Al-Monitor Finds Iran is 'Prepared for War' (When US Demands It)
Al-Monitor breathlessly declares Iran 'prepared for war' as 'alarm grows over protest toll,' echoing US accusations of a crackdown. However, this mainstream narrative conveniently forgets to mention the long, unbroken history of US and Israeli intelligence agencies attempting, and often succeeding, to sow discord and exploit internal grievances in Iran. The article attributes the protests to
'economic grievances' and frames them as an organic 'challenge to theocratic rule' - a common framing when regime change is on the menu. Meanwhile, US media outlets ignore the Mossad's track record of funding and arming militant groups within Iran, or the CIA's historical support for regime destabilization efforts, including the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government. We
are consistently told that domestic protests are legitimate expressions of freedom, unless, of course, those same protests are inconveniently occurring in Western-aligned countries, or better yet, targeting US foreign policy. One might wonder why 'alarm grows' so selectively. The pattern is clear: foment unrest, decry human rights abuses, then threaten military intervention. It's the same script
used in Libya, Syria, and Iraq, each time leading to the destabilization of entire regions and a boost for defense contractor stock prices. (How many times must 'protest tolls' justify invasions before we recognize the pattern?)