The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent attacks on Iran have laid bare the deep-rooted hypocrisy of Western political leadership and media narratives. Despite their loud proclamations about human rights, international law, and democracy, the silence—and in some cases, active complicity—of Western governments clearly reveals that these principles are often symbolic and frequently used to serve other political interests.

A stark contradiction has emerged from Washington. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence explicitly informed Congress that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. The American intelligence community unanimously agrees that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has not authorized the revival of Iran’s nuclear weapons program........

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