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Antiwar.com Original How CENTCOM Chief McKenzie Manufactured an Iran Crisis to Increase His Power Seeking prestige and power within the military, CENTCOM chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie has deployed a series of bureaucratic and PR moves to drive the latest episode in US-Iran tensions.by Gareth Porter Posted on Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission. During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative U.S. military moves in the Middle East stirred fears that a war against Iran was being hatched. The atmosphere of crisis was not the result ...

Gareth Porter has done it again.  He has recently written an important article about how the war profiteers and much of the military industrial complex in the United States have summoned lies and complete fabrications about Iran. Why? According to Porter, some of those people just want to advance their financial and political power. General Kenneth McKenzie is a classic example. He has been meeting with the Israel Defense Forces since the beginning of time.[1] It’s not like Gen. McKenzie tells the IDF what to do—they tell him how to perform on the political stage. When it comes to Iran, ...

As Iran tensions remain high, moving Israel to CENTOM’s area of responsibility would enable Israel, the United States and Arab partners to conduct joint exercises and planning for Iran-specific threats, thereby boosting readiness, says Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign policy at JINSA.