The United States has fired the first shot against Iran, despite engaging in efforts to de-escalate tensions that began with the start of the year after President Donlad Trump threatened the Islamic Republic over a wave of protest that turned deadly.
Late in January, the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East, which began shortly after Trump made his first threat to Iran, reached a whole new level.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group entered the Arabian Sea on January 26, and around the same time the U.S. military’s most advanced electronic warfare aircraft, the EA-37B Compass Call, was sent to the region.
The following days saw the deployment of more warplanes to the Middle East, including F-35A Lightning II fighter jets, EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets, E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aircraft, an RC-135V Rivet Joint signal intelligence plane, HC-130J Combat King II search and rescue aircraft, and an MC-130J Commando II special operations plane.
Other military assets, mainly MIM-104 Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) air defense systems, were also sent to the region.
Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait have been the focal point of this military buildup.
Amid this escalation, on February 2 it was confirmed that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to hold talks, after mediation from Turkey and other regional powers.
Despite both sides showing some optimism, more escalation was reported on February 3. Three pairs of Iranian gunboats approached a U.S.-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. warship quickly intervened and escorted the tanker, the Stena Imperative. Later on in the day, a U.S. Navy F-35 shot down an Iranian drone that harassed USS Abraham Lincoln.
These incidents didn’t affect the plans for the talks. However, a demand by Tehran on February 4 to move the talks from Istanbul to Oman’s Muscat, and limit the scope of discussions to the nuclear issue led to a problem. Washington eventually agreed to hold the talks in Muscat on February 6, but is still insisting on including Iran’s missile program and its support for its regional allies in the agenda.
The upcoming talks will not likely produce any result. The two sides are two far apart, even on the nuclear issue. The U.S. likely agreed to the talks to calm down its regional allies, and to distract Iran. The same tactic was employed before Israel attacked the Islamic Republic in June of last year.
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it’s just drone stop clickbaiting 😡, they would ignore even if it’s piloted and crew became casualty, wouldn’t they?
talks exist to generate hasbara media repetition to manipulate populations to indoctrinated acceptance. iran has taken many strikes from sanctions mossad assets and illegal siege warfare. and more. the zio media leads the charge.
that’s a lie what is ignored by msm and has been for decades is the number of times iran has attacked israel. for decades . unreported. and the open format stories given out are as credible as this
“12 people died karen bass changed the report . it gets worse” raminreal report you tube . .
and ive seen the arsonists that they had lighting those fires on film and i saw the fire brigade parking their trucks up at the beach kiosk change rooms kiosk place , dozens of them literally and all of the workers casually strolling about into the building to have a meeting as casual as sunday picnic whilst people were being burned to death screaming for help. all under bass s instructions whilst she conveniently was away in ghana. imo . and that’s how msm operate they lie .
and they won’t tell you about how bass had the water supply cut off preemptive of the arsonists either nor will they and the ” trusted sources ” tell you off the fuel truck that i saw driving into the burning areas and i have no doubt whatsoever that that truck pumped fuel onto the fire no doubt whatsoever in my mind . they tell people every lie under the sun and always have but never tell the truth because they hate the truth . allegedly . never trust anyone . queen mum .
and just as dishonestly manipulative deceitfully prejudicial and discriminatory as ever actually now more rhen ever before , this year s nfl half time show with kid rock isn’t instantly accessible on you tube . every piece of propaganda and crap is , but for the first time ever the actual show isn’t.
keep on typing shit you halfwit
in americunt. hill billy dystopia our burgers now have added somali jizz
they aren’t somalian. here’s the clue almost 2 trillions dollars has been wiped off from metal markets crypto and the stock market in the last week and no msm are addressing it . they’re just superficially glossing over it. in other words half a trillion in gold silver sales ripped off consumers is being concealed , the same with crypto and shares . that’s not somalia that ran that operation of price fixing . and it’s not the jews either .
popeyestein the inbred shitfucker doesn’t like your contemporary prose.
zionald use kabbalah art (tactics). so it is impossible trust to zionald.
zionald admitted the studium of kabbalah in his autobiography book.
kabbalah is zionist art how to deceive goyim.
load of rubbish it saul alisky 12 rules for radicals that they use as their work book he dedicted it not to zuonidm but to satan. as you would know. imo
iran must survive the masters of the universe agression, the exceptionals from the western empire must retreat to their lesser colonies and rule their exceptionals little atlanticism dream. monroe doctrine from the exceptionals land must be revoked after the empire collapses on their own sins.
