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Foreign AffairsRe: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 9:21pm On Jun 21, 2025
Gospelpreacher1:
Senior Iranian official to Reuters:
“If we have to choose between stopping uranium enrichment and war, we choose war.”
That's bluffing. If sanctions forced them to sign an 8-15:year JPCOA treaty with Obama, how about a war?
The insanity with Arabs fighting the west is that a single western death is a great victory to them. Any death on their side is promoted as martyrdom status and goes straight to Jannat. Avoiding the day of judgement. That's what the west doesn't understand. From the cradle Islam teaches graphically and vividly about the horrors of the hellfire. To avoid the day of judgement, and attain the forbidden earthly pleasures , a jihadist willing to die is created. The army against infidels will never lack fighters.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:38pm On Jun 21, 2025
budaatum:
Is your point, therefore bomb every hospital in Gaza?
Ibime explained it took 2 weeks to clear the hospital of terrorists. Once you launch rockets and offensive positions it becomes a legit target.
You should be asking whether IDF found any cache of arms , whether they were shot at within the hospital.
If the answer is no , then they should not have bombed it
Circle back to my advice. Never believe anything from Hamas . I presume you've never heard of Pallywood which has more actors
and props than all of Hollyweird, Bollywood and Nollywood combined
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:27pm On Jun 21, 2025
budaatum:
I will not emotionally cry at this your emotional post, Ibime. What I would wonder is what stupid Terrorists who indiscriminately murdered 1,400 Israelis will hole up in and under Al Shifa hospital.

Are they stupid or what, or am I being gullibly asked to believe basilico's they are mindless blood thirsty jihadist Arabs?

I reserve my emotionally cry for the Palestinians who did not kill 1400 Israelis who are being bombed in the hospital they run to after being bombed out there homes.
Your thoughts on this please.


Wafa al Bass (Wafa al-Biss, b. 1984) is a Palestinian Arab resident of northern Gaza and student at Al Quds University who was permitted to enter Israel for the purpose of being treated for burns at an Israeli hospital in 2005 after a gas cooker had blown up while she was making dinner.She wore a suicide bomb vest which she attempted to explode as she crossed into Israel via the Erez Crossing.

Al Bass had been given permission by Israel to enter Israel to receive hospital treatment for severe burns at Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva.. On June 20, 2005, during one of her return visits, guards at the crossing became suspicious given that she was walking awkwardly, and discovered that under her traditional black robes she had strapped a 22-pound bomb to her legs. She unsuccessfully attempted to then detonate the bomb, and when questioned, she said that she hoped to explode the bomb after arriving at the hospital where she had been treated.She said "I am a member of Al Aqsa Brigades .. I believe in death."


Cry for this one also
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:11pm On Jun 21, 2025
cococandy:
Under Obama, We had a nuclear treaty with Iran that stipulated they were allowed to stop abiding by some of the nuclear restrictions if America breaks their side of the deal. We lift sanctions on them and they stop their nuclear activities.

Trump pulled us out of that treaty in 2018 because his jealousy of Obama knew no bounds. He was just out to dismantle everything Obama achieved in his presidency.

Trump IS THE REASON why this is happening. Just putting it out there so the dirty brainwashed liars don’t conflate the facts.
Absolute nonsense. Obama treaty was for the Mullahs to stop enriching uranium,develop ballistic missiles for 8 -15 years in return for sanctions removal. He gave them $400 million in cash besides freeibg up billions of dollars for them. After that they were free to make nuclear bombs.
Worst deal ever .
He took the deal for ratification to the UN because neither the house nor the Senate would have approved it. His closest advisor who lives in his house and also lived with them in the House in the Hill "built by slave labour" is Valerie Jarrett. She is an Iranian American .
You know nothing about the JPCOA .
Obama misguided idea of middle east peace was to have Iran get a nuclear bomb, create another axid of power and so Israel would not bully them.
Most useless charlatan whose Nobel Peace Prize should be revoked yesterday.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:16am On Jun 21, 2025
Budaatum. This was before Trump declared he is running for a presidency in June 2015. My stance on Iran vs Israel is not guided by the politics of what Trump eats and drinks.

