Israel and America are sabre rattling with Iran. It's been happening for about as long as Iran has been calling for death to America and Israel.
Iran is an aspiring regional power. Its proxies spread across half a continent. It's involved in foreign meddling in like half a dozen civil and hybrid war fronts. That's the nature of the Middle East, the cradle of the oldest civilisations in literal history.
- 50% inflation, tax hikes and currency devaluation [1]
- Manufactured crisis
- The presence of the 3i comet in our solar system
where would Occam's razor cut?
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/26/irans-government-b...
Source?
1. https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/irans-currency-collapse...
This is true of every intelligence agency. Reflexively reaching for the CIA to explain all geopolitics is lazy conspiratorialism.
If you don’t believe in protests within dictatorships then you don’t believe in democracy. As simple as that.
Yes, it’s possible to believe in an incompetent CIA. Particularly when Iran is directly an adversary to multiple countries in the Middle East and further that it’s been fucking with more recently than the 1970s.