{"id":1381,"date":"2025-06-22T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/by-bombing-iran-the-us-continues-to-make-the-world-safe-for-war\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:39:40","slug":"by-bombing-iran-the-us-continues-to-make-the-world-safe-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/by-bombing-iran-the-us-continues-to-make-the-world-safe-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"By bombing Iran, the US continues to make the world safe for war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It seems like just yesterday that United States President Donald Trump was pushing a \u201cdiplomatic resolution\u201d to the Iranian nuclear issue.<\/p>\n

Now, the US has joined Israel\u2019s illegal assault<\/a> on Iran, striking three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday in what Trump has boasted was a \u201cvery successful attack\u201d.<\/p>\n

As CNN dramatically put it, \u201ca midsummer night in June 2025 could come to be remembered as the moment the Middle East changed forever; when the fear of nuclear annihilation was lifted from Israel; when Iran\u2019s power was neutered and America\u2019s soared\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, a \u201cfear of nuclear annihilation\u201d has nothing to do with Israel\u2019s current strikes on Iran, which have been dutifully portrayed in the US media as targeting military and nuclear facilities but have somehow managed to slaughter hundreds of civilians. The victims include 23-year-old poet Parnia Abbasi, killed along with her family as they slept in their Tehran apartment building.<\/p>\n

As is clear as day to anyone not in the business of defending Israeli depredations, the attacks on Iran are simply a war of convenience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is killing all sorts of birds with one stone in his campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

In addition to distracting the world from Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, where starving Palestinians continue to be massacred<\/a> on a daily basis as they seek food and other aid, Netanyahu has also managed to divert attention from his own embroilment in numerous corruption charges at home.<\/p>\n

Plus, the war on Iran is wildly popular among Israelis, which translates into big points for a prime minister who has faced significant domestic opposition.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s initial insistence on diplomacy with Iran naturally got Netanyahu\u2019s panties into a giant bunch \u2013 but the situation has now been rectified by the midsummer night\u2019s bombing, which, according to the president, has \u201cobliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

To be sure, Iran has long occupied US crosshairs, with many an establishment figure salivating at the prospect of bombing the country to smithereens. Some have salivated more openly than others, as in the case of John Bolton \u2013 a former US ambassador to the United Nations and briefly the national security adviser in the first Trump administration \u2013 who in 2015 took to the opinion pages of The New York Times with the following advice<\/a>: \u201cTo Stop Iran\u2019s Bomb, Bomb Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

That the editors of the US newspaper of record did not bat an eye in publishing such a blatant call for the violation of international law is indicative of the extent to which Iran has been thoroughly demonised in US society and media. Recall that in 2002, then-US President George W Bush appointed the nation to his infamous \u201caxis of evil\u201d along with Iraq and North Korea.<\/p>\n

And yet, aside from being a persistent thorn in the side of US imperialism, Iran\u2019s behaviour has been rather less apparently, um, \u201cevil\u201d than certain other international actors \u2013 like the US itself. For instance, Iran is not the one currently funding a straight-up genocide to the tune of tens of billions<\/a> of dollars.<\/p>\n

Nor is Iran the one that has spent the past several decades bombing and otherwise antagonising folks in every corner of the world \u2013 from backing right-wing state terror<\/a> in Latin America to conducting mass slaughter in Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the sole clandestine nuclear weapons power in the Middle East is not Iran but Israel, which has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has never allowed UN safeguards on its facilities.<\/p>\n

Those who applaud the strikes on Iran citing the \u201coppressive\u201d nature of the Iranian government would, meanwhile, do well to revisit the US track record of fuelling oppression in the country. In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup d\u2019etat against Iran\u2019s democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, which paved the way for the extended reign of the torture-happy shah.<\/p>\n

Historian Ervand Abrahamian notes in his book A History of Modern Iran: \u201cArms dealers joked that the shah devoured their manuals in much the same way as other men read Playboy.\u201d Indeed, the shah\u2019s obsessive acquisition of US weaponry did much to enable his rule by terror, which was put to an end by the Iranian Revolution of 1979. And the Iranian nuclear programme that Trump has now bombed? It was started by that very same shah.<\/p>\n

Now, arms dealers are presumably not too upset over the midsummer night\u2019s events and the general escalation of the crisis in the Middle East. For his part, Netanyahu has gone out of his way to thank Trump<\/a> for his \u201cbold decision\u201d to go after Iran \u201cwith the awesome and righteous might of the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n

In Netanyahu\u2019s words, Trump\u2019s action will \u201cchange history\u201d \u2013 as though making the world safe for more war is anything new. And as the US media scramble to justify illegal attacks on a sovereign nation, the sinister hypocrisy of two heavily nuclear-armed nations undertaking to police nuclear \u201cthreats\u201d cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n

It is anyone\u2019s guess what Trump, who prides himself on spontaneous and manic behaviour, will do next. But rest assured that, whatever happens, the arms industry won\u2019t be going hungry any time soon.<\/p>\n

The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera\u2019s editorial stance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like just yesterday that United States President Donald Trump was pushing a \u201cdiplomatic resolution\u201d to the Iranian nuclear issue. Now, the US has joined Israel\u2019s illegal assault on Iran, striking three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday in what Trump has boasted was a \u201cvery successful attack\u201d. As CNN dramatically put it, \u201ca midsummer … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}