Washington launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq repeating the lie that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, weapons that were never found. In January 2026, a US special forces guerrilla captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, claiming he was the leader of a drug cartel, an argument that has now evaporated. The United States and Israel justified their joint attack on Iran this Saturday with the argument that Tehran could develop an atomic bomb, a tool some consider a global deception used to justify an attack without legal backing against an inconvenient third country. In reality, Iran had already placed its nuclear program under international control. in an agreement he signed in 201The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), aimed to ensure that Iran's nuclear program was exclusively peaceful. Tehran supposedly committed to reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium and allowing rigorous inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in exchange for the gradual lifting of international sanctions. Trump withdrew from the agreement during his first term, at Israel's urging, by imposing new sanctions on Iran and on companies worldwide with Iranian projects. Trump withdrew because Netanyahu had always opposed it, and for several years the European Union, along with the IAEA, maintained these principles alone. Talks resumed under Joe Biden, but with Iranian support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the already doomed agreement was definitively shelved.

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The US attack on Iran has focused on three nuclear facilities – Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan – where, according to Tel Aviv and Washington, the ayatollahs' regime was working to develop the atomic bomb, although Reports from the same US intelligence denied itIsrael had already launched attacks on Natanz and Esfahan, but not on Fordow, because its completely buried location made it impervious to Israeli bombs.