Iran is expected to attack Israel. US is sending fighter jets.

The Times of Israel this morning.

2025 update, though: Iran didn't attack Israel. Israel attacked Iran.

Oh.

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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM

Why did Trump abandon the JCPOA?

Incomprehensible social media versions of why the US attack on Iran was justified.

It's actually illegal.

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

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— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM

I’ll just leave this here as a reminder now that Americans are a target since Trump bombed Iran. FFS

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— 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ (@allmylovesteph.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Honestly "all triggered by the Iranian revolution of 1979" is the type of description so precisely misleading that it could not have arisen by ignorance, it has to be coming from someone who is wholly familiar with what preceded the 1979 revolution and is willfully lying about it.

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— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM

"[U]ntil circumstances compel the other branches of government to adjust their posture...the executive branch is unlikely to see itself as legally constrained from participating in Israel’s military campaign against Iran, if Trump ultimately opts to do so," writes @sranderson.bsky.social.

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— Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) June 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM

"Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Sunday [June 21, 2025] said that while the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites successfully struck all three targets and did “extremely severe” damage, exactly to what extent Iran’s nuclear program has been set back cannot be known yet.

“It would be way too early for me to comment on what may or may not still be there,” the career Air Force officer said at the joint news conference at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth."

— S.V. Date, "Trump Brags Of ‘Obliterating’ Iran’s Nuclear Program, But Top Adviser Is More Cautious: Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Caine says that knowing exactly how much damage Saturday night’s raid did will take time to determine." HuffPost, Jun 22, 2025

My essay "2003" opens with my political awakening, seeing the stupid and destructive and dishonest start of the Iraq War, and it ends like this, which I'm not saying is any great insight but it really sums up my disgust with this whole era (you can read it here sundoglit.com/tom-mcallist...)

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— Tom McAllister (@tmcallister.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Vance Claims U.S. 'Not At War With Iran, We're At War With Iran's Nuclear Program': The vice president also said how the United States will respond if Iran retaliates. Jazmin Tolliver, HuffPost, Jun 22, 2025

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM

Kristi Noem Warns Of 'Increased Threat' To The U.S. Over Trump's Decision To Strike Iran: Separately, the State Department also urged Americans overseas to be vigilant. Marita Vlachou, HuffPost, Jun 23, 2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages Against Trump Iran Strike With Chilling Warning: And "we weren’t even thinking about any of this a week ago," railed the far-right Georgia lawmaker. Lee Moran, HuffPost, Jun 23, 2025

June 21, 2025 email from The Intercept:

• "The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Iran is “not building a nuclear weapon.”
• The most powerful Democrats in Congress are issuing tepid cookie-cutter statements that show they aren’t serious about opposing U.S. involvement in Israel’s war on Iran.
• Israel’s claim to have “no other choice” but to launch a so-called preemptive strike is part of a decadeslong propaganda campaign to mislead the world about its enemies in the region."

Read: Trump says US will meet with Iran "next week" but doesn’t believe a nuclear deal is necessary From CNN's Alayna Treene, June 25, 2025