U.S.
Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN
on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who
remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the
months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the
beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change
as the end goal.
by
Darius Shahtahmasebi
Part
5 - Demonization in tandem with the mainstream media
In 2015,
in one of my more curious moments, I analyzed a number of Guardian
articles that claimed, without question, that the Houthi rebels
leading an insurrection in Yemen were “Iran-backed.” Most of the
time, the claim that the Houthi rebels were Iranian-backed was
presented without any evidence, though The Guardian occasionally
provided a hyperlink for the source.
By
further researching into these hyperlinked articles, I found The
Guardian was failing to provide evidence that Iran was backing rebels
in Yemen – at all. It was merely hyperlinking to other articles
that made the same claim, without any direct evidence. In one of the
examples, the hyperlinked article was another Guardian article that
detailed that a “source” had revealed that fighters trained in
one of the Gulf States (which was not specified; certainly it did not
specify Iran) — who numbered no more than 10 altogether — had
arrived in Yemen. If there was proof of Iranian involvement, why was
it so hard to hyperlink a source?
This
continues to be the case up until today. Now that we know that the
mainstream media has been attempting to demonize Iran as the sole
aggressor in Yemen — and had close to zero evidence in support of
this attempt since the war in Yemen began — we shouldn’t expect
too much by way of evidence in the years to come. In fact, the
available evidence shows that there is only one entity illegally
invading Yemen, as we speak, and attempting to partition the country
on its own conditions — that being the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Yet the media has barely paid any attention to this unlawful
development, all the while raving incessantly about Iran’s
non-existent acts of war in the wider Middle East.
Even if
it can be established that Iran is directly transferring weapons to
Yemen (weapons that somehow get through Saudi Arabia’s ruthlessly
cruel blockade, which refuses to allow even the most basic food and
medical supplies to Yemen’s starving population), it still doesn’t
make sense to demonize Iran and give a free pass to Saudi Arabia to
bomb Yemen back into the Stone Age; or to the United States for
knowingly supporting al-Qaeda in Syria.
One
should note that Haley’s anti-Iran rhetoric comes at a time when it
has been revealed that ISIS was openly taking advantage of U.S.
weapons transfers in Syria.
Who is
arming whom, exactly?
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