2019 could be the year a war with Iran changes everything, and two key deadlines loom in the next two weeks

Negotiations with Iran are over before they can even take place. After President Trump and Iranian leaders traded more insults on Tuesday, Iranians said the "diplomacy channel" is now closed "forever." Of course, everything is possible in the future, but for now it seems that any possibility of a diplomatic solution is completely ruled out, and time is running out because two extremely important deadlines are approaching in the next two weeks. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have both made it very clear that they do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, and Iran's nuclear program is on the verge of crossing a critical threshold. Diplomatic negotiations were the only alternative to military action, and now it seems that military action is the only option left on the table. This means we could literally count the days until the missiles start going back and forth, and it will be a war much more terrible what the mainstream media tells us.

The Trump administration seems to believe that the new economic sanctions it has just imposed on Iran will change the situation, but the truth is that they will not add much to the economic sanctions imposed before.

In response to these new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused President Trump of suffering from "Mental retardation"...

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called the sanctions against Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "outrageous and idiotic", noting that the 80-year-old Shia cleric has no plans to travel to the United States. United. In remarks broadcast on Iranian state television, Mr Rouhani said the White House suffered from "mental retardation".

Needless to say, President Trump didn't find it amusing. He then took to Twitter and threatened that any form of attack "against any American will be met with great and overwhelming force"...

    Iran's very ignorant and insulting statement released today only shows that it does not understand reality. Any Iranian attack on anything American will be met with immense and overwhelming force. In some regions, crushing will mean annihilation. More John Kerry & Obama!

It's a pretty vague red line that President Trump has now drawn, and it means it won't take much to start a war between the US and Iran.

When the press then asked Trump about a potential exit strategy if war with Iran breaks out, Trump responded by saying "I don't need exit strategies"....

    Mr. Trump returned to the issue of Iran at an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday, reiterating his commitment that his administration would not allow Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons. When asked if he had an exit strategy in the event of a conflict with Iran, the president replied, "I don't need exit strategies."

What does that mean exactly?

Is he saying that an exit strategy would not be necessary because Iran would be bombed off the map?

When President Trump called off airstrikes on Iran at the last minute and spoke of the possibility of negotiations, many hoped a peaceful solution could be found. But if you're looking to negotiate with someone, it's probably not a good idea to hit the foreign minister of the other country with personal economic sanctions. For the Iranians, it was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back...

    "You say you really want to have talks with us, but at the same time you say you want to boycott and sanction our foreign minister, so you are lying," Rouhani said.

    Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Twitter that the latest sanctions will lead to "the chain of diplomacy being permanently shut down", according to Iranian state broadcaster Press TV.

In any case, negotiations with the Iranians would have yielded nothing. But we have to find a way to avoid World War III, because a war with Iran would cause global chaos that the United States is simply not prepared to handle.

Unfortunately, President Trump is currently surrounded by war hawks, and he seems totally convinced thatit doesn't need congressional approval before going to war against Iran....

    During part of an interview with Hill.TV published on Monday, President Trump said he did not need congressional approval before launching strikes against Iran.

    "I like the idea of ​​keeping Congress informed, but I wouldn't have to."

In fact, the US Constitution is very clear on this.

Just because the Constitution was ignored by previous presidents doesn't mean it's not binding.

And there is currently a movement in Congress that could end a war with Iran. Surprisingly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he could allow a vote on a "bipartisan amendment" that "would block the financing of military actions against Iran"...

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he was ready to vote on a controversial amendment that would require Congress to approve any military action against Iran, but warned his colleagues that he could signal disunity in Washington to a foreign adversary.

    Mr. McConnell said he is ready to vote on a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Tom Udall (DN.M.) that would block funding for military action against Iran without approval prior to Congress.

Of course, Trump could just veto anything that comes before Congress, and there wouldn't be enough votes to override his veto.

However, the Constitution still says that President Trump must get congressional approval before going to war, and nothing will change that. If Trump chooses to flout the Constitution and go to war anyway, it will be one of the worst decisions of his presidency to date.

And as I mentioned earlier, time is running out. As Haaretz noted it, two extremely important deadlines are looming on the horizon of the next two weeks...

    Iran announced in mid-June that it would exceed the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers by June 27, pushing tensions with the United States into territory. unknown and potentially dangerous.

    The June 27 deadline comes before another, July 7, when Europe must find better conditions for Iran to remain a party to the agreement. If this second deadline passes without any action, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic is likely to resume uranium enrichment, which would violate the terms of a nuclear pact with world powers. .

A war with Iran could potentially begin as early as next month, and right now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the Middle East as he seeks to build a "global coalition" against Iran. The following is taken from a transcript of remarks Pompeo made to the press on Sunday, just before leaving on a trip...

    I'm leaving today. We will first stop at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two great allies in the challenge of Iran, and we will discuss with them how to ensure that we are all strategically aligned and that we We can form a global coalition, a coalition that understands this challenge, not just in the Gulf States but in Asia and Europe, that is willing to push back against the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

When the United States begins to form a "global coalition", I think we all know what that means.

War is coming, and it could have apocalyptic consequences.

I have never been more concerned about a war with Iran than now. The Iranians have restarted their nuclear program, and both the United States and Israel have made it clear that they will take military action before the Iranians go too far.

At this point, a peaceful solution seems out of the question, and so we should all start preparing for the most terrifying war the Middle East has seen since the days of World War II.

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