Red this.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5359/iran-nuclear-theology

Foreign AffairsRe: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 1:35pm On Jun 20, 2025
Holiness2100:
Iranian official tells Reuters:
Iran is ready to discuss restrictions on its uranium enrichment
Might be too late. No enrichment no centrifuges.
Foreign AffairsRe: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 1:34pm On Jun 20, 2025
Holiness2100:
IAF fighter jets struck the Iranian Regime’s Internal Security HQ and the HQ of the regime's special internal security units in Tehran earlier this week.

Take a look at what type of infrastructure was located in these places:
Ballistic missile launchers . Unbelievable.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
ObaIgwe1:
Even The Palestinians do no want this arrangement. No people want to depend on another Nation for their well being or become a 2nd class citizens to another. Israel took up this unsolicited responsibilities because they do not want to allow the 2 states solution. Let Israel accept and work towards a 2 state solution and the Palestinians will take their destinies in their hand without handouts from Israel.



I already told you I consider myself a lover of Israel just not a fan of Netanyahu, I also told you I love children regardless of who birth them, even if they are from my enemies because I believe in their innocence. So there is no way I am happy that any kid will die in any senseless war, be it Israeli or Palestinian kids. I am talking about surviving children in need of basic things to remain alive, I do not need to cry for Israeli surviving/injured children because they are well taking care of, and I am happy about that. I am simply crying for innocent surviving Palestinian children needing water, food and medicines just to remain alive. And the minimum I expect of anyone with a heart, especially a parent's heart is to show some concern for them too and not give me all these sorry excuses and tales you are giving.
What makes you think a two state solution is the answer. You been reading too much liberal hogwash. How do you make a deal with people who want you dead? People who demand a judenrein Palestinian state. People who sing from the river to the sea, people who celebrated Oct 7 out in the streets.

The Palestinians should be absorbed by those Arab countries, their aim is to get rid of a Jewish state. Their first fight is right of return. Then universal suffrage when they are majority. After which they turn Israel into another shithole like Yemen .

There are no Palestinians as distinct from Jordans, Syrians or Egyptians. They are simply Arabs who have been chased away by Kuwait, Jordan, Tunisia and Lebanon after causing trouble in their host countries.
When they get aid they build tunnels with the cement.
They don't even pay for electricity supplied by Israel. Neither do they pay for water from the same, all they do is whine how much litres of water per person they are not getting per day in line international standards. How much calorific weight per person Israel should allow in as aid. They are just cry babies.
When Israel left Gaza due to pressure from the west they immediately looted the greenhouses and used the water pipes to make rockets. The plastic pipes, they use for caning students in schools and madrassas
They are just a good for nothing people whose state would be the middle east Riviera but they voted for Hamas. Instead they are propped up by aid for everything including condoms. Aid also pays very generous monthly stipends to the families of their terrorists jailed in Israel prisons , the more heinous the crimes the more the stipends.
Israel pioneered desalination of sea water which they supply to Palestinians, who then lie that they are over exploiting fresh drinking water from the river Jordan.
Going biblically the Wailing Wall was built by King Herod. Palestinians claim it's an Islamic wall , took the claims to UNESCO and UN General Assembly where ignorant countries voted to support the resolution. They used the UN to delegitimize any Jewish connections.
I have not called them a useless people though
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:32pm On Jun 20, 2025
Trump goes there.
Obama JPCOA deal allowed Iran to enrich uranium and not develop ballistic missiles for 8 years. After that they were free to do anything. Who does that?
Trump is wrong here , it was Valerie Jarrett. She is still with Obama after living with him at the WH.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:08am On Jun 20, 2025
GloriousGbola:
all this is why i believe nethenayahu allowed october 7 to happen. i know muslims in yankee who were unhappy about the isreali response to october 7 and were blaming jo biden. i mean there were arab american rappers writing songs called genocide joe.

