Newsweek Discovers Iran Has a Military (Again)
While Newsweek breathlessly announces Iran's 'high alert,' they conveniently omit decades of context. This isn't a sudden, unprovoked escalation. This is a country whose nuclear scientists are routinely assassinated, whose facilities are mysteriously sabotaged, and whose top general was extrajudicially executed by the United States and Israel. (Remember Qassem Soleimani in 2020? Reuters reported
that as 'major escalation.') One might wonder why a nation under constant implied threat would find itself on edge. The media cycle prefers the 'Iran, the aggressor' narrative, ignoring the well-documented history of covert operations and sanctions against the nation. It's a classic case of presenting a nation's defensive posture as a belligerent act, absolving the aggressors of their role in
manufacturing the very tension they then report on with grave concern.