The War with Iran: Part of a “World Stage” Theatre Where We Are “Both Spectators and Actors”
Peter Koenig | GlobalResearch.ca
We are living in a world-stage theatre in which we are both spectators and actors.
We are part of the Grand Theatre, some willingly, some knowingly, but tolerating, others unwillingly and resisting, but the vast majority, unknowingly, oblivious to what’s going on around them and not aware that they are part of the theatre. They follow with daily attention the mainstream narrative and media, the fear and war propaganda.
These days they are debating, whether this war with Iran is justified or not; who will win, who will lose. On other occasions the debate concentrated on Russia-Ukraine or Israel-Gaza, or the regime change in Venezuela, and maybe soon to come – regime change in Cuba.
Nothing is what it appears to be. Take this:
Referring to Trump’s campaign promises as a “Peace President”, President Vladimir Putin had recently the following comment:
“I have already spoken to three US Presidents…when a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, wearing dark glasses and dark suits. These people start explaining how things are done and instantly everything changes.’
The permanent imperial state and the corporate and foreign lobbyists that pull their strings are the ones who make the major political decisions no matter who the President is or which party is in power.
The United States is ruled by a corporate oligarchy that seeks to profit and enrich themselves through a permanent war economy based on debt, slavery, resource plunder, and arms contracts.”
This hits the nail on the head, and may be true for most statesmen around the globe.
It may be true for President Putin too.
We are caught in a game, exemplified by the diverting Epstein Files. Is it an accident that the partial release of these files coincides more or less with the beginning of the Israeli-US aggression against Iran? There are no coincidences.
Imagine, the Israeli-US-unprovoked aggression against Iran, killed more than 170 school girls on purpose, targeted willingly with a precision missile. It is an unspeakable crime.
This is horrifying news for a day or two, at most, then the world is moving on to the next “event”, next war crime, and the next, and the next… so that the average world citizen gets “immune” to lawlessness, to human-caused atrocities, day-in, day-out.
One of the saddest stories of this political societal game is that people are fooled over and over again. If tomorrow another plandemic will be called – and be sure it is in the making – all they must do is instead of the former COVID, say, lemon taste, they give it a strawberry taste… and, bingo, people fall again for lockdowns and deadly vaxxes.
Well, Zionist Jews killing children and especially girls and women, happened all the time overtly during the Gaza war – and now in Iran. Girls and women are the bearers of future generations. Zionists feel it is their God-given duty to eradicate Moslems.
And mind you, that is not just because of Islam’s slightly different faith as that of those who believe in the Talmud or Torah. That may be their “spiritual” pretext. The real reason is Zionist Israel strives for Greater Israel — a plan in existence for over hundred years, it comprises most of the Middle East and therefore most of the Middle Eastern energy resources.
On the Zionist-Israel war on Gaza and Palestine – the idea to make historic Palestine into Israel started already in 1917, with the self-nominated Chief Zionist of the UK, Lord Walter Rothschild, with his letter on 2 November 1917 asking the then British Foreign Minister James Balfour to establish a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This eventually became the infamous Balfour Declaration.
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On November 29, 1947 the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181(II), which approved the Plan of Partitioning Palestine in a two-states Economic Union. On 14 May 1948: Israel declared its independence.
At that time, the UN had only 51 members. Most of them leaning towards the West. So, no surprise that the Balfour Declaration was ratified.
The Brits held the League of Nations (precursor to UN) “protectorate Mandate” over the region, including Palestine from 1920 to 1948 – not coincidentally until the day Israel declared her independence. Maybe this little piece of history could be relevant for Israel’s massive and atrocious genocide on Gaza.
In the 1990s huge gas / petrol deposits were suspected off shore of Gaza. During that time I worked on-and-off in Palestine, especially Gaza and have some personal insights into the happenings then, like the Israel annulled Oslo Agreements 1993 (Declaration I) and 1995 (Declaration II).
Under these basically “two-state” agreements, each sovereign nation, Palestine and Israel, would have been the owner of natural resources on their territories, including water and energy (gas). About 75%-80% of all the water in the region was on, or under Palestine grounds.
