Sunday, June 22, 2025

Yes, They Did.

 And most news outlets report this: 

The US gave Iran advance notice before launching strikes on three of its nuclear facilities, according to a report on Sunday, in what appears to have been a calculated move to avoid full-scale war. Speaking to the London-based outlet Amwaj Media on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian official said the Trump administration informed Tehran that it did not seek an all-out confrontation and would only launch a 'one-off' strike on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to partially confirm this later on Sunday, when he said that the US “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of the surprise overnight attack overnight. “This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” Hegseth added.

Of course it was a Kabuki theater but it also paraded Trump Administration as subservient to Israel and Israeli lobby in the US which completely corrupted US foreign policy and exposed the US as a rogue state. 

The aftermath of "Operation Midnight Hammer," the U.S. military's audacious strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities Saturday night, has plunged the international community into a new state of alarm. While U.S. officials maintain the goal was to dismantle Iran's nuclear ambitions and avoid war, a stark warning from former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has intensified fears of a dangerous escalation: a number of countries are now prepared to arm Iran with nuclear warheads.

Well, the US had a good run. Meanwhile, if Iran doesn't learn her lesson, I can only assume that one cannot deal with Iran either. We'll see with what face Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will talk to Vladimir Putin (especially after Araghchi's verbal equilibristic in interview to NBC 48 hours before US strike) on Monday after Russia went out of her way trying to convince Iran that it plays a losing game with the West and that it should have followed the path of North Korea in terms of security arrangements with Russia. I speak about this in my video today, which should be up soon.