Posted on 04/18/2024 6:27:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
By unleashing war in the Middle East and targeting Israel, Iran may soon learn that Israel, or America, or both might retaliate for a half-century of its terrorist aggression.
The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century.
So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its “consulate” in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps there.
Remember, the world was first introduced to the Iranian ayatollahs by their violent takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1980.
Iranian surrogates next bombed the American embassy in Beirut and the Marine barracks in 1983.
In fact, Iran has attacked US and Israeli diplomatic posts off-and-on for decades, most recently in 2023, when Iran helped plan an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad.
For this reason and several others, Iran’s justification for sending 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles into Israel on the grounds that Israel had bombed an Iranian diplomatic post is completely ridiculous.
One, Iran has never honored diplomatic immunity. Instead, it habitually attacks and kills embassy personnel and blows up diplomatic facilities across the world.
Two, on April 1, the Israelis attacked a pseudo-“consulate” in Damascus which was hosting grandees of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as they planned terrorist attacks on Israel.
Without Iran, the Middle East might have had a chance to use its enormous oil and natural gas wealth to lift its 500 million people out of poverty rather than to be mired in constant tribal and religious anti-Israeli, anti-American, and anti-Western terrorism.
During the Iraq War, Iran’s Shiite terrorists and its massive supplies of deadly shaped-charge explosive devices killed hundreds of Americans. It routinely hijacks container ships in the Straits of Hormuz...
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Is it any wonder that the democRATs want to give pallets of money to Iran?
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Hardspunned deeply saddened that his mullah buddies were treated to their own behavior in Damascus.
Victor’s been pretty good lately. I hope he’s not going back to his Bush-era neocon ways.
The people of Iran are pro West. The mullahs have to go.
We should have solved this problem with authority in 1979.
He understands history.
Letting aggressive dictators continue only results in them continuing
We should have solved this problem with authority in 1979.“
Yes, the consequence of having Carter in the White House when the mullahs took over left the world with this mess for over 40 years.
In fact, Iran has attacked US and Israeli diplomatic posts off-and-on for decades, most recently in 2023, when Iran helped plan an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad.
Reagan was the one who blew up an oil platform. Not much else since then has been done until Trump took out Solimani. Khadafy learned quickly but he was smarter.
Yes.
2009 uprising. Obama did as much as Carter. Americans don’t care about what that country will do when they’re at the ballot box. Most couldn’t locate the country on a map.
We should have left the Shah stay in power.
*** Most couldn’t locate the country on a map. ***
I recently saw some videos on YouTube where they go to college campuses, including Harvard, and ask students simple questions to see if they can answer them. Here’s a few of the questions that these college students could not answer:
- How many states make up the United States?
- Can you name any continent?
- How much is 3x3x3?
- In what year was The War of 1812 fought?
etc.
When are you going to Gaza, as promised, to get hands on some genocide? Pretty soon you child murderers will have to fight through real fighters to kill women and children. I know you’re not man enough to do that. When?
To correct your BS lies. I’m no friend of mullahs, Russians, Ukrainians or genocidal Israelis. I’m America First and only. I do have a soft spot for innocent children that you bloodthirsty AIPAC stooges love to murder. I do support stopping your murdering of infants.
The U.S. should not be in Ukraine or the ME. I support no one but Americans. I support spending our hard borrowed dollars on no one but Americans. Stop you pitiful lies about me unless you can back them up. I can show your sickening support for the genocide in Gaza all day. You can show that I don’t support murdering innocent women and children. Show me one instance where I supported a “mullah”, Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran or stop your contemptible lies about me.
Before the Biden appeasement of Iran, the Trump administration had isolated and nearly bankrupted Tehran and its proxies. Its Revolutionary Guard terrorist planners proved to be easy targets once they operated outside Iran.
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He probably is.
The U.S. and Great Britain had been meddling in Iran’s affairs since they helped topple the Mossadegh government in the 1950s. Any historian who acts like the conflict between the U.S. and Iran began when the Shah was overthrown in 1979 is a phony with a political agenda.
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