The United States' responsibility for the social chaos in Iran did not arise from nothing |
The United States’ responsibility for the social chaos in Iran did not arise from nothing
When the Iranian street ignites, it is the invisible architecture of Washington that burns in silence.
As in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – right up to the extermination of the Gaddafi line – and Palestine, the Western media have once again served, in an openly crude manner, as complicit mouthpieces for narratives of power rather than as critical counter-powers, obscuring structural responsibilities. A methodical reading of the facts, corroborated by official and semi-official American sources, reveals a far more serious reality: the economic crisis that served as the social trigger is neither accidental nor endogenous. It is the product of a financial strangulation strategy conceived, planned, and endorsed in Washington.
This is not a foreign policy error, but a deliberate choice driven by a logic of imperial coercion, substituting economic warfare for direct military intervention. The central question, therefore, is not why Iran has not wavered, but why the United States persists in exploiting the suffering of nations as a tool of global governance.
This article first demonstrates how US sanctions were conceived as an engineering of social chaos, before establishing the historical continuity and moral responsibility of Washington in the Iranian conflagration.
US sanctions as a deliberate engineering of social chaos in Iran
Jacob G. Hornberger’s analysis, published on January 16, 2026, by the Future of Freedom Foundation under the unambiguous title “The US Government Co-Killed Iranian Protesters,” marks a major conceptual turning point. It puts an end to the analytical hypocrisy of treating sanctions as a mere diplomatic tool. Hornberger demonstrates that sanctions are a technology of domination, designed to produce high-intensity internal social shocks.
Since 1979, when Iran broke away from the regional order shaped by Washington after decades of indirect tutelage under the Shah’s rule, imposed by the CIA, the country has been subjected to one of the longest-running, most sophisticated, and most destructive sanctions regimes ever applied to a sovereign state, with the exception of Russia, which, since 2014, has been the target of a........