17 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

Forty Iranian leaders have been taken out, according to the AI bot on my browser. It gives the following list:

• Mohammad Pakpour, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

• Aziz Nasirzadeh, Iran’s Defense Minister.

• Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Iranian Security Council and senior adviser to Khamenei.

• Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

• Saeed Izadi, Head of the “Palestine Branch” of the Quds Force.

• Javad Pourhossein, Head of the foreign intelligence unit.

• Mohammad-Reza Bajestani, Head of the security unit.

• Ali Kheirandish, Head of the counterterrorism unit.

• Saeed Ehya Hamidi, Adviser on the war with Israel.

Most of these names appear to come from an article in The Jerusalem Post.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-888248

That's a big chunk of the leadership, but Iran supposedly had plans to guarantee previously chosen replacements fill the gaps. It remains to be seen how effective this transition is and whether the new leaders are more inclined to compromise with the U.S. and Israel.

It could be the senior Iranian leadership is now scrambling to find its own version of Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez, a regime loyalist who out of necessity is willing to cooperate with the U.S.

You should add Khamenei's daughter, son in law and grandchild. All dead.

11 minutes ago, Purdey said:

This is a warning to others who ignored our orders to cease and desist, like India, Pakistan and North Korea.

Did Trump really threaten India and Pakistan?

2 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world will be a better place now.

How naive, this is the start of the fall of the US empire and Israel will be eradicated in a few years.

Did you support the war on Iraq? Did that end well for the US?

17 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

Did Trump really threaten India and Pakistan?

You may have missed the point of a country being threatened by the USA and failing to obey.

1 hour ago, khaosokman said:

They killed a terrorist. Great stuff!

Next big target should be netanyahu, but who would replace him and what would their policies be?

The Iranians will be very happy he's gone, same as Venezuelans & Maduro gone. Most regret getting rid of the Shah ...

https://aseannow.com/topic/1384451-hundreds-feared-dead-as-iran-forces-fire-on-protesters/#findComment-20325669

Iranian women before & after 1979

Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution

Images show Iranian women pictured before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iranian woman before 1979, at Uni

The good ole days before religious fanatics turned terrorist sponsors took control

google ai overview:

"Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran underwent a rapid modernization process under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, aiming to turn the nation into a secular, Western-oriented, and industrialized power. This period, often remembered nostalgically, was characterized by significant, though uneven, economic growth, expanded rights for women, and, for the urban middle class, a lifestyle similar to that of Western nations".

How it was, how it goes, ending terror and bringing peace in magnificent fashion, The Trump MAGA way. Even the Trump haters got to like this recent development and outstanding effort and outcome freeing Iranians and bringing peace to the region. But being deranged haters, the hateful libtards here will keep on hating while the anti-woke peace luvin patriots celebrate worldwide of another crowning Trump achievement.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/147339218149056512?s=20

https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/2023710290102071364?s=20

Trump delivers, no questions. The world rejoices.

Betting they start renaming streets to Trump boulevard in Iran. Or have they renaming streets there with Trumps name? I think they have.

1 hour ago, Schoggibueb said:

Just to keep in mind:

1. "America First and ZERO wars"

2. "We had to bomb Iran to eliminate possible nuclear weapons"

3. "Trump had to start war again, only to stand with the people of Iran and give them the backing they need."

In 2012 and 2013, Trump repeatedly insinuated that then-President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran to shore up his re-election effort and to distract from his supposed faults as a leader.

Obama never did attack Iran. That cannot be said for Trump, who has now attacked the Middle Eastern republic three times during across his two terms in office.

He's the president of the "Board of Peace".🤮

Criminal in Chief only. But he can't kill the Epstein - Trump ™ files.

Epstein Trump files? So far, just another boring RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA. What exactly is the evidence? Nothing more than predictable banal bloviation. Give me proof from a court of law then I'll care. Just distraction from the left's SOTU disaster. 🤪

By the way, if someone says they're going to destroy you, (hint) take them seriously.

"Some call this aggression... We call it survival."

"It is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one."

Feb 28, 2026. Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon speaks at a UN Security Council meeting following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnwleH5DzE

Mr. President, for 47 years, the Islamic regime in Iran has led crowds in chanting Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. do you want to translate these chants? Your leaders have been chanting it for years in public events in your parliament. Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. They mean death to Israel, death to America. Israeli and American flags were painted on roads so they could be trampled. Our flags were burned in public squares.

