Since the 1950s, Iran and the United States haven’t seen eye to eye.  They’ve been at odds as they swap political grievances where one blames the other for wrongdoings.  But under President Donald Trump, the psychological warfare between the two nations has escalated to the point of being on the brink of war. 

The problems between Iran and the United States are complex and still unsettled.  Remarkably, each country proves its point by itemizing a list of complaints against the other. 

For example, the Iranians recapitulate U.S abuses, which started back in 1953 when CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.  Then, they installed the Shah whom they supported throughout his 26-year reign of tyranny.

Between 1980 and 1988 war with Iraq, Iran felt that it was also fighting a shadowy enemy: the United States.  What is obvious to the Iranians is that Washington supplied arms, money and intelligence assistance to President Saddam Hussein. 

The Iranians were also outraged blaming the United States for helping Hussein in his large-scale chemical attack on the Iranian troops by using Sarin and mustard gas. 

The American battleship Vincennes fired two surface-to-air missiles to an Iranian passenger airplane that resulted in the death of 300 civilians and the destruction of the aircraft.              

The tagging of Iran along with North Korea and Iraq by former President George W. Bush as an axis of evil further strained relations with Iran.  The objective of Washington is not simply to stop Iran’s nuclear program but rather to engineer a regime change. 

Trump withdrew from the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) and imposed lethal economic sanctions on the Persian nation.  It is absurd to call Iran a terrorist state and list its National Guards as terrorists.

In turn, the Americans justify their own antagonism toward Iran by going back to the events of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.  The Iranians had put the American embassy under siege and kept 52 of its staff hostages for 444 days.

Celebrating 1979 Islamic Revolution as a national holiday is an affront to the United States.  The Americans also abhor those chants: America, the Great Satan!  Death to America!  And death to America!          

Iran’s geopolitical and military emerging power in the Middle-East doesn’t go well with America and its allies in the region.  Also attempts by Iran to acquire nuclear weapons are met with a strong objection by the United States and other western powers. 

The United States and most countries in the Middle East resent the fact that Iranians are supporting fellow Shiites, Hezbollah, Houthis and Hamas (Sunni) whom the West classifies as terrorists but who are in reality freedom fighters.           

So far, nothing is conclusive between Iran and the United States.  The hatred is relentless; the accusations and harsh tit-for-tat words of war have reached a culminating point.

Neither country seems willing to yield by leaving the infamous past to the past.  Now tensions have surged; with the absence of trust and diplomacy, both countries appear to be heading toward an eventual confrontation.

The United States is building a massive flotilla in the Middle-East in preparation for a war with Iran.  Most of the wars America fought are based on false flags and for the wrong reasons. 

The attacks on the oil tankers and the downing of the U.S. drone are vivid reminders of the Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam) and false claim about Hussein having acquired WMD (Weapons Of Mass Destruction).  One little spark or one more false flag will be the pretext Trump would need to justify an attack on Iran.

If a war breaks out, the entire Middle-East will be on fire.  Proxies of Iran will join in the fight and probably so will do Israel, Saudi Arabia and others on the side of the United States.  What the two big players, China and Russia, will do, nobody can predict.  The Third World War seems to be looming in the horizon.

A war with Iran will have some severe consequences on both sides.  The United States will likely face its demise.  Gas price will skyrocket; The U.S. stock market will crash; the U.S. dollar as the world exchange currency will possibly be replaced with the gold standard; the Great Depression of the 1930s will reappear in its worst form. 

Iran will suffer as well. The United States will execute shock and awe operations on its strategic locations.  Despite all its defensive mechanism, Iran will suffer some ruins.   But it will fight to the end, and the Persian nation will rebound from its ashes and spring up. 

War is hell.  Its cost is unimaginable: losses of lives and materials, the economic impasse and the psychological trauma in its aftermath often scar people for life. 

Instead, the best course of action is diplomacy because this conflict has no goal and no purpose other than proving the analogy between the wolf and the lamb. 

“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.” Bernie Sanders