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Obscene US-Israeli murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed - Videos

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  • The soldiers reportedly had drunk alcohol and changed into civilian clothes to avoid detection. Once they got in the house, they took turns raping Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, who was 14.
  • "I didn't think of Iraqis as human beings. "
  • But now they tell you that the U.S. invades Iran to liberate women.

  • In Iran, under ongoing US-Israeli attacks, a mass funeral took place today for 168 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7-12, killed by an (US-Israeli) airstrike on February 28.
  • Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the US-Israeli massacre of Iranian schoolgirls:
  • “The monstrosity of the situation lies both in the very fact of the aggression, the colossal number of victims in these very first days, and the lack of an adequate response from those who are killing innocent people.
  • You have probably noticed that no words of sympathy or condolences were spoken. Only aggressive rhetoric.

T=1772827561 / Human Date and time (GMT): Fri, 6 March 2026 at 20:06:01


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This is Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who in 2006 was raped by 4 U.S. soldiers, then beaten to death with her face smashed in, and they set her body on fire, afterward killing her entire family to leave no..

This is Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who in 2006 was raped by 4 U.S. soldiers, then beaten to death with her face smashed in, and they set her body on fire,

afterward killing her entire family to leave no witnesses.

Her main killer, the U.S. soldier Steven D. Green, said at the trial to justify the brutal crime that:

"I didn't think of Iraqis as human beings. "

But now they tell you that the U.S. invades Iran to liberate women.

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Obscene US-Israeli murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed

Western media is either silent or implicitly blaming Tehran for the strike that killed 168 girls

March 4, 2026, RT

-by Eva Karene Bartlett


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In Iran, under ongoing US-Israeli attacks, a mass funeral took place today for 168 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7-12, killed by an Israeli airstrike on February 28.

The strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab, southern Iran, in broad daylight, when the children were at school. Fourteen teachers were also killed in the bombing.

The bombing occurred as part of US-Israeli attacks sadistically dubbed ‘Operation Epic Fury’, attacks which have to date targeted schools, hospitals, residential areas and other civilian infrastructure.

It was a scene all too familiar to Palestinians: grief-stricken parents collapsing sobbing at the site of their daughters’ murders, clutching bloodstained backpacks, pulling out schoolbooks and personal items of their slain daughters. Children’s desks covered in debris from the bombing. A child’s shoe in the rubble. Death where life had flourished.

...If the bombed school had been in Israel or Ukraine, news of it would have been plastered on front pages of Western media for days, with widespread demands for retaliation, or at least for justice and accountability.

...the BBC’s report, which describes the massacre as a “reported” strike on a school, which “Iran has blamed the US and Israel” for. Casting doubt is standard for legacy media whitewashing the US and Israel’s crimes. The US is “looking into reports.” Israel is “not aware.” Just one of those mysterious unknown strikes.

The BBC then overtly blamed the Iranian government as untrustworthy, writing, “Deep mistrust of the Iranian regime, however, makes official reports difficult for many to accept, and some Iranians directly blamed the regime for the attack.”

The BBC did similarly dishonest and deceptive journalism in 2014 in Damascus after terrorists in eastern Ghouta had shelled an elementary school, killing one child and injuring over 60. The BBC later reported: “the government is also accused of launching [mortar strikes] into neighborhoods under its control.” The BBC could have easily learned about the trajectory of mortars and from where the strike in question could only have come: the terrorist “moderates” east of Damascus.

The New York Times also got the memo, likewise omitting Israel from the headline and implying Iran is lying. But when it comes to blaming Iran for its retaliation, the NYT has no problem stating whose missile strike it was. And there is no “Israel says.”

CNN ran the headline “A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know.” Its video report not only doesn’t mention the US or Israel, but insinuates Iranian blame: In an Israel-like tactic (recall Israel’s claiming Gaza’s Shifa hospital was a “Hamas base”, and staging weapons as “proof”), CNN claims the children’s school could be connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) base. But The Cradle noted that the school had operated independently as a civilian institution for over a decade, with separate entrances, playgrounds, and classrooms.

CNN’s report did, at least, debunk online claims that the school was hit by a failed missile launch by Iran, noting the photo shared online as “proof” of the claim was actually taken 800 miles from Minab. But, hello? If it wasn’t a failed Iranian missile there is clearly one remaining explanation: the schoolgirls were killed by US-Israeli bombing.

...legacy media reports are devoid of any concern for the slaughtered children: no details, no empathy, no mention that they were murdered in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The tone would be radically different were the children Israeli, Ukrainian or American. We would see names, ages, stories about them. They would be humanized...

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Obscene US-Israeli murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed

Western media is either silent or implicitly blaming Tehran for the strike that killed 168 girls

March 4, 2026, RT.com

-by Eva Karene Bartlett

In Iran, under ongoing US-Israeli attacks, a mass funeral took place today for 168 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7-12, killed by an Israeli airstrike on February 28.

The strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab, southern Iran, in broad daylight, when the children were at school. Fourteen teachers were also killed in the bombing. The bombing occurred as part of US-Israeli attacks sadistically dubbed ‘Operation Epic Fury’, attacks which have to date targeted schools, hospitals, residential areas and other civilian infrastructure.

It was a scene all too familiar to Palestinians: grief-stricken parents collapsing sobbing at the site of their daughters’ murders, clutching bloodstained backpacks, pulling out schoolbooks and personal items of their slain daughters. Children’s desks covered in debris from the bombing. A child’s shoe in the rubble. Death where life had flourished.



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None of this is being conveyed by Western legacy media – only ghoulish gloating over the US-Israeli bombardment of Iran and the murder of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and his young granddaughter and children.

On March 2, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a photo of the graves being dug on X, noting, “These are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school. Their bodies were torn to shreds. This is how “rescue” promised by Mr. Trump looks in reality. From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in cold blood.”

At the time of this writing, 69 of the murdered girls remain unidentified.

International media reaction: Silence

If the bombed school had been in Israel or Ukraine, news of it would have been plastered on front pages of Western media for days, with widespread demands for retaliation, or at least for justice and accountability. Back in 2016, Western media alleged Syria or Russian planes had injured Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh. His photo went viral, for weeks, even years. A CNN news anchor fake-sobbed for the boy.

In 2017, in his Aleppo home, his father told me their home was not hit in an airstrike, but rather terrorists shelled it and used the boy in a cynical, and effective, photo op.

Footage shared on Telegram and on X clearly show horrific scenes of some of the young girls torn apart in the US-Israeli bombing of their school. But just like the untold thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel, as well as the half a million Iraqi children killed by US sanctions, these Iranian children’s lives don’t merit Western media outrage. Instead, they produce cynical reports that not only lack any semblance of empathy, but suggest that Iran is either lying about or is to blame for the murders.

Take the BBC’s report, which describes the massacre as a “reported” strike on a school, which “Iran has blamed the US and Israel” for. Casting doubt is standard for legacy media whitewashing the US and Israel’s crimes. The US is “looking into reports.” Israel is “not aware.” Just one of those mysterious unknown strikes.

The BBC then overtly blamed the Iranian government as untrustworthy, writing, “Deep mistrust of the Iranian regime, however, makes official reports difficult for many to accept, and some Iranians directly blamed the regime for the attack.”

The BBC did similarly dishonest and deceptive journalism in 2014 in Damascus after terrorists in eastern Ghouta had shelled an elementary school, killing one child and injuring over 60. The BBC later reported“the government is also accused of launching [mortar strikes] into neighborhoods under its control.” The BBC could have easily learned about the trajectory of mortars and from where the strike in question could only have come: the terrorist “moderates” east of Damascus.

The New York Times also got the memo, likewise omitting Israel from the headline and implying Iran is lying. But when it comes to blaming Iran for its retaliation, the NYT has no problem stating whose missile strike it was. And there is no “Israel says.”

