Writes Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last shah of Iran, in "Thanks to President Trump, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand/Our path forward is a new constitution followed by free elections under international oversight" (WaPo).
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"Iran’s democratic opposition groups — monarchists and republicans, secular and religious minorities, leftists, liberals, and every ethnicity — are united..."
"... on four foundational principles: Iran’s territorial integrity; individual liberties and equality of all citizens; separation of religion and state; and the Iranian people’s right to decide a democratic form of government.
Many Iranians, often despite facing bullets, have called on me to lead this transition. I am in awe of their courage, and I have answered their call. Our path forward will be transparent: a new constitution drafted and ratified by referendum, followed by free elections under international oversight. When Iranians vote, the transitional government dissolves.... A free Iran would extend [the Abraham Accords] by immediately recognizing Israel and pursuing a broader regional peace framework linking Iran, Israel and our Arab neighbors in cooperation rather than conflict.
I suggest calling the agreement the Cyrus Accords, for Cyrus the Great, the benevolent ancient Persian ruler whom Thomas Jefferson cited as an inspiration...."
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God willing.
That all sounds great. Sounds great…
Where can us US get some of that international oversight of our elections?
"are united"
How can he possibly know that? The man hasn't been in Iran since 1978. He reminds me of Ahmed Chalabi.
Lance - Many ways.
Today in "As the Political Screw Turns":
- The pro-west Europe-friendly Shah is driven out by militant religious traditionalists in 1979.
- The the western left spends the next several decades imitating Neville Chamberlain in appeasing and pacifing a brutal anti-west, anti-left government.
- The nominal conservative Trump decapitates a religious, traditional, and nominally conservative government.
- The as-close-as-possible-to-left-wing son of the shah reenters the picture.
When the pendulum swings, left is right, right is left, up is down, and down is up.
Maybe a bit tone-deaf on the Cyrus part. Even if he was the nicest guy ever, he did rule an empire that included most of the countries in the Abraham Accords. Would be like the EU making a Charlemagne Compact or Charles V Charter or something like that. CC, JSM
If you want to learn a bit about the risks of "regime change" in Iran, I recommend this article by James Fallows about the second Iraq War.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/01/blind-into-baghdad/302860/
So why isn't Reza in Iran right now? Why is he waiting for us to shed more of our servicemen's blood in order to install him and prop him up? This is Chalabi one more time. I'm not sorry that the ayatollahs are dead, but I can't believe that we're now deep in the muck of another forever war that we can't get out of. If the Iranians want to liberate themselves, more power to them and go ahead. We have no interest in Iran, which poses no threat to us.
Yea, that's wonderful, but still not Nobel worthy. It would only mean that Trump brought Israel together with most of the Arab world in peace. What's the big deal?
"I'm not sorry that the ayatollahs are dead, but I can't believe that we're now deep in the muck of another forever war that we can't get out of."
It's day 2. What's wrong with you?
"That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now?"
One thing that was interesting is the paper Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft wrote about why they didn't overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq I. They predicted all the bad things that would happen so perfectly you can't shake the feeling that they wrote it *after* Iraq II. (They didn't, they wrote it ten years before.)
Really opened my eyes about foreign policy. Yes, predictions are hard, especially about the future, but there are people who are smart enough and diligent enough to get a decent idea of what might happen if you do a certain thing.
It's interesting to me that for many people, the take away of Iraq II was "don't listen to the experts." For me, the lesson was, find the people who know what they are talking about and listen to them.
I also feel pretty good about: Don't base foreign policy on lies.
Call it the "Trump Accords" Ah hahahaha!
"followed by free elections under international oversight."
So... more secure than US elections, then?
"For me, the lesson was, find the people who know what they are talking about and listen to them."
Kind of like the stock market.
It is immediately evident that this "war" is completely different than the neocon wars.
The bad guys are being killed until they actually surrender.
The one thing I want to see going forward would be Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Turkey to start participating in this operation.
Boots on the ground in Iran? MAGA voted for that?
