Posted on 07/19/2026 4:27:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Tehran has spent decades preparing for — and welcoming — a U.S. ground invasion, a senior Iranian official has claimed, as fresh explosions rocked the region on the eighth day of renewed U.S.-Iran strikes.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian American academic identified as a regime "Tehran had just launched a "new missile" while decentralizing and burying its arsenal deep underground to withstand sustained American air campaigns.
"The Americans are planning an invasion. I'm not saying it will necessarily happen. I'm not saying it will necessarily happen in the next few days. But they have plans for an invasion," Marandi, a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, said in an interview with political analyst Glenn Diesen.
"Whether they carry them out or not, we'll see. But the Iranians, as you pointed out, the focus of Iranian strikes is on Bahrain and Kuwait, and that's because that's where most American assets have been placed for a ground invasion," Diesen said.
Marandi’s comments came as the conflict expanded across western and southern Iran in the run-up to Saturday.
Jordanian officials confirmed they intercepted 10 missiles early Saturday, while authorities in Kuwait reported casualties and severe damage to a domestic power and desalination plant.
In response, U.S. airstrikes struck bridges, a key road tunnel, surveillance outposts and reinforced underground weapons storage facilities.
Multiple explosions also rocked the city of Khorramabad in Iran's Lorestan province. Iranian state media claimed the blasts were caused by U.S. missiles launched from regional bases in Kuwait, according to reports.
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Dude there is a huge difference between rice paddies and thick vegetation of Vietnam and mostly desert like Iran.
Besides Vietnam war was fought with one hand tied behind the back. Trump & Hegseth don’t think like LBJ & Mcnamara.
I am jubilant my kids and grandkids will not die from Iran’s nukes, thanks to PDJT.
I would think the numerous Middle Eastern nations, including Turkey, would be involved. Iran might end up being carved into pieces by the aforementioned.
US experts note that taking it is doable but holding it risks turning into a costly, open-ended commitment—potentially a “suicide mission” in terms of attrition if Iran prioritizes harassment over protecting its own infrastructure.
Time is on the side of the asymmetric guy in an asymmetric war. All they have to do is periodically launch a missile or a drone from one of their hundreds of wack-a-mole subterranean bases at a ship in the strait and 18% of the world economy is at a standstill.
Agreed. However, in this case, the penalty to each side is also asymmetrical. Shipping in the strait is inhibited, while oil exports for Iran would be pretty completely shut down. The tolerance to the pain is also asymmetrical as well, and here we lose.
Even more the US has a habit of electing a Democrat president who throws away all the gains which are actually made.
Last I heard, Iwo Jima wants to join the United Nations.
You can’t do linear extrapolation while analyzing complex situations. Believe it or not, Vietnam was 60 years ago. They were not going to build a nuclear weapon and promise to use it. Warfare is completely different nowadays.
Pitiful exhibition of linear reasoning....almost at a 5th grade level. Perfect for a modern Harvard grad.
A MOAB’s blast radius is about 3 miles. Kharg island is 8 sq miles in area. We don’t need to take and hold Kharg Island. Carpet bomb the facilities, 5-10 MOABS..let it fester. Starve the IRGC and the mullahs.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel
Says the guy seeking martyrdom
It would take millions of troops to invade Iran. I doubt very much that it would be a “secret.”
Containing them is a better plan. Cut them off and let the regime starve.
Seems to me Saddam Hussein had something similar to say. May they all suffer the same results.
Gee, this sounds familiar.
A bit of WWII history, on Operation Ketsu-Go...
https://irp.fas.org/eprint/arens/chap4.htm
We nuked Japan.
Twice.
Fortunately for freedom-loving Iranians, we don’t need to nuke these days.
We’ve got more options and more flexibility.
So that’s a hard no on the land invasion.
And a heck yeah on the alternatives.
It’s gonna suck to be what’s left of the regime and its allies.
Indeed.
They have had multiple opportunities to rise up.
They haven’t.
Too bad, so sad.
Talk to your grandparents about why they installed the mullahs.
Feel free to rise up any time.
You know where the IRGC live. Burn them out. Chase them down the street. Beat them to death. That’s your option.
OUR obligation is to keep Americans from being murdered in a nuclear inferno. Too bad so sad your country is the one that needs to be prohibited from doing so.
Get busy.
Not really, but when are these 70-88% going to be fighting back?
Time to do to Iran what we did to Japan and Germany............total destruction.
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