This is not the anger of a radical fringe. It is state sanctioned hatred. And while those marb chants echoed, uranium was enriched, centrifuges span, missiles were built, facilities were buried deep underground. It was never just empty rhetoric. It was preparation for action.

But today, alongside our ally, the United States, we act to stop it. Israel stands before you today, having acted with the United States to confront and stop an existential threat before it became irreversible. The operation targets nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile sites, the machinery of repression that fuels terror across our region. We did not act of impulse. We did not act of aggression.

We acted out of necessity because the Iranian regime left no reasonable alternative. This joint effort will continue for as long as the threat remains.

We thank President Trump and acknowledge the close cooperation between Israel and the US which has brought the alliance between our countries to an all-time high in peace and in war.

Let us be clear about what we are confronting.

This regime has built nuclear weapons in blatant disregard of international law and UN resolutions. It has brutally murdered its own citizens and crashed descent and it's happened now as we speak in cities in Iran. It has expanded missile arsenals and armed proxies across the region. It has openly declared its intention to erase Israel from the map. Now, as it faces consequences, it is launching missiles and drones across the region, endangering the UAE, where a Pakistani citizen unfortunately was killed. Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq. As we speak in the last hour, Iran targeted the city of Tel Aviv. Civilian, they don't target military bases. Civilians struck a building in Tel Aviv. An innocent woman was killed and [1]21 people were injured.

This is a regime that destabilizes wherever it reaches. It spreads violence outward while crushing freedom at home. It is not reacting. It is expanding. It is a machinery of radicalism that does not recognize borders.

Mr. President, diplomacy was exhausted. Iran was required to stop enriching uranium, stop heavy water projects, stop developing nuclear capable missiles, and allow full inspections. Iran did none of it. Instead, it fortified its nuclear facilities so we cannot get to them, accelerated missile production, and continue to fund terror. Since the last operation in the summer, they spent billions on the proxies.

The resolutions were clear. The strategy was just as clear. Delay, delay, delay. But we will not be played. And it's simple what they were planning. They were building the means to corner us, to force an irreversible reality with our backs against the wall. That is not a future Israel will accept. No responsible nation should.

This operation is guided by clear objectives. eliminate immediate threats, dismantle the nuclear program, destroy its ballistic missile production, neutralize naval threats, break the proxy network that destabilizes the region.

The operation was carried out in order to protect the people of Israel within the framework of the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Iran in line with the UN charter and in accordance with international law.

Our forces stand ready to stop extremism armed with nuclear weapons. To the soldiers of the IDF, our boys and girls, my son, my daughter, we salute you. You stand like lions defending our people. An entire nation stands behind you.

We have heard the condemnation from few member states, from the secretary general. But we all know that escalation did not begin today. It began when Iran armed proxies and exported terror, expanded missiles and drones, advanced its nuclear program in violation of its commitments, turned on its own people, beating, imprisoning, executing. Where were the outrage of the UN? Where were the consequences? Now Israel acts to prevent an irreversible threat and the condemnation is immediate. This is the definition of hypocrisy.

Some call this aggression. We call it necessity. We call it survival.

Mr. President, history has taught us never to ignore those who openly call for our destruction. When a regime says it will destroy Israel, when it chants death to Israel, when it promises to wipe Hifa and Tel Aviv off the map, we believe it. We genuinely believe it. When we see those hundreds of ballistic missiles that are launching to Israel, we believe the threats. We do not ignore them. We do not gamble with our survival. We act.

Now, let me address the brave people of Iran. You are not our enemies. This operation is not directed at you. It is directed at a regime that has silenced you, imprisoned you, and invested in missiles and uranium while your economy suffers. You deserve better. It is this regime, the Basij, the revolutionary guard who have dragged your country into a isolation.

The world does not fear a free Iran. It fears a radical regime harmed with nuclear weapons and driven by extremism. Your future should not be defined by those who chant for death. As President Trump had said, the Iranian people deserve dignity, security, and the chance to shape their own destiny. We are thinking about you. You are seen. You are not alone. The future of Iran belongs to its people. We stand with you,

Mr. President. This week, Jewish families all around the world celebrate Purim. Many Israelis will do so now in a bomb shelter. The story of Purim happened more than 2,500 years ago. In the same place in ancient Persia, an evil minister by the name of Haman sought to wipe out the Jewish people. And it began with words, with chants. It became a decree. It could have become a a genocide. But Queen Esther refused to remain silent. She stepped forward. She spoke up. She acted before it was too late. That is the lesson we learned.

