Iran’s regime used to brag America was helpless.
In June 2025, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told his regime at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini that Iran’s nuclear program would go on regardless of President Trump. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter.”
A few weeks later, Iran’s underground nuclear program was rubble and a year later, Khamenei, who mocked any American efforts to negotiate, has joined his beloved nukes under the ground.
In early February, a top adviser to the commander of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps dismissed the buildup of U.S. forces. “Even if America brings 12 aircraft carriers to the region, it can’t do anything,” he bragged. “America is defeated and incapable of any aggression.”
His commander is now dead along with Khamenei and elements of the regime’s leadership.
The Islamic Revolution that took over Iran had two slogans, “Death to America” and “America can’t do a damn thing against us”. Or “Marg bar Amrika” and “Amrika hich ghalati namitavanad bokonad.” The Ayatollah Khomeini had coined the latter slogan after raiding the American embassy and taking its people hostage while Jimmy Carter did nothing.
And America indeed did not do a damn thing.
Khomeini had outfoxed everyone, his former Marxist allies, the French and the Carter administration which was full of radicals eager to swap the Shah for Islamist rule. The Islamic theocrat had assured the Kennedy administration and then the Carter administration that he would be friendly to America and that Muslims and Christians made natural allies.
“You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans,” Khomeini, who would later make ‘Death to America’ into the regime’s slogan, assured Carter’s people.
“We would do a disservice to Khomeini to consider him simply as a symbol of segregated education and an opponent to women’s rights,” Philip Stoddard, the head of the State Department’s Intelligence Bureau, who had come out of the Saudi-funded Middle East Institute, argued.
For the next forty something years, Khomeini and his successor, Khamenei, went on killing Americans, murdering at least 869 U.S. military personnel across the Middle East, from the truck bombings in Lebanon to airline hijackings and IEDs across the Muslim world.
And “America can’t do a damn thing against us” remained an unchallenged slogan. Iran’s Islamic regime appeared to have Allah at their backs because they were able to brutally torture and murder Americans, make videos and recordings of it, and distribute them to the world.
While we did nothing.
The Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran to legitimize its nuclear program were greeted with the triumphal slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us” appearing on billboards and banners across Tehran and at speeches by Khamenei. By the time, Iran abducted and paraded around U.S. Navy sailors, the slogans appeared indisputable.
Then in 2020, Qasem Soleimani, the evil genius behind Iran’s worldwide terrorist networks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was taken out near Baghdad by an American drone. In the regime’s eulogy, it declared that Soleimani had “deeply believed that America can’t do a damn thing against us.” Soleimani’s end was proof that his deeply held belief was worthless.
America’s inaction wasn’t a product of Allah’s intervention, but of moral weakness.
The Iran Lobby had invested deeply in Biden, going back to 2006, and saw in him another Carter. Iranian hackers intervened to help him win in 2020. Once Biden was in power, Iran launched a series of major escalations, targeting Israel with the Oct 7 attacks and international shipping with Houthi piracy out of Yemen. The Biden administration initially resisted, but then crumbled, pressuring Israel to make a deal with Hamas, and then refusing to go on the offensive against the Houthis in any consistent way, leading to the humiliation of the U.S. Navy.
In 2025, Trump was back, but last June the ayatollah was still assuring the faithful that America “cannot do a damn thing.“ Other clerics echoed him, in Bushehr, a major site of Iran’s nuclear program, a cleric claimed that “the US cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran’s nuclear progress.”
The airstrikes that soon followed proved them wrong.
America can do quite a bit. We didn’t. And that’s how we got an ‘endless war’. The more that Carter, Obama and Biden backed off and tried to make a deal, the more the Islamic regime became convinced that we were impotent and that it was invulnerable. Iran was never all that tough. Our leaders were simply weak and corrupt. The more aggressive Iran became, the more they backed down and looked for an exit ramp. Is it any wonder that Iran’s terror grew worse?
President Trump has taken the opposite approach, punishing Iran’s intransigence, instead of rewarding it, and making a mockery of its beloved slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us”. Iran never had Allah on its side. It had Carter, Obama and Biden.
Without appeasers in the White House, America can do a whole lot and the Islamic terrorists can do very little. The ayatollahs and their regime had gambled on the fecklessness and cowardice of their non-Muslim enemies. Over the last 6 years, their bets have started to fail. They’re popular at Columbia, UCLA and Harvard, but hated in their own cities, and President Trump has shown how weak they are underneath their cruelty and theological boasting.
The monsters who once hijacked, kidnapped, tortured and murdered Americans are afraid. They’re hiding out in their own capital because America is doing some damn things to them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Right! All of these things were done by Israel. What America did was destroy Iranian missile sites, drone bases and others, so that Iran couldn’t retaliate as effectively
Susan B Shulman says
Well, it’s about time that the US has started to do A GREAT DEAL about and to Iran. The remaining (for the time being) mullahs aren’t happy, but the Iranian People sure are!!!!!!!
