https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/donald-trump-iran-war-total-disaster

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Mar 14, 2026

Newspaper Reader: What are Trumps confused reasons? What are Freedland’s political reasons?

Jonathan Freedland since his defaming of Jeremy Corbyn, with help from other Zionists Hysterics, he now carefilly frames his latest comment on the Trump’s War on Iran via this sentence fragment ‘Even taking Trump’s confused reasons for the Iran war at face value,’ The reader might think that our ‘expert’ is really just what he is, another propagandist! In sum Freedland is a propgandist under the cover of political exploration, as an expanitory device?

Editor: Nothing gets in way of Freedland political chatter but his own well worn medacity!

Editor: Freedland brief attempt at ‘most charitable light’.

It’s not easy, but let’s try to look at this war in the best, most charitable light. Let’s try to see the US-Israel conflict with Iran as its prosecutors and advocates would want us to see it.

Editor: This next paragraph is not explanitory but is about Trumpism framed by a fellow Traveler:

They would say that it has two aims, both legitimate. The first is to weaken if not remove a regime that has done terrible evil to its own people. Who could mourn the supreme leader of a government that, according to one report, gunned down 30,000 of its citizens on the streets in just two days on 8 and 9 January? Listen to those Iranians who long ago reached the glum conclusion that the only way they could be rid of their tormentors was through external military action. As one exiled Iranian put it to me this week: “The Iranian people have been begging the world for help for so many years. They tried voting for change in 2009; they were killed. They tried protesting in 2019, 2022 and this year; they were massacred in the tens of thousands … They were out of all other options.”

Editor: A collection of Freedlands revelatory fragments leaves The Reader almost in augh of his ability to shape even mold the readers thought processes?

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Iran hoped to make good on that threat by arming and funding the proxies – Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis – that formed its much-vaunted “ring of fire” around Israel. After 7 October 2023, Israel resolved not to wait for its enemies to strike, but to rob them in advance of the means to do so.

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The goals identified by Donald Trump have shifted daily, if not hourly. One minute he wants regime change, the next he seeks merely an end to Iran’s nuclear programme. At breakfast, he insists on unconditional surrender; by lunchtime, he’s open to negotiation.

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It offers vanishingly few examples of a dictatorship removed through the use of air power alone and, when US force has toppled regimes in the Middle East, the result has not been a smooth transition to democracy but rather the unleashing of enduring chaos and bloodshed: look no further than Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011.

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After nearly half a century, the apparatus of the Islamic Republic is too entrenched, too committed to its own survival, to be felled so easily.

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Editor: Freedland’s resort to David Petraeus, which is the very definition of political bankruptcy!

To distil what the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus, told the Unholy podcast this week: “We were hoping for Delcy Rodríguez … Instead, what we got is a young Kim Jong-un.”

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Editor: War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu makes his appearance. Netanyahu has now disappeared …

Benjamin Netanyahu may be urging Iranians to “take to the streets”, but how exactly are they supposed to do that, with an internet shutdown that makes organisation close to impossible and in the face of security forces ready to machine-gun their fellow citizens?

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Editor: The Iranians now control the strait of Hormuz: ‘to disrupt the lives of hundreds of millions’ the manifest power of the Iran to manage its own oil reserves!

By effectively closing the strait of Hormuz, it has reminded the world of its chief deterrent: its chokehold over the global economy, its ability to disrupt the international oil supply, to drive up energy prices and therefore inflation, to disrupt the lives of hundreds of millions.

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Editor: Ukraine war is already lost, to the chagrin of Freedland and his allies!

Putin now has more cash to fight Ukraine, already hurt by depleting stocks of drone interceptors, which are urgently needed in the Middle East.

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Editor: Iran and its store of weapons of war, from even the crudet of weapony, to the most sophiticated: places Freedland’s bellicose chatter in line with ‘West’ headed by Trump, whose alligence is to Miriam Adelson. As Trump and his operatives, and the whole of the Western Media exalt the Party Line!

As for Iran itself, if the regime survives, it will have every reason to double down on its nuclear ambitions, reasoning that the best guarantee against US attack is the bomb. Think of it as the North Korea principle.

Every one of these risks was predictable and indeed predicted, but the warmakers went ahead anyway. Which brings us to the strongest reason to view this war not charitably, but in a cold, harsh light.

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Editor: I will end with this final hyperbolic chatter from Friedland. Yet the reader confronts not the Iranian regime of 1979, but its now 47 years old State ! What remaines of the Gaza Genocide is the cowardice of a West, in the thrall of the perennial myth of Jewish Victionhood!

To confront the Iranian regime was to walk, with a lit match, towards a tinderbox soaked in gasoline. If it were to be done at all, whether by military or other means, it had to be done with the greatest care. But Trump has blundered in, crushing and trampling all before him, making a bad situation worse. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt.

Newspaper Reader.