Iran vs Israel/US: 60k Iranian troop on alert, Israel say strikes soon..
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“Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait have privately informed Iran that they will not allow the United States to use the airbases in their countries to launch an attack against the Islamic Republic
Reportedly, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have also confirmed that this includes auxiliary operations, such as allowing U.S. refueling or reconnaissance aircraft to take part in any missions in support of such a military strike.”
“Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait have privately informed Iran that they will not allow the United States to use the airbases in their countries to launch an attack against the Islamic Republic
Reportedly, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have also confirmed that this includes auxiliary operations, such as allowing U.S. refueling or reconnaissance aircraft to take part in any missions in support of such a military strike.”
Dawg…..
They would let it happen so that everyone would be for the war effort and they will have unquestioned power.
Anyone against war after an attack would be labeled unpatriotic and a traitor.
All in the name of holding on to power.
Years ago…
transcript
President Trump said pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal sends a message that “the United States no longer makes empty threats.”Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama, isolating the United States from its Western allies and sowing uncertainty before a risky nuclear negotiation with North Korea.
The decision, while long anticipated and widely telegraphed, leaves the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of grueling negotiations in tatters. The United States will now reimpose the stringent sanctions it imposed on Iran before the deal and is considering new penalties.
Iran said it will remain in the deal, which tightly restricted its nuclear ambitions for a decade or more in return for ending the sanctions that had crippled its economy.
So did France, Germany and Britain, raising the prospect of a trans-Atlantic clash as European companies face the return of American sanctions for doing business with Iran. China and Russia, also signatories to the deal, are likely to join Iran in accusing the United States of violating the accord.
Mr. Trump’s move could embolden hard-line forces in Iran, raising the threat of Iranian retaliation against Israel or the United States, fueling an arms race in the Middle East and fanning sectarian conflicts from Syria to Yemen.
The president, however, framed his decision as the fulfillment of a bedrock campaign promise and as the act of a dealmaker dissolving a fatally flawed agreement. He predicted his tough line with Iran would strengthen his hand as he prepared to meet North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to begin negotiating the surrender of his nuclear arsenal.
“This was a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made,” a grim-faced Mr. Trump said in an 11-minute address from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. “It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will.”
[Read the full transcript of President Trump’s remarks.]
Mr. Trump’s announcement drew a chorus of opposition from European leaders, several of whom lobbied him feverishly not to pull out of the agreement and searched for fixes to it that would satisfy him.
It also drew a rare public rebuke by Mr. Obama, who said Mr. Trump’s withdrawal would leave the world less safe, confronting it with “a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.”
The response from Iran itself, however, was muted. President Hassan Rouhani declared that the Iranians intended to abide by the terms of the deal, and he criticized Mr. Trump for his history of not honoring international treaties. Mr. Trump won strong backing from Saudi Arabia and Israel, whose leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed him for a “historic move” and “courageous leadership.”
Three times previously, the president’s aides had persuaded him not to dismantle the Iran deal. But Mr. Trump made clear that his patience had worn thin, and with a new, more hawkish cohort of advisers — led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the national security adviser, John R. Bolton — the president faced less internal resistance than earlier in his administration.
While Mr. Trump had long scorned the Iran deal, threatening repeatedly to rip it up during the 2016 presidential race, his impulse to act now was reinforced by what he views as the success of his policy toward North Korea. He has told aides and foreign leaders that his policy of maximum pressure had forced Mr. Kim to the bargaining table, and that a similar policy of overwhelming pressure would enable the United States to extract a better deal from Iran.
As Mr. Trump abandoned one diplomatic project, he accelerated another — announcing that Mr. Pompeo was flying to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to continue discussions with Mr. Kim about the upcoming summit meeting. He expressed hope that three Americans who are detained in the North would be released soon.
“The message to North Korea,” Mr. Bolton told reporters, “is the president wants a real deal.”
He rejected the suggestion that the United States could not be trusted to keep its agreements when political winds change. “Any nation reserves the right to correct a past mistake,” Mr. Bolton said, citing President George W. Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty in 2001.
