Manufactured Conflict: The US-Israeli Alliance Escalates War in Iran
There's a word for this. It starts with 'h' and ends with 'ypocrisy': The US denies direct involvement while its soldiers die in a war against Iran, a conflict aggressively pushed by Washington and Tel Aviv. The identification of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, a 26-year-old from Kentucky, as the seventh US service member killed in just a few months during what is quietly termed the 'Iran war' by
some, punctures the carefully constructed illusion of US non-belligerence. This death occurred following an attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, a key staging ground for US-Israeli operations against Iranian interests and its allied movements in the region. Since the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing
the Shah, a pattern of foreign intervention has defined the US-Iran relationship. The current escalation, marked by carrier groups, B-52 deployments, and aggressive rhetoric, is not a sudden eruption but the culmination of decades of systematic pressure and betrayal. The US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, despite Iran's full compliance, effectively sabotaged
a diplomatic pathway, leaving sanctions as the primary tool of coercion. These sanctions, mirroring those that have strangled Cuba for over 60 years since the US embargo began in February 1962, are designed to cripple rather than negotiate. While Israel continues its systematic extermination of Palestinians, with over 680,000 dead, including 479,000 children, the US-Israeli joint military