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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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... Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good,” Netanyahu said. “Aggression will overcome moderation.”

https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-jesus-christ-genghis-khan-remarks-11710457

I'm not upset about the comment. Just make it an exhibit at his trial for war crimes. Thank you very much.

What Netanyahu Said About Jesus Christ and Genghis Khan

“Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan,“ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference.

Newsweek

Trump now saying NATO are cowards for not joining in his stupid ill-conceived incompetently-run "war".

Pete Hegseth was very upset the military discharged him and now he's running it and his mental powers extend as far as "we need money to kill bad guys".

I did not ask to be in this Netflix comedy special based on Idiocracy, and I am not enjoying it.

" "Gregg Phillips, appointed last year to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, made the jaw-dropping teleportation claim in a January 2025 appearance on the right-wing podcast Onward, before he had the top role at the agency.

“I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House — this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was,” Phillips said.

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“And they said, ‘where are you?’ and I said, ‘A Waffle House.’ And ‘a Waffle House where?’ And I said, ‘Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.’ And they said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real.”

Phillips also shared fantasies about hurting former President Joe Biden with Onward host Catherine Engelbrecht.""

I can't even.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_69b7cd6ce4b0e8cdfdd30114/liveblog_69bdc671e4b0284f9be096b1

Senate Advances Mullin Nomination For DHS Secretary With Help Of 2 Dems

HuffPost
President Trump just said that the United States is very close to achieving its objectives in Iran and surprisingly he's actually telling the truth unfortunately the objective was to lose a war in Iran.
The United States in every international relationship and situation now:

Just apropos the waffle teleportation guy, a reminder that Tucker Carlson had a dream that he was being attacked by interdimensional beings.

So these people are quite literally out of their minds. In addition to being child rapists and criminals.

"Donald Trump once said, "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." "

True.

" Trump made the remarks about U.S. President Barack Obama in November 2011."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-trump-once-said-192200549.html

Fact Check: Trump once said Obama would start war with Iran due to his inability to negotiate

In a years-old video that resurfaced online in early 2026 amid increasing U.S. tensions with Iran, Trump also called Obama "weak" and "ineffective."

Yahoo News
I wasn't alive for World War I or World War II, but I'm beginning to think I understand how they got started ... as I hear Trump and Netanyahu calling for everybody to join in their war.

Has anyone seen any confirmation that the United States attacked an Iranian desalination plant?

"On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of striking a desalination plant in southern Iran."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/iran-war-middle-east-desalination-plant-drone-attacks-risks-fossil-fuel-water-drought/

Middle East desalination plant attacks highlight risks of relying on "fossil fuel water"

Destroying the facilities is “the most grievous kind of war crime that you can dream up.”

Mother Jones

Actually that's a great article for discussion of how energy intensive desalination is. Perhaps not everybody is aware how energy intensive it is to get salt out of water.

If you do it yourself, you boil the water and condense it elsewhere without the impurities. That requires the energy to boil the water completely. Desalination plants use reverse osmosis.

Either way it is unwinding a very stable energy state, and that's very costly. Very much like removing carbon dioxide from the air.

But anyway, if the United States is attacking Iranian desalination plants then they will shut down the Strait no question

Anyway anyway ... best before dates are hardly even recommendations. Canned food lasts for years beyond that date. Frozen food is good too.

Boy, I really thought we left this behind after the pandemic but I guess not. Fun times. Got to love Republican criminals. Just ... the worst people on Earth

@Miro_Collas

US denied being responsible in that report. I'm looking for a report confirming one way or another, which may not exist.

@Miro_Collas

Looks like it's just accusation and both US and Israel denied. UAE was dragged in by accusation at one point too, but it also denied having any involvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Qeshm_Island_desalination_plant_attack

2026 Qeshm Island desalination plant attack - Wikipedia

@jmcrookston so how about this time we just say: NO

@Kantikainen

Yes. Or better yet we need to throw those two in jail. That's what we need to do.

Not want to do. Need to do

@jmcrookston I was not aware he could so accurately predict the future. Then again everyting is projection with him.
@jmcrookston oh did he finally find an objective?

@driusan

I believe so. His mother would be very very proud.

@jmcrookston Need to play that this Sunday during the christofascists services.

@Lightfighter yup

Jesus sucks, says Israel's Prime Minister, who told you to go to war and you did, you sheep

@jmcrookston the entire thing was... it was French colonialism we were defending, but they'd quit a long time back