There is evidence that the decision to attack Iran was already made during the 29 December 2025 Mar-a-Lago summit, between Netanyahu and Trump.

Recently Trump and Netanyahu plotted the exact timing of the attack to take advantage of the negotiations with Iran that were ongoing. The scrubbed Reuters line is now partly backed up by reporting in Axios, which says US/Israel agreed on the date of the attack a week earlier, and that the past week of diplomacy was indeed a sham to lower their defenses.
More and more the Trump Administration resembles the murderous state of Israel, with its extensive history of gang-land murders and assassinations. The Jewish State is history’s most prolific and effective practitioner of assassinations as a means of military/political/economic advantage, as they demonstrated with their murder of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In June Israel assassinated scores of Iranian politicians, military commanders and scientists, and before that they assassinated Hezbollah’s leader and top commanders. bombarding an area of south Beirut with some 80 bombs, many of them 2000 lb. bunker-busters, in a successful attempt to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In 2024, Israel’s Mossad killed or maimed thousands of Lebanese civilians who were associated with Hezbollah by booby-trapping their pagers.

So that’s our ally.
Netanyahu and Israel have been agitating for an attack on Iran for decades. The only reason Americans are surprised is due to the lock that Zionists have over Western corporate media. To keep abreast of the diabolical machinations it helps to read Israeli media. Just recently, Israeli Hebrew press reported that after Netanyahu’s December 2025 meeting with Trump, it was Netanyahu who demanded that the U.S. strike Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, and that striking its missile force must take priority over attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
But for Trump to say out loud that a strike on Iran is about cementing Israel’s Middle East hegemony, is considered to be a non-palatable framing for touting ‘another big Middle East war’ to an U.S. electorate adverse to casualties and increasingly skeptical of Trump’s prioritizing of Israeli interests.

Thuggish does not come close to describing American/Israeli actions. Murdering the other side while pretending to negotiate reeks of an organized crime syndicate plotting the premeditated murder of a rival. The U.S. again used the veneer of negotiations as a cover to bomb Iran. Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal. Indeed, that the reason that Khamenei and much of the Iranian leadership were all together to be hit by the US and Israel in their surprise attack was that they were discussing their response for the upcoming negotiation meeting. This is the same ruse Israel used to kill Hassan Nasrallah and much of the Hezbollah leadership.
Once again, the Trump Administration used the ruse of ongoing peace negotiations in hopes of luring our adversaries into a false sense of security. So after having recently kidnapped one leader of a sovereign country, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, we had now assassinated a second one, with both these actions being almost completely without precedent in modern world history. You will search in vain for a corporate media outlet acknowledgement of this grim reality.
Since its founding, the Israeli government had always relied upon assassinations as its primary tool of political statecraft, so this sort of American behavior seemed to further confirm that the US is more and more resembling Israel.
I hate to be drag, but this sort of open lawlessness negates everything we were taught about our country in civics class.

Update: Michael Hudson points out that there’s a financial aspect to the attack. “It would be interesting to know how many of Trump’s insiders placed big bets that oil prices will soar when markets open on Monday morning. The markets last week were vastly underestimating the risk of closing the Oil Gulf. U.S. oil companies will make a killing. China and other oil importers will suffer. U.S. financial speculators also will make a killing, because their oil production is domestic. This fact may even have played a role in the U.S. decision to end the world’s access to Middle Eastern oil for what promises to be a lengthy period.”































