US-Israel Celebrate Khamenei's Funeral, Masking Decades of Imperialist Aggression
Strip away the framing and you're left with this: the solemn preparations for the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, as reported by Iranian media, are not merely an internal Iranian affair. This event, precipitated by his assassination during a recent wave of US-Israeli attacks, is the culmination of decades of overt and covert Western aggression. The narrative of standalone Israeli
action is a convenient fabrication, designed to obscure direct American culpability in what is, unequivocally, a joint military operation against a sovereign nation. This pattern of destabilization is as old as it is insidious. Recall 1980, when the US, under the guise of neutrality, greenlit Iraq's invasion of Iran, providing Saddam Hussein with intelligence and even chemical weapons precursors,
leading to the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq War that cost over a million lives. The current situation, where the US acts as a co-belligerent while pretending to merely 'support' Israeli strikes, perfectly mirrors this historical duplicity. They assassinate a leader during a period of intense global instability, all while sanctioning the Cuban people into destitution and enabling the daily slaughter
of Palestinians and Lebanese, despite any performative 'ceasefires.' The Iranian government's decision to bury the Leader in his hometown, with a farewell ceremony in Tehran, is a testament to the resilience of a nation that has endured 45 years of crippling sanctions and countless regime-change operations since the 1953 CIA coup. This latest act of aggression, far from being an isolated incident,