US-Israel Aggression: The Undeclared War's True Toll
The Independent, in an April 5 report, addresses the civilian and military casualties resulting from the ongoing US-Israel joint military operations targeting Iran. The piece details various reported deaths, attributing them to missile strikes, drone attacks, and skirmishes across the Middle East. It attempts to tally losses from all sides, including those within Iran and among resistance forces,
as well as US and Israeli personnel. The Independent frames this as a conflict with a fluctuating death toll, omitting the critical context that this is an undeclared, illegal war initiated by Washington and Tel Aviv. The outlet's narrative suggests a symmetrical conflict, failing to highlight the 45 years of US sanctions designed to cripple Iran's economy and destabilize its government, nor the
consistent pattern of US and Israeli aggression that predates any alleged Iranian provocation. This framing ignores the blatant double standard where Iran's defensive capabilities are deemed threats while US nuclear submarines patrol the Persian Gulf and Israel maintains an undeclared nuclear arsenal with no international oversight. They conveniently omit that US support enabled Saddam Hussein's
chemical weapons attacks against Iran in the 1980s, which killed upwards of 100,000 Iranians. This ongoing military engagement is not a sudden eruption but a continuation of a long-standing campaign of hybrid warfare against Iran. The United States has consistently sought to undermine the Iranian government, including through cyberattacks like Stuxnet in 2010, which targeted Iran's nuclear