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#Iran was largely abiding by the agreement #Obama negotiated until #Trump pulled out of it, & though it was under no restrictions after that, it did not manage to produce a weapon.
Trump, in the middle of a Medal of Honor ceremony where he is explaining his rationale on deposing Iran’s supreme leader, starts talking about his White House ballroom project.
#US #war #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
#Trump finally entered the East Room of the White House 45 minutes late to give his first public remarks about the war he’s launched on #Iran. His chief of staff, #SusieWiles & #JointChiefs Chair Gen #DanCaine are there.
Trump said the #US #military “continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran.”
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#Trump said one reason for the attack was that #Iran “would have missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.” #US intelligence agencies believe Iran was probably years away from having missiles that can hit the #UnitedStates.
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Earlier in this speech, #Trump enumerated 4 objectives of the #war: destroying Iran’s missile capabilities, “annihilating” its navy, preventing #Iran from obtaining #nuclear weapons & ensuring that “the Iranian regime” cannot continue to fund regional proxies.
There was no mention of #RegimeChange in that list, though he has emphasized the Iranian regime as “sick” & “sinister.”
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#Trump has given conflicting justifications for his #war in #Iran, & has sought to downplay the country’s #military strength, he said that the regime’s ballistic missile program was growing “rapidly & dramatically, & this posed a clear, colossal threat to America & our forces stationed overseas.”
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Trump’s own #Defense #Intelligence Agency estimated #Iran would not be capable of building missles capable of reaching the #US for a decade or so, & had not made a decision to begin.
#Trump said the attack could last “4 to 5 weeks,” but “we have capability to go far longer than that.” He added: “I don’t get bored. There’s nothing boring about this.”
#war #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
#Trump only briefly mentioned the 4 #US service members who died. The event at which he is speaking is a medal ceremony honoring #veterans who fought & died in #US #wars.
Trump discussed, for the first time since the war began, his decision in 2018 to withdraw from the #Iran #nuclear accord negotiated by President Barack #Obama.
“That was a horrible, horrible dangerous document,″ he said, that would have given Iran “nuclear weapons 3 years ago.” [wrong]
