If Iran posed an imminent threat to the US, why did the Trump administration not even bother to make a case to the American public for imposing war on Iran prior to February 28? The answer is they’re now lying to cover up the real factor which led them into the war: Israel

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@MaxBlumenthal The Trump administration never publicly proved Iran posed an imminent threat before Feb 28. Analysts say the war was pushed more by political and Israeli pressure than direct U.S. danger.

@MaxBlumenthal Fatwa

No, it's the policy makers who determine the foreign policy, it's up to the president to carry it out. We would have invaded Iran had Harris won last year. The JCPOA would have been cancelled had Clinton been elected in 2016. "The apartheid state made me do it" is just an excuse. Israel is used as an excuse because saying that Israel determines when the United States goes to war is attacked as an antisemitic trope. That's why we need to clear the Zionists from congress so the powers-that-be cannot use Israel as a scapegoat for their own illegal behavior.

@MaxBlumenthal When you are a professional liar ........ lying is like chickenpox. It begins when you are young & it stays with you. Then whenever it's necessary due to age or stress or convenience, there it is. It is as old as time.

@MaxBlumenthal Aipac handlers in D.C. right now.

@MaxBlumenthal @farrukh_shamsi The claim that Iran is an "immediate threat" rings hollow when the intelligence used to justify this war is already crumbling under scrutiny.

@MaxBlumenthal Every time there’s talk of “imminent threat,” it somehow shows up after decisions are already made. Serious question though — why does the public always hear the justification later instead of before? 🤔

@MaxBlumenthal The lack of a clear public case is exactly what raises the deeper question. When decisions of that scale move forward without transparent justification, it suggests the real drivers sit upstream of public accountability. In the American case that structure goes back to the founding rupture. The 1787 Philadelphia Convention violated Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation by replacing unanimous consent with a nine state threshold. Once war power is consolidated like that, it doesn’t always need to persuade the public first. Madison acknowledged the breach directly in Federalist No. 40. sactoerikm.substack.com/p/americas-ori… Published in Culture Wars magazine, March 2026.

@MaxBlumenthal If Iran was an imminent threat to Israel why did it agree to a ceasefire 6 months ago when it had military advantage over Israel and Bibi was begging USA to join the war and save them? Why would Iran be a threat to two nuclear powers that Bibi wanted destroyed for 40 years?

@MaxBlumenthal Who runs israel? Is it some Irish zionists? Do the Japanese run isreal? Is it the "Chi coms" that run Israel? Is it "bankers" or hedge fund managers? Private equity firms? Is it the Vatican or the Catholics????? Who runs israel which PEOPLE? Who have been in charge since day 1?

I think it's too late for that. Everyone knows this war was about israel and it's the power of zionists and the israeli lobby. Again, people need to realize that this isn't about iran and israel, but the arrival of a new global order. One that will add centuries of eurocentric system

@MaxBlumenthal Why did we need a nuclear deal in 2015 then?

@MaxBlumenthal A strong POTUS would have resisted the pressure to get involved in this war. Now he has no way out, if he pulls out and declares victory he will look like a fool. If he withdraws without claiming victory the entire world will view him as weak and a failure.

@MaxBlumenthal Who bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus? Who bombed Tehran during its presidential inauguration? Who bombed Iran to start the 12-day war last June? Which nation’s leader called for the US to go to war against Iran for 40 years?

@MaxBlumenthal they didnt make a case because they knew the american public wouldnt buy another middle east war but bibi needed this and trump needed bibi so here we are again

@MaxBlumenthal it’s simple as that. it seems incredible that, after years of countless examples, we still have to debate fabricated cases used to justify the tag team wars.

@MaxBlumenthal If Alger Hiss can go to jail for purjury then so too can John Ratcliffe

@MaxBlumenthal It shows how officials do not serve the American people or defend the Constitution. They sit there and lie, to further their careers and finances.

@MaxBlumenthal Ratcliffe is lying under oath

@MaxBlumenthal Is lying with a straight face a WH job requirement?

@MaxBlumenthal it was too imminent

@MaxBlumenthal Israel IS America. The people who run the American political arena also control Israel. Isn't that obvious? Israel is the name of the buffer zone America has that allows them to disrupt the Middle East and distance themselves from their actions.

@MaxBlumenthal @macbilly390 Persia has been existed for 5000 years...and suddenly, in February 2026, Persia is an "imminent" threat to a nuclear superpower....

They went to war for the Financial Industrial Complex. If Iran had no oil, there would be no war. Just like Venezuela, Greenland, Panama etc. The empire wants to control global resources. Israel is just a U.S. puppet. The lobby is just a CIA cover and not even the lobby which contributes the most money. Certainly parasites make money from the lobby. But the plan is bigger than that. They want you to believe that everything the U.S. does is because of Israel. The U.S. does it for the U.S.

@MaxBlumenthal @candybrazao Two nuclear powers are attacking Iran to prevent it from becoming nuclear power. There's a threat of a possible nuclear attack to save the world from future nuclear attacks. The country under attack believes the only way to deter attacks by nuclear power is to have nuclear power.

@MaxBlumenthal They think we’re morons. Their “act” is so obvious we’ll go crazy pointing out how it falls short.

@MaxBlumenthal 100% Max. “We obliterated their nuclear capability” “Iran is an imminent threat to produce a nuclear weapon” “We have defeated Iran, we won the war” “We need help with opening the straight, and our nato partners won’t help us” These tyrants lie at every turn.

@MaxBlumenthal Many who've been fed the bullshit of US's never ending wars are chock full now. No more room for bullshit.

@MaxBlumenthal Everyone with a functioning brain ( leaving out Fetterman ) knows Israel controls Trump.

@MaxBlumenthal I also feel threaten by that guy I just punched in the face. He keeps staring at me.

@MaxBlumenthal Ratcliffe has zero credibility as he is just another Zionist appointed by Trump.

1. Gabbard admitted Trump declared "imminent threat" by fiat, not by reason or intelligence. 2. Iran posed a "imminent threat" because we decided to unprovocably and imminently attack Iran, knowing Iran would act in self-defense under Art 51 of the UN Charter by retaliating—instead of "unconditionally surrendering" or "capitulating" in the face of Trump's "armada" sans minesweepers.

Max, you argue just as all the progs. Pretend the facts are invisible, play stupid and eventually change the subject with an ad hominem attack. 47 years of insane religious based terrorism, hundreds if not thousands of dead and wounded Americans and a burning desire to intimidate with nuclear power. The maniacs began negotiations 6 months after Midnight Hammer by bragging they still had enough enriched uranium for ten bombs and they were never giving it up while feverishly building a gargantuan supply of weaponized drones and medium range missiles to bunker down on 'No Way We Give Up the Ultimate Threat' of initiating WW3. Maxxy, you wanted iron clad assurances they could at least deliver a dirty bomb to NYC or DC.....just to make it a fair fight?.....💩👍