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On the morning of March 7, President Trump posted to social media that Iran had “surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore.” Trump appears to be reacting to remarks recorded on March 6, but released very early on Saturday morning March 7], by Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president. Pezeshkian apologized for Iranian attacks on the neighboring Gulf Arab states with drones and missiles since the Israeli-American war on the Islamic Republic began last week. Pezeshkian claimed that Iran’s leadership had ordered an end to those attacks. It is unclear whether anything has changed: Air-raid sirens signaling incoming missiles and drones rang out in Qatar and Bahrain after Pezeshkian’s declaration. That might signal that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is not on board with Pezeshkian’s promise.
Hamidreza Moghadamfar, a commander of the IRGC, claimed that the Islamic Republic was targeting U.S. interests, not the countries in which they are located. This is nonsense from the IRGC’s Hamidrea Moghadamfar: Iranian drones and missiles have hit civilian airports, hotels, apartment buildings, and oil refineries in Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman have all been hit by. Such wide-ranging attacks show that the countries themselves, and not just the American military bases they have hosted, have been targeted by Iran.
The Iranian attacks on both the airbase in the UAE and the huge oilfield in Saudi Arabia took place after President Pezeshkian announced that Iran would no longer be hitting any of its Gulf Arab neighbors as long as the Americans launched no attacks from their territories. It is reasonable to assume that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has no intention of complying with Pezeshkian’s assurances to Iran’s neighbors.He appear to have been speaking only for himself. Within just the last few minutes on Saturday afternoon came the news that both Qatar and the UAE report having been attacked by missiles and drones, while Saudi Arabia says that a missile launched towards a military base was intercepted.
I’d call that conclusive evidence that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is running the show, and President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks only for himself, a vox clamantis in deserto.
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A few bombs on Kaurq Island would halt the whole problem. It would drive up oil for a while but is it worth it? Trump may be waiting until after his meeting with Hu Flung Dung to hold it as a bargaining chip to get him to change course.
Any “promise” or “commitment” by any Ayatollah, or by his puppet, the “President” of Iran, is worthless, just as Chamberlain’s assurance of “peace in our time” was when he waved his flimsy “Agreement” with Hitler when he returned from Munich in 1938.
The Obama/Kerry “Agreement” with the Ayatollah was equally meaningless and worthless, despite Obama’s illegal delivery, under cover of darkness, by unmarked jets, of billions of cash in untraceable Euros and Swiss francs, and several tons of gold bullion on cargo pallets .
(Did even a single Congressional Democrat, or NYT or WaPo, or CNN op-ed columnist–even just ONE–ever object to that raid on the U.S. Treasury, money-laundering fraud, and transfer of that wealth to the terrorists without consultation and a vote in Congress? I’ve never heard of one, not even ONE.)
President Trump, in stark contrast, is doing what needs to be done: First, destroy the terrorists’ nuclear bomb and missile program with Operation Midnight Hammer and its bunker-busting MOABs last year. Then follow up with devastating, round-the-clock missile and drone strikes on the rest of the terrorists’ remaining military, naval, and air capabilities so that they are totally defanged and left impotent.
Together with our Israeli ally and their amazing Mossad, everything seems to be going very well: Ayatollah Khameini is dead, and his equally fanatical son, chosen by the “Council of Experts” as the monster’s successor, is either dead or comatose with his legs blown off, according to reports, since he “appears” at rallies now literally as merely a cardboard cut-out to wave to the mob.
Finish the job, Mr. President! It shouldn’t take much longer. And the only “boots on the ground” we might need should be a few squads of Army Rangers and Navy SEALs in the final couple of days to hunt-down the last few Ayatollahs and IRGC die-hards and drag them our of their “spider holes” and hang them, like Saddam Hussein finally was.
Iran’s leadership is centered on the Ayatollah, who controls the IGRC. The IGRC controls the Quds(foreign proxies) and the Basij and the police(internal security). The regular army is also under the direct control of the Supreme Leader. In theory the elected president and parliament in Iran provide checks and balances to the appointed councils and supreme leader, but the Guardian Council typically disqualifies any opposition candidates from running and therefore only Mullah friendly, IGRC friendly candidates are elected. That being said, it seems individual IGRC commanders have been given authority to act independently and strike any target they choose in the event of an attack. Peeling off one or two regular army commanders or IGRC commanders is probably the only way to effect regime change at this point.