Iran has published a naive letter to the American People
Paul Craig Roberts
The letter is truthful, a point made early in the letter:
“As the first casualty of the endless wars waged by the US government has without exception been the truth, with the American people perpetually receiving the greatest harm as the result of the US government’s campaign of deception, we wish to highlight some of the facts that are being withheld from the American public. After all, it is the American taxpayers who will have to bear the cost of America’s unjust wars, and so they deserve to know the truth.”
You can read the letter in a number of places, including here: https://israelpalestinenews.org/irans-revolutionary-guards-publish-letter-to-the-american-people/
The problem with the letter is not its truthfulness. The problem is its naiveté. The letter shows that the Iranian government has a failed understanding of its proxy enemy that Israel has arranged for Iran to fight, while Israel, the source of the conflict escapes damage from the conflict.
The Iranian letter assumes that America being a democracy the American people have control. The Iranian government lost in democratic fantasies does not understand that money, not the American people, control the US Government. When it comes to America’s Middle East policy, the policy is controlled not by the American people or by elections, but by the Israel Lobby and the US military/security complex.
The Israel Lobby has successfully used America for the entirety of the 21st century to fight Israel’s wars for the Zionist Agenda of Greater Israel. The US military/security complex is highly content with a quarter century of wars for Israel, because the wars against Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now Iran and Lebanon have contributed to its profits. The Iranian government’s ridiculous notion that the US government serves the interest of the American people is laughable, and this shows that Iran does not understand its proxy enemy. Indeed, Iran does not understand the conflict it is in, because it is conducting it against a proxy instead of Iran’s real enemy–Israel.
Russia’s Putin has fallen for the same ploy since 2014. Russia is wasting its resources and lives of its soldiers and civilians fighting a proxy force of its real enemy. Stupidity of this magnitude is what destroys countries.
How does one explain the complete misperception of reality by the Iranians and the Russians?