U.S. attack on Iran echoes Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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It's disturbing for the U.S. to be playing the role of the aggressor. Equally disturbing is to see mistakes of the Iraq War already being repeated.
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By Jill Lawrence Guest contributor March 4, 2026 1 PM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied! Print p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix max-w-170 mt-7.5 mb-10 mx-auto" data-subscriber-content> It was beyond disconcerting to hear the Iranian foreign minister on Sunday sounding like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky circa 2022. But that’s the comparison that instantly sprang to mind when Abbas Araghchi told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week”: “What the United States is doing is an act of aggression. What we are doing is the act of self-defense. There are huge differences between these two.” All you have to do is substitute Russia for the United States and it is all too clear who and what we have become. An aggressor nation that kills people on Caribbean fishing boats without evidence or due process. That captures and removes the Venezuelan president, then lays claim to Venezuela’s oil. That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East. There are, of course, differences. When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started the war that’s still raging, he targeted the democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, with the intent of seizing territory and installing a Russian puppet at the top. By contrast, President Trump took out a theocratic dictator who in January told his security forces to crush mass protests against him with lethal force , leading to thousands of deaths. Advertisement And yet. Trump started this war with no constitutional authority . The power to declare war or authorize the use of force rests with Congress, and unless America has been attacked , that must happen in advance. Nor has Trump mustered any consistency or convincing evidence about Iran’s nuclear capacity — one purported rationale for this war of choice. And he has embarked on it with little apparent concern about lives an...
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