The Trump administration, he said, would continue to work with Europeans to pressure the Iranians. He dismissed those who said the United States was on a path to war with Iran, though he did not present any new diplomatic initiatives. Another senior administration official acknowledged that there was no Plan B.
Months of intense negotiations with the Europeans to keep the accord in place collapsed over Mr. Trump’s insistence that the limits placed by the agreement on Iran’s nuclear fuel production were inadequate. Under the provisions of the deal, those limits, or “sunset clauses,” were to expire in 2030 — 15 years after the deal was signed.
As a result, the United States will reinstate all the sanctions it had waived as part of the nuclear accord, and it will impose additional economic penalties that are now being drawn up by the Treasury Department.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined on Tuesday to specify what additional sanctions the United States might impose, but he expressed confidence that they would still be powerful even if other American allies did not follow suit.
“We do not want to let Iran use the U.S. financial markets and financial system and transact in dollars until they agree that not only will they not have a nuclear weapon now, but we’ve put in provisions that they will never have one,” Mr. Mnuchin said.
In his announcement, Mr. Trump recited familiar arguments against the deal: that it does not address the threat of Iran’s ballistic missiles or its malign behavior in the region, and that the expiration dates for the sunset clauses open the door to an Iranian nuclear bomb down the road.
Even if Iran was in compliance, he said, it could “still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time.” In fact, under the deal, the limits on Iran’s uranium enrichment and stockpiles of nuclear fuel mean that Iran would not be on the verge of a nuclear breakout until 2030.
Still, Mr. Trump said, the United States and its allies could not stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon “under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.”
“The Iran deal is defective at its core,” he concluded.
Mr. Trump’s announcement capped a frantic four-day period in which American and European diplomats made a last-ditch effort to bridge their differences and preserve the agreement.
That effort began Friday, when Mr. Pompeo called his counterparts in Europe to tell them that Mr. Trump was planning to withdraw from the deal, but that he was trying to win a two-week reprieve for the United States and Europe to continue negotiating. Mr. Pompeo, people familiar with the talks said, suggested that he favored a so-called soft withdrawal, in which Mr. Trump would pull out of the deal but hold off on reimposing some of the sanctions.
The next day, the State Department’s chief negotiator, Brian H. Hook, consulted with European diplomats to try to break a deadlock over the sunset provision, under which the restrictions on Iran’s ability to produce nuclear fuel for civilian use expire after 15 years.
The Europeans had already agreed to a significant compromise: to reimpose sanctions if there were a determination that the Iranians were within 12 months of producing a nuclear weapon. But officials said that still did not satisfy Mr. Trump, and the Europeans were not willing to go any further.
By Monday, the White House began informing allies that Mr. Trump was going to withdraw from the deal and reimpose sanctions on oil and impose new sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran.
Under the financial sanctions, European companies will have 90 to 180 days to wind down their operations in Iran, or they will run afoul of the American banking system. The sanctions on oil will require European and Asian countries to reduce their imports from Iran.
Mr. Mnuchin insisted that the restrictions would not drive up oil prices because other suppliers would pick up the slack. “My expectation is not that oil prices go higher,” he said. “To a certain extent, some of this was already in the market on oil prices.”
Mr. Trump’s decision will test his already frayed relationship with European leaders. President Emmanuel Macron of France, whom the president welcomed with a state dinner two weeks ago, learned of his decision in a phone call with Mr. Trump on Tuesday morning. Later, he said in a post on Twitter that the European allies “regret” his decision.
“The international regime against nuclear proliferation is at stake,” he added.
In a joint statement, Mr. Macron, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain noted pointedly that the United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing the nuclear deal remained the “binding international legal framework for the resolution of the dispute.” That raises the possibility that the United States will be found to be in violation in the Security Council.
Few people were more stung by Mr. Trump’s decision than those who worked for Mr. Obama. Though he has moved methodically to dismantle his predecessor’s legacy, his reversal of the Iran deal was particularly painful, given the five years of effort that went into imposing sanctions, and the more than two-year-long negotiation led by Secretary of State John Kerry that yielded the accord.
