A lot of people out there still don’t realize that we are literally watching World War III play out right in front of our eyes.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is already longer than World War I was, and every single ceasefire in the Middle East that has been agreed to since October 7th, 2023 has ultimately collapsed. Just a couple of weeks ago, the world was celebrating because the U.S. had signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran and we were being told that we were finally going to have permanent peace in the Middle East.
So how did that work out? I
feel like a broken record when I keep saying that there isn’t going to be peace
in the Middle East, but it is the truth.
At the end of last week, the
Iranians attacked a commercial vessel that was traveling through the Strait of
Hormuz using a route that they did not authorize, and the U.S. responded by
bombing several Iranian military targets. This is something that I covered in
an article for my core supporters on Friday. Then
on Saturday, the same cycle repeated again.
Iran attacked another commercial
vessel that was attempting to slip through the Strait of Hormuz along an
“unauthorized” route, and in response the U.S. conducted an even larger wave of
strikes…
U.S. Central Command said its forces had carried out the new
strikes after a Panama-flagged tanker was attacked by an Iranian drone on
Saturday.
“Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but
elected not to,” Central Command said in a statement.
U.S. strikes were “in direct
response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping” and
targeted Iranian military surveillance, communications, air defence, drone
storage and mine-laying facilities, it said.
Following that wave of strikes, President Trump warned that there
“may come a point” when the U.S. must hit Iran so hard that it “will no longer exist”…
“United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone
storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire
Agreement, AGAIN! Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post.
The president issued an aggressive threat in the post, saying it
was possible Iran “may never learn.”
“There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” the president said. “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!” That is very strong language.
Needless to say, conventional weapons would not be able to
accomplish that goal. In response to the latest wave of U.S. strikes, the IRGC
launched missiles and drones at U.S. facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in
a statement its navy and air forces had launched missile and drone operations
targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain.
The Guards said U.S. strikes had
violated the ceasefire and “will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic
processes”, state-run Press TV said. The IRGC navy command said American bases
in the region “will experience hell in the coming days”.
Most of the missiles and drones were intercepted, but significant damage was
done to a residential building in Bahrain. This is not what a ceasefire is
supposed to look like.
I know that there was so much
hope that the negotiations which were initiated once the Memorandum of
Understanding was signed would finally resolve the central issues that the U.S.
and Iran have been fighting about, but those negotiations have now been put on hold…
Talks to end the U.S. war with Iran are on hold after the U.S.
struck Iranian military targets in retaliation for Tehran’s latest strikes on
shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
A Pakistani source involved in the negotiations to settle the
conflict between the U.S. and Iran told MS NOW that while the talks are now on
hold, all sides are maintaining representatives in Switzerland to restart
discussions when given the go-ahead.
The source did not make clear to MS NOW which side decided to
pause negotiations.
Sadly, the reality of the matter is that these negotiations were
doomed anyway. Iran is never going to make the nuclear concessions that the
Trump administration is seeking.
And Iran is never going to agree to allow commercial traffic to
flow freely through the Strait of Hormuz the way that it did
before the war…
The Iranian parliament’s national security committee spokesperson
on Sunday said the Strait of Hormuz would not return to its pre-war state and
that other countries would have no choice but to comply with Iran’s orders in
the waterway.
“We firmly support the action of the ever-victorious Guards in a
crushing confrontation with the American enemy and in asserting Iranian
sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz,” Ebrahim Rezaei wrote on X. “The Strait
of Hormuz will not return to its previous state, and others have no choice but
to comply with Iran’s orders in the strait.”
The crisis in the Middle East is not going to have a happy ending.
I believe that we will witness some absolutely shocking
escalations in the months ahead, and there are some Iranians that are convinced
that now is the time to greatly accelerate
their nuclear program… Iran has “no choice” but to develop a
nuclear bomb, a media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
said — the latest threat to the peace deal.
The article, titled “No choice
but to build the atomic bomb,” claims that Iran must negotiate with its enemies
from a position of strength, and was published by Iranian state news outlet
Fars on Sunday.
“To achieve the peace and calm that Iran needs, it
must absolutely reach nuclear deterrence to ensure that the rest of the issues
can be resolved through negotiation,” thunders the piece, before comparing
Iran’s situation with the US to that of China in the 1970s. Of course the Iranians are also furious about the
fighting that has been going on in Lebanon.
The latest ceasefire with Hezbollah has already
collapsed, and the IDF conducted even more strikes in Lebanon on Sunday.
Israel renewed its strikes on
Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported, two days after an agreement
was signed by the two countries, which a Hezbollah lawmaker warned would lead
to “internal conflict”.
The strikes come a day after one
person was killed in an Israeli strike on the south, according to Lebanon’s
health ministry, with the Israeli military saying it targeted Hezbollah members
near its self-proclaimed “security zone”, which reaches 10 kilometres (6 miles)
into Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported several strikes on Sunday. There will never be permanent peace between Israel and Hezbollah. Anyone that believes otherwise is just being delusional.
And no matter how much the politicians have talked about peace, nothing has been able to stop the war in the Middle East. We really are living at a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and the truth is that this is just the beginning.
We are going to witness death
and destruction on a scale that most people cannot imagine, and the world is
simply not prepared for what is coming next.
The Iranian parliament’s national security
committee spokesperson on Sunday said the Strait of Hormuz would not return to
its pre-war state and that other countries would have no choice but to comply
with Iran’s orders in the waterway.
“We firmly support the action of the ever-victorious Guards in a
crushing confrontation with the American enemy and in asserting Iranian
sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz,” Ebrahim Rezaei wrote on X. “The Strait
of Hormuz will not return to its previous state, and others have no choice but
to comply with Iran’s orders in the strait.”
The crisis in the Middle East is not going to have a happy ending. I believe that we will witness some absolutely shocking escalations in the months ahead, and there are some Iranians that are convinced that now is the time to greatly accelerate their nuclear program.
By Michael Snyder
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