Iran explicitly warned it would attack the U.S. military if the U.S. military did the thing it just did. If these retaliatory strikes come, the warmongers will try to play the victim. But they chose to make this happen.
Peter Cronau on a 2009 Brookings policy paper outlining how Washington could use Israel to wage war on Iran while justifying it with a false narrative of failed nuclear negotiations.
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When the history of this period is written, Tehran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. administration of a lame-duck president will be depicted as a trap.
We’ve seen this before: The lies circulating about Iran are just a much dumber, much more obvious version of those that U.S. officials used to push for the invasion of Iraq.
The U.S. Constitution is in the hands of those who ignore it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. The consequences are deaths of innocents and the undermining of constitutional norms.
Israel’s new front with Iran signals the Netanyahu government’s willingness to induce terror in its own public, writes Miko Zeldes-Roth from Jerusalem.