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Trump and Iran thread đŸ§”

aka The Trump War of Choice in Iran to Distract from the Epstein Files thread đŸ§”

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The Iranian Ayotollah should tell Trump "we will start shooting if you do".

Ref
_Trump warns Ayatollah ‘we will start shooting if you do’ as Iran rocked by another night of protests_
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-protests-trump-ayatollah-shooting-tehran-b2897961.html
Trump warns Ayatollah ‘we will start shooting if you do’ as Iran rocked by another night of protests

US president says he has ‘put Iran on notice’ not to target protesters after demonstrations were held across the country

The Independent

The Iranian Ayotollah should call for new United States leadership too.

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_Trump calls for new leadership in Iran following nationwide protests_
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-new-leadership-iran-protests-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-rcna254561

Trump calls for new leadership in Iran following nationwide protests

President Donald Trump on Saturday called for regime change in Iran following protests that have roiled the country in recent weeks.“It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran,” Trump told Politico in an interview

NBC News
Iran's leader calls Trump a 'criminal' for backing protests

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized President Trump for supporting the protesters, and Trump responded by calling for an end to Khamenei’s rule.

Los Angeles Times
So if the United States just declared war on Iran as a defensive matter, I suppose the U.S. needed to sink that Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because it was just about to ... strike the continental United States? Is that it?
A Shahid drone costs about 40,000 dollars. I think a Patriot missile costs between 4 and 7 million dollars. (That's just the missile. I think the launcher is about 400 million.)

The Iranian ship sunk by Trump and Hegseth in their illegal terrorist war of choice had been invited to India to participate in an exhibition, and was unarmed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iranian-warship-was-sailing-home-from-india-exhibition-when-u-s-sank-it

Iranian warship was sailing home from India exhibition when U.S. sank it

The sinking underscored the scope of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its spread in the Middle East and beyond. It also ignited a debate in India about maritime security in the Indian Ocean.

PBS News

Earlier thread about Iran, from 2025, is here:

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114727962307106386

"One user named “Magamyman” made $553,000 from Iran bets placed on the eve of war. In one of their many bets, they wagered $32,000 early morning on Feb. 28, hours before the strikes began, and correctly predicted there would be strikes that day, when the Polymarket odds said there was only a 17% chance."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/politics/iran-war-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi

Iran-related bets on prediction sites scrutinized over ‘death markets’ and possible insider trades

As the US and Israel prepared for war and later launched strikes against Iran, traders on online prediction markets wagered over $1 billion on every aspect of the conflict.

CNN

"Some Democrats also pointed out that the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined Polymarket’s advisory board last year and his conservative venture capital fund, 1789 Capital, invested an undisclosed amount in the company. Trump Jr. also serves as an adviser to Kalshi.*

Kalshi is another betting site

So it looks like the girls school was hit by a United States tomahawk missile. Trump lied and it wasn't Iran (which of course we all knew),

They think the girls school was incorrectly identified as a military building on outdated information.

Pete Hegseth, after he assumed office, scaled back to a skeleton crew the office that ensures that civilian buildings aren't hit.

This probably makes for quite an easy claim against him

_Trump says Iranian oil facility is ‘totally demolished’ but US may continue to bomb it ‘just for fun’_
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-oil-depot-bombing-fun-b2938728.html
Trump says Iranian oil facility is ‘totally demolished’ but US may continue to bomb it ‘just for fun’

U.S. president has called on allies to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz to help keep the critical shipping channel open

The Independent
"In terms of how the war would develop, Trump said “the only power they have, and it’s a power that can be closed off relatively quickly, is the power of dropping a mine or shooting a relatively short-range missile. But when we get finished with the shoreline, they’re not going to have that power either.” ... "

" ... He added: “We’ve knocked out most of their missiles. We’ve knocked out most of their drones. We knocked out their manufacturing of missiles and drones, largely. Within two days, it’ll be totally decimated.” "

A Shahed drone has a range of 2,500 km + can reach the Strait of Hormuz from anywhere in Irsn.

What even is this man Trump talking about. He's talking nonsense. That's what.

2500 marines are being sent in "just for fun", I guess.
A lot of the tail end of the United States-Vietnam War was "just for fun", as I recall.
Okay. Trump says he doesn't need anybody's help. Nobody help him.

Benjamin Netanyahu says "do you really think that anyone can convince Trump what to do?" when it was put to him that Israel told Trump to go to war.

Of course we do. Trump is a moron and easily manipulated.

He made his choice and he's not exonerated for it, of course, but it's absolutely possible to sway him. Russia has been swaying him for years. He's a Russian asset.

By the way, that guy (the one responsible for the war crimes in Gaza) is staying out of jail by going to war with everybody around him.

We've really let the top political positions be filled by just the absolute best human beings on Earth haven't we. đŸ€Ą

If you want to read a fun story about Putin manipulating Trump, here's one from Trump's former Russian affairs advisor:

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114585533310571216

Benjamin Netanyahu says that he won't attack certain gas fields because Trump asked him to.

But he says Trump didn't get dragged into the war because he asked Trump to.

He has also said repeatedly that Trump is a very good friend of his.

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Benjamin Netanyahu now comparing Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan.

"During the press conference, Netanyahu said, “You know, if people want to be naive, then they don’t see the kind of world we’re living in. In this world, it’s not enough to be moral. It’s not enough to be just. It’s not enough to be right.”

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... You know, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, someone that I admire a lot, was the historian Will Durant,” Netanyahu continued. “Now, he wrote many volumes—I read most of them—he also wrote The Lessons of History, a very brief, 100-page book, in which he said, well, history proves that, unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan.”

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@jmcrookston the entire thing was... it was French colonialism we were defending, but they'd quit a long time back
@jmcrookston and every single one of them not mutineering and refusing said order is complicit in it!
@kkarhan but the war is already won! The 2500 marines are just being sent in to party.
@jmcrookston where? On the beach of Kish Island?
@kkarhan Is that the island with the oil refinery on it?

@jmcrookston no, but the one with Oil Trading Center an tourist beaches.

  • Mostly used until recently by people who had to leave the #UAE for like new visa shortly. It's also a visa-free Free Trade Zone

    • Basically the Shah's Dubai before Dubai did anything more than oil and pearls.
Kish Island - Wikipedia

@kkarhan

Ah, that makes more sense. I'd never heard of this island. Thanks.

@jmcrookston granted, it did make a splash each time #Iran and #Venezuela were "questioning" #Petrodollar supremacy


#USpol #IRpol

Kellogg–Briand Pact - Wikipedia

@jmcrookston some #TinfoilHats believe the #EpsteinWars (against #Venezuela and #Iran) are done not merely as #distraction of the #EpsteinFiles, but as means to violently enforce #Petrodollar supremacy as the #US economy is just a house of cards propped up by a fake conomy of "#AI" grifters and the only value #USD has is it's abuse for #trading globally.

  • I just think that #Trump is a #pedo-#rapist who just loves inflicting as much pain and suffering as he can.

  • Still, the attempts of the #USA to distract from their #HousingMarketBubble in the late 2000s and attempting to de-solidarize the #EU and it's members follows said pattern and Trump needs to distract from his #Shitcoin-Empire, #DomesticTerrorism and crimes until he's aboe to siphon off enough money to flee into some luxury location


Petrocurrency - Wikipedia

@jmcrookston Makes total sense if a portion of your income are kickbacks from arms dealers who now need to resupply your military.
@PatrickoftheG He's also out of his mind