US Strikes Iran | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss

Jun 22, 2025 | Mehdi Hasan and Iran expert Trita Parsi break down the US's strikes on Iran and what it means for the broader conflict between Israel and Iran.

They discuss all of the fallout from tonight, including an explosive warning from Trita: that Trump’s strikes have all but guaranteed Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon in a few years’ time.

“We are in a different, uncharted territory,” stated Trita.

“The ‘peace candidate’ has done what hawks have been dreaming of for thirty years,” says Mehdi.

Iran’s Nuclear Program Has Been ‘Obliterated,’ Says Hegseth

Jun 22, 2025 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials discuss Saturday night’s U.S. attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Hegseth says President Trump “seeks peace and Iran should take that path.”

“They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence” Chris Hedges on Israel’s War on Iran | The Listening Post

Jun 22, 2025 | The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media. Chris Hedges joins us to unpack the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War.

Watch the Moment Bernie Sanders Finds Out Trump Launched Strikes on Iran Live During His Rally

Jun 22, 2025 | During his "Fighting Oligarchy" rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was informed that President Trump had launched strikes on Iran.

Bernie Sanders, the intelligent and principled American who should be president. – © Mark Alexander

Maddow: 'We Are Now in War with Iran'

Jun 22, 2025 | President Trump said U.S. forces bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. Rachel Maddow reports.

US Bombs Iran Nuclear Sites and Tehran Warns of 'Everlasting Consequences' | BBC News

Jun 22, 2025 | The United States has bombed three major nuclear sites in Iran, bring the country directly into the Israel-Iran conflict.

President Donald Trump says the strikes "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities and told Tehran to "make peace" or face "far greater" attacks in future.

In response Iran's foreign minister warned of "everlasting consequences" to the "outrageous" strikes.

The UN's nuclear watchdog says no increase in radiation levels has been detected.

The UK was not involved in the US strikes but was told about them in advance, the BBC understands.

Netanjahus alter Traum erfüllt sich

AMERIKA GREIFT IRAN AN
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Jahrzehntelang warb Israels Ministerpräsident für einen Militärschlag der USA gegen Irans Atomprogramm. Lange vergeblich. Jetzt sieht er sein Ziel in Reichweite: Frieden durch Stärke.

Zu Beginn des Krieges gegen Iran habe er den Israelis versprochen, dass die iranischen Atomanlagen „auf die eine oder andere Weise zerstört werden“, sagte Benjamin Netanjahu kurz nach den amerikanischen Angriffen in der Nacht zum Sonntag. „Dieses Versprechen wurde gehalten.“

Für Israels Ministerpräsidenten sind die amerikanischen Bombardierungen dreier Atomanlagen in Iran die Erfüllung eines alten Traums. Über Jahrzehnte warnte der 75 Jahre alte Politiker vor einer iranischen Atombombe und forderte, diese Möglichkeit müsse verhindert werden – notgedrungen am besten mit militärischen Mitteln, gemeinsam mit den USA. Er sprach im amerikanischen Kongress und in der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen, mahnte und drohte. » | Von Christian Meier, Kairo | Sonntag, 22. Juni 2025

Bombardements américains en Iran : Téhéran esseulé sur la scène internationale

LE FIGARO : La communauté internationale appelle désormais toutes les parties à la désescalade, en privilégiant la voie diplomatique. Si les pays arabes s’inquiètent d’une «escalade», seuls les très rares alliés de l’Iran condamnent une «agression».

Après l'attaque américaine contre plusieurs sites nucléaires iraniens dimanche 22 juin 2025, par laquelle les États-Unis ont rejoint Israël dans sa guerre contre la République islamique, le président Donald Trump a souhaité le retour de la paix au Moyen-Orient. «Les installations essentielles d'enrichissement nucléaire de l'Iran ont été intégralement et totalement détruites. L'Iran, le caïd du Moyen-Orient, doit maintenant faire la paix», a déclaré le président américain dans une allocution télévisée. Les États-Unis menacent en revanche Téhéran de nouveaux bombardements si «la paix ne vient pas rapidement». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 22 juin 2025

“Fordow Is Gone”: The US Enters the War in Iran

THE OBSERVER: After ordering bunker-busting bombs to be dropped on the nuclear enrichment facility, Trump threatened that retaliatory strikes would end in “tragedy for Iran”

he United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran early Sunday morning, with President Trump entering the war to stop the threat from “the world’s number one state sponsor of terror”.