Trump won’t rule out sending US troops into Iran ‘if necessary’— tells The Post war is progressing ‘way ahead of schedule’ ~ NY Post
https://t.co/L5HOrdx1UY
'I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it. I say, 'probably don't need them', 'if they were necessary.' But it's going to go pretty quickly."
Kakistocracy said...
I also feel pretty good about: Don't base foreign policy on lies.
LOL. A Joe Biden/Obama supporter wrote this.
Is probably too stupid to understand how funny that is.
My understanding is that everything is going great, that's why we are sending more forces. They all want in on the turkey shoot.
"LOL. A Joe Biden/Obama supporter wrote this."
It's possible that both sides are sociopathic, and even psychopathic liars.
Bagoh - I started to write the same thing as you did...
" I can't believe that we're now deep in the muck of another forever war that we can't get out of."
Literally started two days ago.
These people are like the NYT and all the other libs 48 h in to the Iraq war "We can't possibly win! They are all experienced desert fighters!" RIGHT before their army collapsed.
Our job is NOT to build a new Iran.
Our job is Iran was building nukes and missiles to reach not only Israel but Europe and then us. Our job was "don't do anything to hurt USA and we'll leave you alone." But they couldn't help kidnapping murdering and torturing our citizens. Our ONLY job is kill them all. Let the Iranians build their country if they want. Or not. Or let it become hell. Our ONLY responsibility is remove the Iranian threat of nukes and ICBM's.
Good Lord. 48 hours after the attack began and they're clutching their pearls. DJT said expect at least 4 weeks before we decide how to go forward.
We would have lost WW2 if we had this many Lord HawHaw's and Tokyo Rose's in our midst. What happened to patriotic Americans?
Kak - Thanks for the Atlantic link. That's like linking to NYT or Al Jazeera. They hate American values and celebrate when America loses.
BTW, Saudis caught lying about not being involved by ChiCom satellites too. MBS was in Moscow overnight. This was a blunder, a giant blunder.
We release satellite images of the aftermath of Ukrainian hits inside of Russia, so I guess what goes 'round comes 'round.
"They hate American values and celebrate when America loses."
OMG.
I suggest calling the agreement the Cyrus Accords, for Cyrus the Great, the benevolent ancient Persian ruler whom Thomas Jefferson cited as an inspiration....
"Can you dig it? Can you dig it? Can yooou dig iiit?!!!"
"Charles V In Charge" - rarely-seen '80s pilot that never got picked up. A put-upon Holy Roman Emperor deals with the zany polyglot crew of minor rulers and religious reformers costantly putting him in preposterous situations.
When the pilot got close to a 0 share, "That's My Cyrus" never even went past the storyboard stage. CC, JSM
I don't mind if they call it the Cyrus accords, as long as Miley is naked on that wrecking ball again, playing an accordion this time.
Of course, these days too many people will assume the Cyrus Accords have something to do with Miley. Or maybe that will make them more popular. Lots of Arab incels waiting for her to swing in on the wrecking ball. CC, JSM
Aggie, great minds think alike! CC, JSM
First, the Arabs, Indians and Pakistanis, the Diverse... uh, diverse Africans, Venezuela, too, Mexico, America, and NOW... and now the Persians. Mitigating progress and liberal license one nation after another in rapid succession. #HateLovesAbortion
Oh, PoO. Trump ended the second Iraq war, the Middle East conflagration. His second term follows his first term's script with new venues and actors. We all live in an orange submarine...
The America haters are out in force. Fuck 'em.
Achilles/Vlad* 2028. It's time.
*The Impaler, not the Putin.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/01/world/video/iran-girls-school-vrtc-digvid
Saturday, the day of the surprise attack, is a normal school day in Iran, CNN investigated, it was not an Iranian missile, it was an Israeli or US missile that killed over a hundred schoolgirls.
This was a massive blunder, and the killing of the schoolgirls has unified the Iranians, so good luck getting your overthrow, especially given that Russia can deliver all the food Iran needs by the Caspian Sea, to the Iranian government to hand out, underpinning their legitimacy, and of course China is fucked if the Iranians lose, so they will do all they can, short of getting into a hot war with the US.
