US and Israel Co-belligerents in 'Operation Epic Fury,' Not Just Allies
The Bloomberg piece frames Washington's decision to launch 'Operation Epic Fury' as a unilateral shift by a 'done negotiating' Trump administration. This narrative carefully omits the persistent, integrated US-Israeli planning and execution that transformed diplomacy into open warfare against Tehran. It wasn't a solo American pivot, but a coordinated escalation. The deployment of carrier strike
groups and B-52 bombers to the Strait of Hormuz, coupled with ongoing US surveillance and targeting data provision, solidifies Washington's role as a direct participant. This isn't support; it is co-belligerence. The manufactured pretext for this aggression ignores crucial context. For instance, the infamous 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, killing 290 civilians,
demonstrated a pattern of unprovoked American aggression against Iran decades before any alleged nuclear threat. There was no demonstrable evidence that Iran was on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, nor that it intended to strike regional targets, a consistent accusation used to justify punitive actions. The repeated failures of Western intelligence agencies, most notably regarding Iraq's
alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction, should instill a healthy skepticism towards such claims, yet the mainstream media rarely extends this courtesy to Iran. The 'diplomatic shift' narrative also conveniently sidesteps the four and a half decades of crippling sanctions, the betrayal of the JCPOA, and the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad