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

[Arash]

Oh man, this is what the Arabs get for their services to the American empire?

"Please assist or I kill you"

 

[Arash]

I like Trump somehow.......

 

[Flotilla]

No, you missed it again.

Persia has existed for thousands of years, and undoubtedly will exist for a long time yet to come. Its survival is not in question here. It will carry on just fine.

The real question - again - is whether its current policies help or impede the economic well-being of its people.

Again.
After 40 years of medieval siege against Irán.
Can any blockade or sanction harm Iranian people?
You're asking incorrect questions to incorrect person.

 

[VCheng]

Can any blockade or sanction harm Iranian people?

And yet again:

I am talking about the effect of blockades and sanctions on the economic well-being of the Persians people as a result of the policies being pursued by their State.

 

[Flotilla]

And yet again:

I am talking about the effect of blockades and sanctions on the economic well-being of the Persians people as a result of the policies being pursued by their State.

Again,

Are you seriously worried about persians well-being after 47 seven of hostilities, crimes, law-breakings of EU, UK, US, Israel and Qatar, Emirates, and Saudi Arabia among others?

I just shut ut because I respect all membership of this forum.

 

[Fatman17]

EDITORIAL: The Abraham Accords were presented as a historic peace initiative in the Middle East. In reality, they were agreements brokered during US President Donald Trump’s first presidency, under which several Arab states normalised ties with Israel without resolving the Palestinian issue.

Trump now appears keen to expand the Accords again, pushing more Muslim countries to join after the recent Iran conflict. It is a dangerous and deeply dishonest move, driven less by regional peace than by pressure from Israel’s supporters in Washington and America’s hard-line pro-Israel right. The attempt to connect the Iran conflict with the Abraham Accords makes little sense.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/2003384

 

[Oldenwisdom...قول بزرگ]

economic well-being of its people

Is that what all that bothers you? The economic well being of a people that existed for thousands of years? Ones choked by US sanctions and sabotage? Ones who cannot elect a prime minister if he nationalises his own country's resources? Gets regime changed for kicks?
Perhaps you're more worried about your own or American economic well being. Because let's be honest America is there for the empire and not some altruistic ideals that installs baby shah!
I think to stop pretending that US is holding the pinky guiding the Iranians through but the one who wants it's hand in the honey pot!
Orange clown is just playing the WWE wrestling shtick playing the role while knowing the script!

Bessant bought short terms at the prospects and hopes of a turnaround. Guess what‽ a mathematical impossibility is in the making... not only the longterm bonds have spiraled... the short terms are coming due as well... while running the deficit in trillions and an already out of control inflation. A win for the clown was to walk away... but no he's got to put the brave face of the wrestler locked in a sharpshooter!

 

[东风夜放花千树]

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EDITORIAL: The Abraham Accords were presented as a historic peace initiative in the Middle East. In reality, they were agreements brokered during US President Donald Trump’s first presidency, under which several Arab states normalised ties with Israel without resolving the Palestinian issue.

Trump now appears keen to expand the Accords again, pushing more Muslim countries to join after the recent Iran conflict. It is a dangerous and deeply dishonest move, driven less by regional peace than by pressure from Israel’s supporters in Washington and America’s hard-line pro-Israel right. The attempt to connect the Iran conflict with the Abraham Accords makes little sense.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/2003384

Ironically, the 'Gaza Peace Committee' was also formed during Trump's tenure.

When Hamas and Qatar were discussing the U.S.-proposed peace plan, Israel shamefully bombed Qatar.

There are many more such incidents.

So this Abraham Accord will not bring peace. It is a reward for Israel to carry out the so-called 'Greater Israel Plan' and the genocide in Gaza.

 

[Master Chief]

A little offtopic but I don't understand some Arab's resistance to use 'Persian Gulf'. There is a giant sea named as 'Arabian Sea' which even Indians don't mind using and the Pakistanis use 'Indian Ocean'. If anything, Pakistan, given its large land and very large population should have some 'Bay of Pakistan' or 'Pakistan Sea' or whatever with 'Pakistan' but Pakistanis don't make an issue of that.

Very well put. Certain nations have all sorts of problems with geographic naming conventions. Oddly, the nation that supposedly disapproves the most of "names imposed by foreign invaders" gladly calls itself "India", a greco-persian derivative.

 

[Watandar]

This breaking of the ceasefire by a frustrated and mad America is an awesome opportunity to target the UAE oil infrastructure and drive up gas prices. Trump is under severe political, economic and energy pressure and his denials are all confessions.

 

[VCheng]

Are you seriously worried about persians well-being

Do you decide who can or cannot be worried about anyone else?

I am merely asking a question, because it is up to the Persians themselves to decide whether their State policies are helping or hampering their economic well-being, in the context of the current situation.

An entirely relevant, and important, question to ask.

That is all.

 

[FUB]

Interesting fact . First , it must be significant enough that now they’re threatening the entire global economy. Second, they are admitting that the US blockade is very porous .

