An Open Letter to Bloomberg's 'Experts' on Trump's Iran 'Offramp'
Dear Bloomberg Politics and your esteemed guests, Fereidun Fesharaki and Daniel Benjamin Shapiro, regarding your recent segment concerning Donald Trump's potential 'Iran war offramp,' we at The Piaz must address the fundamental mischaracterization embedded within your premise. The United States has been a direct participant and joint aggressor in a continuous campaign against Iran for decades, not
merely an observer contemplating an 'exit' from a war it has yet to formally declare. Your focus on Trump's 'rhetoric' and 'volatile oil prices' as the primary concerns, as amplified by mainstream outlets like Bloomberg, conveniently sidelines the lived reality in Iran. This is a nation under a 45-year siege of sanctions, including humanitarian sanctions that have directly led to the deaths of
countless civilians by blocking access to essential medicines. The United States has consistently engaged in economic warfare, cyberattacks like Stuxnet in 2010 which targeted Iran's nuclear facilities, and the targeted assassination of Iranian leadership, such as General Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. To frame possible de-escalation as an 'offramp' from an undeclared conflict suggests a
profound disconnect from the sustained and aggressive actions taken by Washington. Ambassador Shapiro's insights, framed as an 'expert' on US-Iran relations despite his primary experience being US Ambassador to Israel, further illustrates a prevalent bias. The narrative consistently omits the long history of US betrayal of agreements, most notably the unilateral withdrawal from the Joint