The war has begun, the US and Israel attacked Iran

The United States and Israel attacked Iran today (Saturday, February 28). They chose a highly symbolic date, given that today there is an alignment of six planets in the solar system. Link

Coincidence?

Iran retaliated by attacking several American bases in the Middle East, at least in Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.

As for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, it is not known whether he is alive or dead.

Israel bombed a girls’ primary school "Shajare Tayebé," where at least 85 girls were killed — in other words, carrying out the same massacre it committed in Gaza.

Is a school a military target?!

China and Russia condemned the attacks and called for an urgent UN meeting. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom also did so.

This war has a single motive: to control Iranian oil.

Iran possesses the third largest reserves in the world, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

Iran has already shut down traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's crude oil passes. So get ready for a surge in fuel, energy, and other prices.

Despite the arguments from each side — “good boy: Americans” and “bad boy: Iran” — the nuclear weapon argument and other fallacies, I will not defend either side.

But war is always something negative, because thousands of innocent civilians die, women and children, and perhaps that is a far worse outcome than the deaths that occurred during the Iranian protests (which Trump criticized so heavily). Let’s see, at the end of the war, how many innocent deaths there will be, and let’s see the global economic crisis that we will all end up paying for.

In the end, the United States will come out with a strengthened economy and a full belly; they already control Venezuelan oil, and soon they will control Iran and Cuba as well.

Sources: BBC, CNN

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