Posted on 06/23/2025 10:23:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
Iran has issued threats to retaliate against the United States after U.S. bombers dropped 30,000-pound bunker-busters on the country's underground nuclear installations over the weekend, while President Donald Trump openly raised the possibility of the Iranian government being toppled.
Earlier on Monday, Israel struck a jail for political prisoners in Tehran in a potent demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim squarely at the pillars of Iran's ruling system.
Two U.S. officials said Washington assessed that Iran could carry out attacks targeting American forces in the Middle East soon, although the U.S. is still seeking a diplomatic resolution that would see Tehran forgo any reprisal.
Despite Iran's threats to challenge oil shipments from the Gulf, oil prices largely held steady , suggesting traders doubted the Islamic Republic would follow through on any action that would disrupt global supplies.
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Iran attacking sites in other muslim countries is not going to sit well with the other islamic faction.
The sunnis and shi’ites hate each other as it is.
Thw Mouse that Roared?
NY Slimes reporting iran gave Qatar advanced notice about the attack and it was nothing more than symbolic....Qatar now claiming they intercepted iranian missiles...
iran claiming they fired an equal number of missiles at the US base in Qatar as we fired at their nuclear bases Saturday night...iran claiming they destroyed the US base in Qatar...
This is nothing more than save your face propaganda by iran...
Saw elsewhere that it’s not known if ordinance is actually hitting Doha or if successful defensive systems are being fired.
Prayers for our Troops and praying for all innocents in harms way. I hope this is nothing more than Iranian chest pounding trying to save face.
The Paper Tiger that Crumpled.
This was unbelievably stupid move by Iran.
Trump will obliterate them, as he said he would.
“The sunnis and shi’ites hate each other as it is.”
Which is exactly what sets Iran free to attack these other countries. They already hate Iran
Plenty of iranagain infrastructure to rubbelize. Power stations, all oil facilities, pipelines, bridges, ports -everything. 7th century.
Rubbelize it back to the 6th Century. It's the only way to be sure
Jordan was shooting their drones down. If they aren’t careful they are going to wind up the dog in the middle east manger.
From Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram account....
“Iranian sources to the New York Times: Tehran coordinated the attack with the US and Qatar to minimize the damage. Iran needs the ability to respond “symbolically” but allow the US to get out of it. The sources noted that this is a similar pattern of action to Iran’s revenge response for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 in launches against the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq.”
I can’t help but wonder if it really saved any face now that the whole world knows about it.
Shooting missiles under an AWACS detection envelope is pretty futile. Even cruise missiles.
You don’t save face by admitting you wanted to save face.
Hard to say the feelings in Iran since the internet and calls are jammed
I 100% support Trump’s attack on Iran, but if this is all Iran does in response, let’s take the opportunity to GTFO of there and move on.
If it looks like the drones are going to hit Jordanian territory, they’d be justified in taking them out, IMO.
“....but if this is all Iran does in response....”
it wasn’t and it won’t be.
The Times should start all their headlines,’Once Upon a Times’. Just saying
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