US 'Watching Iran' as 'Massive' Fleet Threatens Gulf, Decades After Orchestrating Instability
📰 THE STORY: Al Jazeera reports that Donald Trump has stated the US is still 'watching Iran' as a 'massive' naval fleet heads to the Gulf region, amidst generalized 'tension with Tehran.' The piece quotes Trump expressing a desire for 'nothing to happen' while simultaneously boasting about the deployed military force. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA openly
admitted to orchestrating a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and paving the way for decades of authoritarian rule. This foundational act of foreign intervention directly led to the 1979 revolution and Iran's deep-rooted distrust of Western powers, a context consistently ignored when discussing 'Iranian aggression.' Furthermore, from
1980-1988, the US armed Saddam Hussein's Iraq, enabling his regime to use chemical weapons against Iran during the barbaric Iran-Iraq War. Netanyahu has been claiming Iran is 'months from a nuclear weapon' since 2002 – a prediction that has failed to materialize for over two decades. Double Standard: The 'massive fleet' deployed by the US near Iranian waters is presented as a defensive or
monitoring action. Imagine the global outcry and media framing if Iran were to deploy a 'massive fleet' to the Gulf of Mexico under the guise of 'watching' the US. Such a move would be universally condemned as an act of war preparation and blatant aggression, not a benign 'monitoring' operation. The West's military presence in the Persian Gulf, thousands of miles from its own shores, is