Walter Sieruk says
This jihad watch article informs its reader that “The Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran to legitimize its nuclear program were greeted with the triumphal slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us” appearing on billboards and banners across Tehran and at speeches by Khamenei.”
When Barack Obama was President of the United States , at that time I attended lecture given by a former Iranian citizen ,Muslim and a Hezbollah member. but now both American citizen and a Christian.
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After the lecture, during the question and answer part , he was asked “What about this new Obama nuclear deal with Iran ” . The lecturer replied “It’s a politically correct deal, and it is a disaster , it’s a disaster for America,, It’s a disaster for Israel , It’s a disaster for the Iranian people, and a disaster for the world.”
gravenimage says
Thanks far that background, Walter. So glad President Trump tore up that insane deal with the Mullahs.
Wellington says
This is why America and Israel must kill all these Muslim dead-enders. Any survival by even a small minority of these Buttlims will function as evidence to these religious miscreants that they are in the right against the Little Satan and Great Satan and Allah is still with them to the end of time, blah, blah, blah.
Oh yeah, terminate them all, every last damn one, and in the process of doing so always keep in mind that present Western Europe is never truly to be counted upon. Said “region” still has many fine “relics” of a once great civilization but the people inhabiting this region are either enemies of Western Civilization, i.e., Muslims and Leftists, or, with few exceptions, weak-minded, wishy-washy nothings who have been utterly neutered.
The best of mankind has been reduced to two hopes: America and Israel. This is about it.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“The best of mankind has been reduced to two hopes: America and Israel.”
Yes.
And Western Europe?
Fuggedaboutit…
Taffy says
Add Hungary and Poland to that list, and believe it or not, Panama and possibly Uruguay.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Uruguay now has a Left leaning government. since this time last year. While their Hispanic neighborhood – Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile have all swung Right, Uruguay now has a Left-leaning government. Which may well turn Right again next elections
Instead of Uruguay, I’d put in Argentina, Chile and maybe Bolivia
Ugly 312 says
There is only one unfortunate component to this whole thing and that is the fact that it took about forty-six years for someone with the balls to do this for America and in turn do Israel a solid too.
Suffer in pieces you son of a dog and know that any of upur islamist kin who may think of stepping into your shattered and blood soaked sandals will be next. Maybe even if they dont want your old job. G-d Bless the beautiful Iranian people! On shabbat too.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The ayatollahs and their regime…They’re popular at Columbia, UCLA and Harvard, but hated in their own cities…”
Let that sink in…
OLD GUY says
These Universities are well funded by islam and don’t want to cut off that funding by speaking out against Islam.
Ralph says
I receive a pension from UCLA and do not donate a dime to them. My donations go to Hillsdale College which is as patriotic an American college as it is conservative.
gravenimage says
+1
Patton says
It does make one wonder what the average IQ is of a Iranian mud slime?
somehistory says
If the infidels can’t beat the muzzles, it’s for one reason, exemplified in this: from The Tampa Free Press
“South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace says Republicans shielded Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar”
“Internal tensions within the House Oversight Committee spilled into the public eye this week after Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) alleged that her fellow Republicans blocked a formal attempt to subpoena Representative Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) immigration records.
The confrontation occurred during a March 5 session focused on a broader investigation into Minnesota welfare fraud. Mace introduced a motion targeting records related to Omar and her former husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi.
The inquiry stems from long-standing allegations first reported by Alpha News in 2019, which suggested that Omar’s 2009 marriage may have involved immigration irregularities. Omar has consistently and vehemently denied these claims, previously labeling them “disgusting lies.”
Mace’s efforts to force the disclosure of these documents were stymied not by the opposition but by members of her own caucus.
The South Carolina representative was blunt when describing the procedural shutdown. “I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother-husband’s immigration records, and it was Republicans that killed my motion,” Mace stated.
Actor James Wood wrote on X, “Wait! Republicans are blocking the sordid facts…I mean, one always expects the Democrats to be crooked, but sadly, the Republicans aren’t far behind, are they?””
Some might call them chicken….but in all Truth, chickens are brave when there is danger, unlike so many politicians. Either they are cowards, or they support evil..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/south-carolina-rep-nancy-mace-says-republicans-shielded-minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar/ar-AA1XGL9a?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69ab6db4c8964df5ad0c31d86d8d9cc7&ei=48
gravenimage says
Deeply disturbing, Somehistory. Thanks for that link.
David Lakatos says
Defeating Islam is not their agenda. It just keeps growing bigger.
David Lakatos says
Anybody who follows Muhammad’s teaching is an inbred schizophrenic.
