1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

Unprovoked?

How many attacks against the USA does it take to demonstrate Iran's evil intentions?

It has been in a state of hostility and indirect war with Israel since 1985.

Iran tried to assassinate Trump 2X.

Really - receipts please - one was a Ukrainian supporting nutjob if my memory serves me right.

34 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

Whatever the final outcome of this war it will have cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

The cost for decades to come will be incalculable.

All of it could have been prevented not by war or threats simply by talking but that doesn't make for good TV does it.

The war, the war against its citizens already started in January,the Iranians who complained about and protested against this very regime paid dearly,thousands massacred in the streets during the January 2026 uprising, with estimates from independent sources and even leaked health ministry figures reaching over 30,000 lives lost in the crackdown.

A authortarian regime is willing to do this to its own citizenry to keep power ,there's no telling what they'd do to the global community, if they had nukes or continued on its path as a state sponsor of terror. .

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/

11 minutes ago, riclag said:

The war, the war against its citizens already started in January,the Iranians who complained about and protested against this very regime paid dearly,thousands massacred in the streets during the January 2026 uprising, with estimates from independent sources and even leaked health ministry figures reaching over 30,000 lives lost in the crackdown.

A authortarian regime is willing to do this to its own citizenry to keep power ,there's no telling what they'd do to the global community, if they had nukes or continued on its path as a state sponsor of terror. .

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/

Yawn give it a rest we've had enough of WMD , Iraq missiles 45 minutes away form London and all this the rest of the crap spouted to justify hard power politcis and remember how brutally US client regimes cracked down on the Arab Spring facing no sanctions from Uncle Sam. If there was no oil and no resistacne to US/Isareli hegemony you wouldn't give a damn. Wheras Isreal egging on Trump to attack Iran illegally is destabilisng the world and we are all paying for it. Oh an Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program only to be attAcked by NATO and buggered with an iron pipe in a ditch. Iran will finish this war on their own terms and in their own time. Iran has a bomb as powerful as anything the west has and arguably more devastating they would have been well left alone by any one with an ounce of sense.

https://archive.ph/Pd4nz

The sands of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan reminded the US military that geography played a decisive role in conflict. The waters off Iran are doing the same.

Iran’s Trump card? The Strait of Hormuz. And Tehran has played it, effectively closing the waterway that allows oil and gas suppliers to meet 20 per cent of the world’s energy needs.

Attacking shipping in the strait may be illegal, but the Iranians have long warned they would do it.

In 2018, Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, then the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said: “We will make the enemy understand that either everyone can use the Strait of Hormuz or no one.”

7 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Iran has a bomb as powerful as anything the west has and arguably more devastating they would have been well left alone.

What bomb is that? How are they going to deliver it, with a camel?

Mail Online

US fighter jet 'hit by Iranian fire' is forced into emerg...

This would mark the first time a US aircraft has been hit Islamic Regime's military since the war started.

Iran's military claimed a symbolic victory on Thursday as it aired footage purporting to show a US F-35 stealth fighter being struck by anti-aircraft artillery.

A black and white video shows what appears to be a US jet being hit by a missile before the footage abruptly ends. It would mark the first time an American F-35 has been successfully struck by enemy fire in combat.

US Central Command confirmed that the fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing while 'flying a combat mission over Iran.'

'The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,' Captain Tim Hawkins said. It is unclear if the pilot was injured.

Less than an hour later, Donald Trump told reporters that Iran's anti-aircraft weaponry was eliminated, adding: 'Nobody is even shooting at us.'

Wow. They may have hit a plane.

Thats like holding your opponents to a Field Goal when they have already run the score up 84-0 with 25 seconds left in the 4th

35 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

What bomb is that? How are they going to deliver it, with a camel?

A money bomb that reaches to very part of the world. Currently on level 5 but like Spinal Tap it can go to 11. Anyways according to your mate Trump it's over now - won job done. Game over. I know you worship Baal and money but you need to pray to your Saviour.

6 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Stupid comments like that are one of the reasons that the internet has become an intellectual cesspool.

Nah, that is you and riclag.

22 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Nah, that is you and riclag.

So you think the USA is a terrorist nation?

29 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

A money bomb that reaches to very part of the world. Currently on level 5 but like Spinal Tap it can go to 11. Anyways according to your mate Trump it's over now - won job done. Game over. I know you worship Baal and money but you need to pray to your Saviour.

You object to a public display of religion?

7 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You object to a public display of religion?

Not this one. I'm a predujiced radical left lunatic who is a citizen of the world and therefore a citizen of nowhere.

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Who are you taking about? The religious folks on this forum who support President Trump? You are advocating their murder?

Thanks for coming out

I haven't yet joined the catatamite sect yet Allah forbids it.

8 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

I haven't yet joined the catatamite sect yet Allah forbids it.

