US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

I imagine in the spirit of keeping dialogue open - friends close and enemies closer sorta thing - getting a word in Trumps ear face to face can potentially avoid a lot more sh01te - I don’t agree in not meeting- you won’t achieve anything by doing this except to draw fire from these numb-nuts

No one is excusing attacks on neutral countries? Really?? We must be reading different threads so

That is a bit of a non-answer isnt it? "Minimise your interactions" What does that even mean?

You seem to ignore the fact the Trump has a very strong mandate this time around. His second term as President he won unequivocally. Not just the electoral collage, but the popular vote. The Republican's have full control of the senate and the congress. Basically Trump is the representative of American culture now.

Now many Irish people may not like that culture, but that is just the fact of it. American trade and visibility among Irish Americans plays a vital part in Ireland's economic interests. As simple as that. And the Irish-American vote is no longer the Democrat vote those days are long gone. It seems many Irish people here do not grasp this.

I think for many Trump's actions thus far on Iran (if it does not result in a long drawn out war) will end up increasing his standing among his electorate. Especially if he can spin it as a "win" at all.

So Martin has to factor in the political realties of the situation he cannot play "Student Union politics" and just "protest symbolically" what would that achieve?

You cannot compare the two IMHO,

Putin attacked for imperialist reasons and not resource driven.

Israel/US attacked for multiple reasons I think, Israel mostly because the Iranian regime is posing a thread for decades and are/were enriching Uranium at levels far beyond what was needed for use in powerplants, research etc. The US joined in because it needs to keep China in check and the vast majority of oil going to China is coming from Iran 87% and Venezuela 55% and guess what happened in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/02/iran-us-strikes-china-oil-supply-charts-00806415

Just my 2 cents

The west just allows them and they are all complicit in ethnic cleansing of the region

Except he's been found to have overstepped his mandate plenty of times, including with tariffs. He's also due to get a trouncing in the mid terms. We've already had local elections that have gone against the gop that wouldn't historically have. Plus he ran on a claim of being anti war and then drags the US into another illegal war.

So come November, he's likely to have lost a lot of the public support he previously had. His standing has been on a constant decline throughout this term btw.

Iran was enriching Uranium to 60% and above, There is no justification for enrichment when used for civil purposes

https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/crisis-to-watch-in-2026-iran-226527

Paper from 13 years ago but still relevant today

Terrorism holds a special place in the Iranian government’s military doctrine. What is
perceived by the United States and much of the broader world as terrorism is considered by the
Iranian government to be a legitimate means of defending itself and the Muslim Middle East
from American and Israeli “domination.” Iranian support for terrorism is closely tied to state
goals and objectives, including deterring and containing regional rivals, and is the product of
cost and benefit calculations, rather than of an irrational ideology.
It can be argued that a nuclear-armed Iran could be emboldened to increase its support
of terrorist and insurgent groups, with the expectation that its nuclear capability would ward
off a strong reaction. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, has argued that “at a minimum, a nuclear-armed Iran will be emboldened to
accelerate its aggressive activities in the region and act against its neighbors with little fear of
retribution” (Dubowitz, 2013).

https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_chapter_monograph/10.7249/j.ctt5hhtg2.10?seq=1

Mid negotiations, gimme a break, Iran was playing the long game, probably hoping to stretch it to the mid terms in the US.

Iran's reaction after it was censured by the IAEA

Speaking to Iranian state television after the U.N. agency’s vote, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said that his agency immediately informed the IAEA of actions Tehran would take.

“One is the launch of a third secure site” for enrichment, spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said. He did not elaborate on the location, but the organization’s chief, Mohammad Eslami, later described the site as “already built, prepared, and located in a secure and invulnerable place.”

Another step would be replacing old centrifuges with advanced ones at an underground site at Fordo. “Our production of enriched materials will significantly increase,” Kamalvandi said.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-iaea-sanctions-728b811da537abe942682e13a82ff8bd

Many papers were written on this topic, i suggest you invest some time in reading a few. Nothing about this conflict is black and white, good guys bad guys, No one wants to see Iran having a nuke, negotiations were going nowhere for years maybe even decades. So what is the solution ?

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/newsom-israel-apartheid-state-questions-future-military-support-00811441?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

Strong words from Gav... Man might be figuring out what's required to get the Democrats nomination.

I was looking at this here - probably more suited to the Trump thread but it is couched in the terms of the Iran invasion -

But the video states Trump has not faced any negative consequences for his attacks thus far. It does not mention the Tariff failure. But only in terms of military attacks. And Iran's main hope is they can turn public opinion symbolically against Trump. And impact on global econonomies etc.

But Trump is leaving office after this term anyway. At this stage Trump is thinking in terms of his legacy. And his family's legacy. If Trump can continue to keep it to short term pain with long term gain. He has won. So far, bar his tariffs most of his actions have worked out well for him.