Posted on 07/23/2026 1:01:48 PM PDT by Merrick
YouTube video - no text for body of thread. Hopefully not an over exaggeration, but there definitely seems to be activity on the ground and Tousi *claims* Pahlavi is getting ready to call for an uprising.
Hopefully it's not just wishful.
Several generations within Iran know nothing else. Once 30 years piled up after the revolution, it’s over. There is no resistance.
I think that was a serious mistake by Trump. His speeches led people to believe we were imminent. That we would start taking action within a day or so. Not that it would be 2-3 weeks later.
Had he made that clear to Iranians, they wouldn't have poured into the streets to be shot down by the fanatics. We would have had 30,000 or more potential revolutionaries.
But Trump can't think of everything.
Britain has not officially joined the active war against Iran, but the UK is providing military bases to support United States operations.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s administration approved the use of British facilities—such as Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford—for US strikes described as “defensive” efforts to protect international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
While the British government maintains that it is not taking part in offensive combat, Iran’s foreign ministry has labeled the UK as an “accomplice” and stated that UK bases are “legitimate targets”.====BBC====
The new PM greenlighted the use of British bases in the region. Yeah - he’s not lifting a finger but he’s reversing Starmer’s policy that prevented us from using the bases. That’s what was reported.
He is very accurate and informative. He’s said many times that people should not rise up until called. They would be slaughtered.
No wants wants even Bush Lite, except perhaps for Neocons.
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The Trump admin censored Rasmussen’s head of polling- Mark Mitchell- after he personally briefed the President boncerning MAGA’s complete rejection of attempts to sell an Iran war, and Trump’s denial of the affordability crisis
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/2079680832990818749
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Trump’s Iran war polling is even worse now vs. March (Same CNN which showed higher MAGA support polling for Trump in March, 2026)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4388989/posts
That means boots-on-the-ground, but those boots will be filled with the feet of Iranians motivated by their own existence. I have little doubt that CIA and Mossad operators are already active in Iran facilitating such an outcome backed up by the most comprehensive intelligence gathering available; and if Congress should put an end to open warfare, the covert operations will continue unabated for as long as it takes to achieve that goal.
It seems to be approx. 6 months that we were told the US sent arms to the Kurds that they were supposed to deliver to the Irani citizens, but the Kurds kept them instead. Were they actually delivered to the Iranis, and training has taken place?
“Let’s face it, we don’t care about the people there.”
Well, the IRGC and mullahs don’t seem bothered by killing the citizenry. Estimates up to 40,000
Do you remember in January when the only people brave enough to take to the streets were machine gunned down?
I think that was a serious mistake by Trump. His speeches led people to believe we were imminent. That we would start taking action within a day or so. Not that it would be 2-3 weeks later.
Had he made that clear to Iranians, they wouldn’t have poured into the streets to be shot down by the fanatics. We would have had 30,000 or more potential revolutionaries.
But Trump can’t think of everything.
Weren’t the same Democrats complaining why we weren’t aiding the Iranians?
It was yesterday that CNN shows President Trump at 83% approval with his own party.
Has nothing to do with Rasmussen polling.
CNN’s polling is done by Verasight, Ipsos, and YouGov
I don't know. I don't listen to them.
He, Pahlavi has been pretty quiet lately or he’s just not being quoted by the media. Why has he not spoken up more? He was widely outspoken months ago...and yes, SPEAK UP and let the Iranians know he supports them and hopefully the US is prepared to help in any way possible...He COULD lead the Persian people....
Mullahs gotta go.
The sooner the better.
But it must come from within.
It should be much higher than 83%... should be 90-95% or more.
Secondly, other recent polls have shown his support among MAGA in the high 70’s.
Third, the CNN report which showed 100% MAGA support in March of 2026 has been fractured into three pieces, with CNN now reporting 37% unconditional support on the Iran War, 37% conditional, and 20% saying stop the War against Iran.
Lastly, there’s this below which still rings true, and along with Netanyahu’s unproven assertions on Iran being very close to a nuke mirrors his false, past claims of Iraq being very close to a nuke under Saddam:
“I can’t take the gaslighting, guys. I really can’t. Conservatives are now running around saying “Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years.” Okay then why didn’t any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn’t you make a case for Trump “ending the war, not starting it” until precisely the moment when Trump did it? You and I both know that you are latching onto a talking point you never used until 45 seconds ago. You and I both know that almost every conservative influencer in the business was opposed to war with Iran until just now. And now you’re trying to use justifications that stretch back decades. It doesn’t make any sense. If you changed your mind, fine. Say so. Explain why. You’re allowed to change your mind. I’ve changed my mind about things. But don’t try to rewrite history. Be honest about it. There’s too much at stake to play these games.”
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/2028593206070214910
Gods speed to this effort.
Caring is easy. The hard part is doing something — without US troops on the ground — that smashes the IRGC and ends the regime — and without a civil war or mass casualties and suffering by the Iranian people.
We have been strategically bombing the military of Iran.
I recommend we bomb the physical infrastructure of Iran that allows it to function as a society.
Bridges. Drop them all. Nothing moves. It’s a mountainous country.
Power plants, specifically the turbines, which are extremely hard to replace, and easily bombed again if replaced. No electricity. For the whole country. Not the mullahs, not the IRGC, not the rocket plants or centrifuges. No electrons, anywhere.
They earned it. Give them the Stone Age. Their fault. Not ours. No boots. Just subsistence agriculture.
>>”I think that was a serious mistake by Trump. His speeches led people to believe we were imminent. That we would start taking action within a day or so. Not that it would be 2-3 weeks later.”
That was pretty much my opinion, at the time, as well. Since then, looking back at the timeline and trying to piece together what happened, I’m not so sure that Trump’s comments played that large a role in the massacre. Mass protests had already begun at the time he made those comments, and had already been ongoing, for a number of days. Trump’s comments certainly didn’t help to dissipate the crowds, but I think it’s likely that a showdown between the protesters and the Basij was inevitable, regardless.
>>”Has Trump been strategically dropping weapons to the rebels? Maybe he has, and understandably it’s a secret.”
It’s been my contention all along, that an overlooked objective of the negotiations, ceasefire and MOU, was to buy us time to strengthen and organize resistance within Iran.
The ceasefire also served to give our economy a bit of a respite , and allow our military forces to regroup. By IMO, the most important reason for the ceasefire was to allow us to get a better handle on the internal political situation in Iran, find out who we can deal with and who we can’t, exploit internal fractures between the various Iranian factions, and arm opposition groups. Those things take time, which is what the negotiations gave us.
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