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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:33am On Apr 16
DeepSight:
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You write in a very scattered way. I will be back.
ISIS, Boko Haram , Al Shabab, Hamas and this Bangladesh learnt from the "best of creation".
Examine Hamas with this on mind.

‎Islamic Cleric says his soldiers would take non-m*slim women as s*x slaves, and he would take 10 women for himself if Bangladesh decided to go to war with Myanmar

‎A Bangladeshi Islamic religious preacher has openly called for the capture, distribution, and s*xual enslavement of non-Muslim women if Bangladesh ever goes to war with Myanmar.

‎"The women we capture will be distributed among our soldiers. Suppose we get 50 girls, I will keep 10. The rest I will sell to our soldiers."

‎"Islam allows taking kafir girls as sex slaves. They deserve humiliation.”

‎Under traditional Islamic law, from the Quran and the "Prophet" Muhammad, female captives taken in jihad are classified as “those whom your right hands possess.”

‎This explicitly allows Muslim men to have s*x with them without marriage, treat them as property, and distribute them as spoils of war.

‎Fast Facts:
‎🔺️Bangladesh and Myanmar share a tense border, fueled by the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis.

‎🔺️Since 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar after the military’s crackdown, which included documented mass r*pes and s*xual violence against Rohingya women by Myanmar forces.

‎🔺️Aid groups have reported cases of Rohingya girls and women being sold into sex slavery inside Bangladesh’s refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
I'll touch on Iran Iraq war first.

1951. Iran PM nationalized the oil. Which was controlled by Anglo Iranian Oil Company.
He is overthrow in 1953 through a CIA led coup that installs the Shah.
The Shah doesn't reverse the nationalization,he gave the fully Iranian National Iranian Oil Company the full ownership but allows the western consortium to manage the oil.
1973. Shah extends NIOC full management rights but western companies remain the prime buyers of the oil.
1979. Khomeini gives the NIOC absolute rights cancelling every contracts with western companies,which was what he had advocated since the 1950s. Iranians are happy and they decide Allah law shall be supreme ,and his earthly representative will be Khomeini.
( Don't forget Iranians had held Americans hostage for 444 days ,there was no love for the Ayatollahs).
Iraq secular Baathists don't want the revolution to hit home. Saddam starts a war . His primary motivations were to reclaim the Shatt al-Arab waterway, annex oil-rich Khuzestan, and prevent the spread of Iran's Islamic revolution.

America covertly supports Saddam with intelligence and $$$ but no weapons,. In later years Kuwait invasion Saddam primarily used Soviet hardware,he didn't have western military weapons.

Later on in 1985 to free some American hostages in Lebanon Reagan sells Iran high tech weapons on what was known the Iran Contra. Profits from the arms sales are routed to Contra rebels in south America.
In the contra scandal Khashoggi was the middle man who arranged the weapons transfer. (Epstein handled the discrete movement of money,he was a financial guru having gained experience from Bear and Sterns, Khashoggi was his client).

Reagan played both sides .

While America gave aid to both Saddam and Khomeini, this does not give Khamenei the greenlight to murder anyone American, which I've already listed ,upto 1500 of them and numerous plots thwarted within America and Israel (3000 plus Israelis).
You've seen how Iran is ready to blow up the global economy ,how they murdered 30,000 of their own this year. They have no regard for human life at all. Their top echelons have all been eliminated, but are beating their chests claiming victory because IDF and America hasn't won yet. How you side with people ready to kill 30000 of their own beats me.
Operation Enduring Fury has objectives, eliminate uranium enrichment,eliminate ballistic missile production which can carry the bomb and free the Straits of Hormuz from the Iranian psychopaths control .
The ultimate prize is overthrowing the theocrats.


DeepSight:
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Only two countries in this world act like they have a divine right to eliminate everyone everywhere and that's the USA and Israel.

Can you count the amount of targeted assassinations they have carried out of civilian scientists in Iran?

You are not serious.

Oh and it's interesting how you pretend you didn't see anything written about the Iran Iraq war for example. This is telling and symptomatic. It simply tells me that you close your eyes to any atrocity from one side. And that alone shows me you are not objective and there is no point reasoning with you.

I mean you said since the Ayatollahs came to power they have been killing Americans and Israelis. Do you know how soon after they came to power the Iraq war was launched against them? 1980. Yes - barely a year after they came to power. And that war lasted some eight years. Killing hundreds of thousands. And that was the handiwork of the USA. And you pretend it didn't even happen and accuse Iran, who was the defending party.