CNN ran the headline “A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know.” Its video report not only doesn’t mention the US or Israel, but insinuates Iranian blame: In an Israel-like tactic (recall Israel’s claiming Gaza’s Shifa hospital was a “Hamas base”, and staging weapons as “proof”), CNN claims the children’s school could be connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) base. But The Cradle noted that the school had operated independently as a civilian institution for over a decade, with separate entrances, playgrounds, and classrooms.

CNN’s report did, at least, debunk online claims that the school was hit by a failed missile launch by Iran, noting the photo shared online as “proof” of the claim was actually taken 800 miles from Minab. But, hello? If it wasn’t a failed Iranian missile there is clearly one remaining explanation: the schoolgirls were killed by US-Israeli bombing.

Most Western media cite The US military’s Central Command (Centcom) as saying it was “looking into reports of the incident,” and the Israeli army as saying it was “not aware of any IDF operations in the area.”Ah yes, the guilty shall investigate themselves. Right.

Even if you set aside the actual culprit of the school bombing, legacy media reports are devoid of any concern for the slaughtered children: no details, no empathy, no mention that they were murdered in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The tone would be radically different were the children Israeli, Ukrainian or American. We would see names, ages, stories about them. They would be humanized – if only they were not Iranian (or Palestinian, or Lebanese, or Syrian).



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Alireza Akbari:“All the students seen in this video, at Shajareh Tayyebeh School, were martyred”

Since the February 28 Minab school massacre, US-Israeli strikes have attacked still more civilian infrastructure, killing and injuring more Iranian civilians.

As of March 5, the death toll in American-Israeli aggression against Iran has raised to 1,405. In Lebanon, meanwhile, at least 72 people have been killed & about 100 injured since Monday.



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One man 
recounted to RT how after the bombing of central Tehran’s Enghelab Square he’d seen a decapitated person in front of his café. Walking around showing the destruction, RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi pointed out residential buildings, cars, shops, damaged and destroyed in recent bombings where a police station was among those targeted.

This was the same tactic which Israel used on December 27, 2008, when it unleashed over 100 bombs nearly simultaneously on Gaza, targeting police stations, police academies, universities and more, destroying and damaging shops and residential buildings around them.

I was in Gaza at the time and saw the immediate aftermath of the initial bombings, the chaos and destruction in every direction. Shifa hospital, Gaza’s main hospital, was an endless circuit of cars and ambulances bringing the dead and injured.

That was 17 years ago, and Israel has repeated this brutal tactic over and over again in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran. We’ve seen this US-Israeli strategy of terrorizing the people by widely attacking civilian infrastructure repeatedly in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, to list only some of the targeted regions – as well as being replicated by the Kiev regime in the Donbass. The intent is always destabilization and instigation of fear in hopes of causing the people to turn against their government. It never works, but it invariably kills countless innocent civilians and flattens infrastructure.

To add further insult, days after the girls’ school massacre, Melania Trump presided over a UN Security Council meeting on children in conflict. You can’t make this insanity up. The wife of a US president who is co-waging a war on children in Iran feigns concern over children in conflict.

The US and its bought media have so little regard for Iranian lives that they don’t even bother to try to explain, much less apologize for, the murders of the 168 schoolgirls. Outrageously, it is as if they simply never existed to Western media.

But it is true that every war crime, every murdered child, fuels support not only to their government but to resistance in general. And Iran is resisting and retaliating in ways that will make the US wish it hadn’t co-started this war on the people of Iran.



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Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the US-Israeli massacre of Iranian schoolgirls:

The monstrosity of the situation lies both in the very fact of the aggression, the colossal number of victims in these very first days, and the lack of an adequate response from those who are killing innocent people.

You have probably noticed that no words of sympathy or condolences were spoken. Only aggressive rhetoric.

They managed to talk about everything except one thing: Not a single word of sympathy for the relatives who suffered the loss. Fathers and mothers who will never see their children again...”

