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First Skeleton: Back in July Trump's strikes on Iran were a spectacular military success. Their key enrichment facilities were completely and totally obliterated. But they wanted to start the program all over again. Second Skeleton: If only someone could've worked out a deal with them, a kind of nuclear deal.... First Skeleton: Iran was developing ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S.! The Iranian people need to seize control of their destiny and take over their government! Second Skeleton: Are we worried about Americans or Iranians here? First Skeleton: Iran tried to interfere in U.S. elections to stop Trump! Second Skeleton: So...it's personal. First Skeleton: Trump could so he did. End of story.

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The war on Iran continues with an unimaginably huge human and environmental cost. I just put it together: People have said that Trump killed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action -- the Iran nuclear deal -- simply because it had Barack Obama's signature on it. But it's clear to me now his real reason for scuttling the pact was to give him the freedom to bomb Iran. So long as Iran was transparently adhering to the deal, there could be no cause of action to attack Iran directly. To make an excuse for war, the JCPOA had to go. So it was demolished. After that it didn't matter what Iran did -- tried to enrich uranium, didn't try to do anything of the kind -- because there was now space for Trump to lie.

Now I'm not sure Trump himself gives a shit about Iran one way or another. (Do they even have golf there? Does he have a hotel in Tehran?) But the people around him do. Lots of right-wing assholes have been dying to punch the Ayatollah's ticket since 1979. It just took a long time to get enough of a clown in power to let them do it.

Now the Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed and replaced with a new Ayatollah Khamenei, only this one is younger, more energetic, and has seen his most of his family murdered by American bombs. That can't be good.