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Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting Donald Trump who had ‌cited talks he said would take place that afternoon as justification for calling off attacks.

Over the weekend Trump repeated a pattern that has emerged throughout the past five months: announcing plans for "massive attacks" on Iran, only to cancel them at the last minute.

Iran's Foreign ⁠Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei rejected the claim, saying no negotiations with the United States were taking place and no meetings were scheduled. Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, he said.

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[-] djdarren@piefed.social 48 points 5 days ago

I find it genuinely astonishing that the US can declare war on other nations without giving any real justifiable reason, they can bomb them over and over and generally fuck everything up, causing global supply issues, and there are absolutely no repercussions at all from any other countries.

Some threats of promises of strong words, but nothing more.

It's genuinely bizarre to me.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago

Has the US actually declared yet? I thought they were just bombing for the fun of it.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago

It's not a war, it's an "Excursion," because he'd never heard the word Incursion, so he called it an Excursion, and EVERYBODY, including the media, just went along with it.

WTF?

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

It is a "special military operation" comrade! You must understand this!

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Because it is?

It's an incursion to Iran and excursion to USA.

coming in vs. going out.

[-] chris@l.roofo.cc 11 points 5 days ago

Short of starting a war with the US no other country can really do anything but the US and they somehow seem to be adamant to let Trump do whatever he wants. I don't know why they would do that, but here we are.

[-] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Just a reminder, Trump does not personally want to bomb Iran, he wants to profit from (money, power, influence) the people who want to bomb Iran.

Less, why are people letting Trump do something, more who is supporting and pushing him to do it.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

They could institute sanctions, like Canada taxing American bourbon.

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