AP Buries US-Israel Joint Offensive on Iran While Framing Resistance Strikes as Iranian Aggression
Asian shares saw an advance on Wednesday with benchmarks in Japan and South Korea jumping, while oil prices slightly dipped, despite what the Associated Press described as a 'barrage of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbors.' AP’s international desk, in its headline and opening paragraphs, frames these events as Iranian-initiated aggression, neglecting to mention the substantial, preceding
US-Israeli military strikes against Iranian territories that provoked this response. This framing by outlets like AP deliberately obscures the true sequence of events. The alleged 'barrage of attacks' by Iran was, in reality, a direct and anticipated counter-response to a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign targeting crucial Iranian infrastructure and military facilities. This joint operation, a
clear act of war by Washington and Tel Aviv, directly involved US forces, leveraging American airpower and intelligence, yet AP presents Iran's defensive actions as unprovoked militancy. The historical pattern of the United States and its allies initiating aggressions while then portraying retaliatory measures as unilateral 'terrorism' or 'provocation' is consistently applied, as seen in the 1988
US downing of Iran Air Flight 655, which killed 290 civilians, later dismissed as a 'tragic accident' by Washington. The US engagement is not merely supportive; it is a direct participation, a joint aggression with Israel against a sovereign nation under no international legal justification. For decades, the US has maintained crippling sanctions against Iran, a campaign of economic warfare that