Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain
Feb 18, 2026
A former senior U.S. intelligence official who is an informal advisor to the Trump administration on Middle East policy told Drop Site that, based on his discussions with current officials, he assesses an 80-90% likelihood of U.S. strikes within weeks.
Iran realizes that it is facing an unprecedented threat from the U.S. if a deal that conforms with Trump’s terms is not reached, former Pentagon official Jasmine El-Gamal told Drop Site. “This is not a dress rehearsal,” she said. “This is it. This is not the negotiations of last year or the year before or the year before that. They’re backed into a corner. There’s no off ramp.”
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I think countries should bomb the USA as they have ice concentration camps. And while they do so I hope that the civilian deaths are people like you
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Just advocating for the same thing you are
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Unlike you, I recognize that civilian deaths are inevitable when another country attacks another country with a shit pretext. And not only did I say the pretext to attack the US is it having ice concentration camps, it is more just than your US manufactured pretext to attack Iran). Fuck off dipshit
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If you think Iran should be bombed because they are reactionary and commit attrocities then you’re one of those useful idiots that cheer on imperialism. Lick that boot harder. The attrocities the US did inside and outside their border dwarfs anything Iran did (ICE concentration camps is not the worst the US did by a long shot)
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Again, this is not me advocating for the regime. However, as an anti-imperiliast, I can hope that the people of Iran make changes to their government on their own, without 2000 lb palestinian child murder bombs from the usa
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Do you think the US is helping?
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This is laughable. You should listen to citations needed, they just did an episode about this idiotic “logic”. No, bombing a country to pieces is not fucking helping the people living there.
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Last time they killed hundreds of civilians.
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I can remember what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan?
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I think, considering the totality of the circumstances eg: what america will do/does across the globe; they have a greater chance on their own, of being free, than with the “”““help””“” of the usa
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To be clear: the people of iran will be slaughtered when running into the forces of the iran?
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I agree, we do need to arm the working class of all countries