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

According to Geopolitics Prime: “Israel and the US want the world to look away. But one man owns this strike — IDF Chief of Staff, Gen. Eyal Zamir.”

Here’s why he’s accountable:

🔴 Strikes abroad are approved by the General Staff — and the first waves are personally ordered by its Chief. That’s Zamir.

🔴 Target selection and timing are managed by the Operational Directorate, in lockstep with the Chief of Staff.

🔴 Zamir himself praised the “significant achievements” of the first day’s strikes. He knew exactly what — and who — was hit.

Lebanese Journalist, Marwa Osman, provided a more detailed account of civilian infrastructure targeted by US-Israeli bombing since February 28:

The elementary school in the city of Minab was just one of the first civilian locations targeted by American/Israeli brutal aggression; many more have been attacked during the past 5 days. Here are some of them:

  • Residential areas in Niloufar Square, Tehran (over 20 innocent people were killed)

  • A densely populated residential complex in Sanandaj, western Iran

  • The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran

  • Gandhi Hospital, Tehran

  • Tehran Grand Bazaar, Tehran

  • Abuzar Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran

  • The vicinity of the Iranian Red Crescent Society building, Tehran

  • Khatam al-Anbia Hospital, Tehran

  • The Welfare Organization, Tehran

  • Motahari Hospital, Tehran

  • Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran

  • Trauma and Burn Hospital, Tehran

  • Ameneh Infant Care Centre, Tehran

  • Shahid Rajaei Heart Hospital, Tehran

  • Residential homes surrounding Sepah Square, Tehran

  • Residential areas in Maragheh, northwestern Iran (over 27 innocent people were killed)

  • Baqaei Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran

  • Emergency medical base, Chabahar

  • Emergency medical base, Sarab, northwestern Iran

  • Emergency medical base, Hamedan, central Iran

  • Hazrat Abolfazl Hospital, Minab, southern Iran

  • Shahid Mahallati Primary School, Tehran

  • Hedayat School, Narmak, Tehran

  • A sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, southern Iran (18 innocent boys and girls were killed)

  • 35 innocent people were killed in Fars Province, central Iran

  • Bazaar in Baharestan Square, central Tehran

  • A park for children in Tehran

  • Emergency medical centre, Tehran

  • A kindergarten in Narmak

  • Residential homes in Narmak district, Araghi st., Marzdaran blvd, Tehran

  • Arg Square, The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran

  • Attack on Mir-Damād Boulevard, causing damage to residential and medical facilities

  • Attack on 2 headquarters of the Diplomatic Police

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keskiviikko 4. maaliskuuta 2026

Why the Epstein Coalition bombs IRAN! - Running out of Guns, Time and Money

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  • Rubio and Ratcliffe talked about the intelligence behind the strikes, the possible timing and the potential “offramp”— if the Iranians were to give up nuclear enrichment at upcoming talks.
  • And yet Rubio never mentioned that the administration was considering a regime-change operation.
  • Barbara Leaf, a retired career diplomat who was an assistant secretary of state in the Biden administration overseeing Middle East policy, said it was obvious that Mr. Trump was heading inevitably toward military action, noting he deployed a second carrier strike group to the region in the midst of the talks.
  • “That was evidence of war planning,” she said. “You don’t need that for more leverage in diplomacy. I was never in any doubt he would go for a military strike.”
  • Karoline Leavitt, said Mr. Trump made a “courageous decision” to take on a threat that no previous president had been willing to confront.


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Politico: Trump supporters are shocked — The White House cannot explain why to bomb Iran



Politico: Trump supporters are shocked — The White House cannot explain why to bomb Iran On the fourth day of the war with Iran, the US  administration is unable to clearly formulate the objectives of the operation. According to Politico, the White House is "running out of time" to convince even the president's most loyal supporters of the need for this adventure.

"Four days after the start of the war, senior administration officials can only say what this conflict is not.: This is not Iraq, it is not an endless war, and it is not a war of choice. But even this message has been blurred by Donald Trump himself, whose countless remarks to journalists undermine almost every justification.