 

[ghazi52]

Iran and US trade air strikes after Trump dismisses report of Hormuz deal​

Oil prices rebounded, with US crude futures up around 2.5% after falling 5% on Wednesday

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Smoke rising from a US military strike near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. PHOTO: ANADOLU AGENCY​

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Iran targeted a US air base on Thursday after the United States struck what Washington described as an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz, and President Donald Trump rejected a ‌reported compromise deal with Tehran.
The attacks, while limited, highlighted the fragility of negotiations aimed at turning the tenuous ceasefire that took effect in early April into an agreement to end the three-month-old war and reopen the vital shipping route.
A US official told Reuters the military shot down four Iranian attack drones and struck a ground control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas that was about to launch a fifth drone.
Read: Iran supreme leader says US, Israel seek to 'bring nation to its knees'
"These actions were measured, purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire," said the official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about military operations.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said later that it had targeted the US base responsible for an early-morning attack near Bandar Abbas airport, Tasnim news agency reported.
The IRGC, which did not name the base, said any repeat of what it called aggression ⁠would lead to a "more decisive" response.
Kuwait - which hosts a large US base - said it was responding to missile and drone attacks without saying where the attacks were coming from.
In Lebanon, which Iran says must be part of any overall agreement to end the war launched by Israel and the United States on February 28, Israel had begun striking civilian infrastructure in Tyre, claiming that they were striking Hezbollah infrastructure.
The Lebanese army reported that an Israeli strike had killed one of its soldiers, while Israel, which launched incursions deep into sovereign Lebanese territory in pursuit of Hezbollah, claimed hostile aircraft infiltration had triggered sirens in its north.
Oil prices rebounded, with US crude futures up around 2.5% after falling 5% on Wednesday, while stocks fell and the dollar rose.
Trump says no country to control Strait

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The war has killed thousands and sent global energy prices sharply higher, fuelling inflation and hitting currencies in some Asian countries while boosting the dollar.
Trump has repeatedly said the end of the war is close but told media at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday he was not yet satisfied by the talks with Iran and that the US was not discussing easing sanctions on the country, one of Tehran's demands.
He dismissed an Iranian state TV report about an unofficial draft of an agreement to restore commercial shipping through the strait to ‌prewar levels ⁠within a month, with Iran and Gulf state Oman jointly managing traffic.
Trump said no single country would have control over the waterway, and appeared to threaten Oman, a country with which the US has decades-long military and economic ties.
"Nobody's going to control (the strait)," Trump said. "It's international waters, and Oman will behave just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up. They understand that, they'll be fine."
Oman has not said anything about the idea of joint control of the strait with Iran, with which it says it has discussed freedom of navigation. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei expressed solidarity with Oman after what it called "US officials' threats".
Iran was insisting on the United States releasing Iranian funds, the ⁠deputy secretary of its National Security Council, Ali Bagheri Kani, said, according to a Tasnim report.
Ongoing sanctions, the dismantling of Iran's nuclear capacity and the blockage of Hormuz, which handled a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas traffic before the war, are the major sticking points in talks to end the conflict.
The waterway is covered by international law that guarantees foreign vessels the right to pass through.
The US Treasury Department added the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, the Iranian ⁠body set up to manage passage through the strait, to a list of sanctioned people and entities seen as posing threats to US national security.
Iranian state TV said the draft deal would also have the US withdraw military forces from the immediate vicinity, though it said the issue of US troops in the region needed further discussion. The White House dismissed the report as a "complete fabrication." Tehran did not comment.
Iran's nuclear program, ⁠which the US wants disbanded, was not mentioned in the Iranian TV report.
Iranian sources have said talks on the nuclear issue will come in a second round of negotiations - something that may not be acceptable to some of Trump's closest supporters. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
"The bottom line is Iran's never going to have a nuclear weapon," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the cabinet meeting.

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[VCheng]

the longterm bonds have spiraled... the short terms are coming due as well... while running the deficit in trillions and an already out of control inflation.

Yes, people of USA are indeed worried about their economic well-being due to the policies of their current administration, as you point out above.

I am sure that is exactly the question I asked first above as well, for the other party to the conflict.

 

[BananaRepublic]

Do you decide who can or cannot be worried about anyone else?

I am merely asking a question, because it is up to the persian themselves to decide whether their State policies are helping or hampering their economic well-being, in the context of the current situation.

An entirely relevant, and important, question to ask.

That is all.

Are you familiar with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

You seem like a typical first generation immigrant - stuck somewhere between step 1 and 2.

Whilst the Iranians have been on step Step 4 for the last 47 years!

And are fighting the US hegemon - so that they can reach step 5.

Your haranguing of the “Persians” about their “economic well-being” - is akin to wondering why the starving homeless don’t commit crimes so they can get three square meals a day.

Well! Not even an animal volunteers to be locked up for a free meal.

That’s the difference between the living and the dead!