BATTLE FOR WORLD / THE GUARDIAN | May 16, 2019: The article highlights that the United States is closer to starting war with Iran than it has been since previous administrations. And Bolton is largely to blame for this posture.

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton has been pushing for the United States to go to war with Iran even before he was assigned to his post. And many in the media are well aware of this because he has been talking about it for nearly two decades.

Everything that the Trump administration has implemented in its Iran policy, particularly since Bolton became Trump’s top foreign policy adviser in April of 2018, must be viewed through this lens, including the alarming US military posturing in the Middle East of the past two weeks. Which is much welcomed and encouraged by the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Just after one month on the job, Bolton has been a destructive force, giving Trump the final push to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, which at the time was successfully monitoring Iran’s nuclear program and blocking its pathways to build a nuclear bomb.

Bolton has no problem with manipulating or outright ignoring intelligence to advance his agenda (-- specifically, that of the Neocons and the Ziocons to create a greater Israeli in the Middle-East, and said if he had to lie, he would do it), which is exactly what’s taking place now to shape that future reality.

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