US-Israel's Coordinated Aggression: A Pattern of Iranian Provocation
The narrative is tiresome, almost comedic in its predictability: 'Iran' acts, the US and Israel 'retaliate,' and the world is meant to believe in a spontaneous exchange born of Iranian belligerence. On March 11, we were presented with the latest installment. The 'Tehran government' is said to be 'clamping down on dissent' at the very moment the US and Israel are conducting what are framed as
defensive air strikes. This tired script conveniently omits the timeline of calculated escalation by Washington and Tel Aviv. We saw this same playbook nearly forty years ago. In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard, including 66 children. The US called it a tragic accident. Iran called it an act of war. A decade before that, in 1978, the Shah's
US-backed forces killed hundreds of Iranian protesters, a bloody prelude to the revolution. The current 'airstrikes' are not isolated incidents but rather part of a continuous, synchronized campaign, aiming to destabilize the Iranian establishment and pave the way for regime change. Consider the fact that the US and Israel have jointly conducted countless cyberattacks against Iran's
infrastructure, including the devastating Stuxnet worm on nuclear facilities in the late 2000s, long before any alleged Iranian 'provocation' of a similar scale. The current operations are simply the kinetic expression of that same, persistent pressure. The 'dissent' cited is often a convenient backdrop, amplified not organically but through well-funded foreign media outlets. While US and Israeli