You probably believe Israel has a right to treat Palestinians the way they do. To steal from them, mass murder them, occupy their land and implement apartheid against them. I am one hundred percent sure you will defend everything.

You talked about October 7 as though it was the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. It was not. It was retaliation. You would of course not say anything about the mass killings of Palestinians that same year in the West Bank by Israel before October 7. About five hundred were killed. But of course total silence, you will act like it didn't even happen. Once there is retaliation you will only see the retaliation.

And the world has decried Israel's over retaliation by the way. To you, the killing of tens of thousands in tiny Gaza in retaliation is just fine.

By the way, the stories about beheading babies and roasting them were proven to be lies very early in the conflict.
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:33am On Apr 16
[quote author=WriterrNg post=139109584] had gone there to urge them to accept mediation.
Pakistani had already sent 13000 elite forces and F16s to Saudi Arabia.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:20am On Apr 16
WriterrNg:


So the US can bomb Iranian soil and kill their leaders in their own homes but Iran should not bomb the US mainland? Why?

I'm even baffled Iran is not working towards that. By now they should have been launching strikes in that direction.
I meant the nuclear bomb.
Iranians missiles are deliberately targeting mass civilian deaths
The Ayatollahs believe it's a victory if they kill one American and a thousand Muslims .
They don't care who else dies as long as an American or Israel dies in the process
Such callous disregard for life is another reason I abhor them
Iran is best defined as a state terrorist sponsor and a religious terrorist regime at the same time. It deems is actions as divine , inspired by Allah.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
My position is very simple. Iran has been killing Americans and Israelis since the Ayatollahs came to power.
America has killed so many people since the 50s like the Vietnam
Are they going around countries killing Americans. Iranians are jihadists plus they are a state. They want the atomic bomb, which is why they won't give up their 440 kg of HEU.
Iran acts like it has a divine right to eliminate anyone anywhere. They were assuring countries recently of their safety as long as they didn't support the American and IDF.

State terrorism combined with religious terrorism best describes Iran.
Iran was behind Oct 7, the plan was to eliminate Israel by having Jerusalem flooded with allahu Akbar yelling jihadists .Hamas called Al Aqsa flood . You are not likely aware that 6000 Palestinians breached Israel . 3800 were Iran trained elite Nukbha forces. nukbha means elite or 'the best of the best', the Hamas Delta forces. Not kyst anyone trained to load and unload an AK 47.

What country has a right to murder civilians in the most heinous way including roasting babies in ovens. Shooting up women's genitals. What evil must be in someone's mind to rape a whole family in their home then murder them..

I didn't think you could really really justify Iranian attacks .It's a pathetic excuse from you saying Oh Israel this, Israel that implicitly saying Oct 7 was justified.

The world dithered when Rwanda genocide was taking place. The world has arrested leaders who massacred their own people. Iran executed over 30,000 in 1987 under Khomeini . This year they executed over 30,000 .
Oga ,choose the hill you want to die on.

DeepSight:
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I started with the events of the fifties to put things in proper perspective. You must not put the cart before the horse when analyzing things if you are truly rational and fair. That way you will see what leads to what. And in so doing you will recognize the insane imperialist hypocrisy and murderous disposition of the USA and Israel which has led to this.

It's madness to suggest that Iran has been killing Americans and that is the reason for the current conflict. Not even America presents that as it's reason for attacking Iran twice in one year in the middle of negotiations.

It's terrible hypocrisy.

In all your analysis you completely left out the Iraq Iran war which was instigated by the US against Iran. Instigated, funded, weaponized. Over half a million Iranians were killed in that conflict alone and you dare sit back and mention tiny amounts of Americans killed here and there in the longstanding attrition between both parties - which the USA started - and expect me or any sensible person to believe that Iran is the belligerent who needs to be dealt with.

You are simply washed by Western propaganda and can't see clearly. In all these things the USA has been radically evil: They trained and created virtually all their enemies: Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, to mention just a few in the Middle East alone.

In terms of Hamas and Israel the same story is true. Do you know how massively Israel funded Hamas? Today they are angry that Iran does the same. Well they sustained the devil didn't they? And they sure did do the evil acts of injustice which watered that devil into fruition.

You don't think critically, you have a poor grasp of history and you are not rational.
just
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:14am On Apr 15
The British were the biggest beneficiaries with the overthrown regime. Include the oil and Lloyds of London.
A 70 year old grievance. They took their country back from the Shah,who is now more popular than them.

