Iran, will it fall this time?

[longbow]

O said no when he had his chance....

What will Trump do? I hope we help the good guys this time!

 

[Donnelly]

Did I miss something on the news?

 

[longbow]

Multiple protests and generally the normal people sick of the leadership.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I'd be astonished if anything happens besides lots of dead protesters.

 

[halfmileharry]

O said no when he had his chance....

What will Trump do? I hope we help the good guys this time!

Maybe we should mind our own business for a change?
I'm not really sure we've tilted the balance beam in favor of the good guys just yet.
When you enter into any engagement it's nice to be able to tell the players without a score card. That ain't gonna happen anywhere in that oil stained litter box. Ever.
Hearts and minds are great and I like the policy but there are times that's not an option.
I still think (personal opinion only) we ought to mind our own business.

 

[Twangbanger]

This could possibly be spun as an "Iranian Spring," a successful outgrowth of the Obama Nuclear Deal.

You people are not trying hard enough.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[Kutnupe14]

Maybe we should mind our own business for a change?
I'm not really sure we've tilted the balance beam in favor of the good guys just yet.
When you enter into any engagement it's nice to be able to tell the players without a score care. That ain't gonna happen anywhere in that oil stained litter box. Ever.
Hearts and minds are great and I like the policy but there are times that's not an option.
I still think (personal opinion only) we ought to mind our own business.

There's a novel idea.

 

[Thor]

Tiananmen Square, I was hoping for the end of China as we knew it, Death of Khomeini, I was ready to celebrate the end of Iran as we knew it (They were close enough together I threw a party for the Squadron). I won't be holding my breath this time.

We still don't have a budget and a defense authorization bill in place, we are facing the crazy Norks and an expansionist China and Russia...I wish them well but I hope they are planning on solving their own problems for a change.

I could certainly see us finding a reason for helping as they are our next NK nuclear problem thanks to Carter and a big fat pallet of money by big eared O.

 

[Thor]

This could possibly be spun as an "Iranian Spring," a successful outgrowth of the Obama Nuclear Deal.

You people are not trying hard enough.

I don't think Iranian Spring will smell the same as Irish Spring...no matter how hard you scrub.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Tiananmen Square, I was hoping for the end of China as we knew it, Death of Khomeini, I was ready to celebrate the end of Iran as we knew it (They were close enough together I threw a party for the Squadron). I won't be holding my breath this time.

We still don't have a budget and a defense authorization bill in place, we are facing the crazy Norks and an expansionist China and Russia...I wish them well but I hope they are planning on solving their own problems for a change.

I could certainly see us finding a reason for helping as they are our next NK nuclear problem thanks to Carter and a big fat pallet of money by big eared O.

You do know that money was legally the govt of Iran's right? I mean, it's not like the United States sold weapons to Iran to fight against an ally... oh wait.

 

[OakRiver]

Did I miss something on the news?

Iran protests continue for a third day despite warnings - BBC News

These protests seem deeper and to have progressed faster than similar protests in the past.

 

[edporch]

Regardless of how this turns out, I'm confident there are many in Iran who are friendly to us.

In the mid to late 1970's when I was at IU Bloomington, there were many Iranian students there.
This was in the days of the Shah (who was a bad guy), but Iran was much more westernized than today.
The Iranian students I crossed paths with were westernized, and made the effort to fit in and be Americanized.

They often had protests outside of Ballentine Hall against the Shah.
They wanted full western style freedoms like we have here, and I NEVER heard any talk of wanting an Islamic type government.
They usually had bags over their heads as they feared being identified and heir families back home being persecuted by the Shah's government.

Then the Ayatollah Khomeini came out of exile and returned to Iran and took over, and Iran went out of the frying pan into the fire.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Maybe we should mind our own business for a change?
I'm not really sure we've tilted the balance beam in favor of the good guys just yet.
When you enter into any engagement it's nice to be able to tell the players without a score care. That ain't gonna happen anywhere in that oil stained litter box. Ever.
Hearts and minds are great and I like the policy but there are times that's not an option.
I still think (personal opinion only) we ought to mind our own business.

Some there have the same opinion about their own country, it seems.

There is also anger at Iran's interventions abroad. In Mashhad, some chanted "not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran", a reference to what protesters say is the administration's focus on foreign rather than domestic issues.

 

[bwframe]

Where does this action stand in relation to Obama's Iran "deal?" Does it make him look good or bad?

 

[Thor]

You do know that money was legally the govt of Iran's right?

Don't care, not a bit, the big eared one gave cash to support a regime that pays for terrorist actions against us...is our professed enemy...chants death to us at every turn. Flock them, I'd have burned the cash before I gave it back or found a way to give it to every dissident group in Persia; or better yet bought a stack of weapons for Israel and Taiwan.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

You do know that money was legally the govt of Iran's right?

And the IEDs which killed possibly 500 soldiers,disabled 1800 or more,and cost the military 75 million to fight them,had Irans fingerprints all over them.Yea,you can have YOUR money friend......right.....

 

[Kutnupe14]

Don't care, not a bit, the big eared one gave cash to support a regime that pays for terrorist actions against us...is our professed enemy...chants death to us at every turn. Flock them, I'd have burned the cash before I gave it back or found a way to give it to every dissident group in Persia; or better yet bought a stack of weapons for Israel and Taiwan.

What terrorist actions?

 

[BugI02]

What terrorist actions?

Houthi rebels fire 2 missiles at US Navy destroyer in Red Sea | Fox News
Houthi rebels fire 2 missiles at US Navy destroyer in Red Sea

Now where would you suppose a largely tribal insurgent group would get anti-ship missiles?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...owned-a-houthi-fired-missile-bound-for-riyadh
Saudis Say They Downed A Houthi-Fired Missile Bound For Riyadh

And where might they get short range ballistic missiles to fire at our allies or perhaps American bases? Perhaps from their own personal state sponsor of terrorism?

Selective amnesia? Don't follow the news in the ME?

 

[Thor]

What terrorist actions?

Well, I think that's been covered. Or you can just search back to the Carter era and scroll forward in you browser. YGBSM.