Kiani Po says
Or at least acts like one.
gravenimage says
+1
Taffy says
Iran is defeated to about the same point as Imperial Japan was defeated in early July 1945. In mid-July, Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met at Potsdam to, among other things, work out t3ms for Japan’s unconditional surrender. The final declaration can be found here: https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/hiroshima-nagasaki/potsdam.html It was issued July 26,:1945 and presented to the Japanese who initially rejected it. Two atomic bombs later (August 6 and 9) Japan finally accepted the unconditional surrender of Japan, and Hirohito announced it to the people of Japan and to the military in two slightly different speeches. one notable difference was that Hirohito gave the atomic bombings as the reason for surrender in his address to the civilians, but did not mention it in his rescript to the military. Rather he gave the reason for surrendering to the military that the Soviet Union entered the war.
So, the Potsdam agreement should be used as a template for Iran to unconditionally surrender. The terms were written back in 1945; all that needs to be done is to make the proper substitution of each party’s name:
1) The elimination “for all time of the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Iran into embarking on world terror and terror against Israel and the U.S.”
The occupation of “points in Iranian territory to be designated by the United States”
That “Iranian sovereignty shall be limited to the city of Shush and The territory of Susa”
That “the Iranian military forces, after being completely disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes with the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives”
That “we do not intend that the Iranian people be enslaved as a race or destroyed as a nation, but stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon the Iranian people, including protestors.”
tgusa says
They talk a lot of shit but every time they go head to head against Americans they lose badly. They are not the first group to underestimate Americans and they probably wont be the last. Americans have fought much more capable forces in the past and they have all lost. But by all means, keep trying.
Kiani Po says
So true, I still remember this visceral feeling of “what if” suffocating all discussion of Iran’s nuclear program.
There was always this fear of maybe they already have one and just waiting. The non action by america for so long and the so called experts seem to create this polarization where even the thought of actually doing something paralyzes rational thought.
Maybe I’m just explaining how I felt. No doubt now though, all cards on the table. If they had a nuke it would be flying toward Israel.
tgusa says
Even if they did have one nuke it is smarter to deal with them before they have ten.
Kiani Po says
Trump seems to be able to call out bluffs of others. He knows if it’s Bs. Kind of scary to put trust in someone like that, but I do.
My fear is by taking out iran, the Arabs and Turkey will turn their sights toward Israel. Also I’m concerned one of these countries will see how important it is to develop nuclear weapons and are clandestinely developing as we speak (Saudi)
Walter Sieruk says
To provide additional information that statement in this jihad which article , which is R“:The Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran to legitimize its nuclear program were greeted with the triumphal slogan, “America can’t do a damn thing against us” appearing on billboards and banners across Tehran and at speeches by Khamene.”
Regarding the awfulness of Obama when he was President of the USA, some of it had been exposed by a former Revolutionary Guard of Iran who defected to America. For in his book TIME TO BETRAY its author, Reza Kahlili gives his first hand and testimony and observation when he had revealed to his readers, on page 335, that at first he was a bit naive about Obama for “I had high hopes that the Obama administration would be tougher on the Islamic government of Iran, especially given what they knew about the regime’s nuclear activities. However, his first overture to the mullahs disappointed me. He sent greetings for the Persian New Year in which he urged better relations between American and Iran. He then repeated this in letters to Ayatollah Khamenei. To me, this was a sad case of not learning from history. Once again American politicians refused to see that the mullahs were not men of reason, and that their animosity toward America was rooted in the interpretation of a prophecy that called for the annihilation of the West and all non-Muslims. I knew the regime would see Obama’s entreaties as assign of weakness, and that this would embolden them to take radical steps.”
In addition, it might be of interest to a few people that during the summer month of August in the year of 2010, I had attended a lecture in a church about the subject of Islam. The guest speaker was a man who in times past was a Muslim and a Hezbollah member as well as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s Christian and an American citizen. After the lecture, during the question and answer part, he was asked “What about that Iran nuclear arms deal that Obama made with Iran.” The speaker replied “It is a disaster. It’s a disaster for America, It’s a disaster for Israel, it’s a disaster for the Iranian people and a disaster for the world.”
Barack Obama may accurately be seen as the personification of the twenty –first century phenomena known as the “Red/Green Alliance.”
Troybeam says
Have to be careful, Islam has people the world over that can fill this person’s shoes. That is one of the big issues with taking Islam’s agenda away from a world caliphate, Every nation must be on board and return all Muslims to Islamic nations & then enforce laws that were written to keep them out, no exceptions period.
David Lakatos says
They chose the murdering criminal Barabbas over Jesus. Think about that.
gravenimage says
“They”?
gravenimage says
‘America Can’t Do a Damn Thing Against Us’
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Izzat so?