Does an injustice 70 years ago give you the carte blanche to murder around 1500 Americans within 47 years?



DeepSight:
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I don't think you know the history of Iran. And of American involvement in Iran. If you did, you would not be saying all this. Or scratch that, you are unreasonable so you might still.

Can you tell me what countries went to Iran and toppled a democratic government in the fifties because that government wanted to ensure that Iranians controlled Iranian Oil? Can you tell me what countries thereafter imposed a Shah on Iran?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:03am On Apr 15
Biden DOJ targeted pro lifers. Coordinated with Planned Parenthood and other groups to identify whom to persecute . Biden admin funded abortion initiatives . Prosecutors pledged to ensure convicted pro lifers received more harsh sentences

https://www.westernjournal.com/explosive-report-biden-doj-collaborated-pro-abortion-groups-target-pro-lifers/

I'd expect this from a devil worshiping administration.

4 DOJ prosecutors identified have been fired, expect a Biden/Obama judge to order their reinstatement.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:16am On Apr 15
dermmy:
No body can stop China. I am happy the way the PDFile is dismantling America.
How great if you could convert your savings to the Yuan.
You could also be using the Yuan when travelling abroad instead of the dollar.
That's one way that China rises, when it's supporters ditch the dollar.
Tell me when you do that I'll send you $100 equivalent Yuan.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:06am On Apr 15
Righteousness2:
Minister Katz:
“The U.S. and Israel have defined the removal of enriched material from Iran as a precondition for ending the campaign.”

Translation.
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They badly need a bomb .
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They already have the design plans
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Their enrichment capability was wiped,if they surrender the existing HEU ,they will have to start from zero.
4.
They don't take orders from infidels.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:02am On Apr 15
HolinessForever:
TASS (Russian state media) is raising concern over the appointment of Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman as the next Mossad chief.

A Kremlin-linked analyst at RANEPA — the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration — warned that Mossad may now “acquire a new dimension” of anti-Russia activity, citing Gofman’s Belarusian roots and what Moscow claims are deep operational ties between Mossad and Ukraine’s GUR intelligence directorate.


The analyst further argued that under Gofman, Mossad is being transformed into what he called a “network agency” with full military capabilities — essentially, in his framing, a personal strike force for Netanyahu to eliminate adversaries.

(Tass)

In this threat the mossad offices were wiped out by hypersonic ballistic missiles no?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy:
Uh we are not the same
I get sick reading your drivel, spare me by doing the necessary.

They all knew he was abusing women.
Swalwell video in a hotel room. Apparently the one filming was an underage, the other bearded man looks exactly like Democrat Arizona senator who is his best friend.

If Swalwel was a republican you'd be calling for his execution. Obrigardo what do you think about this swalwell rapist?
Katie Porter is now the frontrunner for California governor. She is a certified violent person.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:49am On Apr 15
Obrigardo:
The zionists will google my name till they die of migraine
But twitter right now is the best place to give it to them
The maga grifters have been sidelined and the people left all hate the tyrant predator trump
You do have an account on X? The only person here who can doxx you is Ijebos when you disagree with him. If I knew your name, I'd never doxx you ,rest assured .It's not very difficult nowadays to connect dots on social media.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Americans At least 1500
Israel. At least 3000

Iran has been murdering American and Israelis for 47 years. We can agree on that. They behave as though it's their right ,they were not about to stop any time.
In Trump 1.0 he took action by eliminating Gen Solemani.Iran cried victim,firing at a US base..They also swore to avenge and were involved in plot to assassinate Trump.

Stop justifying America involvement in other wars,Iran is a clear security threat to both America and Israel. A bully when tolerated ups his demands. Every action by Iran smacks of an actor believing he has a right to attack anyone anytime expecting no consequences.
Oct 7 was supposed to be a massive rocket , drone simultaneous attack in Israel with Hezbollah doing a Hamas on the northern border. It was supposed to be a coordinated attack to wipe out Israel.

Whether America has killed millions, Iran needed to be stopped.
There is no way to excuse those attacks I've listed. You have fallen for the lie, Iran is the belligerent not the victim.

deepsight:
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Pls sum up the figures. And compare to the estimated ten million killed by the USA in the same time.
Note the fury when an Iranian school was hit. Civilian target War crime etc rent the air .Yet Iran is aiming at civilians in Israel and all it's neighbouring countries.
Right now they are accusing America of piracy by blockading the Straits.
They are like petulant kids demanding everyone to accept them when they behave like barbaric savages
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:29pm On Apr 14
Iran has killed hundreds of Americans and Israelis the last 47 years.In your opinion ,how many more people should Iran have killed before IDF and America decided enough is enough?
Another 500,2000 or 5000?


