Good evening. It's Thursday, June 12th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday

through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, for more than 20 years, and by that I really mean for more than 20 years, Israel has been

attempting, aggressively attempting to lure the United States into a military attack on Iran, which

happens to be Israel's primary enemy in the Middle East. The invasion of Iraq, which Benjamin

Madhyao explicitly encouraged in 2002, was to be but a prelude to the U.S. invasion of and

regime change in multiple countries in that region, culminating in regime

change in Iran.

If you go through that list, every country has subsequently suffered regime change, Iran

being the last remaining one.

Since Donald Trump was inaugurated, he has repeatedly said that he strongly prefers to reach

an agreement with Iran diplomatically regarding their nuclear energy program

rather than have the U.S. involved in yet another Middle East war.

Iran, after all, is three times larger than Iraq by population and is a far more sophisticated

military capable of doing far more damage than the Iraqis could even dream of having done.

Despite all that, Israel, which is often referred to by its domestic loyalists as America's

greatest ally, America's greatest ally has been working aggressively to undermine Trump's stated

goals in multiple ways.

The proximate cause for Trump's firing of his own national security adviser, Mike Waltz, was Waltz's secret planning with the Israelis behind Trump's back in order to plan how an attack on Iran could occur

and how to lure the United States' involvement in it.

While President Trump for months has stated over and over that he is optimistic about the progress being made in U.S.

Iran negotiations. Much of that has changed quite noticeably over the last several days.

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