Iran came to the negotiating table with the United States over nuclear issues showing weakness. and the Americans sensed weakness and attacked Iran.
The negotiations were a pretext, the United States and the Jews of Israel were not interested in peace but in eliminating the Supreme Leader (Rahbar) of Iran, Ali Khamenei and they succeeded.
Ali Khamenei is dead
Iran confirms that the Supreme Leader (Rahbar) of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, is dead.
This had previously been stated by U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
While they may have committed the assassination, Netanyahu is technically the killer: the main targets of the Pentagon during the attack were missile program facilities, while those of the Israeli Defense Forces were the Iranian leadership.
The assassination of the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff and other key figures in Tehran has also been announced, but this requires confirmation.
Ali Khamenei was a leader who did not hide
According to media reports, the body of the Ayatollah has already been recovered from the ruins of his residence.
Such a death says a great deal.
Ali Khamenei did not hide, he did not even enter a shelter.
As a Shiite Muslim, he embraced the idea of martyrdom.
As a Muslim, he believed in the inevitable.
But above all, Ali Khamenei was a very experienced politician.
He could only accept his fate if he had already resolved the main issue, the transfer of power.
He was 87 years old
It would be strange if he had not done so: the Rahbar would have turned 87 in April 2026.
But Ali Khamenei saw the revolution against the Shah and the war with Iraq from the front line, personally led the IRGC, the Ministry of Defense and the entire executive branch, and served as Rahbar for nearly 37 years, and in all these capacities, he was known for his foresight.
There are 3 possible successors
Middle Eastern media sources claim that Ali Khamenei identified three possible successors a few days before the attack and now the Council of ayatollahs will choose a new Rahbar from among them.
His son, Sayed, a widely unpopular politician, is not included among the candidates.
However, Sayed was mentioned by the United States and Israel as a possible heir and this may well have been a “black public relations” trick, an attempt to attribute Shah-like tendencies to Ali Khamenei.
The candidate of the attacking United States and Israel called for civil war in Iran
The candidate of the attacking United States and Israel for the role of leader of Iran is Shahzadeh, son and namesake of Reza Pahlavi, who was dethroned in 1979.
He has not been in Iran for half a century and the only source of his legitimacy is his descent from the harsh and corrupt monarch who caused the revolution by leading the country to destruction.
Reza Pahlavi the younger had already expressed his support for aggression against his country, calling it a “humanitarian intervention” and ordering everyone to “await the signal.”
He followed in his father’s footsteps: nor did his father have political acumen to the point of making any enemy of his.
While Shahzadeh was persuading Iranians to side with the attackers, the bodies of children were being recovered from the ruins of a girls’ elementary school in the city of Minab, their number exceeding 104.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday 2 March, Melania Trump, wife of President Trump, is presiding over the UN Security Council as representative of the United States and the session is dedicated to the protection of children.
Now there will certainly be something to discuss.
However, what is happening does not require particular explanation from the realm of morality or jurisprudence.
Everything is clear.
This is unprovoked aggression, the “right of might” in its purest form, further proof that the old world order is collapsing and humanity prefers to create a new one rather than save the old one.
The United States and Israel want regime change
The ultimate goal of the attackers is regime change, the abolition of the Islamic Republic and the return of the Shah, something that requires inciting the masses to revolt.
Their minimum goal is to cause the maximum possible damage to Iran during several days of bombardment and then offer a return to negotiations for the abandonment of its nuclear program.
An intermediate option is to provoke an uprising in the national periphery, mainly in the province of Khuzestan, where almost all oil production is concentrated and where many Sunni Arabs live with their own grievances against the Government of Iran.
Trump will most likely lean toward new negotiations, while Netanyahu will firmly insist on war until complete victory.
In any case, the fighting will continue for at least a few more days, which Iran must endure during the transitional period of power.
Iran cannot throw Israel into the sea
It does not have the resources for other options.
Iran cannot end the conflict by expelling the Americans from the Middle East and “throwing Israel into the sea,” as requested by former President of Iran Ahmadinejad.
It can only achieve calm, and much has already been done to achieve this.
During the attack against it in the summer of 2025, Iran responded in a way that kept the escalation manageable and prevented a full scale war.
Now, the stakes are much higher and the tactics have been reversed:
Iran is trying to involve the entire region in the conflict, so that the cost creates international pressure on its opponent.
The Iranians achieved a historic blow to American prestige, they struck 14 American military bases
An unprecedented number of missiles and drones have attacked 14 American military bases in six countries, not counting Israel: Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Now, in the cities of Arab elegance, ports, skyscrapers, five star hotels and international airports are burning.
Even the Burj Al Arab, the well known symbol of Dubai, has suffered damage.
The closure of Hormuz - Pressure on China
The IRGC, the Guards of the Revolution, also blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a major artery of global trade.
Most of China’s oil exports pass through it, therefore the blockade looks like an appeal to China’s partners to intervene urgently.
