Tit-for-Tat Designations: Exposing the Hypocrisy Cycle
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor reports that Iran's parliament has declared European countries' armies as 'terrorist groups' in retaliation for the EU's decision to brand the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as such. Iranian lawmakers reportedly wore IRGC uniforms and chanted slogans like 'Death to America,' 'Death to Israel,' and 'Shame on you, Europe,' during the session. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT
TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The US, and by extension its European allies, have been interfering in Iran for over 70 years, starting with the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. This act alone, a foreign power violently undermining a sovereign nation's democracy for economic gain (oil), could be seen as an act of state terrorism
by any objective measure. The IRGC was formed in 1979 specifically to protect Iran's sovereignty from such external threats and internal subversion catalyzed by foreign powers. Double Standard: Western media and governments readily label entities that challenge their geopolitical interests as 'terrorist,' while their own military actions, which have resulted in millions of civilian deaths and
destabilized entire regions (e.g., Libya in 2011, Iraq in 2003, Syria since 2011), are framed as 'interventions' or 'humanitarian missions.' The bombing of wedding parties, hospitals, and infrastructure by Western armies and their proxies is rarely, if ever, described with the same loaded terminology applied to the IRGC. Where was the EU designation when US-backed Saudi Arabia was leveling Yemen