grow up you fool . the shah, the last shah who was not a royal bloodline family had himself declared king of kings at his coronation. wake up at least try to get to know fundamental issues about reality the vatican embodies the roman empire and its always stat3d that it is the one and only true religion in the universe and therefore it is entitled to rule the universe .
piss off, nazi. and take your mass murdering “religion” with you. adolf trump and adolf hitler rothschild both thought their cadavers are entitled to rule the universe 😂
america will also fire the last shot…heheheh…
the jooz and the amerikunts will be food for the buzzards.
since jews superior you americunts only qualified to scrub their toilets
you cannot negotiate with jooz or joo whores.
this is perfectly true, and was told by the native people in north america. its completely meaningless, the only good christian or “jew” are a dead one. its fake ethnicitys, out for to mass murder native people.
why the f,uck russia and china are totally absent in those waters? syria and venezuela are already fallen to us/israel. where are the ‘friends’ of iran?
russia and china are both mostly communist entities, with communism being an jooish invention. so why are you wondering their governments are sellouts to usraeli interests, and not truely helping iran ? it’s joos on both sides ruling everything, not poopers like trump, putin, xi jingpin or von der leyen, merz etc. they are just little marionettes of the real guys running the show.
aha, its the “jews” which created the tribe of 18 people in amazonas, without religion and without word for war. i thought the “jews” spread egypts walking cadavers.
the federation of russia is not communist. while several communists including karl marx himself were ethnic ‘jews’ most of them were atheists or not religious and all the rest were not jewish at all. friedrich engels was not jewish, nor was victor d’hupay or gracchus babeuf. but yes european young leaders are submitted to usil.
karl marx was only a communist as young, when he write about humans relation to nature. as older, he fell for the one ring, and started to count. most of technology are unnecessary, only used for to cultivate a slave cast, controlled by trick movies, hate, fear, fake science.
trump son in law kushner, trump daughter, putin, solovjov – as well as putins friend berel lazar – are all joos, and in the jooish stanic chabad lubavitch sect !
all countries are to big, for to have anything with communism to do. they are cattle corals, built on falsehood, use of sadistic corps, media. and to tell russia are communistic, you must be a “american” idiot ? they are so capitalistic, that they cant name the root cause to the war in ukraine 😂 they absolutely must copulate with it instead. a multipolar world can you look in a telescope for, as long the sharad continue.
killing slavs. as soon they look at the world, its to complicated for them. they only see trick movies about “moon landings”, and “airplanes” defying newtons laws. in their world, they feel sorry for the nazis, the christian cardinal sin.
hehehe, iran is chicken and scared of the usa and israel. see iran soldies marching, what an act and amateur clown show, typical of 3rd worlders. look at their amateur weapon systems do anything against the usa and its tickets for the iranian regime and country.
you americunts sodomized by taliban bend over in tel aviv gay bars–your anuz dripping with hebrew jizz
with the failure of the zionist/globalist backed revolution in iran the israelis/us deep state must now invent a cause for war to control the inevitable swing in power balance toward iran as the jewish state could then receive swift justice for their reckless campaign of murder and violence against all those they regard as inferior beings.
that would be all native people on the earth. you only need to read what they write here, about their fucking “religion”. they are exactly as hitler jugend. the core in christianity, and in nazi germany are the same. it also looks like russia have make itself incapable to see the root cause to evil on earth. else they should find a good use for the non-existent “nukes”, wipe out the genocidial entitys. serve good !
i shoot blank at 3 somali hillbilly in americunt trailer park–they shoot live jizz in my anuz–vanya rob jealous
“us capitalism = sabotage of all other countries.” ardman on sonar21 have get it. its a try to do the same to all native people, as in north america. and it have succede since the import of the blood thirsty “pacifist” einstein. they could at least declare that the use of “nukes” on “us” are good, and will result in a warmer climate 🥰
khamenei should resign
“since the attack on yugoslavia, these nazi warmongers have been allowed to run riot and never faced any negative consequences for their violence. bill gates once got a pie in the face. george w had a shoe thrown at him. that’s it!” sonar21. thats about all, for a mass murderer in the hospitals, and a clown 🤡 with stories about goats, with “us” in a fascistic coup, reaching over the whole world. and this shit russia “negotiate” with, and blame europe for its anti-fascism !