A US-led regime-change operation in Iran would be tantamount to a declaration of war on China and here’s why

China gets nearly 20 percent of its oil from Iran, and US threats of military action against Iran just prompted China to instruct its banks to dump U.S. treasuries, dealing another blow to the dollar.

The heightening rumors of a military clash between the U.S./Israel and Iran did not appear overnight. It has been years in the making, starting right after the Islamic revolution and the Iranian Hostage Crisis, when then-President Jimmy Carter hit Iran with the first economic sanctions.

Washington then used Iraq as a proxy in the 1980s to fight the Iranians in the bloody Iran-Iraq War, when Saddam Hussein, then a U.S. ally, used mustard gas to wipe out tens of thousands of Iranians.

Since Israel is seen by many in the region as a hostile U.S./British outpost in the Middle East, Iran fought back by engaging Israel through its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon and Syria.

The Israelis responded after the October 7 massacre, which they blame on Iran, by helping engineer a coup in Syria, then taking out Hezbollah commanders through military and intelligence operations, including exploding pagers. Israel also assassinated Iranian commanders in the June 2024 12-day war. Trump himself ordered the killi…