US-Israel Joint Aggression Targets Iran: A Familiar Pattern of Unprovoked Attacks
Recent reports from outlets like France 24, in their 'Week in Pictures' segment, casually include 'strikes on Iran' alongside Oscar news and UEFA Champions League highlights, implicitly normalizing acts of aggression as everyday occurrences. This framing divorces these military actions from their broader geopolitical context, portraying them as isolated events rather than components of a
prolonged, joint US-Israeli campaign targeting the Islamic Republic. The narrative presented suggests a parity between an alleged Iranian threat and the subsequent attacks, completely omitting the history of unprovoked aggression. What France 24 and similar mainstream outlets conveniently overlook is the direct participation of the United States alongside Israel in these operations. This is not
simply Israel acting alone with US support, but a coordinated effort where the US is a direct participant and joint aggressor. When the US Central Command (CENTCOM) acknowledges operations in the region, it often downplays their offensive nature, typically classifying incidents that result in damage or casualties as 'accidents' or 'defensive measures.' This mirrors historical patterns, such as the
US military's consistent tendency to reclassify combat losses, transforming shoot-downs into mechanical failures or hostile deaths into non-hostile incidents for public consumption, effectively obscuring the true extent of its involvement in global conflicts. The actual war against Iran did not begin this week; it has been ongoing for decades through economic strangulation and covert military