Is threat of Trump strike on Iran a reiteration of Trump 1.0 bluffs?
I received a compilation of theories on Trump’s options to strike Iran from JM – not quite predictions, but… I tend to feel none of these will come true, for the following reason:
It seems to me that few to no analysts are connecting to the dot from Tump 1.0 to today’s cliff hanger. It seems like few remember how Trump 1.0 seemed all set to bomb Iran in 2019 and then again in 2020.
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Trump says he called off Iran strike because too many people would've died
President Trump says he called off a military strike against Iran because too many people would have died. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joins CBSN from the Pentagon with more on Trump administration's strategyy.
Jun 21, 2019
President Trump on Iran retaliation.
Says US military was “locked and loaded,” while hitting nation with more sanctions
Later, in 2020, as Trump’s term was almost over, he gave us all a new scare
Linked below are two reports on this from that time:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
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Mr. Trump might still be looking at ways to strike Iranian assets and allies, including militias in Iraq, officials said. A smaller group of national security aides had met late Wednesday to discuss Iran, the day before the meeting with the president.
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According to The New York Times, it took the combined persuasive powers of Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller to talk Trump out of the idea of bombing Iran's leading nuclear facility at Natanz last week.
Alright, that makes 2 instances of Trump publicly announcing weighing striking Iran, and in each case, he backed away.
The first excuse, namely, not wanting to kill 150 people, was the least plausible. Today, he doesn’t blink at the news of dozens of innocent Palestinians, including women and children, being brutally murdered in Palestine – even though he has the power to stop the genocide almost immediately by threatening to cut ties with Isael and/or cutting off funding to the rogue state. This gives the lie to his alleged squeamishness about killing a mere 150 people. Obviously, that was a transparent excuse aimed at Netanyahu, who was then and still is pressuring him to attack Iran. And we can intelligently speculate what form this pressure might be taking.
Multiple pundits have theorized that JFK was assassinated by Mossad because he balked at Israel’s developing a nuclear bomb.
Considering the incredibly brash murder of 34 and wounding of 174 seamen aboard the USS Liberty by IDF war planes over the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967, it is incredible that the US would still have ties to Israel, let alone support the rogue state with money and arms to kill a whole ethnicity.
There is something seriously wrong with Americans, and that something is “Christian” Zionism "Christian" Zionism , a Satanistic death cult hiding behind the name of Jesus.
Linked below are two reports on this from that 2020:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
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Mr. Trump might still be looking at ways to strike Iranian assets and allies, including militias in Iraq, officials said. A smaller group of national security aides had met late Wednesday to discuss Iran, the day before the meeting with the president.
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According to The New York Times, it took the combined persuasive powers of Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller to talk Trump out of the idea of bombing Iran's leading nuclear facility at Natanz last week.
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Our thanks to James Morris for this:
Israel-first neocon mouthpiece Lindsey Graham pushing for US troops to die vs Iran for Israel in following Redacted YouTube::
HIGH ALERT! TRUMP READY TO STRIKE IRAN, PUTIN WARNS U.S. “DON’T THINK ABOUT IT!” | REDACTED LIVE:
Iran Threatens "Surprise" That will be Remembered for Centuries:
Iran-Israel Worsens
https://mailchi.mp/trunews/a-message-from-rick-7272405?e=b6ef0d97ae
Trump’s Iran War Gamble Exposed | Larry Johnson:
Phil Giraldi (Fmr CIA): Will Israel Attack the U.S. Navy Again?;
Following Facebook post by the Ray McGovern warning of a USS Liberty-like false flag attack against the USS Nimitz:
FLASH ALERT: CAPT, USS Nimitz, expect to be attacked as you near Middle East - NOT by Iran, but by Israel with false-flag attack, blaming Iran. Honor your oath to the Constitution: Do not cover it up, as the US Navy did when Israel attacked the USS Liberty
Nimitz sails to Middle East as fighting between Iran and Israel intensifies
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-06-16/nimitz-middle-east-israel-iran-18140734.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
Can hear Ray McGovern discuss Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in the following YouTube which included my confronting John McCain at the beginning:
John McCain Confronted [by James Morris] about USS Liberty Cover-up on Memorial Day 2012:
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Iran strikes Jerusalem for first time. Video
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/10368415560773909337
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June 19, 2025 June 28 intl day of action
Our thanks to JS:
June 18, 2025 JS on support for resistance
International Day of Action:
“No War With Iran”
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Click here to add your action to the list of actions
(include actions on and around June 28)
We call on all peoples of conscience throughout the world to take to the streets on June 28, 2025 and march against the expansion of the Zionist-US aggression from Palestine through Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to Iran. For 20 months the people of Palestine have been steadfast against the collective west’s genocide of their people and theft of their land. In the face of a firm resistance, the US and the Zionists had no choice but to expand the war into Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran.