“No rhetoric is required,” Mr. Kerry said in a statement. “The facts speak for themselves. Instead of building on unprecedented nonproliferation verification measures, this decision risks throwing them away and dragging the world back to the brink we faced a few years ago.”
Reporting was contributed by Peter Baker, Alan Rappeport, David E. Sanger, Gardiner Harris and Nicholas Fandos.
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Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned
May 8, 2018transcript
Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal
President Trump said pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal sends a message that “the United States no longer makes empty threats.”
In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. Today’s action sends a critical message. The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them.President Trump said pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal sends a message that “the United States no longer makes empty threats.”Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama, isolating the United States from its Western allies and sowing uncertainty before a risky nuclear negotiation with North Korea.
The decision, while long anticipated and widely telegraphed, leaves the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of grueling negotiations in tatters. The United States will now reimpose the stringent sanctions it imposed on Iran before the deal and is considering new penalties.
Iran said it will remain in the deal, which tightly restricted its nuclear ambitions for a decade or more in return for ending the sanctions that had crippled its economy.
So did France, Germany and Britain, raising the prospect of a trans-Atlantic clash as European companies face the return of American sanctions for doing business with Iran. China and Russia, also signatories to the deal, are likely to join Iran in accusing the United States of violating the accord.
Mr. Trump’s move could embolden hard-line forces in Iran, raising the threat of Iranian retaliation against Israel or the United States, fueling an arms race in the Middle East and fanning sectarian conflicts from Syria to Yemen.
The president, however, framed his decision as the fulfillment of a bedrock campaign promise and as the act of a dealmaker dissolving a fatally flawed agreement. He predicted his tough line with Iran would strengthen his hand as he prepared to meet North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to begin negotiating the surrender of his nuclear arsenal.
“This was a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made,” a grim-faced Mr. Trump said in an 11-minute address from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. “It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will.”
[Read the full transcript of President Trump’s remarks.]
Mr. Trump’s announcement drew a chorus of opposition from European leaders, several of whom lobbied him feverishly not to pull out of the agreement and searched for fixes to it that would satisfy him.
It also drew a rare public rebuke by Mr. Obama, who said Mr. Trump’s withdrawal would leave the world less safe, confronting it with “a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.”
The response from Iran itself, however, was muted. President Hassan Rouhani declared that the Iranians intended to abide by the terms of the deal, and he criticized Mr. Trump for his history of not honoring international treaties. Mr. Trump won strong backing from Saudi Arabia and Israel, whose leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed him for a “historic move” and “courageous leadership.”
What Changes and What Remains in the Iran Nuclear Deal
The restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program under the deal could survive.Three times previously, the president’s aides had persuaded him not to dismantle the Iran deal. But Mr. Trump made clear that his patience had worn thin, and with a new, more hawkish cohort of advisers — led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the national security adviser, John R. Bolton — the president faced less internal resistance than earlier in his administration.
While Mr. Trump had long scorned the Iran deal, threatening repeatedly to rip it up during the 2016 presidential race, his impulse to act now was reinforced by what he views as the success of his policy toward North Korea. He has told aides and foreign leaders that his policy of maximum pressure had forced Mr. Kim to the bargaining table, and that a similar policy of overwhelming pressure would enable the United States to extract a better deal from Iran.
As Mr. Trump abandoned one diplomatic project, he accelerated another — announcing that Mr. Pompeo was flying to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to continue discussions with Mr. Kim about the upcoming summit meeting. He expressed hope that three Americans who are detained in the North would be released soon.
“The message to North Korea,” Mr. Bolton told reporters, “is the president wants a real deal.”
He rejected the suggestion that the United States could not be trusted to keep its agreements when political winds change. “Any nation reserves the right to correct a past mistake,” Mr. Bolton said, citing President George W. Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty in 2001.
The Trump administration, he said, would continue to work with Europeans to pressure the Iranians. He dismissed those who said the United States was on a path to war with Iran, though he did not present any new diplomatic initiatives. Another senior administration official acknowledged that there was no Plan B.
