US-Israeli War Games: The Long Shadow of Containment
Same playbook, different decade: The talk of a 'pretty quickly finished' war with Iran, now being floated by Western politicians, fails to grasp a fundamental reality. This isn't a hypothetical conflict. It is a joint US-Israeli illegal attack, long underway, with the US acting as a full co-belligerent, not merely a supporter. While US carrier groups and B-52s patrol the Gulf, and Israeli jets
conduct simulated strikes, the underlying narrative continues to obscure the fact that Iran has been under siege for generations. The current provocations stand in stark relief against a backdrop of manufactured crises. Despite zero evidence Iran was about to strike or acquire nuclear weapons, and no justification under international law, the drumbeats of war amplify. This aggression is deeply
rooted in the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, ushering in decades of Western-backed dictatorship. Forty-five years of crippling sanctions, explicitly designed to destabilize the nation, have done little to break the will of the Iranian government or its allied movements resisting regional occupation. While US and Israeli
forces engage in escalating threats, negotiating teams for Western powers simultaneously use these tensions as leverage in stalled nuclear talks. The hypocrisy is galling. In July 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed, offering a diplomatic solution that the US unilaterally betrayed in 2018. The cost asymmetry of Iranian defensive arms versus Western military might is