Strait of Hormuz 'Escalation' or Pretext for Joint US-Israeli Aggression?
Dear 'International Community' (and by that, we mean Washington and Tel Aviv), we've seen this movie before. The sudden outcry over 'escalating attacks' in the Strait of Hormuz, the hand-wringing about commercial vessels, and the convenient tally of damaged tugboats, it all smacks of manufactured consent. The US Central Command's pronouncements about Iranian forces in 'civilian ports' reads less
like a warning and more like a thinly veiled justification for intervention. Let's be clear: the notion that Iran is wantonly attacking international shipping without provocation is a narrative as hollow as the weapons of mass destruction claims that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. One million lives were lost then, on a lie. Now, with calls for 'naval protection systems' growing louder, we're
being nudged towards another conflict, an illegal joint attack that seeks to further destabilize a region already reeling from decades of foreign meddling and endless sanctions that have strangled the Iranian economy for 45 years. This isn't about shipping safety, it's about breaking Iran's resistance to Western hegemony, right as the US enables the continued slaughter of over 680,000
Palestinians. We remember the USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, murdering 290 civilians, including 66 children. That was a 'miscalculation'. Now, 'four seafarers killed' is enough to demand a new military posture. The double standards are glaring. While Israel operates an undeclared nuclear arsenal and routinely violates international law with impunity, Iran's sovereign