too many western liberals are not realists and will drop the good for the impossible. somehow people have been conditioned to believe that the change you want will happen overnight - possibly because everyone tried to rewrite Americas ugly history and pretend that civil rights came overnight.
Thank your stars I'm not the moderator here. I would have banned and everyone who liked your post - for 1 year. smiley smiley
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:00am On Jun 20, 2025
A Commiefornia judge had ordered the national guard in California to be under the Governor Newscum. 36 pages from him saying the Presidential order to activate National Guard was unlawful.

A 3 judge bench of 9th Circuit Appeals court has revoked his orders unanimously
The undisputed facts demonstrate that before the deployment of the National Guard, protesters ‘pinned down’ several federal officers and threw ‘concrete chunks, bottles of liquid, and other objects’ at the officers. Protesters also damaged federal buildings and caused the closure of at least one federal building. And a federal van was attacked by protesters who smashed in the van’s windows,” the court wrote. “The federal government’s interest in preventing incidents like these is significant.”
The court also found that even if the federal government failed to notify the governor of California before federalizing the National Guard as required by law, Newsom had no power to veto the president’s order.


What law school did this judge attend ?The only conclusion is that his decision was purely partisan and grandstanding. A dereliction of duty.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Do You Support Israel? - A Call For Thoughtful Reflection by basilico:
ANTONINEUTRON:
Hello everyone,

I've been following recent discussions on this forum and have noticed a strong trend of support for Israel’s ongoing military actions against Iran. I understand that people have diverse opinions, shaped by history, politics, and security concerns. But It seems most opinion on Nairaland comments are shaped by Religion (which, if true is sad).

A quick one:
some people will attribute it to Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapon.
Have you forgetten 2003 and the Iraq war? was any weapon found?

Let’s start with the Vanunu case. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli nuclear technician, revealed Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program to the British press. He was kidnapped by Mossad, secretly tried, and imprisoned for 18 years, 11 of which were in solitary confinement. To this day, Israel has never officially acknowledged its nuclear arsenal, yet it’s widely understood to possess dozens, possibly hundreds, of nuclear warheads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

Now contrast this with Iran. As of today, there is no conclusive evidence that Iran has built or possesses a nuclear weapon. Multiple IAEA inspections have verified this over the years. Yet, many in this forum seem comfortable supporting an Israeli war against Iran, seemingly justified by the assumption that Iran might eventually develop nuclear capability.

Here’s the question I keep coming back to:

Is it really about nuclear weapons, or are we selectively applying standards based on warped ideological bias?

This isn’t about supporting Iran or criticizing Israel blindly. It’s about consistency, morality, and whether we allow fear or prejudice to shape our view of justice as Nigerians.

Our current trail of thought we shape how this country goes by 2027.

Would love to hear thoughtful takes from others.
When the supreme leader chants Death to Israel , Death to America every Friday prayer you should believe him.
When he sends hundreds of missiles that will obviously fall on civilian areas he means to eliminate you
When he sponsors and supplies weapons to Houthis, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hesbolla to rain down tens of thousands of rockets to Israel He means to kill anyone. Rockets by Hamas , Hesbolla are tipped with explosives, they are not tipped with candy, sweets, chocolates and love messages. Think about someone firing a bullet at you. He means to kill or maim you ,it's either you take him out or he will kill you.
Iran is lying about moving their 60% enriched elsewhere. In 2023 IAEA determined their Underground Fordo plant was enriching to 83.3%. Uranium for safe purposes only needs to be 3.5% . For medical isotopes which I doubt Iran is researching on maybe 60%. Another purpose would be for nuclear powered naval vessels which Iran doesn't have .The only other purpose of that level of enrichment is the nuclear bomb. Let me know from you why their centrifuges can enrich uranium to more than 20%. Why they need to enrich when they can buy nuclear fuel for their power plants without the hazards of their reactors blowing up and contaminating the environment.
Just before the hostilities started
Catyln Jenner was in Tel Aviv to celebrate Pride month. This is only possible in one country in the Middle East. In Iran they go medieval on gays, hoisting them up a crane . The Basiji moral police patrol the streets harassing and arresting women who don't wear the headbag. Basiji have murdered women for the crime of being uncovered ,as if Jen can't hold up their zippers.

