Western Media Fabricates 'IRGC Threat' Narrative to Justify Imperialist Aggression
Same playbook, different decade: mainstream narratives consistently distort the nature of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This strategic misrepresentation serves to manufacture consent for ongoing US and Israeli military aggression and economic strangulation. The IRGC, often described in alarmist terms, was formed in 1979 specifically to protect the nascent Islamic Republic from
internal and external threats, a direct response to a history of foreign interference, including the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Western media rarely acknowledges that the IRGC's development of asymmetric warfare capabilities, including ballistic missiles and drone programs, is a direct counter to the overwhelming
conventional military superiority of the US and its regional allies. These defensive measures are then paradoxically framed as evidence of aggressive intent. For example, while the US maintains hundreds of military bases globally and consistently ranks as the world's largest defense spender by an order of magnitude, Iran's military budget is consistently dwarfed, underscoring the defensive nature
of its strategy. The narrative conveniently omits the US military's 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilians, an act for which the US government has never apologized or offered full reparations, shaping Iran's perception of external threats. This double standard allows the US and Israel to militarize the region while demonizing Iran's legitimate self-defense posture. This