In case you can’t remember, here are three stories that will clarify everything:
1) “U.S. Withdraws from Iran Nuclear Deal, Re-Imposes Sanctions.”
Summary:
On May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States was ending its participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the 2015 multinational nuclear agreement that capped Iran’s uranium enrichment and subjected its nuclear facilities to international inspections.
Trump called the deal “defective at its core” and said it failed to prevent Iran’s nuclear ambitions, while also arguing it did not adequately limit Iran’s missile program or regional proxy activities.
Following the U.S. exit, sanctions were re-imposed on Iran’s energy, petrochemical, and financial sectors, aiming to pressure Tehran into renegotiating a stricter deal.
European allies and other signatories criticized the withdrawal, warning it undermined diplomatic constraints on Iran’s nuclear work.
2) “U.S. and Israel Bomb Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Trump Says Program ‘Obliterated’”
Summary:
In June 2025, the United States — alongside Israeli forces — carried out airstrikes on multiple Iranian nuclear sites, including the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, Natanz facility, and the Isfahan nuclear center, after diplomacy faltered.
President Trump publicly claimed these strikes effectively destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and said they had “totally obliterated” Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium at threat-level scales.
However, independent analysis and Iranian reports later indicated that while the facilities were damaged or abandoned, no complete destruction of underground infrastructure could be independently verified.
Following these strikes, Iran suspended cooperation with UN inspectors and negotiations stalled, contributing to heightened tensions.
3) “Why Is the U.S. Attacking Iran? Trump Cites Nuclear Threat, Missiles, Extremist Support”
Summary:
By early 2026, escalating U.S. military action against Iran — culminating in a major joint offensive with Israel — was justified publicly by the Trump administration primarily on national security grounds.
Officials cited Iran’s continued nuclear enrichment and alleged attempts to restart weapons-related capabilities as key threats, asserting that an Iranian nuclear arsenal would destabilize the Middle East and possibly endanger U.S. allies and interests.
They also pointed to Iran’s development of long-range missiles, support for militant groups (including Hezbollah and Hamas), past attacks on U.S. forces and regional sites, and human rights abuses as contributing to the decision to use force.
Critics, including foreign policy analysts, have questioned some of the intelligence assessments and the clarity of the rationale, noting the absence of imminent attack evidence and drawing parallels to prior disputed war rationales.
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In summary, we had a deal with Iran that allowed us to inspect all their facilities. Trump didn’t like the deal, so he cancelled it, but had nothing to replace it (This reminds us of his attempts to cancel Obamacare, and still has nothing to replace it.)
So, with no one to oversee Iran, it began again to create the materials for nuclear bombs.
So we bombed them, and Trump claimed we had obliterated their nuclear bomb-making facilities.
Less than a year later, Trump discovered that Iran had been doing what everyone but Trump knew it was doing. When he discovered this, he went to war — a war that could have been avoided had he not, in 2018, cancelled the agreement.
Everyone who is related to those who are wounded, maimed and/or killed in today’s war can lay the blame right at Trump’s feet, for his senseless actions in 2018 and thereafter.
Trump’s MAGAs and the billionaire suckups will not understand the shame of all this. Instead, they will cheer the deportations of innocent, hard-working, valuable-to-America immigrants and join draft-dodger Trump in shedding crocodile tears for the war dead.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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