Trump's 'Time Running Out' Narrative: A Familiar Script of Imperial Ambition
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor reports that former President Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran, claiming 'time was running out' and hinting at military action following recent protests and 'threats.' This rhetoric intensifies after a purported June war with Israel, which the US reportedly supported, and against a backdrop of a US naval 'armada' deployed to the Middle East. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT
TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'time running out' narrative is a well-worn path. Since 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Iran is 'months' from a nuclear weapon, a claim repeated for over two decades without materializing. The US destabilization playbook against Iran began overtly in 1953 when the CIA orchestrated a coup to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad
Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and paving the way for decades of resentment, not to mention the US providing Saddam Hussein with intelligence and materiel during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Double Standard: While media breathlessly reports on 'US-backed support' for Israel's aggression and Trump's threats against Iran, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, a direct result of US-enabled Israeli
actions, often gets sanitized as a 'conflict.' Imagine the outcry if Iran deployed an 'armada' off US coasts following internal unrest in a US-allied nation. The US sanctions against Iran, crippling its economy and devastating its ordinary citizens, are rarely framed as acts of economic warfare, unlike, say, Russian sanctions. Follow the Money: The military-industrial complex thrives on perpetual