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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Yeah they are very eager for the USA to invade.
Uh huh.
“Bridges”
Drop them all.
Stone Age.
And Grace Mansion
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.
We hardly lost any American lives in Afghanistan.
It will be the same in Iran.
Between 70% and 88% of the Iranian population opposes the current regime and wishes to transition away from the Islamic Republic, and more than 30,000 of them were slaughtered for merely protesting against the regime. LINK
But let's kill 'em all.
And we’ve had eyes on them all the time. Wonder how many boots we have imbedded.
Trump will wipe out their infrastructure, nothing moves.
Shut up muzzie.
Little morons with little ****s but with delusional egos. These POS will be very, very, very sorry and very, very, very, very humiliated.
Between 70% and 88% of the Iranian population opposes the current regime and wishes to transition away from the Islamic Republic, and more than 30,000 of them were slaughtered for merely protesting against the regime. LINK
But you want to declare war on them.
Yes I’m quite sure that’s been their war objective all along.
The US no longer has land forces capable of conquest and occupation of Iran, and everybody knows it.
There's a good man behind every weapon we have.
Iran doesn’t seem like a good neighbor.
Perhaps the Sunni neighbors will snuff out Shia Islam for the near future?
I recall Iraq had the same bravado.
Pronto.
And deservedly so.
The sooner the better.
Absolutely. These are the little pu***s who force women to hide themselves from other men - because they're not men themselves.
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