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US military says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes in Iran, including missile launch sites
US military says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes in Iran, including on missile launch sites
The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines.
www.kmvt.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines.
U.S. Central Command says the strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces” but that it was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”
President Donald Trump said Monday that any agreement to end the Iran war should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from Trump’s first term aimed at normalizing relations with Israel.
Trump said in a social media post that negotiations are “proceeding nicely,” but tied any eventual agreement to expanded participation in the 2020 accords.
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It remains unclear when or how any deal with Iran might be completed. Trump suggested even Iran could eventually sign on to the accords, if an agreement is reached.
The accords are a series of diplomatic, economic and security agreements created with U.S. influence during Trump’s first term, originally between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, followed by Sudan, Morocco, and, more recently, Kazakhstan.
They were framed as an effort to promote cooperation among countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and the administration saw them as partly paving a path toward full ties with Israel.
Commentary:
Trump just sent a reality check to the leader(s) of Iran.
Will it be enough to convince them?
Details on US strikes vs Iranian targets today as follows:
Two Iranian boats were caught laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, senior US official say. The US military eliminated both IRGC vessels and also struck a SAM (surface to air missile) site in Bandar Abbas that was targeting US warplanes.
“These were defensive strikes.” They do not indicate ceasefire is over, according to two well placed sources.
It must be remembered that for forty-seven years, the rulers of Iran have been crying “Death to America!” And they meant it. Just look at their attack at the US Marine barracks in Beirut, Khobar Towers and their attack on USS Cole. “These were defensive strikes.” They do not indicate ceasefire is over, according to two well placed sources.
So ... any attack on the rulers of Iran and their IRGC thugs is the very definition of self defense.
Please understand:
These ideologues of Muslim faith only understand force, death, and destruction. Anything else - negotiations, mutually beneficial exchange, peaceful co-existence - is, to them, merely an opportunity to spread their Shiite belief system. Like a reptilian brain of an alligator that is hard-wired to eat anything that moves, they reflexively jump at any opportunity to spread their evil.
Through the centuries Muslim Ideologue cults have risen like the Nizari Ismaielis Assassins, and the Thugees, Additionally, under the doctrine of the revolution's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's leadership believes that a global clash of civilizations exists between Islamic truth and Western liberalism.
The country's primary paramilitary force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is explicitly mandated by the Iranian constitution to pursue an ideological mission of jihad, with the goal of extending God's sovereignty across the globe.
