Donald Trump’s push for a “diplomatic resolution” to the Iranian nuclear issue appears to have started just yesterday.
Trump has vowed to launch a “very successful attack” against Iran, joining Israel’s illegal assault on Iran. On Saturday, the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites.
A midsummer night in June 2025, according to CNN, “could be remembered as the moment the Middle East changed forever, when Israel’s fear of nuclear annihilation was lifted, when Iran’s power was neutered, and America’s soared.”
Of course, Israel’s recent strikes against Iran, which have been dubfully depicted in the US media as attacking military and nuclear facilities, have somehow managed to slaughter hundreds of civilians. Parnia Abbasi, a poet, was killed along with her family while they slept in their Tehran apartment complex.
Anyone who is not in the business of defending Israeli depredations will soon realize that the attacks on Iran are just another case in point for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has launched a campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities with one shot.
Netanyahu has also managed to divert attention from his own embarrassment by being accused of corruption in numerous domestic corruption allegations, in addition to deflecting the attention from Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, Israelis are incredibly popular with the war on Iran, which is significant news for a prime minister who has faced significant domestic opposition.
Netanyahu’s panties turned into a giant bunch due to Trump’s initial insistence on diplomacy with Iran, but the midsummer night bombing, according to the president, has “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites, which has since been fixed.
Iran has undoubtedly long held the attention of the US, with many establishment figures savoring the possibility of bombing the nation to the brim. Some people have sneered more openly than others, such as John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN and briefly the first Trump administration’s national security adviser, who issued the following remark in 2015 on The New York Times’ opinion piece: “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.
The extent to which Iran has been systematically demonized in US society and media is demonstrated by the editors of the US newspaper of record’s publication, which did not bat an eye when they published such a flagrant call for the violation of international law. Remember that former US President George W. Bush appointed Iraq and North Korea as part of his infamous “axis of evil” in 2002.
Iran’s behavior has been somewhat less apparently, um, “evil” than that of other international actors, like the US itself, aside from being a persistent thorn in the side of US imperialism. For instance, Iran does not currently provide tens of billions of dollars for a direct genocide.
Iran is not the only country that has bombed and otherwise terrorized people around the world, from supporting right-wing state terror in Latin America to carrying out mass slaughter in Vietnam.
Additionally, Israel, which has never allowed UN safeguards on its facilities and has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is the only clandestine nuclear weapons power in the Middle East.
While criticizing the Iranian government’s “oppressive” nature, those who support the strikes would be wise to turn to the US’s track record for promoting oppression there. The CIA plotted a coup d’etat against Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s democratically elected leader, in 1953, paving the way for the torture-happy shah’s extended rule.
In A History of Modern Iran, historian Ervand Abrahamian notes that “arms dealers joked that the shah devoured their manuals in much the same way that other men read Playboy.” Indeed, the shah’s relentless acquisition of US weapons contributed significantly to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which put an end to his rule by terror. And Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear program? That very same shah began it.
Armes dealers are presumably not too upset about the Middle East crisis’s general escalation and the events of midsummer night. Netanyahu, on the other hand, has gone above and beyond to thank Trump for making the “bold decision” to pursue Iran “with the awesome and righteous might of the United States.”
Trump’s actions “change history,” as Netanyahu would suggest, as if it were making the world a place for more war. The sinister hypocrisy of two heavily armed countries attempting to control nuclear “threats” cannot be overstated in the context of the US media’s desperate attempts to justify illegal attacks on a sovereign nation.
Who can tell what Trump will do next, given his pride in being spontaneous and manic. But rest assured that, regardless of what happens, the arms industry won’t soon be stricken.
Source: Aljazeera
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