In 1999, the Palestinian National Authority granted British Gas a 25-year exploration right and in 2000 (official date) over a trillion cubic feet of gas was confirmed – today this figure has become much larger, and is estimated over a trillion dollars-worth of gas.
Isn’t it obvious that Zionist-Israel wanted to appropriate that fortune of natural gas?
Hamas was founded in 1987 by Israel through the infamous “three-eyes”: Mossad, CIA and MI6. They often work together on worldwide intelligence affairs. The surprise attack of 7 October 2023 was planned at least three years earlier by Israel in collaboration with Israel implanted Hamas “leaders” so as to give Israel the green light to attack full force Gaza, with the objective to fully annihilate the Gazan population and – indeed – to make Gaza and especially her off-shore gas-riches Israel’s property.
This is with the help of the US, with Trump in his first mandate and now in his second turn. [? term]
These riches are to be shared, of course. Trump makes deals but gives nothing away. Without the US deliveries of weapon and money, Zionist Israel would have not been able to wage this and other wars simultaneously.
But since the Zionists also command Washington, the collaboration was a given.
Now [for some time] we have images floating around, disgustingly depicting destroyed to the last brick Gaza as the new luxury Gaza Beach Resort, with a dominating Trump tower..
President of the United States posts video of him taking over Gaza with his statue for worship, dollars raining, Trump Gaza as centrepiece as he & Netanyahu chill at the beach. Ethnic cleansing rebranded as a real estate deal. Colonialist White Supremacist Zionism. Pure Evil. pic.twitter.com/uJIk7FLykE
— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) February 26, 2025
And much of the world still just nods. What is wrong with this western society?
But interestingly, nobody – no mainstream media – talks about the Gaza off-shore trillion-dollars-worth of gas.
Can you see the evil cult running this world, and being supported by most of the west, and especially of the European Union, the never-elected President of the European Commission?
By the way, Madame von der Leyen has received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University and shakes hands smilingly with war criminal Netanyahu.
International laws have been discarded like rotten cabbage.
Back to Iran.
This war was planned for years under different pretexts – always by Israel with Washington in tow.
But it is never as straightforward as it may appear. According to the UN Atomic Energy Commission’s (UNAEC) inspectors, Iran has some 480kg of uranium, enriched to about 60%, while 90% is needed for weapon-grade uranium.
Under the famous 2015 JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], effective as of 1 January 2016, Iran was limited to enriching uranium to no more than 3.67% U‑235. Iran adhered to it, confirmed twice per year by Vienna’s UNAEC inspectors.
When Trump withdrew from the deal in May 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran, Iran felt free to break it too and started increasing their uranium enrichment. Iran has always said – and proven by facts – that they have no intentions to produce nuclear weapons, but use the enriched uranium for civilian purposes to produce electric energy.
This, notwithstanding that Iran’s neighbor Israel has at least an estimated 300 nuclear warheads – maybe more. Their possession of nuclear arms is unofficial, nowhere registered, never inspected by the UNAEC, but tolerated by the US, and by extension by the US vassals around the globe.
Most of tonight’s participants in our show know that. But let me repeat it, to let it sink in: Israel has nuclear weapons, is therefore a danger for the Middle East, foremost Iran, and to some extent the entire world, but Iran is not even allowed to have enriched uranium for civilian purposes. What world are we living in?
But the game goes on.
Trump and his military brass do not want to go to war with Iran [?] – Iran is not Iraq, and it is likely becoming a protracted, never-ending war – indications we see today. Although this is good for the war industry, it may not be good for Trump, and the upcoming mid-term elections. For Trump, a good reason not to go to war now. Anyway, remember the 12-day war last June 2025? Despite Washington’s for once sane idea not to go to war with Iran, Netanyahu’s pressure was so strong that Trump felt “obliged.“ What pressure points Netanyahu has on Trump and on the US Government you may understand later.
Last June the Trump administration covertly warned Iran of an impending attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, so Iran could bring her 480kg enriched uranium to secure places. Therefore, the US’ precision bombing on Iran’s nuclear sites were a farce; they destroyed nothing of significance.
