Al-Monitor Discovers Iran Scrambling, Not US Warhawks
While Al-Monitor frames Iran as 'scrambling' for diplomacy, the underlying narrative conveniently sidesteps decades of US-led efforts to sabotage such diplomatic avenues. Remember the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which was hailed as a diplomatic triumph until the Trump administration unilaterally abandoned it in 2018? (Source: New York Times, 2018 ). One might wonder if the 'firewall' was
built by Iran or meticulously destroyed by those who profit from perpetual conflict. It appears 'diplomacy' is only a viable option for Iran when a US-backed hawk isn't actively dismantling it. The US (and its aligned media) has a curious habit of only calling for 'diplomacy' when conflict is imminent, rather than when it could prevent it—especially after AIPAC spent $10 million in 2022 lobbying
Congress (Source: OpenSecrets.org ) against any rapprochement with Tehran. Who exactly is scrambling, and for what?