Progressive Politics

While the United States regime has asserted its intention to militarily intervene in Iran over foreign-backed riots, its own federal agents are — unsurprisingly — murdering random people in the streets.

The scene of Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) killing Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday flips the US narrative about protests-turned-riots in Iran on its head.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployed more than 2,000 officers to Minneapolis – the area with the highest Somali population in the US – in what it said is its largest immigration enforcement operation ever.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers, such as Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have done nothing but display performative outrage, call for an independent investigation, and deploy the state's National Guard to suppress protestors — when they could be deploying local law enforcement to force ICE out of their cities.

Governor Walz also deployed the National Guard to brutally crack down on the 2020 uprising after police murdered George Floyd just a few blocks from where Good was killed.

Less than 24 hours later, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents shot two migrants in Portland, Oregon, after pulling them over, hunting for a Venezuelan "gang" member, deploying the same excuse that the victims allegedly tried to run the agents over with their car.

And for the imperialist West, every accusation it makes against its geopolitical enemies is a projection, a self-indictment.

In Iran, what started out as peaceful protests over genuine economic grievances were hijacked by the US and Zionist regimes into violent anti-government riots, with armed rioters killing Iranian law enforcement, attacking hospitals, burning government buildings, desecrating dozens of mosques and holy sites, and calling for the return of the Israeli-backed monarchy.

The US and Mossad proudly admit their involvement on the ground, with former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeting, "Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also, to every Mossad agent walking beside them."

In a Farsi-language social media post, Mossad encouraged rioters to “Go out together into the streets. The time has come,” adding that Mossad operatives are with the rioters "not only from a distance and verbally. We are with [them] in the field.”

Meanwhile, peaceful protests aimed at strengthening Iranian national sovereignty that reject imperialist co-optation, like the recent massive labor strike at South Pars Gas Refinery, are completely ignored in Western media.