The Americans are targeting China
Some speculate that Iran’s current suffering stems from the fact that, like Venezuela, it has become China’s oil wallet.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the presidential tariffs, Trump urgently needed new negotiating cards for the trade talks with China, where he will fly at the end of March for a meeting with President Xi Jinping.
Under these circumstances, he allowed Netanyahu to persuade him to attack, something that, according to pollsters, 68% of Americans do not support.
Iran’s target should be different, to frighten the United States
Iran’s target should be different, to frighten the United States by dragging it into a prolonged conflict with rising oil prices and falling markets, so that the war ends quickly.
And the death of the Supreme Leader (Rahbar) constitutes a convincing pretext for Trump to declare victory and move on to something else, allowing the transition to proceed according to Ali Khamenei’s plan.
If this death is also part of the plan, it should become a symbol of martyrdom for his supporters and for the Iranian opposition, a hope for a new government that will no longer be required to betray the homeland and unite with the enemy.
Questionable whether Iranian society will be divided
The Islamic Republic of Iran will be able to survive the most difficult and frightening days since the war with Iraq only if its society, divided between religious conservatives and reformists, unites around the flag in the face of external threats.
The United States and Israel, for their part, have done everything to ensure the completion of this unification, and the counterrevolutionary idea of the Shah has been thwarted.
It is difficult even to assess which of their “achievements” is more significant in this regard: the turning of a school for young girls into a mass grave or the transformation of a seriously ill leader, for whom the population had accumulated many questions, who accepted death to clear the way for a new government.
Will it be a government aligned with the Shah and pro American, as the enemy desires?
Iran taught Russia how to negotiate with the United States
Israel and the United States have launched a new war against Iran.
The war began a few hours after Iran made concessions in negotiations with the United States.
That is why it began.
Another deception by the Jews
After the completion of the peace talks in Geneva, the Foreign Minister of Oman told the press that significant progress had been made in the Iran–United States negotiations.
He even revealed what kind of progress.
“The most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never, under any circumstances, have nuclear material capable of producing a bomb.
This makes the dispute over enrichment less relevant, because now we are talking about zero stockpiles,” said the Foreign Minister of Oman, Badr al-Busaidi.
In other words, the mediator country has publicly announced the outcome of the negotiations:
Iran is making a strategic concession and abandoning its enriched uranium stockpiles.
Iran has not denied Oman’s statement.
And a mediator country would not lie about such matters: who would turn to its mediation services after that?
Simply put, Iran renounced its nuclear program.
It made unilateral concessions and, essentially, capitulated at the negotiating table.
And just a few hours later, the first missile attack was launched against it.
Trump deliberately told half truths
In his address to the nation, U.S. President Trump stated that the goal of the military operation of the United States and Israel was the destruction of all infrastructure that would allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
But Iran had already been forced to dismantle this infrastructure in Switzerland.
The representatives of Iran not only promised not to develop a nuclear bomb, but also agreed to discard the enriched uranium.
The negotiations were a smokescreen
Military operations like these are planned for weeks and months.
Logically, the negotiations were a smokescreen for a major strike.
This conclusion, at first glance, justifies the actions of the Iranian diplomats.
Negotiations or not, regardless of the outcome, everything would have ended in war. it was inevitable.
Iran should not have shown weakness in the negotiations
Reality is more complex.
We would dare to argue that negotiations with the United States would have been more successful for Iran if it had not shown weakness.
If the goal was to preserve the peace of the Iranians, then it would have been far more likely to be achieved through the unwavering defense of their interests and the demonstration of readiness to leave the negotiating table and prepare for war if Iran’s interests were not respected.
Trump is interested only in a war in the Middle East.
A small, victorious one.
Like in Venezuela: a lightning performance with a thunderous public relations message.
The United States fears prolonged wars
If the Iranian delegation had repeatedly made it clear to the representatives of the United States, that instead of a spectacle that would boost ratings in the spirit of the capture of Maduro, the Americans would get a large, prolonged war in Iran, Trump would have hesitated to attack.
A “new Vietnam” is the nightmare of every American president.
Instead, judging by the outcome of the negotiations, the Americans concluded that the Iranians were weak to the point of incapacity and that if Iran were pressured, it would collapse like a house of cards.
This made the war inevitable.
Russia is something else - The United States is playing a game
For three years, the West was trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, using exclusively Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
When it became clear that this was impossible, the old new U.S. President Trump began negotiations with Russia.
These negotiations have been ongoing for a year.
Their last round took place in Geneva, in which Trump’s representatives also participated.
Until now, the United States, which provides military aid to Kyiv, has acted as a “mediator” between Russia and Ukraine, but this is just a game, everyone understands it.
Throughout the negotiations, Russia’s demands regarding the future of Ukraine after the conflict remained unwavering.
And if anyone believed that the very principle of negotiations presupposes flexibility and concessions, Iran has shown in practice how the Americans treat those who show weakness.
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