🚨Why did Iran DENY attacks on Gulf States’ oil facilities?

‘That’s a classic deception move to cause division inside your alliance…it shows, again, there’s some degradation to their understanding of what’s going on outside of their own borders.

They have been severely struck at the national leadership levels, the IRGC levels, and their understanding in command and control communications.

So we talk about the kinetic side of this, but really we also need to comment about cyber and space and what information is actually getting inside Iran.’

-Captain James Fanell, former Director of Intelligence and Informations Operations of the US Pacific Fleet

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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian APOLOGISES to Gulf States for attacks:

‘I would like to apologise to the neighbouring countries who have been attacked by Iran. We have no intention of transgressing into neighbouring countries, they are our brothers.

We made the decision yesterday in our temporary leadership council not to fire on neighbouring countries unless those countries want to attack us. This has been relayed to the armed forces.’

WAR ON IRAN: Afshin Rattansi and Capt. James Fanell CLASH on US targeting civilians

Captain James Fanell: ‘The thousands of people that are being killed in Iran are not being killed by the American bombs. They’re being killed by the Iranian regime. We don’t target civilians.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘We know that’s not true…that sounds a bit like it’s from the follies in Vietnam.’

Captain James Fanell: ‘No, we do not target civilians. I know that.’

Afshin: ‘Why did Pete Hegseth say repeatedly “we are investigating” when it came to the mass carnage at the elementary school in southern Iran?…there are hospitals and schools all across Iran that are being reportedly hit.

Why didn’t Hegseth admit it was a ‘mistake’? Why avoid the subject?’

Capt. Fanell: ‘He doesn’t know the facts, and he’s waiting for the facts to come in. It could be an errant weapon…we don’t know the details. What I said, and I’ll stand by it, because I did this as a target intelligence officer, we abide by the law of armed conflict. And we do not target civilian populations in any way, shape, or form.’

Afshin: ‘Seymour Hersh is a friend of the show. And I think we’ve seen the United States’ history on civilians targeting as anyone who’s read his books will know.’

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The IRIB has released a collage of photos of all of the 175 Iranian children killed by the US’ bombing of the girl’s school in Minab, Iran.

This is Donald Trump’s legacy: the murder of children in an illegal war of aggression for Israel.

🚨Captain James Fanell, former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet claims that the US🇺🇸 is using its bases in the Gulf States for its war on Iran.

The UAE🇦🇪, Saudi Arabia🇸🇦, and other Gulf States categorically deny that the US is using bases on their territory for the US’ war on Iran, and denied the US permission to use the bases for operations against Iran before the war began.

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ICYMI, UAE’s🇦🇪 Al Habtoor Group Founding Chairman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor’s open letter to Trump:

‘Your Excellency President Donald Trump,

A direct question: Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? And on what basis did you make this dangerous decision?

Did you calculate the collateral damage before pulling the trigger? And did you consider that the first to suffer from this escalation will be the countries of the region!

The peoples of this region have the right to ask as well: Was this your decision alone? Or did it come as a result of pressure from Netanyahu and his government?

You have placed the countries of the GCC and the Arab countries at the heart of a danger they did not choose. Thank God, we are strong and capable of defending ourselves, and we have armies and defenses that protect our homelands, but the question remains: Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?

For before the ink has dried on the Board of Peace initiative that you announced in the name of peace and stability, we find ourselves facing a military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go? And what is the fate of the commitments made in the name of peace?

Most of the funding proposed in those initiatives came from the countries of the region themselves, and from Arab Gulf countries that contributed billions of dollars on the basis of supporting stability and development. And these countries have the right to ask today: Where did this money go? And are we funding peace initiatives or funding a war that exposes us to danger?

More dangerous than that is that your decision does not threaten the peoples of the region alone, but also reaches the American people whom you promised peace and prosperity. And here they are today, finding themselves in a war funded from their money and taxes, with its cost ranging—according to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)—between $40-65 billion for direct military operations, and potentially reaching $210 billion including economic impacts and indirect losses if it lasts four to five weeks, not to mention the sacrifice of Americans themselves in a war in which they have neither camel nor she-camel.

You have even broken your promises not to get involved in wars and to focus only on America and put it at the top of your priorities, as you ordered foreign military interventions during your second term that included seven countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, and Venezuela, in addition to naval operations in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. You directed more than 658 foreign airstrikes in your first year in office, which equals the total strikes in Biden's entire term, for which you directed your arrows of criticism at him for dragging the United States into foreign wars.

Your Excellency the President, these figures have severely reflected on your approval ratings among Americans, which have declined since your inauguration for the second term, by about 9% in just 400 days.

