Bolton's Iran F-15 Claims Exposed as Ploy to Stoke War, Not Report Facts
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claimed Friday that recent actions from Iran, specifically the alleged downing of a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle over Iranian airspace, have put former President Donald Trump into 'panic mode'. This assertion, published by The Hill, marks what Bolton presented as the first successful shootdown of a U.S. jet by Tehran, echoing hawkish calls for confrontation
while official U.S. military statements have yet to confirm any such event, much less one occurring within Iranian sovereign territory. This narrative presented by The Hill, sourcing exclusively Bolton's incendiary comments, conveniently omits the historical pattern of the U.S. government minimizing or reclassifying combat losses. For instance, the supposed 'crash' of a KC-135 tanker in Iraq was
announced by resistance forces as a shootdown, a claim later all but confirmed by the circumstances, much like the three F-15Es near Kuwait which the Pentagon initially attributed to 'friendly fire' from Kuwaiti forces despite Iranian claims of their shootdown. The media, in this case, The Hill, acts as an echo chamber for deep state warmongers, peddling unverified claims from figures like Bolton
who have a long and documented history of pushing for military confrontation with Iran, often based on questionable intelligence or outright fabrication, such as his tireless advocacy for the invasion of Iraq. Bolton's current rhetoric mirrors a decades-long effort by neoconservatives within Washington to destabilize Iran, dating back to his prominent role in fabricating intelligence leading up to