Rather than openly criticizing the Israeli regime, the U.S. and the EU (with few exceptions) have chosen to remain reprehensibly silent.
The United States and the European Union loudly denounce Iran over alleged crackdowns, yet they overlook the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. This glaring contradiction highlights the West’s blatant hypocrisy and reveals that Iran is the focus of Western efforts to instigate regime change.
This week, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat of a rapid military strike on Iran, boasting about an armada led by the USS Abraham Lincoln primed for action. Trump warned ominously, “Don’t make me do it.”
Concurrently, the European Union designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a “foreign terrorist” group. Since the IRGC is vital to Iran’s national security, this move essentially labels the Iranian government itself as terrorist. The EU’s decision escalates tensions and paves the way for U.S. hostility and full-scale conflict, with dire repercussions for Europe itself.
Washington and Europe justify their antagonism towards Tehran by alleging systematic abuses against peaceful protesters calling for political reform.
Trump has encouraged Iranians to continue demonstrating, promising that “help is on the way.”
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas praised the IRGC blacklisting, stating: “Repression cannot go unanswered… clear atrocities mean there must be a clear response from Europe.”
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot added: “We cannot have any impunity for the [alleged] crimes that have been committed.”
Dutch diplomat David van Weel said: “I think it’s important that we send the signal that the bloodshed that we’ve seen, the bestiality that has been used against protesters, cannot be tolerated.”
Although these declarations sound virtuous, they mask a cynical duplicity.
For over two years, the Israeli regime has carried out an overt genocide in Gaza, resulting in more than 71,000 deaths, predominantly civilians, women, and children. Actual casualties are likely far higher, with many bodies buried under rubble from Israeli bombings.
Instead of condemning Israel, the U.S. and the EU (except for minor dissenters) have maintained a disgraceful silence, effectively giving political cover to these atrocities. Moreover, countries such as France, Germany, and Britain have supplied military hardware—including aircraft, missiles, drones, and electronics—that fuels the ongoing massacre.
Trump praises his so-called Gaza peace board and a purported ceasefire that supposedly began in October. Since then, over 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, with thousands more suffering starvation and exposure in devastated camps lacking humanitarian support. The massacre endures under the false pretense of “peace.”
Trump is arguably the most staunchly “Israel First” U.S. president, granting the Zionist regime ongoing impunity to kill and occupy, even more than predecessors who consistently enabled such actions. His silence in the face of genocide is striking and suggests the influence of his late acquaintance Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly provided Israeli intelligence with compromising material on the 45th president. This may explain his complicity.
As for European leaders, one wonders if coercion or blackmail accompanies their complicity. Regardless, their blatant double standards are staggering.
Why do Kallas, Barrot, and other EU foreign ministers ignore the repression and impunity of the Israeli regime? Their moral outrage appears selectively aimed solely at Iran, cloaked in faux humanitarian rhetoric.
The two situations are fundamentally different: one involves genocide; the other concerns civil unrest that appears foreign-backed.
Iranian protests erupted in Tehran on December 28, driven by valid economic grievances amidst decades of crippling Western sanctions affecting the nation of over 90 million. What began as small bazaars demonstrations quickly escalated into violent unrest in multiple cities. These disturbances seem to have diminished, with millions engaging in mass counter-protests denouncing violence apparently orchestrated by foreign-sponsored gangs.
The Iranian government reports approximately 3,100 deaths after four weeks of clashes. Western sources cite significantly higher numbers, from 6,000 to 17,000 fatalities, based on information from groups like the Iranian Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), which receive funding from the CIA-backed National Endowment for Democracy.
Even Israeli media have acknowledged that the street violence is driven by foreign forces. Former CIA director Mike Pompeo also implied Mossad agents were involved.
The calculated nature of the violence and destruction suggests a coup attempt. Armed gangs and arsonists attacked and destroyed mosques, schools, buses, government offices, banks, and hospitals.
Numerous casualties among security personnel and civilians occurred in a wave of violent acts indicating organized terror cells, including beheadings and mutilations.
Western media have merged all casualties into a narrative blaming solely Iranian security forces for alleged “lethal force against peaceful protesters.”
Such tactics exemplify the Western playbook for regime change: intensify deadly internal conflicts to destabilize targeted nations, followed by relentless media campaigns glorifying the orchestrated unrest and vilifying governments.
As Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi explains, the West’s method is to vilify foreign governments to rationalize regime change or even military invasion.
In 1953, the U.S. and Britain used identical methods to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh’s elected government. Mossadegh’s offense was nationalizing Iran’s oil industry, cutting Britain’s exploitative control that enriched London while consigning Iranians to poverty. The CIA funneled millions to foment street unrest, while Western media portrayed Mossadegh as illegitimate. He was toppled, installing the brutal, Western-backed Shah, whose rule lasted until the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Remarkably, more than seventy years later, the Shah’s son Reza Pahlavi, living comfortably in the U.S., is promoted by the West as a potential successor should the Islamic Republic fall. Plus ça change!
This regime-change template has been replicated in about 100 countries since that initial 1953 operation, as detailed in Finian Cunningham’s new book Killing Democracy. The Western media play a pivotal role in facilitating these crimes, as witnessed presently in Iran and previously in Venezuela.
Only a month ago, U.S. military aggression and a failed kidnapping attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro were preceded by an extensive media campaign falsely labeling him a narcoterrorist.
Trump’s hostile approach to Venezuela and now Iran flagrantly breaches the UN Charter and international law, signaling a revival of aggressive imperialism. European governments submissively enable this predatory misconduct while feigning concern for human rights.
Their humanitarian pretense is utterly disingenuous and morally bankrupt, as genuine values would preclude their mute acquiescence to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This explains why Trump openly disrespects Europeans over issues like Greenland; subservience only invites exploitation.
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