Posted on 07/16/2026 7:20:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Iran warned Thursday that it would “crush” key targets in the Middle East if U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to target the country’s infrastructure in the coming days are carried out.
Trump said in a Tuesday evening interview with Fox News that U.S. forces would target key Iranian infrastructure next week if a diplomatic breakthrough is not achieved.
“Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants,” he said. “Next week comes the bridges. We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
In a statement published on Telegram on Thursday morning, a spokesperson for Iran’s top military command said that if Trump’s threats were implemented “everything that is still intact … that is, all the infrastructure in the region – will be crushed under the steel blows of the powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran; so that no trace of them remains and it is as if they never existed in the first place.”
They added that “under no circumstances and in no way will we allow America, as a foreign and extra-regional country, to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz.”
“This is Iran’s invincible red line,” the spokesperson said.
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Threats?......last I heard it was in action.
I see Terhan Terry is back at the podium.
It’s a religious duty for them to die. We’re just helping them fulfill it.............
We’ve already used a lot of antimissile ordinance. .
Was that from the supreme Cardboard Leader?
It seems to me that the Trump administration went into this knowing the Iranians were lunatic liars. I’m guessing the admin hoped the people would rise up and finish the job in Iran. But, after watching the government murder 30,000+ of it’s own citizens, a revolution is a lot to ask.
The mullahs saber rattle and couldn’t care less about their own people. Sadly, the mullahs must be bombed to oblivion.
And the irgc assclowns as well. This could have been put to bed 47 years ago.
Why wouldn’t they just do it now ? They are already being bombed
The word has been that the Trump Admin asked ordinary Iranian citizens to stand down and stay safe.
And further, when the Kurds showed interest in putting their boots on the ground in Iran, we asked them to stand down and stay safe.
And we know that we aren’t putting boots on the ground.
So we are lobbing stuff at them from a distance. And negotiating with liars. I don’t see either of those tactics really working.
He had no clue - so everyone tells us. He made gazillions in the really safe easy to make a killing NY real estate development business because of his easy easy-going go along to get along attitude. He just plunked a bunch of daddy's money down on the first shark to come along and got lucky. Then he got lucky again. Then he got lucky again. Now imagine what a genius like AOC could have done with Trump's money.
“This is a ‘Line Of Death’, you cross it, you die!”
“Ok, you cross *this* line, you die!”
“Ok, you cross *this* line, you die!”
“Ok, you cross *this* line, you die!”
“Ok, that’s it, you come knocking on my door, I’m not coming out....Nyaaah!”
It’s not the mullahs, it’s the IRGC. They are independent of the Mullahs. and have all the guns. The IRGC is not bound by any agreements the mullahs make with the Great Satan US.
The members if the IRGC are more religiously fanatic than the mullahs are. They are specifically recruited, chosen and trained for that purpose. They are essentially the government of Iran, not the mullahs...............
Probably from the IRGC central command...........
Is this like Quadafy’s line of death?? He just did not know whom the line was for.
because they can’t!!!
knock out a power plant or two
W need to relentlessly continue to remove their ability to crush anything bigger than a pop can.
IRGC can not stay in operation when there is no power and there are no bridges, and there is no military stuff left.
These are words of a desperate IRGC who has no power left to harm non-believers.
This.
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