Israel has launched a major attack on Iran, which could escalate into a larger war.
The United States is not just sitting on the sidelines, watching what is happening; the Donald Trump administration is directly involved.
The US government oversaw the attack. Washington provided Tel Aviv with crucial intelligence, to help it kill top Iranian officials, with US weapons.
Trump provided Israel with cover, by overseeing fake peace talks with Iran, which in reality were a cynical ruse.
As US officials met with their Iranian counterparts to discuss a new nuclear deal (after Trump unilaterally tore up the previous one), Washington and Tel Aviv were secretly planning the operation.
Trump personally gave Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to launch the strikes.
Trump: “I always knew the date” of Israel’s attack on Iran; “we knew everything”
Mere hours after Israel struck Iran, Trump told the New York Post that he had approved the attack beforehand.
“I always knew the date”, Trump said. “Because I know everything”.
“I gave [Iran] 60 days and they didn’t meet it. Today is day 61”, he added, referring to 13 June.
Trump repeated these comments in an interview with Reuters: “We knew everything”, he stated, revealing that the US government was in constant communication with Israel.
“I think it’s been excellent”, Trump said of the Israeli attack on Iran, in an interview with ABC News.
“We gave [Iran] a chance and they didn’t take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit”, Trump boasted. “And there’s more to come. A lot more”.
Just three days before the attack, the Trump administration sent Israel 300 Hellfire missiles, US officials admitted to Middle East Eye. These US missiles were used to kill Iranian officials.
Trump’s fake “peace talks” with Iran were cover for surprise attack
The Wall Street Journal summarized the Trump administration’s cynical strategy: “U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack”.
Trump falsely claimed that he wanted peace with Iran, and US officials participated in five rounds of negotiations with Tehran. The sixth was supposed to be held in Oman on 15 June.
These talks aimed to broker a new Iran nuclear deal. Back in 2018, during his first term as US president, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which had been signed into international law in 2015 and endorsed by a UN Security Council Resolution.
However, the Wall Street Journal noted that Trump’s bad-faith negotiations over a new agreement “ended up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli attack”.
This is how the Israeli media described Trump’s duplicitous scheme: “The US participated in a massive campaign to lull Iran into thinking an attack was not going to happen immediately”.
While publicly participating in these negotiations, the US government was privately helping Israel prepare for war on Iran.
A US official told ABC News that, before the attack, the Trump administration provided Israel with “exquisite” intelligence needed to target Iranian officials.
The media outlet Axios, which is very close to the Israeli government, reported the following (emphasis added):
Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn’t express opposition in private. “We had a clear U.S. green light,” one claimed.
The goal, they say, was to convince Iran that no attack was imminent and make sure Iranians on Israel’s target list wouldn’t move to new locations.
Netanyahu’s aides even briefed Israeli reporters that Trump had tried to put the brakes on an Israeli strike in a call on [9 June], when in reality the call dealt with coordination ahead of the attack, Israeli officials now say.
Trump boasts of US-backed “slaughter” and “brutal” attacks on Iran
Donald Trump is proud of his role in the attack on Iran.
Hours after Israel hit Tehran with US missiles, on 13 June, Trump took to his website Truth Social, where he boasted that “the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it”.
Trump wrote that some Iranian officials “spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!”
The US president referred to these Israeli strikes that he was sponsoring as a form of “slaughter”, threatening that “the next already planned attacks [will be] even more brutal”.
One and a half hours later, Trump published another post on Truth Social.
The US president wrote, “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal’. They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there”.
Trump’s message was clear: if Tehran didn’t give in to Washington’s demands and surrender its sovereignty, the US would keep using Israel to bomb Iran.
Marco Rubio lied; USA was deeply involved
All of this context demonstrates that US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio was blatantly lying when he claimed, “Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran”.
This is simply false. The Trump administration was involved in overseeing the operation. The US government provided Israel with intelligence and logistical support, not to mention the missiles, planes, and other military technology used to attack Iran.
Donald Trump personally gave Netanyahu and the Israeli regime the green light.
Moreover, when Tehran responded to Israel’s unilateral attack and hit back in self-defense, the US military was directly involved in intercepting and shooting down some of the Iranian missiles that were heading toward Tel Aviv.
What is clear is that everything that happened was a joint US-Israeli operation. Israel was not acting alone, and it certainly was not “dragging” the US into war. The Trump administration approved and oversaw this act of war.
Israel: an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US empire
Israel is an extension of the US empire in one of the most strategic regions of the world.
Tel Aviv does not make significant military and foreign-policy decisions without first getting the approval of Washington.
Top Israeli military officials have admitted that, without US support, the IDF would not be able to wage war on Gaza (not to mention Iran, Lebanon, and Syria).
This is why former US President Joe Biden repeatedly declared that, “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region; the United States would have to go out and invent an Israel”.
As former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig explained, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the same. He proudly referred to Israel as a “mighty aircraft carrier” of the US empire.
It is the United States that arms and protects Israel. Washington gives it billions of dollars of military aid every year, including the weapons, ammunition, planes, and missiles that Israel uses to kill Palestinians and attack Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.