Iran is not Arabic ,they are Persians. They are Aryans (whom Hitler said were the super race) the name Iran reflects Aryan origin in case you didn't know.So why they concerned about a tiny little country ( 20000 sw km) surrounded by Arab territories seated on hundreds of millions of square kilometers Why does Iran call Israel a cancer that should be removed and exterminated. The chants" from the river to the sea" means drive out Israel citizens to the sea. To beach parties or to drown ?
Here is a map of Israel surrounded by tens of Arab nations . Who expelled nearly all of their Jewish citizens in 1948 and confiscated their possessions, today worth hundreds of billions of Dollars.

Convince me to support Iran .

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 4:11am On Jun 20, 2025
Rilwayne001:
America has a lot to lose in the war more than it stands to gain.

Another Middle East crisis means bye-bye to the billions Saudi Arabia and Qatar promised him.

More so, the war has the potential to linger far more than the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Also, the potential to cost the US on average 1billion every day in military spending.

Considering Trump is all about saving money which brought about DOGE, and the threat China and Russia is posing at them, for real, they would need more than two weeks to decide whether to go into the war or not.
Iran will not see ground troops holding territory. Simply bomb every nuclear installation, ballistic missile production facilities and their space programme.
The Ayatollah will simply collapse from the shock and die once his lifetime pet projects go up in smoke
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
raumdeuter:
The leadership choices are what is responsibl for the sufferings of the Gaza kids. If the leadership did not decide to attack Israel and kill 1400 party goers on October 7, there wont be Gaza kids suffering

Humanitarian and Medical aid you care about is currently being delivered by Israel and their American partners to Gaza right now. The UN? The same UN where UNHCR is a propaganda tool for Hamas where several Hamas members have infiltrated

The US backed GHF and Israel are delivering aids to the Gaza people. You realize Egypt shares a border with Gaza? Have you asked Egypt why they are not opening their border t send supplies to into Gaza

We always demand of Israel what we cannot accept in our own country.
Israel provides healthcare for Gazans,
Israel provides employment for Gazans some who end up blowing them up and stabbing them,
Israel provide aids to Gazans

Have you ever Asked Ukraine or Russia when they will provide all the above to the other side or provide cover to aid trucks going into Russia/Ukraine? or its just Israel that is mandated to do that

As the empathy for kids, do you have this same empath for kids murdered by Hamas regularly? or this empathy goes missing here?
Do you have the same empathy for the kids being killed by Arab militias in Sudan, If you do, I have not shared it here

War is brutal especially on innocent civilian population mainly kids and women, That is why reasonable people avoid war at all cost and every aggressive state sponsor of terror like Iran Hezbollah, Hamas Houthi should be condemned by all well meaning citizens
A lot of commenters here side with Hamas and Iran simply because Ze Trump supports Israel wholeheartedly. Ibime is a surprise exception , his stance on Israel mortally broke several hearts.
Whether Israel is wrong or not , I would never support genocidal maniacs .
This is one reason Iran is emboldened to be belligerent. A high ranked official telling you that Iran will eliminate you respectfully .

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:09am On Jun 19, 2025
In August 2020 .
federal customs officers have seized 1,513 shipments from overseas containing fraudulent documents—19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses—just at Chicago O'Hare International Airport this year through the end of June.

