“We’re going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” said Donald Trump, as he stood at the podium in his white USA cap and announced the launch of a “massive and ongoing” military operation against Iran. 

“It will be totally, again, obliterated.” He had to say “again” because he has insisted over and over that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “utterly obliterated” last summer, after Operation Midnight Hammer. 

But the objective of these latest midnight or very early morning strikes, conducted again by US and Israeli forces working together, is already far broader than the wiping out of weapons of mass destruction – whether that be uranium enrichment sites or Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. 

A series of loud explosions has been heard in cities and at sites across Iran. Smoke was seen rising from the presidential compound and Iran’s National Security Council. US-Israeli forces have also attacked various camps in western Iran – and a known Hezbollah site south of........

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