Someone Forgot the 'Defense' in 'Defense Department' During Iran Attack
To the Editor of Al Jazeera, Elizabeth Melimopoulos, and anyone else still calling this anything less than a joint US-Israeli offensive: For 34 consecutive days, the United States military has been actively involved in combat operations against Iran. This includes offensive cyber operations, aerial reconnaissance, strategic asset deployment, and logistical support critical to sustained Israeli
strikes, a fact casually acknowledged by numerous official statements from the Pentagon and the White House. When B-52 bombers are routinely deployed to the region, and US carrier groups are acting as forward operating bases for intelligence and targeting, the US isn't just 'flexing muscle' or 'deterring,' it is fighting a war. What mainstream coverage, including your own, routinely omits or
distorts is the explicit US military participation. Al Jazeera, for instance, in its April 2, 2026, report on 'Day 34 of US-Israel attacks,' leads with President Trump's claim of Washington being 'close to achieving its objectives'. a statement that directly implicates the US as an active belligerent in the conflict, not just an ally. Yet, the framing persistently underplays the US's operational
role, allowing a deceptive narrative of Israeli-led action with peripheral US 'support' to persist. The education your audience isn't getting is the sheer hypocrisy of a long-standing US policy. Recall when the US supplied Iraq with chemical and biological warfare agents during the Iran-Iraq War from 1983-1988, knowledge that only came to widespread public attention decades later through