this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
143 points (98.0% liked)

World News

46695 readers
2717 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tal@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Such a strike would be a brazen break with President Donald Trump, US officials said. It could also risk tipping off a broader regional conflict in the Middle East — something the US has sought to avoid since the war in Gaza inflamed tensions beginning in 2023.

Um. That makes the somewhat-questionable assumption that the Trump administration has any problem with Iran being bombed.

Setting aside even all of the geopolitical stuff, Iran got caught by US counterintelligence trying to assassinate Trump twice in the past year, and the Biden administration already told them that very unpleasant things would have happened had they not caught them and had those efforts succeeded. Trump said that he instructed his administration to "obliterate" Iran if they succeeded in such an attempt. And that's on top of Iranian intelligence trying to dick up his presidential campaign. My guess is that Trump, who has pretty much surpassed all precedent in being a vindictive son-of-a-bitch over even tiny disputes (not to mention the SecDef he selected with limited qualifications other than the Crusader and now fresh "kafir" tattoos) is probably even less-inclined than the Biden administration to take a dovish position.

Trump has publicly threatened military action against Iran if his administration’s efforts to negotiate a new nuclear deal to limit or eliminate Tehran’s nuclear program fail. But Trump also set a limit on how long the US would engage in diplomatic efforts.

In a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-March, Trump set a 60-day deadline for those efforts to succeed, according to a source familiar with the communication. It has now been more than 60 days since that letter was delivered, and 38 days since the first round of talks began.

Yeah.

The US is stepping up intelligence collection to be prepared to assist if Israeli leaders decide to strike, one senior US official told CNN.

Yeah.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I heard reporting earlier (no links handy, sorry) that the US is requiring Iran to stop enriching uranium at all in order to proceed with any sort of negotiations. Not that we are requiring them to simply not enrich any further beyond the point where they can use nuclear energy, but that they cannot do any enrichment whatsoever, "not even one percent." That's gonna be a definite non-starter and set the stage for attacking Iran because "they didn't cooperate."

load more comments (1 replies)