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.
They literally speak in the language of domestic abusers
Its called Newspeak, and it’s the official language of Oceania.
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.
And such a great deal it was going to be too, just tremendous!
Give it time and analysis of stock trading during this period might explain the talking up of peace deals followed by sudden military strikes.
Billionaires are self-defending. Poor victims
Self defence, ha, who comes up with dumbass headlines? Maybe this way it doesn’t count as a breach of the non-cease fire that’s been going on?
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
