Trump claims he would “prefer” that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities not happen. But it’s up to Iran. If it refuses to negotiate, as Ayatollah Khamenei now insists, then Israel will have no choice but to attack, and Trump will have no choice but to support and aid the Israelis, by providing both those 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs, as those Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs, are known, and the bombers big enough to deliver them.
Since Israel’s airstrikes on October 26, 2024 that destroyed Iran’s anti-missile systems, Iran has been threatening to wreak a terrible vengeance on the Jewish state. But nearly four months have passed, and Iran has not dared to launch a single missile, rocket, or drone at Israel. Its threats are empty; its boasts those of a miles gloriosus, a braggart warrior. The more it threatens to destroy its enemy, Israel, the more ridiculous Iran becomes in the eyes of the world. More on Iran’s hollow bravado — akin to the frog that puffs itself up to ward off predators — can be found here: “Iran Says Israel, US ‘Cannot Do a Damn Thing’ Against Tehran,” Algemeiner, February 17, 2025:
Iran has claimed that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes rather than building weapons. However, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reported in December that Iran had greatly accelerated uranium enrichment to up to 60 percent purity, close to the roughly 90 percent weapons-grade level, at its Fordow site dug into a mountain.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA, has been warning about Iran’s rush to enrich uranium up to a level just below weapons-grade, a development by the Iranians that only makes sense if they are determined to manufacture nuclear weapons. There is no civilian use for uranium enriched to that level.
The UK, France, and Germany said in a statement at the time that there is no “credible civilian justification” for Iran’s recent nuclear activity, arguing it “gives Iran the capability to rapidly produce sufficient fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons.”…
Whose judgement do you trust? Those Americans who claim that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would set its program back by only “a few weeks or months,” or the Israeli experts, whose Mossad agents have deeply penetrated Iran’s nuclear program? No Western country has anything like the knowledge about Iran’s nuclear program that Israel does. If Israel’s leaders thought that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would delay its progress toward a bomb only by “a few weeks,” then they might not undertake it. But they believe that such an attack could have “a significant impact.” Elsewhere Israelis have said that the program could be set back for much longer, even for a year or two. Such a delay would give Trump’s attempt to end Iranian oil sales time to succeed, driving the regime in Tehran to the point of economic collapse. Such a collapse, for a regime that is as hated by its own people as is that in Iran, could lead to that regime’s overthrow. It would be replaced by a democratic, pro-Western regime that would promptly halt Iran’s nuclear program so that all economic sanctions could be lifted.
The Iranian regime is hollowing out. Inside Iran, the regime is less popular than at any time in its 45-year existence. The economy is in free fall. What can Iran do? It can only issue empty threats, like that just issued by President Masoud Pezeshkian, who warns his enemies — Israel and America — that if 100 nuclear sites in Iran are destroyed, “we will build another 1000.” He’s doing his best to emulate the tomato frog of Madagascar, that inflates itself to ward off predators. That strategy hasn’t worked out so well for the frog (Dyscophus antongilii) in question, and I don’t think it will work for the Islamic Republic that has just passed an annus horribilis, with a loss of all three of its main allies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria), and now faces another year, for Iran more horrible still, with President Trump determined to end Iran’s oil sales and thereby destroy the country’s economy. Hold onto your hats, Iranians. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Westman says
Militarily, Islam is checked and its larger groups know it.
The Industrial revolution started a chain of progressions in which Islam was, mainly, left behind. Making the Quran and Hadith the center of learning only worked when the success of battle depended upon horses, swords, and strong physical bodies.
Iran is the exception, promoting controlled Western education that has persisted since the 1979 revolution-forced return of students from the West. Pakistan also benefitted from Western education, resulting in the first, “Islam Nuke”, though its industrial ability still languishes from Islamic, “drag”.
Frankly, the Persians have great abilities and the most likely to abandon Islam when it is off their necks. All Islamic people can view the real opportunities of freedom from their cell phones but few are positioned to add to them, rather, they move to richer Europe and become a burden.
