US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Oil down 6% on the leaked proposal by US and Israeli media. Trump and his cronies are getting ready for another money spinner over the weekend.

The new "L.O.S.E.R" AI Lego diss track from Iran is catchy af

Are you following online media where the US military and Reza are telling them to stay safe and stay home? And yet regardless of those instructions there are online videos of protests and one-on-one executions of Basij members?

I never said anything about supporting the British. Quit with the outrage at what people believe. Irish people fought the Nazis, not because they were British supporters, but because they saw the Nazis taking over the whole continent and figured the British and us would likely be next in line. They fought with what was the only option for them to do so to help stop it. Are we neutral as a country, no. Like it or not. We effectively let the US land in our territory whenever they like. We do depend on Nato for our defence. We left it to fishermen ffs to stop the Russians doing navy maneuvers off our coast.

While no war is welcome, the Iranians are no angels and are about as despicable a country as it gets with regard to sponsoring terrorists.

Well at least we’re seen countries speaking out- we need more of that because without that, we’re totally screwed. It’s important Europe also keeps the pressure up and holds firm - Trump and MAGA are simply feral at this stage - that means it’s a no brainer to remain strong against them

What Trump said about suggesting joint control of the Strait of Hormuz with Iran only adds to the impression this is at least partially about oil.

It's not good for the future of democracy for a country that many believe is engaged in democratic backsliding to have even more power over global oil market. It's also bad from the point of view of market manipulation to enrich members of this administration from possible insider trading. This was also rumoured last June.

It does reinforce the need for Europe to shift to renewable energy so we are not dragged into these regions.

Bad as the Iranian regime is, replacing it long term would take years or decades. Saddam Hussein was removed or n about three weeks in 2003, and Bush said "Mission Accomplished" on a US battleship. It was anything but. There were a series of insurgencies, first the Sunni insurgency and then ISIS seized territory the size of the UK.

Iran has hardly any experience of democracy. It did have an earlier revolution called the Persian Constitutional Revolution around 1912 that introduced a Parliament. The democratic experiment was destroyed by the US and UK in 1953 when they deposed Mohammed Mossadegh for nationalising Iranian oil, previously controlled by the Anglo-Persian oil corporation.

The lessons of Iraq show that trying to impose Western form of governments on an Eastern, Muslim country can be very difficult and expensive. I think the US Christian Right has a Colonial attitude to the Muslim World.

Yes, you are fond of the questions, but no fond of giving answers. They are very simple questions to answer. Do you want regime change in Afghanistan and Iran? Do you think that this can be achieved by preaching from a faraway ivory tower in a small neutral country?

Didnt Iran say that non-aligned countries could continue to use the Straits? Yet we now have this..

And this was announced yesterday.

““Vietnam Airlines announces temporary suspension of its domestic flights due to a shortage of aviation fuel.”

Great, you are happy that the world should just sit and watch while the horrific regimes of Afghanistan and Iran should oppress their own people.

Yet, you have called for action on Israel.

Interesting.

I think an essential stage is removal of US sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Afghanistan. That would give these countries an opportunity to earn income and hopefully it would be dispersed across all social classes over time. The US is essentially perpetuating problems by using sanctions to coerce these countries into a corner.