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Iran will deliver 'strong blow' against US if it attacks, Khamenei says
Reuters ^ | 3/31/2025 | William Maclean

Posted on 03/31/2025 7:49:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: JoSixChip

Oh, did I hurt your feelings?

Your support for the Russians and their allies is pretty obvious. Just own it. It’s amusing when you guys get all butt hurt when the obvious is pointed out.

I am not calling you a commie. Just an apologist.


21 posted on 03/31/2025 8:24:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Nextrush

Yes they do like the term Persian, but it’s also more accurate. Iran is a modern day nationstate, a political entity. Persia is an ancient ethnic group that goes back millennia. Before Islam. It’s a biblical tribe. It has history that extends back to Ancient Greece and Roman literature.


22 posted on 03/31/2025 8:28:13 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Nextrush

The Deep State is making its last stand for status quo. We cannot let them win.


23 posted on 03/31/2025 8:28:58 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: marcusmaximus

Sounds more like Baghdad Bob.


24 posted on 03/31/2025 8:32:38 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: PUGACHEV
It may mean activating the Iranian sleeper networks here in the US and abroad. What else would they be saving them for?

I was wondering how many posts I'd have to read before the reality of what Khamenei said would come forth. You are spot on. Some of them haven't been "sleepers" for very long, either; they came across the border during the cadaver administration.

25 posted on 03/31/2025 8:35:05 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: marcusmaximus

I am convinced we already have terror cells within our borders. They have had years preparing just waiting for the word to be given.

The United States is not prepared to fight a guerilla war within our border. Too many think it is a police matter and each attack to be treated as a crime instead of what it is, foreign soldiers trying to bring us down with terror.


26 posted on 03/31/2025 8:49:52 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: Magnum44

An Iranian blow job. We better be careful.


27 posted on 03/31/2025 8:51:35 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weaponized, bureaucratic "judges" like Boasberg have got to go. They aren't elected to anything.)
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To: JoSixChip

Iran’s been attacking us since 1979, when the USSR-backed communist students like Ahmadinejad and Iraq-backed Ayatollah Khomeini took power in a coup. Iran doesn’t need assistance when it comes to inciting war.


28 posted on 03/31/2025 8:56:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
Iran doesn’t need assistance when it comes to inciting war.

Nether do we.
29 posted on 03/31/2025 8:59:19 AM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: marcusmaximus

Sounds sexy.
Naughty Mullahs.


30 posted on 03/31/2025 9:16:03 AM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight all)
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To: Quickgun
So, what is the solution?

There are many possible solutions. All of them are bad. Many of them involve nuclear detonations in multiple places.

One might reasonably assume that Iran has a few atomic weapons right now. They have had plenty of time to acquire the necessary materials, and the technology for simple devices has been readily available since the 1950's. Iran has good engineers. They can make atomic weapons. What Iran does not have is an effective delivery system.

What Iran is also missing is a reliable command-and-control system. Their government is composed of factions with bitter rivalries between them and no faction can really trust other factions with control of nuclear weapons. Most likely, their equivalent of "permissive action links" are held by different members of hostile factions.

Another aspect is that the Russians cannot be terribly comfortable with a nuclear-armed Iran. It is within possible bounds of consideration for the Russians to provide Israelis with targeting information or other vulnerabilities so that the Israelis can destroy all weapons and facilities used to make them. The Iranians have probably considered this as well.

31 posted on 03/31/2025 9:43:55 AM PDT by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Looks like Reuters loft out the word “Job” after “Blow”.


32 posted on 03/31/2025 9:46:25 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: PUGACHEV


"sleeper networks"


That's the first thing that popped into my head with that threat.
33 posted on 03/31/2025 9:56:36 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: 4Runner
Now we are bombing the Houthis in Yemen.

This won't take long, did it.

34 posted on 03/31/2025 10:19:35 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: marcusmaximus

Seems fair by me.

Which is why I don’t want us to attack them.


35 posted on 03/31/2025 10:22:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: JoSixChip

War is up to Iran. They don’t want one however.


36 posted on 03/31/2025 11:59:17 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: 4Runner

Yes Israel controls America, and Replacem3nt Theology seems to control you.


37 posted on 03/31/2025 12:04:58 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: 9YearLurker

Replacment 5he9logy is from the pit of hell.


38 posted on 03/31/2025 12:06:12 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: marcusmaximus

Iran handed a warning on Monday

We had 4 years to get our people and equipment in place feel lucky.


39 posted on 03/31/2025 12:32:15 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: marcusmaximus; All
I like Trump’s methodology in his first administration.

“Behave… we know where you live.” Then follow up with a Hellfire.

“Who’s next? I got the kids flying’ the drones on speed dial.”

40 posted on 03/31/2025 1:56:25 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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