USA and Israel launched an attack on Iran
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(Reuters) – Israel said it launched a pre-emptive attack against Iran on Saturday, pushing the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation and further dimming hopes for a diplomatic solution to Tehran’s long-running nuclear dispute with the West.
The New York Times, citing a U.S. official, reported that U.S. strikes on Iran were underway. A source told Reuters that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not in Tehran and had been transferred to a secure location.As always the leftist supporting the so called anti imperialists ( Iranians leaders ) . They are always supporting inter class disputes, and then, they have to hide their heads in the sands. The socialist party has never have had that kind of problems because it has never supported wars and pro capitalists leaders
Iran Attacked by the US and Israel When Peace Was Within Reach
US and Iranian negotiators met in Geneva earlier this week in what mediators described as the most serious and constructive talks in years. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, spoke publicly of “unprecedented openness,” signalling that both sides were exploring creative formulations rather than repeating entrenched positions. Discussions showed flexibility on nuclear limits and sanctions relief, and mediators indicated that a principles agreement could have been reached within days, with detailed verification mechanisms to follow within months.
These were not hollow gestures. Real diplomatic capital was being spent. Iranian officials floated proposals designed to meet US political realities – including potential access to energy sectors and economic cooperation. These were gestures calibrated to allow Donald Trump to present any deal as tougher and more advantageous than the 2015 agreement he withdrew the US from in May 2018. Tehran appeared to understand the optics Washington required, even if contentious issues such as ballistic missiles and regional proxy networks remained outside the immediate framework. Then, in the middle of these talks, the bridge was shattered.
+ Trump has done the world a service. He has abandoned pretense and clarified the true nature of American power. There is no longer any need to manufacture a case for war, to make an attack seem conform to international law and treaties or to demonstrate its righteousness by acting as part of an international coalition. Now America can do what it wants to whomever it wants solely because the people who run its government want to. This has, of course, almost always been the case behind the curtain of diplomatic niceties. But Trump has ripped those curtains down and now the world is seeing American power in the raw: brazen, arrogant and mindless of the consequences, which will be borne by others and if they complain, they might be whacked, too.
Petroleum-related activities in Iran, including the use of low-grade fuel (mazut) and poor-quality gasoline, cause severe health problems, including respiratory issues, heart disease, and various cancers. In March 2026, air strikes on oil facilities caused massive fires and toxic smoke, creating immediate risks of acid rain, skin burns, and severe lung damage.
Al JazeeraKey Health Issues Due to Petroleum in Iran
Air Pollution & Chronic Disease: The combustion of mazut and poor-quality gasoline in power plants and vehicles has led to significant air pollution, particularly in large cities like Tehran and Isfahan. This causes respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, strokes, and impaired lung function.
Cancer Risk: Exposure to harmful substances such as benzine, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from petrochemical emissions is linked to increased risks of lung, stomach, and blood cancers (especially in children).Acute Hazards from Conflict: As of March 2026, airstrikes on oil depots have released large amounts of sulfur, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbon compounds. Authorities warned that this pollution could cause highly acidic “oil rain,” causing skin burns, severe eye irritation, and respiratory problems.
Preventive Measures: Due to high pollution levels, authorities often implement measures such as closing schools or historical sites, recommending N95 masks, and advising citizens to stay indoors.
Al JazeeraCauses of Petroleum-Related Health Issues
Use of Mazut: In response to energy crises, Iran has burned high-sulfur, low-grade fuel oil (mazut), contributing significantly to toxic smog.
Outdated Refineries & Low-Quality Fuel: The production of low-grade gasoline, sometimes utilizing petrochemical waste, adds dangerous additives to the air.
Targeting of Oil Infrastructure: Military conflicts have destroyed oil storage facilities, releasing hazardous substances directly into the air and potentially water sources.
Al JazeeraIt doesn’t look as if the various Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait et al , despite being targeted by Iran, are going to join in strikes against Iran as the American regime had intended. This particular piece seems to capture the mood of these Arab states.
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/03/09/2140733.html
You have to wonder if Trump has seriously miscalculated. Iran is not Iraq in 2003. Apart from being much larger and more populous, the terrain is much more hostile to a ground invasion. Even though it is lacking in air defences, it seems to have no shortage of missiles and drones. It is also significant that military decision-making has become much more decentralised in Iran,
Despite its overwhelming military superiority, it is increasingly looking like the American regime is in for a severe bruising, and global capitalism is going to suffer the knock-on consequences of this war for some time. Some oil and gas production has already been halted, and it will take a while for this to be restarted even if the war were to end tomorrow
It looks like Trump and his advisers did not calculate the consequences of this war, they underestimated Iraq, and the real situation in the Middle East, and the relationship among the muslim world.
