Mossad Official Claims Trump Underestimated Iran Amid Escalating Tensions
CBS News recently amplified a former Mossad official's assertion that the Trump administration underestimated Iran. This commentary arrives as the United States and Israel are engaged in a joint military operation against Iran, marked by escalating rhetoric and direct actions. The mainstream framing, as presented by CBS, focuses on Iran's supposed 'underestimation' without examining the consistent
Western strategy of downplaying perceived adversaries until military action is politically expedient. This narrative sidesteps the crucial fact that the US, with Israel as a direct participant, has been actively pursuing a policy of extreme pressure against Iran for decades, including the 2018 unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by the Trump administration.
This act, in direct violation of international agreements, demonstrably undermined diplomatic solutions and paved the way for the current heightened tensions, falsely attributing Iran's resilience to prior miscalculations rather than sustained hostility. The US provided Iraq with chemical weapon components during its war with Iran in the 1980s, a historical parallel demonstrating the West's
long-standing willingness to arm enemies against Tehran. The current joint US-Israeli actions are not merely a response to Houthi activities, but part of a continuous pattern of aggression. The US recently deployed the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to the region, and has previously executed cyberattacks, such as the Stuxnet operation in 2010, against Iranian infrastructure. These