Bofferbrauer2 said:
In fact, the US have now made their strikes twice during negotiations, first with Venezuela and then with Iran. Do you really want to negotiate with someone who doesn't care about it and instead will attack you during the talks? By the way, attacking a country while negotiations are underway is one of the gravest violations of humanitarian law. |
Iran tries to de-escalate, what does Trump do:
Iran sends first significant message of de-escalation, but with a major caveat
Shortly after Pezeshkian’s statement, US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran had “surrendered to its Middle East neighbors” and that it “will be hit very hard” today, with areas of the country under consideration for “complete destruction and certain death.”
Iran’s army issued its own statement saying that if offensive actions against Iran continue, “all military bases and interests of the criminal American regime and the fake Zionist regime on land, sea, and air in the region will be the main targets” of “crushing and severe strikes by the powerful Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Pezeshkian said the decision to stop attacks on the Gulf unless strikes on Iran originated from those countries’ territories was taken Friday. On Saturday morning, Iran fired 16 ballistic missiles and 121 drones on the United Arab Emirates alone.
His comments came with the condition that territories of Gulf Arab states, which host several large US military bases, are not used to launch attacks against Iran. Pezeshkian’s office stressed in an “explanation” statement after his speech that Iran would “give a decisive response to any aggression from American bases.”
A lot of information between the lines there.
Iran's military is acting on its own. There is no 'Iran' currently, decapitating the leadership was planned for and now there are decentralized factions all over Iran making their own decisions. While Trump is fully on board with Netanyahu to turn Iran into Gaza.
US and Israel made their own fears come true. Iran isn't going to roll over like Lebanon, Venezuela etc.
US is fighting to keep control over the world's energy flows, oil, gas in particular, controlling all the shipping lanes. (Don't forget what's happening in the South China sea, Panama canal Trump wants to take it back, Suez canal through supporting Egypt's Sisi)
Iran is fighting an existential war and has been preparing for this 'event' for decades. And now the more moderate voices in Iran that urged restraint and negotiations have been killed by US/Israel.