The new religious leader elected is more radical, and he has more popular support than the previous ones
They thought that some arabs countries were going to attack Iran, that is not the real situation; on the contrary, some groups are joining forces with Iran.
The US has military superiority, but is it going to be another military and economic defeat like Iraq, Vietnam, and Afghanistan
https://english.pravda.ru/world/166038-russia-china-anti-us-coalition-gulf-war/
The Second Gulf War Differs Fundamentally from 1991
In February 1991, during the first Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush urged Iraqis to “rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.” Members of Saddam’s inner circle betrayed him, and Iraq lost the war to the United States at the cost of more than a million lives.
Today, however, the geopolitical landscape no longer resembles 1991 — a period of weakness for Russia and China. History shows that the decisive phase of any war begins after the first strikes, when initial euphoria fades and strategic reality sets in. That reality now takes shape as a consolidated anti-American coalition led by Russia and China.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation officially classified US and Israeli actions against Iran as “armed aggression” and a “gross violation of international law.”
Beijing issued “strong condemnation,” describing the strikes as a serious breach of Iran’s sovereignty and security. Both capitals demanded an immediate halt to hostilities and a return to political and diplomatic settlement.
A significant ally also stepped forward in the form of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Pyongyang accused Washington and Israel of “shameless gangster behavior” and hinted that it could provide advanced missile technologies — including hypersonic systems and heavy multiple rocket launchers — to help Iran restrain its adversaries.Pakistan and Syria echoed similar positions. Damascus labeled US actions a continuation of “imperialist policy.”
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively endorsed the US-Israeli war against Iran on Wednesday with the passage of Resolution 2817 (2026). The text “condemns in the strongest terms” Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states, while saying nothing about the nearly two-week-long bombardment of the country of 90 million people by American imperialism and its Israeli ally.
The resolution’s pretext is that Iran launched retaliatory strikes against seven countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan. But all seven host US military bases actively being used to wage the war on Iran—from the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to Al Dhafra in the UAE. These states are not neutral bystanders. They are, in effect, combatants. Iranian strikes on their territories were launched in self-defence and have killed approximately 11 civilians. The US and Israel have killed over 1,300 people in Iran alone.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/14/zchg-m14.html
Trump is planning to launch a ground invasion in Iran
You have to chuckle at the comments below. We live in a madhouse that is called modern global capitalism, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum….
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“So let me get this shit sandwich straight. Donald Trump, the 79 year old senile real estate failson who said he’d end wars and lower fuel prices, just approved an Israeli airstrike on the largest natural gas field on planet Earth. Iran retaliated by blowing up Qatar’s main LNG hub. And now Trump’s on Truth Social at 10pm pretending he knew nothing about it. Writing in the third person like a deranged king dictating a scroll to his court scribe while the castle burns behind him.
“The United States knew nothing about this particular attack.”
Mate. Axios reported, with confirmation from a US Defence official, that the strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration. Netanyahu and Trump discussed it beforehand. The Israeli PM’s office and the White House planned it together. Hours earlier, Trump himself was doing a fucking victory lap on the same platform, posting that Iran was “the NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR” and “we are rapidly putting them out of business.” That’s a bloke standing over the body with the knife still in his hand going “never met the guy!”
But then Iran hit Qatar. Missiles into Ras Laffan Industrial City. Extensive damage. Fires. The largest LNG processing hub on earth, and it’s got holes in it now because Donald Trump thought he was playing Command and Conquer with real countries. And suddenly, the guy who greenlighted the whole operation doesn’t know anything about anything. He’s got the memory of a goldfish with a head injury. Except he doesn’t. He remembers exactly what happened. He just can’t admit it. Because like all toxic fucking malignant narcissists, now he’s even trying to throw Israel under the bus because he’s realising he has completely, catastrophically, cataclysmically fucked up. Bigly.
Read the language. “Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out.” Violently lashed out. He’s describing a coordinated military strike that he personally approved from the White House like it’s a toddler having a meltdown in the cereal aisle. This is the man who was doing fist pumps when the bombs dropped, now rewriting history in real time because Qatar, the country hosting America’s biggest military base in the entire Middle East, is on the phone screaming what the fuck. Qatari officials were ringing Steve Witkoff and CENTCOM commanders demanding answers before the fires were even out. And Trump’s response? Classic. Wasn’t me, Israel went rogue, but don’t worry Qatar, daddy’s here now, I’ll protect you. From the consequences of the thing I told them to do.
