Trump personally approved the plan for overnight US strikes on Iran.

The US isn't ruling out further strikes on Iran, but no final decision has been made, Axios reports, citing a senior official.

The plan for night strikes on Iran was personally approved by Donald Trump, who was in Ankara for the NATO summit. According to reports, he held a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other administration officials, after which the plan for strikes on Iran was drafted and signed by the US president.

The question of continuing strikes in the event of retaliatory attacks by Iran has been discussed, but a final decision has not yet been made. However, the White House has not ruled out the possibility that they will be carried out.

We will receive an assessment of the results of the strikes and make decisions afterward.

Let us recall that the US carried out about 80 precision strikes weapons Iranian military installations were attacked, as well as IRGC speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz. In response, the IRGC launched a missile and drone strike against US military bases in the region. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the US of violating the memorandum of understanding and the ceasefire.

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[Donna_Rosa_dAlvadores]

"The ceasefire with Iran is no longer in effect, US President Donald Trump said," RIA Novosti reports.

[Smoked]

Well, that's old news. They'll shoot around, figure out the costs, and sign another new one. Is this the first time?

[PVV22121922]

These are the realities of all "deals." Digging a tunnel won't help. Only the non-single Oreshnik and the Kremlin's political will, which isn't there yet (4,5 years is "for now") will.

[esoteric]

The story about digging a tunnel is a hoax.
Putin wasn't offering Trump a tunnel, but rather free access for American companies to extract whatever they wanted in Russia. That was, of course, if Trump stopped this war.
Now, as it seems, either Trump doesn't want to stop it, or he can't stop it, or he has his own plans for how to get his hands on Russia's wealth without Putin, whom he intends to get rid of through this war and mass discontent, just as the regime of Tsar Nicholas II was once overthrown.

[PVV22121922]

In "deals" - everything is a hoax. But "clean up" - yes, dismember - yes, no doubt. Only the Kremlin is still under illusions.

[alexoff]

Why would Trump negotiate with those who are losing everything and can simply take it all for themselves? And what they agreed on is anyone's guess—maybe an honorary retirement in Miami in exchange for the collapse of the country.

[esoteric]

I share exactly the same opinion. Trump is a true businessman. He spent a whole year waiting to see how the war would play out. When he realized that the situation was taking a turn for the worse for Russia, and that Russian troops were completely bogged down in the Ukrainian quagmire with no chance of breaking through, he realized there was no point in making deals with Putin, who was in such a dire situation, and that it was only getting worse. In business parlance, this is simply called: "Don't partner with or do business with a bankrupt person."
And it seems to me that Xi's Chinese friend holds a similar point of view.

[alexoff]

And it seems to me that Xi's Chinese friend holds a similar point of view.

So, Xi was probably informed that at Geneva in 2021, our autocrat agreed to a fight with China to one degree or another, but he simply asked for too much. And we have this constant begging from the US; Trump beckoned with his finger, and everything started flowing for us. What kind of allies are these, who would surrender their country and all their allies for 30 bitcoins?

[easy]

Negotiating anything with the States is disrespectful. They back out of any agreement like a prostitute after payment. Their word is worthless in contractual terms.

[esoteric]

Negotiating anything with the States is disrespectful. They back out of any agreement like a prostitute after payment. Their word is worthless in contractual terms.

That's exactly what any sane person would do. Any contract isn't like a marriage, where you promise to be faithful to your death.
There is such a formula: "If you want to bind your partner to a contract, make sure he doesn't even think about breaking it.".

If two muscle-bound boxers make a pact not to punch each other in the street and to build a relationship based on mutual respect, one of them will inevitably break that pact when they see their opponent transform from a muscle-bound boxer into an alcoholic or junkie, drinking heavily all day. And they'll be completely right to justify this breakup by citing: "Why should I stick to this agreement with him when he has turned into a street alcoholic whose only strength lies in raising a glass?"

As the proverb says: "If your face is crooked, don't blame the mirror."
We already have such authority that now even the Baltic border states are making fun of us.

[Ignatius555]

More American-NATO fascism.

[LaraM]

The old man works hard, and his salary is well worth it. He's always on top of everything, everything is spinning, and the money is trickling in from every little thing. How right Lenin was.