On the face of it, it doesn't sound like the worst ideas to ever come out of this neck of the woods. So it will be rejected out of hand.......After Robespierre, after Napoleon, the French went back to the Bourbons. There's an important lesson to be learned here, but no one can agree on what that important lesson is......Before Franco was also a monarchist. He named a Bourbon as his successor. I believe that worked out okay.......I wouldn't bet against a civil war in Iran, but maybe they can figure out a sane response.
That was fast. Is this for real? Can people come together this quickly? It may be true what they say about Iran. That they really are the most western like country in the Arab world.
Jaq said...
"They hate American values and celebrate when America loses."
OMG.
Also Jaq
"...so good luck getting your overthrow, especially given that Russia can deliver all the food Iran needs by the Caspian Sea, to the Iranian government to hand out, underpinning their legitimacy, and of course China is fucked if the Iranians lose, so they will do all they can,..."
Seems like Trump is promoting Democracy. It just won’t die under Trump.
Dare I say it: new colors. A Diversity? Sequester the conception. A diversity of individuals, minority of one. Here's to a butter... better future and a gay old time.
Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians. (73years. If you look back at 1952/53.)
’CNN investigated’
lol
@Jaq: Is it your opinion that Israel of the US are intentionally targeting schoolkids?.........Over on X. I saw pictures of an extremely cute little girl. The claim was that the little girl was the Ayatollah's granddaughter and that she was killed with her grandfather. Others claim that she was his third wife, but who really knows. We're in a propaganda heavy environment......It does, however, seem certain that in the final tally, the clerical regime will have killed more Iranians than the Americans.
’CNN investigated’
Somebody there read the NYT- the online version, no doubt, so they didn't need to leave their office.
Best Music Video: I-ran so far way
Sounds reasonable to me.
But, as he is clear, it is up to the Iranian people.
John Henry
Iran is going to make Venezuela look timid and slow?
Yikes.
I think the reference by Pahlavi to Cyrus emanates from Jewish traditions which honor Cyrus as a great Persian monarch because he allowed the Jews to return return to Israel.
I think if people nicely ask Trump for something they might just get it!
Kakistocracy said...
United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians. (73years. If you look back at 1952/53.)
What government did we overthrow in Iran in 53?
The Shah?
Um no, he was the only recognized leader of Iran from 1941 to 79.
Mossadegh? the unelected, appointed by the Shah, prime minister? We did not overthrow him, either. The Shah fired him in accord with the constitution of Iran.
Mossadegh did try to overthrow the Shah, we helped the Shah dismiss him. Is that you you are on about?
Don't be a Monica.
John Henry
The Shiite cult has always demanded that The Great Satan be slaughtered. DJT said no by killing those savage murderers first.
Great job by our military leadership under a genius Commander in Chief.
Yes, and Cyrus is a popular name among Persian Jews.
People keep bringing up Iraq and Chalabi. But Iraq never had a civilized pro-western society. It's not as though we've never successfully transformed a country after a war. Think Germany and Japan.
Jaq said...
"LOL. A Joe Biden/Obama supporter wrote this."
It's possible that both sides are sociopathic, and even psychopathic liars.
Everyone is a psychopath except Tim.
He is not morally retarded.
He is the only good person in the world. Really.
Saudi Arabia and Israel will be officially united on the same side in a military action.
This action was so long overdue. Iran was the lynch pin of the efforts to destabilize the world and keep wars going.
Russia is going to be under massive pressure now without Iranian productivity.
China is going to have to pay market price for oil.
@William - there are so many here who say they don't hate the USA but then give the benefit of the doubt to all the anti-USA propoganda and believe and advance the worst about the USA then are surprised when we who love this country call them out (Jaq).
"The Iranians are all going to kill all the Americans because (Iran) shot a missile into the girls school!!!!11!!!"
Erm Jaq do you mean all the Iranians BESIDES the MILLIONS that are dancing in the streets praising Trump for killing the savage murderers?
What is wrong with you people?
"Woe to he that calls good evil and evil good."
Kakistocracy said...
Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians. (73years. If you look back at 1952/53.)
