Letter

In response to Centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran

Israel-Iran fuse to World War III must be cut

Eugene Doyle raises serious issues in his article, including Chinese access to oil. If we look back 84 years, Pearl Harbour was the result of the US cutting off Japanese oil supplies among other things. (Japan had been behaving badly in China for eight years, but I doubt that was the primary rationale for the embargo).

Does the US want to provoke a war with China? Is it aiming to secure control of Iranian oil? It seems that Donald Trump’s access to intel on Iranian uranium enrichment is superior to that of US security agencies, well, given Tulsi Gabbard’s current recantation. This volte-face has quite rightly stirred Caitlin Johnstone to fury. In this context John Mearsheimer’s interview with Judge Napolitano recalls the deceptions practised on us by our politicians in 2002-3.

The current crop of leaders must not be allowed to deceive us again and lead us into a wider war involving the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

— Geoff Taylor from Perth