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Maddow Blog | Trump adopts a new posture toward Iran, demands ‘unconditional surrender’ As recently as Sunday, Donald Trump himself said in a message posted to his social media platform, “The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran.” .......... On Monday, for example, as the Republican prepared to leave a G7 summit ahead of schedule, he published another online message that read in part, “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” Why should the residents of the Iranian capital evacuate? Trump didn’t say. How should a city of more than 9 million people immediately flee? And to where? ......... His use of the word “we” was certainly of interest. If the Trump administration’s line on Friday was accurate and the U.S. was not involved in Israel’s offensive, then how exactly do “we” have “complete and total control of the skies over Iran”? ....... In early October 2012, Trump wrote on the platform then known as Twitter, “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin — watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.” Nearly a year later, the future Republican president added, “Remember what I previously said–Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.”

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All the signs Trump is preparing for a US attack on Iran Shortly before his abrupt exit from the G7 meeting being held in Canada, he called on residents of Tehran, home to nearly 10 million people, to immediately evacuate, and later met with top national security officials at the White House Situation Room. ........ The president further hardened his language on Tuesday, claiming on his Truth Social platform that "we have complete and total control of the skies over Iran," appearing to suggest the U.S. was already a party to the conflict. He even alleged to know the exact location of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to the top Iranian authority as "an easy target," though, "we are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now." .......... Over the weekend, aviation watchers noticed around two dozen of U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers being deployed to Europe. Such aircraft are necessary to refuel warplanes conducting forward operations from afar and reports later tied their movement to tensions building in the Middle East........ Then, on Monday, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier diverted from the South China Sea to the Middle East, where it would join the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group that entered the Arabian Sea in April............ If the U.S. were to conduct a strike on Iran's heavily fortified underground Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, the weapon most widely believed to be involved would be the GBU 57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, which Israel was not known to possess. The only aircraft certified to carry the 15-ton bomb is the U.S. B-2 stealth bomber, capable of delivering strikes from bases 6,000 miles away.......... The closest known B-2 base to Fordow is the U.S. Naval Facility Diego Garcia, the remote Indian Ocean island base where up to six of the elite bombers were deployed back in March. ........... U.S. Central Command is estimated to have roughly 40,000 personnel in the Middle East. ......... Prior to the Israeli strikes and breakdown of negotiations, Araghchi had stated that Iran would only accept a nuclear agreement that allowed the country to continue enriching uranium, albeit at far lower levels incapable of producing a bomb. While Trump signaled earlier into the talks that his only condition for a deal would be one in which Iran could not obtain nuclear weapons, he later adopted an explicit line of preventing Tehran from conducting any enrichment activity at home.

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:

First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that…
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 17, 2025

No, I'm not saying that. First off, Tulsi's testimony was in March, and a lot has changed since then. Second, if you look at what she said then, her point about uranium enrichment is consistent with what I wrote above.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 17, 2025

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