Sources warn that the window of opportunity for explanations is rapidly closing, and the timer is running. The bill is not for days, but for losses.

"I'm not setting a time frame, I'm setting a death toll. This is the narrative in the media that undermines the popular perception of this war," Politico quotes a former administration official.

Eight American soldiers have already died, and this is just the beginning. The MAGA movement, built on skepticism of neoconservative interventions, is bursting at the seams. Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh are increasingly criticizing the operation and the White House's inability to explain its meaning.

"MAGA is not against the use of force, it is against endless wars. Support will be maintained if it is fast, limited, with low losses and without a ground operation. As soon as it starts to look like an endless project or nation—building, political support will quickly weaken," warns conservative strategist Vanessa Santos.

The White House is already rushing around: the Pentagon swears that this is "not nation-building," and Trump writes on social media that wars can last "forever." Officials are trying to explain retroactively that Iran was one step away from a bomb, but intelligence does not confirm this.

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How Trump Decided to Go to War

President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.

Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times 



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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Mileikowsky) of Israel walked into the Oval Office on the morning of Feb. 11, determined to keep the American president on the path to war.

For weeks, the United States and Israel had been secretly discussing a military offensive against Iran. But Trump administration officials had recently begun negotiating with the Iranians over the future of their nuclear program, and the Israeli leader wanted to make sure that the new diplomatic effort did not undermine the plans.

Over nearly three hours, the two leaders discussed the prospects of war and even possible dates for an attack, as well as the possibility — however unlikely — that President Trump might be able to reach a deal with Iran.

Days later, the U.S. president made clear publicly that he was skeptical of the diplomatic route, dismissing the history of negotiating with Iran as merely years of “talking and talking and talking.”

The U.S.-Israeli strikes pummeled civilian buildings in Tehran and military installations around the country, and set off retaliatory violence in the region.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

Asked by reporters if he wanted regime change in Iran, Mr. Trump said it “seems like that would be the best thing that could happen.”

Two weeks later, the president took the United States to war. He authorized a vast military bombardment in conjunction with Israel that swiftly killed the country’s supreme leader, pummeled Iranian civilian buildings and military nuclear sites, thrust the country into chaos and triggered violence across the region, leading to the deaths so far of six U.S. troops and scores of Iranian civilians. Mr. Trump has said more American casualties are likely as the United States digs in for an assault that could last weeks.


In public, Mr. Trump appeared to take a circuitous path to military action, alternating between saying that he wanted to strike a deal with Iran’s government and that he wanted to topple it. He made little effort to try to convince the American public that a war was necessary now. And the limited case he and his aides made included false claims about the imminence of the threat that Iran posed to the United States.

But behind the scenes, his move toward war grew inexorably, fueled by allies like Mr. Netanyahu who pushed the president to strike a decisive blow against Iran’s theocratic government; and by Mr. Trump’s own confidence after the successful U.S. operation that toppled the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in January.

This reconstruction of Mr. Trump’s decision to launch a sustained attack against Iran is based on the accounts of people with direct knowledge of the deliberations, as well as those on all sides of the debate, including diplomats from the region, Israeli and American administration officials, the president’s advisers, congressional lawmakers and defense and intelligence officials. Almost all spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive discussions and operational details.

The U.S. decision to strike Iran was a victory for Mr. Netanyahu, who had been pushing Mr. Trump for months on the need to hit what he argued was a weakened regime. During a meeting at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in December, Mr. Netanyahu had asked for the president’s approval for Israel to hit Iran’s missile sites in the coming months.

Two months later, he got something even better: a full partner in a war to topple the Iranian leadership.


In a statement Monday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Mr. Trump made a “courageous decision” to take on a threat that no previous president had been willing to confront.

Few in the president’s inner circle voiced opposition to military action. Even Vice President JD Vance, a longtime skeptic of American military interventions in the Middle East, argued in a White House Situation Room meeting that if the United States was going to hit Iran, it should “go big and go fast,” according to people familiar with his remarks.

