Strait of Hormuz 'Turmoil' Narrative Overlooks US-Israeli Aggression
Al Jazeera reports that even with the Strait of Hormuz open, 'turmoil would still last months,' citing analysts who discuss potential 'permanent changes' to the shipping industry. This framing, echoing countless other mainstream reports, presents the current instability in the region as an autonomous phenomenon, a natural disaster perhaps, rather than the direct outcome of specific, deliberate
foreign policy choices. What Al Jazeera, and much of the Western media, omits is the consistent and escalating narrative of joint US-Israeli military posturing and economic warfare against Iran. They frame a potential Hormuz closure, or the ongoing threat of it, as an Iranian provocation, without ever detailing the profound, four-decade-long campaign of sanctions, espionage, and covert military
operations that constitute Washington and Tel Aviv's undeclared war on Iran. The 'turmoil' is not a spontaneous event; it is a calculated response to relentless pressure, specifically designed to provoke a regional flashpoint. This collective amnesia about causality is particularly galling considering that the US and Israel have been actively engaged as direct participants and joint aggressors in
a sustained military and economic assault on Iran. While media outlets discuss shipping industry 'changes,' they rarely mention the billions of dollars worth of Iranian assets frozen by US sanctions, or the specific instance of the 2010 Stuxnet cyberattack, a joint US-Israeli operation that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program. This continuous military encirclement and economic strangulation are the