The resignation letter of Joe Kent, director of counterterrorism in the United States, reveals the destructive and destabilizing influence of Israel on American foreign policy. In his first interview, he mentions this role in triggering the war that destroyed Iraq. He said he resigned to prevent repeating the horror with Iran.
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Author: Amir Khadir Organization: Former Quebec solidaire deputy
The current war surpasses the usual geostrategic explanation. To understand why Trump was drawn into this war for the sole benefit of Israel, a different angle of analysis is needed.
Often overlooked in the analysis is the growing clarity of the three main actors in the current crisis — the Iranian theocracy of the Pasdaran, the regime of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, and the Trump administration in the United States — each being driven, in their own way, by a eschatological vision of the world. They act under the influence of actors who believe in the end of times. This convergence of the three millenarianisms, which foresee the return of the messiah for a thousand-year reign, creates a war dynamic that conventional diplomacy is structurally incapable of defusing.
Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been built on the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih — the government of the Islamic jurist — awaiting the return of the Imam Mahdi, the 12th Imam who disappeared in the 9th century according to Shiite tradition. The belief in the reappearance of this messiah is shared by millions of Shiites around the world in a spiritual and apolitical way.
But in Iran, the hard factions of the Revolutionary Guards — the Pasdaran — have turned it into an ideological vector: for them, the greater the regional instability, the sooner the return of the Mahdi.
The power in Iran, against which I long fought, is now held by the Pasdaran, who control all sectors of the economy, state, and security apparatus, supported by a militia corps of nearly 1 million members.
The theocracy, now dynastic, is just a facade of legitimization — very fragile for what is in fact a fascist cartel state. The Iranian people — who rose up massively in 2019, 2022, and 2026 — are its first victims. Their territory is now the center of a war they did not choose, in the name of prophecies they no longer share.
