Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Iran was ruled by the CIA- and MI6-installed Shah Reza Pahlavi. Under his rule, altho Iran's oilfields were technically owned by Iran, consortium of oil companies controlled the finances and fraudulently extracted profits. The remaining profit went to the Shah and his hangers-on, and bc western money flooded a select grouping Iran but didn't go towards improving internalproduction, inflation went thru the roof. (Too much money chasing too few goods.) The Shah squashed discontent with the Savak, a brutal CIA-trained internal security organization.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Tarantino and Weinstein?
Basterds Blow Up Hitler’s Cinema
but there was also a story that helped the rise of 'Jihad' and islamist though in Iran, the governing dynasty initially blamed "Marxists" for the fire
Iran Before 1979 Was Completely Different
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Can you even imagine the Real World that lies just beneath all of our collective noses?
The more I learn, the more I think it's probably the correct decision that we're not made privy to 99% of the things they've been doing with our money.
"You can't handle the truth." wasn't just a really memorable line to an award winning movie.
I think if The People knew everything, than everyone would literally be driven insane by that knowledge.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:Your day for a mental breakdown has arrived, thanks to the reporter from the Christian Science Monitor who located the official reports on costs for the Iran War:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think if The People knew everything, than everyone would literally be driven insane by that knowledge.
What is the Iran war costing Americans? Here’s a breakdown.
By Anna Mulrine Grobe | July 08, 2026, 12:39 p.m. ET
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0708/iran-war-costs-pentag
on
The shaky peace deal in place between the United States, Israel, and Iran was called into question once again this week with the U.S. and Iran trading retaliatory strikes. It prompted President Donald Trump to declare, “I think it’s over” of the ceasefire, even as he said that negotiations could continue. On June 17, leaders signed a memorandum of understanding that gave them 60 days to reach a peace deal.
In the meantime, experts have begun to tally the cost of the Iran war. While direct U.S. military operations in Iran are now estimated at up to $42 billion, long-term economic and veteran expenses may push the cost higher. (OMB Says Iran War Cost $30B, Stays Mum on Supplemental https://www.airandspaceforces.com/omb-director-iran-war-cost-30b-suppl
emental/ )
Whatever the final number, Trump administration officials have already acknowledged that the war’s price tag will be higher than initial estimates. (The War May Be Ending. What Did Epic Fury Cost? https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-may-be-ending-what-did-epic-fury-cos
t )
It rose by about $4 billion in two weeks late this spring, when Pentagon comptroller Jules Hurst told lawmakers that the Department of Defense estimate for the war, eight weeks in, had jumped from $25 billion to $29 billion. (The initial U.S. Pentagon estimate for the Iran conflict was roughly $11.3 billion for the first six days of the operation.)
Why We Wrote This
The Iran war’s cost to Americans has already climbed well beyond early estimates, with an $87 billion funding request pending. Long-term economic and veteran expenses push the broader cost higher. And new attacks call into question whether the hostilities will soon end.
This $29 billion tally did not include repairs to U.S. bases in the Middle East – repairs that could add at least $5 billion more to the cost, according to the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank. On Wednesday, Iran said that it had shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone and struck 85 U.S. military sites, potentially adding to the bill.
Analysts are also assessing the human toll. Thirteen American service members have been killed and some 400 injured in the conflict, along with Iran’s reported 1,700 civilian fatalities. The loss of mothers, fathers, children, and siblings is a cost, they add, that can never be calculated.
The expense could climb higher still, with the ongoing tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the U.S.
To help cover the price of everyday operations, troop deployments, and weapon replacements, the White House has submitted an $87 billion supplemental funding request to Congress, an ask likely to face sharp bipartisan scrutiny. Other researchers estimate that the broader economic toll (such as higher fuel and food costs) is costing households up to $1,000 each.
What have been the biggest cost drivers of the war?
Missiles and other munitions have been the U.S. military’s biggest war-related expenses to date, totaling some $26 billion, according to a June 23 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“The thing that probably surprises me most was just how big a chunk of the cost was in munitions, particularly the high-end, expensive munitions,” says Mark Cancian, senior adviser with the CSIS Defense and Security Department and the report’s co-author.
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, which runs U.S. military operations in the Middle East, told lawmakers in a May hearing that by the time of the ceasefire, the U.S. had fired 13,629
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Your day for a mental breakdown has arrived, thanks to the reporter from the Christian Science Monitor who located the official reports on costs for the Iran War:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think if The People knew everything, than everyone would literally be driven insane by that knowledge.
Hey faggot... Why don't you go back through this thread and look at all the nonsense and bullshit you've posted and tell me how much of it has come true.
SPOILER ALERT: None of it has.
So don't bother.
All you need to do right now is shut the fuck up. That's the only thing that has EVER been required of you.
P.S. Fuck the Christian Science Monitor and Fuck Anna Mulrine Grobe.
As if either one matters in the slightest. And the fact that you've known me as long as you have and would think that I care what the Christian Science Monitor would have to say on any given subject just shows how truly clueless you are about other people because you're stuck in your own twisted head 24/7/365.
