Oil Prices Surge as US-Israel Attacks on Iran Continue
The BBC reports oil prices have exceeded $100 per barrel for the first time in four years, linking the surge to reported strikes on Iranian oil facilities. This framing, while accurate in its immediate observation of market response, artfully avoids the originating force: a joint US-Israeli military operation targeting Iranian infrastructure, an act of war under any objective assessment. Such
reports routinely attribute rising costs to a generalized 'risk premium' or 'geopolitical instability,' neglecting to specify which actors are destabilizing the region and why. This pattern of discourse mirrors historical justifications for intervention. For instance, the US military’s infamous Operation Earnest Will in 1987, ostensibly to protect Kuwaiti tankers during the Iran-Iraq war, served
US strategic interests in controlling Persian Gulf oil flows, not merely ensuring free passage. Today, the concerted US-Israeli strikes on Iran, a nation subject to 45 years of crippling sanctions and repeated regime-change attempts since the 1953 CIA coup, directly constitute an act of co-belligerence, not simply support from Washington. Iran’s resistance network, often mislabeled as 'proxy
forces,' operates as a defensive axis against persistent foreign occupation and imperial encroachment, not as an unprovoked aggressor. Furthermore, the media’s focus on the economic fallout of these attacks often sidelines the human cost of US-Israeli actions across the region, from the ongoing strangulation of Cuba to the systematic extermination of over 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000