21 Facts About the War Against Iran

And many many more to still be revealed in the days to come

(if you read an earlier version of this on my facebook page, this version is updated with new info.)

June 23 2025

By Marc Cooper

1. Iran agreed to halt forward movement on nuclear weapons development in negotiations with Obama more than a decade ago.

2. Iran agreed to limit uranium enrichment to 5%-- well below weaponization grade.

3. In 2018 and for no rational reason, Trump voided the agreement. Uranium enrichment immediately escalated to 60%, very close to bomb grade.

4. Netanyahu has been using Iran as a political foil for 20 yrs and unsuccessfully tried to kill the original deal made with Obama. He made his move now because he is bereft of any answers for Gaza and knew that Iran was weak and that a stuoid and vainglorious Trump was also in need of desperate distraction from his sinking poll numbers as well as a cheap ego boost.

5. Israel's unprovoked unilateral attack on Iran came while Iran was in the middle of restarted talks between Iran and the US. Netanyahu’s goal has little to do with uranium enrichment. It had everything to do with sinking the current talks and making sure there could be no deal with Iran.

6. The last thing that Netanyahu wants is a contained non-nuclear Iran as it would rob him of his needed political enemy. He would risk losing power and going to jail for corruption.

7. Netanyahu needs a "nuclear Iran" the same way the Cuban regime needs the US embargo. Take them away and the raison d'etre of both regimes collapses. Imagine Trump’s dilemma if all immigrants magically disappeared. He’d have nothing to mumble about.

8. The Iranian leadership could easily anticipate an attack on Fodom and it is most likely they had already moved their uranium stockpile elsewhere. And the stockpile is the key component to nuclear development. The Times of Israel is now reporting the Iranians evacuated the three targeted sites some days ago. Maybe yes, maybe no. But claiming they did is good for Bibi as it gibes him the predicate to continue pounding Iran,

9. Either way there is no way to know how much damage was wrought. Trump's declarations of complete obliteration is the translation of Mission Accomplished. One note: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan “Raisin'“ Caine immediately undercut the Trump/Hegseth line about total oblitertion, telling reporters that while an initial assessment indicated “severe damage and destruction,” it would take time for the final battle damage to be known.

10. Statements by JD Vance that we are not at war with Iran but only with its nuclear program are taken from a late nite show monologue of stupid jokes. Better ask the Iranians first and wait till most Americans can find Iran on the map. Iran is certainly at war now with us and our allies. When they close the Strait of Hormuz as they now threaten and it will cut off 20% of the world oil supply, you can count on gas prices skyrocketing and industry sucking air. At least until Trump blows a hole in the blockage in a tit for tat conflagration.

11. Trump did NOT want a prolonged war with Iran. But he was played like a violin by Netanyahu. Not able to "finish" the job, Bibi bet that Trump's ego and his stupidity would lead him to see an opportunity to be a hero at little cost and his delusional desire to get a Nobel Peace Prize would lure him into this quagmire. He was right.

12. The call for peace now made by Trump is absurd. The Iranians have already responded with a successful missile attack last night on Israel creating a lot of damage. And some 40 Iranians drones have penetrated Israeli air space as of Sunday night. Next up: US military bases within short range of Iran's arsenal of short range ballistic missiles. Sitting ducks. And the door to full scale war by the U.S. in response.

13. Iran is a sophisticated nation of 90 million people with a third of the population as militant Islamic supporters of the Mullahs. Any ground incursion into Iran will be a wholesale meat grinder.

14. If a lucky bomb hits right or an Israeli or American commando team or popular chaos in Iran takes out the Supreme Leader and causes regime change, the likely successor will be the economically rich military led by the Revolutionary Guard and the regime will be more radical.

15. Nobody's home in the National Security apparatus of the US to offer any rational counsel. Trump and Hegseth are dumb and dumber and the other sycophants don't even register on any IQ scale. The talk about bi-partisan” congressional disapproval is horse puckey. Only 3 or 4 of the usual and marginalized GOP electeds have outright condemned the intervention (Gaetz, Massie, Rand and MTG). Meaningless. Another 4 or 5 Trumpanzees have “expressed concern” but they are not going to go any farther. And the Democrats clutched their pearls in the public run up to the attack.

16. The consequences of this supposedly one and done will kick off bloody and perilous outcomes for many years to come with possibly catastrophic events. This is the beginning, not the end.

17. The bombing is one more giant step toward the death of democratic rule in the U.S. We are governed by a pathological authoritarian man-baby who unconstitutionally ignored congressional approval and will face no consequences except for some wet noodle press releases from some Democrats.

18. And while big American cities have gone on high alert fearing domestic terror attacks, Trump Appoints A 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention. Feel any safer?

19.Israel is now a rogue state immune to international law and basic decency led by yet another unbalanced authoritarian who clearly places zero value on the lives of Arabs or Iranians. He is today the single greatest threat to Israel’s long-term security. The U.S. is following suit down Bibi’s path to the abyss.

20.This extremely dangerous escalation in a second regional war comes as Netanyahu still lacks any rational plan as to what to do with two million Gazans he has made homeless in the first one. And in the last few weeks, as many as 400 Gaza Palestinians have been gunned down by the IDF as they scrambled for scarce food aid,—provided by Israel. Go figure that one out.The population of Iran is 50 times greater than Gaza. There are no plans. Just bullets and bombs and bullshit.

21.While I am a fierce critic of Netanyahu and company I fully support Israel’s right to exist and to protect itself. Just as I support the Palestinian right to self determination and self-defense. I oppose terror and random killing from both sides and their respective allies. As to Iran, I hold nothing but contempt for its violent religious dictatorship and hope one day its people will achieve full liberation. Since my teens I have opposed theocratic regimes, like Iran and Israel. ++

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