Trump, while in Paris on June 17th, signed a historic 60-day armistice agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, halting the most unpopular US war in history—and, hopefully, hopefully, for good. Trump told Axios the next day that, while giving in to almost all of Iran’s peace demands, the deal still amounted to “unconditional surrender” on their part to the US.
In a strong rebuke to the president, the US Senate and House of Representatives passed a concurrent resolution directing him to withdraw all US military personnel from the Iran theater of war five days before he asserted that his imperial King presidential powers had no boundaries. “What Changed After Almost Four Months of War? Analysts Say Not Much.” Donald Rump was the subject of a story published in the New York Times on June 21st. “Really? Their Military is DONE, their Navy is GONE, their Air Force is GONE, their Launching Pads, Missiles, Drones and Manufacturing of same, is almost GONE, and their top two sets of Leaders are GONE,” Trump responded predictably, falsely asserting that the US had triumphed in the Iran War. Its Was All Lies!!
After Donald Trump accused the Islamic Republic of “foolish violation” of a ceasefire agreement by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz with drones, the U.S. military attacked Iran on Friday. Later, Iran’s military claimed to have responded to the strikes. The aircraft “struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites,” according to U.S. Central Command. The Singapore-flagged cargo ship Ever Lovely was hit by an Iranian one-way attack drone on Thursday in the strait off the coast of Oman, according to a Central Command report on X.
The ship was allowed to proceed through the strait, which is a significant oil transportation route. According to Trump, three further attack drones that were targeting ships in the strait were “knocked down” by the US military. Central Command declared, “Iranian forces’ unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping clearly violated the ceasefire.” “Furthermore, as commerce increasingly flows through the crucial international trade corridor, Iran’s dangerous behavior undermined freedom of navigation,” Central Command stated.
“Following the violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, a few hours ago, the treaty-breaking US regime, as always, violated its commitments and, under various pretexts, attacked the coasts of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an airstrike due to the passage of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. of Iran said in a statement following the U.S. strikes.” According to the IRGC, “the IRGC Navy responded to this aggression by striking the positions of the US terrorist army in the region.” “The Islamic Republic of Iran has the arrangements for controlling passage in the Strait of Hormuz, according to clause 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding; however, the US attempted to violate this commitment by provoking various parties, to which a necessary response was given, and this will be the case from now on.”
The IRGC declared, “Our response will be broader than this if the aggression is repeated.” “The U.S. attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations once again,” stated Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security commission, in a post on X. “The failed U.S. King Rump has demonstrated his lack of commitment to the principles of a ceasefire or negotiation.
The $300 billion Iran reconstruction fund, which is essentially reparations in all but name, would be funded by private companies and investors worldwide. It is contingent upon Iran’s compliance with the terms of the armistice agreement and any future agreements that limit its nuclear weapons program; this is particularly true in light of the fact that the US would be humiliated by the terms of the deal. The United States’ plan to persuade private corporations to back the fund remains a mystery.
According to King Rump, the United States ‘won’ the war militarily, and Iran capitulated. But nothing says “we lost the Iran War” more clearly than the $300 billion in reparations and the $100–200 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets that we had to pay to the Islamist regime we had sworn to topple. When a nation loses a war, it is not required to pay reparations. Not all countries win every battle.
