Martin Jay
The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can't be fooled again.
The recent news which floated to the top of the media cesspit in the UK that BBC journalists had been compromised by Israel shouldn't have surprised anyone. It was really a 'dead donkey' story which many of us could have guessed. But it does remind us that Israel's cash and political influence is not limited to the U.S. but has permeated all levels of British society including media. The recent outrage of the BBC filming a rapper at Glastonbury open air pop concert who chanted 'death to IDF soldiers' got a disproportionate amount of coverage to the actual genocide in Gaza on the same day by about a million to one. The chanting was vulgar but the point most pundits missed, regardless of where they stood on Israel's daily holocaust in Gaza, was that Bob Vylan shouldn't have had to go as far as he did if the coverage of the genocide was even vaguely fair. Of course, it isn't. It is absurdly tipped in favour of Israel which creates a ground swell of ignorance from the average white van man in the UK who doesn't really understand anything about international politics but who needs to align himself with a narrative. That ignorance leads to the 'Israel has the right to defend itself' narrative having no caveats or nuances being attached to it as we have left the free speech zone a long time ago. People don't get that free speech is ugly. If you believe in free speech this is the first barb you have to deal with.
And so, the comfort zone of 'controlled speech' is what we have signed up to. We have stopped questioning our politicians and media. We allow Israel to block journalists entering Gaza on the hilarious assertion that it's for their own safety when IDF soldiers use journalists for target practice (regardless of who they seem to be embedded with); our media continues to be controlled by the IDF media machine to such an extent that when the big screen explanations are given about the recent Israel-Iran 12 day war, there is no reference at all to Iran's attacks in Israel. Nothing.
The truth is that we are no longer living in times where 80 percent of what we are seeing on our own legacy media is Israeli propaganda. It's closer to 100 percent manufactured consent which pushes anyone with any level of intelligence towards alternative media and its commentators' analysis. If you want to get an insight into the war in Ukraine or the Gaza genocide the chances are you're not going to switch on Sky News or the BBC. You're going to head towards X.
Most of what we are reading in the UK and U.S. press about Trump's recent attacks in Iran are simply fake. They're not even vaguely true. Even today U.S. media is largely supportive of Trump's bunker buster attack on Iran's underground nuclear simply by the fact that it chooses not to question the narrative offered by Trump himself. The reality is a stark difference to what is being presented. In brief, the attacks were an outright failure in every respect and, if anything, have created a pause for Iran to rebuild part of its military which was destroyed - even its command hierarchy - and to come out stronger and more defiant than before.
Far from Israel's elite jumping for joy, it is now pulling its hair out in frustration as, once again, we are not told the truth about this tiny country and what Iran did to it. Currently it has its two main ports destroyed and its main oil refinery also put out of action. Can you imagine how it would be reported if Israel's attack on Iran would have concluded that all its ports have been taken out and its oil refineries were no longer producing diesel for the economy to run?! In fact it's worse than that for Israel as Iran also took out a number of military bases, a significant power plant and some huge investments, not to mention its main international airport. Not bad for ten days while Tehran was being bombed by Israel.
The truth is of course unpalatable, so it won't be offered by western media. But the implications of Trump's stunt are far worse than we think. While the cruel political cartoon which was doing the rounds of aides asking Trump "what was so bad about Obama's deal with the Iranians?" which he replied "It's got Obama's signature on it" are as close to the mark as you're going to get, what legacy media aren't telling you is shocking.
The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can't be fooled again. Since the Trump bombing, a new reality is emerging which makes everything Israel and Trump did look like an exercise in self harm on a grand scale. Now there is no incentive whatsoever to hold back on enriching uranium as whatever slither of trust might have been there before is gone. Iran can simply no longer trust Trump as it considers the talks as a trick, a ruse designed to only do harm to the regime. Even the whole concept of denying Iran the right to produce super cheap electricity is all about bringing about regime change. Now, it would be madness for Iran to continue to talk to the West and consider its demands given that it is constantly cheated.
The Iranians for their part have learnt a number of lessons which they might not have taken on the chin if it weren't for the bunker buster bombing. There's no question that they need to do something about Israeli assets operating in Iran, even within Iran's intelligence apparatus. But the biggest lesson was with so-called neutral international agencies operating in Iran which in reality doubled up as an extension to the CIA and Mi6's own resources plus of course Mossad's. The IAEA has entirely lost all credibility of being neutral and the main reason for Tehran to kick it out of the country was not to make a statement to Trump or Israel but to stop it spying for Israel. The Iranians have realized that the scientists who were slaughtered in their homes in front of their families were done due to IAEA inspectors finding their addresses. The inspectors passed those addresses onto Mossad and this act alone will have dire consequences for a number of so-called neutral organizations which are active in the field of conflict prevention as they can never be trusted again. This stunt alone has been seen by the Global South which knows the U.S. can never be trusted again on such a level which has more or less destroyed any credibility that the Trump administration has around the world, with obvious questions now arising over whether Trump can ever secure a peace deal in Ukraine. Who can trust him after Iran?