If we kill all of the mullah faction and put the persians in charge of Iran there wont be as much hostility to the US as this traitor hopes for.
Yeah, Lance, he reminds me of Ahmad Chalabi, too--of how if our Deep State geniuses hadn't been too pure to set up an imperfect local guy to lead a government that the Iraqis could stomach, we wouldn't have ended up trying and failing to govern Iraq ourselves in a disastrous "occupation" that ended in the destruction of the Christian population and the creation of a hostile Shia state.
The US was directly involved in overthrowing an Iranian government which occurred in 1953, when the CIA (with British help) orchestrated a coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, restoring power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. That event is well-documented and acknowledged by the US government.
"Charlotte Allen said...
So why isn't Reza in Iran right now? Why is he waiting for us to shed more of our servicemen's blood in order to install him and prop him up? This is Chalabi one more time. I'm not sorry that the ayatollahs are dead, but I can't believe that we're now deep in the muck of another forever war that we can't get out of. If the Iranians want to liberate themselves, more power to them and go ahead. We have no interest in Iran, which poses no threat to us."
How the **** can we be into a "forever war" after the weekend for goodness sakes. And you call for this, that or the other is just a clever way of hoping the whole endeavour fails because TRUMP!!!
Q: What does the average mullah do after surviving (so far) the initial attacks, when faced with a cessation of nightly affection from their angry wives?
A: Ghotzbadeh
h/t Stuart Smalley
"Keith said...
@William - there are so many here who say they don't hate the USA but then give the benefit of the doubt to all the anti-USA propoganda and believe and advance the worst about the USA then are surprised when we who love this country call them out (Jaq).
"The Iranians are all going to kill all the Americans because (Iran) shot a missile into the girls school!!!!11!!!"
Erm Jaq do you mean all the Iranians BESIDES the MILLIONS that are dancing in the streets praising Trump for killing the savage murderers?
What is wrong with you people?
"Woe to he that calls good evil and evil good."
3/2/26, 4:19 PM"
They literally hate the USA, UNLESS their tribe is in power.
"Kakistocracy said...
Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians. (73years. If you look back at 1952/53.)"
Critics say a lot of crud. They've really been saying a lot of crud ever since Obama was elected. He changed america allright. IMO he was still the antichrist.
Iranian navy is now history. They have zero ships left. My personal navy is larger, not even counting the rubber duck.
Estimated time to remove the military leadership was four weeks. It took 1 hour and eliminated over 2 dozen of the top leaders. I'm impressed.
Until now one of the reasons we often avoided taking needed action was an expectation of failure. This resulted in making subsequent action even more risky and emboldening enemies. There has been a historical change to the U.S. military in the last year, and it's not just technology.
In a 1980 interview of Trump during the Iranian hostage crisis, he laments that we did not go into Iran with force and extract our people. "We lost the opportunity."
https://youtu.be/wk-DsGrMR_w
Whoever leads Iran won’t be an Ayatollah.
Kakistocracy said...
The US was directly involved in overthrowing an Iranian government which occurred in 1953, when the CIA (with British help) orchestrated a coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, restoring power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Oh, bullshit, Kak.
How can it be a "coup" when the Shah has the constitutional authority to dismiss the PM?
Unless you are using some bizarre definition of "coup" that I have never heard before.
How do you define coup?
Yes, the CIA was involved in protecting the Shah from a coup. Nobody questions that. But you are all turned around backasswards again. Or still.
Don't be a Monica.
John Henry
BTW… what the flip have they put in the maple syrup up in Vermont… saltpeter?
Change the name to Persia. It’s all about branding. The Islamic Republic of the Land of Aryans doesn’t cut it
"Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback."
"Trump's war", is it? But of course. For the left, it'll be "Trump's war" as long as there's even an outside shot at things going to shit. On the other hand, if things go well, the left will pretend they never spoke the words "Trump's war".
jaq said: "it was an Israeli or US missile that killed over a hundred schoolgirls."
The link you shared said that CNN did "not know who fired...the munitions that were used."
Whack-a-Kak… from Milton Bradley.
