Day three - US attack on Iran

 I guess Trump's threats and boasts didn't do the trick.  

Syria now in the war?  It isn't surprising.  

Thanks to Trump.

Earlier...

Iran is reportedly planning to launch attacks on the United States's bases in Iraq and possibly Syria. This comes amid tensions following American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, although the direct causation is not explicitly stated.

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The situation has prompted the US to issue a "worldwide caution" for Americans due to heightened security risks from the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict.

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The report didn't specify which Iran-backed groups are planning to target US bases. However, it noted that Iran's proxy network has been weakened by years of attrition from Israel and US forces.

  Newsbytes

Apparently not weakened enough.

Meanwhile, an NBC report claimed that Tehran had warned Washington about activating sleeper cells for potential terrorist attacks on American soil before the strikes on its nuclear facilities. The message reached Trump during the G7 Summit.

So he ran home and turned on Fox News.

Read the entire Jeffrey Lewis thread.

Well done.

And Netanyahoo will be screaming for US retaliation.

Trump didn't write that.  It doesn't have errors or typos.  No strangely capitalized words.  He is incapable of putting together a paragraph that lengthy without those things.  He approved it.  But he didn't write it.

Yeah.  No one ever heard that before.  

Updates will be posted below throughout the day.

UPDATE 10:40 am:

Not even remotely.

Yeah, well, they did.

Oh my.  Just realizing the consequences?

How it works.

UPDATE 06/23/2025:

Until next time.

Or maybe it was a return "courtesy" because the US warned them of the intention to imminently bomb their nuclear sites.

Seems like the winners here are the "defense" contractors who supply the munitions.

MTG weighs in...

And she's not shy about sharing her opinion.

We are surprised to be agreeing with MTG.

UPDATE 05:56 pm:

And it was all because of ME, your favorite president! Now give me my Nobel prize!

Anybody else thinking similar thoughts?

UPDATE 06/24/2025:  I know what you were thinking, because I was thinking the same thing: this won't last.  Well....

A tentative truce faltered Tuesday when Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect and vowed to retaliate.

Iran’s military denied firing on Israel, state media reported — but explosions boomed and sirens sounded across northern Israel midmorning, and an Israeli military official said two Iranian missiles were intercepted.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for the NATO summit at The Hague that in his view, both sides had violated the nascent agreement he had announced earlier.

“They violated it but Israel violated it too,” Trump said. ”I’m not happy with Israel.”

  Chicago Tribune

Here we go

This never would have happened if Trump were president, right?

President Trump publicly opposed an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites on Thursday, saying he still believed a nuclear deal was possible.

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Israel has been preparing for weeks for an operation to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, but had previously told the U.S. it would wait to see what happens with Trump's nuclear talks.

  Axios

He still hasn't figured out that nobody's paying attention to him outside of the US.

"Following the State of Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future," [Israeli Defense Minister Israel] Katz said.

An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said only "necessary" activities should take place in Israel starting Friday morning local time. That includes a ban on "educational activities, gatherings and workplaces, with the exception of essential businesses."

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Before the operation became public, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tweeted that he was at the embassy in Jerusalem and "will remain here all night," adding: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem."

Maybe a little less time praying and a little more time being a capable diplomat might have prevented this.

Iran has vowed to strike U.S. targets in the region in the event of any attack on its nuclear program.

The U.S. is in the process of withdrawing diplomats and military families in Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait who could be in harm's way.

The U.S. has also boosted air defenses around several of its sources in the Gulf.

Even if Israel does not directly strike Iran's nuclear facilities, the U.S. could be caught up in Iran's retaliation.

You think?

A sixth round of U.S.-Iran talks had been scheduled for Sunday. It's unclear if negotiations will continue under the current circumstances.

If they do, they'll be talking about an entirely different situation.

No, I'm sure that somehow, this is all Biden's fault.

UPDATE 6/13/25 8:14pm:

Brace yourself

Israel appears to be preparing to launch an attack soon on Iran, according to officials in the United States and Europe, a step that could further inflame the Middle East and derail or delay efforts by the Trump administration to broker a deal to cut off Iran’s path to building a nuclear bomb.

The concern about a potential Israeli strike and the prospect of retaliation by Iran led the United States on Wednesday to withdraw diplomats from Iraq and authorize the voluntary departure of U.S. military family members from the Middle East.

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Trump waved off another plan by Israel several months ago to attack Iran, insisting that he wanted a chance to negotiate a deal with Tehran that would choke off Iran’s ability to produce more nuclear fuel for a bomb. Two weeks ago, Mr. Trump said he had warned Mr. Netanyahu about launching a strike while U.S. negotiations with Iran were underway.

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Word of the U.S. decisions to withdraw personnel from the region, along with a warning from Britain about new threats to Middle East commercial shipping, came hours after Mr. Trump told The New York Post in a podcast released on Wednesday that he had grown “less confident” about the prospects for a deal with Iran that would limit its ability to develop nuclear weapons.

  NYT

And here I thought he was the world's premier deal maker.

UPDATE 07:12 pm: