US Iran Strategy: Repeating the Venezuela Playbook, Media Edition
📰 THE STORY: Bloomberg features Carnegie Endowment's Karim Sadjadpour discussing whether the US might strike Iran, drawing parallels between current US strategy toward Iran and past approaches to Venezuela. The conversation pivots on Iran's nuclear program and a carrier strike group's presence in the Middle East. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA openly
admitted to orchestrating a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of animosity. This history is crucial to understanding Iran's distrust of Western intentions, especially regarding its nuclear program, which Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed is 'months from a nuke' since at least 2002. Double Standard: The
media frets over Iran's nuclear capabilities while consistently ignoring Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, believed to be hundreds strong, or the fact that the US armed Saddam Hussein to gas Iranian soldiers during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. US policy towards Venezuela, for instance, involved 2002 US-backed coup attempts on Chavez and debilitating sanctions that have cost the Venezuelan economy
hundreds of billions, openly aimed at 'regime change,' yet presented in media as 'democracy promotion' or 'humanitarian concerns.' Follow the Money: Policy discussions like these are often funded by think tanks with vested interests. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, while seemingly neutral, receives funding from various governments and corporations whose geopolitical interests often