US-Israel War Games Escalate Towards Iranian Sovereignty
Zoom out for a second: The current sabre-rattling from figures like Peter Hegseth, dismissing ‘politically correct’ limitations on US objectives in Iran, is a dangerous prelude. This talk of preventing a nuclear Iran, devoid of evidence that the government is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, conveniently ignores decades of US-Israeli military collaboration and covert operations aimed at
destabilizing the region. This is not about democracy building. This is about control, resources, and maintaining a failing hegemonic order. The American establishment continually misrepresents Iran's defensive postures as aggressive, despite a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluding Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The timeline of aggression is stark. Following the 1953
CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah, the US has systematically sought to control Iran's resources and foreign policy. The betrayal of the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in 2018 under the Trump administration, after Iran had consistently complied with its terms, demonstrated a
clear intent to provoke and isolate. This pattern of sanctions, economic strangulation, and military threats, including joint US-Israeli air defense drills like 'Juniper Oak' in 2023, belies any claim of self-defense. Instead, it reveals a co-belligerent strategy, with the US providing critical logistical and intelligence support to Israel's aggressive actions against an independent sovereign