Iran to swallow hard, better than to believe the lies

Oh—here it comes, up on the screen: the propaganda of the military-industrial machine! Now, when our masters tell us, “smile,” when exactly is it that shall then we rejoice?

Over the course of these previous couple of months, it has become painstankingly clear to the American people that the military actions on behalf of the U.S. government against the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely unjustified from either the perspectives of ethics or international diplomacy. Indeed, President Trump’s hostile position taken against the Iranian state is one that has been inherited from previous incumbencies dating all the way back to the Islamic Revolution of Iran (c. 1979) in which the United States decisively positioned itself in defense of fleeing members of the Pahlavi dynasty. As such, the statements on the matter given by the White House chiefly address the so-called “national emergency with respect to Iran” from the perspective of United States national security and economic matters. The President makes numerous references to Iran’s acclaimed “pursuit of nuclear capabilities” as spurred from scientific falsehoods about the Islamic regime’s uranium enrichment program. In fact, the President’s diplomatic positions with regards to both Iran’s nuclear capabilities and its status as a threat to U.S. national security are by-and-large directly informed from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who claimed in his speech last month that Iran was “weeks away” from developing a nuclear bomb.

The laughable truth to this matter, of course, being that Netanyahu has repeatedly made the same claims about Iran’s being on the cusp of nuclear capabilities now for more than 30 years. In 1992, he declared as an Israeli MP that, “Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its abilities to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.” (Source: Al Jazeera) Netanyahu went on to give an address upon this matter to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on 10 July 1996. He would go on to give another address in 2011, then another in 2015 and finally one on 24 July 2024, which, at that point, surpassed the record for the most addresses given to a joint meeting of Congress by a foreign leader, at least up until writing. Now, more than 30 years later, Israel is conducting attacks upon Iranian soil on the supposed basis of lame threats which, in most instances, are none other than word-for-word recollections of the same decades-old urgencies. It is, to say the least, disappointing to see that Netanyahu has succeeded in actively cornering a U.S. President into conducting an irresponsible offensive against Iran, let alone one that is so poorly being justified using even poorer information; that which has been repeated by state officials for long enough so as to lay to waste in the public eye. If you swallow hard, you’ll believe the lies, maybe…

Make no mistake—this reignited form of aggression against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is part of an Israeli-U.S. joint offensive being conducted in order to further advance a number of well-defined Israeli interests within the region. The President’s numerous references to the “endangerment of American security, allies, and interests” is but an obfuscation of the nature of said interests; that such interests are, in fact, primarily those of a singular ally: that being the State of Israel. For over the previous 3 decades, Israel has used the existential threat of an Iranian nuclear program in order to juxtapose American power and influence upon the Islamic Republic. In doing so, Israel’s actual primary military objectives (i.e. the permanent degradation of Iran’s military defense capabilities) are further in view of being accomplished. Netanyahu himself has expressed the goal of igniting social disarray within Iran so as to bring about the toppling of the Islamic Republic as a whole, and this form of strategy has since been endorsed by President Trump. The achievement of this goal would likely further break down anti-Zionist, pro-independence military groups within the occupied territories of Lebanon and Palestine, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively.

As the Israeli Defense Forces continue to ramp up their acts of genocide against the natives of Gaza and now the Iranian people, most of whom have nothing to do with the nature of their government’s actions, every American must in turn consider the nature of their very own U.S. government in further sanctioning these atrocities. If our President is willing to hold culpable the men, women and children of Iran for the actions of the Islamic Republic, then each and every American is no less responsible for the White House’s continued endorsement of the State of Israel. The renewal of this conflict presents the opportunity for every American to come together in opposition to our nation’s current state of diplomatic affairs, regardless of one’s opinion on Iranian State affairs. Those who understand anything about the region’s history, as well as the dialectic unfolding of history itself, should know full and well that further destabilizing the Iranian regime will not bring about increased humanitarian efforts but instead merely fan the flames of atrocities there. It’s a hemlock world that we must drink. Swallow hard and don’t try to think!