Cut and pasted from this Moon of Alabama discussion:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/axios-announces-date-for-new-attack-on-iran.html#comments

In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack (archived) – WSJ

U.S. negotiations with Iran aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program were widely seen as an important way to preserve regional peace. They ended up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli attack.

b offered the above. I liked b’s comment, the WSJ article itself is bogus.
The article fails to mention that it was a breakthrough! at the negotiations that forced forward Israel’s timetable for murder.What Zios feared most was peace with Iran.
The legacy media messes with us, as no one denies; yet, we (including myself) are susceptible to their tricks.Was it your sense too, that the February nuke negotiations between the US and Iran produced nothing. That was my general sense, and that is what the legacy media sold us.
Yet, it is amazing that there was actually a huge breakthrough two days before Israel attacked Iran.
Israel had an urgency to attack Iran on that date, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026,becausethere had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.Peace with Iran would be a disaster from the viewpoint of Zionists.According to Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, the mediator of the talks:—————————————–https://x.com/badralbusaidi/status/20270897083925795761:33 PM · Feb 26, 2026Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي@badralbusaidi

We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran. We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts the Swiss government.

——————————————-And the mediator of the talks, Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, had much more to say the next day, Feb 27th, on CBS’ program, Face The Nation.Read the whole thing.

MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Because if the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And I think if we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-omani-foreign-minister-badr-albusaidi/
archived:https://archive.ph/6PrEV————————————-It is vital to note that the negotiations acted in Israel’s favor if it wanted to assassinate Ali Khamenai.
Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi posted on X: “We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals.”
After a “breakthrough in negotiations” it would compel the important Iranian players to meet and discuss asap.

The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, which culminated in a single concentrated burst of lethal violence to decapitate the Iranian regime, according to experts, veteran spies and officials in Israel and the US.Khamenei was killed along with seven “members of the top Iranian security leadership who had gathered at several locations in Tehran” and about a dozen members of his family and close entourage in near-simultaneous strikes within 60 seconds, military officials in Israel said. Forty other senior Iranian leaders also died in the attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/how-israeli-sleight-and-us-might-led-to-the-assassination-of-ali-khamenei
The treachery of Israel, the dishonor of the Trump administration and the complicity of the legacy media should takes one’s breath away.

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 21 2026 12:21 utc | 42