President Trump says that he is in negotiation with Iran “right now” to avoid a military conflict.
“[The talks] are all over. But they are negotiating. They’d like to do something, and we’ll see if something is going to be done,” he told White House reporters.
“They had a chance to do something a while ago, and it didn’t work out. And we did ‘Midnight Hammer’, I don’t think they want that happening again,” he added.
This is all nonsense.
The United States never proved that Iran had nuclear weapons. It simply went ahead with a bombing raid. What, exactly, the U.S. now wants from Iran is anyone’s guess.
The US military claimed to have shot down an unmanned Iranian drone in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday. A CENTCOM spokesperson said that the drone was “aggressively approaching” near the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of Iran so an F-35 fighter jet shot it down.
Iranian media later claimed that the drone was conducting “routine” and “lawful” surveillance in international waters.
Iranian military leaders warned this week that their military is prepared for a conflict should the U.S. attack.
These were the words of Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi: “The slightest mistake will give us a free hand to act. The world will see a different face of a strong Iran; then no American will be safe, and the fire of the region will burn the United States and its allies.”
I vote we don’t find out for ourselves.
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