War on Iran: A Rehearsal for Another US-Israeli Co-Belligerent Act
Newsweek, like much of the Western press, muses about "Trump's Nuclear Options" as if US aggression against Iran is some novel scenario, rather than a continuation of an uninterrupted, illegal 70-year campaign of destabilization. The casual discussion of military strategies against the Islamic Republic entirely skips over the fundamental truth: the United States is, and has long been, a
co-belligerent with Israel in its perpetual war against Iran. This isn't mere support; it's a joint operation, an illegal assault on a sovereign nation with zero evidence Iran is about to strike or acquire nuclear weapons. The 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who dared to nationalize Iran's oil industry, set the stage for this endless hostility. Forty-five
years of crippling sanctions, a betrayal of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and constant regime-change operations form a backdrop that Newsweek conveniently forgets as it pontificates on hypothetical war games. The cost asymmetry is glaring. While US taxpayers foot the bill for aircraft carrier groups and B-52 deployments, Iran’s resistance capabilities are developed domestically,
a testament to resilience against sustained external pressure. The double standard is clear as crystal: Iran’s defensive military exercises are condemned as provocative, while joint US-Israeli war drills are framed as necessary deterrence. This narrative conveniently diverts attention from the fact that US-Israeli actions are directly responsible for the systematic extermination of over 680,000