People did get what they voted for when they voted for Trump

[JGalt]

A. It’s under their land. That makes it their oil

B. If we take that in the Iranian people won’t get shit

Just like the Venezuelan people, the average Iranian citizen isn't getting shit from their country's oil profits either. Most is consumed by the military, government debt, and the costs of bypassing international sanctions...

"It is difficult to give a single percentage because the "profit" from Iranian oil is split across several opaque layers of government, the military, and a sovereign wealth fund. However, based on the 2025–2026 Iranian budget and recent economic reports, we can break down where the money actually goes.

The short answer: A very small fraction reaches the people directly through subsidies or services. Most is consumed by the military, government debt, and the costs of bypassing international sanctions...

1. The Official Budget Breakdown (2025-2026)

According to the latest budget figures, the distribution of oil export revenue is roughly structured as follows:

The Military (33%+): In a historic shift, the military's share of oil revenue has increased nearly fourfold. The armed forces have even been granted the authority to sell oil directly to fund their own infrastructure, bypassing the Central Bank entirely.

National Iranian Oil Company (14.5%): This is the standard cut for "extraction and production costs," though much of this is also used to maintain aging infrastructure under sanctions.

National Development Fund (NDF): By law, 48% of oil revenue should go here for future generations. However, the government habitually "borrows" from this fund to cover its own deficits. In the current 2026 outlook, the government is expected to take back nearly 28% of that 48% just to stay afloat.

Government Operations: Whatever remains (roughly 20-25%) goes into the general budget to pay for civil servant salaries, infrastructure, and basic services."

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[IDIOCRACY]

Actually the “left” has been pretty accurate regarding wars

Against
Vietnam
Iraq
Iran

Pro
Afghanistan

I so wish left had a brain.

Vietnam was started by demonicrats

Here is Iraq, and if u fks r against the Iran war that logically equates to good reason for it, because recent history dictates u guys r always wrong, and really, looney as **** now.

 

[candycorn]

• November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff.
• April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
• October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.
• March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.
• September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.
• December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.
• June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.
• July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
• April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.
• August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.
• February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.
• March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.
• May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.
• June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
• September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.
• August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens.
• August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.
• January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
• July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.
• October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.
• Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”
• August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.
• August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.
• January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.
• March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.
• July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.
• October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.
• December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.
• January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.
• September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
• February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.
• July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.
• September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
• November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.
• March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.
• October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.
• December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.
• January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.
• Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.
• November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.
• June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.

There is no question in my mind that the Iranian regime would kill every single American citizen if they could, because they just got done murdering around 30 thousand of their own citizens because they were protesting the regime.

Try again.

Why do you think Iran was attacking so often?

 

[candycorn]

Trump has 2 objectives, destroy Iran's military infrastructure and stockpiles of arms. Second, provide the Iranian people the opportunity to topple that evil regime. Something they have been asking us to do for decades. Well Trump has all but accomplished both.

Now it will be up to the Iranian people, and partners in the region to topple that regime. We are not going to spend American blood and treasure doing that for them. We softened them up, killed off their leadership, cut the head off the snake and wiped out their weapons of war. Now it's time for the Iranian people and partners in the region to step up. Plus those cowardly pukes in Europe who rely on the middle east for their oil.

So if we put boots on the ground in Iran...are you still going to worship Trump like you do now?

 

[Mac1958]

Keep telling you that the global oil market doesn’t affect us
Do you think oil drilled here belongs to the government and not the oil companies?
Have you noticed gas prices are up $1.20 a gallon?

Evidently they also don't know about the fertilizer, liquified natural gas and helium (among other things) that can't get through the Strait now, because of the orange buffoon and Operation Epic Epstein™.

And gee, I thought that we "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities. Why does THAT keep coming up now?

MAGA's goddamn arrogant ignorance is not only killing us, it's now damaging the world.

 

[Mac1958]

Oh I get it Iran is sitting on OUR oil

No wonder we attacked them

Among the many things about which the MAGA cult remains blissfully ignorant is the fact that global supply chains are now seizing up and are going to complicate this mess more every day.

Hmm. Gee. That's funny, "global supply chains". Where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah! Late 2020, when that little virus that Trump denied and downplayed was destroying them, leading to massive global inflation.

What a coincidence, huh?

 

[Mac1958]

 

[markef]

You act like Irans only access to money was Obama giving sanction money back
Are you aware that Iran is a major oil producer?

