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A Critique of Perennialism

Presupposition that religion is the cause of division and war Presuming that the philosophy of Perennialism is sighted as a deterrent to recent conflicts, I would like to point out that war with Iran is an imperial project which was long in the making. Recently, Neyenyahu said that the war:  "allows us to do what I have been hoping to do for 40 years."  In 2007, the f ormer commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, General Welsey Clark claimed he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who handed him a memo  describing how the US would take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran. The pretext, however, for war with Iran was not religious, but a claim that the Iranian government was executing civilians, which I've already debunked in another post:  https://tlamatic2.blogspot.com/2026/04/iran.html The purpose of the war isn't religious either. It is to knock out Isra...

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Why Iranians chant death to America and Israel Operation Ajax ( 1953)   - In 1953 the CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Installing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His secret police, the SAVAK were known for murdering and torturing people.  The Federation of American Scientists' list of SAVAK torture methods includes:  "electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails".  The SAVAK received training and support Mossad, alongside the CIA. Nojeh Coup Plot (1980)  -  ''In July 1980 a cadre of high ranking air force officers had hatched a plan to decapitate the entire Revolutionary government by bombing  key government and military sites in Tehran, starting with Khamenei's home. The commander of Iranian air force, major General Said Madijun was to spearhead the effort inside Iran. The so...