In the same meeting, Mr. Trump’s top military adviser, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, told the president that a war could lead to significant American casualties. Days later, Mr. Trump told the public that his military adviser had been far more reassuring. He wrote on Truth Social that General Caine had said that any military action against Iran would be “something easily won.”

Other administration officials were similarly misleading in private sessions with lawmakers. During a Feb. 24 meeting with the so-called Gang of Eight — the leaders of the House and Senate and heads of the intelligence committees — Secretary of State Marco Rubio made no mention that the Trump administration was considering regime change, according to people familiar with his comments.

Three days later, while flying on Air Force One to an event in Corpus Christi, Texas, Mr. Trump gave the order for a sustained attack that would begin with the killing of the supreme leader.

“Operation Epic Fury is approved,” Mr. Trump said. “No aborts. Good luck.”

The White House insisted that its diplomatic talks with Iran were not mere theater. But it became clear over the past month that there was never the space for a deal that could satisfy Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu and Iranian leaders at once — or one that could put off a war more than a few months.

The talks delivered nothing, but for Mr. Trump they served a different purpose: time to complete the largest American military buildup in the Middle East in a generation and carry out, in Mr. Trump’s words, a war of “overwhelming strength and devastating force.”

In an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, the president said he simply became convinced that Iran would never give him what he wanted.

“Toward the end of the negotiation, I realized that these guys weren’t going to get there,” he said. “I said, ‘Let’s just do it.’”

A Rapid Buildup



By the middle of February, the Pentagon had built up a force in the Middle East that could sustain a military campaign of several weeks, including the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier.Credit...Stelios Misinas/Reuters


In the middle of January, when Mr. Trump first threatened to strike Iran in support of the anti-government protests roiling the country, the Pentagon was in no position to wage a lengthy war in the Middle East.

There were no aircraft carriers in the region. Squadrons of fighter jets were sitting in Europe and in the United States. And the bases scattered across the Middle East that are home to roughly 40,000 American troops were low on air defenses to protect them from an expected Iranian retaliation.

Israel was also not ready for the military campaign that Mr. Netanyahu had discussed with Mr. Trump during the Mar-a-Lago meeting in December. It needed more time to bolster its supply of missile interceptors and to deploy air defense batteries across Israel.

On Jan. 14, Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Trump and asked him to delay any military strike until later in the month, when Israel’s defense preparations were complete. Mr. Trump agreed to wait.

The two leaders would speak several times in the weeks that followed. Mr. Netanyahu also conferred with Mr. Vance, Mr. Rubio and Steve Witkoff, the lead White House negotiator with Iran. Top Israeli military and intelligence officials flew to Washington, and Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, communicated regularly with Adm. Brad Cooper of U.S. Central Command.

By late January, the protests in Iran had been brutally quashed, but the war planning hummed along. The U.S. military presented Mr. Trump with an expanded range of options, including sending in American forces to carry out raids on sites inside Iran.

Two aircraft carriers and a dozen supporting ships sailed toward the Middle East, and the Pentagon sent fighter jets, bombers, refueling tankers and air defense batteries.

By the middle of February, the Pentagon had put into a place a force that could sustain a military campaign of several weeks.

By then, Mr. Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, were having indirect nuclear talks with the Iranians, under orders from Mr. Trump.



(Sc. "Jews") Steve Witkoff, left, and Jared Kushner led the U.S. negotiations with Iran before the United States and Israel attacked.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times


But there were signs that the administration was wary.

“We have to understand that Iran ultimately is governed and its decisions are governed by Shia clerics — radical Shia clerics, OK?” Mr. Rubio told reporters in Budapest on Feb. 16. “These people make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology. That’s how they make their decisions. So, it’s hard to do a deal with Iran.”

The message was apparent: Even though the talks were about dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, the goal could be removing Iran’s leadership.

A telling moment came when Mr. Witkoff spoke to Fox News in an interview on Feb. 21 and described Mr. Trump’s reaction to the Iranian reluctance to agree to “zero enrichment” — that is, to dismantle its ability to produce nuclear fuel.

