quinta-feira, 5 de março de 2026
Several prominent conservative figures and "America First" influencers have publicly criticized President Donald Trump's decision to launch military strikes on Iran in early 2026, viewing it as a betrayal of his "no more endless wars" campaign promise.
Tucker
Carlson Steve Bannon Megyn Kelly Marjorie Taylor Greene against Trump Iran War
Several
prominent conservative figures and "America First" influencers have
publicly criticized President Donald Trump's decision to launch military
strikes on Iran in early 2026, viewing it as a betrayal of his "no more
endless wars" campaign promise.
Key
Critics and Their Positions
Tucker
Carlson:
Condemned
the U.S.-Israel strikes as "absolutely disgusting and evil".
Reportedly
met with Trump in the Oval Office three times in the month leading up to the
attack to attempt to talk him out of it.
Argued
the war serves Israeli interests rather than American ones and warned it could
"shuffle the deck" of Trump’s political movement.
Steve
Bannon:
Warning
on his War Room podcast that the conflict lacks clarity and could become a
"hard slog" that causes Trump to "bleed support".
Expressed
concern that the administration's stated goals are a "psy-op" leading
toward a regime change war with direct U.S. military participation.
Hosted
guests like Erik Prince who called the strikes an "open betrayal" of
the MAGA base.
Megyn
Kelly:
Slammed
the bombing, stating the U.S. government's job is to look out for Americans,
not Iran or Israel, and categorized the conflict as "Israel's war".
Questioned
the lack of a clear objective and expressed skepticism over the sacrifice of
U.S. service members for foreign interests.
Marjorie
Taylor Greene:
Issued
blistering, profanity-laced messages calling the war "America Last"
and a violation of the "America First" pledge.
Criticized
the administration for allegedly polling voters on acceptable casualty counts,
calling officials "liars" for reneging on promises of zero new wars.
Resigned
from Congress prior to the conflict after a falling out with Trump over other
issues, further distancing herself from the administration's current path.
Trump's
Response
President
Trump has pushed back against these criticisms, asserting that "MAGA is
Trump" and that these individual commentators do not define the movement.
He described the Iran operation as a necessary "detour" to prevent
the regime from obtaining nuclear weapons and to ensure national safety.
On the sixth day of the conflict with Iran (March 5, 2026), reports indicate the U.S. is prepared to provide air support to Kurdish fighters if they launch a ground offensive into western Iran.
Iran war
briefing: US reportedly ready to provide support to Kurdish fighters if they
enter conflict
On the
sixth day of the conflict with Iran (March 5, 2026), reports indicate the U.S.
is prepared to provide air support to Kurdish fighters if they launch a ground
offensive into western Iran.
The U.S.
and Israel have reportedly been in talks with Iranian Kurdish militias based in
northern Iraq to mobilize a new front against Tehran.
Key
Developments
Military
Readiness: A U.S. official stated the U.S. is ready to provide air support
specifically if Kurdish Peshmerga fighters cross the border from Iraq.
Ground
Activity: Some Kurdish dissident groups, such as the Kurdistan Freedom Party
(PAK), have already moved forces to the Iranian border and are on standby for a
potential cross-border operation.
Strategic
Goal: The objective of arming these groups is to stretch Iranian security
forces and foment a popular uprising against the regime following the
assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
CIA
Involvement: Reports from CNN suggest the CIA is working to funnel arms to
these militias, a program that reportedly began covertly even before the
current escalation.
Official
Stance
White
House Denial: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that while President
Trump has spoken with Kurdish leaders regarding U.S. bases in northern Iraq,
reports that he has approved a specific plan for an insurgency are
"completely false".
Regional
Risks: Experts warn that backing ethnic armed groups could "open a
hornet's nest," potentially leading to a chaotic civil war and aggravating
regional tensions with neighbors like Turkey.
Iran has
already responded to these movements by launching missile and drone strikes
against Kurdish positions in northern Iraq as of early Thursday.
