It may not be wrong to say that the western media loves when
the United States bombs countries. Even at present such media houses are
adamant at starting war between Saudi Arabia and Iran by propagating anti-Iran
narrative and running it again and again. There is consensus that they use the
content till attack on Iran becomes a reality. Most of the coverage on Aramco
attack, accuse Iran for the attacks.
Surprisingly, neither the US nor Saudi Arabia have so far
presented or shared any credible evidence that can prove Iran launched the
attack on Aramco. Riyadh put on display a wreckage of what it said were
remnants of weapons used in the attacks. It was claimed the wreckage showed the
attacks were unquestionably sponsored by Tehran, but many believe the assemblage
of junk were not the concrete evidence.
When US President Donald Trump decided to impose yet another
round of sanctions to punish the people of Iran for what there is no public
proof of, western media was furious that he has backed away from an all-out
war. They are demanding why he is not initiating another military conflict in
the Middle East.
The latest series of strikes on Saudi Arabian targets this
year, were launched from south-western Iran using drones and cruise missiles. The
strike on Aramco fits in the pattern of Yemeni strikes against Saudi economic
infrastructure. There is no plausible reason to believe Iran was behind the
attacks, and it’s even unclear if Iran has indirectly played a role in the
attacks. Although the US government and establishment media often call the
Houthis a proxy of Iran, it is an independent force grown out of decades-long
conflict in Yemen. The extent to which Iran offers support to the Yemeni forces
has never been established.
A columnist suggested Iran was behind the attack. A
paragraph says,” Iran has been testing drones and supplying them to regional
allies such as Hezbollah for years. It was also said that the missiles were
reportedly able to evade Saudi air defenses.
Another article “United States sending troops to bolster
Saudi defenses after attack”, says the US officials told that Southwest Iran
was the staging ground for the attack that might has been authorized by Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The article says, an assessment based at
least in part on still-classified imagery showing Iran appearing to prepare an
aerial strike.
A pep into the recent history tells, when President Trump
ordered missile strike on Syria’s Shayrat Air Base in April 2017, it was widely
admired by the western media. A day after the attack a reporter said he thinks
Trump had just became President of the United States. Another asserted he has
put the credibility of American power,” and yet another claimed, “We finally
have a man who knows the difference between right and wrong and good and evil,
and it makes us proud.”
All this was not new, in the past the barrage of propaganda
directed at the American public forced them believe that Saddam Hussein
was personally involved in 9/11 attacks. That was a significant achievement in
manipulation. The poll results must have been news for the Iraqi dictator
himself, a forgotten one-time American ally, who fought a proxy war with Iran,
spread over a decade.
