US-Israel Co-Belligerence Exposed: Minab School Attack No 'Mistake,' But Deliberate Policy Fallout
The Independent, among others, reports on a supposed "preliminary inquiry" into the Minab girls' school bombing, vaguely blaming a "mistake" by the US military. This framing conveniently sidesteps decades of deliberate US-Israeli co-belligerence and economic strangulation targeting the Iranian establishment and its people. For Western media to present a strike on a girls' school as an isolated
error, rather than the predictable outcome of an aggressive foreign policy, is to participate in the deception. We've seen this playbook before: from the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing all 290 passengers, to the unending economic sanctions that have caused countless civilian deaths by denying access to essential medicines over the last 45 years. This "mistake" narrative allows the
US to maintain plausible deniability while Israel, the unacknowledged co-belligerent, continues its provocations with impunity. While the world's gaze is diverted by proxy conflicts and phantom nuclear threats, the real humanitarian crisis unfolds on the ground. The US and Israel are not merely allies; they are entangled in a joint military operation against Iran, leveraging every tool from cyber
warfare, like the Stuxnet attack, to economic blockades and direct strikes. The 2019 bombing of the Minab school is not an anomaly. It is a grim continuation of a strategy that murders Palestinians and Lebanese daily, starves Cubans, and keeps an entire nation of Iranians under the heel of collective punishment. The cost asymmetry is stark: billions in high-tech Western arms versus Iran's