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Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 19, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/18/2025 4:20:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.

The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.

The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’

Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.

America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.

Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thoughtthat America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.

It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.

In 1983, Iranian backed terrorists set off truck bombs in Beirut that killed 220 US Marines and 21 other servicemembers. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s IRGC terror force, boasted that, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”

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1 posted on 06/18/2025 4:20:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

North Korea too right?
So I guess we should go to war with North Korea too.

What if they load a suitcase nuke into the USA?


2 posted on 06/18/2025 4:23:14 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Greenfield gets this right. As does President Tump. Consistently. He has never changed his tune on this.

The only time we hear jackasses like Rand Paul shoot their mouths off on this is when they think they need to demonstrate how “different” they are from Trump.


3 posted on 06/18/2025 4:23:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: Bayard

We have a cease fire agreement with NK.


4 posted on 06/18/2025 4:24:57 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; rlmorel
Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years

Uh -- no.

Mohammad Mosaddegh and the 1953 Coup in Iran

5 posted on 06/18/2025 4:25:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I seem to remember Iran being kind of a democratic republic with an elected government and women going to university ?

then something happened, I dont remember but I think it had 3 letters.

Pretty sure Iran was on a great path before a multinational company paid off the US Govt to get involved.


6 posted on 06/18/2025 4:26:10 PM PDT by algore
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To: Bayard

Go away


7 posted on 06/18/2025 4:26:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: kaktuskid

No peace agreement, just a ceasefire.


8 posted on 06/18/2025 4:27:01 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

True.

It would have been totally justified for US to have gone in and ended this regime in 1979/80.

It was not worth it in terms of cost benefit though.

Reagan began rebuilding the military.

45 years on the difference is vast.

Unconditional surrender is their best course.


9 posted on 06/18/2025 4:27:29 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Fledermaus

How about all this war talk go away?


10 posted on 06/18/2025 4:27:44 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

Boo Hoo little man.


11 posted on 06/18/2025 4:28:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dig Carter up and make sure the SOB is dead.


12 posted on 06/18/2025 4:28:14 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bayard
So I guess we should go to war with North Korea too. What if they load a suitcase nuke into the USA?

If they do, we'll figure out where it came from and drop a bunch of nukes on them. Unlike Iran's leaders, they are not part of a death cult and prefer not to be martyrs.

13 posted on 06/18/2025 4:29:16 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Fledermaus

How much are you being paid by Israel to insult people on the internet?


14 posted on 06/18/2025 4:29:35 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: norcal joe

I find it hard to fathom there is no person in NK who isn’t crazy enough to be a suicide bomber.


15 posted on 06/18/2025 4:30:29 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

$1 million a year. Easy gig. So many targets.


16 posted on 06/18/2025 4:30:41 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Fledermaus

Ok, so then you don’t have American interests in mind.

I’m not sold on war with Iran, we did the Mideast adventure story already, it was a terrible mistake.


17 posted on 06/18/2025 4:33:13 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I want this odious regime of psychopaths completely and utterly destroyed and I don’t care if we have to do it ourselves.

Kill them all. Then kill their families.

Every last one of them.

L


18 posted on 06/18/2025 4:33:54 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”


19 posted on 06/18/2025 4:34:06 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Lurker

How is that helping the USA taxpayer? Iraq was a Quagmire, Afghanistan was a blood siphon.

Neocons are despicable people.


20 posted on 06/18/2025 4:35:01 PM PDT by Bayard
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