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Yes, what is happening is not rational to me. Israel chose to attack Iran. The US joined in. Iran's totalitarian regime remains solidly in control of its repressed population. Iran remains capable of attacking surrounding countries. Death and destruction are widespread in Iran. And in Lebanon...

Is Iran's new leader seriously injured? https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/iran-s-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-is-in-coma-and-has-lost-a-leg/ar-AA1Ytd5q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=69b2d9973a7040b987fe78f231c13021&ei=15

I wonder what has happened to the Iranian footballers who went back to Iran from Australia (if their plane has arrived yet).

I would not count on the US and Israel NOT doing exactly what you say they have chosen not to do so far. This is a war of hatred for Iran and Israel, isn't it?

Kharg Island has an area of around 20 sq km. If the US were to put boots anywhere on Iranian soil, this would the place to put them, wouldn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharg_Island

The Gulf mess is certainly giving Putin a financial reprieve. Restoration of free movement in the Gulf will not be a return to status quo ante. An unknown amount of damage has been done to loading facilities and refining capacity in the arabian peninsular countries. tradingeconomics forecasts...

Is that so? You don't think that countries will look back at what happened in Iran and conclude that the cost was greater than the benefit?

In his press conference Trump answers that this will be over "very soon" in response to a question. I can see that the US may soon have more or less destroyed Iran's defensive capability. I don't see Iran's offensive capability through drones being destroyed. When the US declares that the war is...

Netenyahu might know. Certainly not because Israel feared imminent attack by Iran - as I saw an Israeli spokesman claiming on UK news.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/turkiye-says-iranian-ballistic-missile-intercepted-by-nato-air-defences It is most unfortunate that Trump is so conceited. Were he to decide to stop the US attacks I doubt he would be able to resist boasting that the US had completely defeated Iran...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz0g2yg3579t No details given. Another mistake from Iran in a missile going off course towards Turkiye?

https://news.sky.com/story/iran-has-betrayed-us-but-all-sides-must-de-escalate-says-qatar-pm-13517019 Having disaffected the Gulf countries by attacking them + Cyprus + Iraq(?), and having just elected a hardline Supreme Leader to carry on previous policies, has Iran condemned itself to being...

I have seen photos of many settlements built well away from other buildings. I have not checked but IIRC settlers may simply arrive on unbuilt land, expel the owners and start building. The Israeli police can be complicit with this illegal activity, refusing to intervene.

Something that surprises me: I have read no reports of illegal Israeli settlements on the west bank being targeted. Is there a reason?

If true, the pride and stupidity of Trump:

Trump's pride and stupidity punctures the chace of Iran de-escalating...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-accuses-iran-of-deadly-school-explosion-it-was-done-by-iran/vi-AA1XJZ5H?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=69adcf2f0d334dea8d51e06f91c6705b&ei=29 Ridiculous and grotesque to me to suggest that Iran was responsible for blowing up the school in which all those...

The Iranian president's olive branch offered to the Gulf countries has been snatched away by the IRGC? If so the war blunders on with Iran, the Gulf countries, Israel, Lebanon all suffering further damage and the rest of the world suffering damaging economic consequences. Iran wants to destroy...

I would think that Turkiye might be better placed to talk to the US and Iran than nearly all other countries. Might Turkiye be able to start talks with the warring factions to try to stop the current madness? I imagine also that with a long border with Iran, it is in Turkiye's interest for...

US intentions seem to swirl around (unconditional surrender required/unconditional surrender not required, regime change required/regime change not required). It appears that there is no real war or post-war plan so the US is taking the simple approach of bombing Iran into oblivion until it...