Trump's special envoy has been texting Iran’s foreign minister asking to start talks. Tehran says the war will end only when Iran believes it has established long-term deterrence.
The great Greek tragedian Aeschylus wrote "In war, the first casualty is truth."
It seems most of the lying is coming from the White House and the Israel government.
Meanwhile, Europe/NATO is abandonign the U.S., the GCC has begun to regret American bases in their land (since it didn't help protect them from Iran's damage), and the majority of the American public opposes the war, and that will only increase.
Trump is being cornered, and narcissists are sore losers . The danger, of course, is that he will foolishly double down and bomb Tehran -- or worse yet, Netanyahu will use the nuclear option on Iran.
Let us hope and pray that cooler heads will prevail, and peace will come soon.
Peace will only come when the zionists have gone back to their homes in Europe and the amerikkkan bases and personnel in the region are destroyed and removed completely and permanently.
Peace was broken by the Nazis in 'isrsel, and the amerikkkan genocidal Klan, and so peace can only be regained after they are gone forever.
WITKOFF AND KUSHNER ARE FRAUDS AND HAVE NO BUSINESS TRYING TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES GOV FOR ANY REASON!! AMERICANS!!! DEMAND A REAL DIPLOMAT!!! NOT WITKOFF OR KUSHNER!! IF I WERE THE IRANIANS I WOULD MARCH THOSE GUYS OUT TO THE SQUARE AND “EXECUTE” JUSTICE ON THEM THE WAY WE DID TO THEIR AYATOLLAH!! EYE FOR AN EYE YOU KNOW!! KUSHNER AND WITKOFF SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT MENTALITY VERY WELL INDEED, BEING JEWS THEMSELVES!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I like reading Drop Site reporting becsuse i trust what you write is 100% factual. Why is Witkoff in any position within the administration? He is not even good at pretending to be some kind of diplomat.
I was amused that the WH response called you 'radical left'; the favourite term for anyone not agreeing with them. I suspect this is what your readers like. I certainly do!!!!
I sure hope that Jeremy Scahill, Jawa Ahmad, and Drop Site News are proud of being called “radical, left-wing.” I know I would be.. Why else would I subscribe? Keep the faith. Thank you.
This is diligent reporting, not radical left. This is what the founders of the Constitution meant by freedom of the press. Drop site cuts through the propaganda with integrity so we the people can decide.
Nothing exposes the narrative collapse faster than this: publicly boasting about crushing Iran while privately asking for negotiations. If the war were going as advertised, there wouldn’t be frantic backchannel outreach through envoys and third countries. History is full of wars where the public message was victory while the private message was “how do we get out of this?”
Witkoff and Kushner or as I call it (Wit-Kush) aren’t on the right side of history — they’re on the side of the balance sheet. They know the gravy train won’t run forever, so they’re scooping up as much as they can while the ride lasts. Meanwhile, both the “Democrips” and the “Rebloodlicans” either stand on the sidelines pretending not to see it, or they’re quietly riding the same train.
wit?koff: you might want to take the 'wit' out and replace it w an ,s', if you think it's worth the effort. as to reps 'n' dems riding the same gravy train: they keep claiming "peace does not pay!," and have been on the warpath since the untied[!] states' inception - which began with a genocide ...
Yes! Both branches of the Bankster/Gangster Uniparty stealing everything they can before.....what? Wish I knew which of the many viable, very bad scenarios We The People are going to be left to deal with...b/c Def feels like Ashraf Ghani(s)/Zelenski(s) stuffing the choppers w/cash and preparing to flee the country. Unlikely they're going to Isra-hell this time!!
“The radical, left-wing Drop Site News is clearly carrying water for the Iranian terrorist regime — and reports like these based on pure fiction and citing unnamed anonymous sources should be discarded immediately. Iran feeds this fake news media outlet propaganda and they publish it as fact, which is abhorrent, America Last behavior. Operation Epic Fury will continue unabated until President Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, determines that the goals of Operation Epic Fury, including for Iran to no longer pose a military threat, have been fully realized.”
There really is an infantile administration in the US at the moment. Infantile and criminal.
