A Rough Creature Slouching

Iran, which has been escalating and escalating things since 1979, has finally been kicked to the curb.

First, the much-maligned Israel decided to act in its self-defense and then the US came up with a surprise assist.

Does this mean regime change?

Who knows?:

“Hallelujah. We’ve been waiting for this moment. I knew it would come. A lot of people doubted that it would come,” said Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, an Israeli politician and media commentator, as we waited in a public bomb shelter in Jerusalem early Sunday morning.

Hours earlier, the United States struck several of Iran’s key nuclear facilities, in some cases using bunker-buster bombs to destroy deeply buried infrastructure that had been beyond the reach of Israeli weapons. While the exact extent of the inflicted damage was (and remains) unknown, it was already evident, even in those first hours, that much had been destroyed.

Despite the sleep deprivation of an early-morning alarm, the mood in the shelter was celebratory.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said that a "complete and total" ceasefire between Israel and Iran will go into force with a view to ending the conflict between the two nations, moments after both sides threatened new attacks.

 

Trump appeared to suggest that Israel and Iran would have some time to complete any missions that are underway, at which point the ceasefire would begin in a staged process.