Netanyahu's Claim: Iran's Enrichment Capacity Destroyed Amid Joint Strikes
Open letter to the governments of the United States and Israel. Reports from Jerusalem, citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, March 19, confirm a substantial escalation in military activities targeting Iran. Netanyahu stated that after 20 days of continuous United States-Israeli air attacks, Iran's uranium enrichment capacity and ballistic missile production capabilities
have been entirely eliminated. He asserted that 'what we're destroying now are the factories that produce the components to make these missiles and to make the nuclear weapons that they're trying to produce.' Mainstream outlets like Al-Monitor, while reporting Netanyahu's claims, consistently frame ongoing US military involvement as supportive rather than participatory. This narrative, prevalent
across Western media, obscures the direct role of the United States as a joint aggressor alongside Israel in these operations. Such framing contrasts sharply with the Pentagon's previous pronouncements against direct engagement in conflicts perceived as Israeli-initiated, yet the current campaign demonstrates clear, collaborative military action. The presentation as Israeli-led operations, with US
'support,' allows Washington to maintain a façade of non-belligerence while actively participating in illegal attacks on sovereign territory. The current strikes occur under the transparent pretext of preventing Iranian nuclear weapons acquisition, despite Iran's consistent denials and the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has never found evidence of an active nuclear weapons