Iran’s retaliation bombing was also just show, doing little harm. The current war that started on 28 February 2026, by first Israel’s precision missiles on Teheran and another dozen places, including a girls’ primary school in Minab, in Iran’s Hormozgan province, was shortly afterwards joined by US bombing.
At the end of December 2025, Netanyahu was invited to Trump’s high-profile New Year’s party at Mar-a-Lago. He arrived already on 29 December to discuss Gaza and Iran. During these discussions, it is said that Netanyahu insisted again that Iran must be attacked, not for the nuclear risk, but Iran’s supersonic missile production and storage base must be destroyed because the Israeli missile defense system could not intercept them efficiently.
Trump was apparently again hesitant. He said it was not the time to attack Iran. Netanyahu then reminded his buddy and friend in arms of the Epstein files in which Trump’s name appears at least 3,000 times… threat, upon which Trump bowed and agreed for a shortly forthcoming date to go to war with Israel against Iran.
There is no evidence for this, but circumstantial evidence makes this scenario highly plausible.
On February 20, the US and Iran agreed on a third round of nuclear talks to be held in Geneva. Trump gave the parties a ten-day ultimatum. With Omani mediators, the negotiations began on 25 February. On 26 February no conclusions were reached, and the talks were supposed to continue March 2 in Vienna, Austria.
No conclusions were reached because the Trump administration insisted on no enrichment at all, not even the 3.67% from the earlier agreement.
To be sure the attack had already been planned before the negotiations even began. That is a typical Washington deceptive make-believe tactic that everything is on the right track. [see related article below]
So, on 28 February, on mutual agreement, Netanyahu started bombing Teheran, closely followed by the US military.
It gets even crazier. Leading officers and many of the troops were against this war. Since there is a close collaboration between the Christian Evangelists and the Zionists, they made the military believe they are fighting a Holy War, not just against Iran, but against Islam, to make the land available for the next coming of Christ.
The war moved forward, and we see how ill-conceived it was as Iran holds their position and in many ways Israel and the US are losing.
But this is also part of the world-stage theatre and people, being part of the game, are falling into the trap.
The real planners behind this war is – guess who? – the City of London, those who run the City of London which is a square-mile enclave in the center of London, dominated by Big-Big finance, banking, insurance, for example the Lloyds Market of insurers and re-insurers.
The City of London is an enclave like the Vatican in the City of Rome. Independent and about equally evil.
Most of the world thinks that Iran has closed off the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz was not closed off by Iran, but effectively by the City of London, basically by the Lloyds Market, with the monopoly of insurers and reinsurers.
The ongoing story for that is that they cannot afford bearing the losses with the risk of the ships being sunk or bombarded or both by Iran and the US and Israel, because the Iranian vessels are also covered by the Lloyds market.
This is true.
But the real story is that all and everything these days is decided by the City of London, and you know who controls the City of London, the same people who have created the Federal Reserve Act, the dollar ponzi scheme we are living today. And the City of London still factually owns and directs the Fed. Bankers and financiers of the City of London also are the key shareholders of the Fed, one of the few private central banks in the world.
But so is the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. It is also privately-owned, belonging to the City of London, controlling some 90+ % of all central banks and 95% of all tradable currencies worldwide, of which some 60% are in US dollars – and only 5% in Chinese Yuan, the world’s second largest economy.
The Chinese Yuan is backed by a solid economy. The domineering US dollar is backed by nothing, zilch, zero. Imagine!
Iran is one of the few important countries not belonging to the BIS, something not liked at all by those who are running the City of London.
And who runs the City of London? The same “people” who run Israel and the aggressions against Iran and against Palestine. And the same people who also run Washington. Everything has multiple purposes; they are just often not immediately seen. (The BIS is an entirely different story, though connected, as EVERYTHING is connected. Nothing is coincidence.)