Timeline of major Iran-sponsored attacks (direct or via proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Iraqi militias, etc.) against Israel and the United States.
Iran has primarily used proxies for deniability, with occasional direct strikes in recent years. "All" attacks number in the hundreds (especially proxy rocket/drone/IED campaigns); only notable high-casualty or landmark incidents are listed below.

Against the United States1979–1981: Iranian regime-backed takeover of U.S. Embassy in Tehran (direct) — 66 Americans taken hostage (444-day crisis; no deaths during captivity).

April 1983: U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut (Islamic Jihad/Hezbollah, Iran-backed proxy) — 17 Americans killed (total 63 dead).

October 1983: Marine barracks truck bombing in Beirut (Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 241 U.S. service members killed (220 Marines + 21 others).

September 1984: U.S. Embassy annex bombing in Beirut (Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 2 Americans killed (total 24 dead).

June 1996: Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 19 Americans killed, 372 injured.

2003–2011: IED/EFP attacks by Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq (proxy) — ~603 U.S. troops killed.

January 2020: Direct IRGC ballistic missile strike on Ain al-Asad base, Iraq (retaliation for Soleimani killing) — 0 killed, >100 U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries.

January 2024: Drone strike on U.S. base in Jordan (Kataib Hezbollah, Iran-backed proxy) — 3 U.S. soldiers killed, >40 injured.

(Iranian proxies conducted dozens more attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq/Syria post-2023, wounding scores but with fewer fatalities.)

Against Israel (or Israeli/Jewish targets abroad)

March 1992: Israeli Embassy bombing in Buenos Aires (Hezbollah/Iran-sponsored) — 29 killed, 242 injured.

July 1994: AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires (Iran/Hezbollah) — 85 killed, >300 injured.

2006: Lebanon War (Hezbollah, Iran-armed/assisted) — ~165 Israelis killed (hundreds of rockets fired; Iranian operatives involved).

October 7, 2023: Hamas-led massacre from Gaza (Iran-backed/funded proxy) — ~1,200 killed (including ~48 Americans), 250+ hostages.

April 13–14, 2024: Direct Iranian drone/missile barrage (>300 projectiles) on Israel — Nearly all intercepted; 1 indirect civilian death, minor damage.

October 1, 2024: Direct Iranian ballistic missile attack (~180 missiles) on Israel — Most intercepted; limited damage/casualties.

June 2025 (12-Day War retaliation): Iranian missile strikes on Israeli cities (direct, amid broader conflict) — ~28–32 civilians killed.

Notes: Casualties focus on Israeli/U.S. victims (proxies often cause far higher total deaths among others).
Many additional low-level proxy attacks (rockets, drones, stabbings) by Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and Iraqi groups have occurred continuously, especially since 2023, but are not individually listed here for brevity.


When they chant Death to America and Death to Israel,they really mean it.
They still don't have a bomb ,they only have the strait of Hormuz as their vital leverage.

DeepSight:
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This is sad, and here is where nuance is key. You assume everyone against Trump's war loves the Ayatollahs. You should know better.
But while we are at it, do u want to compare who has murdered more people across the globe between the Ayatollahs and the United States?

Dont even go there because the USA has killed millions of people since the second world war in its blood thirsty imperialistic wars alone. This does not take account of the many covert CIA assassinations worldwide.

No dictatorship, including Iran comes even remotely close.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Bemeruca. The Britons are stung by the US takeover of the straits of Hormuz .
Lloyd's of London has been making a kill.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxif0k4d-k


There aren’t one or two blockades in the Strait of Hormuz 🚨🚨

There are three.

Only one of them actually shut it down.

● The first is Iranian.

Mines scattered across shipping lanes.
IRGC escorts guiding vessels through controlled corridors.
A Bitcoin toll system charging up to $2M per supertanker.
Nationality-based pricing. VHF passcodes. Armed patrol boats.

This is the physical blockade.
The one dominating headlines.

● The second is American.

A CENTCOM order, effective April 13, isolating Iranian ports while allowing non-Iranian traffic to pass.
Targeted. Strategic. Selective.

This is the military blockade.
The one announced publicly.

● The third is neither.

It doesn’t belong to Iran or the US.

It belongs to the insurance market.

On March 1–2, the International Group of P&I Clubs—covering ~90% of global shipping—issued 72-hour cancellation notices for war risk coverage across the region.

