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Live Updates: Trump Says ‘Nobody Knows’ His Plans on Iran President Trump said he “may” or “may not” order U.S. forces to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected his call for “unconditional surrender.” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump Trump may be playing "Chicken" with Iran for the highest stakes possible. Who will swerve first, Trump or Khamenei? It all hangs on how badly Khamenei wants he and his people to become martyrs. Religion, rather than rationality, has been a huge factor in Iranian governmental decisions since the 1979 revolution brought Ruhollah Khomeini to power. It's why Khamenei may not back down. Trump and Netanyahu may also be betting heavily on an overthrow of the Islamist regime by the Iranian armed forces and ordinary people, but they could be disappointed. While there is a lot of opposition within Iran, it isn't well organized and lacks the means and strategy to bring down the current rulers.
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Must be a spooky feeling for the residents of Tehran. The skies are open and the Iranian government has no defense against an attack that would make the WW2 bombing of Dresden and fire bombing of Tokyo look feeble. The entire city of Tehran could be destroyed and the Iranian government can't do a dick-swinging thing to stop it. Tehran's fate up in air as Trump vows 'a real end' to Israel-Iran conflict As the Israel-Iran conflict escalates, Israeli Defence Minister Katz and US President Trump call for the immediate evacuation of Tehran residents, warning of severe consequences, while the EU's Kallas confirmed the bloc is working on evacuating its citizens. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has called on residents of Tehran to evacuate the city immediately on Tuesday, in another warning that followed a series of ominous messages posted by US President Donald Trump. With the conflict between Israel and Iran in its fifth day and showing no signs of de-escalating as Israel further increased its strikes, the tone of these messages has been intensifying, with concerns that Washington might also imminently enter the conflict between the two continuing to grow. https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/17/tehrans-fate-up-in-air-as-trump-vows-a-real-end-to-israel-iran-conflict
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Israeli fans violently attacked after Amsterdam soccer match
Evil Penevil replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Seven and a half months after the Amsterdam Jew hunt two official reports have been released. New details emerge about violent incident against Israeli soccer fans Two inquiries into the events said in reports Monday that social media posts coupled with a lack of official information fueled the violence that followed the November match. The Rotterdam-based Institute for Safety and Crisis Management, tasked by the Amsterdam government to investigate the response to the violence, said the lack of official communication from the city allowed rumors on social media to flourish. ... In a separate report, the inspectorate for the Justice Ministry concluded that the police were prepared for large-scale demonstrations, not the "flash attacks" perpetrated across the city and sparked by social media. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/new-details-emerge-about-violent-incident-involving-israel-soccer-fans -
Trump Leaves G7 to Handle Middle East, Orders Evac
Evil Penevil replied to Yagoda's topic in Political Soapbox
If we're talking military capability without regard to the diplomatic consequences, the U.S. or Israel could sink the entire Iranian navy in about 10 minutes. -
Report Dutch Embassy Sale Sparks Debate in Bangkok
Evil Penevil replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Yes, it was the second-largest in the world when the new annex was completed in 1996. https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/us-breaks-ground-on-massive-thai-embassy-annex/ Today, however, it doesn't even rank among the top 20. U.S. embassies in terms of size. In fact, the largest embassy in 1996 was Cairo, which now ranks in 20th place. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-largest-us-embassies-world-124339985.html It's unclear, though, whether it's an apples-to-apples comparison between 1996 and 1923. The top=20 list covers the size of the entire embassy compound, but the 1996 ranking may just be the size of the embassy buildings. -
I've seen complaints in the mainstream media as well as AN because Israel doesn't allow international journalists free access to the Gaza war zone. Iran also bans journalists but doesn't come in for similar complaints. The Ayatollahs are tottering. Only the BBC hasn’t noticed In the case of Iran, the BBC reminds audiences that it is not allowed there, but does not criticise Iran for this. Instead, it concentrates on reporting from Israel, where it tries to make as much of the war damage as possible. This leads to a severe imbalance of reporting and analysis. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-ayatollahs-are-tottering-only-the-bbc-hasn-t-noticed/ar-AA1GNNwX?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=b4dfdc1a647045d784f88aa051dcd1ce&ei=78
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Possibly the U.S. fears chaos in Iran and a massive wave of terrorism if the top political leadership is eliminated. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is obsessed with martyrdom. They really want to meet those 72 virgins! Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, US officials say WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-vetoed-an-israeli-plan-kill-irans-supreme-leader-us-officials-say-2025-06-15/
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It's getting kind of creepy that you keep referring to a 22-year-old woman as a "little girl." She is as much an adult as anyone else who's over the age of 18. Why do you call her a "little girl?" Slowly now for the second time, so you understand. No one is afraid of Greta Thunberg as a person. She seems to have tired with climate-change activism and has begun expressing antisemitism, which is disturbing to many people. It's her beliefs about Jews that are wrong as they normalize antisemitism. It's absurd to compare opposition to Thunberg to opposition to Trump.
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xxx Did you read the first paragraph of the OP, or even take notice of the title? I'm not moving any goalposts; it's Greta who has moved the goalposts herself, from climate change to the war against Hamas in Gaza. Her boat trip on the selfie yacht was definitely about Israel and the Jews, although she claimed it was a humanitarian mission to aid Palestinians. It seems Greta's concern over global warming has, uhh, cooled, and she's found a new hot issue in Israel's fight against terrorists who seek to destroy the homeland of the world's Jews. Unfortunately, she has been influenced by hardcore Hamas supporters and some of their hatred of Jews and the Jewish homeland has rubbed off on her. Given that Greta has acknowledged she suffers autism and bipolar disorder, I imagine she does indeed hate the blahs, but her doctor has probably prescribed Sertraline (Zoloft) to help with that. If she hates Mexicans or Muslims (and there's no reason to believe she does; I haven't heard her chant "Crush zapatismo" or "Crush Islamism"), then it would be a problem for Mexicans and Muslims, not me. Her hatred of Jews is a problem for me because antisemitism inevitably turns violent against Jewish people. The worst development possible is for antisemitism to become normalized.
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To remind you once again: The words "My guess" in your sentence referred to military retaliation. If raining barrages of missiles on Israel isn't military retaliation, what would you call it? And I have to ask: By "covertly," do you mean terrorist bombings or other terrorist actions in the region (Middle East?) and in the West (Europe, North and South America, Australia)?