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Trump Says Iran War Could End ‘Very Soon’ as Strikes Continue

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This reminds me of when Bush Jr. stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier and proclaimed mission accomplished. I think that was about 2 months into the Iraq War?

Nobody has a crystal ball and Trump is the least visionary amongst them, so he doesn't have a fricking clue. The repercussions of this war may be felt for many years after the bombs stop falling.

One thing that the nimwits did not take into account is the fact that Iran is not a Venezuela, an Egypt, a Libya or an Algeria.

It is Iraq and Afghanistan x 10. And Trump has disturbed a major hornet's nest, in his ignorance, hubris, arrogance and constant puffing up of his ridiculously ugly and fat chest, that houses that incredibly toxic heart of his.

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  • The theocrats and the IRGC are being hit and hit hard. The Iranian navy is sitting on the bottom, the air force is gone, missiles and launching systems severely depleted, air dominance has been gained

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6 hours ago, dinsdale said:

The theocrats and the IRGC are being hit and hit hard. The Iranian navy is sitting on the bottom, the air force is gone, missiles and launching systems severely depleted, air dominance has been gained, IRGC members reportedly heading into Afghanistan, more countries sending military to the area, Iran has now targeted Turkey twice and they don't want Turkey, one of the biggest if not the biggest militaries in region getting upset, over 3000 targets have been taken out including oil facilities so I'd say the war on the terrorist regime is going according to plan. This has now been going for only a week and a half. Sadly your irrational hate for Trump blinds you to reality. Another two or three weeks of these attacks and there won't be much of the regimes ability to fire on neighbouring countries left? Can the terrorist theocrats survive in their present form or will they capitulate? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

From your post I assume that you are totally in favor of this war, so just a quick question: further assuming that you voted for (or at least supported) Trump during the 2024 election, what did you think then about his promise that there would be no new Middle East wars, no regime change wars, and that those who favored such wars should vote for Harris? Did you know that he was lying at the time and that of course he would start the wars that you always wanted, or have you totally changed your opinion on this: that when Trump promised no new wars in 2024, that sounded great at the time, and now that we’re engaged in one very hot war and at least a few other foreign conflict situations, well, that’s great, too, because, after all, it’s Trump who’s doing it. Just wondering.

 

P.S. “Another two or three weeks”? When was the last time a war in the Middle East ended after just a few weeks? Where is your head at, man?

6 minutes ago, Cory1848 said:

what did you think then about his promise that there would be no new Middle East wars, no regime change wars, and that those who favored such wars should vote for Harris?

In 2015 Trump said Iran will never have nuclear weapons. He's sticking to his word. As for the rest Trump is Trump. Not your run of the mill POTUS and the world will be a better place for it. If Harris got in the Iranians would have continued on their road to nukes and the world would have an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist regime in the Middle East with plenty of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads to put on them.

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

In 2015 Trump said Iran will never have nuclear weapons. He's sticking to his word. As for the rest Trump is Trump. Not your run of the mill POTUS and the world will be a better place for it. If Harris got in the Iranians would have continued on their road to nukes and the world would have a fundamentalist terrorist regime in the Middle East with plenty of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads to put on them.

Absolutely correct, every President has said at some time or other.

Total nine Presidents over 47 years.

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44 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

In 2015 Trump said Iran will never have nuclear weapons. He's sticking to his word. As for the rest Trump is Trump. Not your run of the mill POTUS and the world will be a better place for it. If Harris got in the Iranians would have continued on their road to nukes and the world would have an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist regime in the Middle East with plenty of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads to put on them.

He said (in October 2024), “You’re not going to have a war with me, that I can tell you.” On election night, he said, “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” Etc. etc. Of course, given the thousands of documented lies he’s told while in office during his first term and this one, one can’t put any stock in the flatulence that comes from his mouth at any given time, nor I’m sure is he able to keep track of it. Just this past week, the stream of lies and contradictions that have come from him and members of his administration on the Iran matter is breathtaking. If this is the kind of “leadership” that blows your hair back, then I’m glad you’re in a shrinking minority.

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1 minute ago, Cory1848 said:

“I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.”

And what he has done is to preemptively stop the most dangerous regime in the Middle East from continuing to arm itself with offensive weapons (including nukes) from being able to start a war.

20 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

And what he has done is to preemptively stop the most dangerous regime in the Middle East from continuing to arm itself with offensive weapons (including nukes)

Errhum, cough cough 😷

ISRAEL. ! !!!!!

3 minutes ago, johng said:

Errhum, cough cough 😷

ISRAEL. ! !!!!!

