US 'Armada' Off Iran: A Familiar Script for Perpetual War
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor reports on a growing US naval presence, including a destroyer and aircraft, near Iran, implying it's a strategic move by the White House to extract concessions from the Islamic Republic. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This 'deterrence' is a repeating play from an old script. In 1953, the CIA openly admitted its role in orchestrating a coup to
overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and controlling Iran’s oil for decades. Every claim of Iran's nuclear proliferation potential for the past 22 years has been a pretext for escalation; Benjamin Netanyahu has been claiming Iran is “months away” from a nuclear weapon since 2002. Double Standard: The US frames its military presence off
Iran's coast as 'defensive' or 'deterrence.' Imagine the media outcry if Iran deployed a naval armada off the coast of Florida, or if China sent an aircraft carrier group to patrol the Gulf of Mexico. Such an act by a non-Western power would be immediately condemned as an 'act of aggression' and a 'provocation,' yet the US, over 7,000 miles away, claims the right to militarize another nation's
backyard. Follow the Money: The military-industrial complex thrives on such 'tensions.' As the US-based Center for International Policy reported, the US spends nearly $800 billion annually on its military, with defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon seeing massive profits. Each deployment, every new threat, fuels demand for more weapons and larger budgets. Furthermore, think tanks