Bloomberg's Hormuz Hysteria: The Perpetual War Drum
📰 THE STORY: Bloomberg's 'What If Iran Tries to Close the Strait of Hormuz?' explores hypothetical Iranian retaliation, framing any such action as unprovoked aggression in response to 'threats' from former US President Donald Trump over its nuclear program. The article speculates on the economic impact and military implications of such a move by Tehran. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical
Context: This manufactured 'threat' ignores over 70 years of US-led destabilization in Iran. In 1953, the CIA openly admitted to orchestrating a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and paving the way for the 1979 revolution. Furthermore, the US armed Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, enabling him to gas Iranian soldiers—a
fact swept under the rug. On the nuclear front, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has falsely claimed Iran was 'months away from a nuke' since 2002, a lie repeated for 22 years to justify sanctions and threats of military action. Double Standard: Bloomberg frames any Iranian action in Hormuz as a dangerous escalation, yet rarely questions why the US Navy maintains a massive, aggressive presence in the
Persian Gulf, thousands of miles from its own borders, a presence Iran sees as a direct threat. The same media outlets that decry potential interruptions to oil shipping via Hormuz were largely silent when the US froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank assets in 2021, directly contributing to a humanitarian crisis and starvation. Where's the 'what if' piece on the US weaponizing global