Six B-2 stealth bombers dropped at least six bunker buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear site, which lies deep in a mountainside near Tehran. American warplanes and navy submarines also attacked two other sites, a uranium enrichment centre at Natanz and a nuclear fuel storage facility at Isfahan.

Addressing the nation from the White House on the biggest gamble to date of his presidency, Trump said that Iran’s key nuclear plants were “completely and fully obliterated”. The scale of the damage has not been independently confirmed.

“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump told the nation. I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.”

“Remember, there are many targets left,” he continued. “Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.” < ahref=https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/fordow-is-gone-the-us-enters-the-war-in-iran target=_blank> » | Jon Ungoed-Thomas | News reporter | Sunday, June 22, 2025

Donald Trump Says US Has Attacked Three Iranian Nuclear Sites and ‘Totally Obliterated’ Them

THE GUARDIAN: The strikes hit uranium enrichment sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump said

Donald Trump has announced that the US has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to destroy the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.

“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump said in a speech from the White House. “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

The strikes on Saturday night hit uranium enrichment sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump said. He warned Iran against retaliating against US targets in the region, promising that further US strikes would be even more deadly. » | Andrew Roth and William Christou in Jerusalem | Sunday, June 22, 2025

We’re On the Brink of a Disastrous, Illegal Conflagration in the Middle East. Trump Must Be Stopped

THE GUARDIAN – OPINION: This is a war of choice, based on misinformation. If the US and UK join it, they risk a rerun of the Iraq debacle of 2003

Like the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Israel’s war on Iran is neither legal nor just. It is a war of choice, not of necessity – and should the US or its European allies, particularly Britain, join in, they risk being dragged into another disastrous and unlawful conflict in the Middle East.

A US military intervention would be in direct contravention of international law. Already, the US, once the architect and guardian of the international order, is now among its chief violators. Instead of pressuring Benjamin Netanyahu to end his siege and destruction of Gaza, Donald Trump has fully sided with Netanyahu and called Israel’s attacks on Iran “excellent”. He has demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”. Trump is considering military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Doing so is explicitly prohibited under article 56 of the additional protocol to the Geneva conventions because of the danger of nuclear contamination. » | Fawas Gerges | Friday, June 10, 2025

We find ourselves in this pickle because the American electorate naïvely re-elected Donald Trump back into the White House as a know-nothing in spite of their awful experience of his first term in office. Donald Trump understands neither economics nor geopolitics. – © Mark Alexander

I Grew Up on American Food. Trust Me, It’s the Last Thing Europe Needs

THE GUARDIAN – OPINION: The EU is under pressure to strike a trade deal with Trump, but an influx of mass-produced, low-quality food must be off the table

ll over European media, the take seems to be similar – that the EU is “under pressure” to conclude some sort of deal with the US in order to avoid Donald Trump’s 9 July deadline for the unilateral imposition of broad tariffs. What might be on the table in the attempt to secure that? In early May, the EU trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, was already suggesting that a deal to increase purchases from the US could include agricultural products – a possibility that seems to remain even though Šefčovič later clarified that the EU was not contemplating changing its health or safety standards.

Since I have failed to Abba (“Always be boldly acronyming”) and don’t have anything as good as Taco (“Trump always chickens out”) – coined by the Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong – at the ready, I’ll simply reach for the easy line: opening the door even slightly to more US food imports into the EU would leave a bad taste in all our mouths. Trump’s hostage-taking approach to trade should not be rewarded, certainly not with something that hits as close to home as food does. » | Alexander Hurst | Friday, June 20, 2025

The Warning with Steve Schmidt: Pete Hegseth Gets Put in His Place by Senator

Jun 19, 2025 | While tensions rise in the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gets grilled by Senator Elissa Slotkin over his job performance. Steve Schmidt looks at the tense exchange and explains why Hegseth is wildly unfit for his job.

