The Trump Administration Entered a Hot War with Iran Right Before a Ceasefire Went into Effect?

The United States recently entered the Israeli-Iranian War in an active capacity by bombing sites throughout the Persian nation. President Donald Trump authorized fourteen B-2 bombers to drop roughly fourteen “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow and Natanz fuel enrichment plants, as well as Navy submarines to shoot thirty cruise missiles at the Natanz and Isfahan (or Esfahan) facilities (the facility at Fordow is underground, and Israel was not capable of destroying it, so it needed the United States to do its dirty work). Currently a ceasefire is in place to halt the exchanging of fire between Israel and Iran, and the retaliatory actions that Iran was expected to take against American bases throughout the Middle East (or covert actions in cities in the United States) may be on hold for the moment. The Trump administration, in bombing Iran, has caved to the interests of the deep state and the Benjamin Netanyahu regime, and the president has betrayed the American people and broken his campaign promise of no new wars. Though it is no surprise that the neoconservative war hawks have retaken the Republican Party, we should now make no mistake that the United States has been dragged into a hot war with Iran, as I have been saying was coming for years. Even if the ceasefire remains in place indefinitely, the damage has been done.

Although it was said that Iran was enriching uranium at 60% purity, which is supposedly not far from the 90% necessary to reach weapons-grade levels, under the Barack Obama administration, Iran was complying with the 2015 nuclear deal cap of 3.67%. When President Trump reneged on the deal in 2018, Iran went back to enriching uranium at levels that brought it closer to the ability to make a nuclear weapon, so you could say that if Iran was developing nuclear weapons, the current president is at least partially to blame. However, American intelligence, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has publicly said as recently as March 2025 that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has not reinstated it since then. In response to Gabbard’s testimony, President Trump responded about Iran’s nuclear ambitions with, “I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having it.” According to NBC News, “a person with knowledge of the matter said the U.S. intelligence community’s view has not changed since Gabbard’s testimony.” Then, what caused President Trump’s flip flop on this issue? Was there new intelligence that he was getting that caused him to change his mind, or is Prime Minister Netanyahu or members of the deep state blackmailing the president and causing him to change his tune?

The International Atomic Energy Agency (the IAEA is under the United Nations) said that although Iran is approaching weapons-grade uranium enrichment and could (emphasis) develop nine nuclear bombs within a few months, the country does not have a delivery system that would be capable of deploying destruction on neighboring countries (this would take much time to achieve). It seems like Israel jumped the gun in terminating Iran’s nuclear facilities, as Netanyahu has been saying that Iran is like weeks away from a nuclear weapon for thirty years, and could the new intelligence that Israel shared with the United States government have been enough to manipulate the Trump administration to take immediate action?

President Trump refuses to share this new information with the American people and provide actual evidence that Iran was developing nuclear weapons without a shadow of a doubt (just like the Joe Biden administration would not publicly show evidence that Iran was behind the attacks against American bases). This tells me that no credible evidence exists and that what Gabbard said was actually true. The Trump administration is going to war with Iran simply because Israel told it to assist and the deep state and military-industrial complex were itching for a new war (perhaps to complete the checklist, which was presented by General Wesley Clark, of seven countries that the George W. Bush administration was planning to topple within five years of the September 11, 2001 attacks). Even if President Trump stated during his 10 pm speech on Saturday night that these were limited airstrikes meant to shake the Iranian nuclear program, anyone who does not blindly follow the president’s every word will know that this was not the end of American involvement against Iran. If fighting continues, which it most likely will, just wait for Iranians to attack American military bases, or the Israeli government to conduct a false flag attack on Americans (like with the USS Liberty incident) and blame it on Iran to further escalate tensions.

Plus, you do not really even need to follow that logic, as you could rely on the president’s own social media platform (Truth Social, for example) to show that he is thinking about regime change in Iran and that the only way for Iran to prevent future airstrikes is for it to come to the negotiating table. Bullying nations into compliance is not a diplomatic move. Iran was already in discussions with the United States over the nuclear weapons issue, and now, this idea seems to be near impossible. Basically, the president wanted Iran to negotiate quicker and in a more favorable manner to the United States and Israel, so he weakened Iran’s position by using force. That is nothing short of terrorism. Now, President Trump wants to present himself as a peacemaker by helping to broker a ceasefire, however, you cannot bully someone and then expect that he or she does not retaliate (how do you trust someone after that?).

This comes as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who has gone into hiding during the Israeli and American airstrikes, is reportedly in the process of choosing a successor to take over leadership of Iran, and the two primary candidates are Mojtaba Khamenei, son to the current leader, and Hassan Khomeini, grandson to the previous supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The West’s preferred leader would be Reza Pahlavi, who is the son of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (the brutal dictator who the United States and United Kingdom installed into power in 1953 after overthrowing the democratically-elected Mohammad Mosaddegh, and this coup led directly to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the regime that is currently in power). For additional context, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also succeeded President Ebrahim Raisi after the latter’s helicopter crashed in mysterious weather conditions over Azerbaijan (possibly an assassination by pro-American and pro-Israeli interests, as Raisi was an Islamic fundamentalist and hardliner who was considered a successor to Khamenei).

As the war wages on or the new possible ceasefire sticks, it is ironic that Prime Minister Netanyahu has condemned Iranian airstrikes that hit Soroka Hospital in Beersheba when not only did Israel start the war, but it has destroyed every hospital (and school) in the Gaza Strip in its “defensive” operations against the Palestinians who do not even have a military to defend themselves. Then, on top of that, Americans are appalled that Iran would dare retaliate against the United States by attacking Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and in addition to the Qatari military shooting down many of the missiles, Iran even gave both Qatar and the United States warning of the incoming missile fire, essentially making it a ceremonial retaliatory strike and not a serious military attack (which, of course, President Trump mocked as Iranians being weak). The fact that Iran has not been enthusiastic about striking back against Israel or the United States sort of undermines the argument that Iran is an aggressive power looking to build nuclear weapons to obliterate Israel or the United States. It will not even full-heartedly attack when it was aggressed upon by its Israeli enemy. It just goes to show that Western propaganda has been trying to rally Americans around the flag to hate Iranians for really no reason at all, and the neoconservatives played us yet again like they did when they lied us into war with Iraq over fake Weapons of Mass Destruction claims.

If the new proposed ceasefire ends up holding, it means that the Iranian Parliament’s decision to blockade the twenty-one mile (thirty-three kilometer) wide Hormuz Strait, which traffics roughly one-fifth of the global oil supply, may not go into effect (this would drive gas prices up dramatically and disrupt the oil market, and the United States would consider intervening militarily to reopen the strait). The deal could also prevent Pakistan, which previously said that it would retaliate reciprocally if Israel attacked Iran with nuclear weapons, and Russia from becoming involved, and the entrance of both nuclear powers into the war could spark World War III concerns. Russia has military agreements with Iran, which has provided drones for the invasion of Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin has condemned the United States for striking Iran, though falling short of answering the calls from Iran to assist militarily.

Then, there is the constitutional issue with President Trump attacking Iran without congressional approval. The Constitution explicitly says in Article I Section 8 Clause 11 that Congress has the power to declare war, and nowhere in Article II (powers of the president) does it mention such authority (simply being commander in chief does not automatically give the power to start wars, as the president is not supposed to be a dictator). Of course, presidents of both parties have violated this clause on many occasions and involved themselves in conflicts around the world without ever declaring war, and the irony of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 was that it was created in response to this violation as a way to limit the expanded and unconstitutional powers of the presidency by requiring the president to notify Congress of strikes within forty-eight hours and not expand troop deployments past ninety days. However, like any other law, it became twisted to the point where presidents now start wars with countries by claiming that it grants the president power to declare offensive (not defensive) operations as long as it notifies Congress (tell the legislature but do not ask for permission from it). This was not supposed to be a replacement to the Constitution, but yet, it has become just that in our modern authoritarian way of thinking.

President Trump and his blind supporters will parrot the idea that the War Powers Resolution gives him the authority to “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (to the Beach Boys tune) and kill as many Persians as he desires. Trump supporters are excited about going to war and proud that the president has taken the aggressive and imperialistic move to force Iran into compliance. In response, Republican Representative Thomas Massie and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna have put together a bipartisan resolution to restrict President Trump’s actions against Iran and to move military operations back to Congress to decide on the matter, as the Constitution demands. It is ironic that the supposed conservative supporters of the Constitution think nothing of allowing the president to bypass Congress and strike any country that he prefers when it is convenient for whatever pet conflicts that these people prefer to engage in (while they condemn Democrats for doing the same thing, which of course, the Obama administration bombed Libya and the Biden administration waged a cold war against Russia without congressional approval).

The Israeli-Iranian War is now a waiting game, as we see what transpires within the next days, weeks, and months. Will the ceasefire hold? Will the United States be spared another twenty-year conflict that results in nothing but continued issues in the Middle East? Does this just kick the can down the road and pass the baton to the next generation to deal with? Will Russia, China, Pakistan, and North Korea end up supplying Iran with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against future Israeli attacks? Will Iran developing nuclear weapons actually cause a balance of power that will keep nations from attacking each other and bring about more stability to the region? Will Iran and Israel end up bombing each other until only one is left standing? Will this be the spark that produces World War III, as allied nations line up to take the sides of either Israel or Iran? Will Iran activate “sleeper cells” within the United States to commit domestic attacks against Americans, or will the deep state launch false flag terrorist attacks to unleash new surveillance tools to spy on us? Time will tell, but either way, seemingly most Americans, outside of propaganda, would prefer to stay out of these conflicts and avoid entangling alliances, as our founding fathers (particularly George Washington and Thomas Jefferson) advised.

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