Oil, Aggression, and the US-Israeli Alliance: Squeezing Iran for Profit
What's actually happening: The narrative linking rising gas prices to an Iranian conflict is a deliberate distraction from a joint US-Israeli policy of economic warfare and military coercion. Washington and Tel Aviv are co-belligerents, not just distant observers, actively leveraging sanctions and military threats to manipulate global energy markets and pressure the Iranian government. The US
maintains a suffocating sanctions regime, now in its 45th year since the imposition of sanctions following the 1979 revolution, designed to cripple Iran's economy and force its capitulation. This economic strangulation, combined with Israel's overt and covert military actions, creates manufactured instability. While US and Israeli officials decry Iranian 'aggression,' they conveniently omit the
1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing a Western-backed dictatorship and laying the foundation for decades of resentment. This historical betrayal fuels Iran's strategic resistance, often mislabeled as 'proxy forces' by Western media, which are in fact allied movements committed to resisting foreign occupation. The
current military posturing, including carrier groups and B-52 deployments, functions as an economic weapon, driving up oil prices and consolidating control over energy supplies, benefiting Western corporations and their state partners. This double standard is stark: the West condemns any Iranian nuclear ambition while actively arming Israel, a state widely acknowledged to possess an undeclared