Once again, the anti-US, anti-Israel, pro-Islamic media got it wrong.
Saturday night and Sunday, several “news” outlets reported that the Americans had bombed Iran after Israel “began direct hostilities when it attacked Iran 10 days ago” (BBC).
Sunday, CBC’s The National (not surprised!) called the latest conflict “the war started by Israel”.
Wrong!
I have no idea whether so much of today’s media is just ignorant, biased or mired in malice … maybe all three?
But they’re just factually wrong.
The first DIRECT military attack between Iran and Israel too place on April 13, 2024 when IRAN fired more than 300 rockets and missiles at Israel. (https://apnews.com/article/strait-of-hormuz-vessel-33fcffde2d867380e98c89403776a8ac )
That was the FIRST direct military action between the two … and it was clearly initiated by Iran!
Did the CBC and BBC forget about that?
There had been covert actions between the two countries for decades and hostilities between Iran’s proxies in the Mid-East and Israel as well … but NEVER direct exchanges … until that Iranian missile barrage.
Iran, in fact, spent hundreds of millions dollars (some say billions) to fund, train, weaponize several Islamic terrorist organizations … Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the PFLP in the West Bank and Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.
Then, in 2021, Associated Press reported “Iran begins enriching uranium up to 60%, its highest purity ever and a technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.”
(By the way, it takes 3.67% nuclear enrichment to produce civilian level electric power; 20% enrichment to produce medical isotopes … but IAEA reports years ago detailed Iran’s enrichment level had reached 60% … getting very close to the 90% needed for nuclear weapons. In 2016, Iran had just over 400 centrifuges: today more than 15,000!
Although Israel had been engaging Iran’s proxies for decades, when Iran began enriching uranium well beyond civilian usage requirements, that changed everything.
Israel/US were suspected in 2010 of carrying out sabotage inside Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, destroying centrifuges; in 2020, a “mysterious” explosion again struck Natanz, destroying centrifuges; and, in recent years, Israel has been suspected in the assassination, poisoning of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists, military commanders, within Iran and elsewhere.
Europe, the UK, Russia, China and Canada urged restraint .. . even as Iran’s enrichment increased, numbers of centrifuges rose and more and more enriched uranium piled up: … currently 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium … enough to produce SEVERAL nuclear bombs!)
Yet, the SECOND direct military attack between the two was also launched by Iran … NOT Israel … on Oct. 2024 … with hundreds more rockets and missiles fired directly at Israeli cities and towns.
I guess the CBC and BBC forgot about that too!
It’s true Israel did launch the June 13 attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, missile launch sites, military targets and scientists, but knowing even the briefest history, it’s just NOT factually correct when media “report” Israel “began the direct hostilities with Iran” or “started the war”..
The CBC, BBC and other “news” sources may have “forgotten” the facts, but the United States did not.
Because Iran … through its proxies … has been also attacking US targets, killing American military personnel, civilians, tourists for decades.
In October, 1983 two truck bombs blew up at the Multinational Force Lebanon peacekeepers’ barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, “killing 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel and six civilians “.
Islamic Jihad (sound familiar?) … the extremist terrorists funded, armed by Iran, claimed responsibility, saying they wanted to drive the peacekeeping force out of Lebanon. They eventually did, and Hezbollah (also backed by Iran) moved in and seized southern Lebanon in a bloody stranglehold that lasted decades.
That attack was 42 years ago .. and the US NEVER forgot the deaths of so many US service members … 241 … at the hands of Iran’s proxy, while serving on a peacekeeping mission.
There have, in fact, been MANY other Iranian-backed attacks over the years on the US (and other Westerners), collated by the Foundation for the Defence of Democracy:
“Hezbollah operatives drove an explosives-filled dump truck through the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City; Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 on its way from Kuwait to Pakistan and divert it to Tehran, killing two American officials; A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a Jerusalem bus, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans. A total of 26 people die in the attack; With the assistance of Hezbollah, al Qaeda suicide bombers almost simultaneously blew up the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounding thousands; and, 2003-2011: Iranian-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.”
All of these attacks by terrorist groups funded, trained, supplied weapons and explosives by Iran!
You can read the full report here: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/19/iranian-and-iranian-backed-attacks-against-americans-1979-present/)
Does anyone doubt the Iranian mullahs weren’t well on their way to being able to assemble nuclear weapons? Does anyone doubt the Iranian Islamic extremists … who have killed/imprisoned/tortured thousands of their own citizens/students/women who dared to just protest their brutal Shiite regime … wouldn’t use a nuclear against Israel? Against the US?
The bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities won’t stop Iranian-financed or directed terrorist attacks in the Middle East and around the world, but at least their victims won’t be measured in the tens or hundreds of thousands!
In hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities … Trump got it right.
Harv Oberfeld
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