It is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one. Last week I stood at the gates of Auschwitz with dozens of UN ambassadors. We stood in a place that shows what happens when radicalism and extremism grows and no one stops it in time. Before the Holocaust, some leaders, serious leaders believed that they could come aggression with concess concessions. They were completely wrong. Giving in did not stop evil. It strengthened it. Winston Churchill understood what Queen Esther understood long before him. When destruction is declared and weapons are being prepared and assembled, leaders must act, not later. Now, today, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu understand that same lesson.

For decades, the Iranian regime has built missiles enriched uranium, armed proxies, and spread terror far beyond its borders. This regime is not only Israel's enemy. It is an enemy of stability, an enemy of every peaceloving nation. In this joint operation, Israel and the US are acting together. Not because we see conflict.

39 minutes ago, JimCM said:

How naive, this is the start of the fall of the US empire and Israel will be eradicated in a few years.

Did you support the war on Iraq? Did that end well for the US?

Mate I've been reading your posts over many months, you got it wrong everytime.

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7 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Dead as a doornail. Its all over but the shouting.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-dead-after-idf-strike-hits-tehran-compound-israeli-source-confirms

Payback is a biatch

...bar the shouting.

7 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Dead as a doornail. Its all over but the shouting.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-dead-after-idf-strike-hits-tehran-compound-israeli-source-confirms

Payback is a biatch

That´s good news for once.

Congratulations President Trump. You've just created a martyr.

Missile attacks into Israel continue.

https://www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/

1 hour ago, JimCM said:

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world will be a better place now.

How naive, this is the start of the fall of the US empire and Israel will be eradicated in a few years.

Did you support the war on Iraq? Did that end well for the US?

So many happy people.

It's clear that ONLY the Evil will be unhappy.

5 minutes ago, connda said:

Congratulations President Trump. You've just created a martyr.

Just taken out the number one Islamic fundamentalist terrorist is another way of looking at it.

56 minutes ago, Purdey said:

You may have missed the point of a country being threatened by the USA and failing to obey.

I don't think I missed the point.

Your postering on behalf of Trumps threats/warnings to all other countries if they don't obey orders, is pathetic.

2 hours ago, riclag said:

Terror proxies states that worked with Iran whats going on with them, Thats my fear! Terror attacks on home soil in Israel and the USA.

The southern border has been secured and I thought ICE had rounded them proxies up and deported them already.

"The only thing you have to fear is fear itself."

17 minutes ago, connda said:

Congratulations President Trump. You've just created a martyr.

If getting precision-bombed into next Tuesday while hiding in a bunker makes you a "martyr" that magically revives the Islamic Republic, then explain why Iranian state media is doing the full grieving theater while people are reportedly celebrating in the streets, tearing down Khomeini statues, and the regime looks one bad Friday prayer away from imploding. Martyrdom only works when the cause still has legs—Khamenei's "cause" was already on life support with nationwide protests, economic collapse, and half the population openly despising the theocracy.

This is like saying assassinating a mafia boss just makes the family stronger because now he's a "legend." Nah, sometimes you just remove the head and the snake stops hissing. Trump didn't "make" him a martyr; he made him a corpse—and corpses don't issue fatwas or fund Hezbollah anymore.

If anything, the real martyrdom here is whatever brain cells died reading that comment and pretending it's some 4D chess checkmate against Trump. Touch grass, or at least update your news awareness past 2018.

Can you imagine if non-Western aggressor nations begin to murder Western religious leaders?

Pope Francis, Leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Patriarch Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury United Kingdom.

Bishop Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Russell M. Nelson, President of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

Dalai Lama Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism

That reciprocal justice isn't something anyone would wish to let out of Pandora's Box, yet here is Trump and Israel stoking the flames.
There is a very discernible anti-Islamic movement in Western nations, and the followers of those movements are now dancing in the streets in celebration.
So now what if Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber or Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef become targets of retribution - an eye for an eye.
My guess is that the people dancing in the streets to the death of Islamic leaders would call the martyrdom of Israel's chief Rabbis an act of evil. And yet they engage in that behavior.

Targeting religious leaders is a can of worms best left unopened, and yet - Trump and Netanyahu opened that can. Let the chips fall where they may.