Months of intense negotiations with the Europeans to keep the accord in place collapsed over Mr. Trump’s insistence that the limits placed by the agreement on Iran’s nuclear fuel production were inadequate. Under the provisions of the deal, those limits, or “sunset clauses,” were to expire in 2030 — 15 years after the deal was signed.
As a result, the United States will reinstate all the sanctions it had waived as part of the nuclear accord, and it will impose additional economic penalties that are now being drawn up by the Treasury Department.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined on Tuesday to specify what additional sanctions the United States might impose, but he expressed confidence that they would still be powerful even if other American allies did not follow suit.
“We do not want to let Iran use the U.S. financial markets and financial system and transact in dollars until they agree that not only will they not have a nuclear weapon now, but we’ve put in provisions that they will never have one,” Mr. Mnuchin said.
In his announcement, Mr. Trump recited familiar arguments against the deal: that it does not address the threat of Iran’s ballistic missiles or its malign behavior in the region, and that the expiration dates for the sunset clauses open the door to an Iranian nuclear bomb down the road.
Even if Iran was in compliance, he said, it could “still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time.” In fact, under the deal, the limits on Iran’s uranium enrichment and stockpiles of nuclear fuel mean that Iran would not be on the verge of a nuclear breakout until 2030.
Still, Mr. Trump said, the United States and its allies could not stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon “under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.”
“The Iran deal is defective at its core,” he concluded.
Mr. Trump’s announcement capped a frantic four-day period in which American and European diplomats made a last-ditch effort to bridge their differences and preserve the agreement.
That effort began Friday, when Mr. Pompeo called his counterparts in Europe to tell them that Mr. Trump was planning to withdraw from the deal, but that he was trying to win a two-week reprieve for the United States and Europe to continue negotiating. Mr. Pompeo, people familiar with the talks said, suggested that he favored a so-called soft withdrawal, in which Mr. Trump would pull out of the deal but hold off on reimposing some of the sanctions.
The next day, the State Department’s chief negotiator, Brian H. Hook, consulted with European diplomats to try to break a deadlock over the sunset provision, under which the restrictions on Iran’s ability to produce nuclear fuel for civilian use expire after 15 years.
The Europeans had already agreed to a significant compromise: to reimpose sanctions if there were a determination that the Iranians were within 12 months of producing a nuclear weapon. But officials said that still did not satisfy Mr. Trump, and the Europeans were not willing to go any further.
By Monday, the White House began informing allies that Mr. Trump was going to withdraw from the deal and reimpose sanctions on oil and impose new sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran.
Under the financial sanctions, European companies will have 90 to 180 days to wind down their operations in Iran, or they will run afoul of the American banking system. The sanctions on oil will require European and Asian countries to reduce their imports from Iran.
Mr. Mnuchin insisted that the restrictions would not drive up oil prices because other suppliers would pick up the slack. “My expectation is not that oil prices go higher,” he said. “To a certain extent, some of this was already in the market on oil prices.”
Mr. Trump’s decision will test his already frayed relationship with European leaders. President Emmanuel Macron of France, whom the president welcomed with a state dinner two weeks ago, learned of his decision in a phone call with Mr. Trump on Tuesday morning. Later, he said in a post on Twitter that the European allies “regret” his decision.
“The international regime against nuclear proliferation is at stake,” he added.
In a joint statement, Mr. Macron, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain noted pointedly that the United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing the nuclear deal remained the “binding international legal framework for the resolution of the dispute.” That raises the possibility that the United States will be found to be in violation in the Security Council.
Few people were more stung by Mr. Trump’s decision than those who worked for Mr. Obama. Though he has moved methodically to dismantle his predecessor’s legacy, his reversal of the Iran deal was particularly painful, given the five years of effort that went into imposing sanctions, and the more than two-year-long negotiation led by Secretary of State John Kerry that yielded the accord.
