Posted on 12/30/2025 1:31:39 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian just made a stunning admission that reveals the Islamic Republic's desperate strategic position. In an interview posted to Supreme Leader Khamenei's official website, Pezeshkian declared Iran is in a "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe—a public acknowledgment of defeat that represents a geopolitical earthquake for the Middle East. This declaration comes six months after Operation Rising Lion, the devastating 12-day June 2025 conflict that killed 1,100 Iranians including Iran's entire military high command. Israeli F-35 stealth fighters and US B-2 bombers systematically destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz, eliminated IRGC Commander Hossein Salami, Armed Forces Chief Mohammad Bagheri, and ten leading nuclear scientists in precision strikes that exposed Iran's military vulnerability. This deep-dive intelligence analysis reconstructs the June conflict using declassified tactical details, satellite imagery assessments, and intercepted communications. We reveal how 200 Israeli fighter jets penetrated Iran's Russian S-300 air defense network, striking over 100 targets in a single night. We expose the internal power struggle between four Iranian factions—IRGC hardliners demanding continued defiance, moderate reformists seeking negotiation, economic pragmatists watching the rial collapse 30%, and religious clerics facing a legitimacy crisis. You'll discover why Pezeshkian's statement, comparing Iran's position to the catastrophic Iran-Iraq War that killed one million people, is actually an admission of strategic defeat rather than defiant rhetoric. We break down the Netanyahu-Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting happening tomorrow where Israeli demands for regime change will be discussed, analyze China's quiet distancing from a weakened Iranian ally, and map four distinct future scenarios ranging from negotiated surrender to internal collapse. We explore the historical and ideological context—how the June strikes shattered Iran's revolutionary mythology of divine protection, why the nuclear program's destruction represents more than military defeat, and how regime change specters of Saddam...haunt Iranian leadership calculations.
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But where is the real Rachel Maddow? In a padded room?
Iran has had 40 years to strategically placing agents all across the West. The only thing surprising is if they didn’t do this or in as many numbers as we should assume.
The regime’s enemies within are a far more pressing issue for them. They’re deflecting like crazy, in survival mode.
From your keyboard to God's ears.
This time, there is a real President in the Oval Office. While he will not put major troops into Iran, he will also not send PALLETS of cash to the Islamofascists.
AI-generated Rachel Maddow
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key to believability of the facts laid out. Worst of 2 worlds.
Too bad the Iranian people are onto the old “play up an external threat to rally the nation” ploy.
**Pezeshkian declared Iran is in a “full-scale war” with the United States, Israel, and Europe**
3 against one. Do the math. Whistling past the graveyard?
Great time to be alive wouldn’t you say?
One can hope that they have not lost the ability to think critically, and that they see through this ploy. Iraqi people initially welcomed the Americans in with cheers and flowers. Iranians can out critical-think Arabs, usually. So maybe they’ll see through the gas-lighting.
Just remember how Reagan sank their whole fleet. Learn from the past, Pez-exoskeleton.
He didn’t do it. Blew up an oil platform I do believe.
It’ll be hilarious when the people of Iran realize that it was not the United States that was the “Great Satan”, but it was the Ayatollah himself.
“A full scale war against the U.S.” I couldn’t stop laughing for about 10 minutes. Complete idiots didn’t know their nuke facilities were taken out until after our pilots left, and they think they can take us on? Ok, sure, bring it on you muzzie bastards.
Iran better solve its economic and water problems first before they are overthrown.
Damned hard to fight a war with no water, no fuel infrastructure other than the raw crude, and a worthless currency.
Key Military Actions & Operations:
Operation Nimble Archer (October 1987): A direct naval response to Iranian Silkworm missile attacks on U.S.-flagged tankers, involving strikes on Iranian oil platforms in the Gulf.
Operation Praying Mantis (April 1988): The largest naval engagement in the Persian Gulf since WWII, where the U.S. Navy destroyed half of Iran’s navy after an Iranian mine damaged the USS Samuel Roberts, as reported by PolitiFact.
-From AI Overview.
Didn’t know about mantis. He shoda taken out all of it.
The smart ones headed into port mos koshi.
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