How about a few signals from the USA before Iran stops bombing? Like no more bombing Gaza by Israel and removing illegal Isreli settlers from the all Palestiniand lands and turning illegal settlements in Palestine over to the Palestinian people in recompense for destroying the West Bank and Gaza? If Israel wants to issue evacuation orders they can open three gates for humanitarian aide and other gates for illegal Israeli settlers to leave Palestine and go into Israel Proper, on their way to leave Israel unless they were born there. If not, go back to your nation of origin and be happy you are not arrested for crimes against humanity and illegal trespass and land theft, in the nation of Palestein. If the USA stops delivering weapons and starts delivering ultimatums for lasting change, by Isrealis paying SOME price, Iran will stop their war and the response to USA war and UN will negotiate and back up promises made in negotiations, with international force, if needed. Text that, special envoy.
No nation and world is "in control" in a war or with one like this genocide and this embargo of oil and gas, still needed but held hostage by war. That said, this may be the biggest reason ever to go green with energy production capacity in every nation. It may also be the best bargaining option for Gaza and the West Bank for Palistine liberation. What to ask for? Yemen has been clear about that for years, stop the genocide and we stop blocking ships. Add reparations from USA and Israel for restoring Palestinian lands and removing illegal, violent residents, giving illegal settlements back to the Palestinians displaced by Israel and restoring immediate access to healthcare through treatment in Isreli hospitals and local clinics restored, along with schools, within Palestine and land thefts returned to families in the West Bank.
Iran has already said what they want. They are in control of this war just as Russia is in control of Ukraine. The dominant force will control the outcome.
It appears Trump and Hegseth are preparing for a ground offensive with the soon to be 55,000 US troops in the region. This is a disaster in the making. From a CounterPunch article today:
“As the Pentagon is silently but painfully aware, U.S. ground forces would face formidable resistance from a million-strong Basij militia, 150,000 Revolutionary Guards (who are well-trained for asymmetric guerrilla warfare), and Iran’s 350,000 regular army troops.”
WHY are the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs, and the Intelligence community silent? Their oath, even if the fools in this ‘administration” don't care, is to the CONSTITUTION.
Yes! And WTH is Congress? This is unquestionably an ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL war of aggression that in no way benefits the USA!! Can't believe MTG quit on us! Thomas Massie, Rand Paul need all the help they can get, and she walks away in midst of the biggest fight! Like Dan Bongino (well she's not that low), still saying good things but gave up powerful position just when we needed her most!! Now it looks like a RINO Trump-bot going to take her place. Disgusting!!
Following the line of reasoning below, I'm afraid I don't see an off-ramp here. Please let me know where I might be off.
After being stabbed in the back twice during negotiations, how can Iran engage in them?
Unless it is destroyed and becomes an (in many ways possibly more dangerous) dysfunctional state, Iran doesn't seem likely to call it quits.
And of course Trump's vanity and pride combined with a raving madman running the Department of War and a mass of sycophants at all sorts of levels in branches of government, it's hard to see him either being willing or forced to settle on Iran's terms.
Which is another issue. Given the appropriate amount of trust the Iranian government has in the US, they'll most likely insist on a nuclear capability as deterrence. Something Israel won't accept.
"In response to request for comment, a White House spokesperson sent Drop Site the following: “The radical, left-wing Drop Site News is clearly carrying water for the Iranian blah blah blah — and reports like these based on pure fiction and citing blah blah blah blah should be discarded immediately. Iran feeds this fake news media outlet propaganda blah blah blah blah blah, America Last behavior. Operation Epic Fury will continue unabated until blah blah blah Trump, as blah blah blah, determines that the goals of Operation Epic Failure, including for blah blah blah blah blah, have been fully realized.”
Congratulations Drop Site! The feathers of the White House high school locker room have been ruffled. I can think of no higher honor. Only something so rare and damning as **factual reporting** could threaten the Trump cheerleading corps to the point of a total meltdown. lol.
Oh yeah, and wearing clothing that is black in color...
Any negotiations with Iran in the future should mean NO Witkoff and NO Kushner; both scammers and grifters, working for Israel, and not real diplomats
They are busy betting on war dead.
You are far too tolerant of these grifters......
F. Witcoff! (and Kushner, as well.) Insist that the negotiator Not be a "ZIONIST"!!
The great Greek tragedian Aeschylus wrote "In war, the first casualty is truth."
It seems most of the lying is coming from the White House and the Israel government.
