End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Jun 16, 2025
A drone photo shows the damage over residential homes at the impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 16, 2025.
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In My Opinion
This attack on Iran by Israel and Iran’s counter-attack on Israel was and is entirely unnecessary. And it never would have happened had Trump not failed to act in-good-faith while diligently pursuing the invitation that he originally proposed to Iran on March 5th of this year. He has done nothing but interfere with the agreement talks.
Rather than negotiate he demanded unreasonable, if not impossible, demands on Iran by contradicting, altering, and changing the opening concepts and ground rules from the first meeting day of the very first attempt at an agreement and apparently intentionally demanded even more strict rules before every future meeting until the entire proposal fell apart while all the while telling Israel’s Netanyahu to delay any military attacks on Iran because a so-called Trump “deal” was close to an actual agreement. In fact, he lied to Israel as well as the USA.
So, eventually Netanyahu must have lost faith in Trump’s ability to ever reach an agreement with Iran and attacked their nuclear facilities without any further consultation with Trump or his administration. So it is that innocent Israeli citizens have been killed during the Iranian retaliatory bombing of apartment houses and other buildings, compared to the relatively small damage that has been done to Iran’s nuclear facilities, much of which is underground.
Trump’s lies and/or his incompetency are costing unnecessary human lives, and I believe he needs to be removed from office, not only for this predictable particular judgement error, but also for so many others — both economic and political — that he has made during his short — but far too long — term in office. For the safety of our country, other countries, and the world we must impeach, convict, and imprison this man to ensure a secure future here and elsewhere. ~llaw
With no clear exit strategy in Iran, Israel risks another war with no end
Analysis by Matthew Chance, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent
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Updated 6:51 AM EDT, Mon June 16, 2025
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A drone photo shows the damage over residential homes at the impact site following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 16, 2025.
Moshe Mizrahi/Reuters
CNN —
Despite stunning early successes in Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran, a weekend of intensive bombardment and retaliation is raising questions about Israel’s exit strategy – how it can end this conflict with its ambitious goals achieved.
While Israeli war planes pummel Iranian military and nuclear sites virtually unopposed, dozens of Israelis have been killed and injured in retaliatory Iranian attacks.
Meanwhile, the United States – though helping Israel defend against Iranian missile strikes – is for the moment refusing to take part in attacking Iran, forcing Israel to reassess what its military operations can achieve.
“The end will be diplomatic, not military,” one Israeli source told CNN, adding the Israeli hope is now that its ongoing military action “weakens Iran’s negotiating hand” in any future nuclear talks.
This same theory, that Israeli military action will pressure an adversary to make concessions, has failed to force Hamas in Gaza to cave. Still, the mere mention of Iranian negotiations as a possible outcome suggests a shifting view.
From the start of the unprecedented strikes on Iran last week, Israel made its aims perfectly clear.
The intention, one Israeli military official spelled out to CNN, was to permanently remove the Islamic Republic’s “existential” nuclear and ballistic missile threats.
And no time limit would be set, the official insisted, to fulfil that military objective.
But that ambition, always highly dependent on the United States joining Israel militarily, has now run up against the reality of US reluctance to get drawn into yet another Mideast war.
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Sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that Israel has spoken with the US about increasing its level of involvement.
But President Donald Trump remains – at least publicly – reluctant to plunge the US into another Mideast war and has continued to distance himself from the violence.
One US official told CNN that Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the US president is himself insisting that, far from entering the conflict, he is determined to broker an end to it.
“Iran and Israel should make a deal, and will make a deal, just like I got India and Pakistan to make,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, referring to his intervention last month in a brief confrontation between the two South Asian nuclear neighbors over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
But unlike both India and Pakistan, Israel needs America’s firepower, not its diplomatic intervention.
Despite Israel’s success in killing key nuclear scientists, as well as striking enrichment facilities, inflicting lasting damage on Iran’s nuclear program is still beyond its capabilities.
A satellite image shows significant damage to buildings and tunnel entrances at Iran’s Kermanshah Missile Facility after repeated Israeli strikes on the site.
Maxar Technologies
Some of the most important locations are buried deep underground, such as the Fordow enrichment facility in northern Iran, which is built inside a mountain.
Without US military involvement, including logistics support and bunker busting firepower, Iran’s capabilities could survive even a prolonged Israeli pounding.
There’s another flaw with the Israeli strategy too.
Even if every facility were destroyed, they could eventually be rebuilt by a regime that has institutional nuclear know-how. Moreover, if the Iranian regime survives the current onslaught it may understandably calculate that a nuclear deterrent, not a new nuclear deal, is its best defense against future attack.
Mindful of this, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly called on Iranian citizens “to act, to rise up” and topple their government.
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But intensive bombing campaigns have a way of rallying people around even the most unpopular regimes. Interviews conducted by CNN inside Iran suggest that even long-oppressed Iranians are now even more furious with Israel than they are with their own unpopular leaders.
Of course, it is less than a week into the escalating conflict and much could still change.
Iranians could rise up; nuclear negotiations could resume; President Trump could even change his mind.
But not for the first time, Israel is engulfed in a conflict with no clear exit strategy.
Its ongoing war in Gaza, launched in 2023 after the October 7 attacks, was aimed at destroying Hamas and securing the release of all the hostages being held, but there is still no clear plan for what will follow.
Now, Israelis face yet another grinding, dangerous war of attrition, with no time limits and no clear end.
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