At the same time, Tehran is reviewing the latest U.S. proposal for a possible agreement to end the nearly three-month war.

The Trump administration was preparing Friday for a fresh round of military strikes against Iran, according to sources with direct knowledge of the planning, even as diplomacy continued.

Some members of the U.S. military and intelligence community canceled their plans for the Memorial Day weekend in anticipation of possible strikes, several sources said.

Defense and intelligence officials began updating recall rosters for U.S. installations overseas as tranches of troops stationed in the Middle East rotate out of theater, part of an effort to reduce the American military footprint in the region amid concern about possible Iranian retaliation.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    91·
    20 hours ago

    People forget what was going on in Iran before the strikes. Massive protests that were brutally put down.

    People also forget what happened before the protests. The sanctions led to the high prices that made the merchants protest.

    It’s like Syria or Libya, first there are the protests, then the military actions of the West.

    The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement.

    Turkey – Foreign minister Hakan Fidan stated that the protests in Iran were “being manipulated from abroad by Iran’s rivals”,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests

    Trump says Kurdish forces kept US weapons meant for Iranian protesters, allegations Kurdish leaders categorically deny.

    https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-us-kurds-donald-trump-iraq/a-77216394

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        41·
        20 hours ago

        It’s the tankie situation. Use violence and maintain the regime and be hated or do nothing and be overthrown. Those protests are organised, among others by the son of the former shah. It’s trading one dictatorship for another.

        There is no way that the regime gives up their power voluntarily. So it’s possible to say that America caused the deaths by seeding the protests.