We’re seeing the dialectic of capitalist aggression and peripheral militarization play out in real time. If there wasn’t a CIA the Sandanistas wouldn’t have had secret police, there wouldn’t have been a KGB, etc. During the period of relative calm and even occasional cooperation against ISIS, Iran showed signs that it could elect moderate and reformist leaders - of course it didn’t happen quickly, nothing happens quickly, but if their government has coalesced around resurgent militarism there is nothing to blame but the repeated unprovoked aggression against it proving the moderates wrong and the hardliners right over and over and over again.

Death to Israel, death to America.