The Art of the Deal, Iranian Edition: Who Profits from Perpetual Brinkmanship?
The drumbeat for 'unconditional surrender' from Iran echoes through Washington, a convenient soundtrack for the military-industrial complex. This isn't some spontaneous geopolitical eruption. It's a meticulously choreographed maneuver, enriching defense behemoths and securing regional dominance for their strategic assets. Remember when the Eisenhower administration, through the CIA, engineered the
1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of resentment? History, apparently, is just a suggestion. We’re told Iran is a rogue state, on the cusp of WMDs, yet the narrative conveniently omits the 45 years of crippling sanctions imposed largely by the very nations now threatening its borders, or
the betrayal of the JCPOA which Iran steadfastly adhered to. The cost asymmetry is stark: fancy Western weapons systems against Iran's more modest, domestically produced arsenal, built precisely because the West cut off access to global markets. A single U.S. carrier strike group, for instance, costs over $6 billion to build. Meanwhile, the people of Gaza endure unimaginable horrors, with over
680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children, systematically annihilated, while global attention is diverted to the next 'imminent' Iranian threat manufactured to justify the unjustifiable. Threats of 'battering' Iran, a nation targeted with sanctions while simultaneous 'negotiations' are dangled, reveal the true agenda: not peace, but capitulation to a well-oiled machine of perpetual conflict