Posted on 03/22/2026 10:25:06 AM PDT by Mariner
Michael Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., said Sunday that the Iranian people must mobilize to overthrow the Islamic Republic regime.
“I think that we need boots on the ground, but they have got to be Iranian boots, and I think they’re coming,” Leiter told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He noted that the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran will only end when there is “not an entity in Tehran that’s going to threaten the region.”
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Not to mention the air drop of 100,000 AKs and a couple million rounds, they might have a chance.
AND just the thought of it creates unmatched terror in the hearts of Nazis in charge.
I agree. For several reasons, I hope that is the outcome.
The Kurds would willingly fight on the ground too. but they may expect territorial rewards, which is understandable.
Plus the US used to have a large stockpile of AK47 rifles for just such an occasion
it does not take that many really.
Protesters are easy targets for IRGC and Basij but add a couple dozen armed fighters in the crowd and that advantage is cut way back
The real solution is to turn Iran's regular army
Take Kharg Island and give it to the Resistance.
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
I hope the Kurds have been sneaking crates of small arms across the border. Otherwise, any uprising is going to be squashed in a hot minute.
If the Iranian Army isn’t going to overthrow the mullahs, an unarmed populace isn’t going to.
the Israeli ambassador is right.
it will need to be Iranian boots on the ground
imho, USA should take Kharg Island (miles off the Iranian shore, a very limited objective NOT an invasion of the Iranian mainland..it is the primary site where they make all of the $$$ that they use for their nukes and ICBMs and terrorist thug gangs......
. and that should be it for any US Marines, imho...we can airdrop friendly forces any weapons they may need... we don’t need to send in “boots on the ground” imho. we’re winning from the air and sea, there does NOT appear to be any need or intelligent reason for another Iraq or Afghanistan. imho. ymmv
we don’t need blood in OuR boots
True.
But they need the knowledge and the means to call in air support and ID targets for the US.
And they need to see that work a couple of times.
Right. You have to turn enough elements of it - with their bases, armories, etc., - to get more weapons out on the street and some level of competency in terms of tactical leadership.
The Immortal Guard which is a group of Iranian opposition answering to Reza Palahvi are quietly mobilizing. I imagine Mossad and likely the CIA are arming them up for when the order goes out for the people to take to the streets again.
He might be referring to the Iranian Army which could theoretically suppress the IRGC
I like the thinking.
Too bad Bibi & POTUS miscalculated. Air power won’t solve the West’s current war of choice. In January 26, Mosad blew their Starlink wad with the failure of the coup attemp.
The Kurds were sending approximately 400 but Turkish Intel alerted Iran causing a slaughter. Now the Kurds are tired I of being Western cannon fodder.
Israel knows they along with Trump simply cannot disengage from this war they started. Iran pushed the USN 2000km away for over two weeks; week 3 and Trump discovers 2000km running away now turns to 4000km.
Daigo Garcia in the crosshairs. This was just the Iranian missiles revealed. Also, the missile base in Romania, pissibly Poland, along with US bases in sputhern europe.
Forty-eight hours? If this conflict continues, do not be surprised when Iran hits British and US assets in Britain and NATO footprint.
Trump has soent 3 weeks finding a way to cut and run, but Iran reached out 4000km... Will Iran use their missiles capable of hitting Germany?
Good luck Trump in quitting a war you won the first day. The Iranians will contine to make the world unsafe for US, NATO, and Isreali forces.
Imagine the opportunity provided by the patience of Putin. Now he can direct missiles against the US and via Iran in exactly the aame way that NATO did to Russia thru Ukraine.
This war Trump chose to start, now twice, is going to push the US very far from Iranian munitions.
Just as NATO provided longer range missiles thru Ukraine, so too could Iran fire conventional missiles from N.Korea ir Russia.
North Korea promised to fire thier missiles at any boots on the ground in Iran.
Of course Israel has no stomach for what they started.
Say Howdy Hootie too.
“Iran pushed the USN 2000km away for over two weeks; week 3 and Trump discovers 2000km running away now turns to 4000km.”
Bullshit.
You’re imagining things.
Iran started waging war against the Great Satan (Us) and the Little Satan (Israel) when the Mullahs took over 47 years ago. We have finally begun to fight back, a fact that you seem to dismiss. Opinions should be based on facts; yours are not.
Repeat the lie often enough and it becomes truth?
Forty-seven years ago Big Satan had its 1953 US Coup overturned.
You see Americans are never remined we staged a coup and put a Facist King on the Throne of Iran. The People got rid of him. Their savior came back from Paris where he had lived in Exile.
Now the Great Satan has started World War III.
Diplomates all over the world are now referring to Trump’s continuous warmongering as the beginning of WWIII.
Keep cheering for Trump.
Congress meanwhile has not reigned in this President. When the history books are written, it say a corrupted American in the grips of APAC money, Epsteine files and Israeli blackmale allowed a maority of the sitting USG beholden to Israel. That this FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC THREAT TO AMERICA in the form of the Senate, Congress and President all sat on their hands, all allowing the President to begin WWIII.
There was a time when I drank from the Kool-aid and wanted to go with my division into Iran and pay them back. But having observed the USG since Bill Clinton, it became readily apparent that the used NATO like a hammer against the world, invading nation after nation, taking over their oil resources or controlling them thru installed leaders.
Eventually Biden and Trump tore off the mask and the hegemonic nature of Big Donars/Billionaires/Israeli money was driving the world to captiluation or world war.
Iran failed to fold; Trump is escalating.
The USG allready played the Biden Dementia Card, yet we are being signaled that Trump is beginning to have Dementia too. The BS from the warmongers has overloaded their ability to control events which have now spiraled out of their control.
Trump started this war. In fact he did it twice.
Shame on you for defending the indefensible.
I will wager American Air Craft Carrier groups are far far away from their Station’s on the day of the attack, as Iranian capabilities forced them farer away.
Begging the world to send their ships while our ships are saved by moving them two times the original distance is quit telling.
Trump miscalculated. He muredered negotiators and leaders of multiple countries at this juncture of his preidencies. Drunk on success, he has gone a bridge too far.
This will not end well for the US in the Gulf, or EUrope.
Mr. Lavrov and other world dipomates are calling this World War III.
A funny thing happened on the way to bank;) The Congress had better at least vote on WWIII while they have the chance to stop it.
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