Trump Attacks Iran

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Martin Armstrong | armstrongeconomics.com

Trump has thrown in with the Neocons, and U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment facility and two other Iranian nuclear facilities. The president said the U.S. aircraft have already exited Iranian airspace and are now returning home.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” Trump’s statement reads.

“Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

I was getting info that the attack would take place today. For obvious reasons, I am unable to disclose such information in advance. That would come under National Security issues. In a Truth Social message posted just before the 8 p.m. hour on the East Coast, Trump made the public announcement. Trump took the bait. This coming week is a Directional Change, and we have a critical turning point the week of June 30th. The fact that this occurred during the negotiations, which were intended to take place in Oman, was a decoy for the first Israeli attack. Here we have the same tactic again. This was not a wise move, for it calls into question the veracity of any future negotiations with anyone else.

President Trump addressed the nation, expressing hope that this would bring an end to the war. Iran has been the leading terrorist nation-state, funding its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. My concern is that this has always been a religious war underneath. The computer is not so hopeful. Much will now depend upon Iran’s response, which may come the week of June 30th. Examining the computer, it does not appear that there was any option for diplomacy. As I have said many times, my personal wishes or opinions do not matter. Whenever I bet against the computer, I always lose.

President Trump left the door open if Iran hunkers down and still refuses peace. Let’s hope Israel does not assassinate the Supreme Leader, transforming him into a martyr. Such an outcome implies that this will become a widespread conflict culminating by 2030, with sleeper cells being activated in Europe and the United States.

Source: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/trump-attacks-iran/

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War With Iran

Chris Hedges | chrishedges.substack.com | The Chris Hedges Report

War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The warmongers who ordered the strikes by U.S. bombers on Iranian nuclear sites have no more of a plan for what comes next in Iran than they had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria. European allies, whom Israel and Trump have alienated with these air assaults, are in no mood to cooperate with Washington.

The Pentagon, even if it wanted to, does not have the hundreds of thousands of troops it would need to attack and occupy Iran – the only way Iran might be subdued.

And the idea that the marginal and discredited Iranian resistance group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran and is viewed by most Iranians as composed of traitors, is a viable counter force to the Iranian government is ludicrous.

In all these equations the 90 million people in Iran are ignored just as the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria were ignored.

They will not welcome the United States and certainly not Israel as liberators. They may hate the regime, but they will resist. They don’t want to be dominated by foreign powers. A war with Iran will be interpreted throughout the region as a war against Shiism.

Soon there will be retaliation. Lots of it. It will come at first with desultory missile strikes and then attacks carried out by elusive enemies on ships, military bases and installations. Steadily it will grow in volume and lethality. The death toll, including among the some 40,000 soldiers and Marines stationed in the Middle East, will mount. Ships, including aircraft carriers, will be targeted.

We will, as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, begin to lash out with a blind fury, fueling the conflagration we began. Those who lured us into this war know little about the instrument of war and even less about the cultures or peoples they seek to dominate. Blinded by hubris, believing their own hallucinations, they have learned none of the lessons of the last two decades of warfare in the Middle East. A war with Iran will be a self-defeating and costly quagmire, one more nail in the rotting edifice of the empire.

Original Article: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-war-with-iran