These numbers say something clear: Even within the US, there is growing concern about being dragged into a new war, and about exposing the lives of Americans, their economy, and their future to unnecessary risks.

True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace. And if these initiatives were launched in the name of peace, then we have the right today to demand full transparency and clear accountability.’

🚨WAR ON IRAN: No imminent nuclear threat from Iran against the US

Afshin Rattansi: ‘If Iran had a nuclear bomb and threatened to use one, you’re saying the Americans would still continue bombing Iran?

Captain James Fanell: ‘I don’t know how they could use one. I don’t believe that we think they have the capability to suddenly take something that was so severely degraded in June and, under duress in this kind of environment, figure out how to miniaturise it, weaponise it, put it on a warhead, and have any possibility of successfully delivering it.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘So there was no imminent threat.’

Captain James Fanell: ‘I would say that right now there’s no imminent threat. Who knows about before February 28th.’

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It was about stealing Iran’s oil, not a nuclear threat:

‘What we want to do is get such massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.’

The WMD justifications were copy and pasted from 2003; overtly imperialist and packaged simplistically to manufacture consent.

Afshin Rattansi: ‘Only 27% of the American people, according to Reuters/Ipsos, supported Trump starting this war on Iran.

That’s less than the roughly 29% approval a President had towards the end of the Vietnam War in 1973 under Nixon. People in the United States, don’t want this war.

There’s no sign of any imminent nuclear weapon according to the IAEA…

Clearly the cost to the United States, the cost to Western Europe, even if the war was won quickly, would be enormous.

Thousands and thousands of civilians in Iran have been killed, and the relatives of those people won’t forget it when it comes to future asymmetric warfare. Why did Trump do this?’

Captain James Fanell: ‘I would say first of all that I’ve seen other polls that show he’s got support and that it’s growing, especially as we become more successful.’

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Why did Donald Trump go to war with Iran?

For the same reason George W. Bush went to war with Iraq.

For the same reason George H. W. Bush went to war with Iraq.

US🇺🇸 victory in Iran would mean that the US can pivot to the Pacific for the first time and focus on China🇨🇳.’

-Captain James Fanell, former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet

Approximately 313 US military bases surround China. In Washington’s war on the multipolar world, China could be next.

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Prof. John Mearsheimer on China:

‘The US🇺🇸 is not simply containing China🇨🇳, we’re talking about a rollback strategy. We want to STRANGLE China’s economic growth.

You never want to underestimate how ruthless the United States is despite all the liberal rhetoric we use…

In the early 90s I told the Chinese if you continue to grow economically, there’s going to be a fierce security competition and you’re going to be shocked at how ruthless the United States is’

If Beijing does not view the apocalyptic bombing of Iran as a warning to urgently prepare for the coming war on China, then it may prove to be a fatal mistake.

Donald Trump told CNN he is okay with a religious leader running Iran and that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a ‘democratic leader’.

The Iranian diaspora are the latest to find out that the US doesn’t care about democracy or their domestic grievances, only about finding a vassal leader to manage the US’ theft of natural resources.

If they expected a miracle and for the US to suddenly care about ‘human rights’, they obviously didn’t look at the US’ record US in the Middle East and Latin America.

Reporter: ‘Do you think the map of Iran looks the same after this is all done?’

Donald Trump: ‘I can’t tell you…probably not.’

Now an even more daunting horror scenario could be imposed by Washington on the region; a Yugoslavia-style break-up of Iran by pitting ethnic groups against each other.

Iran tonight as of a result of US-Israeli bombing.

Whenever Washington says it wants to ‘bring freedom’, the freedom always ends up being scenes of apocalypse.

In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 American crew members, and injured 171, in an effort to drag the US🇺🇸 into a war against Egypt🇪🇬.

‘We’ve seceded our power to a foreign country. Israel controls us…we don’t control our country.’

-USS Liberty Survivor Phillip Tourney

The US’ ‘calamitous disasters for Israel’ series of imperial misadventures ends with its grand finale with Iran.

Using the same simplistic assumptions for the 2003 war on Iraq, Israel convinced a gullible Trump Administration to allow the US to be its battering ram against Iran.

Now the US is stuck in an unfolding disaster with the whole world blaming it for destabilising the region once again, all for the professed dreams of a Greater Israel by both Netanyahu’s government and its Knesset opposition.

🚨An Iranian missile strikes Tel Aviv, Israel live on NBC News.

Despite US-Israeli ‘death and destruction, all day long’ bombardment for over a week, Iran is still able to strike Israel on a regular basis.

If this is what the war ‘being ahead of schedule’ looks like, one hesitates to think what being ‘behind schedule’ looks like.

The entire region is paying the price for the US’ miscalculations.