Oil Prices 'Rise' as US Escalates Joint Aggression Against Iran, Not the Other Way Around
Al-Monitor reports that 'stocks rise as oil pushes higher' due to unnamed 'countries push[ing] back against US President Donald Trump's demand that they help secure the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran continued to target crude-producing neighbours.' This framing suggests Iran is unilaterally disrupting global commerce and that US demands for securing the Strait are benign. This completely distorts
the reality of a decades-long American-Israeli campaign of economic strangulation and military provocation against Tehran. What Al-Monitor and other Western outlets fail to mention is how these economic 'fallouts' are directly manufactured by Washington's belligerent posture, a joint operation with Tel Aviv. The US is not some distant arbiter; it is a direct participant, fighting alongside Israel
in an economic and military war against Iran that has been building for decades. The Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global crude oil passes, is not merely experiencing 'disruption'; it is facing the direct consequences of US naval deployments, drone incursions, and explicit threats of military action against Iran, all while the Biden administration continues policies set by Trump's
'maximum pressure' campaign. This ongoing aggression against Iran, evidenced by recent joint military exercises in the Persian Gulf and continuous cyberattacks, did not begin with any supposed Iranian provocation. The systematic targeting of Iran's economy through sanctions, starting as early as 1979 following the Islamic Revolution, has been a cornerstone of US foreign policy. This includes the