The Shah's money was held in escroll until US courts could determine whether or not the funds should somehow be redirected to the innocent people in Iran or given to victims of Iranian terrorism. The SCOTUS was finalizing deliberations on the issue when Obama suddenly took it on himself to give the terrorists billions of dollars that were never theirs to begin with.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Yes,

Harris is not Potus and the border is secure.

 

[SaxonJackson]

He told you repeatedly that Iran was never to have a nuke.

I've even heard democrats say the same thing.

The only way to prevent that is war.

Now I know that the Left is full of people who insist that diplomacy could have worked, insisting that the Obama agreement with Iran was the way out of this. However, after the Obama administration infused Iran with billions of dollars in their little agreement, 10/7 happened because Iran funds terrorism via Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Iran swore the destruction of the US and Israel upon their revolution and that has never changed, and will never change.

Wanting diplomacy with Iran is akin to wanting diplomacy with Nazi Germany.

Would most people here have preferred to let Iran have a WMD, wait for them to use it, and then respond?

I didn't vote for a "new war."
I didn't vote to put Israel first.
I didn't vote for a thriving and vibrant "Swamp."
I didn't vote for a liar -- oops -- I guess I did.

 

[Lesh]

The Shah's money was held in escroll until US courts could determine whether or not the funds should somehow be redirected to the innocent people in Iran or given to victims of Iranian terrorism. The SCOTUS was finalizing deliberations on the issue when Obama suddenly took it on himself to give the terrorists billions of dollars that were never theirs to begin with.

How do we give “the people of Iran” that money?

Gonna mail em checks?

 

[rightwinger]

The Shah's money was held in escroll until US courts could determine whether or not the funds should somehow be redirected to the innocent people in Iran or given to victims of Iranian terrorism. The SCOTUS was finalizing deliberations on the issue when Obama suddenly took it on himself to give the terrorists billions of dollars that were never theirs to begin with.

It was Irans own money

 

[rightwinger]

<~~~~~~~~~~>
You have to admit that the $2.0 Billion plus that Barry gave back to Iran boosted their ability to build more gas centrifuges, Build Shaded drones, fund proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Actually, international inspectors prevented that

Trump pulled them

 

[August West]

Plus our prewar Intel assessments found that Iran was NOT a threat to develop nuclear weapons and further that an attack would NOT result in regime change

We`re reminded of Gomer`s mythical WMDs in Iraq. $3 Trillion dollars, 4,500 dead soldiers and not a WMD to be found. Another national humiliation.

 

[rightwinger]

True, Iran is still producing oil however, the Mullahs are no longer in control. Luckily, Trump gave a temporary waiver allowing the sale of 140 million barrels (already loaded in tankers and stranded at sea) to ease global price spikes. The Mullahs will no longer control Kharg Island as well.

Those Mullahs control the Strait of Hormuz
That is why we are paying $4 a gallon

 

[Frankeneinstein]

I think

lol

that’s what Netanyahu was whispering in his ear.

what do you think he whispered in his ear?

 

[Hafar1014]

He told you repeatedly that Iran was never to have a nuke.

I've even heard democrats say the same thing.

The only way to prevent that is war.

Now I know that the Left is full of people who insist that diplomacy could have worked, insisting that the Obama agreement with Iran was the way out of this. However, after the Obama administration infused Iran with billions of dollars in their little agreement, 10/7 happened because Iran funds terrorism via Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Iran swore the destruction of the US and Israel upon their revolution and that has never changed, and will never change.

Wanting diplomacy with Iran is akin to wanting diplomacy with Nazi Germany.

Would most people here have preferred to let Iran have a WMD, wait for them to use it, and then respond?

Iran was determined ti have nuclear weapons

 

[TimFitz]

I really don't get why the left don't get that. It's astounding that we have signs like, "Queers for Palestine". All infidels must either die or become devout Muslims. It's not a secret.

I guess you parochial right wingers need an excuse for our duplicity.

We are the aggressor, not Tehran.

So I guess you need to make up you own self righteous rationalizations.

Rant about Hezbollah, but know that we secretly backed them.

instead, we get empty pointless rants about an event 40 years ago in which no one was killed.

All in the face of the very obvious fact that your beloved fuhrer started a war with no plan, was warned but ignored the collateral risks, and clearly has no plan. And no courage.

So you have to recite your prejudices repetitively and do his chest beating for him.

 

[TimFitz]

Iran was determined ti have nuclear weapons

Not by anyone.

They are now. They recognize that they are the only effective deterrent to US aggression. North Korea proved that.

 

[markef]

How do we give “the people of Iran” that money?

Gonna mail em checks?

Good question. However, SCOTUS avoided the dilemma by declaring the Shah's money is to be distributed among the victims of Iranian terror.