US Media Discovers Iranian Protests, Forgets 70 Years of US Meddling
Sanctions, specifically those reimposed by the Trump administration in 2018 (and largely maintained by Biden), are the glaring omission here. While the New Arab article (and most Western coverage) frames protests as internal strife, it neglects to mention how US economic warfare cripples civilian life. We're talking about a multi-decade campaign, from the 1953 US-backed coup against democratically
elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh to the present day, using economic strangulation to achieve regime change. It's not just 'hardship'; it's engineered hardship. So, when pundits decry 'Iranian instability,' one might wonder if they recall the stability the US systematically undermined. The silence is deafening on how these 'economic pressures' are a feature, not a bug, designed precisely
to incite such unrest. How many times must the US destabilize a nation before Western media connects the dots between cause and effect?