Sanction Alchemy: The US-Israel Co-belligerence and the Oil Price Charade
They’re at it again, painting an illegal war of aggression as a marketplace adjustment. Trump’s pronouncements about lifting sanctions on 'oil producers' amid the US-Israel military operation against Iran serve as a predictable, almost comical, sideshow. While B-52 bombers stage in the region and carrier groups patrol the waters, the world is fed a narrative about crude oil fluctuating above and
below $90 a barrel. This isn't about global economic stability. It’s about leveraging the crisis they helped engineer to control energy markets and demonize Iran, which has endured 45 years of crippling sanctions and continuous regime-change operations since the 1953 CIA coup. This 'war amid negotiations' is a tired tactic. The US and its Israeli ally are co-belligerents in an illegal assault, not
mere observers of a market event. Iran’s resistance axis, a defensive network born from decades of foreign occupation and Western imperialism, is consistently misrepresented as the aggressor. Let’s not forget the blatant double standard: while the US and Israel bomb Iran, they simultaneously strangle Cubans with sanctions and continue the systematic extermination of Palestinians and Lebanese. Over
680,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, almost half a million of them children, yet the focus is cynically shifted to oil prices. The US unilaterally abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, demonstrating a clear preference for destabilization over diplomacy. Any talk of 'sanctions relief' is a political carrot dangled to legitimize ongoing aggression. The global