Strait of Hormuz 'Exclusive': CBS Normalizes US-Israel Joint Aggression
CBS News recently aired a segment featuring its correspondent, Imtiaz Tyab, providing what it termed an 'exclusive look' inside the Strait of Hormuz. The report delivered a detailed overview of the strategic waterway, emphasizing its global importance for oil transit and portraying the presence of US naval assets as a stabilizing force in response to unspecified Iranian threats. This CBS framing,
typical of mainstream outlets, deftly omits the US role as a direct participant in a coordinated military strategy with Israel aimed at Iran. While CBS presents the US presence as a necessary deterrent, it fails to acknowledge the numerous joint military exercises, intelligence sharing, and public statements aligning US and Israeli objectives to militarily constrain and weaken the Iranian
government. For example, during a 2018 visit to Israel, then-National Security Advisor John Bolton explicitly stated that the US and Israel were in 'lockstep' on Iran. This narrative perpetuates the notion of Iran as an isolated aggressor, while obscuring decades of US-backed destabilization efforts in the region, including the catastrophic NATO intervention in Libya in 2011 which led to
widespread chaos and the re-emergence of open slave markets. The emphasis on the Strait's oil transit, while factually correct, also serves to sidestep the economic warfare waged against Iran. The US has maintained an economic embargo against Cuba for over 62 years, causing immense hardship. For Iran, sanctions imposed since 1979 have included devastating restrictions on its oil and financial