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Analysis: How Israel & US neocons "made the same case for attacking Iran as they do now – & came very close to getting their way."

"They viewed a war on Iran as the second phase of the 2003 attack on Iraq". The two came as a package: "attacking one only would strengthen the other."

"Which is exactly what happened" after iraq, when they "were unable to continue on to Iran."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2026-03-20/how-the-us-and-israel-came-close-to-launching-a-war-on-iran-20-years-ago/

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How the US and Israel came close to launching a war on Iran 20 years ago

Trump isn’t the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby “remake the Middle East”, as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out.

Jonathan Cook reporting on Israel and Palestine and the Middle East
Mar 25 at 2:03pmWeb
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Oil industry mags were full of discussions over the advantage of pipelines across the Iranian plateau to the sea.