I'll say. Trump has met his match. Iran is relentless with their picking on poor Donald. Not for the faint of heart.
Posted on 04/28/2026 4:44:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. is being “humiliated” by the Iranian regime, Germany’s chancellor has said, as disquiet among European leaders over a prolonged conflict in the Middle East gradually intensifies.
“The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.
“An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible,” Merz added, speaking to students in Marsberg in Germany.
The comments were unexpected, but at least partially reflect frustration that the Iran conflict is undermining Merz’s government’s efforts to bolster Germany’s flagging economy.
Leaders are also worried that the U.S. has underestimated the resilience of the Iranian regime, which is underpinned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and fear the war could turn into another so-called “forever war” in the Middle East.
“The problem with conflicts like these is always the same,” Merz noted Monday: “It’s not just about getting in; you also have to get out. We saw that all too painfully in Afghanistan, for 20 years. We saw it in Iraq.”
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Yeah, ok.
The German nation is divided and unable to protect itself. It is a laugh what the leaders think.
Given the German language, “humiliated” must be some dark version of “overjoyed”, but the Germans have no joy.
Shoulda helped US when we asked for it you little wimp.....now you can sit and rotate on it.
Sank their navy, grounded their air force, blew up their nuke program. What are they talking about? Their butts have been whupped.
Drones can fly far and take out a refinery, or an oil loading site.
An underwater drone can take out a tanker.
The Iranians can ask the Russians!
And look in the western sky towards Israel.
Israel can take out the ability of Iran to get oil revenue quite effectively, indefinitely.
Bomb bomb Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D9LxjV3uWI
I think the Europe’s suffering energy starvation is a feature, not a bug. What a wonderful way to expose their green stupidity and make mass migration insupportable to the natives..
Time to cut europe loose, drop out of nato, and let europe discover what true humiliation looks like
I'll say. Trump has met his match. Iran is relentless with their picking on poor Donald. Not for the faint of heart.
Iran
Abadan Refinery (NIODC), 450,000 bbl/d (72,000 m3/d)[4]
Arvand Oil Refinery (NIODC), 120,000 bbl/d (19,000 m3/d)
Arak Refinery (NIODC), 250,000 bbl/d (40,000 m3/d)
Tehran Refinery (NIODC), 225,000 bbl/d (35,800 m3/d)[253]
Isfahan Refinery (NIODC), 375,000 bbl/d (59,600 m3/d)[citation needed]
Tabriz Refinery (NIODC), 112,000 bbl/d (17,800 m3/d)
Shiraz Refinery (NIODC), 40,000 bbl/d (6,400 m3/d)
Lavan Refinery (NIODC), 60,000 bbl/d (9,500 m3/d)
Persian Gulf Star Oil Refinery (NIODC[254]), 360,000 bbl/d (57,000 m3/d)
Kermanshah Refinery (NIODC), 25,000 bbl/d (4,000 m3/d)[citation needed]
Bandar Abbas Refinery (NIODC), 350,000 bbl/d (56,000 m3/d)
Pars Refinery (NIODC), 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m3/d) - under construction[citation needed]
Anahita Refinery (NIODC), 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m3/d) - under construction[citation needed]
Bahman Geno Refinery (NIODC), 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m3/d) - under construction[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_refineries
I read there’s something like 311 refineries in Iran in total.
The Israeli Air Force knows where they are and is preparing to pay each one a visit.
Says the leader of the nation inhabited by the children and grand children of the worst people ever. Germans - huge loud arrogant losers not much has changed except they seen to added cowardice to their ghastly makeup. Germany- worst country ever
And, Iran is starting to shut in the producing wells. As a long time owner, operator and producer of oil wells, it is bad because when you have a high producing well and it is shut in, the fine material drops out of the product and forms a type of ‘crusty cake’ around the well bore. You can do workovers on the wells, but it probably won’t return to its previous rates, and sometimes the wells have to be redrilled, which costs enormous amounts of money.
Posting Leftist propaganda. Fail.
My thoughts exactly.
Yet, here we are.
They still control the Strait.
The Strait is important to EU and Iran. Blockage is helpful to the US but politically undesirable for the GOP..
“They still control the Strait.”
What, with runabouts and fishing boats? Either Trump has lied and our attacks have done little, or the media is lying about the result. I don’t believe that after all this that the US Navy doesn’t control the straight. Something else is going on.
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