Trump fumes as Israel's Beirut strike threatens his grand Iran peace deal
Just when we were on the verge of an actual peace deal between the US and Iran, Israel decided to drop some missiles on Beirut because of a cease-fire violation. Now everyone is screaming at each other again.
So, there we were, literal hours away from signing a massive peace agreement brokered by the US and Pakistan. A "long and beautiful peace" was on the table, or so we thought.
Then, Hezbollah reportedly fires a minor round at Israel. No one gets hurt, nothing gets destroyed. But Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister Israel Katz decide this is the perfect moment for a disproportionate response. They launch two missiles straight into a residential building in southern Beirut, killing two people.
This essentially blew up the peace talks. Iran's chief negotiator immediately accused Washington of playing a "good cop, bad cop" game and giving Israel the green light.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is absolutely losing his mind. He reportedly told staff that Netanyahu has "no fucking judgment" and went on Truth Social to call the initial attack on Israel "very small and meaningless," begging everyone not to blow the deal.
It takes a special kind of geopolitical chaos to make a US president publicly call an allied military strike "meaningless" while actively defending the nation's biggest regional adversary.
Source: Axios
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