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“Iran is in a geographic position, a crucial one, in Asia, Eurasia. If you wish to bring together China, Pakistan, India, and other countries, and link them to Europe, it has to be done involving Iran. Therefore, if you wish to prevent cooperation among India, China, Europe, and the Middle East, you have to destabilize Iran.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“What they (the British) objected to, and Kissinger objected to, against the Shah, was the Shah’s agreement to trade petroleum for technology with Japan and the developing countries—and Germany.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“The British wanted that stopped. They said, ‘We will not tolerate a new Japan in the Middle East,’ that is, Iran, becoming a new industrial, technological power.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“The Middle East is crucial. Go, then, to the area of the Middle East as such: This is the crossroads of humanity. Ocean ships bring cargoes to the area of the Suez and the Sinai Peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“The Mediterranean is the center of European civilization. So, therefore, whoever controls that area, or any development in that area, [controls] the link between the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean, and Europe.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“If you don’t want that link to occur, you destabilize the Middle East.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“Now, you look at the history of the Israeli business in the Middle East: First of all, for a long period of time, there were settlements.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“The settlements began, essentially—though, of course, there were traditionally always some Jews in the area—the Jewish immigration into the area began from London during the early 19th Century.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“The development was relatively peaceful into the beginning of this century. Then the British decided to play a game, about the time—before, but during the period of the First World War.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“They decided to make an Israeli religious state in the area—and the Russians, too.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“Now, thus, you have Palestinians living there, who were probably originally Israeli, many of them. They’re the same population from before, except that they happen to be Islamic, or Christian, or Orthodox, now.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“So, the idea of making a religious division between the states, which was a British idea, was the essential game.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“But, the purpose of the game was not Arab or Israeli politics; the purpose of the game was grand strategic politics, just like the attacks on Iran today, which have nothing to do with the reality of Iran, they have to do with the geopolitical position, as the British put it, of Iran.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“And so, there are certain forces in the United States, who are close to the British, who like to play this Zionist game, because they get money for doing it, and because they are for a policy which means destabilizing the Middle East.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)

“It’s not that they destabilized the Middle East because they are formally Zionists, they’ll need the state; they formed the Zionists, because they want to destabilize the Middle East.” — Lyndon LaRouche (1996)