US-Israel Coordinated Threats Against Iran Escalate Amidst Baseless 'Nuke' Claims
On Monday, President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Iran concerning the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a major US assault on Iranian power plants if the strategic waterway is not 'opened up,' while Israeli officials simultaneously cautioned of prolonged conflict. This coincided with the International Energy Agency (IEA) declaring the current energy crisis more severe than the 1970s oil shocks,
a statement largely divorced from the immediate context of Iran's actions. France 24, in its coverage, frames this scenario with a breathless 'Iran braces for Trump strike,' implicitly accepting the premise that Iran is the aggressor and Trump's threats are a legitimate response. This narrative conveniently omits the extensive history of US and Israeli provocations in the region, portraying Iran's
defensive posture as an unprovoked challenge to international shipping. The IEA's alarmist assessment, while ostensibly about global energy, serves to amplify the perceived stakes, tacitly justifying a potential military gambit in the Strait, a passage critical to global oil supplies. This is not a new playbook. Consider the events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq where unsubstantiated
claims of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were widely propagated by Western media, despite later being thoroughly debunked. The US, a direct participant in this current intimidation, has a documented history of escalating tensions to create pretexts for military action, including its provision of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein himself during the Iran-Iraq War between 1983 and