Meanwhile, Europe/NATO is abandonign the U.S., the GCC has begun to regret American bases in their land (since it didn't help protect them from Iran's damage), and the majority of the American public opposes the war, and that will only increase.
Trump is being cornered, and narcissists are sore losers . The danger, of course, is that he will foolishly double down and bomb Tehran -- or worse yet, Netanyahu will use the nuclear option on Iran.
Let us hope and pray that cooler heads will prevail, and peace will come soon.
Peace will only come when the zionists have gone back to their homes in Europe and the amerikkkan bases and personnel in the region are destroyed and removed completely and permanently.
Peace was broken by the Nazis in 'isrsel, and the amerikkkan genocidal Klan, and so peace can only be regained after they are gone forever.
I don't think Iranians are lying. They don't want to be like West.
I’m still praying that Satanyahu, is indeed, DEAD 💀 Any sign of him recently?
Trust NO ONE from our ZioNazi regime! NO ONE!! Our shameless Govt has fallen to the Demonic ones!!
WITKOFF AND KUSHNER ARE FRAUDS AND HAVE NO BUSINESS TRYING TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES GOV FOR ANY REASON!! AMERICANS!!! DEMAND A REAL DIPLOMAT!!! NOT WITKOFF OR KUSHNER!! IF I WERE THE IRANIANS I WOULD MARCH THOSE GUYS OUT TO THE SQUARE AND “EXECUTE” JUSTICE ON THEM THE WAY WE DID TO THEIR AYATOLLAH!! EYE FOR AN EYE YOU KNOW!! KUSHNER AND WITKOFF SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT MENTALITY VERY WELL INDEED, BEING JEWS THEMSELVES!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I like reading Drop Site reporting becsuse i trust what you write is 100% factual. Why is Witkoff in any position within the administration? He is not even good at pretending to be some kind of diplomat.
I was amused that the WH response called you 'radical left'; the favourite term for anyone not agreeing with them. I suspect this is what your readers like. I certainly do!!!!
Thanks again for your intrepid reporting.
I sure hope that Jeremy Scahill, Jawa Ahmad, and Drop Site News are proud of being called “radical, left-wing.” I know I would be.. Why else would I subscribe? Keep the faith. Thank you.
This is diligent reporting, not radical left. This is what the founders of the Constitution meant by freedom of the press. Drop site cuts through the propaganda with integrity so we the people can decide.
Nothing exposes the narrative collapse faster than this: publicly boasting about crushing Iran while privately asking for negotiations. If the war were going as advertised, there wouldn’t be frantic backchannel outreach through envoys and third countries. History is full of wars where the public message was victory while the private message was “how do we get out of this?”
I LOVE seeing this regime backed into a corner, while concerned about what’s next!
Witkoff and Kushner or as I call it (Wit-Kush) aren’t on the right side of history — they’re on the side of the balance sheet. They know the gravy train won’t run forever, so they’re scooping up as much as they can while the ride lasts. Meanwhile, both the “Democrips” and the “Rebloodlicans” either stand on the sidelines pretending not to see it, or they’re quietly riding the same train.
wit?koff: you might want to take the 'wit' out and replace it w an ,s', if you think it's worth the effort. as to reps 'n' dems riding the same gravy train: they keep claiming "peace does not pay!," and have been on the warpath since the untied[!] states' inception - which began with a genocide ...
Yes! Both branches of the Bankster/Gangster Uniparty stealing everything they can before.....what? Wish I knew which of the many viable, very bad scenarios We The People are going to be left to deal with...b/c Def feels like Ashraf Ghani(s)/Zelenski(s) stuffing the choppers w/cash and preparing to flee the country. Unlikely they're going to Isra-hell this time!!
Trump seems upset that things didn't go his way. If we did all the damage to Iran that he claims lets
go home war is over.
“The radical, left-wing Drop Site News is clearly carrying water for the Iranian terrorist regime — and reports like these based on pure fiction and citing unnamed anonymous sources should be discarded immediately. Iran feeds this fake news media outlet propaganda and they publish it as fact, which is abhorrent, America Last behavior. Operation Epic Fury will continue unabated until President Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, determines that the goals of Operation Epic Fury, including for Iran to no longer pose a military threat, have been fully realized.”
