Posted on 03/20/2026 10:16:58 AM PDT by Mariner
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisted it was still building missiles. Its supreme leader issued another defiant statement on Friday, nearly three weeks into U.S.-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Tehran’s top leaders and hammered its weapons and energy industries.
The United States was meanwhile deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 additional Marines to the Middle East, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
Iran fired on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states as many in the region marked one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar. Iranians were also celebrating the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz, a normally festive holiday that is more subdued this year.
With little information coming out of Iran, it was not clear how much damage its arms, nuclear or energy facilities have sustained since the war began Feb. 28 or even who was truly in charge of the country. But Iran has showed it is still capable of attacks that are choking off oil supplies and denting the global economy, raising food and fuel prices far beyond the Middle East.
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Iran the Terrorist State
Find the three holiest places in Iran and bomb the hell out of them.
Imagine how difficult they would be if they had nukes and advanced their missile development.
Iran threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide
Mecca would be a good tourist site to consider.
“Mecca would be a good tourist site to consider.”
Then Saudia Arabia would rain he’ll down on them.
Decades of efforts, billions of dollars worth of PR...down the drain.
The Iranian regime shows its essential nature.
Tomb of Esther and Mordechai
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mausoleum in Hamadan, Iran
Tomb of Daniel
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mausoleum in Shush, Iranian national heritage site
Other than those two, and some more ancient ruins, not much should be spared. All mosques should be destroyed showing that A) we can and are not going to stop and B) that the IRGC and rest of the occupation regime can’t and/or won’t stop it from happening.
There was not just one “Bagdad Bob” in the Islamic regimes around the world, there have been many, playing up a false bravado in gaslighting listeners at every turn.
In the Monty Python universe, King Arthur in pursuit of the Holy Grail meets the Black Knight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
“Tis but a scratch!”
Since it’s Shiia, the rest of the Muslim world (Sunni) probably wouldn’t even care. Might do everyone in Iran a lot of good.
Medina first, as a warning.
Iran won’t be turned into a secular state, but will cease to be a terrorism factory.
Why doesn’t he bomb Washington, D.C.?
You know they had a leader in the defense department that reportedly was on the list as one of the possible replacements for Khamenei that Trump demanded he have a say in that process. We ended up killing him, too. Now there is a guy in charge that is way more radical than Khamenei’s replacement on that was on that list of Trumps approval. What will we ?do next too make the situation worse yet?
Mojtaba seems hell bent on pissing everyone off. New Year greetings are usually full of hope and and joy.
Well happy new year to you too Mojtaba.
Surprised the sleeper cells haven’t woken up yet.
Still no proof of life. Bibi had a press conference yesterday. Trump is regularly in front of people.
+1
They got some seriously deranged evil residing there.
Yes
More likely they are lying
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