“He’s curious as to why they haven’t — I don’t want to use the word ‘capitulated,’ but why they haven’t capitulated,” Mr. Witkoff said.

He added: “Why, under this sort of pressure, with the amount of sea power and naval power that we have over there, why haven’t they come to us and said, ‘We profess we don’t want a weapon, so here’s what we’re prepared to do’?”

“And yet it’s sort of hard to get them to that place,” he said.

It was clear to the president’s advisers that he was strongly considering some kind of military offensive. The question was the scale of the campaign and exactly what it was trying to achieve.

Assessing the Options



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Monday 15th September 2025

A BIBLICAL RITUAL carried out to anoint Donald J. Trump as the “MOSHIACH”

Anointed Drumpf from Kallstadt
makes first public appearance at RNC




- following the Ear-False-Flag.

credit: News4JAX_2026-01-06


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Lavrov revealed the true intentions of Trump, who unleashed a massacre in the Persian Gulf


Lavrov revealed the true intentions of Trump, who unleashed a massacre in the Persian Gulf. 

One of
Trump's main goals in the anti-Iranian war is to destroy the positive unifying agenda that has emerged in the Middle East region in recent years.

This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the embassy's "round table" on the Ukrainian settlement, the correspondent of "PolitNavigator" reports.

"We remember how the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, long before the United States and Israel launched their campaign, publicly called for not using armed force against Iran and for resolving issues through diplomatic and political dialogue.

They publicly stated that they would not provide their territory in the interests of unleashing a war against Iran. They also said publicly that they would not give consent to the use of foreign military bases located on their territory to participate in this aggression.

And yet, they also found themselves embroiled in this war. I have no doubt that this was one of the goals of the operation, which is sometimes called "animal roar" or some kind of anger," Lavrov said.

"The goals are being debated now, even in the United States, many politicians cannot understand what the purpose of this operation is. President Trump publicly said that here... we eliminated Khamenei, otherwise he would have eliminated me. A few hours later, his defense minister declares that the United States did not organize the elimination of Khamenei.

We leave this issue to the Congress for consideration. But I have no doubt that one of the goals was to create a split between the countries of the region, between the countries of the Persian Gulf, Iran and its Arab neighbors, which in recent years, until recently, had a positive normalization process.

Russia actively contributed to this. We have been promoting a unifying agenda for more than 20 years," the minister added.



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The True Cost of Trump’s War on Iran

Posted By: SpaceCommando [Send E-Mail]
Date: Thursday, 5-Mar-2026 21:20:05
www.rumormill.news/265779

It's already in the tens of billions when you add up all the military staging costs combined with the cost of all the interceptor missiles being used to defend that parasite country called "israel". What a complete waste . . .

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True Cost of Trump’s War on Iran

The current war budget estimates that the total cost could skyrocket to $95 billion if the campaign is prolonged. In just the opening days of the aggression against Iran, US military costs have already torched through $1 billion.

The financial bleed started before the first bomb dropped. Moving carriers and troops into position cost $630 million. In combat, the losses escalated fast: three F-15E Strike Eagles downed in Kuwait represent nearly $300 million gone. With over 1,200 targets hit in 48 hours and two aircraft carriers deployed (one successfully struck), the operational burn rate is extreme.

Tomahawk missiles fly at $2 million a pop. THAAD interceptors cost $12.8 million each. Meanwhile, 50,000 US troops are in the theater, with daily carrier operations bleeding millions.

The indirect damage is worse. With the Strait of Hormuz disrupted and oil prices spiking, economists warn of $210 billion in broader economic losses. More than 1,000 Iranians are dead, mostly civilians. US losses are also heavy, with assets across the region incurring unprecedented damage.

US taxpayers are now funding a war that erupted in the middle of nuclear talks, targeting Iranian leadership. The human toll is climbing, and the bill is due. For a public weary of endless conflict, this is Trump’s most expensive gamble yet.


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