The Feb 28 attack occurred the same day as a #US #Tomahawk cruise missile struck a #school in the city of #Minab, several hundred miles away, killing 175 people. In the case of #Lamerd, though, it involved a weapon that had been #untested in combat.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #idiocracy #kakistocracy
New #US Missile Hit #Iran Sports Hall & #School, Analysis Shows
The #Pentagon used missiles #untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck #civilian sites near a #military compound on Feb 28, acc/to visual evidence examined by NYT & weapons experts.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
He said the foreign ministers of #Turkey, #Egypt & #SaudiArabia endorsed Pakistan’s peace efforts. The ministers are expected to meet again Monday.
#Pakistan has emerged as a mediator, having relatively good ties with both Washington & Tehran. Pakistani officials have said their public effort follows weeks of quiet diplomacy.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
Such a mission would expose #US personnel to an array of threats, including Iranian drones & missiles, ground fire & IEDs. It was unclear Saturday whether #Trump would approve all, some or none of the #Pentagon’s plans.
The Trump admin in recent days has vacillated between declaring that the #war is winding down & threatening to amplify it.
#Iran #BootsOnTheGround #IranWar #TrumpsWar #law #Congress #WarPowers
The #Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in #Iran, #US ofcls said, as thousands of soldiers & Marines arrive in the #MiddleEast for what could become a dangerous new phase of the #war should #Trump choose to escalate.
Any ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion & could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Ops forces & conventional infantry troops, said the ofcls.
#BootsOnTheGround #IranWar #TrumpsWar #law #Congress #WarPowers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/28/trump-iran-ground-troops-marines/
WE SAY NO TO #US #FOREVERWARS
By #Greens Senator #DavidShoebridge
As you will have already seen on your TV screens and social media feeds, the US and #Israel earlier this month launched an #illegalWar on #Iran. It is a devastating escalation, particularly for people across the #MiddleEast who for weeks now have been subjected to continuous bombing.
This should be a moment for #Australia to take a clear stand. To stand on the side of #humanity and #internationalLaw and make it clear we do not support #Trump and #Netanyahu’s illegal war.
Instead, the #Albanese #Labor Government, cheered along by the #Liberals and #OneNation, has committed Australia to another disastrous US-led forever war.
By deploying #Australian personnel to the Middle East and deepening our involvement, Labor is repeating the same catastrophic mistakes of the past. For decades, we have seen the consequences of being tied to the United States’ military machine. #Iraq. #Afghanistan. #Vietnam.
Wars that promised security and delivered destruction. Yet the Labor government remains unwilling to learn from that history.
Rather than charting an independent #defence and foreign policy grounded in #peace and de-escalation, they are choosing to double down on military alignment with the Trump-led US.
And that alignment runs deeper than many Australians realise.
Australia’s integration with the US military and the US industrial base has gone further than most people would expect. We host #USBases on our soil like #PineGap and #NWCape that are critical to US global warfighting. We buy billions of dollars worth of US weapons and have designed our entire military to be “interoperable” with the US.
We have hundreds of Australian personnel embedded throughout the US military. This includes three Australian personnel on the US nuclear submarine that sank an Iranian frigate and left the survivors to drown. Labor plans to have Australians make up 10% of all personnel on US nuclear submarines by 2030, allegedly as preparation for #AUKUS.
That is the reality of AUKUS. It locks Australia’s military into the US chain of command and draws us into US military actions before the public, or even Parliament, has had the chance to have a say.
Which raises a simple question. Who decides when Australia goes to war?
Right now, it is a decision made behind closed doors by a handful of politicians. In fact Australia can be sent to war with the decision being made by just the Prime Minister and Defence Minister.
That is why the Greens’ push for #WarPowers reform is more urgent than ever. We have introduced a new law that would require a #vote of #Parliament before Australians are sent into any overseas #conflict, and we forced it to be debated in parliament this week.
If lives are on the line, it should be the Parliament that millions of Australians elect, not a handful of government Ministers, who make that call.
At the same time as conflict abroad escalates, the Labor government is closing Australia’s door to people who are desperately in need of protection.
In a stark display of tripartisanship, the war parties of Labor, the Liberals and One Nation have come together to pass laws to refuse up to 7,200 #Iranians who already have valid Australian #visas from coming to Australia. The express reason they did this was so none of them could do what members of the Iranian women's football team did, come on shore and make an asylum claim.
It is the height of hypocrisy.
As all this chaos rolls out, instead of calling for peace, Labor has cheered the war on and sent 85 military personnel and hardware into the US warzone. Then they change the law to prevent people fleeing places like Iran from finding safety here. These measures go so far as to block people of certain nationalities from even applying for a visa, punishing individuals for the actions of regimes they are trying to escape.
We must not be a country that profits from and promotes conflict abroad, then turns its back on those displaced by it.
#TheGreens are the only party in Parliament willing to stand against this approach and speak and vote for peace not war. We are the only ones calling for a foreign policy grounded in human rights, international law, genuine independence and the core needs of the Australian people.
We say no to US forever wars and the war parties. We say yes to peace and cooperation. We say no to secret decisions to send Australians into conflict and yes to giving the Australian people a say over this war and every other war. We say yes to a defence policy that defends Australia and does not threaten our neighbours, as part of a broader commitment to genuine human security that is far broader than just guns, bombs and missiles. #auspol #uspol #TrumpRegime #RogueNation
Michael Rubin, a historian at the American Enterprise Institute who worked as a staff adviser on #Iran & #Iraq at the #Pentagon from 2002 to 2004, said #Trump is “the first president of any party in recent history that hasn’t self-constrained to live within rhetorical boundaries.” [what a nice way of saying #TrumpLies]
“So of course it creates a great deal of confusion,” he said.
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #propaganda #US #Iran #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
He has both threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s #energy plants if the vital waterway remains largely shuttered & said the #US was “not affected” by the closure.
At one point this month, #Trump said one of his predecessors—who, he strongly suggested, was a Democrat—privately told him he wished he had taken similar action against #Iran. Reps for every living former president quickly denied that such a conversation happened.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpsWar #propaganda #law #WarPowers #geopolitics
Trump's conflicting messages sow confusion [& disbelief] over the #IranWar
#Trump says the #US is winning the #war with #Iran even as thousands of additional American #troops deploy to the #MiddleEast.
He has pilloried other countries for not helping the US, only to say later he does not need their assistance. He has 2X delayed deadlines for Iran to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpsWar #propaganda #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #economy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-conflicting-messages-f9269cc4fe1cee914501b68ec5b6c217
President Donald Trump describes the war with Iran as a success, even as his message about the conflict keeps shifting. Trump says the United States is winning even as he sends more troops to the Middle East. He blames other countries for not helping the American effort, then says he doesn't need their assistance. He's delayed deadlines for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And he's sent mixed signals about how much the closure of the vital waterway matters. Former officials and analysts say his zigzagging is creating confusion. For Trump, his approach is bumping up against the unpredictability of war.
An Iranian attack on a military base in #SaudiArabia wounded at least 15 #US service members, including 5 who were seriously wounded in the attack….
#Iran fired 6 ballistic missiles & 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base in a Friday attack that wounded at least 15 troops, including 5 seriously…. US officials initially reported that at least 10 US troops were injured, including 2 seriously wounded.
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #war #Trump #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast
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