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#Trump Has No Plan for the #IranianPeople [shocker. gasp. color me freaking floored.]

The mere act of bombing #Iran will not by itself create a stable regime. [no doubt]

by Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum

#US #Iran #Israel #war #Trump #Netanyahu #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfU2MPc4vbEzY6HrClVD_b4

Iran’s Red Crescent says #Israel - #US airstrikes across #Iran have killed 201 people & injured 747, according to comments on Iranian state TV.

The spokesperson for the #RedCrescent said the strikes have hit 24 of Iran’s 31 provinces. The spokesperson said relief operations are ongoing, & that 220 teams were deployed to different sites to respond to the strikes.

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#Trump has spoken with the leaders of #SaudiArabia, #Qatar, the #UAE & #NATO Secretary-General #MarkRutte [& basked in the attention which is all Trump cares about], after the strikes on #Iran, acc/to White House propagandist Karoline Leavitt.

Trump has yet to detail the strikes, the urgency behind them, or the legality of them to the public.

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Despite earlier assurances from the Iranian regime, #Israel PM #Netanyahu says ‘signs are growing’ that Iran’s supreme leader Ali Hosseini #Khamenei was killed.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t?post=asset%3Ae5985985-5030-40b9-8af1-f73fefe3dbd3#post

Reportedly #JDVance monitored #Iran strikes from White House, while #Trump & #JointChiefs Chairman were literally phoning-it-in from Mar-a-Lago [f⁕⚠︎ing jerkoffs] , sources say

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https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28-2026#0000019c-a59a-ddac-ad9f-b7ffb2e80000

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The #US & #Israel launched a major attack on targets across #Iran Saturday.

#Trump urged Iranians to take cover during the strikes, but then said “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.” It was an extraordinary appeal that suggested the allies could be seeking to end of the country’s theocracy after decades of tensions.

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https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-28-Breaking+News

#Israel PM Benjamin #Netanyahu echoed that sweeping goal. “Our joint operation will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their fate into their own hands,” he said.

In a video posted on social media, #Trump claimed #Iran has continued to develop its #nuclear program & plans to develop missiles to reach the #US.

#RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

The first strikes of the attack appeared to target the compound home to Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei in downtown Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if he was there at the time. Smoke could be seen rising from the Iranian capital.

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#Iran responded as it had been threatening to do for months — first launching a wave of missiles & drones targeting #Israel. It followed with strikes targeting #US #military installations in #Bahrain, #Kuwait & #Qatar. The #UAE & #Iraq shut down their airspace.

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#Trump indicated the #US was striking for reasons far beyond the #nuclear program, listing grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic following a revolution in 1979 that turned #Iran from one of America’s closest allies in the #MiddleEast into a fierce foe.

Read Trump’s address in full∶
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-trump-address-f662a4f3378535d81197be699fb35a3e

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#Iran on Saturday said the #US - #Israel airstrikes in southern Iran killed students at a #girls’ #school, the first confirmed fatalities in the operation.

The death toll at the girls’ school has risen to at least 40 people killed, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

At least 45 others had been wounded in the attack in Minab in Iran’s Hormozgan province.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard [#IRGC] has a base in the city.

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#Israel said the attack against #Iran was a “broad, coordinated, & joint operation against the regime” that had been planned for months between the Israeli & #US #military.

PM #Netanyahu said in a recorded message released Saturday morning that Israel plans the current operation to be “much more powerful” than the bruising 12-day war Israel launched against Iran in June.

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Two officials with different #Iran backed #militias in #Iraq told The Associated Press that a meeting took place two months ago between Iranian officials & allied Iraqi militias to make plans for a response in case Iran was attacked, including distributing tasks among the Iraqi armed groups.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

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One of the officials said it was decided that the response would target #US forces & interests in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region & in neighboring #Jordan.

US troops have vacated bases where they were previously stationed in #Iraq in areas under the control of the central government in Baghdad as a result of an agreement to end the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, but they remain in the Kurdish region.

#Iran #war #Trump #law

One of the most prominent Iraqi #militias, #KataibHezbollah, on Thursday issued a public statement urging its fighters to “be prepared to engage in a #war of attrition that may be prolonged & exceed the expectations of the #US administration.” It also issued a warning to the #Kurdish regional government in #Iraq “against collaborating with hostile foreign forces” that “could threaten its security & future.”

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Iranian state media said the #US - #Israel attacks targeted a growing list of cities & sites across #Iran.

Plumes of smoke could be seen above #Tehran due to direct strikes, with reports of explosions in or near the major cities of #Isfahan, #Shiraz & #Tabriz.

Blasts were also reported in several western towns as well as around #PersianGulf port cities that are critical to Iran’s major #oil #trade, including #Asaluyeh.

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#RedCross calls for respect for #RulesOfWar

“The #military escalation in the #MiddleEast is igniting a dangerous chain reaction across the region, with potentially devastating consequences for #civilians,” #ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said.

Spoljaric said civilian infrastructure, such as #schools, #homes & #hospitals, must be spared from attacks.

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“In international armed conflicts, International #HumanitarianLaw, in particular all 4 #GenevaConventions, apply,” Spoljaric said. “Medical personnel & first responders must be allowed to carry out their work safely.”

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Within hours of the joint #US & #Israel strike on #Iran, Ali Vaez, who directs the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, warned that the #war could likely escalate.

Vaez on social media stressed that Iran had been preparing for the conflict & that wider war could break out across the #MiddleEast.

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In addition to the risk of wider #war & the human toll [which #Republicans don’t seem to care about], attacks on #Iran will increase #energy #prices.

He also stressed that the war could lead to higher energy costs, which would undercut one of Trump’s domestic [false] political messages that #gasoline prices have been lower since his return to power.

#US #Israel #Trump #oil #inflation #CostOfLiving #affordability #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast