The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.

At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.

After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.

But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.

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    Again the reason Israel attacked is because Trump ripped up the Obama non proliferation agreement.

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      The deal was between the united state and Iran. Tearing off the deal do not give the right for Israel to attack Iran . The USA showed again and again that they allow Israel to violate redlines. Israel impunity is the result of the west backing up Israel especially the USA unconditional support of decade and arab leaders traitors.

      Iran would never been attacked if israel was put in it’s place

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        Tearing off the deal do not give the right for Israel to attack Iran

        The only reason Israel attacked was because Iran started developing an atomic bomb after Trump tore up the agreement.

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          This is literally just taking Israeli Justification at its word.

          Iran specifically has a fatwah (Religious and political ruling) against developing Nuclear Weapons. They’ve been insistant that they don’t want nuclear weapons, the whole reason they were back at the table with Trump. The only reason they couldn’t agree is that the US was demanding “0 enrichment”, not that Iran was demanding nuclear bombs.

          Funny enough, your “its Trumps fault for leaving the first deal” is the exact same justification Biden would have used if the bombing happened under him. Which it would have.

          Your acceptance of both these narratives make it obvious you have internalized the Israeli/Western narratives on this issue. Almost like they had been setting the stage for this to happen for a while and even started developing the plan under biden…

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            On 5 November 2019, Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced that Iran will enrich uranium to 5% at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, adding the country had the capability to enrich uranium to 20% if needed.

            Isna announced it!!! You don’t believe what Iran itself publicly says?

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              Enriched uranium is not a nuclear bomb. You are still just hardlining the war propaganda. This quote directly disproves your claim on its own, when taken with the fact they literally have a religious and political ruling against nuclear bombs, it’s extra laughable.

              5% specifically isn’t even above commercial grade for nuclear reactors.

              20%is the absolute minimum for it to even be considered “high enrichment uranium”. But is most commonly used for research purposes still.

              You need like 90% enrichment to achieve a proper nuclear weapon. Even little boy was 80% enriched and that was basically a prototype.

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                  Yes. That’s literally what I said. You’re the one using their admission of having 5% enrichment to claim they were building a bomb and that’s why Israel attacked them (accepting Israels false justification on its face) …did you forget what you’re doing here or do you not know what a nuclear reactor is? (they’re for power).

                  The only reason Israel attacked was because Iran started developing an atomic bomb after Trump tore up the agreement.

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          Lol you really believe israeli propaganda? Iran never had the plan to build nukes. Netenyahu been claiming that for 30 years, khamnei has a fatwa prohibiting them. American inteligence denied that iran was building them. Iran after trump tear down the deal was keeping the enrichement to 60% for 4 years What other proof do you want?

          The real reason israel attacked was after the succeed against hizbollah , israel wanted to continue it’s winning streak and attack the country who provide weapons to armed groups so israel can continue genocide without any resistance

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              Lol, are you a mossad agent knowing what we don’t know? There is zero admission of iran saying that in the article. Weapon grade uranium is 90% not 60%. Like i said they kept enrichement to 60% for 4 years after iran tear up the deal. I had like 5 argument in my previous comment, you only have one which is trump and netanyahu lie not backed by any evidence

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                " On 25 June 2022, in a meeting with the senior diplomat of the EU, Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top security officer, declared that Iran would continue to advance its nuclear program until the West modifies its “illegal behavior.”

                This is Iran making the statements, not hearsay.

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                  Please uae your critical thinking instead of believing trump and netenyahu blindly Where is the mention of nukes there? They talk about the civilian program

                  So i will ask you again are you a mosad agent knowing what we don’t know? Why don’t you trust american inteligence ?

                  On March 25, Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, unambiguously told members of the US Congress that Iran was not moving towards building nuclear weapons.

                  “The IC [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons programme he suspended in 2003,” she said, referring to a collection of US spy agencies that collaborate to make such assessments

                  http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/6/18/is-iran-very-close-to-building-a-nuclear-bomb-as-trump-claims