The First Victims of The Israel/United States War On Iran

        Last Saturday, February 28, in the middle of the night, when most Americans in the Eastern Standard Time zone were asleep and Donald Trump should have been,  he was instead making a surprise announcement to the world - including to the United States Congress and the American people - from his luxury hideout in       Mar-a-Lago that he had declared war on Iran. The bombs were already falling. ​

       I believe I'll never forget how shocked I was to wake up on Saturday morning to learn that we were at war with Iran, with whom we were supposedly in the middle of negotiations.
       Though Trump offered a carnival wheel of reasons for bombing Iran - spin the wheel and see where it lands -  he neglected to share at that time that Israel had joined the United States - or rather,  that the United States that had agreed to join and empower Israel - and that this was in fact a joint Israel/U.S. war against Iran.
          One of the first places in Iran where the bombs were dropped was on a girls' school in the town of Minab. 180 people were killed, many more wounded, most of them school children, girls between the ages of 7 and 12. The walls of the school were destroyed and the roof collapsed. Children and teachers were buried and trapped beneath the rubble.

       Faced with worldwide outrage and accusations of a war crime, both the United States and Israel denied that any of  their planes were responsible for the bombing.            But it doesn't matter whether it was an American fighter pilot or an Israeli fighter pilot who dropped the bombs on those girls; the guilt lies with the United States, since we supplied Israel with their planes,

...and their bombs.
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      In fact, we supplied Israel with their whole war. Because, as is now coming out, this is not America's war; this is Israel's war. 
       As reported yesterday in the New York Times, and reprinted in various other news sources since, Benjamin Netanyahu had been pressuring Donald Trump for months to take military action against Iran. According  to a USA Today article from today, Netanyahu had been planning to attack Iran since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.             

          According to the New York Times article:
​         "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel walked into the Oval Office on the morning of Feb. 11, determined to keep the American president on the path to war. For weeks, the United States and Israel had been secretly discussing a military offensive against Iran. But Trump administration officials had recently begun negotiating with the Iranians over the future of their nuclear program, and the Israeli leader wanted to make sure that the new diplomatic effort did not undermine the plans."
       And so, though the United States and Iran were in the midst of nuclear talks which, as of Thursday, February, 26, were on track to continue the following week, Trump told the New York Times the day after the February 28 attack on Iran, "Toward the end of the negotiation, I realized that these guys weren’t going to get there. I said, ‘Let’s just do it.’”
            And so he and Netanyahu just did it.

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​References
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/read-trumps-full-statement-on-iran-attack?fbclid=IwY2xjawQTzTlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFlZ1ZkaHNYZzlPWndEYkFkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqYQ4wfsF-J87UCF0ckGDLi0F5esWpRo_C0wut9wSBMc6Piek4vJZh6gPA0Z_aem_dbPRHBCVPv2sFDbJtsABkg

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/politics/trump-war-iran-israel.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/03/03/israel-decision-kill-khamenei-after-oct-7/88957910007/#

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-defense/4479726/trump-gut-told-him-time-strike-iran/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1vd95nl9o

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/us-iran-nuclear-talks-oil-middle-east.html