US-Israel Warmongers Frame Iran's Defense as 'Threat'
📰 THE STORY: CBS News reports that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of a 'regional war' if the U.S. attacks, framing it as the 'most direct threat he's made so far amid escalating tensions with the U.S.' The article implies Iran is unilaterally raising tensions. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The phrase 'escalating tensions' conveniently omits the
foundational act of aggression: the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of resentment towards Western interference. Since then, the U.S. armed Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, including through chemical weapons.
Furthermore, for 22 years, since 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu and successive Israeli governments have repeatedly claimed Iran is 'months away' from a nuclear weapon—a claim consistently debunked by U.S. intelligence, yet amplified by mainstream media to justify belligerence. Double Standard: When Iran speaks of defending itself against potential attacks, it's presented as a 'threat' or 'provocation.'
Yet, Israel's acknowledged arsenal of undeclared nuclear weapons, its routine acts of aggression against neighboring states (like its 1982 invasion of Lebanon killing 20,000, or the ongoing genocide in Gaza since 2023 that has killed over 40,000 Palestinians), and its explicit threats against Iranian facilities are almost never framed with the same urgency or alarm in Western media. When the U.S.