Iran Vows ‘Humiliation, Disgrace, Permanent and Certain Regret’ for a ‘Crushed’ U.S. After Trump Address

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Iran unleashed a torrent of spittle-flecked threats and invective against the U.S. in the wake of President Donald Trump’s prime-time White House address on Wednesday night.

Trump said the U.S was “very close” to achieving its objectives but warned attacks would intensify if Iran’s totalitarian Islamic regime did not sit down and reach a negotiated settlement as its navy and air force lies in tatters as the former Middle East bully has been reduced to irrelevance, as Breitbart News reported.

Hours before Trump gave his address, he shared in a post on Truth Social the Iranian government had “asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE.”

“We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear,” Trump added. “Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”

Iran’s response was immediate denial with Israeli air defences pressed into action and police responding to “several” impact sites, as four people were reportedly lightly injured in the Tel Aviv area, AFP noted.

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Trump warned Iran if no agreement was struck, Washington had “our eyes on key targets including the country’s electric generating plants”.

Iran Vows 'Humiliation, Disgrace, Permanent and Certain Regret' for U.S.

Iran unleashed a torrent of spittle-flecked threats and invective against the U.S. in the wake of President Donald Trump's address.

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[Hol]

Back To The Stone Age​

President Trump’s speech last night was taken as bearish by the market, and on the surface it was easy to see why. He made clear the war is not ending immediately, and his rhetoric about bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age” underscored that Washington is still prepared to keep escalating militarily in the near term. Stocks slid and oil jumped after the speech because investors were looking for a clearer off-ramp than the one he gave them.

But there were two parts of the speech we think the market may be discounting too heavily. The first was Trump’s reiteration that he still expects this war to be wrapped up within a matter of weeks, not months. The second was his statement that the U.S. has deliberately avoided hitting Iran’s oil infrastructure, even though, in his words, it would be “the easiest target of all.” That matters, because it suggests the White House still wants to preserve at least some pathway for Iran to survive and rebuild once the military phase is over. In other words, this still looks less like the beginning of a long U.S. occupation and more like a brutal but time-limited coercive campaign

That interpretation also fits the broader military picture. Trump’s own timeframe of another two or three weeks, combined with the relatively modest number of American ground troops in theater or visibly on the way, argues strongly against the more dire predictions of a full-scale U.S. invasion of Iran. The likelier endgame still looks binary: either Iran accepts Trump’s terms, or the U.S. and Israel keep destroying what remains of Iran’s military and military-adjacent infrastructure, including its power plants, and then declare victory and move on. The market may not like that scenario, but it is still a very different scenario from a multi-year ground war.

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[Tall Timbers]

While I'd hate to see the Iran people without petroleum or power, if Iran doesn't stop fighting (lobbing missiles and drones) and her proxies don't stop then I think the best thing to do it take out all oil facilities and power plants. That will create a situation that will take many years to recover from, which will make the rest of the world relatively safe from a re-armed Iran for a long time to come... unless of course, Russia and or China and or North Korea gets generous with gifting Iran arms.

Even if Iran is bombed back to the stone age they can still send an army of fighters in the Eze 38-39 war.

 

[Batman]

I agree. The modern terrorism is capable of many awful and destructive things.