I don’t know if this is an “official” photo of the military strategy meeting.

Both its geography and culture have resisted invasions for millennia. Even Alexander more went through than really conquering that area. I feel this is a ploy to disrupt cheap middle east oil to try and make the Venezuelan oil more marketable plus help prop up Bibi.

And after Trump’s tariffs, insults, and treatment of NATO, NATO won’t join us on Iran like they did on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Iran, despite the current political unrest, their society is more unified than Iraq’s. They will fight back.

Invading Iran will be an expensive boondoggle.

The US has moved lots of air assets into the region & zero troops

Iran was honoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed by Iran and the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia, and Germany, along with the European Union. Trump invalidated the deal by pulling the US out and re-imposing sanctions.

He did it just because Obama signed it and Bibi was against Iran. Iran has a right to develop nuclear energy for electricity generation. They can't keep burning diesel in a world that's going green.

This is all because Trump ended the nuclear treaty because it was an Obama administration (along with the world powers). He probably will try to negotiate a business deal where US oil companies will control Iranian oil.

They see how the world powers don't bomb and threaten nuclear powers like North Korea.

The US and UK have been interfering in their country since the 1920s and the UK and Russia competed for influence from the late 1800s til the early 1920s. Iran declared neutrality during WW2 but were invaded and occupied by the Allies to preserve the lend lease supply routes and control of the oil fields.

Iran initially recognized Israel after 1948. But after the 1979 Islamic Revolution they were officially hostile.

The US and UK overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government and placed the Shah in power in 1953 because Iran tried to nationalize their oil industry. After the coup, the Anglo-Iranian oil company became BP in 1954. The shah was a brutal dictator supported by the US and UK. Resentment against his repressive rule caused a coalition of Islamists, leftists, and merchants, unified by Ayatollah Khomeini, to overthrow the U.S.-backed monarchy in 1979.

So maybe after 150 years of European interference followed by modern UK and US interference, they might think that their only guarantee against continuous threats and interference is to become a nuclear state. Maybe the EU should intervene and negotiate a new treaty without the business deals.