1 hour ago, JimCM said:

How naive, this is the start of the fall of the US empire and Israel will be eradicated in a few years.

Did you support the war on Iraq? Did that end well for the US?

1 hour ago, JimCM said:

The US empire will never fall and Israel will remain the same. Many people underestimate the power the US has, and pulling out for political reasons doesn't mean it wasn't winnable.

Frequent and large missile volleys continue to be launched by Iran into Israel.

https://www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/

1 hour ago, JimCM said:

How naive, this is the start of the fall of the US empire and Israel will be eradicated in a few years.

Did you support the war on Iraq? Did that end well for the US?

I personally don't support war in any form by any country against another. This current war of aggression against Iran is needless. I understand "why" it's happening. It has nothing to do with nuclear enrichment or ICBM or women wearing hijabs. It has everything to do with the 1979 Islamic Revolution which was a direct response to the 1953 British/US intelligence overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh for the benefit of British Petroleum.
This current war is for the same purposes as the 1953 overthrow of the Iranian government with the same goals in mind. All US/Western wars of aggression are imperial and colonial in nature: tie up land and resources for the benefit of Western corporations. And here we are again.

This will not end well for anyone, and those who are cheer-leading the war and the assassination are fools.

7 minutes ago, connda said:

Targeting religious leaders is a can of worms best left unopened

How about targeting terrorists that use religion as the basis for causing death and destruction.

To our enemies perceived or not perceived we salute you , Obama, United Nations,World Trade Organization, Russia, China , and all Terror proxies ,this is historic. peace through strength as opposed to appeasing religious terror fanatics .

58 minutes ago, mymonkeyhusb said:

Epstein Trump files? So far, just another boring RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA. What exactly is the evidence? Nothing more than predictable banal bloviation. Give me proof from a court of law then I'll care. Just distraction from the left's SOTU disaster. 🤪

By the way, if someone says they're going to destroy you, (hint) take them seriously.

"Some call this aggression... We call it survival."

"It is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one."

Feb 28, 2026. Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon speaks at a UN Security Council meeting following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnwleH5DzE

Mr. President, for 47 years, the Islamic regime in Iran has led crowds in chanting Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. do you want to translate these chants? Your leaders have been chanting it for years in public events in your parliament. Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. They mean death to Israel, death to America. Israeli and American flags were painted on roads so they could be trampled. Our flags were burned in public squares.

This is not the anger of a radical fringe. It is state sanctioned hatred. And while those marb chants echoed, uranium was enriched, centrifuges span, missiles were built, facilities were buried deep underground. It was never just empty rhetoric. It was preparation for action.

But today, alongside our ally, the United States, we act to stop it. Israel stands before you today, having acted with the United States to confront and stop an existential threat before it became irreversible. The operation targets nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile sites, the machinery of repression that fuels terror across our region. We did not act of impulse. We did not act of aggression.

We acted out of necessity because the Iranian regime left no reasonable alternative. This joint effort will continue for as long as the threat remains.

We thank President Trump and acknowledge the close cooperation between Israel and the US which has brought the alliance between our countries to an all-time high in peace and in war.

Let us be clear about what we are confronting.

This regime has built nuclear weapons in blatant disregard of international law and UN resolutions. It has brutally murdered its own citizens and crashed descent and it's happened now as we speak in cities in Iran. It has expanded missile arsenals and armed proxies across the region. It has openly declared its intention to erase Israel from the map. Now, as it faces consequences, it is launching missiles and drones across the region, endangering the UAE, where a Pakistani citizen unfortunately was killed. Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq. As we speak in the last hour, Iran targeted the city of Tel Aviv. Civilian, they don't target military bases. Civilians struck a building in Tel Aviv. An innocent woman was killed and [1]21 people were injured.

This is a regime that destabilizes wherever it reaches. It spreads violence outward while crushing freedom at home. It is not reacting. It is expanding. It is a machinery of radicalism that does not recognize borders.

Mr. President, diplomacy was exhausted. Iran was required to stop enriching uranium, stop heavy water projects, stop developing nuclear capable missiles, and allow full inspections. Iran did none of it. Instead, it fortified its nuclear facilities so we cannot get to them, accelerated missile production, and continue to fund terror. Since the last operation in the summer, they spent billions on the proxies.

