Steve Woods

"The central issue of Iran’s suspect nuclear intentions remains unresolved. Its facilities have been “obliterated” not once but twice. Yet it retains a hidden stockpile of highly enriched uranium, plus scientific knowhow that cannot be bombed away. This stockpile might have been peacefully surrendered or diluted, had Trump not torpedoed negotiations."

#Iran #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #RogueStateUSA

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/us-iran-war-donald-trump-failure

Here’s the news from Iran – Donald Trump is making America lose wars again

Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian
Mar 15 at 12:40pmWeb
Show threadPiglet4d ago
@wood5y Iran's nuclear position really wasn't secret, or hard to understand. Iran wanted nuclear deterrence but also wanted to be part of the world and lessen the sanctions against it, so settled on "we don't have a bomb, Mr IAEA can look and see...but we could put one together if we wanted" and it clearly failed as a deterrence strategy.
Show threadPiglet4d ago
@wood5y The inescapable conclusion for Iran and any other nuclear ambitious despot is almost certainly that there's a) no nuclear half measures and b) you'd better get to the bomb before the west gets you and c) negotiations with the west are not to be trusted.