US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

LPG LNG imports from gulf were even smaller for Europe (15%) than oil (18%) and coincidentally enough there are some fairly large terminals opening in Canada and US gulf cost in coming months

Who knows. What i do know is that US and Israel assassinated the one guy who prevented them developing nuclear weapons and if they did develop one, for sure no one would attack them again.

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Lets be fair about this, its not as if they completely stopped working on the project, the infrastructure and the technology. It was only the last piece that was missing. Give me a logical reason for 60% enriched uranium for civilian usage.

“For sure no one will attack them again” that is a double edge sword as its easy to then say to their neighbours to do as we say or else.

They aren't being viewed in that way though. Look at the constant defense of their actions by both politicians and the media, people are literally being criminalised for supporting Palestine in Western countries now. At this stage I honestly think they could set up gas chambers and start gassing Palestinians using Zyklon-B and there would be ample defense of it, with some feeble excuses of this 'not being the same thing'. And to top it all off it would probably be illegal in many Western countries to compare it to the Holocaust.

The Usual Suspects is one of my all time favourite films, for anyone who knows it that line from Kevin Spacey's character "the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" always rings in my head when thinking about what Israel gets away with. Except in this case it's 'the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world he is not evil'.

What Slavic country voted to leave the EU?

They would not be sending thousands of soldiers to the region just as a negotiating tactic. They will be deployed soon

The EU backed Trump from the start of this war. Even our Irish government backed him.

Netanyahu says Israel will continue to 'crush Iran's terror regime'

https://www.rte.ie/news/post/104890714

But who will crush Israel's terror regime?

If irc at height of their Gaza butchery EU countries (incl. Ireland) tried to get the trade agreement suspended and forced an EU report to be done into whether Israel was breaking it (human rights/shared values bits).

The EU institutions themselves confirmed there were breaches of that agreement in the way Israel behaved (and is still behaving) in Gaza.

https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2025/0620/1519437-eu-israel/

However, not enough EU member states in the Council supported taking action.

A lot of the trade decisions (like suspending all or part of that agreement) are qualified majority votes so I think if a few others who still always support Israel turn, we could see sanctions enacted. Maybe still unlikely, but not impossible any more IMO. Israel's behaviour hasn't changed, it is still getting worse (by metric of additional bigger wars started), they continue to have a blank cheque from the US govt. and can do as they like it seems.

Another factor is I wonder if the shield Israel hides behind of countries not wanting to provoke American ire and draw the eye of Trump and the Republicans by upsetting their "pet" in the ME might fail somewhat. They are all having new heaps of shít dumped on them almost daily by the Trump admin. in any case, no matter how obsequious and careful they have tried to be. Hung for a sheep (and maybe gain popularity at home)?

Netanyahu has utter contempt for Europe, seems like his govt.'s only real friends there now are the far right pro-Russia leaders (e.g. Viktor Orbán). IMO their govt. is constantly baiting even countries (e.g. Germany) who have backed them all the way so far and prevent sanctions being enacted (but who don't currently have kind of radical right wing "Trumpian" type leadership Israel's govt. seems to favour),

DW reporting on YouTube that some members of Gulf Cooperation Council want war to continue including Saudi Arabia, and UAE. UAE said to want changes in Iran's government and supporting a land invasion.

Also Iranian Parliament discussing introducing tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. Reports some ships have already been charged $2 million to be let through , and this is through a corridor between Keshm island and Larak island.