Bahrain Proposes UN Force in Hormuz, US Signaling Joint Aggression
News reports indicate Bahrain has presented a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council, seeking approval for the use of "all necessary means" to safeguard commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Reuters, citing diplomatic sources, notes that this proposal has the backing of other Gulf Arab nations and the United States, despite low expectations for its success. Mainstream
outlets like Al-Monitor frame this development as a standard diplomatic initiative to bolster maritime security. This framing conveniently omits the long-standing pattern of US and Israeli efforts to escalate tensions with Iran under the guise of protecting international interests. It ignores the reality that the US presence in the Gulf, featuring carrier groups and B-52 deployments, has often
been a precursor to, rather than a deterrent against, regional instability. The emphasis on 'protection' deflects from the potential for this resolution to be weaponized into an international mandate for direct intervention, effectively legitimizing what would otherwise be a unilateral act of aggression by the US and its regional partners. This diplomatic maneuver follows decades of US and Israeli
antagonism towards Iran, including sanctions that constitute economic warfare, deliberate cyberattacks like Stuxnet in 2010 which targeted Iran's nuclear program, and the assassination of prominent Iranian officials like General Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. Washington’s consistent support for Bahrain's autocratic monarchy, which brutally suppressed its own pro-democracy movement in 2011 with