99 articles out of 100 printed by them would have you calling them all Nazis I'm sure, but just like all that good 'ole NeoCon cock you were sucking leading up to Kamala Harris's epic spanking, you just started slobbering all over that Christian cock when they had something bad to say about Trump, didn't ya, boy?
Fuck The Christian Science Monitor.
While we're at it, Fuck Christianity, Fuck Science and Fuck Hall Monitors too.
And, as always and above all else, Fuck You, Loser.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Iran was ruled by the CIA- and MI6-installed Shah Reza Pahlavi. Under his rule, altho Iran's oilfields were technically owned by Iran, consortium of oil companies controlled the finances and fraudulently extracted profits. The remaining profit went to the Shah and his hangers-on, and bc western money flooded a select grouping Iran but didn't go towards improving internalproduction, inflation went thru the roof. (Too much money chasing too few goods.) The Shah squashed discontent with the Savak, a brutal CIA-trained internal security organization.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Tarantino and Weinstein?
Basterds Blow Up Hitler’s Cinema
but there was also a story that helped the rise of 'Jihad' and islamist though in Iran, the governing dynasty initially blamed "Marxists" for the fire
Iran Before 1979 Was Completely Different
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Can you even imagine the Real World that lies just beneath all of our collective noses?
The more I learn, the more I think it's probably the correct decision that we're not made privy to 99% of the things they've been doing with our money.
"You can't handle the truth." wasn't just a really memorable line to an award winning movie.
I think if The People knew everything, than everyone would literally be driven insane by that knowledge.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
seems to add up to exactly a 'conspiracy' if ever there was one
Cinema Rex fire
WikiAudio
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Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.
By Tom Nichols | July 8, 2026, 3:10 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/iran-controls-war-trump/6878
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If Donald Trump ever had any control over the war he started with Iran, he’s lost it. The Iranians are now setting the terms of this conflict and are routinely humiliating the American president. The “cease-fire” Trump declared last month—a move probably meant to both soothe international markets and avert legislative action from the United States Congress—never really existed, because neither side ever ceased firing. The situation is now back to a kind of slow-motion punch-up: In the past few days, the Iranians struck three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the Americans attacked some 80 targets in Iran, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps now claims it hit some 85 U.S.-affiliated targets in Bahrain and Kuwait.
This morning, Trump was asked whether the memorandum of understanding with Iran, the document that was supposed to provide the foundation for negotiations, was dead. Trump hesitated a bit and said: “That’s a very interesting question. To me, I think it’s over. I don’t wanna deal with them anymore. They’re scum, you know what scum is? They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. And they’re vicious, violent people.”
Last month, of course, Trump had nothing but nice things to say about the Iranian leaders. “We’re dealing with people that I think are very rational people. And they were nice to deal with.” He described them as “strong people, smart people,” who were not “radicalized.” They were just loyal Iranians, “and they’re, you know, looking to help their country.” The MOU was practically an instrument of American capitulation that the Iranians could have drafted themselves, but Trump wanted to get out of the war, and so he signed it—appropriately enough, at Versailles.
The Iranians have made clear that they don’t care about the MOU or, for that matter, what Trump thinks or wants. They are willing to inflict more damage on the Gulf states, and they’re willing to accept damage in return. These are signs of a state directing a war rather than reacting to one. Iran is measuring costs and risks. It is pursuing the achievable goals of regime survival, control of the Strait, and preservation of its nuclear program.
The Trump administration, for its part, bumbled into this war without a strategy. Instead, it relied on bad assumptions, outdated information, and the president’s gut feelings. It assumed—because the president wished very hard—that the Iranian regime would collapse quickly. Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who encouraged Trump to go to war) ignored years of analysis and war-gaming from the military and the intelligence community, and then were caught flat-footed when the Iranians closed the strait and choked the international economy, the one thing everyone else in the world knew they would do. The administration has since tried to bomb its way out of this war, but without the ability to hold territory, the United States is now merely depleting its stocks of expensive ordnance to little strategic effect.
Even by his usual standards, Trump has been incoherent in Ankara, Turkey, where he’s attending a NATO summit. Over the course of 24 hours, he has renewed his demands for the United States to own Greenland; confused Iran with Japan; and confused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also noted that his videos are popular on “Tic Tac.” He meant “TikTok.”
Little wonder, then, that he seems unable to give sensible answers to questions about the renewed hostilities. When asked today about more attacks on Iran, Trump said: “You know, normally I wouldn’t tell you. I wouldn’t tell you, but you know what, there’s not a thing they can do about it. So, the answer is probably.” Not exactly an
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I have several opinions running parallel about what is happening in Iran.
One opinion, the idealistic one, says that the IRGC is nationalistic, realizes that the MOU was just a stall tactic by Trump and Netanyahu, and is busy trying to regain the Strait of Hormuz leverage that it lost by signing the MOU. Oh, and telling China to go to hell.
The cynical one says that altho Iran IS trying to regain the leverage had when it closed the Strait, it's only bc the IRGC is struggling to gain control of the cash flow the Strait can generate, while the Iranian negotiators and THEIR block think they can get out from under the IRGC's thumb and make money by getting Irans frozen assets back.