Iran war briefing: US reportedly ready to provide support to Kurdish fighters if they enter conflict
Explainer
Iran war
briefing: US reportedly ready to provide support to Kurdish fighters if they
enter conflict
Experts
say US backing armed groups could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’; son of Ayatollah
Khamenei tipped to succeed his father as leader. What we know on day six
Guardian
staff
Thu 5 Mar
2026 03.37 GMT
The
US-Israel war on Iran has entered a sixth day, with US forces reportedly ready
to provide air support to Kurdish fighters if they enter the conflict. Kurdish
officials told the Associated Press that Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based
in northern Iraq were preparing for a potential cross-border military operation
in Iran, and the US has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them. Intense waves of
airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police
stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be
preparation by US and Israel for a new front in their war.
Experts
predicted that backing armed groups from Iran’s ethnic communities would “open
up a hornet’s nest”, aggravating divisions within the diverse country and
increasing the risk of a chaotic civil war if the current regime collapses.
Mojtaba
Khamenei, the second son of the assassinated Ali Khamenei, is being heavily
tipped to succeed his father as supreme leader of Iran, which would pitch a
hardliner into the task of steering the Islamic republic through the most
turbulent period in its 48-year history and offer a powerful signal that, for
now, it has no intention of changing course.
A torpedo
fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri
Lanka. At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack on the Iris Dena
on Wednesday. The frigate was sailing in international waters as it returned
from a naval exercise organised by India in the Bay of Bengal. The torpedo
strike prompted questions from former US officials about whether Washington’s
aim of eliminating all of Iran’s military breached international law.
Iran
launched missiles at Israel early Thursday. Air sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem shortly after the Israeli military said it had begun new strikes in
Lebanon targeting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Beirut’s
southern suburbs.
Air
traffic appeared to be picking up slightly, even as travel across the region
remained heavily disrupted by the widening Iran war. Governments around the
world are rushing to organise the return of their citizens from the Middle
East. Officials have chartered jets or deployed military aircraft, routing
stranded travellers through Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia – key exit points
where planes could land and take off.
Top US
military officials told lawmakers in a closed door briefing on Tuesday that
they may not be able to shoot down every Iranian drone being launched against
military installations and assets, according to two people familiar with the
matter. The officials, led by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Dan
Caine, said Iran has been deploying thousands of one-way attack drones and that
they have capacity to take down the vast majority but not all of the barrage.
Senate
Republicans voted down a war powers resolution that would have forced Donald
Trump to receive Congress’s permission before continuing the war with Iran.
Republicans batted aside concerns from Democrats that the campaign is illegal
and risks plunging the United States into a prolonged conflict. The measure
would have forced an end to the US air and naval campaign against Iran and
require the president to go to Congress before re-entering the war.
The White
House pushed back against questions on US involvement in the bombing of an
Iranian girls’ school which killed 175 people. The press secretary, Karoline
Leavitt, did not accept US responsibility for the attack, and noted that the
Pentagon is investigating the strike. Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the
US was investigating it.
Hegseth
also signaled a possible longer time frame for the conflict than has previously
been floated by the administration, saying it could last eight weeks but that
the US has the munitions and the equipment to beat Iran in a war of attrition.
He declined to set a specific time range, saying the specific duration of the
war would depend on how it unfolds. More forces are arriving in the region,
including jet fighters and bombers, Hegseth said, and the US “will take all the
time we need to make sure that we succeed.”
The
impact of the Iran conflict on energy markets will be temporary and a “small
price” to pay for US military goals, US energy secretary, Chris Wright, told
Fox News. US and Israeli strikes on Iran and the subsequent response by Tehran
have widened regional tensions and paralysed shipping through the strait of
Hormuz, disrupting vital Middle East oil and gas flows and sending energy
prices higher. Donald Trump has pledged to provide insurance and naval escorts
for ships exporting energy from the region to contain soaring costs.
Here is the latest.
Pinned
Yan
Zhuang
Leily
Nikounazar
Updated
March 5,
2026, 3:04 a.m. ET23 minutes ago
Yan
Zhuang and Leily Nikounazar
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/05/world/iran-war-israel-trump
Here is
the latest.
Iran on
Thursday denied Turkey’s claim that it had fired a missile toward Turkish
airspace, as countries in the region and beyond grappled with a widening
conflict that began with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran six days earlier.
On
Wednesday, Turkey said that NATO shot down a missile that was heading toward
Turkish airspace.
