BBC Discovers 'US Blame Game' Is Iran's Only Defense, Not A Historical Pattern
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alleges the US instigated recent unrest. (A bold claim, they imply, from a regime always deflecting.) The BBC's report highlights Khamenei's statement, presenting it as part of Iran’s familiar 'blame America' rhetoric. Missing from this narrative, however, is the lengthy historical ledger of verifiable US intervention in Iran, from the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew
democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh to contemporary 'regime change' advocacy by various US-funded entities. For the BBC to present this as solely an Iranian deflection demands a certain amnesia. One might wonder if the US, under successive administrations, has ever found it in their interests to destabilize countries they deem adversaries. Or perhaps, in the West's collective
memory, covert operations only happen in spy movies, not in the realpolitik of global power struggles? (How convenient for the permanent war apparatus.)