https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live
Reports stating that Israel have launched an attack against Iran
Now you bring it up, I wonder if the Northern Fleet has been left alone? To get to the gulf, the stuff either would have to be transported overland (Not inconceivable for some of the smaller vessels) or it would have to take a long, circuitous route through Russia's canal and river system. It's been done before, but is a little inconvenient.
A key thing with the MAGA / Reform types is that they seem to be mostly warmongers, pro-assassinations and the rule of the jungle: 'might is right' and so on. They have no time for diplomacy or negotiated solutions. The world they inhabit is an apocalyptic one.
I believe the scientist Mordechai Vanunu provided proof of this. He spent 18 years in an Israeli prison for leaking the info to a paper.
Pete Hegseth saying "we didn't start this war but we'll finish it"
Písshead Pete is at it early.
Fair play to Spain not bending the knee. US planes have left it's bases.
As true as that may be, keeping in theme with the whole thread….. where is the proof, though?
It could be all a made up story, unlike having half a ton of enriched Uranium, one step away from weapons grade, that is super definitely for civilian use only….
Sanchez is playing a blinder - nobody will ever be able to accuse him in future of aiding and abetting war criminals or turning a blind eye to genocide.
Remember when the French opposed the Iraq War because they didn't believe there were WMDs. The Americans changed the word 'French Fries' to 'Freedom Fries'. That's the level you are dealing with.
Unfortunately the world is even more stupid now. We deserve our fate.
The Scofield Bible has a lot to answer for. If God can only deliver salvation to the few, after the slaughter of many innocent children, then send me down to hell. There is a genuine belief in the prophecy and this Providence type nonsense. I was lucky enough to not be indoctrinated with this warped view of Christianity. They have conveniently forgotten their support for Blair/Bush. They act like they weren’t the ones supporting this. And where is the outrage that Blair was meant to be a peace-keeper in the Middle East
trump mentioning biggest US waves yet to come also talk of US putting boots on ground in Iran if needs be
A sobering thought on exactly how the US protect the world !
It is good to remember that not every nation blindly followed the narrative du jour. I remember the blood-thirst in the Murdoch media, circa 2003. They were whipping the general public into a frenzy. Those opposed to the war in Iraq were made to appear like Nazi-sympathisers. They said that it was all about oil. But one has to wonder if it was part of a deeper and longer-term strategy to destabilise the ME and to justify heavy-handed strategies in the region
You dont have an argument. Its moot.
Bizarrely, they claim to hate Tony Blair and yet they were big cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq. The fact that they are usually colonial types would be consistent anyway - colonialism was invariably linked to wars, violence and repression.
Israel wanting to take over Kuwait is akin to the House of Windsor being Lizard People.
Get with the program…. binary opinions only, no grey areas allowed.
No. I do not mean them.
Correct it so. Take it apart line by line. Here you go.
US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again - Page 194 — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin'
And then you can answer my questions. Remember this all started because you answered a question with a question. You refused to answer my questions because you were caught. I answered yours. You should have the decency to do likewise.
My questions (before you forget) are;
Q1 Why do the US/Israel always abandon negotiations and go obliterating?
Q2 Do you think you are somehow smarter or more knowledgeable than the United States Intelligence Community - Wikipedia? I will repeat their assertion.
"We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so. In the past year, there has been an erosion of a decades-long taboo on discussing nuclear weapons in public that has emboldened nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decisionmaking apparatus. Khamenei remains the final decisionmaker over Iran’s nuclear program, to include any decision to develop nuclear weapons."
Your questions are ridiculous. You may as well want them to predict the lottery numbers next week. As I said, the Americans and Israelis are hoping to create the environment for a change of regime, or at least one that is much more amenable to cutting a deal. They will cross that bridge when they come to it. At the worst-case scenario, Iran as a threat to the region will be taken off the table. Trump and the US can live with that outcome.
Who is talking about boots on the ground?
No one.
How do you know that will be the worst case scenario? For all you know it could turn into another basket case like Syria with extremists running amok.
I am not an American.
You seem awfully worried about my opinions. Why? You seem to engage in conspiracy theories yourself and engage in unfounded and unproven claims
No one has officially said it, but there has been some quiet mass movements of SOF troops eastwards.
Mod - @markodaly, tone down the aggressive and dismissive responses, you're being a dick in numerous posts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-169964/Blair-hits-anti-war-lobby.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-174960/Iraqis-control--Blair.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-169994/Troops-morally-right-says-Blair.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-173104/Hoon-Iraqi-regimes-days-numbered.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-174949/Iraq-run-Iraqis--PM.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-180231/US-UK-unveil-plan-run-Iraq.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/sitemaparchive/day_20030123.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-155653/Straw-warns-terrorism-weapons-destruction-link.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-155920/Blair-Saddam-lying-weapons-arsenal.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-156100/Public-support-action-says-Blair.html
If you go through the 2003 archives from the DailyMail, it highlights the old saying, “history might not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes”
I didn't say you are an American, I said from your hand-wringing posts about Israel's crimes in Palestine you seem to live in the US and know Zionists and or Jewish people hence my comment about you going native on all of this because you clearly have done so. You have said all this yourself. I'm not engaging in any conspiracy theories either, your posts are as plain as day for anyone to see.
Apologies, I didn't see this warning before replying to him.
Cutting a deal? How naïve! 😂
Fool me once...
Yeah, I don't buy it. Moron and Rota has been used extensively as part of the Middle East build up and still is.
Much like Mildenhall and Lakenheath (RAF bases, in use by the USAF, in the UK).
This is about the optics of the impending heavy bomber deployment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/world/threats-responses-diplomatic-strategy-us-set-demand-that-allies-agree-iraq.html?searchResultPosition=18
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/international/iraq-says-scientists-refuse-interviews-with-un-inspectors.html?searchResultPosition=22
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/international/middleeast/us-set-to-demand-that-allies-agree-iraq-is-defying.html?searchResultPosition=50
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/world/threats-responses-weapons-sleuths-many-iraqis-like-their-government-complain.html?searchResultPosition=244
These are articles from the NYT. Same stories, different actors