“No rhetoric is required,” Mr. Kerry said in a statement. “The facts speak for themselves. Instead of building on unprecedented nonproliferation verification measures, this decision risks throwing them away and dragging the world back to the brink we faced a few years ago.”
Reporting was contributed by Peter Baker, Alan Rappeport, David E. Sanger, Gardiner Harris and Nicholas Fandos.
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Just in case ya’ll wondering what’s all the fuss is about
This what Agent Orange pushing
- zero uranium enrichment
- dismantling its nuclear program
- cutting ties with all its regional allies
- fundamentally changing its foreign policy.
1. No enrichment
2. No nuclear energy facilities or anything
3. No support to triple H’s
4. Become friendly towards Israel
This what Agent Orange pushing
- zero uranium enrichment
- dismantling its nuclear program
- cutting ties with all its regional allies
- fundamentally changing its foreign policy.
1. No enrichment
2. No nuclear energy facilities or anything
3. No support to triple H’s
4. Become friendly towards Israel
When Iraq did all of that then the country was invaded by the US so that's a fool's game to listen and believe what the US says.
Yep all because Israel wants to be the leader of the Middle East
I thought Qatar was staying out of this
A deal Iran would never accept...Trump gets the war he and Israel want
Man all I know gas prices likely will go booming if we attack Iran.
Israel likely get rocked, Iran likely get rocked, military bases operated by Americans likely get rocked
Gas transfer facilities likely get rocked
The Strait of Hormuz locked down…
Very dangerous situation we’re witnessing
Not with this clown show, including weakened intelligence and highly unqualified military leadership that discusses war plans on an unsecure group chats for starters.
Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces:
'The United States has around 10 military bases in our region, with approximately 50,000 troops.
This means they are sitting in a glass house, and those who sit in a glass house should not throw stones.'
'The United States has around 10 military bases in our region, with approximately 50,000 troops.
This means they are sitting in a glass house, and those who sit in a glass house should not throw stones.'
Along with the Tariffs...yeah i can't remember anytime in my lifetime where America will be more hated...even invading Iraq in 03 didn't bring about THIS much hatred that is on the way
The circus show is all talk. IF things escalate and the chips are down, U.S. Forces will leave with a number of assets forever lost, then Trump declaring they won because the war ended due to the might of the U.S.
Historically, the U.S. doesn't do well with countries that have mountainous environments, even with more qualified, competent military leadership, but this clusterfuck Administration has all the strategic answers, Sway?
Crazy thing, the chances of this happening likely very low if Iran had Nukes…
(Have North Korea been attacked)
well this my feelings
Been reports that Iran said they don’t want any nukes
William Burns before left the position said the same ..
There’s not any evidences that Iran is looking to establish nukes
Tulsi Gabbard recently said, it’s believed that Iran is not building these type of weapons
So the intelligence community don’t see any signs but Israel need Iran early detection systems destroyed(want Washington to do that)
So they can strike…
Orange Crush is in on the bullshit, because Israeli have to be the leader of the Middle East.
Israel calls it the New Middle East with them as the head
(Have North Korea been attacked)
well this my feelings
Been reports that Iran said they don’t want any nukes
William Burns before left the position said the same ..
There’s not any evidences that Iran is looking to establish nukes
Tulsi Gabbard recently said, it’s believed that Iran is not building these type of weapons
So the intelligence community don’t see any signs but Israel need Iran early detection systems destroyed(want Washington to do that)
So they can strike…
Orange Crush is in on the bullshit, because Israeli have to be the leader of the Middle East.
Israel calls it the New Middle East with them as the head
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Trump threatens Iran over nukes as DNI Gabbard claims Tehran is not building bombs
Tue, April 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM CDTAs President Donald Trump edges closer to potentially bombing Tehran, Iran, the intelligence community does not yet believe Iran is moving toward a nuclear weapon.
"If they don’t do a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said Sunday. It was not clear whether that meant Israel or the U.S. would bomb Tehran. "There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago," he added.
Secondary "tariffs," or sanctions, would mean slapping financial penalties on any country that does business with Iran.
However, Trump’s threat of direct war on Tehran comes just after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard insisted last week Iran is not building a nuclear weapon – at least not yet.
