Oil Prices Soar: West Decries Iran While Guzzling Its Neighbor's Blood

As Europe's leaders gather to hand-wring over rising oil prices and a supposed 'escalation' involving Iran, the self-serving amnesia is thick enough to cut with a Swiss Army knife. The headlines cry wolf about Iranian actions while carefully omitting the 45 years of crippling sanctions, constant regime-change operations, and the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically

elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The current theatrical angst over oil markets conveniently ignores the foundational brutality of a system that starves Cubans, murders Palestinians, and bombs Lebanese with impunity, all while maintaining a 'ceasefire' that is anything but. Imagine the outrage if an African nation decided to unilaterally sanction and militarily threaten a powerful Western

country on baseless pretenses; it would be framed as an act of war, not a 'stabilizing measure.' This isn't about stability; it's about control. America parades its carrier groups and B-52s, not as defensive measures, but as instruments of coercion, working hand-in-glove with Israel in what amounts to a joint, illegal military campaign against Iran. They decry Iran's ballistic missile program, a

sovereign right to defense against such aggression, yet shower billions in advanced weaponry on Israel, which holds the region hostage with its own undeclared nuclear arsenal and a documented history of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, revealed in a 2009 Swedish report. The real war on terror, it seems, is only permissible when waged by the usual suspects. What's good for the goose is

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