City is Minab and it's on the Iranian coast side of Straight of Hormuz.
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Victor Davis Hanson: This Is A Surreal War, What Is Actually Happening In Iran Is Not Being Reported
Posted By Tim HainsOn Date March 17, 2026
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: We’re just completing the second week of the so-called Iran war — this effort of the United States to bomb the theocracy into submission so they will cancel their missile and nuclear programs and to champion the popular protests on the streets that have some potential to get rid of the regime itself.
But it’s a very surreal war. I haven’t seen — I don’t think any of us have seen — anything like it. It’s only been two weeks and we’re told that it’s dragging on, that it’s a forever war, that we’re losing, that the Pentagon and the Trump administration had no plans. And yet when you look at Iran, this huge country — much, much bigger and with a much larger population than Iraq or Afghanistan — it has no military left.
The Navy is dismantled. The Air Force is dismantled. The Republican Guard — all of these special contingents — are under enormous assault. The command and control is destroyed. The missile defense is destroyed. And yet people say that it’s unconquerable. It doesn’t make any sense. Its output of missiles and drones at the Gulf petrol states and Israel has dropped by 90%.
So what’s going on?
I think part of the problem is that there’s no media coverage. There are no embedded reporters there because we are not on the ground. When you don’t have a ground fight in enemy territory, you don’t have American embedded journalists traveling with the troops who can give diverse opinions and accurate accounts.
All we have are the journalists who are allowed into Iran. And that happens to be — guess who — CNN. And they report the party line that comes out of the Iranian theocracy.
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Even in the first Gulf War of 1990–1991, people were united. But the Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party of Bill Clinton. It’s a socialist party — that’s a euphemism. It really does not believe in traditional America. And it believes that if it can convey a sense that America is losing, then two things follow.
For some, it means that the November midterms might give power back to the Democrats, and therefore it’s in their self-interest to magnify the debacle, so to speak, or the tragedy — or the idea that we’re losing.
And then there are others in the Democratic Party — and I’m talking about the Squad — who actually are sympathizing with the enemy.
If you think I’m crazy, there was a protest out in New York where we had resident aliens, students here on student visas, naturalized citizens. And what were they screaming? “Shame on the United States.”
Why were they protesting? And who were they protesting on behalf of? Iran, the Hezbollah terrorists, and the Hamas terrorists.
So this is a very bizarre thing.
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We’ve only been here two weeks and the much more formidable enemy is in shambles. And we’re left with just three alternatives.
Either the regime is going to be replaced now or in the next few weeks as the people come out of their homes and see what their country is like and what the theocracy caused.
Or there’s going to be some Venezuelan solution where a strongman comes forward.
Or maybe that won’t happen at all and the United States, under political pressure, will stop.
But if it stops, they have destroyed the Iranian military and its nuclear and missile programs for years. So this was all preferable to the situation pre-war in which Iran was still working on the bomb, still had 3,000 missiles and more drones, and was boasting that anytime it wanted it could close the Strait of Hormuz.
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Right.
Now get this, there is no "Shajareh Tayyebeh" girls school in Minab shown located in Minab on Google Earth.
The only school by that name is 100 Miles to the north in another town.
Another worthy read from VDH. A bit lengthy and passed my bedtime, so no excerpts for now. Maybe later.
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Our Long Road to War With Iran
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Our Long Road to War With Iran
For decades, Iran cultivated a myth of invincibility through terror and proxies—until war exposed the regime as weaker, poorer, and far more fragile than the world had feared.
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Taqiyyah you silly infidel ...
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The npr report said Tayyebeh.Taqqiyah you silly infidel ...
That's what I cut and pasted.
Taqiyyah - or various spellings, is an Islamic term for deflection - disinformation -"lying", etc.
I was being whimsical and satirical.
Taqiyya - Wikipedia
You'll notice our Islamist Jihadi 'Mouth of Sauron'; luiza , provides frequent examples of such.Taqiyyah - or various spellings, is an Islamic term for deflection - disinformation -"lying", etc.
I was being whimsical and satirical.
Taqiyya - Wikipedia
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luiza
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For an opponent that is supposedly losing , the Iranian Freedom Fighters are doing amazingly well .
They just downed another F35 ( $80 million) and continue to blitz Israel .
Perhaps we begin to understand Why Trumpfy wants to wind - down the war .
His imagined popularity is visibly declining by the day .
Let's party --- it's Allahu Akbar party time
They just downed another F35 ( $80 million) and continue to blitz Israel .
Perhaps we begin to understand Why Trumpfy wants to wind - down the war .
His imagined popularity is visibly declining by the day .
Let's party --- it's Allahu Akbar party time
CrusaderFrank
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The cheerleaders haven't yet figured out that by bombing the South Pars, Israel cut 80% of Iran's electricity.
Odd that the USA and our "Greatest Ally" would inflict so much intentional damage on people we claim to be "helping"
Iran: Domestic Supply Crisis
- South Pars Gas Field
: An Israeli airstrike on March 18 damaged four treatment plants at the Asaluyeh hub. - Domestic Impact: The field provides 70–75% of Iran's natural gas; the damage directly threatens electricity for 80% of the country and residential heating.
Hafar1014
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Is that worse than what 47 years of the oppressive Iranian government has done to the Iranian people?
Hafar1014
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32000 of its own people slaughtered
One year.
CrusaderFrank
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They don't enjoy anything close to what we have.
You should listen to post #30. How is it you and others are so in tune to what the Iranian people actually want?
Invisibleflash
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Fight who?
Fight the USA / Jews trying to turn Iran into Gaza.
Or fight to destroy their own country and topple it from within to let the USA / Jews turn them into Gaza?
The USA / Jews have been working to destroy Iran for decades. See 'Which Path to Persia'
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
Check out the chapter...Leave it to Bibi. See the chapter on regime change and the Velvet revolution.
How well armed are the Iranians to have a revolution?
Sounds like what Iran says about both of us.
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And, like so many others here, I want a Constitutional Republic where our Representatives and Administration wake up every day trying to come with ways to make life better for the American people.
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