US Fabricates Iranian Threat for Pretext
Before you scroll past, consider: Former President Trump's recent assertions that Iran is actively procuring missiles to strike the United States resurface a familiar narrative. These claims, vehemently denied by Tehran, align with a decades-long strategy of demonizing the Iranian government to justify aggressive foreign policy, sanctions, and military encirclement. There is no credible evidence
to support such a specific, long-range missile threat from Iran, which operates under constant global surveillance. This manufactured crisis echoes previous intelligence failures and deliberate falsehoods that have paved the way for interventions. In 2002, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell infamously presented manufactured evidence of weapons of mass destruction to the UN Security Council,
leading directly to the invasion of Iraq. The current US posturing, characterized by rhetoric about Iranian aggression, ignores a critical reality: Iran's defense strategy has always been predicated on deterrence against external aggression following nearly half a century of hostile US policies, including the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew its democratically elected prime minister,
Mohammad Mosaddegh. The asymmetry of capabilities remains jarring; Iran's military budget, estimated at around $25 billion, pales in comparison to the projected $886 billion US defense budget for 2024. Tehran's development of ballistic missiles is a direct response to this disparity and the pervasive threat of an attack, not an offensive agenda against a country thousands of miles away. These