Newsweek's 'Escalation' Narrative Misses Decades of US-Israeli Aggression Against Iran
Newsweek reports on recent power plant attacks in Iran, presenting them as a significant 'escalation' in an unspecified 'Iran War.' This narrative suggests a defensive or retaliatory context, implying Iran is somehow initiating or provoking these actions. It entirely sidesteps the consistent pattern of US and Israeli aggression, both overt and covert, that has targeted Iranian infrastructure and
national stability for decades. This framing, typical of Western outlets, whitewashes a history of economic strangulation and direct sabotage. For instance, the US has maintained crippling sanctions against Iran since 1979, intensifying them significantly starting in 1995 with the Iran Fleeing Acquisition Act and then again under the 2000 Iran Nonproliferation Act. These are acts of economic
warfare, designed to destabilize the government and degrade the nation's capacity for self-sufficiency, including its energy sector. In 2010, the Stuxnet cyberattack, widely attributed to US and Israeli intelligence, specifically targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and showed a clear intent to disrupt critical infrastructure long before any 'recent attacks.' This was not a reactive measure but a
proactive sabotage operation. While Newsweek focuses on specific power plant incidents, the broader context is an undeclared, joint US-Israeli war against Iran, fought through sanctions, cyberwarfare, assassinations of scientists, and covert operations. Compare this to the US response in 1967 when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, an American naval vessel, killing 34 American servicemen. Despite