Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for.\u00a0 <\/span>Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into a series of unconstitutional conflicts with the most recent being a severe unprovoked \u2018war of aggression\u2019<\/i> against Iran.<\/p>\n Early in Trump\u2019s second term his no-new interventionist war pledge was no longer public policy when he failed to end the war in Ukraine as promised,\u00a0 <\/span>followed by initiation of a failed bombing campaign against the Houthis, unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan fishermen with no proof of criminality including the Trump administration\u2019s generous offerings of weapons to support Israel\u2019s genocide on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In March, 2025, the US Intelligence Assessment<\/span><\/a> concluded that \u201cWe continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n In June, 2025, with the US and Iran officials engaged in \u2018negotiation\u2019, the US with Israel joined at the hip, launched a surprise unprovoked illegal attack on Iran which came to be known as the Twelve Day War<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0 <\/span>On June 22, the US fired bunker busting missiles aimed at Iran\u2019s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear facilities.\u00a0 <\/span>Those attacks were followed by a tentative ceasefire at Israel\u2019s request to the US as the President insisted that all Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities had been\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cobliterated\u201d<\/span><\/a> which later proved to be untrue.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n In anticipation of US military action against Iran prior to February 28th<\/sup><\/span>, \u00a0 <\/span>Gen. Dan Caine, Chair of the Joint Chief of Staffs recommended that the President reconsider<\/span><\/a> any intervention since US \u201cresources would be greatly depleted<\/i>\u201d and that \u2018the stakes are too high<\/i>\u201d when it comes to Iran.\u00a0 <\/span>Trump\u2019s response was \u201cIt is his opinion that it will be something easily won<\/i>\u201d\u00a0as if the US would overcome any military challenge from Iran, following Trump\u2019s habit to create the illusion of what he wants to hear.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to the Israel-US pre-emptive strike, Iran warned that closing the Hormuz Strait was a potential response which was exactly Iran\u2019s answer when the Israel-US attacks began.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s malicious attack on Iran began at 4 am on February 28th<\/sup><\/span> was met almost immediately with a more vigorous military response than either Trump or his Israeli partner expected.\u00a0 <\/span>Early predictions for a quick, in-and-out decisive victory by Monday\u00a0 <\/span>never materialized since Iran, presumably in a weakened state per Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s assurances, was fully prepared for the US-Israeli assault.<\/p>\n The war against Iran has exposed\u00a0 <\/span>the last remaining veneer of the President\u2019s delusional<\/span><\/a> character, a malignant narcissist<\/span><\/a> with a dangerous pathological edge just as the war has exposed Israel\u2019s near total domination over every Trump foreign policy decision, all of which have been unsuccessful and increased the country\u2019s $38 trillion debt.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s history with Iran dates back to his first Presidential term soon after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA<\/span><\/a>) was approved.\u00a0 <\/span>That Agreement would assure that Iran\u2019s nuclear program would remain \u2018peaceful\u2019 as consistent with the IAEA and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).<\/p>\n In July, 2015,\u00a0 <\/span>the J5 +1 (China, France, Russia, UK, Germany, US) announced an Agreement which would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and by January 2016, the JCPOA confirmed the necessary changes to Iran\u2019s nuclear program that allowed its nuclear related sanctions<\/span><\/a> to be waived.<\/p>\n The Agreement functioned smoothly with Iran meeting its obligations<\/span><\/a> and with no kerfuffle until Donald Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election.<\/p>\n Trump revealed his opposition to Iran in his first term when he unexpectedly withdrew<\/span><\/a> the US from the JCPOA in May, 2018. \u00a0 <\/span>Nullifying what six other nations had labored to create, President Trump suddenly and brazenly stated that \u201cThe Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into<\/i>\u201d <\/b>claiming it failed to protect US national security interests. \u00a0 <\/span>Whatever those national security interests were remained unspecified.\u00a0 <\/span>At the same time, the US reimposed energy, financial and electrochemical sanctions on Iran\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n Given what we now know about the ease with which Trump ignored his previous peace promise and the number of Zionist campaign donors, it would be foolish to believe that Netanyahu, a frequent visitor to the Oval Office, had not used his considerable influence to \u2018lobby\u2019 Trump to follow his direction.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n As Trump allowed the JCPOA\u00a0 <\/span>to be dismantled,\u00a0 <\/span>it is safe to hypothesize that Trump was grossly uninformed that the very same Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khemenei<\/span><\/a> that Trump later cheered at his assassination was also author of the Fatwa entitled \u201cProhibition of Weaponsof Mass Destruction<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>That Fatwa, publicly announced in October 2003, opposed<\/span><\/a> the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons which was consistent with Islamic tradition.\u00a0 <\/span>That\u00a0 <\/span>announcement was followed by an official statement presented at a meeting of the\u00a0International Atomic Energy Agency<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(IAEA) in\u00a0Vienna<\/span><\/a>, Austria, in August 2005.<\/p>\n From there, US-Israel efforts focused on destroying Iran\u2019s 2500 year Persian culture with 47 years of US sanctions crippling the Iranian economy to the point of economic collapse.<\/p>\n In 1945, the world\u2019s first war crime trials after WW II, the Nuremberg War Crime<\/span><\/a> Trial defined war crimes as \u201csymbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power<\/i> including\u00a0 <\/span>a \u201cfierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war<\/i>-making.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As Chair of Nuremberg comments cited appropriately to fit the attack on Iran \u201cwrongs that have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated\u201d<\/i> further stating that a war of aggression is a crime against peace under international law \u2026.<\/p>\n it is doubtful that any member of Trump\u2019s Cabinet would explain to the President, unable to determine his own a strategy about how to dig out of the hole he created since he dared initiate an \u2018unprovoked war of aggression.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>II will be his responsibility to determine the most favorable outcome \u2013 and it may not be pretty.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Or prepare Trump for the ugly realty that Iran is in the driver\u2019s seat and depending on how desperate Trump is to find an exit, he may need to accept undesirable terms.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the entire world has been privy to the US-Israel conflict against Iran in violation of international law, Trump has not yet understood that \u2018wars of aggression\u2019<\/i> were specifically\u00a0 <\/span>labeled by the Nuremberg war crimes trial. \u00a0 <\/span>There can be little doubt that the President of the US has committed a series of war crimes including the deliberate carpet bombing of civilian areas and infrastructure, attacks on multiple schools, Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 <\/span>hospitals and a myriad of other civilian infrastructure. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And it would\u00a0 <\/span>be within the realm of possibility that an international panel is probably already in the early stage of formation, organizing a professional, expert commission based on Nuremberg principles, to prevent war crimes on a massive level that the US and Israel have committed to ever again allow crimes against humanity.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As Chair of Nuremberg comments cited appropriately to fit the attack on Iran \u201cwrongs that have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated\u201d<\/i> further stating that a war of aggression is a crime against peace under international law \u2026. and that \u201ccrimes\u00a0 <\/span>of aggression are the mother of all war crimes because from them come all other war crimes\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n In other words, as will be determined by an International independent panel convened to consider both the President of the US and Israel behavior in the course of their illegal, inhumane aggressive attack on Iran, have committed indefensible, deplorable war crimes against the People of Iran.<\/p>\n Renee Parsons\u00a0<\/i><\/b>has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. 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