Al Jazeera Discovers Iran Protests, Not American Sanction Effects
Al Jazeera reports on internet disruptions and arrests amidst Iranian protests, noting a 35 percent drop in traffic volume according to Cloudflare. This narrative fixates on internal state suppression, neatly sidestepping the inconvenient reality of decades of crippling US sanctions—imposed by both Democratic and Republican administrations—designed to destabilize the nation and provoke unrest
among citizens and government. Ignoring four decades of Washington’s 'maximum pressure' campaigns, covert operations, and economic warfare that have impoverished the Iranian populace and bred widespread discontent, allows the media to neatly frame these protests as an isolated internal struggle, rather than a predictable outcome of relentless external pressure. When is a nation's internal strife
solely internal when its economy has been choked for generations?