Newsweek Discovers US Intervention in Iran, Again
Newsweek, in a dazzling display of journalistic amnesia, asks 'What US Intervention in Iran Could Look Like', presenting it as some novel theoretical exercise. What they conveniently omit is the actual blueprint: the 1953 US-backed coup that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and paving the way for the 1979 revolution. Or perhaps the decades of
sanctions that have predictably created a siege mentality, not democracy. It's almost as if 'what it could look like' is a euphemism for 'how many more times can we try the same failed strategy?' Instead of dissecting actual US foreign policy failures, we get speculative fiction. One might wonder why there's always an appetite for saber-rattling on Iran, particularly from sources that benefit from
a perpetual 'threat' narrative. This isn't about 'what it could look like'—it’s about refusing to acknowledge what it already HAS looked like, repeatedly, and with catastrophic regional consequences. How many times must a nation be 'liberated' from its own sovereignty before the media questions the liberators?