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In Israel, where everyone has had to become an Iran expert, a video clip has been making the rounds. It’s from a 2021 speech by Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of Iran’s joint military headquarters, whom Israel killed in early strikes on June 13.

Three months before the 2020 U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani, Rashid recounts, the legendary Quds Force commander laid out his life’s work. “

I have assembled for you six armies outside Iran

and I have created a corridor 1,500 kilometers long and 1,000 kilometers wide, all the way to the shores of the Mediterranean,” Soleimani told Iran’s army chiefs. “Any enemy that decides to fight against the Islamic Revolution, and against the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will have to go through these six armies. It won’t be able to do so.”

Yet Israel did.

Rather than circumvent Soleimani’s strategy, Jerusalem has fought Tehran on its own terms. Of Soleimani’s six armies, only the Houthis and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units have escaped. After the Oct. 7 massacre, Israel fought through Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, wiping out their leadership and slicing up their missile arsenals, leaving the Assad regime in Syria to crumble without support.

Suddenly, Iran didn’t look so menacing

. Israel could focus on the state and nuclear program seeking its destruction without worrying about thousands of rockets a day from Iran’s proxies. Then President Trump could enter to remove all doubt.

Since the Iranian regime found itself alone under Israeli assault, it has been in shock and denial

, says Sharona Mazalian Levi, a researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Alliance Center for Iranian Studies. “

The regime got so used to lying to the people, it came to believe its own propaganda

,” she says. Israel was on the road to collapse. Iran could never be seriously challenged. Right up until the U.S. strikes, Iran claimed to be running up the score.

In reality, Israel, the size of New Jersey, was devastating Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic-missile program and military chain of command. Tehran’s civilians follow Israeli evacuation orders. Iran, twice the size of Texas with nine times Israel’s population, doesn’t even try to take on the Israel Defense Forces. Its dwindling salvos target civilians. The June 15 strike on the Weizmann Institute’s cancer-research facility is the world’s loss, but how does it bring Iran any closer to victory?
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The timeline of Israel’s planning, much of which hasn’t been reported previously, is instructive. On June 4, 2024, following Iran’s April ballistic-missile attack on Israel, Mr. Netanyahu told his ministers it was their government’s responsibility to prevent a nuclear Iran. “The threat needs to be removed on this watch,” he said, according to a senior official in the room. The wars against proxies had other aims, but Mr. Netanyahu deemed this one overriding.

“We can’t leave it for the next generation,” he said in another closed meeting, “because there may not be a next generation.”

On Nov. 18, a month after Iran’s second ballistic-missile strike on Israel, Mr. Netanyahu issued a directive to the IDF and Mossad to prepare to remove the Iranian nuclear threat by April 2025. But when the time came, Mr. Trump demurred, wanting talks.
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Soleimani was mostly right in his vision. But he couldn’t imagine that Israel would fight through Iran’s proxies and withstand slaughter, extortion, tunnels, rockets and internal displacements, along with pressures and calumnies international and domestic, and emerge with enough in the tank, U.S. backing intact, and Mr. Netanyahu still in the driver’s seat. Now, Israel’s prime minister can realize a vision of his own—and fulfil his historical responsibility.

Full text: https://archive.ph/dU6v0

That is a fucking man right there.

Again, let's be clear: we're not playing "just the tip, just the tip" game here. Btw, I was never able to play that game. No self control.

We are in this. We bombed a foreign sovereign. We invaded their airspace without permission and bombed their facilities to the stone age, again, without permission. This is an act of aggression. They hated us before this. They hate us more now. They funded terror before this. This has not crippled them from funding terror now. A sleeper cell in the US (thanks Biden!) can be activated to fuck us up and they needn't claim responsibility for it. It will suffice that it happened.

Every fucking liberal I know whined to me like a French whore, "but, but, the REAL issue is Iran. leave poor Hamas alone. they know not what they do!" Or whatever. OK, now we have the head of the snake in one hand and a fucking knife in the other. Should I let it go to be … nice? WTF?

Grab your balls Don, JOIN Israel and BSD Bibi, and fucking dismantle that regime. Learn from prior fuck-ups. We did this once with Germany. It can be done. Iran is an old empire and there are sophisticated people there who know that the earth isn't flat (unlike the [ ] stans) and they can rebuild into something recognizable as a modern society.

Notice that none of the wealthy Arab countries who also know the earth isn't flat are flailing about screaming "let them save face! let them save face!" Their silence is deafening.

At a bare minimum, order the supreme leader to DC and dictate the terms of a peace deal that will include our unfettered access to their facilities for inspections every fucking day of the week if that's what we want and an audit of their finances to confirm they aren't funding terrorists. Open fucking book or you get to meet Allah sooner than you thought.

Fuck off, Bob. You're getting on my nerves.

I speak two languages and read for a living and don't know what the fuck you're saying here. Speak the King's English and I might respond. Or fuck off. Take your pick.

Oh, so Trump might make someone mad? Lose his political support? Oh, no! What will happen?

Please. No. Where. To. Go.

And a majority of his base really gives zero fucks about it and will still love him for the 9 out of 10 things he does that they like.

Trump is a bull in a china shop and breaks shit all the time. And he keeps coming back. People fucking love him. He is unique in that way. His political career is unlike that of all other politicians, current or past.

I assume, charitably, that you're drunk all the time.

bob and the gals on Trump disappointing his base:

It's the gun part. Nobody in Tehran at least believes shit about divine rule save for one or two flat earther ding bats. It's the gun baby. It's always about the gun.

Pussy.

Also, bob and the girls back in 1940 at the thought of US involvement while Europe was bent over, Jews were being cooked and the British were getting the ever loving fuck bombed out of them:

My grandfather jumped out of a plane in Normandy.

We're cut from different cloth I'm afraid.