Iran’s Ring of Fire Now Ashes - Iran is rapidly being consumed in the flames it lit.

American Thinker ^ | 6 Sep, 2026 | Clarice Feldman

[MtnClimber]

The mullahcracy had the swell idea of avoiding accountability for attacks on Israel. They would surround Israel with well-armed proxies to do their dirty work. Hezb’allah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Houthis in the Red Sea, militias in Iraq and Syria, and allied forces in the West Bank. They would assert hegemony over the Middle East and choke off petro products to the world by blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

As it stands today, military action by the U.S. and Israel and economic warfare by the Treasury have nearly extinguished these fires. Iran is broke; they alone are being blockaded in the Strait with no means to earn oil revenue. Inflation is so great the rial is valueless (now over two million to the U.S. dollar). Most of its leadership is dead. Its navy has been sunk. Its radar and missile capacities are virtually nonexistent. It’s a defenseless sitting duck. Except for torturing and murdering its own citizens, it poses no real threat to anyone. It lacks allies it once assumed and is disintegrating rapidly. It is being consumed in the flames it lit.

Hezb’allah

A key component of the ring plan was Hezb’allah in Lebanon. This week, at Ali-Al-Taher, it fell to Israeli forces. Iran had called the security of this base a red line, which Israel crossed at its peril. There was no offensive move by Iran after the base fell.

A 20-year IRGC military project has fallen to Israel, exposing just how badly the Islamic Republic’s regional deterrence has eroded.

Ali al-Taher was not simply another Hezbollah position. It was a deeply buried Iranian-backed military complex, reportedly cut 30–50 meters into rock, with command rooms, weapons stores, generators, living quarters, kitchens and clinics. It served as a headquarters for Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, responsible for the sector north

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; iran

[MtnClimber]

As long as the mullahs don’t get replaced with new mullahs.

[srmanuel]

What’s the old saying, nothing is more dangerous than a wounded animal.

Iran is wounded badly, it may be in its final days, whatever they have left will be used before the Mullahs leave the scene, if they do leave, they won’t go quietly.

We have the anniversary of 9/11 coming up, we have midterm elections in a few weeks, what better way to go out than hit America in the homeland right before one of these events.

You have to believe with the border being wide open during the Biden Administration, Iranian operatives came across that border and are waiting to carry out some type of terrorist attack.

I would not be surprised to see something happen before the end of the year.

[ClearCase_guy]

Trump is re-making the Middle East. This will be seen as a great historic event. The opposite of the Suez Crisis of 1956 which basically got the Middle East problem going in the first place. Part of Trump’s great legacy.

[reasonisfaith]

The Mullahs are only a problem when they’re enabled, financially and otherwise, by the anti-American elites in the City of London.

After those strings are cut, the mullahs will be reduced to the point where they pose a threat only to the local farm animals. Goats, camels, you get the picture.

[Vermont Lt]

Dig the cancer out of the rock. Sounds like a good plan.

[Alas Babylon!]

This piece is compelling because it lines up with what the United States and Israel have actually been trying to accomplish for decades.

Iran has been a nearly fifty‑year problem, and nobody expects a single action or a single moment to represent some final victory. Nothing in the Middle East is absolute, and nothing stays static. But the strategic goals have always been clear: weaken Iran’s proxy network, disrupt its ability to project power, and erode the arms pipeline that supports its regional influence — especially the nuclear program.

It reflects the direction both countries have been pushing: forcing Iran inward, draining its resources, degrading its militias, and making its nuclear ambitions harder to protect.

It doesn’t mean Iran is finished, and it doesn’t mean the future is predictable. It simply means the long‑term pressure campaign may finally be producing visible cracks in the structure Iran has relied on for decades.

[Vermont Lt]

I would imagine it will happen after the mid terms. An attack right now would garner support for Trump—at least it would drive his base to the polls.

Iran would like to be seen as the victim to the idiots on the left. Until they are not.