Tuesday's strikes on Iran "only" targeted some missile-launchers near the Strait of Hormuz and a nearby naval port, as well as the small craft which the Iranians use to police the Strait.

    Trump says this was part of his operation to re-open the Strait and not the relaunch of a full-blown war... And in the meanwhile, negotiations to concoct some kind of deal, continue. No doubt when Trump visited China, he was told by President Xi Jinping that a peace agreement was a very good idea.

    Nevertheless, the fate of ordinary Iranians still hangs in the balance. And while it dangles precariously, Netanyahu is continuing his relentless and vicious assault on Lebanon's civilians and keeps coming back to "finish the job" in Gaza, with Trump's support.

    Netanyahu's strategy of deliberately targeting civilians in order to turn them against their former protector-militias - whether Hamas or Hezbollah - fools nobody. Anyway, the civilian supporters of these groups know very well that Netanyahu's policy is a policy to annihilate as many civilians as possible. And never mind that this is just as impossible an aim, as it always has been. But madness comes in two shapes in the world today: those of Donald J Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

    The question now is what next for Iran? Trump has just come up with a new "condition" for the Iranians to agree to. He wants them to adopt his so-called Abraham Accords, which entail recognising Israel as a legitimate state! It's a foregone conclusion that the Iranians will refuse. So one has to wonder if this means that Trump has now decided - or been egged-on by Netanyahu - to relaunch a full-blown attack on Iran.

    For sure, neutralising Iran into the future, for Israel's sake, was also the idea behind bombing Iran last June and destroying its nuclear facilities. But so far, they've failed to achieve regime-change.

    If Trump now goes back to finish the job, the consequences for the rest of the region, the Gulf States and beyond - let alone the economies of the rest of the world {including the US) - will be even more damaging than they already are.

    Does Trump dare? He certainly doesn't care! In that, he's the epitome of this stinking and rotten capitalist system which can only offer war and destruction into the future. They both have to go.