"The IC [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapon program that he suspended in 2003," Gabbard told a worldwide threat hearing held by the Senate Intelligence Community last week.
Experts believe Iran is enriching uranium to 60%, which puts it just below the 90% needed for a nuclear weapon, and have said there is no civilian use for 60% enriched uranium.
"The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. In the past year we've seen an erosion in the decades-long taboo in Iran of discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision making apparatus," Gabbard said.
She added that Iran’s uranium enrichment was "at its highest levels" and is "unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons."
The IC's annual threat assessment, released in conjunction with the hearing, predicted Iran would continue efforts to threaten U.S. citizens and conduct operations inside the U.S.
"Tehran will try to leverage its robust missile capability and expanded nuclear program, and its diplomatic outreach to regional states and U.S. rivals to bolster its regional influence and ensure regime survival," the report said. "However, regional and domestic challenges, most immediately tensions with Israel, are seriously testing Iran’s ambitions and capabilities."
The report detailed the "lethality" of Iran's missiles and UAV systems but said little else about the threat of Iran's nuclear program.
It assessed Iran's capabilities, degraded by Israel, would be able to deter further offensive Israeli actions.
"The IC assesses Iran’s prospects for reconstituting force losses and posing a credible deterrent, particularly to Israeli actions, are dim in the near-term," the report said.
JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky offered a separate assessment, telling Fox News Digital, "Their enrichment program is about as far as you can get, so that part is done. So the question is the weapons part.… the issue today is less weaponization and more about opportunity."
Behnam Ben Taleblu, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, added a broader critique. "When the IC, reporters or open-source analysts fail to connect the dots between strategy, capability and intention when looking at Iran's atomic infrastructure … they do a public disservice to the public national debate."
He said that worldwide threat assessments "should but be politicized," but "intelligence officials must be asked, if Iran isn't building a weapon, why has it invested so much time, labor and capital into this quest?"
Tehran's moves toward an atomic weapon is not a dash, but a "slow and steady quest to develop the world's most dangerous weapons as safely as possible," said Taleblu.
The renewed threat comes as the U.S. is bolstering its forces in the Middle East. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently sent a second aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, to join the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group, whose deployment was also extended.
The U.S. also recently deployed two B-2 stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, a warning to Iran and Yemen's Houthi militia. The planes are capable of carrying 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bombs and are now situated within range of Iran.
In his first term, Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal signed by then-President Barack Obama, deeming it a "bad deal" that did not curb Iran’s nuclear program.
He has already ordered his administration to bring "maximum pressure" back to Tehran, choking them financially from every lever of government.
So Iran said if were attack it only make sense for us to get nuclear weapons. Kinda been wondering what taking them so long to say this.
Washington gearing up to flatten Yemen, Washington trying to punk you about something you didn’t want or felt you need.
So if they gonna sanction you when you don’t have it, they gonna now attack you when you didn’t want it, now it makes sense If you ask me
Washington gearing up to flatten Yemen, Washington trying to punk you about something you didn’t want or felt you need.
So if they gonna sanction you when you don’t have it, they gonna now attack you when you didn’t want it, now it makes sense If you ask me
Someone is listening to the Iranian response very well
“NEW: The Pentagon confirms that the U.S. military will transfer two Patriot batteries and one THAAD battery from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region to the U.S. Central Command region, i.e. the Middle East
These missile defense systems will likely be moved to Arab countries in the Persian Gulf hosting American bases, where they will be used to increase the protection of U.S. troops in the region against possible Iranian ballistic missile attacks. – NBC News”
Not the 1st time Trump has threatened a country that has nukes. This is the level of sheer inept AF we're talking about here. There's nothing strategic, in a realistic sense, about this clown show in the WH. Tanking U.S. assets overseas is not beyond reach of what the reverse-midas touch could do. There are numerous, sensitively located U.S. bases that could get wiped out for starters.
This current Administration discusses overseas battle plans in unsecure chat rooms and they're talking shit to Iran?