„Trump hat von Wirtschaft absolut keine Ahnung!“ – Martin Richenhagen im Gespräch | maischberger

Jun 19, 2025

‘He’s Moving at a Truly Alarming Speed’: Trump Propels US into Authoritarianism

THE GUARDIAN: A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide towards autocracy has come quicker than critics feared

It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy.

A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed and arrested by heavy-handed law enforcement for little more than questioning authority or voicing dissent.

A judge is arrested in her own courthouse and charged with helping a defendant evade arrest.

Masked snatch squads arrest and spirit people away in public in what seem to be consciously intimidating scenes.

The president deploys the military on a dubious legal premise to confront protesters contesting his mass roundups of undocumented migrants.

A senior presidential aide announces that habeas corpus – a vital legal defence for detainees – could be suspended.

The sobering catalogue reflects the actions not of an entrenched dictatorship, but of Donald Trump’s administration as the president’s sternest critics struggle to process what they say has been a much swifter descent into authoritarianism than they imagined even a few weeks ago. » | Robert Tait in Washington | Thursday, June 19, 2025

Iran Says 'No Surrender' after Trump Threatens War

Jun 18, 2025 | Iran’s supreme leader rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of more Israeli strikes Wednesday and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them.”

The Warning with Steve Schmidt: Tucker Carlson EMBARRASSES Ted Cruz on Iran

June 18, 2025 | As MAGA's base continues to implode, Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz faced off on the subject of Iran. Steve Schmidt reacts to Cruz's lack of facts while highlighting Carlson's racist and problematic views.

Trump's Police Criminalize Free Speech: When Did Words Become a Crime?

Jun 18, 2025 | The Trump administration just refused to allow an Australian writer entry to America because he’d penned articles critical of the Trump administration’s support for Israel genocidal war against Palestine.

A Patriotic American Speaks His Mind - PARADE OF SHAME

Jun 14, 2025 | When Dwight Eisenhower was asked if the United States should have a military parade, he responded this way: "Absolutely not. we are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.” Our power doesn’t lie in our ability to destroy anyone or anything.

Our power lies in our ability to help people live better lives. And that’s why what’s happening these days is so deeply disempowering. We’re seeing a perversion of the values that indeed did make America great.

Ah, what we could have done over the last fifty years to expand people’s opportunities, while instead we worked so steadily to diminish them. Deflecting attention onto a military parade that will cost taxpayers $25M to $45 is obscene, when the government literally took food from the mouths of hungry children because they say we waste too much money. This parade will not be a celebration of our military; it will be a celebration of our war machine. The arms manufacturers. What in DC is called “The Blob.” Those children, and our veterans, be damned.

Does it have to be this way? No. And on the other side of this twisted era, I pray that it will not be.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: Trump’s MAGA Mindset: The US’s Biggest Export

Jun 4, 2025 | Most of us have, for so long, lived under the shadow of American exports, that we’d be hard-pressed to choose which was the most influential. Hollywood rom-coms? Coupons? Halloween?

That list might have been relevant a couple of weeks ago. Now America’s biggest export is Donald Trump’s MAGA mindset, according to international and political editor, Peter Hartcher.

Today, he joins me to discuss Trump’s hidden announcement last week about a new level of imminent American interference, globally; one not seen since the end of the Cold War. And how it will change other countries for years to come.


Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them: Public opinion is clamouring for closer EU cooperation. The last thing we need is Ursula von der Leyen pandering to the far right Donald Trump’s “America First” policies are undermining decades of transatlantic cooperation just as Putin’s Russia destabilises Europe with direct military aggression. But these twin shocks have unintentionally accomplished something the EU institutions never could. They have made European integration feel not just important, but existential – a matter of democratic survival – for ordinary citizens. »