20000 fake driving licences were intended to be used to generate mail-in ballots.
As expected Fact checkers in unison like a choir all reported that the seizure had nothing to do with the election .
The FBI killed the probe. Those are the internal documents released to Grassely by the FBI director.
Under Cris Wray FBI killed every crime that would damage democrats. Effectively it ceased to be the worlds premiere investigation agency and became a stasi like org who purpose was to protect democrats and crucify Trump.Iy led the efforts to find Trump guilty of anything at all

New documents have been release to nypost that shows FBI and DOJ obsession to go after Trump .

https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/opinion/fbi-emails-revealed-to-the-post-expose-biden-dojs-obsession-with-piling-on-trump-charges/
FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina an anti Trump federal agent has been in every witch hunt targeting Trump.In medieval societies he would have been strung up high by now

It was a a whole industry under Biden to make sure Trump git locked up before the elections.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:47am On Jun 19, 2025
bemeruca:
The VP joined Bluesky, and he was banned immediately.
JD Vance is a danger to democracy, they was protecting " our democracy.
Within minutes of him posting, they had banned him.
Liberals only want their views to be heard. So sad
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
nateevs:
As a sovereign nation, Iran has a right over its decision to enrich whatever it wants to. You have no right to tell them what they can and cannot do.

Who's monitoring Israel's Nuclear capacity?
As a sovereign nation Iran has the right to start a war which may be defensive or offensive in nature.
As s sovereign nation Iran has the right to retaliate against Israel when it's military leaders and advisors enabling Hesbollah attack Israel are killed in Lebanon.
As a sovereign nation Iran has the right to sponsor terrorist groups within the ME. These are the groups that use Iran weaponry to attack merchant ships, attack Aramco facilities, attack Israel using rockets and missiles Iran has the sovereign right to arm and train these militias.
I am aware that drunk drivers easily have their licences revoked because their state of mind is deemed diminished while inebriated above a certain limit
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 8:47pm On Jun 18, 2025
emmaodet:
He has to be careful. His decision can light up the whole region.
Can/will the US be able to blow up Iran's nuclear facility? Absolutely Yes
But
The problem is that Iran will also blow up Isreal's own.
Atleast, we have seen they are struggling to neutralize 20-30 years ago missiles not to talk about modern ones.
So Yes, Iran will blow up Isreal's own and that will have a devastating action in the region.
The edge and fear isreal had in that region is the nuclear weapon, without it the Arab resistance forces would have long attacked her and over run her.
It is the Samson's Option that has still been keeping a lot abay to take a pound of their own flesh from Isreal's long years of bullying, expanding etc
Blowing Iran nuclear facility will make the region so so so messy, very very messy.
I pray trump is reasonable enough to know the reaction of his actions.
Iran has threatened no one's oil rigs would be standing if her own goes up in flame. She has shown she has the capacity.
Saudi oo, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait etc would all collect for been docile or codedly supporting the invaders.
It will be very very messy.
Iran na agbero ooo, no dey follow agbero fight oo if you be butty boy.
Them go destroy your fine boy.
He who is down and sanctioned to death for years needs fear but no fall
Israel already has nuclear bombs A triad. Submarines, Jet fighters and Ballistic missiles.
Iran has the golden offer according to Trump. Invite the IAEA to shut down every centrifuge and cart off the enriched uranium avd Israel will stop attacking it
Iran only needs to stop enrichment, they can use nuclear fuel to generate power . They also need to stop ballistic missiles production.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 8:41pm On Jun 18, 2025
emmaodet:
Iran just want to humble Isreal.
That is what I see in this scenario.
They want to rubbish isreal's invisibility.
The core of isreal bragging right and bullying.
Also, by hitting isreal regularly with their missiles, it is de-marketing the highly over-hyped and extremely expensive weapons.
The qataris and Saudis rely on these weapons alot.
They spend billions on yearly basis on US security protect, guarantee and constant weapon supply like F-fighter jets to wade off threats from countries like Iran.
Saudi even have around 200 plus F-series fighter jets.
Seeing isreal been banged regularly despite all the best ADs in the world there is sending a big fear and concern in the heart of the Saudis, Qataris and Jordanians.
They now know all the expensive junks they have at hand won't save them from Iran.
They are just in-between.
Support US to eliminate the Iran threat and all their oil fields burn, pressure US not to go in and the Iran regional threat keeps lurking in the corner.
I saw somewhere the Saudis are egging Netanyahu to get rid of Khamenei. In public they criticise Israel but privately they would be glad to be rid of theocrats in Iran.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
nateevs:
To be fair, it's not the only reason.

