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, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely.”
The strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement.
Further details were not immediately available, including more specifics on the threats from Iran and what this means for negotiations. Earlier, Trump said 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.
I guess my liberal teachers were completely wrong when they told me that a cease fire meant both sides stopped fighting.
Low bar America, that’s Israel’s classic line.
We’re supposed to way “Epic Warmonger Offensive Strike 2: The Storm for Freedom Oil”.
Back in my day we’d proudly announce a war as “foreign intervention to protect freedom” and not a “pre-emptive defensive strike”
smh my face, take me back to the good ol’ days of the Bushs’ invading Iraq.
Trump had to molest those children, in self defense
They literally speak in the language of domestic abusers
Its called Newspeak, and it’s the official language of Oceania.
It’s doubleplus good!
International abusers technically
Billionaires are self-defending. Poor victims
but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,”
I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
Right?!
And, to think, this morning I was reading headlines about how close the US and Iran were to a deal to end the war.
Also I appreciate that the AP took a quote from Capt. Hawkins but did not ask him if he realizes how absurd what he just said actually is.
Really, really sick of this flippy floppy shit.
morning I was reading headlines about how close the US and Iran were to a deal to end the war.
The Trumpet needed to sell some stock. Now we are back to the buying phase.
The level of blatant double think and newspeak used by this administration is absolutely astounding.
US military says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes in Iran, including on missile
The strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,”
Journalist should A. Ask members of the administration and military for their definitions on words or B. Just provide definitions in the article itself since A is likely to result in some wishy washy cowardly answer.
“Sir, please define self-defence in context of US attacking Iran? Please define what a CEASEFIRE is.”
Let’s be honest, this all just a distraction to play for time while Israel mounts further operations into neighbouring states. Either sign a declaration that justifies military action against you if you retaliate against future incursion by Israel or we’ll keep attacking you at the expense of the global economy. How the US population/judiciary is just sitting back while it’s government and military siphons their wallet and collapses worldwide supply chains while continually attacking mid-negotiations with “self-defence” attacks is beyond comprehension. All orchestrated by a paedo-in-chief that continually “jokes” about staying in office after his term ends.
Clearly, the attack was a preemptive strike to defend the troops that will be attacked when the ceasefire ends without the US leaving. Or maybe the US assumes because it and its allies in the region have no problem violating ceasefires that Iran also has no problem violating this ceasefire.
Give it time and analysis of stock trading during this period might explain the talking up of peace deals followed by sudden military strikes.
In defense of Trump’s fragile ego, because Iran isn’t giving in.