The United States also protects Israel in international fora, ensuring that it does not face any consequences for constantly violating international law and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Trump administration vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council on 4 June that had called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The US was the only country in the Council to oppose the peace measure.
In 2023 and 2024, the Biden administration vetoed four UN Security Council resolutions that demanded peace in Gaza.
Ezz
2025-06-14 at 10:46
I’m Fully Stand With The Islamic Republic of Iran And It Has The Right To Defend Itself From The Murderous Israeli war of aggression!
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-06-14 at 18:18
So Trumpty Dumpty admitted, indeed boasted, that he merely pretended to negotiate for peace with Iran to lull the Iranians into complacency.
It was all a sham, just as Minsk 1&2 were shams, just as Istanbul was a sham, just as ALL so-called agreements between the USA and native Americans, between the USA and other nations, have all been shams. As Putin previously stated, the USA is not agreement capable. That is also true for US servile lapdogs Perfidious Albion, Germland and Froggyland.
Trump’s election platform was peace, no new wars, but he had zero intention of actually doing so, it was just a ploy to get elected. More fool the MAGA morons. Harris would have been equally war mongering but more honest. The only real peace President would have been Dr Jill Stein, a true blue Jew, not a fake Jew like the filthy Zionazis. Just as Mexican President Dr Claudia Scheinbaum is a true blue Jew, a sparkling gem of humanity.
Trump gave SatanYahoo the green light to attack Iran, even as SatanYahoo fled like the coward he is to Greece, to escape the return fire.
Pepe Escobar, adopting a wider view, says that this so-called Israel-Iran war is actually a war between the collective West and the BRICS, now a hot war.
https://www.youtube.com/live/TTUpoY-vWA8
The greatest risk to humanity is nuclear exchange which will absolutely occur if the West launches any nukes pre-emptively.
The BRICS have superior quality and quantity of conventional weapons and will never use nukes except in retaliation. So beware of false flags fabricated by the CIA/MI6/Mossad.
The BRICS must soldier on, hold the course, manage the inevitability of being hit by conventional strikes, but must hit back much harder and stronger and longer with their superior armaments and industrial production capacity.
Israel needs to be turned into the same hellscape that the Zionazis inflicted upon Gaza, a proper, fair and just outcome. Extermination / eviction of the foreign invasive deceitful non-Semitic AshkeNAZIs will eventually allow the ancestral indigenous rightful owners of the land, the Semitic Palestinians, to reclaim and rebuild their land.
China and Russia will be able to rebuild all infrastructure, hospitals, schools, houses etc in Palestine within 2 years and give everything to the long suffering Palestinians for FREE. Why? Because China and Russia are on the side of moral righteousness whereas the warmongering USA / ZioEurotrash are fucking murderous cunts.
In a protracted West vs BRICS war, western armaments, already in short supply, will quickly deplete, while BRICS weapon production will multiply without limit.
All the trump cards are held by the BRICS, not Trump.
China was previously reluctant to sell off its US treasuries because a fire sale will cause their value to tank. In the big scheme of things that no longer matters, all $770 billion of Chinese owned US TBills must be dumped cheap, even written off, which will force Japan to also dump their $1.1 trillion of US Tbills and all other foreign holders to follow suit in a frenzy akin to a run on a bank, causing the US bond market to crash. No foreigners will EVER buy US treasuries again once it is revealed they are actually WORTHLESS IOUs, never intended to be redeemed in good faith by the USA, only meant to be rolled over endlessly by electronic printing.
All trade between non-US countries must bypass the US dollar using systems such as those already operating between China and the 10 ASEAN and 6 GCC states, between China and Russia and between India and Russia. If certain European countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia etc wish to join such trade, they will be warmly welcomed, they will be embraced by the BRI, they will be embraced by the BRICS.
China must block all rare earth and high tech exports to the USA.
Russia must stop all fertiliser, oil, gas and uranium exports to the USA. The USA is UNABLE to produce affordable fertiliser and fossil fuels, their super-expensive production was only made possible by the freeloading US dollar parasitic privilege as international reserve currency, which must be abolished NOW.
All these measures will cause horrific hyperinflation in the USA.
Gasoline costing $20 a gallon, eggs costing $30 a dozen, with far worse to come. Mortgages will default, “neoliberal” capitalism will enforce widespread evictions and the US epidemic of homelessness will skyrocket.
Collapse of the US economy will destroy their ability to support the Zionazi terrorists (not to mention UkroNazi and Jolani type ISIS terrorists) leading to the EVAPORATION of the state of Israel.
It will spark severe unrest in the USA which will cause their so-called civilization to implode into Mad Max barbarism. Crowds will riot and stores will be plundered and trashed.
USAnians armed with shotguns and assault rifles will shoot at the militarised police who will mow down the crowds using APC mounted 50 cal machine guns.
It will be the Hobbesian war of all against all.
Mayhem within the USA that the USA itself had historically sowed in other countries via regime change operations conducted by the CIA and it’s cutouts USAID and the NED.
