Trump’s war with Iran is continuing. Saturday, Iran launched attack drones at Bahrain — which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters, a major logistical base for U.S. military operations. Iran also struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, its second attack on a ship since Thursday. 

Those attacks came after the United States carried out overnight airstrikes on Iranian missile and drone sites, in retaliation for Iran’s firing drones at a container ship on Thursday as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. 

Tonight, Trump posted that “United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”

The continuing hostilities are exposing the mind-numbing extent of Trump’s lies about “ending” his war: that he’s achieved a lasting peace in the Middle East; that Iran no longer has any capacity........

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