Posted on 06/26/2025 5:03:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump and Israel dismantled Iran’s terror mystique in days—no nukes, no saviors, just a regime stewing in its own impotence as the world quietly moved on.
It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East.
Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire.
Iran would have been better off not launching such a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of impotence.
Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated Donald Trump.
So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable terror state of Iran, the bane of the last seven American presidents over half a century.
For Supreme Leader Khamenei, it was hard to swallow that U.S. bombers got their permission to fly into Iranian airspace from the Israeli air force.
A good simile is that Trump put a pot of water on the stove, told Iran to jump in, put the lid over them, then smiled, turned up the heat—and will now let them stew.
As postbellum realities now simmer in Iran, the theocracy is left explaining the inexplicable to its humiliated military and shocked but soon-to-be-furious populace. All the regime’s blood-curdling rhetoric, apocalyptic threats against Israel, goose-stepping thugs, and shiny new missiles ended in less than nothing.
A trillion dollars and five decades’ worth of missiles and centrifuges are now up in smoke. That money might have otherwise saved Iranians from the impoverishment of the last fifty years.
How about the little Satan Israel, to which Iran for nearly 50 years promised extinction?
Israel had destroyed Iran’s expeditionary terrorists, Iran’s defenses, its nuclear viability, and the absurd mythology of Iranian
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Great, as usual.
This is the most MAGA thing President Trump has done to date.
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The mullahs received a shock-and-awe message from President Trump. I don’t think they really knew what the USA military is capable of. Russia and China also got the message.
The mullahs are in hiding. They know they can be taken out individually, one by one, at any time.
It’s a beautiful thing to behold. Now if only the same could be done to the leftist Bolsheviks in Washington DC. /spit
GREAT! Now about the jihad in America.
From link:
For President Xi, the Iranians are treated as little more than Uyghurs with oil.
OUCH!
Most Muslims around the globe consider the Iranian Mullahs to be kooks.
The people of IRAN have the very government their parents and grand parents rioted for in 1979. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it, and the Iranians got it good and hard for the last 45 years.
Sometimes I scan the excerpt and a particular turn of phrase sort of jumps out at me - and I know it's VDH before checking the by-line.
Thanks, hamass!
Thanks, hezbollah!
Thanks, houthis!
Thanks, mullahs!
Good game, good game!
I wish/hope the Iranian theocracy is at its end, but I don’t see it.
I believe that but they appear to be still in power in Iran. I hope that changes soon.
"For Supreme Leader Khamenei, it was hard to swallow that U.S. bombers got their permission to fly into Iranian airspace from the Israeli air force."
Indeed! The IAF owns the skies over Iran, and there isn't a damn thing this eye-a-toilet can do about it. He's reduced to cowering in a rat hole somewhere, watching his miserable regime crumble piece by piece, and waiting for his end. May it come soon, for the sake of humanity.
The Middle East will always be an issue, because Islamic fascism. However, Trump’s 12 day war was an huge historic success.
If you see water rapidly receding a from a lake or ocean ; you need to run quickly to higher ground
Yeah, but we have plenty of leftists in the United States who hate Donald Trump more than the Iranian theocracy. That’s how crazy they are.
And Theocracy is good. Theocracy means rule by the True G-d. No false religion can create Theocracy.
What are the real mechanisms the Iranian regime uses to control the populace and stay in power? Focus on external threats? Religious hatreds of Jews, and Shi’a versus Sunni conflicts? Brute force? Secret police/Stalinism? Do Iranians fear freedom itself, or the high price of attempting freedom without success?
Get rid of the theocacy and the Iranian nuclear threat probably evaporates.
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