US Shocked Iran Won't Cooperate with Occupying Forces
The audacity! A nation’s leader suggests the presence of foreign military bases (over 25 in the region, costing untold billions) and unwavering support for a nuclear-armed, ethnically cleansing state might be a sticking point. This isn't revolutionary diplomacy; it’s basic geopolitics. Perhaps Washington expected Tehran to ignore the steady stream of U.S. taxpayer dollars—$3.8 billion annually to
Israel—that facilitates Netanyahu’s territorial ambitions, as highlighted by organizations like Human Rights Watch. Is it truly baffling that a nation would refuse to 'cooperate' with the primary enabler of what many global bodies term human rights abuses? (A country, we might add, that the U.S. and its allies have repeatedly subjected to sanctions, covert operations, and threats of regime change
since 1979.) Or is the 'news' here simply the mainstream media packaging Iran's utterly rational position as some sort of irrational defiance?