Posted on 03/19/2026 10:04:10 PM PDT by doc maverick
“Prince Faisal bin Farhan threatened military action after 20 days of Iranian missiles pushed Riyadh from restraint to the brink of war with 4 escalation triggers. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister stood at a podium in the early hours of Thursday and said something no Saudi official had ever said during twenty days of Iranian missile and drone attacks: the Kingdom reserves the right to strike Iran. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud’s declaration that Saudi patience is “not unlimited” — delivered while intercepted ballistic missile debris still littered the outskirts of Riyadh. The statement arrived at the worst possible moment for Iran’s diplomatic position. Foreign ministers from twelve nations had gathered in Riyadh to discuss the expanding regional crisis when Iranian ballistic missiles targeted the capital — a provocation that Prince Faisal interpreted as deliberate contempt for diplomacy itself.”
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Trump is either a genius or has the biggest horshoe you know where. I hope the filthy mullahs are ended permanently soon. Btw...no one should ever call any mullah the “supreme leader”. “Leader” will do.
Have them go in on the ground and TCB.
It would be interesting to know if the US and Israeli planners anticipated Iran attacking its neighbors like they have.
What was the IRGC strategy?
“If we bomb our neighboring countries they will be our friends and help expel the Great Satan!”
I think the R in IRGC really stands for “retard” not “revolutionary.”
More like murderous dictator.
“I think the R in IRGC really stands for “retard”
Yes. Their psycho pathological regime has exposed itself.
I bet everyone now believes they would nuke anyone to further their death cult and enable the return of the apocalyptical imam Mahdi.
Good point!
And now the Arabs are pissed.
Amen! Glad to see this. I remember radical Iranian students in my art class at CSUF pushing sculptures beheading the Shah. They were zealots. This was mid 1970’s…. They finally got their wish to take over Iran when Carter was elected.
Unfortunately not everyone does believe that. A lot of leftists and way too many Republicans think they could have been contained by threats of annihilation.
They couldn’t be. To them annihilation for Allah is proof of their faith.
I don’t think I’ve ever doubted that they would use nukes as soon as they had some.
I’m sure it was one of the scenarios they planned for.
Actually... Trump has already rid the world of one tyrannical regime... The tyrannical regime of Saudi Arabia should be next on the list. Osama and most of his followers originated from there... And I doubt that Iran would like to trade a regime that murdered and executed it’s own people, with another regime that executes and murders it’s people in the way of Islam... Chopping off hands and heads in public squares isn’t exactly a good replacement model for Iran’s current rulers.
That’s some real sound thinking there. /S
Let them. . .
Time for the Trump Administration to hotrod drilling permits in the US. We have enough oil for ourselves. We just have to get it out of the ground and we have the ways to do that. Shut down any and all EPA/Greenie bullshit in the way and let's get it done now. To hell with filthy musloids holding us hostage on energy.
The apocalyptic Twelver Ayatollahs are all wealthy. Their religious mumbo jumbo is a cover for thievery.
“If you want to get rich start a religion” - L Ron Hubbard the father of Scientology
IMO, using the word “Supreme” is fine if the word “Burrito” is placed in front,LOL.
It's a form of good cop/bad cop, or more accurately bad cop/badder cop. President Trump is the bad cop who (along with Israel) decapitated Iran's leadership, took out their air cover, took out their missile capability, took out their nuclear enrichment capability, took out their navy, and are now taking out their ability to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
We now have Saudi Arabia declaring that they are fed up and are mobilizing to strike Iran. This puts Trump in the position of telling Iran "I did what I could to take out your military while protecting your civil infrastructure, but the Saudis won't be as careful as I was. If I were you, I'd surrender now while you still have a functioning country, because I can't control what they will do to you if it gets to that."
The Saudis know they will benefit from a return to a secular Persia that can rejoin the community of nations, so I believe they don't really want to decimate Iran. We'll see how long they are willing to bluster and whether it moves Iran towards surrendering. It might even take other Middle East Arab countries to join the Saudis in their threat before Iran capitulates.
-PJ
“It would be interesting to know if the US and Israeli planners anticipated Iran attacking its neighbors like they have.”
I listened to Ryan McBeth discuss this. Deconfliction over a combat zone is extremely difficult. Most likely the US and Israel, who are performing this by having their control operations in constant contact and maybe collocated have enough problems. Let’s say a strike package came into contact with unexpected resistance and significantly altered their approach to a target. They might appear in a kill box for someone else. That would be tragic.
Probably the only way a Saudi strike could succeed without getting attacked by friendlies is if they get a clear window when everyone else is out of the vicinity. But I recall they were giving Rolls Royce cars to pilots just to get them to attack difficult targets in Yemen. Saudi does not have a military. They have a palace guard.
Are they going to use all those tanks they bought for something?
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