"In her written testimony, Gabbard stated Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was 'obliterated' in last summer’s strikes with 'no efforts since then to rebuild.' She had quietly omitted that passage when delivering her remarks aloud. Sen. Ossoff asked her to confirm it under oath. She did."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #Iran #war #nuclearweapons
/1
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-regime-got-wrecked
"Then Ossoff asked the follow-up—whether or not Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat to the United States—which was the White House’s stated justification for the war. Gabbard refused to answer. He asked six times. Ossoff cut her off: 'No, you’re evading a question, because to provide a candid response to the committee would contradict a statement from the White House.'”
"Then Sen. Mark Warner pressed her on the omission directly. 'I recognized that time was running long,' Gabbard responded. 'You chose to omit the part of the assessment that contradicts the president,' Warner said. Gabbard had no response.
Trump started a war on a lie. Democrats forced Gabbard to admit it under oath."
"You don’t have to carry water for the Iranian regime to ask yourself a simple question: How would you feel about all of this if you were in charge of Iran? The greatest military behemoth in recorded history, itself now led by a deranged autocrat ordering one lawless attack after another (Trump has bombed seven different countries just since January 2025)" (continued in /5)
~ David Faris
#Trump #Iran #war #nuclearweapons
/4
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-war-trump-neoconservativism/
(continued from /4)
"keeps pretending to negotiate with you, changing its mind, breaking its promises, murdering your leadership and acting with what appears to be total impunity over your skies. This is precisely why Iran was considering building nuclear weapons in the first place."
"Gabbard further refused to answer whether Iran was an imminent threat to the United States."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #Iran #war #nuclearweapons
/6
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-questions-why-japan-did
Good afternoon everyone, here is your critical mid day update from Capitol Hill.
"Fluctuations in gas prices typically result from complex policy decisions, global events, and supply-and-demand issues. But after the average national gas price jumped from under $3 per gallon to almost $4 in just a couple of weeks, it became clear that the most recent changes at the pump have a very simple cause: President Donald J. Trump and his war of choice in Iran."
~ Joe Perticone
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas
/7
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gas-prices-scare-senate-republicans-midterms-trump-iran
Without accurate information from the Pentagon on the cost of the war, experts, lawmakers, and government officials have stepped into the breach with estimates of the financial burden of Trump’s war with Iran — his second war on the country within the span of a year.
The numbers are immense."
~ Nick Turse
"While they’re asking you for $200 billion more, the damage from this escalation is already spreading globally. After the U.S. and Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, Iran retaliated by hitting Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City. That’s one of the most critical liquefied natural gas hubs on the planet."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #food #agriculture #economy #prices
/9
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-31926
Hi all, Ben here.
"We’re now learning that roughly 17 percent of Qatar’s LNG export capacity has been impacted, and parts of that infrastructure could take years to repair. Within 24 hours, a meaningful chunk of global LNG capacity has been disrupted. That affects energy prices. That affects supply chains. That affects everything from electricity costs to fertilizer to basic goods."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #food #agriculture #economy #prices
/10
"So who is responsible?
First and most obviously, President Donald Trump, and his collection of feckless and incompetent loyalists. ...
But no president acts entirely alone—whatever Trump wants us to believe—and it is well established that Trump can be swayed by what he hears from those around him."
~ Stephen M. Walt
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/17/israel-lobby-iran-war-trump-responsibility/
"And Trump’s inner circle includes many people who are staunch defenders of Israel, longtime beneficiaries of Israel-related campaign contributions, or both. …
Lobby groups such as AIPAC, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Zionist Organization of America, and United Against Nuclear Iran have worked to demonize Iran over the years," (continued in /13)
William Lindsey 
