The United States is working to limit tensions between its allies in the Middle East as it prepares, alongside Israel, a regime change for Iran.
The Pentagon has deployed additional forces to US bases in the Gulf states and to the US-UK military base in Diego Garcia.
Meanwhile, another front, involving Kurds, Turks, and Azerbaijanis, is being managed in preparation for an operation against Iran.
When the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), acting on information supplied by the US, captured PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in Kenya in 1999, then- Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit said, “I don’t understand why they gave us Öcalan. It’s like they handed us a bomb that will explode in our hands.”
Ecevit’s difficulty was that the US insisted they should not execute Öcalan as they felt he would prove useful at a later time.
That time is now. “Peace” between the Kurds and Turks is an indispensable part of US-Israeli war planning.
Following the Turkish election in 1999, Ecevit, a Social Democrat, entered a coalition with the neo-fascist Nationalist Movement Party, also known as the Grey Wolves. Their leader Devlet Bahçeli became Deputy Prime Minister. Bahçeli would later go on to form an electoral alliance with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
This right-wing alliance has shaped Turkey’s political landscape over the past decade. Today, Bahçeli plays a pivotal role in the “peace process” with Öcalan.
In March this year, Öcalan issued a call from prison urging the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve. Following this, the PKK held a conference at Mount Qandil in Iraq, close to the Iranian border. They declared their intention to end all armed activities and dissolve under the name PKK. But the Syrian and Iranian branches of the PKK – YPG and PJAK – are not included in this process.
With the Turkish-Kurdish issue thus apparently settled, little stands in the way of a US-Israeli assault on Iran. Yet the prospects for its success are slim. Israel is known for surprise attacks. Its military structure is highly flexible and adaptable, and its forces are ruthless.
However, Iran is a large country. Its population will consolidate its support in response to what it sees as Israel’s genocide in Palestine and Syria.
Israel’s justification for war against Iran is based on their assumed Zionist superiority and establish hegemony, not on a genuine threat or on international law. This is the behaviour of a rogue state.
The US and Israel can certainly inflict severe damage on Iran, but defeat is unlikely. The state will endure and will surely retaliate. An attack on Iran will precipitate a geopolitical earthquake for which the US and its allies are ill-prepared.
In Syria, it is clear that the new President, Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Mohammad Al-Jolan, respectively rebranded as HTS and Ahmed al-Sharaa, is nothing more than a quisling of the US Empire.
In a 2021 interview, former US Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, James Jeffrey, referred to HTS as “an asset” in countering Assad’s forces and Iranian-backed militias. In another interview he admitted that Jolani had been under US protection since 2018.
On 25 May 2025, the sanctions that crippled the Assad government were lifted by the US for Jolani’s illegitimate self-appointed genocidal government. In return Jolani has been given four key tasks:
- Expel the leaders of the Palestinian groups
- Break Iran’s diplomatic and military influence.
- Expel foreign Takfiri jihadis in Jolani’s forces
- Make Syria a mini-Turkey, a servile client state of Israel and the US.
Despite US support, Jolani is unlikely to last long in office. He will be replaced by Kurds or by Turkey’s proxy Syrian National Army. Both forces have more legitimacy and much higher military power in the region.
Western machinations in the Middle East are a desperate attempt to shore up hegemony. This axis of destruction is adept at creating chaos, but incapable of imposing order.
The absurd spectacle of a former head-chopper being feted in Europe’s capitals illustrates this. The US Empire is laid bare, as impulsive, panicked and without any vision for the future.
Despite unwavering support from Western governments to Arab-Turk-Kurd zionist collaborators, the world is awakening to the anti-imperialist struggle for socialist liberation.
