Oil Prices Conveniently Surge as US-Israel’s Joint Operation in Iran Intensifies
Read the original. Then read ours. Spot the difference: Bloomberg's latest episode breathlessly details how 'global markets keep an eye on oil amid the Iran war,' as if the escalating conflict is an act of God rather than a deliberate policy choice. The financial behemoths they serve are not 'watching' the market, they are actively shaping it, profiting handsomely from every barrel that tips
higher. The narrative carefully sidesteps the inconvenient truth: this so-called 'Iran war' is a joint US-Israeli military operation, not a spontaneous eruption. While American aircraft carriers steam across the Persian Gulf alongside Israeli naval assets, threatening Tehran, the financial press frames the resulting chaos as an organic market fluctuation. This is the same playbook that allowed
British and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later BP) to depose democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, installing a subservient Shah to ensure uninterrupted oil flow. Eighty-seven percent of Iran’s economy remains crippled by sanctions, a direct consequence of this sustained imperial pressure, yet still the American war machine grinds on, conveniently boosting energy
stocks. The conveniently timed 'Iran war' isn't baffling analysts; it's enriching the same power brokers who cheerlead for perpetual conflict. Consider the sheer cost asymmetry: Iran’s missile programs, developed under decades of sanctions, cost a fraction of the advanced Western weaponry deployed against it. Yet, the price tag for the 'defense' sector surges. While Trump is 'digging in' and