China's military intelligence has warned the IRGC about the US preparing an amphibious operation in Iran in the coming days.
Iranian representatives have notified Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan that the US is deliberately stalling for time by amassing forces in the region. The US Army's amphibious group has not yet arrived in the Gulf for deployment.
The Reuters reporting is real and worth reading. The Dissident piece is something else.
Here is what Reuters actually established: Netanyahu called Trump less than 48 hours before the strikes. He made his closing argument: a window to kill Khamenei, regime change, and yes, the 2024 assassination plot. Three anonymous sources described the call as a catalyst for Trump's final decision on timing.
Here is what Reuters explicitly did not establish: that the claims were fabricated, that Netanyahu manipulated Trump, or that Trump wouldn't have struck without the call. Reuters stated directly, Trump had already approved a military operation before the call took place. What remained was timing, not intent.
The Dissident takes that reporting and wraps it in a conclusion Reuters specifically refused to draw.
Then comes the Merchant entrapment claim, sourced almost entirely to The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal's outlet, which has a well-documented ideological agenda on Israel and Iran. The inconvenient fact the piece omits: Merchant was convicted by a federal jury. At trial he admitted the IRGC sent him to the United States to arrange political assassinations.
Calling a jury conviction "fabricated" is not investigative journalism. It is narrative dressed as evidence.
The Reuters story raises legitimate questions about the relationship between Netanyahu and Trump, about how wars get started, about who shapes the final decision. Those questions deserve serious examination.
The Dissident piece doesn't examine them. It answers them, before the evidence does.
So, our liar-in-chief was hoodwinked by Israel’s liar-in-chief! There is some sort of poetic justice in this or maybe it is all just farce.
Well said Nora
Trump is a coward, a traitor, and a dumb bastard.
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China's military intelligence has warned the IRGC about the US preparing an amphibious operation in Iran in the coming days.
Iranian representatives have notified Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan that the US is deliberately stalling for time by amassing forces in the region. The US Army's amphibious group has not yet arrived in the Gulf for deployment.
The Reuters reporting is real and worth reading. The Dissident piece is something else.
Here is what Reuters actually established: Netanyahu called Trump less than 48 hours before the strikes. He made his closing argument: a window to kill Khamenei, regime change, and yes, the 2024 assassination plot. Three anonymous sources described the call as a catalyst for Trump's final decision on timing.
Here is what Reuters explicitly did not establish: that the claims were fabricated, that Netanyahu manipulated Trump, or that Trump wouldn't have struck without the call. Reuters stated directly, Trump had already approved a military operation before the call took place. What remained was timing, not intent.
The Dissident takes that reporting and wraps it in a conclusion Reuters specifically refused to draw.
Then comes the Merchant entrapment claim, sourced almost entirely to The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal's outlet, which has a well-documented ideological agenda on Israel and Iran. The inconvenient fact the piece omits: Merchant was convicted by a federal jury. At trial he admitted the IRGC sent him to the United States to arrange political assassinations.
Calling a jury conviction "fabricated" is not investigative journalism. It is narrative dressed as evidence.
The Reuters story raises legitimate questions about the relationship between Netanyahu and Trump, about how wars get started, about who shapes the final decision. Those questions deserve serious examination.
The Dissident piece doesn't examine them. It answers them, before the evidence does.
That's the tell.