In a 1980 interview of Trump during the Iranian hostage crisis, he laments that we did not go into Iran with force and extract our people. "We lost the opportunity."
Ross Perot had a couple employees caught up and jailed pre-revolution in 1978.
He did not screw around. He put together a team and sent them into Tehrehan to break them out of jail. Successfully.
Ken Follett wrote On Wings of Eagles about it.
A couple years later Carter tried to organize a raid to free the embassy employees.
It was a total clusterfarg.
John Henry
jaq meet kak…
We have no interest in Iran, which poses no threat to us.
This has to be the dumbest comment I'll read all week. And it's only Monday.
The world's chief sponsor of terrorism is of no threat to us? Do you know how many hundreds - if not thousands - of dead Americans Iran's responsible for?
They're not just a threat to us; they're a threat to everybody. And have been for the last 47 years.
Wake the fuck up.
Need to re-establish the Sasanian Empire.
8 military died in the desert in Carter's fiasco. 3 more than have died so far under Trump. Carter accomplished nothing but embarassment.
Trump has accomplished quite a bit.
John Henry
The rubber duck...
"The link you shared said that CNN did "not know who fired...the munitions that were used."
How man times has the lie blaming us been repeated here in the last 24 hours? No wonder people see different realities.
assuming this happens..
Who is Most hurt and upset?
RCOCEAN? jaqoff? Igna?
Meet the new Jaq - same as the old Kak.
The risk of bloody civil war is real and perhaps likely after the campaign. Our stated objectives do not include the governing of Iran. Israel may have some objectives.
I see the far left and the anti-jewish people are screaming again, demanding that Iran be left alone to murder millions of Americans and Jews with impunity. It's pretty much that simple: the people who hate Jews and the people who hate Americans (usually, but not always, the exact same people) are very, very upset at "Trump's war!" and so forth.
For all of the "Trump endless war i didn't vote for this!!" it's not like Iran was just some peaceful country that Trump attacked out of the blue. Iran has been killing Americans for over 40 years. It's about time we put a stop to it. Brutally, and with great prejudice. Stack the bodies high, boys! Make the leftists and the haters of Jews weep in their soy lattes!
Is Trump allowed to run for Persian Emperor?
Xerxes the Refurbished. I always loved the name Xerxes.
So the Kurds still get screwed, not a surprise.
Honestly: not our problem.
Iran made itself our problem.
If the new Iran choses to not make itself our problem, then we don't need to get involved with their internal matters
Lordy, 80 something messages, and no one before me noted that "Iran’s territorial integrity" == "Kurds can't have their own country"?
Charlotte Allen said...
I'm not sorry that the ayatollahs are dead, but I can't believe that we're now deep in the muck of another forever war that we can't get out of.
You are a lying sack of shit.
1: You hate America
2: You are desperately sad the ayatollahs are dead
3: You don't give a shit about dead Americans, you love dead Americans, esp. when they are killed by Islamic terrorists backed by those ayatollahs.
Iran declared war on American in November of 1979. Trump is finally returning the favor. Death and destruction to the ayatollahs and their government.
What the Iranians do with their country afterwards is mostly up to them. They are welcome to a Shaw if they want one.
The important part is that we kill everyone who shouted "Death to America"
Democrats cry when terrorists who scream "Death to America" get sent to meet Allah. They cheer when Christians praying in a church get invaded by violent leftists.
What does that tell us?
Jaq puked up:
"...so good luck getting your overthrow, especially given that Russia can deliver all the food Iran needs by the Caspian Sea, to the Iranian government to hand out, underpinning their legitimacy, and of course China is fucked if the Iranians lose, so they will do all they can,..."
Russia can't deliver jack shit to anywhere. They're currently getting their asses kicked backwards in Ukraine because Musk cut off their Starlink access, but sure, they're going to ship goods to the Iranian government we're at war with, and we're not going to sink those ships.
Neither Russia nor China is going to do ANYTHING in Iran, any more than they've done in Venezuela.
What part of "US & Israel have complete air superiority over Iran" do you not understand?
Oh wait, you're clearly an idiot, so the answer to that is "any of it".
