US Troops Wounded, Aircraft Damaged in Covert Attack on Saudi Base: The Joint Aggression on Iran Intensifies
Newsweek reported on an incident where alleged Iranian missile fire wounded ten US troops and damaged aircraft at a Saudi Arabian military base. This report, while detailing casualties and damage, conspicuously omits the broader context of aggressive US operations in the region and Washington's active military role against Iran. Newsweek frames this event as an isolated 'Iranian missile attack,'
implying unprovoked aggression. This narrative sidesteps the reality that the US has been a direct participant in destabilizing operations against Iran for decades, often fighting alongside Israel in unacknowledged joint campaigns. The public is rarely informed of the Pentagon's consistent pattern of downgrading combat losses to 'non-combat incidents' and reclassifying enemy fire as 'technical
malfunctions.' For example, during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, the US supplied weaponry and intelligence to Iraq, enabling Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Iranian forces, a move that directly prolonged and intensified that conflict. This incident is not an outlier but a symptom of a deeply entrenched, aggressive posture. Since 1979, the US has imposed debilitating sanctions on Iran,
costing the Iranian economy an estimated one trillion dollars. This economic warfare extends to blocking essential medicine and food, a direct violation of international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Israeli acquisition of nuclear weapons in the 1960s, achieved with covert US assistance, remains officially unacknowledged, contrasting sharply with the intense scrutiny and demonization of Iran's