The main reason for the City of London to react – through the insurance market, the by far biggest being Lloyds – is not so much the risk of sunken ships, as is the waning value of the dollar, the US dollar’s diminishing dominating importance in the world, since less and less of hydrocarbon trade is done in US dollars, and ever less nations’ reserves are held in US dollars, but in gold and other currency, the Chinese Yuan having become a growing reserve currency.
The war against Iran is also to force Iran again to sell their hydrocarbon in US dollars, and eventually to join the BIS, the domain of the City of London.
That is what Trump has already done with Venezuela, one of the key reasons to overthrow the Maduro government. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven hydrocarbon reserves. Up to January 2, they sold energy in other than US dollars, mainly in Chinese Yuan. Since Trump took over Venezuela, any petrol from Venezuela is billed in US dollars.
This is supposed bringing back the value of the dollar – once upon a time called Petro-dollar — to what used to be and still is tool to punish and sanction misbehaving countries and people around the globe.
Of course, the reduction of hydrocarbons floating through the Hormuz Strait is drastically reduced. Out of the overall worldwide energy of some 25% before the war, before the blocking of Hormuz, still 90% of oil ships went through, now this is down to about 15% or less. It affects mostly clients from Asia, especially China that receives 40% of their oil and gas from the Gulf, but also Europe.
So, this war is a double or even quadruple yummy:
i) the US dollar rises in value and importance, and dominance;
ii) the US-led petrol dominance increases;
iii) the war industry has a new bonanza;
iv) the unseen City of London gains on power and control, and
v) Israel may advance their quest for a Greater Israel – but it is only their dream, which the vibes of this inhuman genocidal aggression will auto-destroy.
And – not to forget – President Trump’s war against China is foremost an economic war.
Withholding energy from China may certainly impact China’s economy. So goes Trump’s thinking.
However, China is well-prepared. They have several alternative sources, beginning with Russia and then in Asia.
By blocking the Strait of Hormuz, they pretend to be killing several birds with one strike.
Yet, Asian solidarity is quite different from that of the flailing West. It is solid and resistant.
Propaganda and mind manipulation fit right into these ever-war scenarios. It is all planned that way. Digitization of news plus artificial intelligence (AI) make it possible to switch from news item to the next so quickly that we are confused, become either depressed or apathetic or both. That’s why most people have already forgotten one of the first atrocities of this war, the targeted killing of more than 170 primary school girls in Iran.
The master of propaganda and mind manipulation at the beginning of the 20th century was Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew. He wisely said in his book “Propaganda” in 1928:
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet. [see related article below]
That summarizes perfectly how the U.S. and the western world is ruled. Bernays worked as a propagandist for the U.S. government during WW I. He advised US President Woodrow Wilson on how to bring the US public opinion around to be pro war so that Wilson could enter WWI.
Bernays coined the term “the engineering of consent.” This is what anti-people and anti-democracy technocrats are doing all the time: “Social engineering of consent.”
The UK-based “Tavistock” is the 21st century modern version of Bernays. It is one of the major mind and social geoengineering organizations in the world. They have studied societal and human behaviors of different human societies, races, creeds, ethnic characteristics, and they are able to predict how people react to certain situations, circumstances – or propaganda.
Another such organization is the Pentagon’s DARPA. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It is a war and aggression “think-tank”, investigating ways of killing more efficiently, drawing people into their trap. One of their invented tools is MK-Ultra (MK = mind control), when vulnerable people are trained to become their (the CIAs, MI6’s, Mossad’s) human tools, to become inhuman monsters, when they are given a certain signal – word, music, message. Anything their brain has been trained to react to and commit crimes they otherwise would never have done. Later when arrested (seldom, mostly they are killed by police, so they cannot talk), they do not remember anything.
Again back to Iran.
To be sure the attack had already been planned before the negotiations even began. That is a typical Washington deceptive make-believe tactic, that everything is on the right track.
Back to the beginning: connecting the dots, it is a world-stage game or theatre and we are all fooled – again and again.
The way forward, if I may suggest, is off the beaten mainstream track.
The famous poem by Robert Frost comes to mind:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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Original Article: https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-world-stage-theatre/5919158
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