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2025-05-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US ‘must and will leave’ region: Khamenei

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 2025-05-18 01:02|| || Front Page|| [212 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 In the same speech Khamenei called Israel a "cancerous tumor."

The Scorpion is not leaving any doubt concerning its nature. Should the Frog make a deal?

In 1984 then West German FM Genscher was the first high ranking Western government official to visit Iran after 1979 restarting diplomatic engagement.

Iran apparently saw this as an act of provocative weakness and responded with a policy of unprecedented aggression against Germany.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-05-18 03:19|| 2025-05-18 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 It's being floated that Trump will cut a deal with Iran, pull the rug out from under Israel and declare AIPAC a foreign agent.
This is a color revolution against Netanyahu. What's next, forged polls showing no support for Netanyahu?
Stop Trump from meddling in Isreali politics. Those are for Isrealis to decide, not Americans! Stay out!

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-18 04:38|| 2025-05-18 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 "Floated"? By who? You. Try a reality check sometime

Posted by Frank G 2025-05-18 05:57|| 2025-05-18 05:57|| Front Page Top

#4 You haven't seen it? They're pushing this Trump/Netanyahu rift thing to try to cause the government crushing Hamas to fall. if Trump tries any bullshit he's going to feel the full fury of AIPAC. Don't mess with Israel.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-18 09:20|| 2025-05-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 My thoughts, with no understanding of military matters whatsoever:

“They” are indeed pushing the idea hard. But I think we just saw with the Houthis how PM Netanyahu is handling it: Israel held off while President Trump made his deal, a deal that only applied to America. And as soon as America disengaged, Israel dropped the hammer, sending a fleet of airplanes to pound the Hodeidah ports used for receiving shipments from Iran. And for all the talk about how America is incapable of really damaging the Houthis, and how the Houthis so easily shoot down American planes and drones, they haven’t managed to do touch or stop Israel’s.

As soon as President Trump was sworn in, America started shipping the really heavy bombs that Israel needs to destroy Iran’s underground nuclear sites. They have not yet been used, assuredly not because Bibi has forgotten he has them, or that the IAF wiped out Iran’s entire anti-system.

Posted by trailing wiife 2025-05-18 09:54|| 2025-05-18 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Resetting cookie

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 09:55|| 2025-05-18 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 #3
If you go to the CNN or MSNBC, Drudge, major network websites you will read about "friction" between Trump and Netanyahu. It's out there daily. So Gepids has a point.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-05-18 10:05|| 2025-05-18 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Many of the Israeli news sites, too. And all the noisy Israeli opposition have been fussing about it, as well as some of Bibi’s more nervous allies.

But President Trump has openly been threatening Iran with the Israeli attack dog, if Iran does not quickly negotiate a surrender on the nuclear thing. There’s also this post today, about what he’s thinking about Hamas.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 10:39|| 2025-05-18 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 All those 2,000 pound bombs were used up on targets in Gaza.
Iran needs to be taken out by the USA. Iran is just too big for the IDF to handle by itself.
And what is Trump doing? Deals with the genocidal enemy! Hamas' biggest sponsor! Hezbollah! Terrorist groups all over the region. Regime change in Iran and all of these problems are over. Trump is resisting this obvious solution, which is a huge problem. Americans need to come together and make it unambiguously clear that we stand with Israel and that Iran is America's enemy as much as it is Israel's.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-18 10:56|| 2025-05-18 10:56|| Front Page Top

#10 America was trying to exit the Persian Gulf in 90 when I was there. Iran is not a good place for ground troops and the being beyond the Straights of Hormuz becomes a fist fight in a phone booth for the USN. The Abraham Accord structure is a good way to isolate Iran. Dropping the price of oil is an excellent way to hamstring their shenanigans. If they go nuclear, it won’t do them any more good than it has done NK.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-05-18 11:21|| 2025-05-18 11:21|| Front Page Top

#11 All those 2,000 pound bombs were used up on targets in Gaza.

Do you mean Lebanon? I thought they were using precision stuff in Gaza, with much of the destruction coming from the secondaries, ie. Hamas weapons cooking off.

But the big Hezbollah bombings happened before President Trump was sworn in, and Trump opened the spigot immediately afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-18 12:05|| 2025-05-18 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 the IDF reportedly used several dozen 2k# bombs in Lebanon

they have lots more but I'm not sure the IDF could deliver them on targets in Iran

I agree with others that the best way to hurt the klepto-mullahocracy is by keeping the price of oil to $55-60/bar plus tighter sanctions. It will be difficult to get the IGRC to abandon the regime but this is crucial to success.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-18 12:24|| 2025-05-18 12:24|| Front Page Top

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