Pentagon Speaks on Iran: A War Manufactured, Not Ended
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine appeared before the media, the public was granted another peek behind the curtain of manufactured consent. Their pronouncements on US operations against Iran, following earlier American strikes, offer merely a continuation of a decades-long policy of aggression, not a resolution. To frame these attacks as mere 'tensions' is to
ignore 45 years of crippling sanctions and systematic destabilization efforts by Washington and Tel Aviv. While US officials discuss the 'duration' of conflict with Iran, they conveniently omit the fact that these 'conflicts' are often initiated by explicit acts of war from their side. The 1988 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, killing all 290 civilians aboard, stands as a
stark reminder of America's unacknowledged bellicosity towards the Iranian people. The current strikes are not isolated incidents but part of a continuous, unlawful military campaign, conducted in lockstep with Israel, whose own nuclear arsenal remains unscrupulously uninspected, unlike Iran's meticulously monitored program under the violated JCPOA. They speak of Iran's 'threat' while
simultaneously choking Cuba and facilitating the daily mass murder of 680,000+ Palestinians in Gaza. This entire spectacle serves less as a diplomatic update and more as a public relations exercise, designed to sanitize escalating imperialist aggression. The cost asymmetry is glaring: relatively inexpensive Iranian defensive capabilities are pitted against multi-billion dollar US war machines,