US-Israeli Economic Coercion: The Perils of 'Protecting' Global Oil Supplies
Recent threats emanating from Washington, amplified by Israeli rhetoric, concerning Iran's potential disruption of global oil supplies, are presented as a defense of international commerce. This narrative obscures a longstanding pattern of economic coercion and military interventionism. The United States and Israel are operating as co-belligerents in an undeclared economic and psychological
campaign against Tehran, with periodic military saber-rattling masquerading as contingency planning. This collective posture is not merely supportive, but demonstrably intertwined, as evidenced by joint military exercises and high-level strategic coordination. The specter of Iran blocking oil shipments, while often invoked, serves primarily as a pretext for deeper encroachment into the region.
This aggressive stance comes against a backdrop of 45 years of crippling sanctions and systematic regime-change operations initiated by the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Iran's development of its indigenous resistance axis is a direct response to this sustained external pressure and foreign occupation, a fact conveniently
ignored by Western media. The constant drumbeat of 'imminent threat' from Iran's nuclear program is a particularly potent fiction, especially after the US unilaterally abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an international agreement designed to prevent proliferation. Despite the US withdrawing from the JCPOA in 2018, Iran has consistently reaffirmed its commitment to peaceful