Iran has supported the regional resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Syria for decades and is under attack because of its support for regional liberation from the clutches of US imperialist domination and Zionist colonialism. Last week, the US-sponsored Zionist entity launched a sneak attack on Iran, and to date, over 200 J Iranians have been killed. We reject all acts of aggression against the nations in West Asia.
This action is called by Global Resistance For Peace and Justice. UNAC is one of 30 founding members of this coalition and fully supports the actions called.
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Guess what? Our world's insane leaders are trying to blow us all up...
By Jane Stillwater https://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2025/06/guess-what-our-worlds-insane-leaders.html
The elite rulers of this world are currently acting like lunatics, blithely wasting our planet's patrimony on blowing all of us up.
Why the freak are we putting up with this madness?
Do we really want to see ourselves and our children painfully incinerated or garishly starved to death -- only because We the People are blindly sucking our thumbs like ostriches in the sand instead of sending this world's greedy bankers, puppet politicians and religious con-men off to the loony bin where they belong.
More here
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US notified Turkey before Israel began attacking Iran, sources say | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-notified-turkey-advance-israel-plan-attack-iran-sources-say
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Resistance strikes US oil installations in Iraq
I have seen no mention of who hit the Iraqi sites. The strikes were from Katyusha rockets, not long range missiles. The attackers could have been any of the known Iran-related Resistance groups, including the Iraqi group, such as the Popular Mobilization Forces.
https://www.ntd.com/40-evacuated-after-rocket-strikes-iraq-exxon-site_345960.html
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https://entri.app/blog/iran-israel-conflict/
How the conflict affects oil prices
The Iran-Israel conflict has sent crude oil prices on a roller coaster ride. The Brent crude jumped almost 12% in a single day. The fear was that Iran might block the Strait of Hormuz and choke off 18-19 million barrels of oil daily. By June 16, prices dipped slightly to $73.23 (Brent) and $71.77 (WTI) as Iran signaled a possible ceasefire but the market remains jittery. If tensions escalate Brent could hit $100-$130 a barrel.
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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://alkhanadeq.com/post/8852/الموجة-ال-14-من-عملية-الوعد-الصادق-3-لا-أمان-لإسرائيل
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 04:34 AM
The 14th Wave of Operation True Promise 3: No Security for Israel
The 14th wave of Operation True Promise 3, launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force against targets in occupied Palestine on Thursday, June 19, 2025, confirmed that it had indeed achieved missile dominance over the temporary entity, such that no point in the occupied Palestinian territories remained safe.
This wave of missiles primarily targeted the Military Information and Communications Technology Center in Beersheba and the Israeli Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv. According to the IRGC statement and reports, the primary target of the missile attack was the IDF's Command, Control, and Intelligence Headquarters (ICI) and the IDF's Intelligence Camp within the Gav Yam Technology Park, located opposite Soroka Hospital. These centers house thousands of military personnel and contain the IDF's digital command, cyber operations, and command, control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. The Israeli Stock Exchange is the complex located at 2 Ahuzat Beit Shemesh Street in Tel Aviv, which houses the only publicly operated stock exchange in the country.