Silly me
Someone here said Iranians were smart. The weekend demonstrations proved that. US demonstrators waved US flags, Israeli flags, Iranian flags. Canadian demonstrators waved US flags, Israeli flags, Iranian flags, AND Canadian flags. British demonstrators waved US flags, Israeli flags, Iranian flags AND British flags. How nice to see courtesy extended to the country they lived in. I have very high hopes for the citizens of Iran and confidence in the team Trump has assembled to help Iranians on their road to independence. Maybe we’ll find out what happened to all the loot Obama and Biden sent to the Ayatollah - he didn’t take it with him.
There's Greg, settling scores from 1979 and calling people names. OK boomer.
Mark, apparently, has a personal timeline for when he forgets all attacks on the US.
He never, ever forgets a thing a Republican did wrong, ever. But kill an American? After a couple of years, Mark's a-ok with that!
"George Will Bows to the Inevitable: Trump Was Right
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/02/george-will-bows-to-the-inevitable-trump-was-right-n3812446
Iran is going to win you heard it here first.
Vance said...
Mark, apparently, has a personal timeline for when he forgets all attacks on the US.
He never, ever forgets a thing a Republican did wrong, ever. But kill an American? After a couple of years, Mark's a-ok with that!
Thank you Vance.
And Mark, I'm GenX, not a boomer.
But I'm certainly a "boomer" in that I like blowing up our enemies.
But I'm glad you hear you will never complain about "the CIA supported the Shaw in 1953, it's all the US's fault!"
Since 1953 is 26 years before 1979, and you consider complaining about actions from 1979 to be "out of bounds"
We will be in the US in April. Bagoh has reminded me that we do not at present have a rubber duck. I will make sure to obtain one while there, I have been neglecting my naval forces. Thanks!
Dude1394 said... and Greg the Class Traitor and Bagoh... Are you sure you are not me posting in an alternative timeline? Everything you are writing I am thinking.
Yes I think several of the posters here are perfectly happy to see American soldiers die and are wishcasting for our failure. I think they are pathetic. In a better country they would have been beaten behind the schoolyard.
Thanks rh, Macgregor is always good for a laugh.
Yes the ballad of 1953 gets old real fast, in truth only half the story is ever told
From the first chapter in Tom Holland’s riveting history of Christendom, “Dominion,”: “In 539 BC, when Babylon was conquered by the Persians, just as Assyria seven decades previously had been co queried by the Babylonians, the gods of the vanquished metropolis had not hesitated to hail its new master as their favourite.Cyrus, the founder of his people ‘s greatness, and whose capture of the world’s largest city had set the seal on a lifetime of astonishing victories, had graciously accepted their patronage. The Persian king boasted of having entered Babylon at their explicit invitation; of having restored their temples; of having cared daily for their worship. Cyrus, as deft a propagandist as he was effective a military commander, knew full well what he was doing. Starting his reign as the king of an obscure and upstart people, he ended it as lord of the largest agglomeration of territitories that the world had ever seen….”
So reference to Cyrus reaches reminds the world that Persia’s culture and tradition predates Islam. They are not, and never have been, Islamist. Make Persia great again!
Lol Keith. Smart people don't go to schools where they settle their differences with violence. You do you, but we're not letting the "violence first" Israel lovers rob Americans of a future to support unconditionally Israel...
Taste war good and hard so we're not forever at war fighting Israel's battles. Damn right I'm rooting for the underdog here... we need to learn the hard way to respect sovereign nations.
How many Americans died yesterday and today? Any school girls massacred, even by accident? No men are left in America, it seems...
Not co queried, but CONQUERED
Tactical Nuclear Duck (TND)
Aerial Amphibious Drone (Self Directing )
’Tactical Nuclear Duck (TND)’
Sorry, but they stand no chance against the advanced Chinese missiles that Iran is negotiating to purchase sometime in the future.
