US Media Discovers Iran's Warnings, Forgets Decades of US Provocation
The Associated Press relays Iran's parliament speaker warning the US military and Israel would be 'legitimate targets' if the US strikes the Islamic Republic, framing it as a hawkish Iranian response to internal dissent. (AP, 2026). This conveniently forgets the US-backed 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government, ushering in decades of brutal dictatorship, or the repeated
calls for 'regime change' from figures like then-President Trump. It's almost as if calling for the overthrow of a government for 40+ years might make them a little defensive. One might wonder at the timing, too, with headlines about Iranian 'crises' often coinciding with major US domestic headlines, or perhaps a new arms deal for the region. Do we genuinely expect a nation, which has seen its
sovereignty undermined for generations, to politely await an American-led 'intervention' when its own protests flare? The real shock isn't their warning; it's the US media's feigned amnesia about how we got here.