US-Israel Joint Strike on Iran: Diego Garcia a Cover?
The story broke quietly: a purported attack on the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, an isolated island in the Indian Ocean, with Iran denying any responsibility. This report, initially carried by Al Jazeera, comes amidst a significant, yet underreported, surge in joint US-Israeli military posturing and actual operations targeting Iran. While Western outlets like The New York Times frame any US
military action as purely defensive or supportive of Israel's 'security concerns,' the reality is a direct participation by the United States as a joint aggressor against Tehran. These maneuvers are not new. For weeks, various sources have detailed increased US naval presence, including carrier strike groups, and strategic bomber deployments like B-52s, positioned to project force against Iran.
This coincides directly with Israel's escalating rhetoric and thinly veiled threats of unilateral strikes. The narrative presented by CNN suggests Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, conveniently ignoring Iran's consistent denials and the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency has found no evidence of a weapons program, while Israel maintains an undeclared nuclear arsenal.
This blatant double standard has been a cornerstone of US and Israeli foreign policy since at least the 1970s, when the US facilitated Israel's nuclear program while actively preventing similar developments elsewhere in the region. The conveniently timed 'attack' on a remote US base, quickly disavowed by its alleged perpetrator, feels like a manufactured pretext, or at the very least, a