/----/ It's so cute how you root for the mullahs and IRG to the end. If you studied history that happened before this morning, you'd know that while she was in its death throes, Germany launched a massive attack right before it collapsed.
I am sure this thing is going as planned. If we get our way we will have $300B less in cash and $100B less in military equipment, 13 fewer soldiers, a strait that was open before, a more militant Iranian leader younger and healthier than his dad, and still no resolution on nuclear material but the best case is the same agreement on nuclear stuff the JCPOA had under Obama.
LOL. Fox "News."It appears Iran is on its last leg, hanging on by a thread. Of course they are famous for breaking every deal they ever signed. Time will tell but it looks like it’s over.
‘Designated target’ Mojtaba Khamenei to sign Trump deal in ‘unprecedented’ courier setup
Experts say the U.S. is negotiating with an invisible counterparty as Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly remains in hiding and relies on secret couriers.www.foxnews.com
Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would have to approve any final deal with the U.S. through secret courier networks while remaining in hiding as a "designated target," counterterrorism experts said Tuesday.
The unprecedented arrangement, they claimed, means Washington is negotiating a high-stakes accord with an entirely invisible counterparty, with a potential memorandum signed by a regime leader and a "designated target" who can never publicly show his face.
/----/ When you can't refute the message, attack the messenger.
/----/ "Bombing has proved ineffective. Quite the contrary, it's galvanized the Iranian people behind the regime."
/-----/ No nukes and ICBMs in Iran and a free people. Of course you don't care about that.
We arent getting regime change. That ship has sailed so what are you talking about?
And?
You seem to have no problems with potential war crimes. That is interesting.
I was not referring to the Gulf states.
If being an operative word.
Then do not complain when allies decline to assist an unnecessary attack.
From my reading the decision to open the Strait lies with Iran.
Except that it was not weeks away from nuclear weapons. And Trump stated last June that "Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated" .
And while that agreement was in place Iran kept to it. From here: Fact Sheet: The Iran Deal, Then and Now - Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
That is debatable.
North Korea has them. Again from my reading the Iranian regime's viewpoint appears to be that having a nuclear deterrent prevents attacks by the USA.
Then your statement that Iran was weeks away from nuclear weapons is erroneous.
It has some revenue and the Iranian regime does not care how much suffering it inflicts on the populace.
You seem quite at ease with the USA committing potential war crimes.
History shows that intensive bombing has never achieved regime change. Neither Germany nor the Allies could achieve that in WW2 and it did not work for the USA in Vietnam either.
The stock market doesn't think so. You need to look past the closure of Hormuz.
Stopping Iran's nuclear program is a good policy, its what the flawed JCPOA tried to do but failed miserably.
Iran had enough enriched uranium for 11 bombs, if the Ayatollah said "build it".
nypost.com
It was in the centrifuges when we bombed.
5% of Iran's oil moves by rail to China, another 5% moves via the Caspian sea. Bomb a few RR bridges and a few pumping stations and Iran's oil output goes to zero. Trump is being very patient.
Americans, real Americans, know a small sacrifice at the pump is worth Iran not having nukes.
...and nothing, you are okay being called a leftist? You are, correct?
Read my post again. We are not under the ICC, they are not war crimes.
So who else could afford to buy food for 93,000,000 people? Your argument about Iran's neighbors falls flat.
I didn't use "if", but you are correct. Trump needs to hold firm on the blockade and not TACO.
It was only an unnecessary attack if you are fine with Iran having nukes and ICBMs. Which you apparently are.
Unless escorts are used to move tankers thru the strait.
Iran's enrichment facilities were obliterated, but there is still 460 kg buried there in the centrifuges that can be recovered.
nypost.com
The JCPOA was a 10-year agreement, then Iran could develop nukes, the JCPOA expired. It was worthless.
Not from our perspective. Paying more for gas for a few months is a small price to pay to stop Iran.
So you are okay with Iran having nukes and ICBMs. We are not.
You didn't answer the follow-up question, what "situation" is the US in? See link above, not erroneous.
Keep watching...
LOL. What part of "WE ARE NOT UNDER THE ICC" do you not understand?
If Trump loses his patience and puts Iran back in the Stone Age they will take decades to recover unless he also destroys their oil infrastructure, then they have no revenue and become another Afghanistan. Iranians are not stupid people, Ayatollah Khomeini had to "drink from the poison chalice" for Saddam, "junior" can do it for Trump.
It appears Iran is on its last leg, hanging on by a thread. Of course they are famous for breaking every deal they ever signed. Time will tell but it looks like it’s over.
‘Designated target’ Mojtaba Khamenei to sign Trump deal in ‘unprecedented’ courier setup
Experts say the U.S. is negotiating with an invisible counterparty as Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly remains in hiding and relies on secret couriers.
Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would have to approve any final deal with the U.S. through secret courier networks while remaining in hiding as a "designated target," counterterrorism experts said Tuesday.
The unprecedented arrangement, they claimed, means Washington is negotiating a high-stakes accord with an entirely invisible counterparty, with a potential memorandum signed by a regime leader and a "designated target" who can never publicly show his face.
LOL. Fox "News."
I fail to see why you are making assumptions about my political leanings.
That the USA never ratified the Rome Statue does not negate a potential war crime.
As I noted, the Iranian regime is not bothered about the suffering of the Iranian population.
I know you did not and I know I am.
That is your view but it may not be his.
Iran did not have nukes and IBMs. Why do you keep peddling a lie?
Do you imagine the insurers will accept that? What about the risk to US military personnel? Does Trump want body bags coming home?
Therefore the regime was and is nowhere near being capable of producing a nuclear weapon.
Witkoff's expertise is as a real estate lawyer."The 60% material, Sean, can be brought to 90%, that’s weapons-grade, in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside. The 20% can be brought to weapons-grade inside of three to four weeks.”Iran claimed to have enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, US envoy Witkoff says
Iranian officials told their US counterparts at crunch talks in Switzerland last week that the Islamic Republic possessed enough enriched material to build 11 nuclear bombs, President Trump’s…
“They were proud of it,” Witkoff went on. “They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”
Again you are incorrect.
And while the JCPOA was in force Iran kept to that agreement.
You might think that but it seems many of your compatriots do not. From here: Walmart warns US shoppers are cutting spending as higher petrol prices bite
I would prefer that no country had nuclear weapons but one cannot undo the past nor can one destroy knowledge.
The situation of an unnecessary war and a rising cost of living. Both being the complete opposite of what Trump promised when campaigning
If its capability was "totally obliterated" then explain how barely a year later it was in a position to produce a nuclear weapon. Your claim is also rejected by US intelligence
What part of committing a potential war crime do you not understand?
How do you envisage Iran would be put back in the Stone Age?
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