Trump wants peace with Iran. Israel does not. Once Trump announced that he was confident that a deal with Iran would be reached, Israel wasted little time in attacking Iran ... not invasion-style attacking, mind you, but assassinations and hit-n-runs aimed at disrupting Trump's negotiations and at destroying any chance for peace.
... followed by ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...S-warned-Israel-planning-hit-Irans-nukes.html
Remember, Iran doesn't have any nukes, despite the media's attempts to make it appear as though they do. Only Israel has nukes (a few hundred warheads).
I've gotten conflicting reports from people I respect on this issue. The only thing I've seen no support for is that Iran actually has any nuclear weapons at this time. Glenn Diesen and Simplicius clearly condemn the Israeli attack:
Glenn Diesen on Judging Freedom
glenndiesen.substack.com
The Israeli rogue state added another of its neighbors to the long list of regional nations it is currently bombing.
simplicius76.substack.com
However, former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter suggests that certain actions from Iran gave Israel a good escuse to attack them. Quoting from his article:
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Iran is its own worst enemy
For the past few months, Iran has been posturing itself as a nuclear threshold state. While Iran has every right, as a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT), to possess the ability to enrich uranium as part of a peaceful nuclear program monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it does not have any legal right to pursue a nuclear weapons capability so long as it remains a signatory to the NPT. Iran’s accumulation of uranium enriched to 60%, for which there was no legitimate purpose linked to Iran’s declared nuclear activities, was a deliberate act by Iran to position itself to be within one enrichment cycle of possessing uranium enriched to around 92%, which would be usable in a fission weapon.
Iranian IR-6 centrifuges
Iran likewise has been installing advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades, which are orders of magnitude more efficient when it comes to the enrichment of uranium, at its underground enrichment facility at Firdos. These cascades would be able to convert Iran’s 60% enriched uranium to weapons grade uranium within a matter of days, providing Iran with fissile material sufficient for 3-5 nuclear weapons.
Iranian military industry has, over the course of the past decade, mastered all the technologies necessary to produce a warhead possessing advanced electronics and other heat-sensitive properties that can withstand the heat of hypersonic re-entry. These warhead design characteristics are an essential part of any viable nuclear weapons delivery capability—simply producing a fission device is not enough; one must be able to deliver it to the intended target.
The one thing which held Iran back was the official decision taken by the Iranian leadership that nuclear weapons were forbidden under existing Islamic jurisprudence, namely a fatwa, or edict, issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, which deemed nuclear weapons incompatible with the principles of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But Iran has made this principled stance meaningless in recent months as statements from senior Iraqi officials, advisors, and politicians have made it clear that this fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons could be reversed if the Islamic Republic were to be faced with an existential threat from a nuclear-armed Israel.
In short, Iran has positioned itself to be a nuclear weapons threshold state.
And this would never be allowed to stand, a reality Israel’s ongoing strikes have emphatically punctuated.
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Ritter actually believes that at this juncture, Iran's best option is to strike Israel, and only Israel, hard, and then make a peace deal not with Israel, but with the U.S.:
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The solution to Iran’s nuclear program, however, cannot be allowed to be provided through military intervention by Israel and/or the United States.
Instead, Iran must deliver extremely harsh blows against the state of Israel, strikes so utterly devastating that Israel has no choice but to plead for the United States to step in a broker a peace deal.
And the foundation of this peace deal must be the normalization of Iran’s nuclear program within the framework of the NPT.
Is such an outcome possible?
Yes.
But it will require the near destruction of Israel by Iran.
True Promise 3, the long awaited Iranian ballistic missile assault against Israel, has been threatened by Iran for many months now.
Iran must now execute this operation with perfection and decisiveness if it wants to survive.
Anything less will spell the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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I'm not sure if Mr. Ritter's take is correct- but from what I've read of Simplicius and Glen Diesen's articles, they don't get into what Iran should do at all, so I think it's best at this juncture to just see how things progress from here. I'm definitely thinking of Silo right now, a TV series of a dystopian future that apparently starts with Iran hitting the U.S. with a dirty bomb. So far, the U.S. has distanced itself from Israel's action, which I think is good.