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1 posted on 03/23/2026 7:15:34 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

Hm.


2 posted on 03/23/2026 7:17:28 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Miami Rebel

It’s only production talk if coordinates were obtained.


3 posted on 03/23/2026 7:20:44 AM PDT by larrytown (I will not be rage-baited.)
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To: Miami Rebel

More lies, I think.


7 posted on 03/23/2026 7:24:37 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Miami Rebel

Regime Change without boots on the ground would be salutary, but is not currently a Strategic Objective.


9 posted on 03/23/2026 7:27:56 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me. But 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: Miami Rebel

I imagine this operation was launched with “regime change” as an optimal result, but was never counted-upon

Trump has what he wants for now - the start of a plan for US control / management of oil through Hormuz, and Iran greatly weakened, in chaos, and in a box.

Nothing is over yet.


11 posted on 03/23/2026 7:30:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Miami Rebel

Just don’t listen to that warmonger fag Lindsey Graham.

Thank God it seems like DJT is looking for an off-ramp.

Hopefully enough time to recover for the mid-terms.

I don’t care what Harry Enten and his stupid “100% MAGA” poll says. The coalition that elected DJT and a Republican Congress in 2024 is split on Iran, and we need all hands on deck for November to avoid the Communists taking control of the legislative branch, or at least mitigate the damage.


12 posted on 03/23/2026 7:31:10 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Miami Rebel

Unless there truly is a regime change and the enriched uranium secured then all this was for naught. Apparently Trump now realizes that uprooting the thousands of desperate regime insiders and their goons cannot be done with air strikes and decapitation. It would require American boots on the ground ,heavy fighting and casualties. also the measures necessary to secure the Stait of Hormuz and guarentee free passage of shipping will require regime change. Trump quickly started this war after making promises that “help was on the way” to the protesters who were murdered and for some strategic purposes. He did not realize how desperate the regime insiders would be to stay in power. For them if they are deposed, they will die. The goons know this too. Sadly doubt there will be a regime change and fear the lunatic, demonic Democrats will ride the backlash to power in 2026 and 2028. It is America and the American people who will end up suffering terribly.


17 posted on 03/23/2026 7:51:46 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Miami Rebel

In Trump’s Truth Social post he says he will NOT strike energy or power plant strikes. He DIDN’T say ALL strikes were stopped, so why does THIS article state in the second paragraph that ALL military strikes have been stopped?


25 posted on 03/23/2026 8:05:28 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Miami Rebel

Consider the source...


30 posted on 03/23/2026 8:14:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ)
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To: Miami Rebel

I wonder why I am thinking that the announcement about bombing power plants made on Friday afternoon wans’t just a ploy to bounce the stock market so someones could play the futures when they opened for trade Sunday evening?

I expect the Iranians to lie but why would they lie about NOT having talks with Trump?

I see that this morning they also have added new threats from Iran.


31 posted on 03/23/2026 8:16:14 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Opinions and belly buttons, everybody has one and they get to show them if they want to.)
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But it’s only stopping the targeting of energy I’m assuming otherwise if the regime stays in tact this was for nothing


32 posted on 03/23/2026 8:16:41 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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I’m not going to bend over backward to act like he has some genius communication strategy. He doesn’t. He’s all over the map. He says regime change one day and then says he is close to a deal with the IRGC-backed government and is going to start ramping down the war the next. He may commit troops; he may not. Some of this is keeping his options open and keeping Iran guessing but some of it is a lack of message discipline. Its going to hurt him in the end unless, by some miracle, the regime collapses and a Western-friendly regime takes over and shuts down the nuclear program, missile production and terror campaign.


34 posted on 03/23/2026 8:17:59 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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The shah is Trump’s Iranian ā€œMarĆ­a Corina Machadoā€. He’ been looking for his Iranian ā€œDelcy Rodriguezā€. He thinks he may have found him.


43 posted on 03/23/2026 8:51:47 AM PDT by marron
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As a result of those conversations, the president said, there would be a temporary halt to military strikes on Iranian targets.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Do NOT surrender, Mr. President, when you've got them by the short hairs! STOP! This is like ordering Patton to stop when he's already at the Rhine. Resume bombing IMMEDIATELY, Mr. President!!! If Iran wants to discuss their terms of surrender that's fine, but DO NOT STOP THE BOMBING UNTIL THE AYATOLLAHS AGREE TO GIVE UP POWER!!!

60 posted on 03/23/2026 9:47:42 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Trump’s challenge now is to somehow avoid accidentally killing whoever it is he’s negotiating with now.


64 posted on 03/23/2026 9:56:01 AM PDT by marron
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To: Miami Rebel

BS


65 posted on 03/23/2026 10:02:57 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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OOOOOHHHHH... ‘REGIME CHANGE’
BOOGA-BOOGA!

***** NEWSFLASH *****
IT’S ALWAYS ‘REGIME CHANGE’
IT’S NEVER NOT GOING TO BE ‘REGIME CHANGE’

What’s DIFFERENT is *WHO* is going to end up doing the groundwork to finalize this change.

HINT FOR THE MORONS IN BACK:
IN IRAN, THAT AIN’T US.

The script on the ground has flipped, with IRGC elements embattled and outnumbered by man-on-the-street Persians who know their names and faces and have it in for them. Individuals are peeling away in justifiable fear for their lives and their families even as a condensing core of hard-liners try to sustain the Ayatollah’s fading ethos. That’s a fool’s errand, at this point; it’s no longer “if” but “when” the last monkey falls.

With the current leadership in no position to dictate terms, the endgame — unless they really all want to get smoked — will be a full transfer of power to supporters of the Shah followed by whatever those elements choose for the remnants of the Islamist hardline. Their only hope is to possibly escape execution by taking an extremely reasonable posture. They can never escape the stigma of having supported the Islamist oppression, but they might be permitted to keep breathing, if only within the confines of a prison.


68 posted on 03/23/2026 10:14:41 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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Promethean Action on Rumble

PANIC: Iran Folds as Trump Cuts London’s Hidden Hand Over Global Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snFTKprCKGg

https://www.youtube.com/@PrometheanAction

Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — Barbara Boyd argues that most commentary on the Middle East misses the economic dimension: after U.S. energy independence, Trump is targeting the City of London’s long-standing influence over global energy pricing. She cites Trump’s Truth Social warning to Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, subsequent negotiations, and a five-day extension, contrasting media reactions with what she calls London and Wall Street interests. Boyd says Britain is facing an economic emergency as energy and borrowing costs surge, while Gulf states shift trillions in investment toward the U.S. and a ā€œBoard of Peaceā€ focused on development and modern energy. She claims the true Hormuz choke point is London’s marine war-risk insurance, noting Lloyd’s cancellation led to an 81% traffic collapse, and frames current events as a struggle between empire and sovereign nations.


73 posted on 03/23/2026 12:50:20 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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