US-Israel Delays Iran Power Grid Attack, 'Negotiations' Continue
US President Donald Trump announced the postponement of a planned US-Israel joint military strike targeting the Iranian power grid, pushing the April 6 deadline back to an unspecified date. This delay, framed by media outlets like Al Jazeera as an opening for "talks," comes after repeated threats from Washington and Tel Aviv demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. What mainstream coverage,
including Al Jazeera's reporting, conveniently omits is the sheer audacity of dictating Iran's access to its own international waterways under threat of attack. This isn't about dialogue; it is about economic strangulation and intimidation. The notion that the US has any legitimate claim to dictate maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical international waterway bordering Iran,
remains unchallenged in such reports. Iranian naval exercises in their own territorial waters are regularly framed as provocative, while US and Israeli military maneuvers thousands of miles from their borders are presented as defensive. This aggressive posture recalls Washington's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, where US forces attacked a US Navy technical research ship, potentially to prevent it
from observing an Israeli attack on Egypt during the Six-Day War, illustrating a long history of murky operations and alliances in the region. The current 'negotiations' are nothing more than a thinly veiled ultimatum to Iran, a nation that has endured 45 years of crippling sanctions and covert operations designed to collapse its government. The constant pressure on Iran, including the