In Bangkok a supposed Iranian man had his legs blown of by his own bomb. He also slighty injured a taxi driver and passersby with a grenade. According to Israel this was directed at Israeli officials and the work of the Iranian government. In India and Georgia there were attacks on Israeli diplomats.
This was the headline in The Washington Post: “Israel blames Iran for India and Georgia bombing attempts; Tehran denies role.”
As American professor Juan Cole points out, investigators in India do not believe Iran was responsible. Still it is clear who, according to the coordinated propaganda campaign in the American and Israeli media, is the scary agressor in the Middle East: Iran.
We don't know at this moment who is responsible, but what is clear is that the attacks are being instantly exploited by Israel-devoted neocons to further depict Iran as the gravest threat to world peace.
Neocon Jennifer Rubin: “one more piece of data that Iran is growing ever bolder and more aggressive.”
And Alan Dershowitz warns for "Iranian attacks on American synagogues."
Remember just how dangerous Iraq was in the days leading up to the attack on that country?
Glenn Greenwald notes the irony that the mode of attack in India was virtually identical to the one used to kill numerous Iranian scientists ('a magnetic bomb slapped onto the car by a passing motorcyclist''). One thing is crystal clear, no matter who the perpetrators are, these attacks are a sign that we are moving ever closer to a war with Iran.
The propaganda at play here is intense indeed. For several years, the U.S. and Israel threaten on an almost daily basis to aggressively attack a country, all while engaging in multiple acts of war against them, and then when their leaders suggest they may not acquiesce to such an attack with passivity and gratitude, those vows of defensive retaliation are used to depict them as the threat-issuing aggressors. And the American media, as always, eagerly implants the propaganda. Thus, if such a war breaks out, NBC News‘ Mik announces, “the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet would be the world’s first line of defense,” though those crazed Persian leaders have threatened to use “Iran’s massive stockpile of ballistic missiles” and to “launch those missiles at U.S. targets.”
But when you look at reports such as this one from NBC last night — and it was nothing unusual: I just happened to stumble into it by accident — it’s not hard to see why this happens. When continuously bombarded with authoritative voices uncritically warning them of the Grave Threat posed by the New Hitlers, and with powerful images of menacing missiles and unhinged leaders accompanying those warnings, even rational populations will become sufficiently scared into succumbing to the next act of aggression. The only thing unusual here is that, with Iran, the American media actually seems out in front of the U.S. Government in the propaganda effort rather than in their normal position of submissively marching behind.



7 Comments
They just love war over here.
By kloeless on 15/02/2012 - 9:41The main reason is that it happens always far away from our door.
And the fact that millions of Americans live of producing Weapons of Mass Destruction should not be underestimated.
By kloeless on 15/02/2012 - 9:42The US media doesn’t propagandize, it just wants to sell news.
By drizzle on 15/02/2012 - 10:33War sells!!
This is amazing:
We’re told that if the U.S. ends up in a war with Iran, then “the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet would be the world’s first line of defense.“
By drizzle on 15/02/2012 - 10:36The first line of defense…
By drizzle on 15/02/2012 - 10:37One just wonders when the world will finally get fed up with looking at the obscenity that’s been spilling out from the U.S. and finally pull the plug on this endless orgy of power.
By drizzle on 15/02/2012 - 10:38Als dit terrorisme is, hoe heet het dan als de Mossad Iraniërs opblaast met kleefbommen?
By mombaykkes on 15/02/2012 - 12:34