Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’
Iran had no nuclear weapons in development in the annual national intelligence dept review which reported in March. Netanyahu has been saying they could have them in a year, or less. Once he said “in a few days”.
If the attack on Iran was about Iran’s ‘nuclear weapons’ as the US and Israel maintain, and Iran has none then surrender means nothing.
This is very reminiscent of when Bush and Blair said that Saddam Hussian could avoid invasion by producing “all his WMD”.
This was a genius formula for war - as they knew Iraq had no WMD.
Now it seems the formula is being repeated. Iran only has to say OK we give in, we’ll show you all our nuclear weapons, and you can come in and destroy them.
And the US knows that it’s difficult to show what you don’t have - ergo, justification guaranteed.
The alarm is going round the world, mainly due to Trump’s bellicose threats.
He is also threateneing to kill Iran’s supreme leader.
Saw this on TLN. A guy runs through it coherently enough, despite being obviously rattled.
Secular Talk…MAJOR BREAKING: SOMETHING VERY VERY BAD IS HAPPENING
If attacked by the US Iran can hit Israel very hard, as well as US bases in the region, and according to some of the analysts we have seen here, more or less stop the middle east oil production.
Trump claims to know where the supreme leader is. That likely means he doesn’t, but hopes thereby to find out, or maybe bounce Iran into precipitate action that would help Trump with future legal problems. Congress hasn’t authorised war!
It could be this is ‘high stakes poker’; it’s looking clear that regime change was/is the aim, but not so clear why the US should move to it so quickly, thereby fooling precisely nobody.
Could be Netanyahu was getting jittery at Iran’s seemingly solid counterattacking resources. But whatever the reason, it looks like a very bad development.
Any US/Trump outright war justificiation, though clearly modelled on 2003, is made up of considerably more bullshit.
IMO the safest thing Iran can do is ignore the man behind the curtain and the mind games, stand firm, and concentrate on Israel
ED