"Jason Brownlee: The lesson, not just for Iran but other regimes in the past, has been that moderation and reasonableness is the danger: that the US wants to attack when a country is making compromises, when a country is negotiating in good faith. In fact, exactly as you described, Iran under Ali Khamenei was at most trying to enter what is known as the “Japan club,” where you have a solid civilian nuclear program that is permitted under international law, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and that does not produce nuclear weapons but would put you a few months away from nuclear weapons if you needed to get there. That’s what Japan has; that’s what a number of other countries that are US allies have. So there’s a kind of latent potential for weaponization, but it never needs to be acted upon. And it’s absolutely within the NPT — which Iran has signed, unlike Israel.

In that respect, the US pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Trump’s first term and really tightening the screws on Iran over the past few years, including under the Biden administration, points to an attitude of grinding down a country and a government that is not presenting a threat and, on the contrary, is actually operating according to internationally recognized norms and rules."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-iran-israel-regime-change

#Iran #USA #Trump #Israel #Militarism #RegimeChange

Why regime change in Iran was never in the cards | About That
Although the U.S. and Israel claim several wins in their war against Iran’s military, the messaging from the start of the war about achieving regime change has fizzled out. Andrew Chang explains how Iran's deeply entrenched power structure and military strategy make its leadership so difficult to replace.

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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7142165?cmp=rss

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In Trump’s war messaging, #veterans see something new — & disturbing

#Service members & families who lost loved ones say the #Trump team’s memes & jokes trivialize #combat & #sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #idiocracy
https://wapo.st/4bvzfyu

Spot on!!

“It appears Mossad has activated ‘Iranian sleeper cells’ to pull Europe into war”

by Ricky And Council Estate Media on Substack

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@BBC5Live
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“It’s been exhausting watching our politicians condemn this recent ‘outbreak of antisemitism’ and pander to Israel when we all know Israel is behind this group, just like it is behind #AlQaeda and #ISIS: two organisations that conveniently never attack Israel. We are told it’s antisemitic to accuse Israel (a country engaging in both genocide and an illegal war of aggression), but strangely it is not racist to accuse their victim Iran”

https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/it-appears-mossad-has-activated-iranian

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #Mossad #SleeperCells #Europe

Great article! Well worth a read!

“Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink”

by Kit Klarenberg in Global Delinquents on Substack

@palestine
@Palestine
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@iran

“For years, it has been ever-increasingly clear the US military is outgunned, outnumbered, and outproduced by an ever-growing number of adversaries, and wouldn’t survive first contact with an actual war. Now the Empire has blundered into a historic, potentially lethal crisis entirely of its own making, and this impotence couldn’t be writ larger. The US and Israel’s kinetic strikes on Iran are faltering, and the economic conflict has been decisively lost. The longer this grinds on, the more they will lose”

https://open.substack.com/pub/kitklarenberg/p/strait-of-hormuz-closure-brings-empire

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #Economy

“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

@palestine
@Palestine
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@iran

“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar