DEFEAT - Trump backs down

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Nury Vittachi 

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THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI ATTACK on Iran is stopping, US President Donald Trump said within the past hour.

The US army’s imminent attack to destroy Iranian infrastructure will not go ahead, he said in an unexpected post on Truth Social.

It will pause for five days, to begin with, and then the situation will be reviewed.

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POSITIVE SPIN

Trump tried to put a positive spin on the obvious defeat by saying in his post that the pause had come about because of “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East”.

But this was clearly untrue.

The Iranians had already made their peace concessions in full last month.

The real story, which can hardly be denied, is that the Iranians are undefeated after three weeks of fighting, and have the spirit to continue the battle—and Trump could not afford more pain to the US Armed Forces, or to their reputation, or to their allies, or to the global economy.

He's backing down.

Trump’s advisors clearly told him that if the stand off continued or escalated, he would personally be blamed for triggering a global recession. Even with his extraordinary talent for self-delusion, he could not face that fact.

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TOTAL DEFEAT

The attack on Iran has been a clear failure for the US.

FAILED: The promise to fulfil Netanyahu’s 40-year-old dream to destroy Iran was not achieved.

FAILED: The achievement of regime change, which is illegal under international law, was not achieved.

FAILED: The destruction of Iran’s WMDs could not be achieved, since they never existed, as the US’s 18 intelligence agencies agreed.

FAILED: Perhaps worst of all, the opportunity to burnish the US Armed Forces' reputation as a power able to speedily conquer any enemy flopped badly. The US military, despite Israel’s help, struggled badly.

FAILED: The defeat is also a personal one for Donald Trump and Secretary for War Crimes Pete Hegseth too. They treated the attacks on Iran as if they were schoolboys playing war games—and respect, once lost, is very hard to regain.

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IT WAS NEVER A WAR

The western mainstream press will report that the “Iran war” has temporarily paused, and may be over. But this is not accurate.

There never was a war. The US did not declare war on Iran. It made an unprovoked attack, which is something very different in international law.

By pretending it was a war, western politicians and the western corporate media can call for Iran to stop its attacks on military bases in the Gulf.

But if they described it as it really was – an unprovoked attack by the US and Israel, using a variety of bases (in the Gulf states and the UK), then the world has to see the real story: Iran was attacked and was defending itself.

Iran did so by firing missiles at the bases from which the attacks came. This is entirely legitimate within the scope of United Nations law.

The world has learned that a rogue state willing to disregard international law and cause immense damage to the economies of the planet exists.

We can use Trump's phrase, and says that a “terror regime” exists and is a genuine problem for the world.

But it was never Iran.