There really is an infantile administration in the US at the moment. Infantile and criminal.
How about a few signals from the USA before Iran stops bombing? Like no more bombing Gaza by Israel and removing illegal Isreli settlers from the all Palestiniand lands and turning illegal settlements in Palestine over to the Palestinian people in recompense for destroying the West Bank and Gaza? If Israel wants to issue evacuation orders they can open three gates for humanitarian aide and other gates for illegal Israeli settlers to leave Palestine and go into Israel Proper, on their way to leave Israel unless they were born there. If not, go back to your nation of origin and be happy you are not arrested for crimes against humanity and illegal trespass and land theft, in the nation of Palestein. If the USA stops delivering weapons and starts delivering ultimatums for lasting change, by Isrealis paying SOME price, Iran will stop their war and the response to USA war and UN will negotiate and back up promises made in negotiations, with international force, if needed. Text that, special envoy.
And Israel stops their invasion and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon.
Iran won't stop until their demands are met. They are in control.
No nation and world is "in control" in a war or with one like this genocide and this embargo of oil and gas, still needed but held hostage by war. That said, this may be the biggest reason ever to go green with energy production capacity in every nation. It may also be the best bargaining option for Gaza and the West Bank for Palistine liberation. What to ask for? Yemen has been clear about that for years, stop the genocide and we stop blocking ships. Add reparations from USA and Israel for restoring Palestinian lands and removing illegal, violent residents, giving illegal settlements back to the Palestinians displaced by Israel and restoring immediate access to healthcare through treatment in Isreli hospitals and local clinics restored, along with schools, within Palestine and land thefts returned to families in the West Bank.
Iran has already said what they want. They are in control of this war just as Russia is in control of Ukraine. The dominant force will control the outcome.
https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/iran-us-israel-war-what-are-the-3-conditions-to-end-the-war-tehran-demands-reparations-guarantees-against-future-attacks-175752/
It appears Trump and Hegseth are preparing for a ground offensive with the soon to be 55,000 US troops in the region. This is a disaster in the making. From a CounterPunch article today:
“As the Pentagon is silently but painfully aware, U.S. ground forces would face formidable resistance from a million-strong Basij militia, 150,000 Revolutionary Guards (who are well-trained for asymmetric guerrilla warfare), and Iran’s 350,000 regular army troops.”
WHY are the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs, and the Intelligence community silent? Their oath, even if the fools in this ‘administration” don't care, is to the CONSTITUTION.
Yes! And WTH is Congress? This is unquestionably an ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL war of aggression that in no way benefits the USA!! Can't believe MTG quit on us! Thomas Massie, Rand Paul need all the help they can get, and she walks away in midst of the biggest fight! Like Dan Bongino (well she's not that low), still saying good things but gave up powerful position just when we needed her most!! Now it looks like a RINO Trump-bot going to take her place. Disgusting!!
Following the line of reasoning below, I'm afraid I don't see an off-ramp here. Please let me know where I might be off.
After being stabbed in the back twice during negotiations, how can Iran engage in them?
Unless it is destroyed and becomes an (in many ways possibly more dangerous) dysfunctional state, Iran doesn't seem likely to call it quits.
And of course Trump's vanity and pride combined with a raving madman running the Department of War and a mass of sycophants at all sorts of levels in branches of government, it's hard to see him either being willing or forced to settle on Iran's terms.
Which is another issue. Given the appropriate amount of trust the Iranian government has in the US, they'll most likely insist on a nuclear capability as deterrence. Something Israel won't accept.
"In response to request for comment, a White House spokesperson sent Drop Site the following: “The radical, left-wing Drop Site News is clearly carrying water for the Iranian blah blah blah — and reports like these based on pure fiction and citing blah blah blah blah should be discarded immediately. Iran feeds this fake news media outlet propaganda blah blah blah blah blah, America Last behavior. Operation Epic Fury will continue unabated until blah blah blah Trump, as blah blah blah, determines that the goals of Operation Epic Failure, including for blah blah blah blah blah, have been fully realized.”
Congratulations Drop Site! The feathers of the White House high school locker room have been ruffled. I can think of no higher honor. Only something so rare and damning as **factual reporting** could threaten the Trump cheerleading corps to the point of a total meltdown. lol.
Oh yeah, and wearing clothing that is black in color...