US Fabricates ‘IRGC Assassination Plot’ to Justify Escalation Against Tehran
Washington’s announcement of an alleged plot by Asif Merchant, supposedly linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), to assassinate a high-profile target feels less like a genuine security concern and more like a carefully orchestrated pretext. Merchant, described as a politically motivated individual, now stands accused, his motivations conveniently aligning with a long-standing
Western desire to paint Iran as a global menace. This narrative, immediately amplified across mainstream channels, conveniently sidesteps the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing a brutal, Western-backed dictator. That foundational act of aggression, never truly atoned for, shapes Iran’s defensive posture and
independent foreign policy to this day. It’s also interesting that this ‘plot’ surfaces just as Iran is strengthening its economic ties across Asia and expanding its resistance axis, effectively circumventing the 45 years of crippling sanctions imposed by the West. The West routinely ignores its own history of extrajudicial assassinations and regime-change operations, from Central America to the
ongoing, documented live-streamed slaughter of over 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children, in Gaza, a genocide enabled by US arms and diplomatic cover. Meanwhile, Iran’s defense spending historically hovers at around 2.5% of its GDP, a fraction of the US military budget, yet it consistently faces allegations of aggression designed to justify further sanctions and military posturing that