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‘Major Combat Operations’ in Iran

Posted on | February 28, 2026 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, it was noticed that roughly one-third of the U.S. Navy was within striking range of Iran, at a time when Iran was “negotiating” over their nuclear program with the Trump administration. One must put “negotiating” in quotation marks, because Donald Trump clearly had in mind a specific outcome — the elimination of Iran’s nuclear threat — and the Iranians did not seem to understand the consequences of not giving Trump what he wanted. That was the fuck around stage of the process, and we have now reached the find out stage:

The US and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran Saturday morning in response to the regime’s refusal to dismantle its nuclear program after weeks of negotiations — targeting military infrastructure and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran.
The attacks — which the Department of War called “Operation Epic Fury” — follow a massive US military buildup in the Middle East and come after President Trump repeatedly warned Tehran that it would face consequences if it didn’t make a deal with the US.
Iran then launched missiles towards Israel in a retaliatory attack as officials claimed the response would be “crushing.”
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in an eight-minute video address on Saturday.

In addition to the expected outcries from Democrats, who are not just anti-Trump but objectively pro-Iran, this event will trouble many of Trump’s most loyal supporters, whose ideas of an “America First” foreign policy certainly do no include a joint U.S.-Israeli strike against Tehran. What Trump is doing now is very much the kind of thing neoconservatives have advocated for many years, and yet the most prominent neocons have been anti-Trump since 2015. In other words, Trump is disappointing many of his friends by doing what should please many of his enemies. My own concern is for the U.S. troops involved, wishing them success, decisive victory being the shortest route to peace.

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Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Military

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