The Talking seems to be over…..
Iran has fired back at US assets across the Middle East and Israel…
Trump has announced that this effort IS for regime change something that would make some countries happy in the region….
But?
Could cause internal unrest among certain sect’s of Muslims….
This IS the end of Iran as it has been since the Shah left….
Look for Trump and Israel to reach out for the Shah’s son to assume power and leadership….
For those asking why?
Taking out the head could easier that removing the pieces …
The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, as President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” on Saturday, vowing to decimate Tehran’s military and fuel a change in government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the joint attack would last “as long as needed,” unleashing a conflict that threatens to engulf the region. With explosions rocking Tehran and other cities, Iran pledged a “crushing” retaliation and targeted U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. has in recent days amassed an immense strike force in the region, while pressing Iran to dismantle its nuclear program in negotiations that failed to reach a resolution.
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- Explosions were reported in cities across Iran as the United States and Israel launched an offensive against the Iranian government and its missile and nuclear programs. The operations are expected to run through at least the weekend, a U.S. official said.
- Iran promised to retaliate by targeting U.S. bases across the Middle East. The Post verified at least one attack, on the U.S. Navy headquarters in Bahrain. Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait also said they engaged air defenses to intercept Iranian missile fire.
- Israel declared a state of emergency across the country, and civilians have been told to shelter in place.
- President Donald Trump, in a prerecorded address that was released shortly after the strikes began, called on Iranian civilians to “take over” the government once the attacks finish.
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and “other senior Iranian officials were targets,” according to a person familiar with the matter…..
More @ Wash Post…..
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Explosions in Tehran are the first signs of an attack
Israel announced it had launched an attack on Iran shortly after explosions were heard in Tehran on Saturday morning. One of the first strikes hit near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It wasn’t immediately clear where Khamenei was at the time; he hasn’t been seen for days.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described the attacks that took part across the country as being done “to remove threats.” Iran’s military, symbols of government and intelligence sites were targeted, according to an official briefed on the operation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic information.
Sirens wailed across Israel to warn the public about possible incoming missile strikes..
Iran strikes back
Bahrain said a missile attack targeted the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters in the island kingdom. Witnesses heard sirens and explosions in Kuwait, home to U.S. Army Central. Explosions could be also be heard in Qatar, where Al Udeid Air Base hosts thousands of service members.
Iraq and the United Arab Emirates closed their airspace, and sirens sounded in Jordan.
An apartment building in northern Israel was damaged and shrapnel fell in multiple sites, according to media and police. But Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said there had been no significant hits in Israel and rescue services said there were no injuries reported from missile barrages across the country.
Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, meanwhile, have vowed to resume attacks on Red Sea shipping routes and on Israel, according to two senior Houthi officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement from leadership.
Trump urges Iranians to rise up
It took over an hour for Trump to make an official announcement on the U.S. involvement in what he termed “major combat operations.”
In an 8-minute video on social media, Trump indicated the U.S. was striking for reasons far beyond the nuclear program, listing grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic following a revolution in 1979 that turned Iran from one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East into a fierce foe….
More @ AP….
Note….
US Defense Sec Hegseth and Israeli Hardlines are working Happy this morning….
The Politics of this move IS going to be intersting, complex and uncertain…
This is a developing story….
More to come….
The Shahs son?
I don’t know about that.
I’ve heard little out of Iran indicating that Iranians want to reinstate the monarchy.The Shah was just as unpopular as the present regime in his last days.
The main difference is as the walls closed in on him the Shah refused to let the military loose on the his own people and chose exile instead.
If the present regime does collapse ?There will likely be a period of chaos similar to what occurred in Iraq.
I mention this in my posting
The President of the country could also be a choice
It will be up to Trump and Netanyahu ….
Iranians just want their economy good again…
And secular probably
BTW?
This SHOULD affect gas prices….
And?
How is Trump gonna make MONEY on this❓❓❓❓❓
I thought MAGA was opposed to all these foreign wars?
Wasn’t the MAGA (and DJT) complaint about Obama and the Bushes that they were pursuing “régime change” and getting Americans involved in “endless wars” ?
“And it’s one, two, three: what are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me: I don’t give a damn
Next stop is Isfahan,..”
The evil Iranian regime should go. Hopefully, freedom, security, and peace can come to all of the Middle East.
Our military is the best in the world, but as an American, I have no confidence in this Administration communicating the need for action or providing the truth.
Dan McLaughlin
@baseballcrank
Well, one American tradition still holds: When Bill Clinton has to give testimony, we bomb somebody.
I guess so many in MAGA, including all the people who were leftists 20 years ago, are ok with “nation building” now.
What it shows is that whether any overall strategy or approach is right or wrong, all that matters to some is being on the same side of Trump.
The word is Cult.
