"I find it hard to believe that Mr. Trump's offer to meet with the leaders of
the Islamic Republic of Iran "without preconditions" is sincere. My reason for
this statement is twofold. First, Trump's illegitimate and irresponsible
withdrawal of the United States from the multilateral JCPOA/P5+1 nuclear treaty
with Iran has no honest basis for having occurred. It has been pointed out by
America's most responsible conservative commentators who are not under the spell
of Zionists and Neo-Conservatives, people like Pat Buchanan, David Stockman,
Philip Giraldi, and Paul Craig Roberts, that the deal a good one for all
concerned,” Dankof told Tasnim.
He added, "It (the nuclear deal) is verifiable, enforceable, and facilitates
stability both in the region and globally. The only reason Mr. Trump has taken
the action he has is because his administration has been obviously hijacked by
radical Zionist assets like John Bolton and Nikki Haley among others. Their goal
is "regime change" where Iran is concerned because this is what Netanyahu, the
Israeli Lobby, an Israeli-controlled American Congress and media, Israeli NGOs
and think tanks in the United States, and Zionist lackeys in the American
National Security Establishment want. That is the bottom line”.
Mark Dankof is a broadcaster for The Ugly Truth Podcast. Born in Wiesbaden,
Germany, the son of a United States Air Force Colonel, he graduated from
Valparaiso University in 1977 and from Chicago's Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School in 1983. In recent years, he has pursued post-graduate work in
systematic theology and theological German at Westminster Theological Seminary
in Philadelphia. Formerly the 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in
King County/Seattle and later an elected delegate to Texas State Republican
Conventions in 1994 and 1996, he entered the United States Senate race in
Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against
Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.
Following is the full text of the interview.
Tasnim: US President Donald Trump has said that talks with Iran are imminent and
could happen "pretty soon,” a day after he expressed willingness to meet with
the Islamic Republic's leaders without "preconditions”. Do you believe that
Trump is genuine?
Dankof: I find it hard to believe that Mr. Trump's offer to meet with the
leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran "without preconditions" is sincere. My
reason for this statement is twofold. First, Trump's illegitimate and
irresponsible withdrawal of the United States from the multilateral JCPOA/P5+1
nuclear treaty with Iran has no honest basis for having occurred. It has been
pointed out by America's most responsible conservative commentators who are not
under the spell of Zionists and Neo-Conservatives, people like Pat Buchanan,
David Stockman, Philip Giraldi, and Paul Craig Roberts, that the deal a good one
for all concerned. It is verifiable, enforceable, and facilitates stability both
in the region and globally. The only reason Mr. Trump has taken the action he
has is because his administration has been obviously hijacked by radical Zionist
assets like John Bolton and Nikki Haley among others. Their goal is "regime
change" where Iran is concerned because this is what Netanyahu, the Israeli
Lobby, an Israeli-controlled American Congress and media, Israeli NGOs and think
tanks in the United States, and Zionist lackeys in the American National
Security Establishment want. That is the bottom line. If Trump had any integrity
at all on this issue as one who campaigned on an "America First" platform in
2016, he would fire these Israeli agents in his Administration, have Buchanan
and Giraldi explain the deal to the American public in great detail, and insist
that Israel's weaponized nuclear program be brought under the auspices of the
Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) even as the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) be brought under the scrutiny of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) in the United States.
Tasnim: Washington on May 8 unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.
Other parties have stressed that they would continue to remain committed to the
agreement. What is behind this abrupt shift in tone?
Dankof: The abrupt shift in tone on the part of the other honest signatories to
the JCPOA/P5+1 treaty who want to remain faithful to the deal has several
components to it in my opinion. First, the other signatories recognize that the
deal is stabilizing, fair, verifiable, and honors Iran's legitimate rights to
the peaceful utilization of nuclear research and development as a signatory to
the NPT, which Israeli is not. These parties also recognize the outlandish
control of American foreign policy by Israel, and the false recent claims of
Netanyahu about Iran's capabilities and intentions which are based on the same
brand of provably false and fraudulent intelligence information and analysis
which was deliberately employed by these very Zionist elements to facilitate the
American invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on the ridiculous claim that Saddam
Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction" and al-Qaeda sympathies. The recent
letter to Mr. Trump by the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
on Iran and JCPOA/P5+1 points all of this out to the President. The signatories
to this letter are a most impressive listing of intelligence professionals,
including Philip Giraldi and Ray McGovern, whose voices and analysis are
deliberately being concealed from the American public by a Zionist-controlled
Mainstream Media ranging from Fox News and CNN to the Washington Post and the
New York Times. The fix is in. What is interesting is that the latest polls show
that over half of the American public does not war with Iran, despite the
literal and systematic brainwashing for that very thing on the part of the
Zionist American Establishment. In this regard, the Europeans have figured out
that this saber-rattling and warmongering are not in their interest either. No
sane person can possibly want a Third World War, or war with Iran and Russia
specifically, powers that can clearly fight and are much stronger military
entities than the forces presently holding their own with incompetent American
occupations and strategies in place since September 11th, 2001. In the United
States, a demonic alliance of the Neo-Conservative Right and the Neo-Liberal
Democratic Left for war with Iran threatens world peace and millions of lives.
