We are living in dangerous times. The world is on the edge. The rule-based international order stands badly mauled. The foreign and security policy of the superpower is in disarray and thoroughly under the spell of Zionist lobbies, which function in tandem with the Israeli administrations. The previous USA Presidents withstood Tel Aviv’s pressure for the invasion of Iran. President Donald Trump did not resist Netanyahu’s anti-Palestine and anti-Iran enmity. He invaded Iran without any exit plan or clear objectives. A two-month war has exposed the limits of the USA's military power and isolated it in the world.

President Donald Trump, in his first term, terminated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was so laboriously evolved by the Obama administration to find a negotiated solution to Iran’s nuclear programme. In his second term, he coalesced with Israel to deceitfully impose the war on Iran in June 2025, and on 28 February 2026, while holding talks with the latter. According to Omani intermediaries, both sides were close to agreeing to a deal. Netanyahu, in all probability, was against a negotiated solution to the issue, and conned Donald Trump into invading Iran again.

In the two-week war in June 2025, the coalition bombed Iran ferociously, assassinating its senior military officials and nuclear scientists, and pounded its three known nuclear sites using B2 bombers, with President Donald Trump boasting about the total annihilation of Iran’s nuclear programme. Later, the International Atomic Energy Commission cast doubts on his claim, reporting no emission of radiation from these nuclear sites.

Iran was re-engaged in talks. Under the guise........

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