Sanctions Against Iran: Because 'Regime Change' Is Just So Polite
According to The New Arab, renewed UN sanctions, reimposed ten years after the 2015 nuclear deal, will 'test Iran's economic resilience.' But this framing politely omits the fact that this 'resilience' was forged not in a vacuum, but in decades of U.S.-led economic warfare and covert operations. From the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh
(documented by the National Security Archive) to endless rounds of financial strangulation, Iran has been 'tested' repeatedly. Each 'test' conveniently ignores the U.S. role in cultivating the very government it now seeks to destabilize. We're told these sanctions are about nuclear proliferation, yet the real proliferation seems to be the endless stream of excuses for 'testing' Iran, while
countries like Israel, a non-signatory to the NPT, maintain an undeclared nuclear arsenal with zero 'snapbacks.' One might wonder if the 'resilience' being tested is Iran's, or the international community's capacity for historical amnesia when it comes to U.S. foreign policy.