According to Time
“Proxy War Between the U.S. and Iran in the Middle East”
The proxy conflict of the U.S. and Iran being carried out across regions of the Middle East is the result of an underlying misunderstanding of culture differences, social differences, and religious difference, along with lack of communication and knowledge about one another.
If not for these lack of clarity in regard to their national counterparts, whether Iraqi or American, the citizens of both countries would be all up in arms regarding what their governments are detrimentally engendering upon the other respective nation.
The author of the Al Jazeera article posted underneath this article speculates that the lack of peace in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran initially was a result of Former President Trump’s unilateral withdrawal of the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran Nuclear Deal), which, he says, led to a spike in Iranian-backed Shia militias carrying out tit-for-tat incursions on the American military. Mostly, the U.S. was able to withstand the intrusions with state-of-the-art defense and antiaircraft capabilities. But eventually, a American translator who worked for the U.S. army was fatally wounded, and in retaliation, Trump carried out two high profile assasinations, one an Iraqi citizen and one an Iranian citizen. This led to the violence becoming even worse, waged between Iranian-aligned militias in the Middle East and U.S. forces, mostly a low-frequency conflict.
With the election season shortly underway, the author of the article on Al Jazeera states that President Joe Biden may be under pressure to respond to the January 2024 Iranian-aligned attack that killed two U.S. servicemen in Jordon with aggressive measures— so as to not appear “weak.” This could lead to a conflagatation on the proxy war taking place in the Middle East between the United States and Iran. Hopefully, we can avoid the spillover. The author of the article I posted below claims that perhaps the most likely scenario for a widespread regional conflagration breaking out comes from U.S. led aggression, in light of this election season.
These observations call for a policy of bilateral rapprochement.
by Ben Bussewitz, Master of Religion, Logic, Reason, Philosophy, and Music
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