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#Iran #escalation #MiddleEast #WorldWarIII

#Trump has lost his damned mind:

Acyn -- @Acyn

Trump: You see this pen right here? This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. Sharpie. I came here.

They had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen, ball point.

I hand out to kids that don't know. It's kid getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is.

I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I sign—no ink.

I have all you people looking and say there must be something wrong with Trump. There is no ink in the pen. It cost $1,000.

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

Continuing 2:

@LRozen

Trump going on at length about pens

Bessent who just gave Iran a sanctions waiver to sell oil is calling them an evil regime

Samer Al-Atrush -- @SameralAtrush

The main challenge of this war has been the Hormuz sized hole that can't be smothered by Truth Social posts.

Laura Rozen -- @LRozen

Despite reports Iran does not consider the US proposal realistic and not interested in a ceasefire, Trump insists Iran is defeated and is begging to make a deal.

Sounds like Pakistan is worried that Trump admin/US expectations of it producing a peace meeting/Iran off ramp are too high

Ishaq Dar -- @MIshaqDar50

There has been unnecessary speculation in the media regarding beingpeace talks to end ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In reality, US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Pakistan. In this context, the United States has shared 15 points, being deliberated upon by Iran

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Continuing:

@LRozen

"When you succeed in your military targeting, and don’t succeed in reducing the threat, or achieve more security and stability, that is not success

Ignoring the hundreds of million dollars in sanctions relief Trump just gave Iran, Hegseth raises the return of Iranian money after the nuclear deal

Listening to Hegseth, you can see how Vietnam happened. He is self propagating

Witkoff is not competent and this is who the Trump admin is counting on for getting an off ramp from the Iran war

Trump on to his ballroom. He is really meandering, incoherent. Says the military wanted it more than anything

Trump harping on all his usual gripes, semi senile autocrat

Trump’s mental decline is so much more evident than was Biden’s. Biden had trouble with words. Trump can’t stay on topic

Trump totally meandering, buildings to pens to the people he sent the Justice Dept to prosecute because he is mad at them

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

03/26 AM Update:

Laura Rozen -- @LRozen

"Despite reports Iran does not consider the US proposal realistic and not interested in a ceasefire, Trump insists Iran is defeated and is begging to make a deal

It sounds like he is unsure how to deal with the fact Iran not surrendering. But he directs his expressed disappointment as being at Nato

His presidency is not going well, and his insistence that it is going better than he thought does not inspire confidence

Vance on Iran gives a hyped up suicide vest scenario that sounds absurd: What we have now is the ability to use every tool we have to ensure Iran does not have nuclear weapons"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

"JD Vance: "You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on. And they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest can kill many many tens of thousands of people?""

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

@990000

"The building was on a target list for years. Yet this [the school was listed in Iranian business listings] was missed, and the question is how."

Because not one human being, with the ability to see contradictory evidence for what it was, was involved in the targeting decision

Also see: a frantic rush to another #KineticStrike for the erotic arousal of #AmmoSexual #PeteHegseth

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

@samlitzinger

"...and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.”"

Yup

There ya go

There's a real "Christian" right there, people

#PeteHegseth #Diseased

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #BenjaminNetanyahu

At least you know

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Where we are today:

Abigail Hauslohner -- @ahauslohner

9:40 AM · Mar 18, 2026

Pressed by Sen. @Ossoff on whether the intelligence community's had assessed that #Iran posed "an #ImminentNuclearThreat", as claimed by the #WhiteHouse, #Gabbard said:

"It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat."

and:

Abigail Hauslohner -- @ahauslohner

Gabbard, the #DirectorofNationaIintelligence, who had said she was briefing #Congress today to provide "the intelligence community's assessment of the threats" later said:

"The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president."

Dare I say 'wow...'?

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