An attack
on Turkey, a NATO member that shares a 300-mile border with Iran, could mark a
major escalation and could activate the alliance’s mutual defense clause,
potentially drawing its 32 member states into the war. So far the United
Kingdom, France and Greece have said they are deploying military assets to the
region only to defend their citizens and interests.
Separately,
a torpedo launched from a U.S. Navy submarine sank an Iranian frigate in the
Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka on Wednesday, marking the first time a U.S.
submarine had fired a torpedo at an enemy ship in combat since World War II,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Sri Lankan officials said on Thursday that
their navy had rescued more than 30 people, recovered more than 80 bodies and
was still searching for dozens of people.
Abbas
Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, on Thursday accused the United States of an
“atrocity at sea,” saying on social media that the Iranian frigate had been
struck in international waters without warning. “Mark my words: The U.S. will
come to bitterly regret precedent it has set,” he said.
In
Washington, the House was expected on Thursday to vote down a motion to rein in
President Trump’s war powers, a day after the Senate rejected a similar measure
in a vote split almost entirely along party lines.
Mr.
Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday that American and Israeli warplanes would
soon gain total control of Iranian airspace, allowing them to pick off targets
and deliver “death and destruction all day long.”
Overnight,
the Israeli military announced a another wave of strikes on Tehran and on
Hezbollah in Lebanon. Officials in Qatar said residents who lived near the U.S.
Embassy in Doha were being evacuated as a precautionary measure, and Saudi
Arabia’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted and destroyed several
drones over the country.
Here’s
what else we’re covering:
Supreme
leader: Iran’s top clerics are considering their choice to replace the
country’s slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an
airstrike on Saturday. Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
appears to be a front-runner to succeed his father. Read more ›
Market
rally: Stocks across most of Asia rallied on Thursday, a day after tumbling
over fears around the region’s heavy reliance on imported oil and gas. The
turnaround illustrates the hair-trigger reactions of investors around the world
who are trying to assess the immediate and possible long-term effects of the
strikes on Iran and the repercussions around the Persian Gulf, where much of
the world’s oil and gas is produced. Read more ›
China’s
oil exports: Officials from China’s top economic policy agency told Chinese
companies on Thursday to suspend exports of refined oil, according to Guo
Shiying, a senior executive at a state-owned investment firm. China, the
largest buyer of Iranian oil, will send a special envoy to the Middle East to
help conduct conflict mediation efforts, its foreign ministry earlier said.
Americans
killed: Six U.S. service members have been killed in the conflict. The Defense
Department on Wednesday night released the name of a fifth American killed in
an Iranian attack on Sunday, and released the name of another soldier believed
to have died in the same incident. The department on Tuesday had released the
names of the other four killed. Read more ›
Evacuations:
The White House press secretary said that 17,500 Americans had returned safely
since the start of the war, and the U.S. State Department ordered more
employees to leave their posts at embassies and consulates in four countries,
after facing criticism for not doing enough to facilitate evacuations.
Death
toll: The Red Crescent Society, Iran’s main humanitarian relief organization,
said the death toll had risen to 787 since the start of the U.S.-Israeli
attacks. The bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran killed at least 175
people. Dozens of people in Lebanon also have been killed, according to the
Lebanese health ministry, in Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah.
quarta-feira, 4 de março de 2026
What is the Israel plan called the "Greater Israel"?
"Greater
Israel" (Hebrew: Eretz Yisrael HaShlema) refers to an ideological, often
territorial, concept proposing an expanded State of Israel. It can mean a
narrower area encompassing Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, or a wider, more
expansionist vision stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, rooted in
specific biblical interpretations and Zionist history, according to Wikipedia.
Key
aspects of this concept include:
Biblical
and Historical Context: The most expansive vision is based on interpretations
of Genesis 15:18-21, promising land from the Nile to the Euphrates, which
critics suggest implies taking territory from neighboring countries like Egypt,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, say Facebook and YouTube.
Political
Usage: It is often associated with revisionist Zionism and right-wing Israeli
factions, notably the Likud party, which historically held that sovereignty
should exist between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Modern
Implications: In recent years, it has been used by critics to describe the
ongoing occupation and annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, say ProQuest and
Al Jazeera.
Controversy:
The vision is highly contested, with Arab and Muslim nations strongly
condemning references to "Greater Israel" as a threat to regional
stability, notes Al Jazeera.
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