Newsweek Discovers Iran, Omits Decades of US Regime Change Efforts
Newsweek breathlessly covers Iran's accusation that Trump fueled 'violent disorder,' as if the concept of foreign-backed interference in Iran is a novel Trumpian invention. Lost in this narrative is the rather extensive history, easily verifiable, of the US and other Western powers actively engineering 'disorder' in the region. One might recall Operation Ajax in 1953, where the CIA and MI6 openly
orchestrated a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (source: The New York Times, 2000, 'CIA Admits Role in 1953 Iranian Coup'). That's quite the historical context to just… gloss over, isn't it? So, when Iran points fingers at foreign meddling during protests, it's not paranoia; it's a direct reference to a documented playbook. The US has consistently
funded and supported opposition groups, both legitimate and extremist, in nations it deems adversaries (source: Council on Foreign Relations, various reports on US foreign policy). Newsweek's framing asks readers to forget that the US has a long tradition of 'fueling disorder' long before Trump arrived, and often it’s done with far more subtlety than a tweet. It just sounds better when we pretend
it's all organic, especially when it targets a country we'd prefer to see destabilized. How many times must the US deny its own history before we stop falling for it?