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This Is Why Trump Is Giving Iran Two Weeks to Give Up its Nuclear Ambitions
2025-06-21
[Townhall] President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
on Thursday announced he is giving Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
two weeks to re-engage with negotiations about its nuclear program. This move is reportedly aimed at preventing the creation of "another Libya" if further military action results in the destruction of the Iranian regime.

Trump’s announcement came amid military hostilities between Israel and Iran. Israel has been conducting Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities over the past week to prevent the regime from acquiring nuclear capabilities.

During a presser, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recited Trump’s message in which he stated that "there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future," which means Trump "will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks."

Administration insiders told The New York Post that Trump does not want to repeat the same mistakes of the B.O. regime, which took out former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...>
in a comprehensive NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
bombing operation. Qadaffy’s subsequent death left a vacuum that various regional powers fought to fill, making the situation even worse.

The sources told The Post they heard Trump privately state that he was "worried about Iran becoming like Libya before Israel began its aerial assaulton Iran."

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
another source told the outlet that if President Trump takes military action, it will come in the form of limited airstrikes to finish destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz using "bunker buster" bombs.

"Libya was a much more extended kind of bombing commitment, and it ended up being regime change," the individual explained, further noting that if the Iranian regime is ousted, "then it’s not on Trump, because that’s not the goal of his very limited strike."

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
there is a concern that "we get somebody worse than Khamenei."
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Just taking them out for a spin, nothing to see here
Posted by: Frank G   2025-06-21 13:01  

#3  Grom: Aside from being Libya?
Fox is reporting 6 B-2s departed Whiteman AFB heavily loaded (had to air refuel immediately), supposedly heading towards Guam.
Like they're carrying 15 ton bombs or something.
Posted by: ed in texas   2025-06-21 12:32  

#2  Libya should have taught the Western political class about the ultimate futility of "deals."

After Bush & Blair unleashed Gaddafi by lifting the sanctions in exchange for some compensation payments, the dismantling of the nuclear program and the extradition of a Lockerbie bomber Gaddafi soon reverted to form.

Gaddafi used the cash he gained after lifting sanctions to buy cheap(!) wh***s in the Western ruling elites and resumed his thuggish aggression against Western nations, violating 'international law' with impunity.

Ultimately the point of contention was the Gaddafi regime demanding the right to wield its own government monopoly violence on the sovereign territory of Western nations.

This insane demand was made by a non-nuclear Libya which had nonetheless proven its skill at asymmetrical warfare over decades.

Chaos is still better that the stability of a mortal enemy regime.

As for 'refugees' they will flood Europe if Europe lets them in and they will have to stay out if Europe denies them entry, irrespective of what happens in the sh**hole countries they come from.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-06-21 05:54  

#1  another Libya

What's wrong with Libya?
Posted by: Grom the Affective   2025-06-21 04:34  

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