Trump thanks Iran after attack choreographed to de-escalate https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/world/trump-iran-attack-de-escalate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #iran #qatar #us
Iran launched a missile attack on an American air base in Qatar on Monday that caused no injuries, and President Donald Trump dismissed it as a "weak response" to U.S. attacks, while urging Iran and Israel to make peace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/world/politics/us-strikes-iran-response/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #us #israel #middleeast #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #usmilitary #qatar
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With the world’s attention on the #Iran / #Israel / #US conflict, Israeli forces are killing dozens of people in Gaza on a daily basis, while ambulance services have halted due to a fuel shortage.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-dozens-killed-and-injured-israeli-shooting-aid-site-gaza
#Palestine#MiddleEast#Genocide#EthnicCleansing#Palestinians#Palestinian#Israeli#Politics#Gaza#Egypt#Lebanon#Syria#Iraq#SaudiArabia#Qatar#Yemen#USA#Zionism#BDS#Ceasefire#CeasefireNow#ArmsEmbargo#ArmsEmbargoNow#Netanyahu#FreeGaza#FreePalestine
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Just a reminder that the #West destroyed #Iran ’s #progressive #democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, & installed a #dictatorship in his place.
The #US & #UK have been terrorizing that country for as long as any of us have been alive.
It’s sick.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
#Israel is the spear-tip of #Western #imperialism in the region, & #Netanyahu is now openly calling for #assassination & #regimechange in Iran. They want to destroy the country to extend their hegemony.
These people are murderous monsters, all of them.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
I cannot emphasize this enough, an #Israel / #Western #regimechange operation against #Iran would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
We have seen this play out before, several times in the past decades.
Anyone who tries to justify this madness will have blood on their hands.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Just a reminder that the #West destroyed #Iran ’s #progressive #democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, & installed a #dictatorship in his place.
The #US & #UK have been terrorizing that country for as long as any of us have been alive.
It’s sick.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
#Israel is the spear-tip of #Western #imperialism in the region, & #Netanyahu is now openly calling for #assassination & #regimechange in Iran. They want to destroy the country to extend their hegemony.
These people are murderous monsters, all of them.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Israeli warplanes kept up their attacks on Iranian missiles systems, airfields and the Fordo nuclear site following U.S. strikes at the weekend, as debate raged in the country over how long the campaign should continue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/world/israel-iran-attacks-debate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #iran #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump #us #middleeast
Japan said the Trump administration did not directly ask it to hike its defense budget to 5% of GDP and denied that the demand had prompted the postponement of a key bilateral security meeting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/japan/politics/japan-denies-us-demand-over-defense-spending/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #usjapanrelations #us #defense
China has criticized the United States' weekend strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and reiterated that it’s willing to join international efforts to restore peace in the Middle East. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/world/politics/china-iran-beijing-hormuz-trade-route/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #middleeast #straitofhormuz #trade #shipping #china #marcorubio #us
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday canceled his trip to a NATO leaders’ summit this week, a day before his scheduled departure from Tokyo, following U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/japan/politics/ishiba-nato-trip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shigeruishiba #nato #us #defense #defensespending #takeshiiwaya
#Trump's attacks on #Iran constitute an act of #war - & could set off a new, long-term conflict with potential to grow into something much larger. Unlike a previous time an American president preemptively initiated a war in the #MiddleEast, when George W. Bush plunged America into a disastrous war in Iraq, he & his team spent roughly a year building a case of lies & propaganda to sell to a public that was already broadly supportive of post-9/11 military action.
The second #Trump admin skipped the pretense, opting to speed-run the #US into conflict, at a time when public polling shows that the idea of #war with #Iran is spectacularly unpopular with the American people.
In his address to the nation Saturday evening, Trump said, "Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity & a stop to the #nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror."
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A #MiddleEast-based maritime center overseen by the #US #military warned Sunday that there’s a “high” risk to US associated ships after the American strikes on #Iran #nuclear sites.
“The threat to US associated commercial shipping in the Red Sea & Gulf of Aden is currently assessed as HIGH,” the Joint Maritime Information Center, which is overseen by the US #Navy, wrote in an advisory to shippers.
The #Trump admin said that its attack on 3 #Iran #nuclear facilities was not about toppling the country’s government.
“This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” #Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth said at a Sunday news briefing.
Air Force Gen. #DanCaine, the chairman of the #JointChiefs of Staff, stressed that the goal of “Operation Midnight Hammer” had destroyed the nuclear sites in #Fordow, #Natanz & #Isfahan.
In concluding his briefing, #PeteHegseth attempted to once again reiterate an unwillingness for America’s intervention in #Iran to turn into a protracted #war & labeled the overnight strikes as “intentionally limited.”
“I would just say, as the president has directed & made clear, this is most certainly not open-ended,”Hegseth said, adding that it doesn’t limit #US ability to respond & it will do so if necessary.
#Trump Secretary of #Defense#PeteHegseth said Sunday that despite a surprise attack overnight on Iranian #nuclear sites, America “does not seek war.”
#Hegseth said it was important to note that #US strikes did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people, a veiled effort to indicate to #Iran that they don’t want retaliation on American targets in the region.
#Hegseth said that a choice to move a number of B-2 bombers from their base in Missouri earlier Saturday was meant to be a decoy to throw off #Iran.
He added that the #US used other methods of deception as well, deploying fighters to protect the B-2 bombers that dropped 14 #BunkerBuster bombs on Iran’s most powerful #nuclear site. He said that all of these tactics helped the U.S. drop the bombs without tipping off Iran’s fighter jets or its air missile systems.
#Trump Secretary of #Defense#PeteHegseth said Sunday that despite a surprise attack overnight on Iranian #nuclear sites, America “does not seek war.”
#Hegseth said it was important to note that #US strikes did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people, a veiled effort to indicate to #Iran that they don’t want retaliation on American targets in the region.
A #MiddleEast-based maritime center overseen by the #US #military warned Sunday that there’s a “high” risk to US associated ships after the American strikes on #Iran #nuclear sites.
“The threat to US associated commercial shipping in the Red Sea & Gulf of Aden is currently assessed as HIGH,” the Joint Maritime Information Center, which is overseen by the US #Navy, wrote in an advisory to shippers.
#Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the time for #diplomacy had passed & that his country had the right to defend itself, saying the #US had “crossed a very big red line.”
#Trump#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth echoed his remarks in a press conference.
“I can only confirm that there are both public & private messages being directly delivered to the Iranians in multiple channels, giving them every opportunity to come to the table,” #Hegseth said.