Sure. Israel is part of it. So what. Israel is an ally of the US.

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Israel wags the dog. It not an ally of anyone!

He talks a lot. US already lost the war. There won’t be much of Israel left either. US will be forced out of the region.

18 minutes ago, AustinRacing said:

He talks a lot. US already lost the war. There won’t be much of Israel left either. US will be forced out of the region.

Middle East countries allow US military bases primarily for security assurances against regional threats like Iran and ensure their stability for trade. This belief has been shattered by the attacks by Iran and destabilize trade. The US bases are also military targets and the host countries suffered collateral damages. They may not be too willing to host these bases again.

The Nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the middle-east pushed by Iran and Egypt in the 70s could help Middle-east peace. This could help to persuade Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons. Israel will need to come on-board and signed on to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Additionally he speaks like an uneducated idiot. Mumbling and repeating the same broken English statements over and over.

If there is anything Iran has learned from all this its

1 The US is not to be trusted so no point in negotiating with them.

2 If they don't want to be attacked again they must have nuclear weapons.

They only have to look towards a certain little fat man with a bad haircut who openly boasts about building more even bigger more powerful Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that could even reach the US, greatly expanding his nuclear arsenal and building AI drones.

And the silence is deafening.

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1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Middle East countries allow US military bases primarily for security assurances against regional threats like Iran and ensure their stability for trade. This belief has been shattered by the attacks by Iran and destabilize trade. The US bases are also military targets and the host countries suffered collateral damages. They may not be too willing to host these bases again.

The Nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the middle-east pushed by Iran and Egypt in the 70s could help Middle-east peace. This could help to persuade Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons. Israel will need to come on-board and signed on to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany and as far as we know Iran was complying fully with the agreement.

Then along comes Trump who going against all the other members of that group just rips it up. Why simple because it was Obama's deal.

Now we have all this <deleted>e. If Iran was pursuing a nuclear capacity it is purely down to Trumps actions and even if they were they were years away from a viable weapon.

There was no reason at all to attack Iran at this moment in time, apart from Trump wanting to play with his box of toy soldiers and being pressurised into it by Israel.

Negotiations were taking place that could of secured a deal, surely getting Iran to formally give up any attempts to build a nuclear weapon and allow regular inspections by the IAEA in return for lifting some sanctions would have been significantly preferable to what we have now.

But then that would require a grown up to make a deal like that.

Right in the middle of the negotiations the US and Israel decide to murder Iran's Ayatollah and his family and start attacking Iran with missiles and bombs.

This is not over by a long way and will continue not necessarily in its current form for years to come.

Once again the US is sticking its nose in throwing its weight about creating chaos thousands of miles away from its own borders.

Trump will probably pull all the carriers and planes back retire to the White House order another burger & fries and say its not my fault it Biden's or well it's they're own fault they should have done what I told them.

America desperately needs to amend its Constitution because the famed checks and balances don't appear to be working all that well.

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Middle East countries allow US military bases primarily for security assurances against regional threats like Iran and ensure their stability for trade. This belief has been shattered by the attacks by Iran and destabilize trade. The US bases are also military targets and the host countries suffered collateral damages. They may not be too willing to host these bases again.

The Nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the middle-east pushed by Iran and Egypt in the 70s could help Middle-east peace. This could help to persuade Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons. Israel will need to come on-board and signed on to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Well said. I don’t think iran had plans to build nukes. If it wanted to, it could’ve had it decades ago. It has the know how. Wake up call to gulf nations that they will always be bridesmaids to Israel as already demonstrated. Best to not invite foreign military bases.

So then:

Has Trump finally decided to NUKE Them?

If you want it all over soon, then Nukes are the surest and fastest way.

Trump Signals Conflict May End Soon - It sounds like the americans are planning to surrender.

Has anyone calculated how much Trump has added to his personal fortune in the last few days? - He knew the price of oil was going to rocket because he was going to start it – so one assumes he's bought millions... Investors love a volatile market because the ups and downs make for huge quick profits, yet Trump has a trump card – he as the power to decide how and when the markets go up or down. He also now owns all the oil in Venezuela, strangles the supplies to the rest of the world and relaxes sanctions on Russia.

anyone who thinks this is about 'freeing' the people of Iran or even preventing nuclear weapons (he said he did that months ago) is just kidding themselves.

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17 hours ago, Wingate said:

believing the US was going to play 18th Century Imperialist and steal Iran's oil,

18th century?

It's what the US and UK did in 1953, destroying a democratically elected very popular government to install the murderous torturer Shah Rheza Pahlevi, in order to continue stealing Iran's oil for BP.

