US Attack on Iran

Al Jazeera Staff on 2026-02-28:

The United States and Israel have struck multiple locations across Iran, including the capital, Tehran, in what US President Donald Trump described as “major combat operations”.

It was not fun to wake up this Saturday to the news that the US has attacked Iran yet again. I am hoping that this is only another one-off strike against Iran, as has happened twice before [1] [2] under Trump, or like the attack on Venezuela.

Having lived through the manufactured war in Iraq, motivated in part by improving the president's approval rating, my immediate reaction to the news is "here we go again 😩". If this attack against Iran becomes a war, as seen on Bluesky: every Republican president since before I was born has wrecked the economy and started a war in the Middle East. Sigh. We have no good reason to be attacking a country on the other side of the globe — this is a transparent attempt to boost his failing approval ratings.