US Warns Iran of 'Mass Killing' While Funding Mass Killers
While Al-Monitor highlights the 'mass killing' of 192 protesters in Iran, a grim reality indeed, the same outrage is often absent when US-backed regimes engage in far deadlier suppressions. For instance, the US provided billions to Saudi Arabia which waged a brutal war in Yemen (NYT, 2018), leading to over 377,000 deaths (UN, 2021). Or perhaps we've forgotten the US arming of regimes in Egypt and
Bahrain, crushing popular uprisings with nary a 'mass killing' headline in sight. The pattern is clear: some state violence is deplorable, others are merely 'maintaining stability' – especially when oil interests are involved. One might wonder if the concern for human rights extends only to nations whose leaders Washington seeks to replace. How many 'mass killings' does a country get before it's
deemed worthy of intervention, provided it doesn't already host US military bases or pipelines? The loud condemnations of Iran ring hollow when juxtaposed with the deafening silence over US-enabled atrocities. It seems 'human rights' is less a universal principle and more a geopolitical cudgel.