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U.S.-Iran – A War Of Aggressions Which Aims Can Not Be Achieved
Yesterday the Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, the mediator in talks between the U.S. and Iran, revealed that Iran had offered unprecedented restrictions of its nuclear program to prevent a war.
During a CBS interview he explained:
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: I am confident, and in my assessment of the way the talks are going, I think there is, really I can see that the peace deal is within our reach.
MARGARET BRENNAN: A peace deal?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Yes, is within our reach, if we just allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there. Because I don’t think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem.
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MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: The single most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb. This is, I think, a big achievement. This is something that is not in the old deal that was negotiated during President Obama’s time. This is something completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiling. And that is very, very important, because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb, whether you enrich or don’t enrich. And I think this is really something that has been missed a lot by the media, and I want to clarify that from the standpoint of a mediator.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So explain that. So the enriched material, things that could be used as nuclear fuel for a bomb, you’re saying Iran would not keep on their own soil?
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: They would give it up.
To give up stockpiling enriched material of various grades is a concession that Iran has never before made. It would indeed make it impossible for it to create a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. however was not interested in a nuclear deal. Hours after Albusadi’s interview it joined Israel in a “pre-emptive” war on Iran.
jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill – 7:18 UTC · Feb 28, 2026
The term “preemptive” is pure propaganda. The U.S. once 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. What was preempted was diplomacy. The same propaganda tactics used in 2003 Iraq war.
Badral Abusaidi was left to expressed his disappointment:
Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي @badralbusaidi – 12:04 UTC · Feb 28, 2026
I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined. Neither the interests of the United States nor the cause of global peace are well served by this. And I pray for the innocents who will suffer. I urge the United States not to get sucked in further. This is not your war.
U.S. President Trump thought differently. In an 8 minutes long speech (vid) he announced several war aims like the destruction of Iran’s missiles, the destruction of its navy and to prevent the country from acquiring nuclear weapons it does not want. He called on the armed forces of Iran to lay down their weapons and for its people to overthrow its government.
For the Islamic Republic the war is thereby not about mere defense – but existential.
As none of Trump’s strategic objectives is likely to be achieved one might already argue that the U.S. has little chance but to lose this war.
So far the exchange of strikes has run along its predictable course.
The U.S. and Israel launched stand-off cruise-missiles against political and military targets in Iran. The compound of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Defense, the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, the Parchin military complex were hit. Iran’s leadership had moved to safe places and was not affected by the strikes. A missile destroyed the house of the former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has no role in the current government, and killed three of his guards. Several missiles, says Iran, have hit an elementary school in Minab, south Iran, and killed up to 60 children.
Iran responded by attacking U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates with hundreds of drones and shorter range missiles. A long range U.S. radar in Qatar was hit as were U.S. Navy fuel depots in Bahrain. Several salvos of tens of medium range missiles were fired against U.S positions in Jordan as well as against Israel.
These first salvos with older, less accurate missiles are intended to draw out U.S. air-defenses and to entice them to expend their limited missiles supplies. There have been reports of several explosions in various places in the Middle East but it is too early to assess if these are the consequences of falling debris or real intended results.
One target hit by the U.S. side was the headquarter of the Hashid Shaabi popular mobilization forces in Iraq. It killed several people. Following that Hashid Shaabi announced to join the fight on Iran’s side. Missiles have hit U.S. positions in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Houthi in Yemen as well as Hizbullah in Lebanon are expected to also join in the fight.
The exchange of missile strikes is expected to continue over several days. the U.S. will try to eliminate Iranian missile launchers and production facilities. Iran will try to exhaust U.S. missile defenses to then launch its more precise and effective missiles against Israel and major U.S. (naval) targets. Iran already claims to have hit a U.S. supply ship.
But Iran’s main instrument in this war will be its control over the transport of 20% of the world’s oil supplies.
It has just announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Michael A. Horowitz @michaelh992 – 15:30 UTC · Feb 28, 2026
#Breaking an official with the EU naval mission Aspides says vessels have been receiving transmission from Iran’s revolutionary guards saying no ship is allowed to pass the strait of Hormuz
Iran can control the Straits by simply firing land-based anti ship missiles.
By Monday fuel prices will have gone through the roof.
Oil prices are the major pressure point Iran has to cause effects within the U.S.
One wonders how long President Trump can sustain the war if the price of gasoline goes up and stays high.
steven t johnson, Ahenobarbus, Princess Bodica (or whatever new username they’re going by now) and the rest of the MAGA barflies are undoubtedly celebrating the death of an Iranian leader….
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 1 2026 7:43 utc | 976
41? This fucker knows nothing of the posters here. Wtf?
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 1 2026 7:49 utc | 994
On the contrary, I know these barflies all too well. Just because I lack the time and energy to respond to comments directed at me doesn’t mean that I don’t read through comments to gauge a commentator’s character.
All three that I’ve explicitly named—steven t johnson, Ahenobarbus, Princess Bodica—have expressed violent disagreement when confronted with the call to action “Death to America”, even though I’ve consistently and helpfully included “Marg bar Âmrikâ”, three times no less, under the English phrase to provide proper context. So the call to action has unexpectedly become a tool for me to separate those with sincere revolutionary inclinations from those who are labor aristocrats bemoaning that the bourgeoisie are not sharing more table scraps with them.
