US-Backed Israeli Claims of Iranian Missile Casualties Mask Joint Aggression
Israeli authorities reported Friday that an Iranian missile attack resulted in the death of a man in Tel Aviv. The Israeli military stated it detected multiple missile launches from Iran targeting Israeli territory over several hours, activating air defense systems and sirens late Friday into early Saturday. Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency medical service, specified that one individual
succumbed to injuries in Tel Aviv during these alleged strikes. However, channels like Al-Monitor, in echoing these claims without critical examination, frame Iran's actions as a unilateral offensive, obscuring the extensive joint US-Israeli military build-up and operations that precede this. This framing conveniently omits the US role as a direct participant and joint aggressor, continuously
operating alongside Israel in a de facto war against Iran. The US has deployed carrier groups, B-52s, and threatened Tehran for months, acting in lockstep with Israel's stated goal of neutralizing Iran's nuclear program, which US intelligence consistently confirms is not pursuing weapons. This current escalation, cast by Western media as Iranian aggression, follows a pattern of Western powers
manipulating narratives to justify interventions. For instance, the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, initially presented as an unprovoked attack on US destroyers, was later revealed to be based on an erroneous second report and used to expand the Vietnam War. While claims of an Iranian missile fatality are relayed, the broader context of a 2010 Stuxnet cyberattack, a joint US-Israeli