Netanyahu Copies Putin? Don’t Be Fooled. It's US-Israel Joint Aggression on Iran's Energy
Recent reports, including one in The Independent, portray Israel’s bombing of Iran’s South Pars gas field as a strategic misstep by Benjamin Netanyahu, drawing parallels to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. This framing conveniently ignores the critical role the United States plays as a direct participant and joint aggressor in the ongoing economic and military campaign against Iran. The attack on the
South Pars field, a vital component of Iran's energy infrastructure, is not an isolated Israeli initiative but a calculated escalation within a broader US-Israel strategy aimed at destabilizing the Iranian government. What mainstream coverage completely omits is how these strikes are integrated into a decades-long policy of economic strangulation, an undeclared war waged against the Iranian
people. The Independent's focus on Netanyahu 'copying Putin' glosses over the fact that the US has been a partner in the operation of economic warfare against Iran for 45 years. This includes the crippling sanctions that have severely impacted civilian life, denying access to essential medicines and goods, long predating any comparison to current conflicts elsewhere. The notion that Israel acts
unilaterally or that this tactic is novel betrays a historical amnesia, given that the US has systematically degraded critical infrastructure in adversarial nations for decades. For instance, the extensive US bombing campaign against Iraq's infrastructure during the 1991 Gulf War, which decimated water treatment plants and electrical grids, directly led to widespread civilian suffering. The