HORRIFIC HELL ON EARTH offers a critical reassessment of US intervention in Iranian affairs and the shallow justifications often advanced for it. It traces US involvement in Persia from Britain’s Great Game in Central Asia to the Barack Obama administration, showing how economic elites shaped Iran policy and how these dynamics contributed to the 2009 Iranian Green Movement. It shows that the Great Game remains very much alive in the new Cold War, where – including under the US pivot to Asia – the pursuit of global dominance relies not on controlling territories in the Heartland or Rimland but on using the pyrrhic strategy of controlling “base lands”: a dispersed global network of strategic military bases, with the densest concentration in Eurasia, that enables rapid force projection anywhere, anytime. Analysis of the economic elite’s decisions reveals that their support for regime-change efforts through external subversion – specifically a “civil society coup” – was driven by financial and commercial interests. This aligned with the priorities of US political elites, who viewed such strategies as mutually beneficial. The book examines democracy promotion, the role of state and non-state actors in advancing nonviolent regime-change methods, and the use of social media as an instrument of US public diplomacy that significantly aided destabilization during the Green Movement. The strategic use of external subversion and social media to spark and steer protest movements shows how efficient and effective these tools are in US foreign policy. It also examines the blueprints and game plan, exploring the methods, means, and machinations of the economic and political elite in their ongoing pursuit of imposing and maintaining planetary peonage. This analysis clarifies that the global conspiracy for a world republic – what John Robison termed a “great republic,” to be achieved by what Nesta Helen Webster called a “world revolution,” and what others such as Carroll Quigley and Dr. Richard L. Day later revealed – is not, as British Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson dismisses as “putrid conspiracy theories,” but rather plain conspiracy facts in full public view, advancing slowly yet steadily toward its ultimate goal. Its architects have relied on gradualism to ensure that the project proceeds without triggering worldwide panic. Richard N. Gardner, in his 1974 Foreign Affairs article ‘The Hard Road to World Order,’ wrote: “the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’... but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault… a majority of nations are likely to have explicit population policies, many of them designed to achieve zero population growth by a specific target date… ‘if goods can’t cross borders, armies will’... The road to world order will still be a long and hard one, but since the short cuts do not lead anywhere we have no choice but to take it.”