BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇱🇧🇺🇸 The ceasefire is on the verge of collapse, Iran is preparing to exclude Israel from the negotiation process due to the massive attack on Lebanon

Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, which was partially open for around 10 minutes this morning, until further notice due to Israel’s attack on Lebanon – Fars

A source also tells Tasnim that Iran is preparing a retaliatory response to the Israeli attacks on Lebanon today, and that if ceasefire violations ‘persist’, Iran will cancel the 2-week agreement and not attend the planned talks in Islamabad

@Megatron_ron

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: ‘Less than 24 hours after agreeing to a ceasefire, largely out of respect for our Pakistani brothers who were mediating, Israel has already violated it and Trump has began to twist his words and backtrack on his promises. This is not how diplomacy works and Iran will NOT entertain it.’ – Iranian official

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Airstrikes on Tehran and Karaj, northern Iran. Air defenses have been active for well over 20 minutes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- CONFIRMED: US airstrikes taking place against Tehran, the capital of Iran.

The 2 week ceasefire lasted 12 hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Many outlets are claiming that the US is currently not carrying out strikes against Iran, instead stating that a Gulf state - likely the Emirates or Saudi Arabia - are responsible for the current round of strikes.

Almost all Iranian media outlets currently covering the strikes report the US is conducting these attacks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US and its Israeli proxies (who are incapable of conducting military operations without complete and constant US support, meaning Israeli transgressions are also US transgressions) have already violated the ceasefire agreement along multiple points.

As was 100% predictable.

The sort of people who started such an outrageously unwarranted, illegal, and murderous war of choice are INCAPABLE of agreeing to a just and lasting peace.

These violations include the continued punitive bombing of Lebanon and the US again demanding no uranium enrichment which Iran is and has always been entitled to under international law.

The point on uranium enrichment in particular, which never was any of Washington's business and only made an issue by the US to impede Iranian development and as a means of falsely justifying an otherwise indefensible war, demonstrates how fundamentally in bad faith the US has and continues to act.

After yet another extremely predictable betrayal from a verified agreement-incapable nation, I find it amazing there are still people allowing themselves to be strung along by this very deliberate process of political compartmentalization and buying time and space for continued death and destruction.

Believing the US will change its fundamental character without fundamentally changing its system first is like expecting one day to find water no longer being wet and up becoming down.

The Daily Beast:

Top members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet were at each other’s throats over war with Iran right up until the moment the president hit the big red button.

Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt all expressed wildly diverging takes on Trump’s proposed conflict in the Middle East in the days and weeks leading up to the first U.S. strikes, according to an explosive report from The New York Times.

Vance, a longtime opponent of foreign military entanglements, reportedly sought to dissuade the president from an all-out confrontation with the Islamic regime by warning any full-scale conflict would entail “a huge distraction of resources” and prove “massively expensive.” Widely seen as a 2028 contender for the White House, Vance has appeared to try to keep his hands clean from the war in Iran.

The vice president is said to have warned Trump “in front of his colleagues” the conflict he was proposing “could cause regional chaos and untold numbers of casualties,” and that the Iranian regime would be only too likely to respond by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz to send gas prices skyrocketing in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hegseth, meanwhile, appears to have been all for it, with the Times describing him as “the biggest proponent of a military campaign against Iran” in Trump’s cabinet. The defense secretary apparently believed “they would have to take care of the Iranians eventually, so they might as well do it now.”

Rubio, by contrast, was reportedly more ambivalent, suggesting that “if our goal is regime change or an uprising, we shouldn’t do it,” but then “if the goal is to destroy Iran’s missile program, that’s a goal we can achieve.”

Wiles, like Vance, was wary of what impact any effect on the domestic economy might have on GOP electoral prospects ahead of November’s crucial midterm elections.

She reportedly told colleagues she was concerned that the domestic impact of the conflict could essentially tank Trump’s final two years in office.

Leavitt reportedly reassured Trump that whatever direction he eventually chose, the White House press team would “manage it as best they could.” Even conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who has since emerged as a fierce critic of Trump’s war, appears to have got in on the action, repeatedly calling the president in the period leading up to the initial strikes on Feb. 28.

“I know you’re worried about it, but it’s going to be OK,” Trump is understood to have told the pundit. When Carlson asked how he could possibly be sure of that, the president replied: “Because it always is.”

I don't give Vance a pass, even if this is true.

After Israel launched a massive assault on Lebanon on Wednesday, killing and injuring more than 1,400 people in densely populated areas, Trump said the Israeli war on Hezbollah is a “separate skirmish "

Meanwhile,

Pakistan's Ambassador to the US:

"According to the understandings reached, Lebanon is part of the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US."

Back, and as shitty as ever.

Also, "next conquest?" Iran was not conquered. Not even Venezuela was conquered. Trump tries to dress up every failure as a success, and has been doing so for decades...

Iranian Foreign Ministry: Araghchi discussed regional and international developments and bilateral relations in a phone call with his Russian counterpart.

@alsaa_plus_EN

Tucker Carlson: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?"

"Why does this tiny country have so much control over our government?"