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Posted on 07/29/2026 11:21:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Airstrikes in Jordan show Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is willing to risk Trump’s retaliation
Iran’s surprise missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan shows Tehran’s military leaders would rather risk ramping up the war than play defense or accept a peace deal that would expose them to greater domestic political pressures.
Iran fired ballistic missiles on U.S. troops early Wednesday local time, demonstrating a willingness by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which exerts more power than ever in Tehran, to escalate during a relative lull in the conflict and attempt to seize the initiative after weeks in which Iran has mostly reacted to U.S. and Israeli attacks.
President Trump was cited by Fox News as saying the U.S. would hit Iran hard in response to the attack. “They’re going to get a beating,” chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst early Wednesday quoted Trump as telling him. The White House didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
A senior Jordanian government official said five missiles were intercepted in Jordan’s eastern desert and caused no injuries or material damage. The official declined to comment on the specific targets of the missiles. U.S. troops are posted to a Jordanian base near the Syrian border and at a separate air base in the desert where an Iranian missile strike killed two American servicemembers earlier this month. The Jordanian official said the Iranian attack showed the region was undergoing dramatic change.
The attack illustrates a fundamental shift in which the IRGC has grown more assertive and more comfortable with a state of war that could continue for months, rather than enter into a peace in which it would have to face public dissatisfaction with Iran’s struggling economy and its lethal clampdown on protesters earlier this year, analysts say.
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Was only a Sgt in this man’s army...and only as a Tank Commander
fake news. Trump has already said many times that we’ve destroyed Iran’s military.
This is fake news.
The mullahs will never agree or make a good faith peace agreement.
They may sign something, but it is only to delay and deceive.
They will never give up. They will never stop. They may even get warm and cozy.
They will just entice any American administration to kick the can down the road until their nuclear arsenal is a fait accompli.
They hard-wired that way.
Are people who aren’t “Stupid Boomers” (in your words) people who don’t remember things like 1983 Beirut attack which killed 241 Americans, 1984 Kuwait Airways Flight 221, 1985 TWA Flight 847 in which US Navy Diver Robert Stethem was shot in the head and dumped on the tarmac, 1985 kidnapping of William Buckley in Beirut, 1988 Kidnapping and Murder of USMC Col. Higgins, 1995 Kfar Darom Attack that murdered an American, 1995 Ramat Eshkol attack that murdered three Americans, 1996 Dizengoff shopping center attack that wounded two Americans, the 1996 Khobar Towers attack killing 19 Americans...actually, I could go on and on...but the question remains-are those the people other than “Stupid Boomers” who can’t remember those things and view them as ancient history?
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Why weren’t these actions dealt with in a relevant time frame?
Now that Trump’s reckless actions on behalf of Israel aren’t working as planned, the pro war crowd is now picking up history books and making a very weak case for the current mess.
Trump initiated this gamble at behest of Israel, with zero input from our representative government or the American people.
The latter two groups are now going to have a say in this matter November.
Sedition bump
Sedition bump
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First things first, you’re a clown when it comes to any disagreement within the conservatives on FR. Your venom and vitriolic rhetoric are off the charts and have very few peers.
Also, there is nothing seditious about my post.
I’ve said that from the beginning.
Headline is more dramatic than what actually happened. And I can see by the names of the authors, it is written and spun into a dramatic tale. Then posted by one of FR’s users to validate their viewpoint on the war. This site is a shadow of its former self.
Democrats should be running away with this Election, but they are not. The Marxism issue is working. If only President Trump we’re a nasty bastard , and not such a nice guy.
The 2026 version of this dude should have listened to the 2019 version of himself.
BTW, do you guys ever sleep? Posting around the clock like it’s an obsession.
Bill O’Reilly just said tonight that nothing is working with this bomb, stop, bomb, talk, bomb, etc. Said that Iran were loons. He said that he would drop leaflets on Tehran tonight telling everyone that they had like 48 hours to get out of town because in 48 hours the USA will bomb everything in Tehran that matters. Bridges, power plants, gov bldgs, command centers, storage facilities, all that was left behind when Tromp stopped the initial bombing. Sounds good to me.
Trump didn’t learn the l son of previous Wars. FIGHT, AND DON’T STOP. Wars must be fought totally l, when fought. The same way against the left is vermin HERE also.
i think there's a lot of people underestimating the American people's opposition to Iran.
That's exactly what people said when they stormed our embassy and took hostages in 1979.
“Trump already referenced how long the Vietnam War lasted and he is gearing up the military draft”
A bipartisan provision signed into law sets up automatic draft registration through the Selective Service System for eligible young men starting in December 2026, though officials noted this administrative change is separate from active conflict rumors.
President Trump’s stance on Iran differs from his view on the “forever wars” because he views the Iran issue as a global nuclear proliferation threat rather than an endless nation-building occupation.
His approach to Iran differs from what he criticizes about the “forever wars” (such as the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq). There is a definitive goal vs. open-ended commitments. The Iran policy centers on a single, clear-cut restriction: preventing the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
No nation-building: Trump has repeatedly criticized the “forever wars” for spending trillions of dollars attempting to rebuild foreign societies and police regions indefinitely. His approach relies heavily on “maximum pressure” economic sanctions and targeted military strikes rather than deploying large-scale ground troops to occupy territory.
The primary objective with Tehran is to force them into a stronger diplomatic deal through isolation, not to overthrow the government.
The goal of preventing a nuclear Iran directly connects to the Strait of Hormuz because the U.S. views the strait as Iran’s primary economic and military chokepoint for strategic leverage.
Sure it is.
Wow That really hurt.
Yeah. Well, I give Trump credit for changing his mind as conditions change. The mark of a real lack of character is the stubborn adherence to a stance when conditions demand a change.
Some things are worth changing the mind for and sacrificing for. And denying insane Islamists access to nuclear weapons is one of them.
Trump had the courage and the gumption to do it.
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