Before Khamenei’s death fades from memory, I am seizing the opportunity to expose these frauds for who they are.
steven t johnson has earned my ire because he is most committed to mischaracterizing my political position as a call to genocide, even though all it takes is a simple search for “Marg bar Âmrikâ” to debunk his deranged rants.
Posted by: Woke American | Feb 26 2026 1:27 utc | 404 You should have posted a link. If you were being funny (ironic?) about the comment @401, you shouldn’t give All Under Heaven much credibility as a Marxist. The real program is the genocide of Americans and there really isn’t anything else there. All I can say is, if you’re an American, you can inspire the rest of us by killing your family first, then yourself. A single spark can start a prairie fire!
Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 26 2026 20:15 utc | 470
Considering that steven t johnson has the time to write up many long comments, he should have the time to do a little research to clear up misconceptions beforehand. The only conclusion is that he’s engaged in deliberate slander against me because he wants to preserve America at all costs.
But beyond petty personal spats (in fact, far, far beyond that), steven t johnson is on the top of the list because steven t johnson denies that the European colonists subjected the Native Americans to genocide. That is an understanding of American history that only fascists can have, regardless of these fascists’ professed politics.
I am aware that steven t johnson has clashed with Ahenobarbus, calling Ahenobarbus a Trotskyite wrecker and a Trump supporter. But, on the issue of America, steven t johnson shares a united front with Ahenobarbus and William Gruff.
As for Ahenobarbus, you can find Ahenobarbus taking offense in this very comment thread at someone uttering “Death to Amerika”, which is far milder than “Death to America” (using Amerika instead of America tends to imply that America can be reformed instead of having to be wiped away in a revolution).
The situation is analogous to how even though Democrats and Republicans clash, both are in complete agreement when it’s about preserving America.
They all believe in making America great again, even if they disagree on the minor details. They are MAGA, even if they’re not Republican or conservative.
Now the question for you, UWDude, is very simple: do you believe, as the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei do, in the necessity of Death to America?
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 1 2026 9:42 utc | 1044
Russia and China and others have tiptoed around US aggressions, only denouncing them verbally, because they don’t themselves want to damage that commerce. Since the US also obviously depends on it, they have been hoping that circumstances will force the US back on an even keel, even as it begins to surpass Hitler and Nazi Germany in evildoing.
Posted by: Cabe | Mar 1 2026 4:39 utc | 802
I must protest most vehemently at your mischaracterization of Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany was a kinder society than America, even if it’s only marginally so.
When coming up with racial laws, Nazis were inspired by America. In fact, the Nazis found that the American racial laws were too harsh and cruel.
The most radical Nazis were often the most enthused about American legal precedents. More moderate, less anti-Semitic members of the Nazi Party tended to be more skeptical of American approaches. For some Nazis, “American race law looked too racist” (5). America “was the leading racist jurisdiction” in the 1930s (138).
Hitler modeled Nazi Germany after America, not the other way around. Lebensraum was directly inspired by the very American idea of “Manifest Destiny”, which provided Americans with the justification to ethnically cleanse Native Americans from the American continent.
Hitler’s model for creating German Lebensraum in Europe was the American genocide of indigenous peoples, the depopulation of their lands, and their subsequent legal subjugation and ghettoization. Nazi intellectuals and doctors had a sustained engagement with the eugenics movement, which was codified into U.S. immigration law and served as a model for the Third Reich’s own sterilization and euthanasia program. (North Carolina had a sterilization policy for the mentally ill until 1977.) The very founding of the United States, in white supremacist history, was the crowning achievement of the Aryan peoples. “The racially pure and still unmixed German,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, “has risen to become master of the American continent, and he will remain master as long as he does not fall victim to racial pollution.” The United States was “the one state,” Hitler wrote from prison, that sensibly refused immigration to “physically unhealthy elements, and simply excludes the immigration of certain races.” In his unpublished second book, Hitler again marveled at the racial hierarchy of the United States, with Nordics, English, and Germans at the top of their rightful dominion as the master race.
Officials and lawyers in the Third Reich were also intrigued by anti-miscegenation statutes, because the policing of sex was necessary to cleanse the Aryan race. Hitler, who had been largely asexual during his crucial years as a failing painter in Vienna, was obsessed with sex and blood. The United States at the time was a global leader in banning mixed marriages, going so far as to criminally punish those who defied the law. (Many of these laws were not struck down in the United States until the Supreme Court’s 1967 Loving v. Virginia case.) The Prussian Memorandum explicitly invoked U.S. laws that promoted segregation to maintain racial purity, and the sexual morality of white women in particular. Similarly, the third Nuremburg Law expressly forbid marriages and extra-marital relations between Germans and Jews, and promised hard labor in prison for law-breakers. The more one reads about the American and Nazi fixation on race, the more evident it becomes that at the very core of racist ideology is a primal fear of sexual inadequacy, of pollution, of mixing. Racial nationalism, the ideology of the Nazis, took this idea to its logical end.
Hitler’s mistake was enacting colonial policies against a subset of Europeans instead of non-Europeans, which is why Hitler and Nazi Germany keep getting dragged out as a historical whipping boy.
Belgian colonialists chopping off the hands of Congolese people would barely raise an eyebrow because the Congolese weren’t humans in the eyes of Europeans.
All the atrocities that have been committed by America ever since its founding, which includes but isn’t limited to genocide, are all whitewashed away because these atrocities weren’t committed against White people.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 1 2026 10:20 utc | 1075
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