Angle, Anchor, and Voice

Angle, Anchor, and Voice

Playing with Iranian blood, using Kurds as boots – for what?

Trump and Netanyahu do not care about regime change. They want chaos. But for what? Let’s think about it. Could it be…?

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Ezgi Basaran
Mar 04, 2026
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  • Remember Hungary 1956?

  • Undermining the Legitimacy of Iranian Protest

  • Kurds as boots on the ground

  • Turning Iran into Another Syria

  • Why this War. What Now. Could it be?

We go on asking why these two men, Trump and Netanyahu, waged a war against Iran. Surely we have moved beyond the claim that Iran posed an imminent threat (it did not), or that it was building a nuclear bomb with its “completely obliterated” nuclear facilities during the so called 12-day war (they were not). The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, recently stated that inspectors have found no evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons.

So we are left with a narrower set of possibilities. Either regime change in Iran. Or outright chaos, sustained long enough for Israel to manipulate the balance of power, perhaps even to engage in territorial opportunism if circumstances permit. But how would that be achieved? There are numerous examples showing how difficult it is to produce …

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