And, what's with the invisible Grand Ayatollah Moqtabe Kahmeini? The one nobody's seen since the decapitation strike on Iran? Even the Democrats had to pill Biden up and wheel him out once in a while!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Is It So Bad It's Good?
The Hunt For A Fig Leaf
By Phillips P. OBrien | Jul 09, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-18-is-it-so-bad-
its
Trump declared that sanctions were back on Iran and then bombed Iran on Tuesday night, stated that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the USA and Iran is dead, and then bombed again last night. Trump even, at the NATO summit yesterday, labelled the Iranians as “scum” and said he hated dealing with them—before saying that he thinks things will work out in some form.
Are we back to war?
Was there ever actually not a war?
The answer to both questions is yes and no. There has never been an actual basis for ending this war, as Iran has not agreed to a single one of Trump’s demands. The MOU was a vague document in which Iran made no actual concessions and got some major rewards, while kicking all the controversial issues down the road in some weird hope that they could magically be solved in 60 days.
We might see bombing again for a few more nights, but it cannot continue indefinitely for political/economic reasons. All it means is that Trump, once again, has no answers to the war that he started. He has no real leverage over Iran (less by the day), but feels he cannot walk away without a fig leaf to hide his defeat. And so far, the Iranians are not even giving him that (see below).
A part of me actually got a little excited when I read yesterday about Trump’s frustration, particularly when it sounded like he might wash his hands of the whole affair. It was a sign, perhaps, that he finally grasps the strategic dead end in which the USA sits in the region. Maybe, just maybe, it can lead to wholesale changes in the US posture in the Middle East.
Note: In the MOU, the US seems to be hinting that it will significantly scale back its military presence around Iran.
The US has so humiliated itself, while exposing its weakness and the pointlessness of its military posture, that, perhaps, the country can do what it should have done years/decades ago and wind down its military presence in the Middle East. I mean that seriously. The US should withdraw from its large military bases, stop the deployment of its forces in the region, and certainly stop waging all wars in the area. If there is one thing we can say, it is that the US has wasted trillions of dollars in the Middle East on military escapades over the previous decades and all it has done is make the region, and the USA itself, far worse off.
This begs the question: Are things so bad that good will emerge?
Is It So Bad It’s Good?
Trump’s ongoing US-Iran war is merely the latest example of the pointlessness, waste, and destructive results of the heavy, decades-long, US military presence in the Middle East. This has been the reality for more than 35 years (if not longer), approximately since the end of the Cold War. The First Gulf War of 1990-1991, in retrospect, would have been the ideal time for the USA to begin scaling back its military involvement in the region. With the defeat of Saddam Hussein, achieved with the backing of a large and diverse coalition of Middle Eastern states, the US had given itself the golden opportunity to shift from an active interventionist to more of an organizer/aid to regional security.
Of course, it did not work out that way.
In the last few years the idea that the US needs to end its direct military involvement in the region has only grown in my mind. I published this piece, written right after the hideous Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, arguing why (I have just taken it out from behind the paywall if you want to read more).
The US should pull out of the Middle East
Phillips P. Obrien • July 1, 2025
Read full story ? https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-us-should-pull-out-of-the-m
iddle
That article was built around four main points.
1. US military involvement has not helped the Middle East. It has not provided stability and not helped the spread of democracy.
2. The US is poorly equipped politically and militar
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Is It So Bad It's Good?
Whatever you cultists need to do to convince yourselves that you're not the assholes and idiots that you truly are, do your thing boy.
You're so brainjacked, you probably don't even know all the shit you've hidden from yourself just to keep from having a complete breakdown.
I find it hilarious that anybody could be so stupid as to believe that Iran has Trump over a barrel. Are you freaks even living on the same planet as the rest of us anymore?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:Trump fears the Iranians. Secret Service urged Trump to depart Turkey on old Air Force One as a security precaution. Trump told reporters the switch had nothing to do with security concerns. But when asked by reporters if security concerns caused the change in flight plans, he answered that he's "No. 1 on the kill list for Iran."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Is It So Bad It's Good?
Whatever you cultists need to do to convince yourselves that you're not the assholes and idiots that you truly are, do your thing boy.
You're so brainjacked, you probably don't even know all the shit you've hidden from yourself just to keep from having a complete breakdown.
I find it hilarious that anybody could be so stupid as to believe that Iran has Trump over a barrel. Are you freaks even living on the same planet as the rest of us anymore?
https://abcnews.com/Politics/secret-service-urged-trump-depart-turkey-
air-force/story?id=134606227
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump fears the Iranians.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Is It So Bad It's Good?
Whatever you cultists need to do to convince yourselves that you're not the assholes and idiots that you truly are, do your thing boy.
You're so brainjacked, you probably don't even know all the shit you've hidden from yourself just to keep from having a complete breakdown.
I find it hilarious that anybody could be so stupid as to believe that Iran has Trump over a barrel. Are you freaks even living on the same planet as the rest of us anymore?
No. He does not.
Shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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