That is why we got the Ayatollah Khomeini and why Iran is the way it is today. It is all 100% US and UK fault and responsibility. And both countries are in 100% denial of that. And killing hundreds and destroying the entire country in order to keep the cover up going. Learning nothing, absolutely nothing, along the way.

17 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Another two or three weeks of these attacks and there won't be much of the regimes ability to fire on neighbouring countries left? Can the terrorist theocrats survive in their present form or will they capitulate? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Capitulate to whom??

As we have no idea of what Trump's aims are (except making money for himself), I think claiming Iran's military is destroyed really has no bearing on the matter. Any power vacuum left by Iran will have to be filled by something, and I would be very careful what I wished for.

4 hours ago, AustinRacing said:

Well said. I don’t think iran had plans to build nukes. If it wanted to, it could’ve had it decades ago. It has the know how. Wake up call to gulf nations that they will always be bridesmaids to Israel as already demonstrated. Best to not invite foreign military bases.

It most certainly was trying to establish a nuclear weapons program and has been trying to for years. Because Iran was unsuccessful does not mean that it was not trying to do so.

Prime Minister Carey of Canada said it best when he supported the elimination of Iran's nuclear weapons potential; Nations with a peaceful intent do not put their "civilian" use reactors 1 mile underground while threatening to incinerate and destroy other countries.

1 hour ago, 1tooth said:

Trump Signals Conflict May End Soon - It sounds like the americans are planning to surrender.

The MAJOR problem is that Iran, at this point, will NOT allow the USA to surrender.

Iran will continue to lob missiles, and cause immense damage, especially to Israel.

This time, Israel has bitten off more than it can chew, or actually their PM has done so.

The ware they started will not be so easy to end, this time.

What fools.

Are they hoping for an End of Days situation?

Guess who cut funding for American broadcasts in Farsi to the Iranian population?

Funding Termination: In March 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that effectively terminated federal grants for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which operates the Persian-language service Radio Farda.

Operational Shutdowns: Nearly 1,300 Voice of America (VOA) employees, including those in the Persian-language service, were placed on administrative leave, and the network was ordered to reduce its functions to the minimum required by law.

Infrastructure Barriers: Senior officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), including Kari Lake, prevented Radio Farda from using American transmission equipment, forcing the service to rent from commercial contractors to continue reaching audiences in Iran.

Internet Freedom: Funding was also cut for the Open Technology Fund, which provides VPNs and other tools that approximately 20 million Iranians use to bypass state internet censorship

did the Trump administration cut funding for broadcasts in Farsi to Iran? - Google Search

Blimey..Trump is gonna be 0-2. If america surrenders and gives up with the same regime in power, fleeing back to USA, that is a shameful military defeat. Granted, it's not as humiliating as the spineless americans throwing down their weapons and fleeing from Afghanistan, but damn!

6 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

has been trying to for years.

I think that is evidence that they weren't and the US knew that.

7 hours ago, kwilco said:

Capitulate to whom??

As we have no idea of what Trump's aims are (except making money for himself), I think claiming Iran's military is destroyed really has no bearing on the matter. Any power vacuum left by Iran will have to be filled by something, and I would be very careful what I wished for.

The aims have been clearly pointed out but here they are again. Here are 4 key points.

1. Destroy the ballistic missiles and launching capacity.

2. Destroy missile and drone manufacturing capability.

3. Destroy Iran's capability of arming it's proxies.

4. Iran can never have nuclear weapons.

As for being careful what you wish for the Iranian people wish for a secular government not a fundamentalist Islamic dictatorship backed up by the murderous IRGC.

18 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This reminds me of when Bush Jr. stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier and proclaimed mission accomplished. I think that was about 2 months into the Iraq War?

Nobody has a crystal ball and Trump is the least visionary amongst them, so he doesn't have a fricking clue. The repercussions of this war may be felt for many years after the bombs stop falling.

One thing that the nimwits did not take into account is the fact that Iran is not a Venezuela, an Egypt, a Libya or an Algeria.

It is Iraq and Afghanistan x 10. And Trump has disturbed a major hornet's nest, in his ignorance, hubris, arrogance and constant puffing up of his ridiculously ugly and fat chest, that houses that incredibly toxic heart of his.

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Lots of medals for a draft dodger...

40 minutes ago, kwilco said:

I think that is evidence that they weren't and the US knew that.

They had uranium enriched to 60%. Why?

Oh, dear. "Trump says . . .". While one hopes it to be true, 99.99% of what comes out of his mouth is a lie so the odds are not good.

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