Now, separately, without making any judgment to if he is right or wrong today, and while I do not have reason to believe Ron Gunzburger is part of MAGA, I have to observe that the guy Tweeting about the Iran attack would not in anyway recognize the person who was opining on Iraq and other foreign policy matters between 2004 and 2010. I just wonder how he came to have such a radical philosophical transformation.
While I am not in the same political party as I was then, as the party has shifted to something very different, I think my core beliefs and philosophy has been pretty consistent.
Ok?
I’m gonna freelance here….
The now gone leaders of Iran recently ( Since Carter) wher NOT liked In Iran and otherwise….
That they are removed from power COULD be a Good thing….
Iran HAS a troublemaker across the globe for a LONG time…
Those who ARE taged as isolationist’s by the Media Are in Fact NOT so….
Especially one Donald J. Trump
First?
These paople uniformity seek to extend American Power and Control across the planet….
Greenland
Panama
Mexico
Canada
Venezuela
Cuba
Ukraine
Gaza
The above ARE associated WITH Trump and especailly Hegseth
American President’s HAVE armed conflicts during their tewrms in office….
THAT IS A FACT…..
Yes one Donald Trump WAS the guy leaving Afghanistan that had things fall into Biden’s lap and earned him the shitstorm…..
Donald is NOT a war monger….
He IS a NYC Real Estate guy that happened to bull shit his way into the American Presidency TWICE….
He IS ABOUT MONEY anmd EGO….
The dead guys that ran Iran did NOT take any shit from ole Donald…
And I’m gonna guess that if the Israeli’s where N OT involved in this?
They’d still be alive and have gotten over….
But?
With Israel worried MORE about ballistic missile’s then nukes they could neutralize internally?
And Hegseth looking for ANY fight he could?
It just didn’t work for Iran’s leaders…
You and Jack lecture me….
It isn’T the Republicanm party anymore…
It’s Donald’s minions ….
Exceprt for a few oldtime Senator’s?
There is NO real effort to stop this American President form continuing to FUCK up things…
This while we all watch from the sidelines and pray for January 2029 to get here sooner….
Donald John Trump a Felon and sexual misconduct guy, in a alternate universe, is NOT Making America Great AAGAIN by any way , shape or means…
Come on. There no need to even mention Hegseth. He is a figurehead who Donald Trump thinks looks good on television. He makes no decisions nor has any influence, and is likely not even engaged in day to day management at the Pentagon. Trump is the President.
A couple of days ago Senator Markwayne Mullin went on television and claimed that the now dead Ayatollah was the same guy who came to power in 1979.
Nope. Different guy, who is thankfully now also dead. How dumb can he be? I am younger than Mullin but I remember seeing the other Ayatolloah fall out of his coffin on television.
This would have been a couple years after Lt. Detective Frank Drebin (Police Squad) beat the hell out of him on the big screen.
Indeed….
Another idiot
BULLSHIT On Pete….
PLEASE go back a review Hegseth’s boast’s after he got confirmed…..
Donald can’t chew gum and breath….
As with Miller?
Hegseth IS living his “Warrior Dream of leading the Dept. of War’
These guys ARE the juice…
Donald just wants to make money
Hegseth has no “juice.” Zero. He is a figurehead. Get real. Trump has probably never even had a substantive conversation with him.
No juice but plenty of liquor.
I STRONGLY DISAGREE with You on Hegseth’s ‘juice/power’…..
I stand by my feeling that Trump IS basically a bully who when confronted ?
Backs DOWN….
Hegseth HAS moved to push the American military around the world…..
Trump talked about “going to war with Iran”, years, and years ago. He Tweeted about it frequently. What he was saying then was that his nemesis Obama would attack Iran to distract the American people from other problems..
So, clearly that was a huge part of the motivation, along with the fact that he is mad that Iran has been trying to kill him.. It has nothing to do with Hegseth.
We should continue to be very focused on the possibility that the more chaos there is around the world, the more likely it will be for Trump to try to claim some kind of emergency power to stop the 2026 elections or to try to discount whatever might happen in them. He said yesterday he was not considering that. Does anybody actually believe him?
He said months ago that Iran’s nuclear capability had been wiped out, they were no longer a problem, at least for “years and years” and that anybody who would question that hated our military. Now? Nevermind.
According to US Intel reports?
Iran was NOT a threat to American interests ….
Trump fronting did NOT work….
The mobilization of the US military IS/WAS Hegseth….
Trump can’t chew gum and breath…..
Hegseth HAS been the Lead firing Pentagon staff who ask questions, the drug boat takedowns, Venezuelan oil steals, Cuba blockage and now Ukraine….
No other modern day Defense Sec has reviled at running a ‘Dept’ of War’ and carried it out…
He is NOT a ‘Figure Head’….
Far from it….
On Donald?
He thought he took out the Iranian ‘Nukes’ the firts time even as his own people told him otherwise….
Remember Donald ain’rt good on the imtlligence side…
He’s about making money and flexxing on people he can get away with it…..