By Malik Mukhtar | www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com
“We attacked Iran to prevent a war. Now we beg for peace to stop the one we started.”
As the skies above the Gulf region still shimmer from the aftershock of Iran’s coordinated missile barrage, the ground tells another story — one of burned infrastructure, broken illusions, and a brutal reckoning with American hubris. In a span of hours, Iran’s Operation Tidings of Victory pounded U.S. bases in Qatar, Iraq, and Kuwait with hundreds of precision-guided missiles, answering American aggression with terrifying precision.
And in a stunning reversal, Donald Trump — the very architect of the current crisis — is now pleading for a ceasefire.
Why? Because the cost of his so-called “deterrence” has come home to roost.
💥 30,000 Pounds of Miscalculation
Days before this retaliation, Trump launched a surprise military strike on three of Iran’s most fortified nuclear facilities, dropping Massive Ordnance Penetrators (M.O.P.) — 30,000-pound bombs designed to pierce deep into hardened sites like Fordo.
But the result wasn’t a surgical miracle — it was a geopolitical earthquake.
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken broke ranks with the usual bipartisan echo chamber to issue a stark warning in his New York Times column:
“The strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was unwise and unnecessary. Now that it’s done, I very much hope it succeeded.”
It’s a revealing paradox: those who architected America’s military-industrial muscle now watch in horror as it’s used recklessly by a president playing geopolitical roulette.l
🧠 From Diplomacy to Disaster
Blinken lays out a blistering case. In 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (J.C.P.O.A.) effectively locked Iran’s nuclear program in a verifiable box. The “breakout time” — the time Iran would need to build a bomb — was extended to over a year, with international monitoring in place.
But Trump torched the deal in 2018, replacing it with… nothing. And now, the same administration that shredded diplomacy has reignited a war — one that it now scrambles to contain.
Blinken points out:
- There was still time. U.S. intelligence believed Iran had not made a decision to build a bomb and would need 18–24 months to do so.
- The targets weren’t guaranteed. Even with the advanced M.O.P.s, the U.S. likely failed to fully destroy Fordo or other deeply-buried infrastructure.
- Iran’s stockpile was likely dispersed. Damaging a few sites does little if Iran preserved centrifuges and enriched uranium in other secure locations.
- This could backfire. As in the case of Israel’s 1981 Osirak reactor strike, the attack may actually accelerate Iran’s nuclear weaponization — pushing it underground and beyond visibility.
“Mr. Trump’s strike has risked precipitating what we want to prevent.” — Blinken
🌡️ Heatwaves and Hellfire
According to earlier reporting by The New York Times, the impact of the 30,000-pound bombs was not just structural — it triggered a localized heatwave across parts of central Iran. The extreme temperature surge — a result of subterranean shockwaves and fireball compression — added an unprecedented environmental cost to a political gamble.
“We’ve never recorded this level of immediate atmospheric displacement from a conventional strike,” one UN climate monitor was quoted saying.
The irony? America attacked Iran to "prevent" a nuclear future, and in the process, brought nuclear-like devastation to the present — without a single warhead.
🕊️ Trump's Ceasefire: A White Flag in Disguise
Now, with U.S. troops dead, regional oil markets in free fall, and allies like Kuwait shaken, Trump is calling for peace. But this ceasefire call reeks of strategic failure, not diplomacy.
Iran’s response didn’t come from desperation — it came from preparation. Unlike the U.S., Iran had internalized two decades of drone wars, assassinations, and sabotage. Its missiles weren’t random — they were messages. To Washington. To Tel Aviv. To Riyadh. And to anyone still dreaming of "clean wars."
📜 The Lie of Controlled Escalation
This war wasn’t born out of necessity — it was manufactured, choreographed by short-term thinking and long-term denial. Blinken's quiet confession reveals the rot at the heart of U.S. foreign policy:
“We destroyed diplomacy, then launched an airstrike, and now hope it succeeded. That’s not strategy — that’s a prayer.”
He even admits that Trump’s strike used tools built under Obama and refined under Biden — the very same administrations that supposedly believed in restraint. The truth? This war had been rehearsed. Trump merely pulled the trigger.
🪖 When Empire Trips Over Its Own Bootstraps
America didn’t just miscalculate Iran — it underestimated history. It assumed the Gulf would remain its staging ground forever. It forgot that military might without moral clarity leads to chaos. And now, the very bases that once projected dominance are lit up by Iranian missile fire, as Trump scrambles to put out the fire he poured gasoline on.
⚖️ Final Thoughts: This Isn’t a Ceasefire — It’s a Cover-up
Let us be clear: this is not an end to war. It’s a pause in propaganda, a moment for Washington to spin loss as restraint, collapse as compromise. Meanwhile, the Middle East simmers — from the flames in Fordo to the shadows of Gaza, from Kuwaiti oil fields to Syrian skies.
"You cannot bomb your way into diplomacy. And you cannot mourn a war you just set ablaze."
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