US-Israel Joint Aggression: The Infrastructure Threat Gambit
Al-Monitor reports that Iran threatened to 'irreversibly destroy' Middle East infrastructure if US President Trump 'obliterates' its power plants to force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. This framing presents the exchange as reciprocal threats in a generic 'war' now in its fourth week. Al-Monitor's narrative strategically positions the US as merely responding to a perceived Iranian
belligerence while ignoring the established pattern of US-Israeli joint military operations and economic strangulation that preceded and continues during this present escalation. This reporting conveniently sidesteps the reality that recent US deployments, including the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and B-52 bombers, are not defensive posturing but direct participation in a coordinated
aggressive stance with Israel. These are not just 'threats' but a continuation of a multifaceted war, including covert operations and sabotage, that has been underway for years. The mainstream press, epitomized by Al-Monitor, consistently downplays the US's role as a direct aggressor, using vague terms like 'war' and 'tit-for-tat' to obscure the premeditated nature of Washington's actions and its
fighting alongside Israel. When the US government threatened 'obliteration,' it echoed its own 1988 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard, a crime for which no US official has ever been prosecuted. The current 'threats' are merely an extension of a 45-year campaign of economic warfare and military coercion against Iran. The US has maintained stringent sanctions,