinken from earlier years.
Even if Iran posed a nuclear threat, the Biden administration could have resumed the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran that the Obama administration had secured. The JCPOA was effective during its tenure; anyone disputing this is spreading falsehoods with warmongering intentions. Trump dismantled the JCPOA in 2018 to clear a path to war with Iran, and Biden’s team declined to reverse that decision because they also favored confrontation.
Ahead of the 2024 election, Democrats were openly advocating for war with Iran. The official 2024 Democratic Party platform explicitly criticized Trump for not pursuing war with Iran during his first term:
“All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility. In June 2019, when Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace above the Straits of Hormuz, Trump responded by tweet and then abruptly called off any actual retaliation, causing confusion and concern among his own national security team. In September 2019, when Iranian-backed groups threatened global energy markets by attacking Saudi oil infrastructure, Trump failed to respond against Iran or its proxies. In January 2020, when Iran, for the first and only time in its history, directly launched ballistic missiles against U.S. troops in western Iraq, Trump mocked the resulting Traumatic Brain Injuries suffered by dozens of American servicemembers as mere ‘headaches’ — and again, took no action.”
Kamala Harris, who controversially replaced the dementia-stricken Biden as the Democratic nominee late in the race, declared Iran the United States’ primary adversary. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly criticized Trump for his perceived leniency toward America’s foes, stating she “will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.”
Many argue that Trump’s harsh stance on Iran makes the Democrats preferable, but it’s apparent that the Democratic Party represents merely a more polished version of the same flawed power system.
The conflict with Iran was always premeditated. Analysts like Brian Berletic and Richard Medhurst argue convincingly that this US war primarily targets the economic and energy ties of Russia and China in a final bid to maintain global dominance, rather than being chiefly about supporting Israel. This sets America on a risky path toward severe escalations among nuclear-armed nations.
These plans have been in place for years and would have proceeded regardless of which powerless figure was installed as president in January 2025.
Citizens don’t have the option to vote an empire out. Whether the US persists in seeking global control will never be questioned at the ballot box. Reckless American wars with devastating human costs will continue until the empire collapses or the American populace demands the transformative revolution the world desperately requires.
Original article: caitlinjohnstone.com.au
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