That’s not diplomacy. That’s a drunk driver offering to call you an ambulance after he’s run you over.
And the threat. Oh, the threat. He’s threatening to “massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field.” The entirety. Of a gas field that holds 8% of the world’s proven natural gas reserves. That’s shared with Qatar. The country he’s pretending to protect. He’s threatening to destroy Qatar’s own shared gas field to defend Qatar. That’s like saying “don’t worry love, if he touches your car again I’ll blow up the whole street. Including your house. You’re welcome.”
The man has the strategic intelligence of a fucking house fire.
Now let’s talk about what this genius has actually done to every single person reading this post. Because while Trump’s playing tough guy on his little safe space social media platform, the global economy is bleeding out on the floor.
Brent crude hit $110 a barrel yesterday. It was $70 three weeks ago. That’s an 80% surge in 19 days. Dubai crude, the benchmark for Asia, hit an all time record of $153.25 a barrel. That’s higher than the 2008 peak that preceded the Global Financial Crisis. The Strait of Hormuz, which handles 20% of the world’s oil and gas traffic, is effectively closed. Middle Eastern crude exports to Asia have collapsed 32% in 3 weeks. The IEA released 400 million barrels from emergency reserves, the largest release in the agency’s 50 year history, and it’s done precisely fuck all. Wood Mackenzie is now saying $200 a barrel is “not outside the realms of possibility.” Two hundred dollars. A barrel. Because a 79 year old man in a diaper and a red hat thought bombing Iran would make him look tough.
And those refineries and gas facilities that just got blown up in Qatar and Iran? They don’t get fixed with a phone call and a strongly worded Truth Social post written at the reading level of a year 4 book report. We’re talking months to years of repair work on some of the most complex industrial infrastructure ever built. Specialised components. Global supply chains for parts that don’t exist on shelves. Engineering teams that have to work in active conflict zones. This isn’t a tap you turn back on. This is long term, structural damage to global energy supply. And every single day those facilities stay offline, the price of everything you buy goes up.
Here’s the history lesson. Strap in. Every major oil price shock in modern history has been followed by a global recession. Every. Single. One. The 1973 OPEC embargo. Recession. The 1979 Iranian revolution. Recession. The 1990 Gulf War spike. Recession. The 2008 oil surge that preceded the GFC. Recession. You want to know what all of those had in common? None of them involved the simultaneous destruction of production infrastructure, a closed Strait of Hormuz, and a US president actively making it worse by the hour. This one has all 3. This is the oil crisis All Stars. The greatest hits album nobody asked for. And Trump’s in the producer’s chair wearing headphones going “this is tremendous, really fantastic sound.”
Because crude oil isn’t just petrol. It’s the bloodstream of modern civilisation. Plastics. Fertiliser. Pharmaceuticals. Synthetic fabrics. Food packaging. Freight costs. Aviation fuel. Asphalt. Medical equipment. When crude goes up, everything goes up. Your bread. Your milk. Your kid’s school shoes. The cost of getting stock onto shelves. The cost of flying anywhere. The cost of building anything, manufacturing anything, transporting anything. It’s the base layer of the entire global economy and Donald Trump just took a sledgehammer to it because he thought a war with Iran would distract everyone from the Epstein files and the fact that his tariff regime was already crashing markets before a single bomb dropped.
And here’s the part that should make you want to flip a table. He signed off like it was a body corporate email about the bins. “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” This stupid, dangerous, delusional old man just threatened to commit what would constitute a war crime under international law, the deliberate destruction of civilian energy infrastructure on a civilisational scale, and he closed it out with the energy of a passive aggressive note sellotaped to the office fridge about someone stealing his yoghurt.
77 million people voted for this colostomy bag. Twice. The guy who was going to lower your fuel prices just created the conditions for the worst energy crisis since the 1970s. The guy who was going to end wars just started one that’s killed thousands, shut down a fifth of global oil transit, bl@wn up allied infrastructure, and is dragging the entire world economy toward a recession that will make 2008 look like a slow Tuesday. The guy who was going to make America great again can’t even keep Qatar’s gas terminals in one piece.
But sure, Donald. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
You senile, dangerous, narcissistic fuck.https://www.facebook.com/groups/340311026577406/?multi_permalinks=2063978770877281
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