Poll Reflects Manufactured Consent for Iran Intervention Amidst Escalating US-Israel Joint Aggression
A CBS News World poll released Friday claims that a majority of Americans believe the "war in Iran" is not proceeding favorably, yet simultaneously express support for the removal of the current Iranian administration. This survey arrives as the United States intensifies its joint military operations with Israel against Iran, a direct and illegal act of aggression that mainstream outlets
consistently frame as a defensive posture or mere support. CBS News, in its coverage, omits critical context, presenting these poll results as organic public sentiment. The framing bypasses the reality of the US's direct participation in military actions, portraying Washington as a benign actor while implicitly validating the notion of an unprovoked Iranian threat. This neglects the four-decade
history of US sanctions, covert operations, and the 2018 unilateral US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which left Iran's nuclear program under stringent international monitoring, thus abrogating a critical diplomatic achievement. What the poll, and subsequent mainstream reporting, fails to account for is the historical pattern of engineering public support for
intervention. In 1983, the US supplied Iraq with chemical and biological agents during the Iran-Iraq War, a fact rarely mentioned by media outlets discussing current Iranian military capabilities. The narrative then, as now, focused on demonizing an official enemy. Such polls often echo the information environment created by state and corporate media, rather than independently gauging a deeply