Just desserts for an empire of genocide, slavery, endless foreign interference / invasions / mass murders and nauseatingly deceitful hypocrisy.
All those events entirely avoidable if only western leaders could have behaved like mature reasonable adults, to keep their word, to live and let live, rather than behave like filthy lying knuckledragging deceitful Mafia gangsters and bullies.
Fuck Israel.
Fuck the Fascist States of America.
Pity ordinary Americans and Europeans who only wanted peaceful quiet lives, who opposed the genocide by Israel. If such people wish to migrate to Russia, even if they do not speak Russian, they will be welcomed and given land for free. The promises of Russia can be trusted unlike the USA. This is not a genetic trait, the differences are entirely cultural. The boastful, deceitful, belligerent, thuggish assholery of USAnians (and Blighties and Froggies and Germs) can be expunged by educating the next generation how not to be cunts.
Failing that, human extinction is guaranteed, entirely due to the cultural psychopathy of less than 10% of humanity.
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-06-15 at 15:01
The trend to bilaterally settle international transactions bypassing the USD is going ballistic
https://youtu.be/L-Ui0e4d3CY
The USA is blind to these events, is unable to monitor them and can do nothing about it.
Death by a thousand cuts for the global reserve currency status of the USD, now being turbocharged.
Energieerhaltungssatz
2025-06-15 at 07:40
I hope that Iran has Nuclear weapons, because Trumps rhetoric is a clear sign that he is trying to rule this out, so that US / Israel / NATO can attack Iran without having to fear that they get hit in return.
JonnyJames
2025-06-15 at 09:40
The US and imperial sidekick, the UK, and the neo-crusader state are playing with a proverbial powder keg. A desperate last-ditch effort to maintain hegemony, it looks like they are prepared to escalate to nuclear war. If Russia and China were not rational and reasonable, we would likely have had nuclear exchanges already.
In the larger context, The US continues long-term British imperial policy. The US inherited the genocidal, imperialist sociopathy from the good ol’ British Empire, the US is a product of the British Empire. The French simply call the US/UK Les Anglo-Saxons. No diff. (of course France has a list of historical crimes to answer for as well)
Let’s not forget that there would be no USA, and no Israel in the first place, were it not for the British Empire.
It aint just the insane emperor, right now Mr. Starmer (Governor of Airstrip One) is mobilizing the UK military to aid Israel. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/14/uk-moves-jets-to-middle-east-as-starmer-refuses-to-rule-out-defending-israel
The question remains will the Anglo-American empire collapse suddenly, slowly crumble, or end in a flash with mushroom clouds and Nuclear Winter?
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-06-15 at 21:12
JJ:
The downward spiral of the USA into worse-than-shithole-country status since January, on the verge of economic collapse and violent revolution, now an international pariah, has shocked even me.
So my question is whether Trump is actually an agent of China/Russia only masquerading as a profoundly stupid fascist redneck, but who is in fact a clever BRICS tool to hasten the downfall of the genocidal West?
JonnyJames
2025-06-16 at 09:49
EAB: What? the “market” is booming today, oil is down, gold is down, lower interest rates on on the way, so everything is great! The MassMediaMonopoly says that Tehran is on the verge of collapse and is asking for negotiations to resume.
But seriously…
Yeah, you would think that DT, Starmer, Merz et al. were planted by Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies to expedite the decline of the west in general. That would seem rational, however the corrupt, deluded “leaders” are not rational. In fact, DT shows signs of genuine mental illness.
To be crude: this looks like classic imperial hubris, path dependency, desperation, and normalcy bias. The Idiot Emperor is surrounded by sycophants, like the rest of the western “leaders”. The media are among the biggest sycophants, and the leaders are lodged high in the ivory tower of delusions.
All they know is the same-old reliance on air power, bombing etc. but no one bothered to crack open a history book and see that this won’t work. They believe they can continue the status-quo indefinitely, and these latest actions are a good example, of that. Even if Iran collapses, the empire’s decline is accelerating. (But we mustn’t underestimate the power of a dying, desperate empire)
In the US, UK, Germany etc. there are going to be bigger and more drastic cuts to social programs, and increases in military expenditures. The west is already seeing more breakdown of “the rule of law”, more authoritarian policies, more violence from the state. This will likely create more domestic unrest and resistance, maybe to the point of violent uprisings. The living standards in the US, UK, BRD etc. will continue to decline for the vast majority. (And that’s not even accounting for potential high inflation, and economic crisis caused by economic warfare, tariffs, sanctions, siege etc.)
All Great Powers in history seem to destroy themselves from within, due to overstretch abroad, massive institutional corruption, and blind hubris. The Anglo-Saxon Empire appears to be following the textbook path.
(Of course if escalation continues and any “tactical” nukes are used, all bets are off)
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-06-16 at 22:22
I was being facetious. You are of course correct.
JonnyJames
2025-06-17 at 14:25
I know, no worries, I was being a bit silly myself. As usual the tragic humor is written for us.
Helmut Höft
2025-06-18 at 15:27
A short comment from a German reader: FACK! (uh, sorry, is that Nazi now? Is that antisemitic?)