A billboard displaying Iranian Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Photo by Erdalislakphotography.

Israel and the United States have intensified their radical destabilization of the Middle East by launching a military offensive in Tehran that appears aimed at toppling Iran’s leadership.

“We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran,” US President Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA.”

In a series of strikes on the Iranian capital that began on Friday, Israel assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s key nuclear negotiator who had been conducting talks with US officials on Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. Iran has long insisted it has a right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes and was seeking an end to crippling sanctions levelled by Washington.

In March, US intelligence and other experts asserted that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, and until last week Washington appeared to support negotiations with Tehran. But on Monday, Trump reversed course, claiming that Iran was indeed weaponizing its uranium. He warned Iranians to evacuate the capital and implied that the US would join its ally Israel in launching an imminent attack. The US has meanwhile moved additional........

© Canadian Dimension