Who are the catatamites (sic)? You mean catamites?

On 3/17/2026 at 12:15 PM, Yagoda said:

Anybody care to get out of their bubble and read a reasoned analysis of the present conflict.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why

Im sure this will degenerate into the usual Trump deranged nonsense, probably because the analysis is unimpeachable

"But the critics are making a different error: They are treating the costs of action as if the costs of inaction were zero. They were not. They were measured in the slow accretion of a threat that, left unchecked, would have produced exactly the crisis everyone claims to fear: a nuclear-armed Iran capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz at will, surrounded by proxy forces that could hold the entire region hostage indefinitely.

Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defences, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery. The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working."

A well presented and balanced personal analysis and opinion, thanks.

Now, where's yours?

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Who are the catatamites (sic)? You mean catamites?

Google is your friend too, eh?

5 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

A well presented and balanced personal analysis and opinion, thanks.

Now, where's yours?

I agree with him almost 100%

17 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I agree with him almost 100%

The guy from Doha 16 March said: But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.

The next day 17 March Trump said:

The U.S. official said that Trump was ⁠briefed before the war that striking Iran could trigger a broader regional conflict that would include Iranian retaliation against Gulf capitals, especially if Tehran saw those countries condoning or actively supporting the U.S. attacks.

Trump repeated his claim later on Monday during a signing event in the Oval Office. He was asked if he was surprised that ⁠nobody had briefed him about that risk that Iran would strike back at the Gulf states.

"Nobody, nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit," replied Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-was-warned-likely-iranian-retaliation-gulf-allies-sources-say-2026-03-17/

Just now, JerryM said:

The guy from Doha 16 March said: But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.

The next day 17 March Trump said:

The U.S. official said that Trump was ⁠briefed before the war that striking Iran could trigger a broader regional conflict that would include Iranian retaliation against Gulf capitals, especially if Tehran saw those countries condoning or actively supporting the U.S. attacks.

Trump repeated his claim later on Monday during a signing event in the Oval Office. He was asked if he was surprised that ⁠nobody had briefed him about that risk that Iran would strike back at the Gulf states.

"Nobody, nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit," replied Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-was-warned-likely-iranian-retaliation-gulf-allies-sources-say-2026-03-17/

There is a difference between could and will. I was surprised they made that mistake, however, it does finalize the conclusion that they are unquestionably a death cult.

4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

There is a difference between could and will. I was surprised they made that mistake, however, it does finalize the conclusion that they are unquestionably a death cult.

Got it. LOL. Keep the narrative going.

4 minutes ago, JerryM said:

Got it. LOL. Keep the narrative going.

Do you disagree as to the role of holy martyrdom in Shia Islam?

6 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Do you disagree as to the role of holy martyrdom in Shia Islam?

What's my name?”

“I'm Puddin' Tame, ask me again and I'll tell you the same!”

2 minutes ago, JerryM said:

What's my name?”

“I'm Puddin' Tame, ask me again and I'll tell you the same!”

Got it. Carry on.

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Got it.

Danny Kaye was way ahead of you. The Court Jester (1955). Kaye as Hawkins:

Hubert Hawkins: I'd like to get in, get on with it, get it over with, and get out. Get it?

Ravenhurst: Got it.

Hubert Hawkins: Good.

14 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Si you can't dispute what he writes. Got it.

No what he said was you claim the article is true without verifying it. Seems your reading comprehension is flawed as usual so you try to twist what prople write and blame others for your lack of critical thinking.

8 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

And tour contribution to the thread was?

Stating a simple and fact. I'll use smaller words next time so you can understand it.

15 hours ago, Yagoda said:

I thought Israel was his boss?

Everyone who has a copy of the Epstein files is his boss.

Got it now?

11 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Wow. They may have hit a plane.

Thats like holding your opponents to a Field Goal when they have already run the score up 84-0 with 25 seconds left in the 4th

There is already a thread running on the American defeat by Venezuela in the baseball World Championship.

I'll kindly link it for you.

6 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Yep.

Yep the owrst in the world as well. Now their bombs really do the business no fireworks for them and they have vaporized 2 whole cities in my father's lifetime just imagine that at ground level. My father thought that was a war crime btw and he hated the Japanese and fought in Europe. Like most things in life he was right.

5 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Everyone who has a copy of the Epstein files is his boss.

Got it now?

No. So Bibi is his Boss?

5 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Careful I had long screeds of AI material removed as more than a few senteces it's against rules and you need to flag that it was AI supported. On reflection that's a good rule as I can then post a long screed back and the forum descends into AI vs Ai.

I did not use AI. The information I typed was obtained from public sources. The arrersts and convictions were covered by multiple media outlets. I cited my source for the long list of Iranian attacks on US citizens and assets. It is directly from that source. If you have an issue take it up with WHGov.org