The Iranians communicated to the Pentagon during Trump's first term in office, a range of retaliatory options they will consider in the event of B2 bomber deployment. Trump got this briefing.

AirBases in the region, Aircraft carriers, Oil Refineries, Strait of Hormuz, Israel's Nuclear facilities (wherever they are) are all fair game......for Hypersonic missiles. None of these assets have Iron Dome. Those that have Iron Dome sef are begging relentlessly for help.

Trump needs to calculate the political costs and fallout when the numbers start to stack up in dead Soldiers and Sailors, Oil prices going through the roof, wide-spread radioactive contamination over the middle east, including over Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia......


All for what? Iran that is not even a threat to America.
You must be aware Iran was mining the strait during Reagan time. He bombed an oil rig then later sank every navy ship docked and any that attacked American ships. One US ship accidentally downed an Iranian airliner in another incident.
A year earlier Reagan had bombed Gaddafis tent supposedly killing his adopted daughter.
Long and short,bullies are all talk. If America acts against Khamenei he knows Trump will hit him hard .
Iran had enriched uranium to 83.7% as of 2023 at Fordow underground .What other purpose can that be used for?

Israel says they were developing a nuclear detonator. All you need after that is the enriched uranium (;which they have) and a delivery mechanism (their ballistics missile development.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:40pm On Jun 18, 2025
raumdeuter:
Supreme court uphold Tennessee ban on gender affirming care for trans minors
There should be a penalty imposed on these judges. A judge makes a decision knowing very well the ruling will be overturned by a higher court. The judge is basically sabotaging the government.
With more than 190 injunctions so far. something should be done about judges paralysing the government either from partisanship ,pure malevolence or as a result of blackmail.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:51am On Jun 18, 2025
Some 20 times Khamenei has made comments about America since 2020.

January 8, 2020 (Qom Anniversary Speech): Khamenei described America’s democracy as eroding, citing U.S. protests as evidence, stating, “We can see what the big idol has turned into.”

January 17, 2020 (Friday Prayers Sermon): He accused the U.S. of lying about supporting Iranians, saying, “These American clowns lie in utter viciousness that they stand with the Iranian people.”

March 2020 (Nowruz Speech): Khamenei expressed medical paranoia, suggesting the U.S. might use COVID-19 aid to harm Iran, claiming they could spread a virus “based on Iranian genetic information.”

November 23, 2020 (Supreme Council of Economic Coordination): He downplayed U.S. sanctions relief negotiations, urging self-reliance, saying Iran should not trust Washington or Europe.

January 8, 2021 (Televised Address): Khamenei rejected U.S. coronavirus vaccines, alleging, “If they knew how to make a vaccine, they would have consumed it themselves so they would not see that many deaths.”

March 2021 (Nowruz Speech): He emphasized Iran’s economic independence, dismissing reconciliation with America as a path to prosperity, arguing Iran’s successes come from resisting external pressure.

March 21, 2022 (Nowruz Speech): Khamenei blamed the U.S. for starting and prolonging the Ukraine war, asserting Iran’s non-involvement while criticizing Western hypocrisy.

March 21, 2023 (Nowruz Speech): He interrupted chants of “Death to America,” saying, “Well yes, death to America, but let me speak!” to focus on domestic resilience amid U.S.-backed protests.

March 20, 2024 (Nowruz Speech): Khamenei claimed the U.S. must leave the Middle East, stating, “The Americans can’t stay in this region. They have no choice but to leave.”

