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Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 19, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/18/2025 4:20:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.

The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.

The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’

Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.

America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.

Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thoughtthat America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.

It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.

In 1983, Iranian backed terrorists set off truck bombs in Beirut that killed 220 US Marines and 21 other servicemembers. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s IRGC terror force, boasted that, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”

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To: Bayard

“ How about all this war talk go away?”

How about you go away. These savages have been killing Americans without consequences for decades. They need to be extirpated from the face of the earth completely and forever.

By any means necessary.

L


21 posted on 06/18/2025 4:36:04 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Bayard

Bush was the mistake. Trump destroyed the Bush’s.

And if you believe I get paid by Israel you are severely mental.

Geez.


22 posted on 06/18/2025 4:36:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Lurker

Ok, so that is a psychopath take.

You need to get off the internet for awhile I think.


23 posted on 06/18/2025 4:36:54 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bonemaker

24 posted on 06/18/2025 4:37:09 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Fledermaus

Ok...

Bush was a mistake.... Trump can’t make mistakes?


25 posted on 06/18/2025 4:37:22 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Lurker

Looks like Randfag has another user name. 😀


26 posted on 06/18/2025 4:38:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

TRUMP IS NOT CARTER


27 posted on 06/18/2025 4:39:26 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Bayard

“ How is that helping the USA taxpayer?”

It ends a regime of psychopathic religious nut jobs who have been murdering Americans for decades.

That’s how, Scooter.

L


28 posted on 06/18/2025 4:39:55 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Fledermaus

If you are just insulting me its because you have no argument. Sad.

These cringe psycopathic neo-cons are bad for policy.


29 posted on 06/18/2025 4:40:02 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

Im insulting you because you are insane. Enjoy the thorzine.


30 posted on 06/18/2025 4:42:43 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Lurker

Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, eliminated for his crimes. I think that was fine.

Now are you talking about an occupation war? Because I know that would get a lot more Americans killed. Or are you talking turning Iran to glass.

I see neither option here as good policy.


31 posted on 06/18/2025 4:43:56 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Fledermaus

From a psychopathic Neo-con that is a badge of honor


32 posted on 06/18/2025 4:44:39 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard; Alberta's Child; algore

It appears that Israel has very posdibly been paranoid for at least 40 years:

👉 1.) “Iran is on the cusp of developing a nuclear bomb” — Israeli newspaper in… 1984.

Netanyahu and others in Israel have been on a crusade against Iran for decades. Their goal is to lure the US into destroying all the power centers in the Middle East.”

https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1814606132901757366

And then there’s this:

👉 2.) Iran has been “days away from developing nukes” for more than 30 years.

[92, 93, 95, 96, 2006...2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2022, 2024, 2025]

https://x.com/GarbageHuman24/status/1933366152845271321

Amd this. They all never come true. If not paranoid then they perhaos just want to rule the Middle East?

👉 3.) Video:

NBC Nightly News
9/28/2012

“Netanyahu: Iran months away from nuclear bomb”

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-iran-months-away-from-nuclear-bomb-44448323604


33 posted on 06/18/2025 4:45:14 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Bayard

🤪 Don’t quit your day job.


34 posted on 06/18/2025 4:45:56 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Its All Over Except ...

We’ve seen the movie before. Iraq has Nukes. Slam dunk it happened.


35 posted on 06/18/2025 4:46:25 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Fledermaus

Cringe, man... Seriously cringe.


36 posted on 06/18/2025 4:46:48 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

Call Senator Padilla. You two can cry together. 🤧


37 posted on 06/18/2025 4:49:07 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Its All Over Except ...

“The war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake, they (the Bush administration) lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none.” — Donald Trump


38 posted on 06/18/2025 4:49:36 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard

Notice the newspaper headline in the Israeli newspaper?

Iran is close to getting a nuke.

The date... 1984.

They’ve been peddling thus for decades

Except another slam dunk will meand heavy US involvement as Israel will not stop short of regime change and that means Repubs lose bigly in 2026.


39 posted on 06/18/2025 4:50:02 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Indeed. If USA gets involved in a land war in Iran it would be over for Republicans. I gaurantee it.


40 posted on 06/18/2025 4:52:51 PM PDT by Bayard
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