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Iran: Scalpel and Hammer
American Thinker ^ | 1 Mar, 2026 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 03/01/2026 4:35:29 AM PST by MtnClimber

With brilliant intelligence and close U.S. and Israeli cooperation and coordination, Operation Epic fury is systematically dismantling the terrorist regime of Iran’s ayatollahs. And as if in a game of chess, the war has reshaped the Middle East, (a consistent source of hostilities), into a more peaceful and orderly part of the world. It has also demolished fears of Russian and Chinese intervention on behalf of the regime. (Russia’s too broke and China’s grasp is less than its reach.) Indeed China, which depended on Iran and Venezuelan oil, is unlikely to make good for a while if ever on its threats to occupy Taiwan.

A quick reminder of Iran’s anti-U.S. aggression in recent decades: It took over our embassy and held 52 Americans there hostage for over a year; it bombed the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American troops, its IEDs killed 603 and maimed hundreds more American service members in Iraq, it supplied its terrorist proxies who attack U.S. forces and shipping, it brutally tortured CIA’s Bill Buckley for 15 months, filming his agonies and sending the film to us.

Saggezza Eterna accurately describes our weak responses to these aggressions:

For years, the Democratic establishment operated on a delusional premise that a rogue regime could be bribed into morality. They sent pallets of cash to a state that burns the American flag, yet they express feigned shock when that same regime funds the slaughter of innocents across the globe. Under President Trump, that charade is finished. This joint operation with Israel is the definitive restoration of American deterrence. It is a calculated, surgical decapitation of a nuclear threat that the Left was content to manage with useless sunset clauses. The left-wing intelligentsia, those academic idealists with no skin in the game, spent a decade arguing for "strategic

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1 posted on 03/01/2026 4:35:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
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I was hoping the Iranian people would throw out the mullahs. Now that we are in I sure hope we can help the peaceful Iranians find peace. I worry that they are outnumbered by islamists. I don’t think they can have a successful democracy because the islamists would just vote the mullahs back into power.


2 posted on 03/01/2026 4:35:52 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Clarice is my first read on Sunday mornings.


3 posted on 03/01/2026 4:40:43 AM PST by turfmann
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To: MtnClimber

Venezuela swapped out the top leader with folks working under a “do this or else” mandate

Mebe Iran got their version of that deal


4 posted on 03/01/2026 4:44:51 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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Iran gets attacked by Israel and the United States. It's response? Attacks on 6 different Islamic nations. Why? My theory: With its own people in revolt and the United States determined to cut off its head it knows its regime can't survive.

The desire to infect the World with their wicked religion remains in full force. By attacking other Islamic nations they set up the scenario where Islamic occupying forces become the peacekeeping force after they lose the war. Those forces also want Islam to dominate so they prevent the people from erasing Islam from their lives. Islam wins again!

5 posted on 03/01/2026 5:01:29 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: MtnClimber
Iran gets attacked by Israel and the United States. It's response? Attacks on 6 different Islamic nations. Why? My theory: With its own people in revolt and the United States determined to cut off its head it knows its regime can't survive.

The desire to infect the World with their wicked religion remains in full force. By attacking other Islamic nations they set up the scenario where Islamic occupying forces become the peacekeeping force after they lose the war. Those forces also want Islam to dominate so they prevent the people from erasing Islam from their lives. Islam wins again!

6 posted on 03/01/2026 5:01:31 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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Interesting theory. Good job, thanks for making me think.


7 posted on 03/01/2026 5:04:59 AM PST by Kudsman (Don't worry, be happy. )
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


8 posted on 03/01/2026 5:11:29 AM PST by sauropod
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Yes that was the hope in Afghanistan and Iraq too but it turns out they love their religion more than western style democracy. There’s a massive pro regime protests against MAGA/MIGA today in Iran so looks like the same scenario. Would have been nice to have learned our lessons from the first two expensive wars. Maybe third time is the charm.


9 posted on 03/01/2026 5:11:54 AM PST by Antioch (A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished -Friedrich Schi)
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Hey , Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib,Barrack Obama, Valerie Jarrett,Hakeem Jeffries, Zohran Mandami ! ........



10 posted on 03/01/2026 5:12:44 AM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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If he pulls it off, and ends the Middle East forever war, it could produce an era of global peace and stability not seen since before World War I.

WWI really messed up everything. Gave us the Bolshevik Revolution, pressure on the Ottomans at Gallipoli got them to start the Armenian genocide, the fall of the Ottomans led to carving up the Middle East in foolish ways, the Treaty of Versailles led to Hitler and WWII. The whole 20th century is basically fallout from WWI.

I'd love to go back to a global order more in line with the pre-WWI era.

11 posted on 03/01/2026 5:19:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Every Liberal and Leftist in the US is going to tell you that what Trump did was illegal. Please punch them in the face with this paragraph:

Obama bombed Libya for months without so much as a courtesy call to Congress, and nobody got impeached. Biden unilaterally struck Syria and Iraq. The War Powers Resolution gives the president 60 days before requiring congressional authorization, and 48 hours before notice to Congress. Even at that, every single president since its passage has treated it [i.e., the War Powers Resolution of 1973] more like a loose guideline than a legal requirement.

12 posted on 03/01/2026 7:04:51 AM PST by econjack
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