General Wesley Clark, former commander of the NATO bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War and Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1997 to 2000, revealed a disturbing detail in a well-known 2007 interview: shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he learned within the Pentagon of a strategic plan to launch military operations against seven countries over five years. The targeted countries were Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. According to Clark, military interventions aimed at reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and other strategic regions were outlined in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Iran appears as the final target on this list: all the other countries have already experienced profound upheavals, regime changes, and devastating civil wars. The export of democracy, much like the current narrative of the Iranian nuclear threat, has proven to be a tragic rhetorical cover to legitimize, in the eyes of Western public opinion, a strategy driven by geopolitical and economic interests with a clear objective: containing China and, more broadly, the economic and political rise of the BRICS countries.
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