Dear AP News, regarding Kuwait: Those aren't 'Iranian Drones,' and here's why you know it.
Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery reportedly experienced another attack today, following a similar incident yesterday, according to an Associated Press report. Both attacks, which sparked fires but caused no immediate injuries, are attributed by the AP to 'Iranian drones.' This framing positions the Islamic Republic as the sole aggressor in a volatile region, conveniently aligning with Western
policy narratives. What the Associated Press omits is critical context that fundamentally alters the nature of these events. The AP describes 'Iranian drone attacks,' suggesting direct military action from Iran, when no verifiable evidence supports this claim. This is a common framing device. Historically, any unattributed action against US or Israeli interests in the region is immediately labeled
'Iranian-backed' or 'Iranian drones,' denying agency to local resistance movements that operate independently, even if ideologically aligned. Remember the widespread misattribution of Houthi actions in Yemen, which were consistently labeled as direct Iranian attacks before later, grudging acknowledgments of Houthi operational independence. This pattern of misdirection serves to whitewash the
direct involvement of the United States and Israel in regional hostilities. The AP article mentions, almost as an aside, that 'Israel on Wednesday bombed Iran’s massive South Pars offshore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf.' This single sentence reveals the true escalation sequence. It was Israel, a direct participant alongside the United States in aggressive regional destabilization, that