Regarding the Military Information and Communications Technology Center in Beersheba, the Israeli government, starting with its chairman, Isaac Herzog, and continuing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, attempted to suggest that one of the sites affected by the Iranian missile wave was a "hospital." However, Israeli media quickly inadvertently revealed that this "hospital" was actually a headquarters for IDF soldiers. Meanwhile, the temporary Israeli government, whether in its aggression against Lebanon, Iran, or the Gaza Strip, has not hesitated to shed civilian blood and attack hospitals and the Red Crescent.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Statement
In its statement regarding this 14th wave of missile attacks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Public Relations Department emphasized that "the faltering body of the Zionist entity no longer has the capacity to withstand successive economic blows." It explained that the 14th wave was carried out through complex attacks using attack drones and high-precision strategic missiles. The statement explained that the operation targeted the Israeli army's command and information center located near a hospital, emphasizing that the attack was carried out with high precision and pinpoint accuracy. It added that the capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran's armed forces in the fields of intelligence and missile precision are now "visible to the world." It noted that the entire occupied Palestinian territories have been transformed into military barracks, suffering from confusion and panic (which proves that the entity is using civilian areas as human shields). The statement revealed that all military centers have been evacuated, while the entity's army has deployed its missile and defense systems, which it described as "useless," within residential areas and under the cover of public facilities.
The statement reiterated what it had previously warned of in previous statements, that "there is no safe point in the airspace of the occupied territories," adding that "the crumbling body of the Zionist entity is no longer able to bear the consequences of economic blows."
10 Characteristics of Operation True Promise 3
The missile attacks of Operation True Promise are distinguished by unique characteristics, most notably:
1) Attacks are carried out at various times, day and night, preventing the Israelis from preparing or regaining the ability to respond.
2) Combining deception and misinformation operations with real attacks to confuse the Israeli air defense and interception system.
3) Using multiple means of aerospace power, such as drones, missiles, and others, to confuse Israeli air defense systems.
4) The remarkable success in penetrating and bypassing all modern air defense systems in the world, including Israeli, American, and even European (who make no secret of their participation in the defense of the entity), from the SM3 and THAAD to the Iron Dome, David's Sling, and the Arrow system. There is no longer a defense system capable of ensuring the security of the settlers.
5) The use of various types of missiles in a rotating and unexpected manner for Israel, and the conduct of field tests of these missiles and launch tactics (this demonstrates a high degree of flexibility and reflects the state of comfort and confidence of the Islamic Republic's military leadership).
6) Attacking various and surprising targets for the entity, including military, security, technological, economic, and political targets.
7) Comprehensive geographical coverage for attacks, from the far north to the far south of occupied Palestine.
8) Possessing a broad and comprehensive target bank for the entity's military facilities, oil refineries, and other vital facilities.
The days are full of surprises.
Despite all of the above, the path pursued by the leadership of the Islamic Republic's armed forces indicates that it was prepared in advance for all possible escalation scenarios and had devised plans that only needed to be implemented, with an escalating pace that served the goal of repelling aggression and punishing Israel for all its crimes in an unprecedented manner.
Iran has yet to unveil several generations of its advanced and sophisticated missiles, and the strategy of surprises remains in place, without or even with direct US military intervention.
Writer: Editorial Room
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Air strike update for June 19, 2025
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
June 19, 2025, 12:12
In the special operation zone, Russian armed forces launched a new attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications
Urgent message from the Ministry of Defense. Novonikolaevka in the DPR has been liberated.
More news from the special operation zone. Our armed forces launched new attacks on the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications. A missile was launched from the Fagot complex. A firing point was destroyed. This is already in action by specialists from the Rubicon center of the Ministry of Defense. Their targets are robotic platforms. In fact, ground drones, which the enemy uses, among other things, for mining.
And footage from the Zaporizhia oblast. In the Orekhov direction, dugouts where militants were hiding were hit. And another task is to leave the enemy without communication. Arrival via a signal amplifier.