• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      They were both during live broadcasts. One on Al Jazeera and another off of ABC News. I’ll try to find links to the specific moments. Hopefully they were clipped and posted on YouTube.

      EDIT 1: I cannot find a YouTube clip of the Al Jazeera live broadcast in which they spoke to a representative of the meditation team, but this clip (early on) does include a close proximity to one of the concessions that the mediator said Iran had made. According to the mediator, Iran had agreed to not stockpile ANY enriched uranium. All they were asking was to be allowed to enrich enough for power generation, as needed. Had Trump accepted, this would have been a diplomatic achievement non other previous administration was able to get. Whether Iran were truthful or not is another question, but that’s not the point. I’ll look for the Trump clip next.

      EDIT 2: I am still looking for the clip where Trump said that Israel told him that they were going to attack, with or without US assistance, which in turn forced the US to participate. I watched that in a live stream broadcast yesterday. Below is a brand new clip where a reporter asks Trump if Israel forced his hand, clearly alluding to that comment he made previously. His ego will not allow him to be perceived as Israel’s removed so in this clip he is fully contradicting what he said yesterday and what the GOP speaker said about Israeli intelligence being the deciding factor. This orange moron would rather be seen as an aggressor and war criminal than be perceived as anyone’s puppet. What a fucking moron.

      https://youtu.be/o-C-YYH7ges

      EDIT 3: Still looking for a clip of the statements I saw Trump make, but below is a link pointing to Rubio saying the same.

      A day earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the president decided to launch attacks on Iran because the US believed Israel was poised to take unilateral action.

      https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-03-26?post-id=cmmauvf6a00003b6tgi0282p0

      EDIT 4: From the same thread linked in the previous edit.

      Rubio told reporters that Iran posed an “imminent threat” because it was expected to retaliate to planned Israeli military action, which prompted the US military to strike first.

      “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said.

      In questioning to Colby, Sen. Angus King said he believed Rubio “inadvertently told the truth here.”

      “I think Secretary Rubio inadvertently told the truth here, that this was driven by Benjamin Netanyahu and here we are, in a major conflict,” the Maine independent lawmaker said. “Do you not agree that that seems to be the precipitating factor?”