Satellite imagery taken before and after the June 22 US strike on three Iranian nuclear fuel enrichment sites at Isfahan, Fordow, and Natanz. US President Donald Trump claimed key Iranian nuclear sites had been "obliterated," while Iran claimed it had removed nuclear material from the sites...

Satellite imagery taken after the US strike on Iran’s Fordow site showed smoke rising from the fuel enrichment plant. US President Donald Trump claimed key Iranian nuclear sites had been “obliterated,” while Iran claimed it had removed nuclear material from the sites before the strikes.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    193·
    17 hours ago

    I hope you don’t think it’s just the current administration. I don’t blame the majority of the populace (in the same way I don’t blame the average Israeli or Russian for example), but as a political entity this is nothing new for the USA.

    Edit: or rather, from the outside looking in, this doesn’t feel particularly off brand

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      15 hours ago

      “The administration” is (usually!) used to refer to the monolithic entity that continues without interruption (office of the prez, congress etc), “this administration” is used to refer to the specific current government/clarify in cases of ambiguity. Weird quirks of american english, what fun…

      (Not disagreeing to be clear. Although this is a bit more transparently “dancing to the tune of the puppet master” than most of the US’s other forays into the mid. east, I must say.)