Posted on 06/27/2026 3:29:06 PM PDT by McGruff
U.S. forces struck Iranian targets again on Sunday local time, U.S. Central Command said. The new strikes follow Bahrain's claim that Iranian drones struck the Gulf state Saturday, which the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed targeted a "U.S. terrorist army," after U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran and an earlier attack on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump on Friday called Iran's attack a "foolish violation" of the ceasefire, as Tehran and Washington appear to remain at odds on even basic points in their memorandum of understanding, including control of the strait and how Iran will spend its unfrozen funds. Mr. Trump has not publicly reacted to Saturday's strike.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the framework of a deal Friday between Lebanon and Israel, but Hezbollah, which was not part of the negotiations, rejected the deal on Saturday, calling it a "disgrace" and promised to keep fighting Israeli forces.
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Let me guess...
Iran says we did it first.
Iran and all of American media almost half the US population and about 1\8th of Republicans.
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted additional strikes against multiple targets in Iran, June 27, at the Commander in Chief's direction.
After yesterday's U.S. strikes in response to the Iranian attack on M/V Ever Lovely, Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit M/T Kiku this morning at 4:30 a.m. ET. The Panama-flagged tanker was transiting near the Strait of Hormuz with more than two-million barrels of crude oil.
CENTCOM forces launched strikes today in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping. U.S. military aircraft targeted Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities.
Commercial vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz continue. U.S. forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.
They also hit Bahrain. The Iranians have acted all along as though the ceasefires and MOU are a farce yet Trump refuses to take their words and actions at face value.
My guess is some Iranians have successfully bamboozled Kushner and Witkoff (not very difficult apparently) and Trump prefers to believe them rather than his own lying eyes.
We need boots on the ground!
Israel First!
This is what is going on, Iran wants to prolong things til the midterms and keep the gas prices high so it hurts Trump..Trump wants to prolong this “cease fire” in order to bring the gas prices down so it helps him in the midterms, and after the midterms bomb their asses to smithereens, so both sides are playing tit for tat but for different reasons..Just imagine if Trump had not listened to Vance(Yeah I believe he was the primary reason why they stopped bombing) just one more month and allowing Israel to kill off every single regime member they could get their paws on, we would be in a different situation right now
Well, that sure didn’t last long.
No, Iranians first. We have 10s of millions of very willing potential "boots on the ground." We just have to provide them with arms.
Bet we can trace back the origin of every drone they have. How many satallites do we have parked over that viper nest.
Should have happened 45 years ago on day 2 of the Reagan Presidency.
So we’re back to Iran will not exist as a civilization again. At least until the markets open on Monday.
woo hoo
puts on the market on monday. also good time to buy on red day, heck, i think $wdc is on discount
imagine how much money i’d make AGAIN when we END the war AGAIN.
“Trump refuses to take their words and actions at face value.”
LOL- he doesn’t take “their words and actions at face value”??? This is the second time in a week President Trump has launched a counterstrike after iran broke the ceasefire- and they didn’t even break it attacking American ships!!!
LOL- why??? Did the counterstrikes from early last week cause the market to go down?? Or the price of oil to go up???
Lemme look- oh, the market went down a whole 44pts while oil was down more than 7% during that time...
Come on people. How many leftover targets could there be after 2 attacks 6 months apart with the help of Israel?
Ok so they may never learn. Trump should say it’s ok because he enjoys slapping them around. I just wish the locals would step up.
Israel First!""
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This pretty much sums up my reaction to your comment....
The last time we did this we shot off 250 tomahawk missiles in one day. We don’t have the inventories left to do that for long.
My intended points were:
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