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The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Sachs, Jeffrey
http://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/20/jeffrey-sachs-the-us-israel-hybrid-war-against-iran/Date Written: 2026-01-20 Publisher: Consortium News Year Published: 2026 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25414 The question is not if the U.S. and Israel will attack Iran, but when. Instead, the U.S. and Israel are waging war against Iran through a combination of crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyberwarfare, stoking unrest, and unrelenting misinformation campaigns. This combination strategy is called "hybrid warfare." Abstract: - Excerpt: Both the American and Israeli deep states are addicted to hybrid warfare. Acting together, the C.I.A., Mossad, allied military contractors and security agencies have fomented chaos across Africa and the Middle East, in a swath of hybrid wars including Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen. The shocking fact is that for more than a quarter century, the U.S. and Israeli militaries and intelligence agencies have laid waste to a region of hundreds of millions of people, blocked economic development, created terror and mass refugee movements, and have nothing to show for it beyond the chaos itself. There is no security, no peace, no stable pro-U.S. or pro-Israel alliance, only suffering. In the process, the U.S. is also going out of its way to undermine the U.N. Charter, which the U.S. itself had brought to life in the aftermath of World War II. The U.N. Charter makes clear that hybrid war violates the very basis of international law. ... From 1981 onward, the U.S. has plotted to torment Iran, and if possible, to overthrow the government. Among the countless hybrid actions the U.S. has undertaken, the U.S. funded Iraq in the 1980s to wage war on Iran, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, but failing to topple the government. The U.S.-Israeli objective vis-à-vis Iran is the opposite of a negotiated settlement that would normalize Iran’s position in the international system while constraining its nuclear program. The real objective is to keep Iran economically broken, diplomatically cornered, and internally pressured. Subject Headings |