Until just a few weeks ago, a US attack on Iran seemed almost like a done deal. This isn’t exactly out of the ordinary for Republican governments, as they tend to be more aggressive toward Tehran, and the Trump administration is no different in that regard. Since his first term, Donald Trump has been quite critical of Iran and its policies. This continued during his second term, with Washington DC escalating tensions by directly attacking and bombing Iranian allies such as the Houthis (officially known as the Ansar Allah). The former Biden administration also worked to pave the way for more American interventionism in the Middle East, particularly by targeting Syria, which fell to Western-backed terrorists in early December. In the meantime, the mainstream propaganda machine kept galvanizing the American public for war with Iran (even before Trump took office).

Worse yet, in the first several months of this year, there have been a number of concrete moves to facilitate such an attack, particularly in terms of deploying strategic assets. Trump himself warned that the US could “launch a bombing attack the likes of which they have never seen before” if Iran refuses to engage in negotiations and make the “necessary” concessions on its nuclear program. Trump made these statements following the deployment of at least seven B-2 “Spirit” strategic stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility (officially belongs to the British military, but leased to the US Navy and also often used by the USAF). The Pentagon operates only 19 B-2s, meaning that over a........

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