https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/opinion/trump-challenged-50-years-of-iran-fears-and-revealed-the-rotten-decaying-truth/

For some 46 years, until 2025, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, self-destructive, nihilistic and inevitably, one day, nuclear.

But was it really ever all that formidable?

The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and subsequently the interim secular socialists.

They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters and transforming the most secular and modern of the Middle East Muslim nations into the most medieval — one that routinely hangedhomosexuals, adulterers and almost anyone who questioned the authority of the ayatollahs.

In other words, these were gruesome people, but they didn’t necessarily have a competent military.

I really don't give a rat's toss about the Iranian regime good or bad there are far worse out there - what I do care about though is US/Israel imposing their financial chaos on the planet cheered on by idiots and I hope the US loses so it's stops meddling in the affairs of countries far away of which they know little. Trump needs to get a good hiding sadly it won't be him that gets it poor hapless soldiers forced by oath to go to war for an idiot - full of sound and fury signifying nothing.