The resolutions were clear. The strategy was just as clear. Delay, delay, delay. But we will not be played. And it's simple what they were planning. They were building the means to corner us, to force an irreversible reality with our backs against the wall. That is not a future Israel will accept. No responsible nation should.

This operation is guided by clear objectives. eliminate immediate threats, dismantle the nuclear program, destroy its ballistic missile production, neutralize naval threats, break the proxy network that destabilizes the region.

The operation was carried out in order to protect the people of Israel within the framework of the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Iran in line with the UN charter and in accordance with international law.

Our forces stand ready to stop extremism armed with nuclear weapons. To the soldiers of the IDF, our boys and girls, my son, my daughter, we salute you. You stand like lions defending our people. An entire nation stands behind you.

We have heard the condemnation from few member states, from the secretary general. But we all know that escalation did not begin today. It began when Iran armed proxies and exported terror, expanded missiles and drones, advanced its nuclear program in violation of its commitments, turned on its own people, beating, imprisoning, executing. Where were the outrage of the UN? Where were the consequences? Now Israel acts to prevent an irreversible threat and the condemnation is immediate. This is the definition of hypocrisy.

Some call this aggression. We call it necessity. We call it survival.

Mr. President, history has taught us never to ignore those who openly call for our destruction. When a regime says it will destroy Israel, when it chants death to Israel, when it promises to wipe Hifa and Tel Aviv off the map, we believe it. We genuinely believe it. When we see those hundreds of ballistic missiles that are launching to Israel, we believe the threats. We do not ignore them. We do not gamble with our survival. We act.

Now, let me address the brave people of Iran. You are not our enemies. This operation is not directed at you. It is directed at a regime that has silenced you, imprisoned you, and invested in missiles and uranium while your economy suffers. You deserve better. It is this regime, the Basij, the revolutionary guard who have dragged your country into a isolation.

The world does not fear a free Iran. It fears a radical regime harmed with nuclear weapons and driven by extremism. Your future should not be defined by those who chant for death. As President Trump had said, the Iranian people deserve dignity, security, and the chance to shape their own destiny. We are thinking about you. You are seen. You are not alone. The future of Iran belongs to its people. We stand with you,

Mr. President. This week, Jewish families all around the world celebrate Purim. Many Israelis will do so now in a bomb shelter. The story of Purim happened more than 2,500 years ago. In the same place in ancient Persia, an evil minister by the name of Haman sought to wipe out the Jewish people. And it began with words, with chants. It became a decree. It could have become a a genocide. But Queen Esther refused to remain silent. She stepped forward. She spoke up. She acted before it was too late. That is the lesson we learned.

It is not only an ancient lesson. It is a modern one. Last week I stood at the gates of Auschwitz with dozens of UN ambassadors. We stood in a place that shows what happens when radicalism and extremism grows and no one stops it in time. Before the Holocaust, some leaders, serious leaders believed that they could come aggression with concess concessions. They were completely wrong. Giving in did not stop evil. It strengthened it. Winston Churchill understood what Queen Esther understood long before him. When destruction is declared and weapons are being prepared and assembled, leaders must act, not later. Now, today, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu understand that same lesson.

For decades, the Iranian regime has built missiles enriched uranium, armed proxies, and spread terror far beyond its borders. This regime is not only Israel's enemy. It is an enemy of stability, an enemy of every peaceloving nation. In this joint operation, Israel and the US are acting together. Not because we see conflict.

Words matter: Death to Israel ,Death America.All words from a State sponsor of terrorism.

3 hours ago, riclag said:

Nobody does anti terror counter insurgence better than Israel and the USA. Nobody.

Not so good in catching people in the Epstein files though.

14 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

The US empire will never fall and Israel will remain the same. Many people underestimate the power the US has, and pulling out for political reasons doesn't mean it wasn't winnable.

Your failing to grasp the big picture as well as the historic arc of empirical regimes like the US, once a Republic, but no more.

5 minutes ago, connda said:

Your failing to grasp the big picture as well as the historic arc of empirical regimes like the US, once a Republic, but no more.

Maybe I am understanding as I've watched what the US is and is capable of for many decades. I'm fully aware of some of the agenda the US has regarding going into wars . It always sticks it's nose into other affairs as the US is the whole world in one place and feels the need to get involved wherever they can help, and also profit from it. Democracy is usually the best solution and Iran needed this help. The US is still a republic and a democracy.