Bomb Iran: with Truth

Hot Air* tells us that Iran has says no mas:

Well, it seems that President Trump has really ticked off Iran now. Following the announcement of new sanctions on some of that nation’s leaders, their Foreign Ministry has declared that there will be a “permanent closure of the path of diplomacy” between our two nations. I’m sure this comes as a huge disappointment to all of the people waiting for vacation getaways to Tehran, but what are we supposed to do? If they’re shutting the door, I guess they’re shutting the door.

Hot Air goes on to note that diplomacy doesn't really seem to work with these people. It never has, has it?

If there is no jaw-jaw must there now be war-war?

Actually, we'd just continue squeezing their economy and open a new front in the propaganda war. We'd beam reports into Iran** detailing everything we know anout their nuclear program and its cost and point out how all that money could be spent on the Iranian people.

We'd point out how good former enemies of the United States have it, Japan, Germany, etc.

Japan...North Korea...which is better? You tell me, Iran.

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**Hack their websites too.

USA to Iran: You gotta Problem?

Iran's been sabre rattling again,  promising the US that if we start a war we won't be able to finish it.

Iran wouldn't be the first trash talking Middle Eastern country to get its ass kicked by the USA, now would it?

Anyone else remember Saddam's 'Mother of all Battles'? or Qadhafi's Line of the Death?

Line of Death...heh.*

The fire, the creative spark  - there it is.

America Strikes, Oh, what a novel that would be. Sustained air strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. The naval war in the Gulf. The 2nd Marine Division landing in Lebanon. A massive Hezbollah terrorist attack in America.

Talk tough Iran, talk tough.

When the war's over American tankers will take your girls for joy rides on their M1's.
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In the Comming Middle East War...

...Iran's chances look bad, no?

Israel has been hitting Iranian targets in Syria for months, last night they hit dozens more. The Times of Israel notes:

Israel’s retaliation — which reportedly involved more than two dozen fighter jets, firing several dozen missiles, as well as ground fire at targets close to the border — targeted dozens of Iranian military targets including intelligence centers, weapons depots, storage facilities, observation posts, and logistics centers. Syria’s own air-defense facilities were also targeted, the Israeli army said, in what amounted to the largest-ever direct clash between the Iranian and Israeli militaries, and the largest exchange involving Israel in Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

It seems obvious to us that there is little happening in Syria that the Israelis do not no about. Last night they knew where and when to hit the Iranians.

At the same time this Iranian effort of 20 rockets seems like rather weak tea. As noted previously, where they serious, Iran would have activated Hezbollah in Lebanon. Of course that would have run the risk of revealing rocket storage sites and launchers and exposing Hezbollah to retaliatory action by Israel. Remember the 2006 war started after Hezbollah kidnapped a couple of Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah later admitted they never expected the war Israel gave them. For all the talk of Israel's slow and badly coordinated response, at the end of the war the IDF occupied Lebanon south of the Litani. 

Some questions about Iran:

Did Tehran's fiery rhetoric last week force them to act?  

Is Hezbollah too valuable to risk? 

Has Mossad penetrated other aspects of the Iranian government and nuke program?

At this point what separates Persian military efforts from failed Arab military efforts?  

With America out of the Iran Deal and Israel on the offensive, where does Iran go from here? 

Will Putin protect Iran?