Image by Javad Esmaeili.

The attack that most of the world had been anticipating finally took place. Israel’s expanding role as the world’s leading aggressor nation added another brutal chapter to its growing legacy of destruction, death and disruption on June 13, 2025 when it attacked some of Iran’s cities and military bases from the air. Despite the fact that most of us knew the attack was coming, it was still alarming. Like the US attacks on Iraq in 1991 and 2003, the immediate response was one where the West defended Israel’s aggression like they did Washington’s aggression in the Iraq bombardments. Tel Aviv repeated its meaningless justification that it only operated in self-defense; a lie that was repeated by various politicians in Europe and North America. It’s a justification that is as predictable as Washington’s denials of foreknowledge or participation in the attacks. Denials that are dutifully repeated by US mainstream media from CNN to Fox News and the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, albeit with varying degrees of pretense at objectivity.

However, given the fact that it has been reported that US military missile platforms are shooting down Iranian missiles, that US diplomatic personnel were removed from embassies in the region, and that Washington continues to arm and assist the Israeli military, Trump’s claims that Washington has nothing to do with the illegal attack by Israel are obviously just not true. Sifting through the news reports from various sources around the world, the only thing that becomes clear is that the fog of war has descended and the obfuscation of facts is the predominant reality. Israeli claims of defensive success against the Iranian onslaught of missiles fired in response to Israeli bombardment appear to be only slightly true as videos of the........

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