Tag Archives: War on Iran

by Alastair Crooke, published on the Conflicts Forum, February 28m 2026 Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) — for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators — confirmed the essential impasse. The US demands presented to Iran were: The complete dismantling of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites. The …

from The Conflict Forum, January 28, 2026 A compilation tracking consequential observations & strategic developments on Iran-US-Israel It would appear that Iran’s insistence on sovereignty has thrown a little wrench in the works of the Trump-Netanyahu war machine. Iran rejects US & Israeli messages on a ‘symbolic attack-symbolic response’ / …

by Alistair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum Substack, October 9, 2025 Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s …