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

[Bengal71]

I don't like Rubio but I respect him as a seasoned politician. He is saying what he has to say as the Sec State. However, Trump, Witkofff, Kushner are clowns.
As for Vance: He would be Israel's biggest nightmare as the President because he could even pull a 2/3rd majority in both houses of Congress against Israel. And I don't think the Israelis will sit idle against Vance if Trump has Lindsey Graham death today.

He will be bad for Israel but I am not sure what his view are about India. I don't want to see an India sympathiser president, his wife is Indian mind you.

 

[Bengal71]

JD must be thinking right now what the hell have i gotten myself into

The guy seems to have the personality and sanity needed to be the president of a global super power. I don't see anybody else in this administration.

 

[RzA]

 

[IceCold]

Pakistan’s mercenary deal with Saudi Arabia doesn’t get them free gasoline from House of Saud? What kind of deal is that?

Don't call it Pakistan mercenary deal, it's Asim's mercenary deal and such deals are always self serving and hardly beneficial for the country or it's people.

 

[Immortals]

Jordan under attack







Kuwait under attack

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

 

[Be dazzled]

This will have very deep, perhaps disturbing ramifications on the region.

 

[RzA]

 

[Ali_Baba]

This will have very deep, perhaps disturbing ramifications on the region.

Through this act, Israel will gain full access to intelligence and data feeds that the USA gathers on Pakistan which Israel can share with India. This will create a lot of problems for that reason alone.

Should Pakistan stop sharing intelligence with the USA now given how that information will end up in Israel and India can learn what Pakistan is looking at, and how? Thereby learning of Pakistan capabilities?

 

[Mav3rick]

In this innocence of yours millions died... as bystanders... a genocide was committed in international watch and now the sham court created to bring sham Justice itself is under the axe. Yes I the innocent bystander will be inconvenienced... just like in a crash their is a traffic jam and you don't make it to work on time. And that inconvenienced innocent passage is happening not at an accident but a crime scene with active murder on broad day light.
Life is not usual... Gazans couldn't make people care for them... people weren't inconvenienced by their death, dispossession or genocide... international law laughs at you for even considering it.

This is not mere innocence; it is the helplessness. Personally, I would like to arrest Trump and take him to the international court of justice. Personally, I would like to see severe justice carried out on Nathanyahu, his entire cabinet, the entire military of Israel and most of its population for the inhumanity they have committed over the decades. But I am helpless. My country is helpless. There is nothing 190 countries of the world can do when the US decides to go to war.

Your post is emotional and not practical. I can feel your post but do not understand what you want the weakest countries in the world to do about it. When the mightiest countries don't oppose or stop the US, what can the other weaker countries do? We did the best we could and played an instrumental role in bringing both sides to the negotiations. There is still hope.

 

[Mav3rick]

Iran didn’t violate the MOU, the US did, by not controlling Israel in Lebanon and then trying to push ships through the Southern route.

The US shouldn’t have agreed to the MOU if they din’t want to follow it (granted, not a lot of other options), but Trump has violated/reneged on (and continues to) multiple international treaties, agreements and international law, and probably agreed to the MoU in bad faith, planning on violating it whenever he felt like, and the Iranians were more than likely expecting exactly that.

So, at the least, we should have clarity about where the responsibility for all this violence, and chaos lies - with The US and Israeli governments.

I completely reject the insinuation because it is flatly contradicted by the timeline of events. The fact is, following the initial intense conflict that began in February, the US, Israel, and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on April 7 . While that temporary truce was fragile, it opened the door for intensive diplomacy. By June 14 the mediators successfully brokered a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was officially signed by the US, Iran and Pakistan as the mediator. It was all due to this MoU which formally lifted the maritime blockade on Iranian ports, allowed oil exports, and established a framework to fully end the war within 60 days. To ensure safe transit and bypass contested waters, the JMIC was also established which announced a widened shipping route on June 27, 2026, utilizing a specialized corridor hugging the Omani coastline—the "Omani clause" framework.

Throughout these months of stabilization, the region experienced an extended period of relative peace; even Israel had paused its daily operations in Lebanon. Diplomatic momentum was building daily as the parties engaged in quiet, backchannel framework talks in Switzerland. While President Trump frequently fired off inflammatory warnings on social media, this remained a battle of rhetoric rather than kinetic force, and Iran responded in kind while allowing the behind-the-scenes progress to continue.

Everything changed on July 6–7, 2026, when Iran shattered this month-long peace by launching unprovoked missile and drone attacks against three commercial vessels navigating the Omani transit corridor near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran had absolutely no legal authority to intercept them; the ships were operating entirely within their rights under the agreed-upon MoU framework. Even if Tehran believed a technical violation had occurred, the correct protocol was to submit the dispute to neutral arbitrators for a peaceful resolution. Instead, Iran chose immediate military aggression against civilian shipping. This is which started all the US military activity against Iran while the US declared the truce over. By choosing violence over arbitration, Iran crossed a critical red line that left the United States with no alternative: the U.S. had to respond kinetically to the Irani aggression, or risk completely losing its credibility on the global stage.

 

[OldTwilight]

It won't be finished unless Iran become nuclear power with will to use nukes ...

 

[Watandar]

Iran Rejects U.S. Cease-Fire Deal Presented by Iraqi Leader​

The details of the proposal were not immediately clear, but Iranian officials said that it was the only offer on the table.

Iran on Thursday rejected a cease-fire proposal from President Trump that was carried to Tehran by the Iraqi prime minister, according to Iranian and Iraqi officials. The failed mediation effort came as Mr. Trump was threatening to escalate the war and target Iran’s critical infrastructure.

The officials, who asked not to be identified because they were discussing sensitive national security issues, said Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s trip to Iran followed his recent visit with Mr. Trump at the White House.

The details of the cease-fire proposal were not immediately clear. But Iranian officials said that it was the only offer on the table, and that their government was not interested in a temporary deal that left the question of control over the Strait of Hormuz unresolved.
Mr. al-Zaidi traveled to Tehran with a delegation of senior Iraqi officials and met with President Masoud Pezeshkian; Iran’s top negotiator, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; and its foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, according to local media reports.
Mr. Araghchi told state television that Iran and Iraq, which share a border, had mutual economic, political and security interests and close ties and that the visit was significant given the current circumstances in the region.

Mr. Araghchi said that Mr. al-Zaidi had shared his “views and impressions” from his trip to Washington, but that Tehran and Washington already had enough mediators. “The problem is not passing messages,” he said. “The problem is America’s outlook, which is illogical, greedy and controlling.”

Iran and the United States have steadily escalated tensions over the past few weeks, with American forces bombing military bases, as well as infrastructure like railroads, airports, bridges and seaports. Iran has launched strikes with ballistic missiles and drones on American military targets in the Middle East.

Two Iranian officials said that the country’s armed forces were anticipating — and preparing for — the possibility of the war expanding if Mr. Trump carries through with his threats to strike the capital of Tehran and critical infrastructure. If he does, the officials said, Iran will expand the fight regionally, including by striking Tel Aviv and asking its Houthi allies to close Bab al-Mandab, a strategic waterway in the Red Sea.

On Thursday in Tehran’s Azadi Square, where supporters of the government stage nightly pro-war rallies, a military vehicle paraded Iranian-made ballistic missiles pointing at the sky.