David Stockman's piece entitled, "The New Handmaids of the Warfare
State: Democrats and the Liberal Media" explains all of this. I hope your
readers at Tasnim News Agency will avail themselves of this essay for their own
understanding of this situation.
Tasnim: Do you believe that European members of the deal would favor a new round
of talks between Iran and the US?
Dankof: I am not sure what the attitude of the Europeans might be to renewed
talks between Iran and the United States. On the one hand, talks that would
restore the deal and bring the President of the United States to his departed
common senses on this treaty would be most welcome. On the other hand, there
can be little basis for renewed talks when President Trump destroys a legitimate
multilateral treaty deal and institutes literally wartime economic sanctions on
Iran which has upheld its end of the bargain in exchange for peace and renewed
free trade and political discourse. How does one talk to a dishonorable party
which has gone back on its solemn word on this deal and has Netanyahu and Israel
calling all of the American shots in this process? The Iranian leadership
understands this. I can't blame them for their recent public statements on Press
TV and on Tasnim News Agency reports which state the obvious clearly. Certainly,
the rest of the world understands this, and understands that the
delegitimization of the treaty by Trump and the Zionist Occupied American
Congress and Media threatens the credibility of the United States in
negotiations and promises made with any world powers, including Putin's
Russia. The fallout from this mess has produced what may indeed be irreparable
damage.
Tasnim: Donald Trump issued a threat of all-out war against Iran recently.
Later, he softened his tone. Do you believe this has anything to do with US
midterm elections looming on the horizon?
Dankof: Trump's softening of rhetoric on war with Iran recently may indeed
reflect the upcoming challenge to the Republican Party in off-year elections and
the polls showing that the American public does not want war with Iran by a
solid majority. But there is danger in all of this. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
told the American public in the 1940 Presidential election that he would never
send their kids into a European war the people of the United States clearly did
not want, even as we now know that Roosevelt was planning to deliberately
provoke war with Japan from October 1940 onward as the McCollum Memorandum of
the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) to Roosevelt proves. The bottom line is
this: When the Zionist power elite of the American Establishment wants war, it
will get war. It will do so through the execution of a false flag incident
designed to prove the complicity and malice of the intended target in the false
flag incident at hand. The media will put out the spin on the incident that this
element wants to put firmly into the minds of an unsuspecting American mass
public. This will create the climate for war with Iran presently disfavored by
the public in the United States. Then Netanyahu and his agents in American
institutions will get what they want. I explained how this works to the American
Free Press national gathering in Austin, Texas almost 5 years ago in a lecture
entitled "FDR and Pearl Harbor: The Primer for the Zionist Assault on the
American Republic and the Nation of Iran." I hope your readers will avail
themselves of this essay, both in English and in Farsi.
I have returned to some broadcasting on all of this in American Alternative
Media as the hour is late. My recent op-ed entitled, "A 'Communist's' Thoughts
on the 4th of July,'" underscores how such a false flag incident will play on
the minds of the unsuspecting public in my country. This essay has received
thousands of hits in English language Russian media outlets like Russia Insider
and Russian Faith. I can only hope more Americans are reading these outlets than
I presently believe is the case, as Mainstream Zionist Media in the States is
working overtime, and will be, to sell death and destruction of the innocents
globally while trying to conceal their identity and transparently evil
agenda. We must work together to expose them. I send regards to all the fine
people of Iran and will direct my listeners on several broadcasts next week to
bookmark Tasnim News. God bless you all.
Source: Tasnim