The UK again lashes out at Iran, corporate media continues to peddle propaganda

The UK Government took steps to further sanction the Islamic Republic of Iran, gaining instant praise from Washington, in what is primarily going to be a symbolic move with little real world impacts. What appears to be a tantrum from the British government, over the successes of Iran, coincidentally comes just prior to their “planned” breach of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.

The British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, announced last week that his government would be introducing a new batch of sanctions against Iran; equating to a sanctions regime that would extend the range of who the UK government can currently target, with the specific purpose of punishing those connected to Tehran that do business inside the United Kingdom. Although this caused Iran to immediately summon the British ambassador due to the UK’s “interventionist comments“, and London made a big deal of its decision, the effectiveness of these sanctions will most certainly falter at punishing the Iranian government in the way it is claimed.

A constant push to delegitimize Tehran, to undermine it and facilitate regime change, on the part of Western governments and the corporate media alike, is resulting in a net loss for the collective West.  While Iran is looking to join the alternative economic alliance, BRICS, and has now been ushered in as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), it is slowly working its way around the devastating impacts of the US’ “maximum pressure” sanctions. Long have these sanctions been criticized for violating international law by UN experts, and they have not only severely affected the Iranian people, but they economically and diplomatically isolated the government in Iran. This era of isolation is now fading away, with billions in investments pouring into the country, new infrastructure being built in order to link Moscow and Mumbai, and the sanctions on Russia opening up new doors for the Islamic Republic.

For a collective West that has for so long been the leaders and dictators, that have been able to project unmatched power on their enemies and subjects around the world, the fact that things are changing is proving too much. The UK and other European powers have recently announced “plans” to purposely breach to 2015 Nuclear Deal, by refusing to lift sanctions on Tehran’s use of missiles, come October. Not only is this now making them major hypocrites by admission, in blaming the the Iranian government for not upholding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but it is also self-delusion to announce that they are only infringing upon the agreement now on their part. In 2018 the US government unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, administering its illegal sanctions regime against Tehran, to which the response of the European powers was to unequivocally side with the US. When the US government was the main player in keeping the JCPOA alive, despite the deal being in the best interests of Europe, there was no protests from the EU powers or the UK. Yet, when Tehran then used mechanisms that were included in the deal, written-in to ensure both sides could hold each other accountable, the Europeans and UK blamed Iran for the entire ordeal, then began spreading conspiracy theories about Tehran secretly developing a nuclear weapon and spoke of stepping in to prevent this — translating to talk of regime change. All of this is made all the more absurd when contrasting this with the most recent statements made by the US government:

Even in one of the most trusted media outlets in the West, Reuters, we see that articles written about Iran will frequently feature thumbnail images of the former flag of Iran — used under the disgraced and overthrown western-placed dictator, The Shah — instead of using the actual flag that the Islamic Republic uses today. This is the same Reuters that recently made a grammatical error in the second paragraph of an article published on the newly introduced UK sanctions, despite having three editors work on the piece. Why nitpick errors? Because when you play a gutter game, such things should be highlighted.

The UK government is not a world power, it has a tiny military and is a subject of the US government. Washington dictates Britain’s foreign policy decisions almost entirely, yet the UK still behaves and speaks as if it is a major factor on the world stage, at a time when their capital city looks like a stereotypical depiction of the third-world. Their infrastructure is old, worker strikes are constant, the cost of living is intolerable, energy prices have inflated three fold, crime is out of control, inflation is rampant and the list goes on; all of this triggering one of largest exodus’s from London in decades, from both homeowners and renters. The United Kingdom is falling apart at every turn, even its National Health Service (NHS), for whom the nation was encouraged to come out and clap for during the COVID-19 era, but are stretched this, with a record 170,000 NHS workers leaving due to stress, pay constraints and workload. This is the same NHS that people struggle to even get a doctors appoint through, often having to attend Zoom call appointments instead.

Unlike Iran, the British State is not under illegal sanctions that prevent medicine from entering the country, yet continues to destroy its economy, the living standards of its own people, following this up with a seemingly never ending flow of draconian legislation to stifle freedom of speech and increase government powers. The only reason the UK government currently sits in a position from which it feels it can lecture others, is because of its delusional perspective that is born out of a nostalgia for empire and a supremacist mindset. Its sanctions will not have an impact in the same way that the US’ sanctions have, while Iran will continue to rise as a Middle East power. The British government will be viewed as a group of US government lapdogs that are throwing a tantrum and rambling about conspiracy theories, by countries outside of the collective West.