How the U.S. Engineered the Iran Conflict to Strike at China and Russia by Proxy.
By Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, exclusively for Sangar
Original article: جنگ مهندسیشده
The United States has been determined to sabotage the strategic projects of China and Russia in Iran by any means necessary. The Israeli attack on Iran came immediately after the failure of negotiations between Washington and Tehran — talks that were doomed from the outset. Both the Americans and the Israelis knew in advance that these negotiations would go nowhere and used their collapse as a pretext to give Israel the green light for a pre-planned strike on Iran.
Israel launched its operation, targeting Iran’s key military and economic infrastructure. Despite persistent efforts by the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. to push Washington into direct military confrontation, the American administration showed little interest in becoming directly involved, knowing that such a move would only deplete U.S. resources in a confrontation with the Eastern bloc (namely, China and Russia).
Still, the U.S. sought to protect its strategic interests and needed an alternative plan — one that would bring maximum geopolitical gain with minimal cost. That plan was already in place: provoke Iran into a response that would unite the Arab countries of the region against it and shift the burden of war onto them.
Iran had repeatedly warned that in the event of a U.S. military attack, all American bases in the region — especially in Arab countries — would become targets for missile strikes. Aware of this, the U.S. launched airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities to provoke a military response from Tehran. And it worked.
Once Iran responded militarily, conditions became ripe for mobilizing Arab states against it. This time, the Arab coalition wasn’t driven by ideology, but by fear and a sense of existential threat.
The war quickly escalated into a regional conflict. What began as a limited strike became a serious threat to global energy flows. Iran, one of China’s key oil suppliers, came under intense pressure, and energy routes in the Middle East were seriously disrupted. Oil prices soared to unprecedented levels — and during this crisis, the U.S. reaped several strategic benefits:
Massive economic profit from arms sales to Arab states;
Higher oil prices, boosting American energy exports;
A regional war funded by Arab states — without American troop losses.
In essence, this was a case of "one shot, multiple targets":
Iran was weakened, Israel was satisfied, China faced an energy crisis, and the U.S. expanded its arms market. This is more than just a war — it's a geopolitical project, engineered by the U.S. with full awareness of regional dynamics. The goal: to entangle the Islamic Republic of Iran in a long, exhausting war with Arab monarchies. A war paid for by others, with strategic dividends flowing to Washington.
China, for its part, cannot directly intervene — the war is financed by Arab capital and fought with American technology. It’s not easily framed as a conflict between Islam and Judaism. Instead, it is being presented as an internal regional conflict between Arab nations and the Persian nation of Iran. Tehran has no one to blame.
In reality, this is a complex, multilayered scenario. On the surface, it looks like a war between Iran and Israel. In truth, it is part of a grand American strategy to contain both China and Russia. Should Iran collapse under pressure, China’s energy security would be in serious jeopardy. Beijing would be forced into an economic and tariff war with the U.S. from a weakened position, possibly leading to strategic defeat. At the same time, Russia’s economic and strategic initiatives in the region would be severely undermined.
It can be said that the U.S., with exceptional precision and calculation, has launched an arrow into the heart of its two greatest rivals — and its fallout will engulf Iran as well.
The world has entered an era of multilayered, multi-purpose wars. Gone are the days of senseless attacks or single-target strikes. One thing is clear: by relying on influence, economic leverage, lobbying power, and strategic acumen, the U.S. has managed to orchestrate a war fought by others, profited from it, and not lost a single soldier.
Since the rise of Donald Trump, U.S. foreign policy has been more focused than ever on building preemptive barriers against emerging global powers. With minimal direct cost, Washington seeks to block China's rise and Russia’s resurgence. Properly understood, the Iran crisis is not merely a bilateral clash between Iran and Israel — it is part of a global geopolitical contest among great powers to shape the emerging world order.
