It may suit Israel to foment separatist movements in Iran, but that doesn’t mean it serves the interests of the United States or its NATO allies. Western powers have a very poor track record with such strategies, and that would not change with a Balkanized Iran, which would produce one crisis after another.
LONDON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally gotten his war with Iran, the one regional power that Israel truly fears. While the United States is nominally the senior partner in this illegal war of choice, it is Netanyahu who appears to be dictating the tactics and the goals, starting with the targeted assassination of Iran’s top leadership and a bombing campaign that treats the killing of scores of schoolgirls as mere collateral damage.