# Michael Hudson: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world - Geopolitical Economy Report
**Source:** https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/06/22/michael-hudson-war-iran-us-unipolar-control/
## Summary
• **US unipolar control at stake**: The war on Iran aims to prevent countries from breaking away from US unipolar control and dollar hegemony, while disrupting Eurasian integration with China and Russia
• **Neoconservative strategy**: US foreign policy follows aggressive neoconservative logic that violates international law and UN principles to maintain control over Middle East oil as buttress of US economic power
• **Historical planning**: Military strategies to overthrow and break up Iran along ethnic lines (Baluchistan, Kurds, Tajiks, Azeris) date back to 1974-75 discussions at Hudson Institute
• **Seven-country domination plan**: General Wesley Clark identified Iran as capstone of seven countries US needed to control for Middle East dominance (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran)
• **China as existential threat**: US views China's industrial dominance and socialist model as existential danger to US unipolar control and dollarized global financial system
• **Oil control strategy**: Controlling Middle Eastern oil enables dollar diplomacy, with OPEC countries investing oil revenues in US Treasury securities that can be held hostage through threat of expropriation
• **Disrupting Belt and Road**: Overthrowing Iran would interrupt China's New Silk Road railway corridor and block Russian trade development via Caspian Sea
• **Self-defeating tactics**: US attempts to maintain empire through economic chaos and military threats are driving nations to seek alternatives, making the split with Global Majority irreversible
• **Alternative institutions needed**: Breaking free requires new international organizations independent of US
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**Person:** Donald Trump, Herman, Herman Kahn, Michael Hudson, Netanyahu, Pope, Stalin, Tajiks, Trump, Washignton, Wesley Clark, Zelensky
**Place:** Afghanistan, America, Asian, Baluchistan, Britain, Caspian Sea, Central Europe, China, Cuba, Europe, France, Grenada, Haifa, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israeli, Japan, Korea, Korean, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Near East, Pakistan, Palestinians, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Tehran, Tel Aviv, U.S., US, Ukraine, United States, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam, West, West Asia
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