Al Jazeera marks 100 days of the US‑Israel war on Iran
Today marks 100 days since Donald Trump launched his "skirmish" in Iran. As my friend Bernie Sanders warned a decade ago, history reminds us of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a war with Iran. We are dealing with those consequences today.
And all because Trump couldn’t stand the fact that Obama signed the JCPOA. Yeah, fuck Trump. We should agree to drop him off in Tehran in his underwear in exchange for Iran opening the Strait.
We are still dealing with the unintended consequences of 1953s Operation Ajax. In 1953 the U.S. used the CIA to overthrow Irans democratically elected leader because he believed Iran should profit from Iran's oil. The 1979 Iran revolution and rise of the Taliban was a direct consequence on 1953.
Americans perplexed as to why Iran would insist on the Lebanon portfolio as a precondition to ending the war and the closure of the Strait are now experiencing 1/100th of what it is like for the Mideast to watch the US condition any bilateral agreement on a country's friendliness toward Israel
The difference funnily enough is that Iran's precondition is far more rational, insofar as it is a test of Washington's willingness or lack thereof to constrain its co-belligerent which it launched the war with in the first place.
American's don't like it when their global Monroe Doctrine gets slightly challenged.
"Why would iran care so much about Lebanon" "gulf countries will be expected to join Abraham accords"
Are that many people actually confused or are they performatively confused?
One hundred days into the US-Israel war on Iran, we look at the number of times a deal seemed close.
Really? Did a deal ever seem close? Trump lies, continually, history suggests he always has done. Every time the deal is close phrase has been uttered, it meant the opposite.
Zero. Is it zero times?
the US is not being administered by grown-ups and israel is a wrecker there was never any chance of a deal