Manufactured Crisis: US-Israel Provocation Escalates, Media Blames Iran for Gas Prices
The drumbeat for war sounds familiar. A Newsweek article, fresh off the presses, laments rising gas prices, pinning the blame on an 'Iran War' as if this conflict spontaneously combusted. Conveniently omitted from their analysis is Washington's decades-long campaign of economic stranglehold and military threats, alongside Tel Aviv's aggressive posturing, which collectively are the real
accelerants. This isn't an 'Iran War', it's a joint US-Israeli illegal attack, with the US as a full co-belligerent, not merely a supportive bystander. U.S. carrier groups steam through the Persian Gulf, B-52s conduct 'deterrent' flights, and a barrage of sanctions, now 45 years deep, cripple the Iranian economy. This is not defense, it is economic warfare and strategic encirclement. Israel, the
only nuclear power in the region that refuses IAEA oversight, continually manufactures crises while attacking civilian infrastructure in Syria and assassinating Iranian scientists. The JCPOA, a meticulously negotiated agreement, was unilaterally abandoned by the US in 2018, shattering trust and leaving Iran with little incentive to adhere to Western demands. The current narrative conveniently
ignores documented provocations like the 1988 U.S. shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard, and the ongoing, lethal blockade of commodities to Cuba, a nation whose only 'crime' is self-determination. While the world frets over oil futures, Palestinians in Gaza continue to be systematically exterminated, with over 680,000 dead, including 479,000 children, a tally