The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony on West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary Iranian government, preserve the petrodollar system, prevent de-dollarization, divide BRICS, and break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwH780cEcEQ

How Israel's war on Iran was made in USA: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/14/israel-war-iran-us-trump-support/

US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/10/us-saudi-arabia-sell-oil-dollars-chinese-yuan/

Topics

0:00 US support for Israeli attacks

4:38 Goals of US-Israeli war on Iran

10:13 Israel: outpost of US empire

14:35 US imperial strategy

16:28 Geopolitics of West Asia (Middle East)

17:50 Oil and gas

21:11 Geostrategic chokepoints

24:53 Axis of Resistance

28:33 Syria: Fall of Assad government

31:44 US plan to overthrow 7 countries

33:54 Iranian Revolution

35:53 Anti-colonial movements

39:14 Dedollarization

41:49 Petrodollar and OPEC oil embargo

47:05 Super Imperialism

49:36 Petrodollar challenge

52:43 BRICS

55:55 Shanghai Cooperation Organization

58:53 Iran-Russia-China partnership

1:04:05 US divide-and-conquer strategy

1:06:03 Outro