Col. Douglas Macgregor:
“On narrow, time-bound military predictions (especially Ukraine), he’s been wrong far more often than right—likely 0–2 clear “wins” out of dozens of specific calls over the decade, with accuracy near 0% on those.” (Grok)
Perplexity is a bit more merciful:
“he has made several documented, substantive wrong predictions (especially about a quick Russian victory and Ukrainian collapse), but there is no authoritative figure for how many times he has been wrong in total over the last 10 years.”
As a retired Colonel in the US Army, he should keep his mouth shut at least in the first month of battle. Talk about giving comfort to our enemies.
Persia is a proud nation that was usurped by scoundrels like the ayatollah who took advantage of the wests naivete the examples of princetons richard falk and christopher bulliet of columbia come readily to mind
Just a reminder of some of what they have done: U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins was kidnapped in February 1988 while serving with a U.N. observer mission. He was tortured for months and ultimately dumped near a mosque. An autopsy found that he had been starved and castrated, and that the skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue.
One of evil djinn that turned iraq into a charnel house was zarquawi who was given safe passage through iran on the way
he is the father of the islamic state notion other al queda operatives likd seif al adel
Financial Times is reporting that the CIA had a human asset within Khamenei's inner circle.
Also reported is that Israel hacked all the traffic lights in Tehran to track his movements.
All sounds hard to believe, but amazing if true.
Before him bill buckley was tortured and interrogated by azziz al abub a moscow trained iranian doctor an apprentice od abu nixal who worked for hezbollah
"Mark said...
There's Greg, settling scores from 1979 and calling people names. OK boomer."
LOL. Whenever a person in their'50s or 60's and even some 40s disparages boomers, you can be sure they have mommy and daddy issues with their boomer parents.
maybe had to finish dinner or no desert, or, make their own bed, or take a bath. Or, brothers and sisters got more attention
Most accepted the rules, and most that didn't realized the value as they matured.
A small percentage, unfortunately, apply the hatred of their well meaning parents to the entire "boomer" generation.
Be sympathetic to these people, not angry, for they know not what they do.
Enigma said...
Today in "As the Political Screw Turns":
- The pro-west Europe-friendly Shah is driven out by militant religious traditionalists in 1979.
People seem to forget to add to that- with the full support of President Jimmy Carter.
"We have no interest in Iran, which poses no threat to us."
What you fail to understand is that the people who have been in control of Iran are true believers. True believers on the level of early medieval Catholics. This is a foreign concept to many modernists.
They do what they do because they believe in their hearts that it is God's will, as told them through his divine prophet, Mohammad.
A familiarity with the mission he gave them should convince you than they must not be allowed to build nuclear weapons.
The same thing happened with mugabe over muzorewa who actually won the election (the Times waxed richly when hebpassed)
LOL ol ol ol
Don’t be dissin the medieval Catholics, Rabel! If not for the crusades, Europe would have been Eurasia 600 years ago!
buwaya said...
“Bagoh has reminded me that we do not at present have a rubber duck. I will make sure to obtain one while there…”
Arthur Weasley has a question for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHi3aohNPTw&t=20s
That was the first bullet we dodged with hillary
’Tactical Nuclear Duck (TND)’
But the founders never intended that the 2nd Amendment would allow just anyone to go into their local convenience store and walk out with a 10-pack of TNDs.
Vance, 1979 was a couple years?
Dear Kaks and Jaqa and RCOceans, et al:
How do you manage to get through your ravings without once mentioning, or even vaguely hinting in the general direction of, Sharia Supremacism?
Jaq: With all that knowledge about Tehran, we hit an elementary school for girls in the first minutes of the surprise attack, killing 100+ little girls, and it was a US made missile.
Bullshit.
I bet you bought that Israel bombed the hospital in Gaza story hook, line, and sinker, too.
I searched Amazon for TND rubber ducks, with no luck. I will have to settle for conventional yellow ducks.
"Don’t be dissin the medieval Catholics, Rabel!"
I chose that example because of who I was responding to. Thought it might weaken a counter.
Vance, 1979 was a couple years?
Why the deflection and misdirection?
Just come out and say you support the mullahs. Be honest.
"Just come out and say you support the mullahs. Be honest."
Your logical basis for this claim is nonexistent.
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