Posted on 08/24/2025 2:32:09 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to X on Sunday to accuse United States President Donald Trump, whom he described as "the man who is now in office" in Washington, of wanting to have Tehran obedient to the North American country.
"The Iranian nation feels deeply offended by such a grave insult, and they will stand with all their might against anyone who has such an illegitimate expectation," Khamenei wrote. He praised his nation for its response to Israel and the United States' recent strikes on Iran. Furthermore, Khamenei accused the US of interfering in Iran's internal affairs in an effort to create a divide and of trying to restore the monarchy, overturned during the revolution in 1979.
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Who?
Aw, we've got a lot of sympathy for you guys. /s
<< The Iranian nation feels deeply offended by such a grave insult, >>
Triggering mullah types isn’t difficult.
It might be better than the alternative, Bungholah.
Was that the dry popcorn fart sound everyone heard coming out of Iran?
“Triggering mullah types isn’t difficult.”
I guess they’ll start chanting: “Even more death to America than before!”
I guess yes we want to control crazies that want to kill us. If they minded their own business we would not care much about them.
I hope that the Bomb we dropped said: US Embassy, 1979.
Trump should send him a message “I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!”
Yes, they should, actually. They’ll be happier.
Trump—now with less beheadings and stonings!
Works for me.
Quoting Goldfinger:
No! Mr. Bond, I want you to die!!!
Ali never returned Hussein’s $400 million gift - did he?
Odds pretty high he is right.
Most of this is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia influence on the US during the 1970s. Their oil had asserted their power, and the primary focus of their power was (and is) to hate Shiites. Iran is the central locale of the Shiite faction, with KSA being Sunni central.
So the Shah was intended to crush that religious faction, and that religious faction objected to all efforts at crushing it, be they foreign or domestic.
The Shah was tossed by the Shiites and his puppeteer (the US, and KSA) was blamed every bit as much as he was.
So that began the whole affair, Saudi influence on the US to have the Shiite religion eradicated. America believes in freedom of religion and should never have gone along with this.
Well, now it has evolved, much to KSA’s delight. American no longer needs its strings pulled to hate Iran. As for this Khamainei guy saying that the US wishes to dictate Iran’s behavior, how could anyone argue with that.
It is indeed what is desired. There is a hugely powerful lesson in this. The failure of sanctions on Iran. Sanctions, particularly on oil, have a century of failure history, going back to Japan and FDR cutting them off from oil.
Did that compel the behavior FDR wanted? No. That started a war, beginning with Pearl Harbor, intended to disable the US Navy and how it would interdict oil tankers from Indonesia north to Japan.
Then we have the oil embargo of the US by Arabs, intended to halt US support for Israel. Hugely long lines at US gas stations as US oil production could not replace the Arab oil import. But did it compel the desired behavior change? It did not. The US continued to support Israel, until flow from Prudhoe Bay arrived and made it all pointless.
And so. Sanctions on oil fail. They generate the opposite behavior of what is desired.
I think we should arrange it so that he changes from being a “holy man” to being a “holey man”.
Obey, or else!
Take your pick.;-)
Give up islam and join the real world
Obey the US? Just our missles.
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