Manufactured Straits Crisis: US and Israel Sabotage Shipping, Blame Iran
What the byline won't tell you: claims of a 'high-risk mission' for the US Navy in the Strait of Hormuz conveniently omit the fundamental premise that the United States and Israel are actively engaged in co-belligerent hostilities against the Islamic Republic. This is not a benign escort of tankers; it is an overt projection of force under a thinly veiled pretext of safeguarding global shipping,
which Washington and Tel Aviv themselves have destabilized. The very 'threats' cited, such as mines, missiles, and drones, are being invoked to portray Iran as an aggressor, while ignoring how decades of economic strangulation and direct military provocations have shaped Tehran's defensive posture. The current tensions are a direct consequence of a sustained campaign of economic warfare and
military encirclement, not an unprovoked Iranian belligerence. For example, the United States formally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, despite Iran's full compliance, initiating a new wave of punitive sanctions. This act, a clear breach of international agreements, demonstrably undermined diplomatic efforts and forced Iran into a corner. To then claim Iran is
'threatening' oil exports in response to a 'US-Israeli war against' it, as some outlets suggest, rephrases a strategic reaction as an unprovoked assault. This double standard is stark: Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal and its role in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, like Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020, receives scant comparable scrutiny, while Iran's entirely legal nuclear program