Between 28 December 2025, and 8 January 2026, Iran was hit by a series of attacks, terrorist sabotages, and violent actions within its territory. Explosions, targeted assassinations, attacks on infrastructure, and cyber operations left hundreds dead and a trail of destruction, deliberately creating a climate of fear and social instability.

These events were not spontaneous. They fit the classic pattern of covert destabilisation operations, historically associated with the actions of the CIA and MOSSAD, as part of the hybrid war conducted against States that resist the imperialist and Zionist order.

It was in this artificially inflated environment that Donald Trump once again threatened a direct military attack by the United States against Iran. These threats, however, were nothing new, but rather the continuity of a strategy of multidimensional coercion, whose objective has remained the same for decades, with the intent of weakening Iran internally and dismantling its political sovereignty.

Economic warfare, sanctions, military intimidation, covert operations, information manipulation, diplomatic isolation, and political delegitimisation have been widely employed by the USA and Israel.

Almost all tools in the imperialist and Zionist arsenal have been used, with the........

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