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.
Wellington says
Who’s minding the store? Essentially no one, only Muslim Lilliputians aplenty flailing helplessly, not even playing checkers any longer, while Trump is playing geopolitical chess.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, the “Assembly of Experts” has just announced that Mojtaba Khamenei has been elected to succeed his father
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603086813
However, that said, this regime has already collapsed: they just don’t know it yet
⮞ Yesterday, after President Pezeshkian apologized to his Arab neighbors, those same countries he apologized to were bombed again by the IRGC 😂🤣 Either the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, or he just doesn’t control even his regime, much less the country
⮞ While Mojtaba Khamenei has finally been announced as leader, there has been resentment within the “Assembly of Experts” on the Basij forcing them to vote for him. Not just that, there were earlier reports that he didn’t want the job, and also, there were reports of other potential candidates declining the job. It’s something noone wants, given that it paints a target on their head. For now, the target is Khamenei
⮞ After the US bombed and sunk the IRIS Dena south of Sri Lanka, 2 Iranian ships surrendered to Sri Lanka and 1 to India. In Sri Lanka, crew of the IRIS Bushehr abandoned the ship and are under the control of the Sri Lankan naval authorities. 208 of those ship crew defected, adding that the sinking of the IRIS Dena by a US submarine increased their distrust of the regime, which had no idea what’s going on there and didn’t seem to care. The US has apparently asked Sri Lanka not to return them to Iran until the war is over
This regime is over, even if it doesn’t know it
More than one threat says
Trump should announce a reward to any Iranian who can disclose the location of Mojtaba Khamenei, resulting in his death or capture.
Mojtaba Khamenei’s father was a dictator for 37 years. Mojtaba Khamenei should not be in power for 37 days.
Once Mojtaba Khamenei is dead, repeat the process with his successor. Rinse and repeat until the regime is no longer.
Even if 30 million out of 93 million support the regime, that still leaves 60 million Iranians ready to spy upon, sabotage, betray and undermine the regime.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I believe that the Israelis already have a good idea of where he is: he is said to have been injured in an attack
In the meantime, they should try & take out Larijani, Pezeshkian and Aragchi – 3 of the most prominent regime leaders still breathing
Stacy says
Per NATO’s own laws…. Iran attacking Turkey means ALL of NATO must come to the defense of Turkey and destroy Iran.
But we know the Europeans will NOT! If they don’t do this… They are proving NATO is a joke
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The very continuation of Turkey as a member of NATO long after the Cold War ended proves that NATO is an anachronism. Of course, there was no reason for NATO to continue once the Cold War ended