▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to decide on strikes on Iran that took place hours later, US President Trump is claiming a ceasefire was agreed to;

▪️Iran would need to be beyond naive to accept or trust any word or action by the US - the US has not spent decades trying to topple Iran amid its regional murder spree to suddenly abandon it - its ENTIRE global aspirations hinge on it - it has used Israel as a conduit to launder its war crimes & provocations through & will continue to;

▪️To effect regime change, the US would benefit most by luring Iranian leaders out of cover & striking them, provoking retaliations & further war;

▪️Iran requires not a "Libya model," but a "North Korea model" or else this process will repeat itself until it concludes in Washington and Wall Street's favor;

▪️The same "experts" who failed to see this war coming in the first place are now citing 5D chess strategies to explain how the Trump administration somehow averted a war entirely of its (and the establishment it serves) own creation and design to begin with;

▪️The US will only stop when (1) people stop falling for this through excessive delusion, and (2) the rest of the world unites to force the US to stop;

▪️If a genuine ceasefire is reached, it will likely have been the work of Russia and China quietly forcing the US to, through private but sufficient threats coupled with a graceful public exit ramp - though the chances of the US honoring it hover around 0%;

References:

The New Atlas (X) - Claims of US-Israel-Iran "Ceasefire" (June 24, 2025):
https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1937289445092524520
Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent, Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East (2009):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG781.html
Washington Post - Israeli warning call to top Iranian general: ‘You have 12 hours to escape’ (Jun 23, 2025):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/23/exclusive-israel-intelligence-iran-call-audio/
The Jewish Daily Forward - How Iran’s Jews Survive in Mullahs’ World (Aug. 2015):
https://forward.com/news/319269/irans-jews-win-secure-place-in-mullahs-world-with-strings-attached/

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Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent, Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East (2009):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG781.html
NYT - A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Show the Limits of China’s Power (Jun 20, 2025):
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- The US is fighting a war with Iran already, through Israel in the same manner it fights Russia through Ukraine;

- US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reported Iran has no nuclear weapons and is not working on them to which the US president and other US officials have declared will be ignored and pursuit of war will continue;

- The war will be determined by the number of missiles Iran is able to maintain and use throughout the fighting and the depletion of US-Israel air defense systems;

- Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel itself, laying to rest war propaganda claiming Iran wants to “exterminate” the Jewish people;

References:

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Reuters - Trump calls for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' as Israel-Iran air war rages on (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-urges-tehran-evacuation-iran-israel-conflict-enters-fifth-day-2025-06-17/
CBS - Trump says he wants "real end" to Iran's nuclear program, not just an Iran-Israel ceasefire (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-real-end-iran-nuclear-program/

US Role in Israeli Military Power

BBC - Israel's smaller, sophisticated military opposes larger Iran (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lxkpekedo
ABC News - Trump tells ABC Israel strikes on Iran 'excellent' and warns 'more to come' (Jun 14, 2025):
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-tells-abc-israel-strikes-iran-excellent-warns/story?id=122807155#:~:text=A%20U.S,missiles%20targeting%20Israel.
Breaking Defense - Israel orders more Iron Dome interceptors, using new tranche of US funding (Jan 2025):
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/israel-orders-more-iron-dome-interceptors-using-new-tranche-of-us-funding/
Defense News - Israel’s Arrow 3 missile-defense sale to Germany gets US nod (Aug 17, 2023):
https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2023/08/17/israels-arrow-3-missile-defense-sale-to-germany-gets-us-nod/
Jerusalem Post - US boosts Israel defense aid by $5.2 billion for laser tech, Iron Dome, David’s Sling (Sep. 2024):
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-821919
CNN - One number could define the Iran-Israel conflict’s outcome (Jun 17, 2025):
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/middleeast/iran-israel-conflict-ballistic-missiles-analysis-intl-latam
TWZ - Israeli Airstrikes Blunt Iranian Long-Range Ballistic Missile Threat (Updated) (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.twz.com/news-features/israeli-airstrikes-blunt-iranian-long-range-ballistic-missile-launch-capabilities
WaPo - Israel-Iran conflict may last only as long as their missiles hold out (Jun 18, 2025):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/17/israel-iran-missile-conflict/


Dismantling US-Israeli Propaganda

Jerusalem Post - Iran’s Jewish leaders call Israel strikes ‘savage Zionist aggression,’ urge ‘daily missile salvos’ (Jun 16, 2025):
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-857895
The Jewish Daily Forward - How Iran’s Jews Survive in Mullahs’ World (Aug. 2015):
https://forward.com/news/319269/irans-jews-win-secure-place-in-mullahs-world-with-strings-attached/

US Policy Papers Engineering Wars of Aggression on Iran

Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent (2009):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG781.html



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-Iran has retaliated against US-backed Israeli strikes on Iran;

-Waves of 100s of missiles have struck targets across Israel;

-Iran is calibrating its retaliation to raise the cost of continued Israeli aggression;

-Iran seeks to avoid wider war and will only escalate if it is imposed upon it;

-Iranian leaders are taking a number of factors into consideration regarding policies before and after US-Israeli aggression and are focused primarily on a strategy of survival, not revenge;

References:

ABC News - Trump tells ABC Israel strikes on Iran 'excellent' and warns 'more to come' (Jun. 14, 2025):
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-tells-abc-israel-strikes-iran-excellent-warns/story?id=122807155#:~:text=A%20U.S,missiles%20targeting%20Israel.
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References:

Washington Post - U.S. shrinks presence in Middle East amid fears of Israeli strike on Iran (Jun. 11, 2025):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/11/us-israel-iran-attack-fears/
Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
Brookings Institution - Contributions (2020):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Brookings-Institutions-Contributors-List-Fiscal-Year-2020.pdf
Brookings Institution - Contributions (2022):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/brookings_contributorslist_fy2022.pdf
Brookings Institution - Contributions (2023):
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“Just as has been the case throughout the Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations, President Trump will continue overseeing the use of extremist groups to advance US foreign policy objectives around the globe, including in the Middle East and specifically against the nation of Iran. President Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Syria and his normalization of the leader of a still US-listed terrorist organization demonstrates the vast disparity between President Trump’s rhetoric and the reality of what his administration is actually presiding over.”


