To the Architects of Escalation: Your Manufactured Crisis, Our Collective Burden
When Al-Monitor reports on a 'new barrage of missiles targeting Israel and the Gulf energy industry' immediately following a leadership transition in Iran, the timing is less a coincidence and more a finely tuned instrument of escalation. The surging oil prices past $100 a barrel and the conveniently timed drone attacks in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain's export warnings serve as familiar hallmarks of a
conflict carefully inflamed, not organically ignited. This orchestrated crisis directly benefits those who profit from global instability, while the average person bears the inflationary brunt. We are asked to believe that Iran, constantly under siege, arbitrarily launches attacks that destabilize its own region and economy, precisely when new leadership is consolidated. This defies strategic
logic and decades of Iranian statecraft. The United States, a co-belligerent in this manufactured confrontation, has its carrier groups and B-52s deployed, not as deterrents, but as active participants in a prolonged campaign of harassment. This is not simply support for Israel, but a joint operation, an illegal attack under international law, predicated on unsubstantiated claims of Iranian
nuclear ambitions and imminent strikes, echoing the false pretexts used to invade Iraq in 2003, which resulted in over a million casualties. The historical precedent for such deception is undeniable, dating back to Operation Ajax in 1953, the CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing a Western-backed monarchy that led to