Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

Trump raises memory of Iran's role in Iraq war
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Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC Reporting from the White House

Trump has - not for the first time - directly blamed Iran for the deaths and wounding of American service members.

This is a theme that the White House has been pursuing for several days now, raising the memory of incidents that go back to bombings and kidnappings that took place as early as Lebanon's civil war in the 1980s.

In this instance, Trump seemed to be referring to a more recent conflict: the US war in Iraq that began in 2003.

During that conflict, Iran supplied a type of roadside bomb known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, to proxy militia groups operating against US forces.

While he claims that these accounted for 95% of US casualties, this appears to be an exaggeration. Later studies suggested they killed at least 196 US troops and wounded nearly 900, out of nearly 4,500 troops killed.

These weapons, however, were highly lethal and often led to amputations among US troops that were hit.

Typically, they consisted a metal cylinders filled with explosives and concave metal that turned into a high speed "slug" that could penetrate even heavily armoured vehicles.
 
ghazi52 said:

Trump criticises allies as he discusses Iran's future​

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A wide shot of Donald Trump's briefing in the White House's briefing in the White House


Trump also heavily criticised two US allies, accusing the United Kingdom
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The UK right now:
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mangekyo said:
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this could complicate things for the worse, damn it

any chance there will be a coup to overthrow Sharif in the coming days? cause I have been hearing rumors lately

whatever it takes, just keep Pakistan out of the picture
 
ghazi52 said:
Analysis

US ‘publicly acknowledging’ it was ‘entrapped by the Israelis’​


By Ali Harb

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that Israeli plans to attack Iran determined the timing of the US strikes that initiated the war.

Rubio said Washington was aware Israel was going to attack Iran, and Tehran would retaliate against US interests in the region, so US forces struck pre-emptively.

“What he’s basically publicly acknowledging would be that the United States was entrapped by the Israelis,” Kelly Grieco, senior fellow at the Stimson Center, said of Rubio’s comments.

She added the United States has “enormous sources of leverage when it comes to Israel”, referring to the billions of dollars in military aid that Washington gives to Israel annually.

“The notion that the Israelis were going to do it anyway, and so we had to do it as well – if that’s the case, then there’s a really serious conversation to be had here in the United States about US and Israeli interests, and where those are aligned and where they diverge,” Grieco told Al Jazeera.

Rubio


‘We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,’ Marco Rubio tells reporters on Capitol Hill [Ken Cedeno/Reuters]
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Salam
This video explains it all . I’d ask others to please watch it in full.

 

Why is Trump annoyed at Starmer?​


Rachel Flynn
Live reporter

Starmer speaking in the Commons
Image source,PA Media
President Trump has just reiterated his frustration with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, after he did not permit the use of UK bases for the initial wave of US attacks on Iran.

The United States had sought the use of the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, for those strikes but Starmer refused. He told MPs his decision was informed by history, saying "we all remember the mistakes of Iraq".

"President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest," he told MPs.

However, the situation changed on Sunday when Iran's "outrageous" response became "a threat to our people, our interests and our allies", the PM said.

Iran's retaliation to the US and Israeli attacks had threatened British people across the Middle East, prompting the decision to allow the bases to be used to hit Tehran's missile infrastructure, he said.
 
Immortals said:
This propaganda. That man is another “loud” mouth general.

The generals in Iran actually making a difference are not on news shows acting like Baghdad Bob they are in the field of battle and keeping a low profile.
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Crash Report is a pro-Turkish often clickbait "news" thing...the amount of misinformation going on there is crazy
 
RescueRanger said:
Wonderful questions. Actually we need more like this. What is your assessment of the situation right now?
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For the historical context, Muslims developed flaws in their religious and political discourse in past three centuries so there is a vast strategic gap. At this time we can only try to mitigate the damages.

1. Pakistan has to take the lead. Not sure who can do that? IK in jail.
2. Islamic select groups conference must be called by Pakistan. Asim Muneer lead it or Bilawal, IDK. These are all we got.
3. Pakistan, Türkiye, KSA, Egypt, BD, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Jordan too (Jordan window to USA, Israel), Qatar, Oman.
4. China, RF, Spain, Ireland as guest.
5. Call by this conference to stop all hostilities and determine responsibility of this war.

At strategic level:
1. Defense and economic alliances.
2. Trade between Islamic block and cohesive policies on economy.
3. Stop UAE, and others to run anomalous agendas.
4. Build a pivot. --> Pakistan,
Türkiye, KSA, Egypt, BD, Malaysia, Indonesia --> aligned with China-RF
5. Dialogue with agreeable Western countries --> Spain, Ireland, Italy, Canada.

Pressure, soft power, economies, Military.
 
大汉奸柳传志 said:
this could complicate things for the worse, damn it

any chance there will be a coup to overthrow Sharif in the coming days? cause I have been hearing rumors lately

whatever it takes, just keep Pakistan out of the picture
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It's an unofficial twitter account this is not a statement from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is why getting your news from social media is so dangerous in a crisis situation like this.

This is why I hate threads that allow twitter spams.
 
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