References:

NEO - Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda* in Syria (May 29, 2025):
https://journal-neo.su/2025/05/29/continuity-of-agenda-trump-administration-white-washes-bush-obama-biden-backed-al-qaeda-in-syria/
Reuters - Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal (May 14, 2025):
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-starts-gulf-visit-seeking-big-economic-deals-2025-05-13/
CSIS (YouTube) - Syria in the Gray Zone (time stamp at 14 minutes and 9 seconds) (Nov. 1, 2019):
https://www.youtube.com/live/MFsFOS5Odno?si=EFUG5T6Mjw8edqSp&t=849
US State Department - Foreign Terrorist Organizations (accessed May 24, 2025):
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
NYT - C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition (Jun. 21, 2012):
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html
New Yorker - The Redirection (2007):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
NYT - U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (Apr. 14, 2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
PBS - Qassem Soleimani’s Complex Legacy in Iraq (Jan. 2020):
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/qassem-soleimani-killed-airstrike-iran-iraq-legacy/
BBC - Manchester attack: The Libya-jihad connection (May 2017):
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40037830

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"While the Trump administration depicts the Golden Dome as necessary to “forever end the missile threat to the American homeland,” it is instead being built to enable the US to forever threaten other nations around the globe with its missiles.

The rest of the world will predictably react to the Golden Dome by creating their own means to defend themselves and retaliate against the US if attacked, making Americans not only less safe, but in the process of building the Golden Dome, less prosperous."

References:

NEO - Washington’s “Golden Dome” – Multi-Trillion Tax Dollar Heist at Best, Dangerous Provocation at Worst (May 25, 2025):
https://journal-neo.su/2025/05/25/washingtons-golden-dome-multi-trillion-tax-dollar-heist-at-best-dangerous-provocation-at-worst/
The White House (YouTube official channel) - President Trump Makes an Announcement with the Secretary of Defense (May 21, 2025):
https://www.youtube.com/live/HnwhfL35z6I?si=B0kfzt27NGMdNxEL
Politico - President Reagan calls for launching ‘Star Wars’ initiative, March 23, 1983 (2017):
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/president-reagan-calls-for-launching-star-wars-initiative-march-23-1983-236259
Flash News: US Relocates Patriot and THAAD Air Defense Missile Systems to Middle East as Tensions Surge with Houthis (Apr. 2025):
https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/flash-news-us-relocates-patriot-and-thaad-air-defense-missile-systems-to-middle-east-as-tensions-surge-with-houthis
SCMP - Philippines set to host second Typhon missile system, signalling Trump’s defence pledge (Mar. 26, 2025):
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3303967/philippines-set-host-second-typhon-missile-system-signalling-trumps-defence-pledge
US DoD - U.S. to Deploy THAAD Missile Battery to South Korea (Jul. 8, 2016)
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/831630/us-to-deploy-thaad-missile-battery-to-south-korea/
ABC News - Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine (Oct. 2019):
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898
NYT - The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
Newsweek - Taiwan Confirms US Troops on Front-Line Islands Near China (Mar. 2024):
https://www.newsweek.com/taiwan-confirms-us-troops-front-line-islands-near-china-1880865
NPR - Satellite images show dozens of Iranian missiles struck near Israeli air base (Oct. 2024):
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5140058/satellite-images-dozens-iranian-missiles-struck-near-israeli-air-base
US Department of Defense - The National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) (2023):
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS.html
NEO - Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base (Feb. 2024):
https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/15/fatal-flaws-undermine-americas-defense-industrial-base/
NYT - Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say (Sep. 13, 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html
New Atlas - The Fatal Flaw Undermining America's Defense Industrial Base (Feb. 2024):
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- A recent NYT article claims actions and statements from the Trump administration “suggest” it “might want” to divide the world into US, Russian, and Chinese spheres of influence;

- However, the article mentions US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has outright dismissed this theory, while elsewhere deliberately misrepresenting ongoing US talks with Russia over Ukraine to support this claim;

- Regarding Ukraine, the Trump administration has already made it clear that it wants to create a division of labor between it and Europe to freeze the conflict, allowing the US to pivot to China and return as part of a process called “strategic sequencing;”

- While multiple signed and dated policy papers spanning years have laid out a strategy of Washington’s continued pursuit of primacy worldwide, no policy papers exist suggesting plans for “spheres of influence;”

- To create a foreign policy dividing the world in such a manner would require immense groundwork to be laid by policymakers, groundwork that simply doesn’t exist and isn’t being created;

References:

NYT - Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers? (May 26, 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/politics/trump-russia-china.html
US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (As Delivered) (Feb. 12, 2025):
https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/
Stars and Stripes - ‘It needs to be a thousand’: US has 500 military trainers on Taiwan, retired admiral says (May 27, 2025):
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-27/taiwan-military-trainers-testimony-17924124.html
Marathon Initiative - Strategic Sequencing, Revisited (Oct. 2024):
https://themarathoninitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Strategic-Sequencing-Revisited-Final-2024-10.pdf

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