Every Islamic nation has standouts but it is the general attitude and industriousness of the masses which determine a nation’s wealth and capabilities. Japan, with no natural resources, conclusively proved that .
Thinking of burdens, the US representative of Somalia, Ilhan, had this to say about Americans: “These people are just idiots. The dumbing down of America has arrived. How else could Trump win.”
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1894014522748223855
If this is her attitude what must be the attitude of the district she represents? Another burden?
Let us hope that the Iranian government, with its chaining of the citizen’s opportunities and blood thirst for Israel, is soon gone. Insane people cannot be trusted with the means of mass destruction and a fervid belief in a war religion in 2025 is insanity. Viewing what is happening in Europe and Israel, fervid Islamists can’t be trusted with a knife or a car.
Iran must not continue to have the potential to make a bomb, and it has it NOW. 90% purity is not necessary for a nuclear bomb as the Hiroshima bombing proved. It was very inefficient, the Hiroshima bomb contained 141lbs of Uranium with average 80% enrichment. It’s estimated that only 1kg (2.2lbs) fissioned.
It is more effective to make Plutonium from U238 for a bomb, with a breeder reactor, than to enrich U235. There may be a breeder reactor in Iran’s underground facilities and North Korea could also be providing Plutonium from its breeder reactors.
Good luck Israel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Westman
As the GAMAAN survey showed 5 years ago, only 40% of Iranians still consider themselves muslims. Note that this is 5 year old data, and the trajectory is unlikely to have been reversed. I expect the number of people who consider themselves muslims to have cratered even more over these last 5 years, thanks to the regime blowing all their money on jihad groups in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen
Only thing I wonder is whether Iran will see something like the French, Russian, Rumanian revolutions, or whether they will somehow peacefully transition to a non-islamic government
Westman says
I wonder the same thing, Infidel. It’s only brutal suppression that keeps the Mullahs in power.
SKA says
And brutal suppression requires being able to pat the IRGC, the Basij and the rear-a-mobs funded through the “foundations” for yhr oppressed, for the families of the “martyrs” and war-afflicted. Cut off those checks, no subsidized rice and oil and the entire structure of oppression collapses. The real creed upholding this regime: La ilaha Il Dollar! And Obama snd Biden sent pallets of dollars to this fetid regime. Time to starve them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should, via back channels, maybe Moscow, signal Iran that if it doesn’t order Hamas to release all the hostages immediately in one go, they will attack at random any of the following targets of their choosing:
⮞ Iran’s nuclear sites
⮞ Ayatollah Khamenei and other members of the islamic leadership
⮞ IRGC targets throughout the country, enabling regime change
Force Iran to force Hamas to stop playing games, and return all the hostages right away
BTeboe says
People who take lying to the Zen level can never be trusted. Peaceful uses my ass. Depends on how Iran defines ‘peaceful’. Does that mean providing nuclear power for the Iranian people or does it mean wiping Israel off the face of the planet.
Walter Sieruk says
We should give thanks to God that America now has President Trump in Office of the White House.
For President Trump recognizes that the Jewish State of Israel our friend, and in contrast, that hostile and vicious Islamic tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is the malice-filled enemy of both America and Israel.
That “mullah tyranny” of Iran hates the US and Israel with such a strong Islamic malice that it refers to America as “The Great Satan” and one of its main themes, which in repeats so often is “Death to the USA.” Likewise, that Islamic regime calls Israel “The little Satan’ and often repeats “Death to Israel.”
Walter Sieruk says
President Trump is, wisely, restoring the economic sanctions had Biden had removed on that aggressive and hostile, Hamas and Hezbollah supporting tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran
Any additional economic sanctions our US President would put on the “mullah tyranny” of Iran would likewise be a fitting move. As for the use of military force to be used against those despots in power in Iran, if they strike first, would be appropriate. For those Muslim dictators of Iran do understand, as they are able to understand a message sent to them if it’s by a strong power of military might.
That’s a reflection of wisdom of Thomas Jefferson , who had .rightly ,written ‘With every barbarous people…force is law.