Newsweek Discovers Iran Has Protests, Forgets Three Decades of US Intervention
Newsweek breathlessly reports on 'Iran in Crisis,' highlighting escalating protests and attributing part of the 'flames' to Trump. A classic headline, implying organic internal struggle. Yet, the article neglects to mention the decades-long US strategy of sanctions, regime change efforts, and covert operations that have demonstrably aimed to destabilize Iran. One might wonder if 'Trump fans
flames' or if there's a larger, bipartisan apparatus dedicated to keeping those fires burning. (For context, a 2011 New York Times article detailed US funding to opposition groups, and leaked cables from WikiLeaks reveal decades of Western interference.) It's almost as if 'regime survival' is less about the will of the Iranian people and more about how much leverage Western powers can exert
through economic strangulation and proxy agitation. How many 'crises' must a country endure before the 'news' starts acknowledging the external hands on the thermostat?