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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Does this guy know how hard a place gets softened up and pounded before any land invasion? That would be if we were stupid enough to launch the land invasion he wants.
Like we did on Iwo Jima. Piece of cake.
“Yeah they are very eager for the USA to invade.”
A smart invasion would look nothing like what they have planned for over the last 40 years. It would not look like Iraq.
It would be closer to Afghanistan.
Come on people. Can the bad guys be identified on the street or in their groups? They all have homes to go to at the end of the day. If the locals are really serious they’d go after them like the mafia would. Nuts are easy to identify because they’re too stupid to lie about what they think and do.
“Defeating Afghanistan was a piece of cake, and Iran is only 2.5 times the size of Afghanistan with 330,000 square miles of mountain fortress. “
In fact it WAS a piece of cake. 71 days duration.
But some dumbass decided to stay and build a Jeffersonian democracy.
The same could be said of Iraq, except it took only 21 days.
Ate the civilians going with invasion? No. Catch up.
“The US no longer has land forces capable of conquest and occupation of Iran, and everybody knows it.”
That everybody must be pretty stupid.
The US Army could depose the Iranian regime in 30 days or less.
Occupy? We learned that lesson...3 times. Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Once you kill the bad guys in change and burn all their sh!t, it’s time to go home.
“””The US no longer has land forces capable of conquest and occupation of Iran, and everybody knows it.”””””
Don’t need it. Wars are fought from computer screens now.
I studied the air war over Germany during WW2 ... if the Allies would have just gone after the infrastructure of Germany instead of bombing the beejesus of their cities, the war would have ended a lot sooner ... just MHO .....
We’re not in the conquest and occupation business.
Ate the civilians going with invasion? No. Catch up.
So wiping out the infrastructure won't wipe out the civilian supply chain for little things like electricity and food and fuel and water?
You need to catch up.
“I studied the air war over Germany during WW2 ... if the Allies would have just gone after the infrastructure of Germany instead of bombing the beejesus of their cities, the war would have ended a lot sooner ...”
We went after their infrastructure. We just were very accurate.
military moron,
proud too ?
You’re calling me a military moron?
You’re stupidity knows no bounds.
If you didn't recognize it as sarcasm, YOU'RE the total idiot.
You probably need a laugh track to know when to laugh at a movie.
“Iran is stronger militarily than all of its Sunni Arab neighbors to the west”.
Not so sure that’s true anymore. We’ve significantly degraded their military capabilities.
CC
"Just before dawn, the bridges began to fall.. ..The bombings leave Bandar Abbas, a city of 500,000 people where roughly half the country's trade comes ashore, almost completely isolated."How about regime collapse preceding regime change instead?
Iran’s leadership lives in a Ilamic dream world. It is a Culture of Death—their own death and the 72 Virgins myth.
America knows the exit points of these underground military facilities. Things will go in, but cannot come out without a bomb attack.
They want a land invasion, I want nukes. Like enough of this nonsense - turn Iran into glass.
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