March 21, 2024 (Nowruz Day Speech): He accused America of attributing regional resistance actions to Iran, saying, “Any measure taken by Resistance forces, the Americans will attribute it to Iran.”

December 11, 2024 (Meeting with Society Segments): Khamenei blamed a U.S.-Israeli plot for Syria’s developments, stating, “No one should doubt that what has happened in Syria is the product of a joint US-Israeli plot.”

December 22, 2024 (Speech to Eulogists): He denied U.S. claims that Iran relies on proxies, asserting Iran’s regional influence is independent, countering narratives of diminished power.

March 8, 2025 (Meeting with Officials): Khamenei rejected negotiations with the Trump administration, saying, “Negotiating with this US administration won’t result in the sanctions being removed.”

March 20, 2025 (Nowruz Speech): He condemned U.S. actions in Gaza and Yemen, declaring, “America is also a partner in this crime,” without mentioning Iran-U.S. talks.

March 31, 2025 (Eid al-Fitr Meeting): Khamenei likely reiterated anti-U.S. themes, focusing on regional resistance, though specific quotes are unavailable; he typically calls America “arrogant.”

April 15, 2025 (Meeting with Officials): He emphasized Iran’s defiance against U.S. sanctions, urging economic self-reliance, consistent with his 2020-2025 rhetoric.

June 4, 2025 (Imam Khomeini Anniversary): Khamenei likely framed America as a persistent enemy, reinforcing Iran’s revolutionary stance, though exact quotes are not provided.

June 13, 2025 (Televised Message): He vowed a response to U.S.-backed Israeli attacks, stating Iran’s armed forces would “bring ruin upon the malicious Zionist regime,” implicating America.

2020-2025 (General Friday Sermons): Khamenei frequently labeled America as untrustworthy, often saying U.S. negotiators are “the same terrorists” behind regional conflicts.

2020-2025 (Recurring Theme in Speeches): He consistently called America the “Great Satan,” urging resistance, as in prior decades, though specific 2025 quotes are not fully documented.



This is one person who should not be allowed near a nuclear bomb.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:55pm On Jun 17, 2025
nateevs:
Oh the Irony of you siding with and voting alongside Evangelical radicals in the US who want to own women's bodies and send them back into the kitchen.

It's like religious fanatism only gets airtime with you guys when it's Islam. All the whole, you are bonafide card-carrying members of the Hand Made Tale gang.
Be happy UK has a deal . An EO has been signed.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/implementing-the-general-terms-of-the-united-states-of-america-united-kingdom-economic-prosperity-deal/
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:37pm On Jun 17, 2025
Obrigardo:
But what about the doomsday evangelicals? They are not extreme I guess.
I have sais there are extreme positions in every religion. Did I not.
I'm no extremist at all.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:00pm On Jun 17, 2025
nateevs:
Oh the Irony of you siding with and voting alongside Evangelical radicals in the US who want to own women's bodies and send them back into the kitchen.

It's like religious fanatism only gets airtime with you guys when it's Islam. All the whole, you are bonafide card-carrying members of the Hand Made Tale gang.
I have been against the Mullahs for a long time. There are extreme positions in every religion , I don't ascribe to the extremes.
I will not side with liberals on many matters. My position on liberals is well known I bash them every day ,doesn't make me a religious nut at all.
Try another.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:27pm On Jun 17, 2025
budaatum:
Some Iranians want regime change, and have been fighting years for it. I just wish they won it themselves instead of Israel delivered, which I doubt most would quite appreciate in the end.
If you backtrack as you normally do looking for anything to discredit me, I have been very supportive of Iranians. They have high rates of education with women being more in universities and they like secularism. The Ayatollahs imposed a theocracy , patriarchy in the Iranian society and his Basiji moral police enforce archaic medieval dress codes for women in public streets.
Seventies vs today for Iran.

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