๐จ๐The US/Israel War on Iran Just Entered A Dangerous New Phase.
The Iran deal is over. Not quietly. Not through a diplomatic statement. Trump declared it dead from the floor of a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, while standing next to the alliance's Secretary General, having ordered strikes on Iran from a dinner table at a Turkish presidential palace hours earlier.
"For me, I think it's over," Trump told reporters on Wednesday. "As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time. They're liars, they're cheats. They're sick people."
Here is what the 24 hours leading to that statement looked like.
Iran struck three merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The US launched retaliatory strikes on Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Qeshm Island, and Kharg Island, Iran's most vital oil export hub. The US also revoked the license that had allowed Iran to sell oil under the MOU signed on June 17. Iran's IRGC then fired missiles and drones at 85 US military targets across Bahrain and Kuwait. Air raid sirens sounded across both countries. A Saudi-flagged supertanker was struck by an Iranian missile near Oman's coast, causing a fire in the engine room.
NATO Secretary General Rutte, the same man who called Trump "the leader of the free world" in the Oval Office two weeks ago, backed the strikes on Wednesday, calling them "absolutely necessary." Trump shot back that the UK wouldn't allow all its bases to be used and Italy was "very bad" at supporting the US. On the sidelines of the same summit, Trump ordered a halt to all US trade with Spain.
The escalation happened during Iran's state funeral for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed early in the war. Mourners have been openly calling for Trump and Netanyahu's deaths to be avenged. Iran's latest maneuver in the Strait appears deliberately timed, a message sent while Trump sat at a NATO dinner table in a country that borders Iran.
We documented every step of this collapse. The MOU that excluded Israel and Hezbollah. The Switzerland talks paused by a Truth Social post. The hotline never activated. The $300 billion fund nobody agreed to. The deal declared "days away" at least five times. The self-defense framing on unverified strikes.
It all ends here. With Trump calling it a waste of time from Ankara. And Iran proving, one more time, that it never needed Washington's permission to define the terms of this conflict.






































