Trump Bombs Iran: Huge Escalation of War, Making Nuclear Weapons More Likely

Donald Trump ordered direct US airstrikes on Iran, after helping Israel start a war of aggression. Tehran already said it would retaliate against US targets. There are more than 40,000 US troops in West Asia (the Middle East), and dozens of military bases, which could be hit. US intelligence agencies previously said Iran was not developing nuclear weapons, but this US war will now actually make them likely. Ben Norton explains. 

To sell US war on Iran, Trump recycles old Iraq War propaganda: PART 2

 Topics 

0:00 Trump bombs Iran 

0:37 Map of Iranian nuclear sites 

1:05 (CLIP) Trump announces attack 

1:28 Huge escalation 

2:00 Iran vowed retaliation 

2:12 Map of US troops & military bases 

3:05 Iran will respond 

3:33 Iran does not have nuclear weapons 

3:53 (CLIP) US intel chief on Iran 

4:03 Tulsi Gabbard's hypocritical 180 

4:50 Parallels to Iraq War 

5:07 George W Bush's "WMDs" lies 

5:27 Nuclear program? 

5:40 (CLIP) Trump on Iran's nuclear program 

5:52 Making nukes more likely 

6:13 Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq 

6:48 George Bush's "Axis of Evil" 

7:02 (CLIP) "Axis of Evil" speech 

7:33 US war preparations 

7:51 North Korea's nuclear weapons 

8:17 US war on Libya 

9:09 Trump opened Pandora's box 

9:59 Nuclear proliferation 

10:37 Nuclear deal (JCPOA) 

11:31 Trump: war is peace 

12:15 (CLIP) Trump threatens Iran 

13:03 Trump's fake peace talks 

14:06 Trump boasted of attacks 

15:17 US goal is regime change 

16:16 Seymour Hersh was right 

16:54 Trump serves Wall Street 

19:13 Outro 

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