by Max Blumenthal, published on The Grayzone channel of Youtube, May 8, 2025
Max Blumenthal went to Tehran to visit the Iranian Aerospace Park. In this museum, Iran
s On the surface, this video doesn’t seem like an anti-war statement.
However, we are all primed for an Israeli, and maybe a direct US attack on Iran IF they don’t give up their nuclear enrichment AND their ballistic missile program. Trump has said, comply ‘or else’. Disarm or be destroyed. Sounds a little like the prelude to the destruction of Libya. And of course, it looks like war on Iran is a trigger for war with Russia and China. This is all pretty terrifying if you give it even an ounce of credibility.
So, here we have Iran, a supposedly vulnerable country that has been under increasingly devastating sanctions for 40 years, damned if they do and damned if they don’t protect themselves. And we see a global community, I mean the whole global community, not the western front, frozen in the headlights, unable to respond to Israel’s brutal genocide of the indigenous Palestinian population, with the U.S. Godzilla looming behind in a threatening posture. It seems like a war might be difficult to avoid.
But look again. While Iran has consistently refused to build a nuclear bomb, something that has been well within their capabilities for at least a couple of decades, they have developed a diverse and technologically sophisticated array of defensive missiles, as well as an assortment of large and small missiles including hypersonic missiles, a technology the U.S. has yet to develop. They have a wide assortment of drones, some of their early models based on U.S. spy drones they shot down more than a decade ago and reverse engineered to jump start their own program.
As I say, this doesn’t seem like an antiwar message, but in fact, the assembly laid out in the video below is enough to establish deterrence; enough, hopefully, to end the threat of hot war. And if you don’t like what you seem blame our government. A vicious proxy war fought with neighboring Iraq followed by decades of threats, assassinations, random bomb attacks and sanctions by the United States and Israel have led to this result, a cold war that may emerge instead of the intended hot war.