Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks.
The sudden claim of Iran being very close to a bomb (that seemingly jumped out of ‘nowhere’ to leave Americans puzzling how could it happen that – in the blink of eye, we are going to war – was subsequently refuted by IAEA Chief Grossi to CNN on 17 June (but only after the abrupt attack on Iran already had taken place):
The underpinnings to the 12 June 2025 IAEA Resolution – giving pretext for Israel to strike Iran (and crafted to sway President Trump to dismiss his own Director of National Intelligence’s warnings that there was no evidence of Iran moving towards weaponisation) – reportedly were drawn not from Mossad or other western intelligence services, but from IAEA software. As DD Geo-politics outlines, since 2015, the IAEA has relied on Palantir’s Mosaic platform, a $50-million AI system that sifts through millions of data points – satellite imagery, social media, personnel logs – to predict nuclear threats:
There may be some truth to this assertion, but I do not believe it is the core reason Trump bombed Iran’s nuke facilities. The core reason, in my view, is in one fell swoop Trump has completely removed Israel’s main excuse for wanting to engage in full-scale war with Iran. Israel and Iran can now fight all they want. There is no longer any reason for Trump to be drawn into whatever conflict may occur. It was a savvy move on Trump’s part which changed the game overnight because there are new ‘facts on the ground’ now. This avoids USA having to do Israel’s fighting and dying while Israelis do nothing. Another point is, the world has become accustomed to seeing Israeli savagery in Gaza. If something similar starts happening to Israel, it will not look unusual to most people or morally undeserved.
At an even deeper level, Trump seems to have ushered Israel into a boxed canyon of their own making. They threw away their victim card in Gaza; wore down US gullibility through many wars for Israel; caused peoples in the West to realize Jewish Supremists are the main backers and doers of censorship, mind-control, illegal immigration and getting other people to die for their interests. Don’t be surprised if Israel is abandoned and droves of Israelis move to Ukraine. After all, they have already made it ‘a nation without people’, or almost. ABN