By March 5, the Strait wasn’t just dangerous.

It was uninsurable.

No insured vessel can legally transit Hormuz without war risk coverage.

And without insurance, global shipping stops.

Premiums didn’t just rise.

They exploded.

From 0.25% of a vessel’s value…
To 1–3% or more.

For a $100M tanker, that’s up to $2M per trip—before even entering the Strait.

Major insurers pulled back or repriced instantly.
Lloyd’s expanded the high-risk zone.
No meaningful coverage has returned.

So the US stepped in.

The Development Finance Corporation is now offering up to $20B in backstop insurance capacity.

The taxpayer is now insuring ships that private markets refuse to touch.

This is where the real story begins.

Because this is why oil prices don’t make sense.

On screens, crude trades around $104.

In reality, physical barrels are clearing closer to $150.

That $37–$50 gap?

It’s not a glitch.

It’s the cost of war risk.

Every barrel now carries insurance costs that didn’t exist weeks ago.

And those costs don’t stay in oil markets.

They flow outward.

Into refining.
Into diesel.
Into trucking.
Into inflation.

Models haven’t caught up.

Forecasts are still based on futures prices.

But real-world input costs are already far higher.

Meaning the inflation being “predicted”…

Is already here.

Three blockades.

Mines.
Warships.
And underwriting.

The first two threaten the Strait.

The third one quietly closed it.

This is bigger than headlines. Follow if you want to understand what comes next.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:00pm On Apr 14
[quote author=WriteerNg post=139092938] the PM whose wife is being charged for corruption. His brother and party officials are also being investigated, so he is posturing at this time.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 4:53pm On Apr 14
US Navy Deploys 10,000 Troops to Crush Iranian Blockade in First 24 Hours

The US military has slammed a powerful naval blockade on all ships entering or leaving Iranian ports, backed by 10,000 American sailors, Marines, and airmen along with a dozen warships and dozens of combat aircraft.

In the opening day of the operation starting April 13, 2026, not a single vessel breached the line. Six merchant ships turned tail and headed back into Iranian ports after receiving clear orders from US forces.

The blockade hits every nation equally—no favorites, no exceptions—for any traffic tied to Iranian ports in the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. At the same time, the US is keeping the Strait of Hormuz wide open for legitimate shipping to and from non-Iranian destinations, protecting global energy flows and freedom of navigation.

This decisive move sends a strong message: America is serious about squeezing Iran’s regime while safeguarding vital international waterways.

Sources:
U.S. Central Command official statement
Reuters reporting on CENTCOM announcement
Original OSINT update from April 14, 2026


Iran ports . No activity.
UAE is where Iran sales were channeled through .
Iran losses expected to top up $400 million daily.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:17pm On Apr 14
You are supposed to agree with the democrat supporters here in everything they claim, or else you are a racist, homophobic,corrupt ,etc

bemeruca:
I trust him more than those people. It's okay, I don't put my trust in him.

It is not shameless. Biden, Democrats, etc. Lied about the border for 4 years. He called them out, spoke the fact, said what he would do and he did it.

So yes, I trust him more than the Biden's, kamala and the Obama.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:14pm On Apr 14
Nur Ilhan Elmi Omar tried to earmark $1 million grant to a substance abuse in her congressional district. In reality it was to a Somali restaurant.



Democrats are as corrupted as can be
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 9:30am On Apr 14
Timeline of major Iran-sponsored attacks (direct or via proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Iraqi militias, etc.) against Israel and the United States.
Iran has primarily used proxies for deniability, with occasional direct strikes in recent years. "All" attacks number in the hundreds (especially proxy rocket/drone/IED campaigns); only notable high-casualty or landmark incidents are listed below.

Against the United States1979–1981: Iranian regime-backed takeover of U.S. Embassy in Tehran (direct) — 66 Americans taken hostage (444-day crisis; no deaths during captivity).

April 1983: U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut (Islamic Jihad/Hezbollah, Iran-backed proxy) — 17 Americans killed (total 63 dead).

October 1983: Marine barracks truck bombing in Beirut (Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 241 U.S. service members killed (220 Marines + 21 others).

September 1984: U.S. Embassy annex bombing in Beirut (Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 2 Americans killed (total 24 dead).

June 1996: Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Hezbollah, Iran-backed) — 19 Americans killed, 372 injured.

2003–2011: IED/EFP attacks by Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq (proxy) — ~603 U.S. troops killed.

January 2020: Direct IRGC ballistic missile strike on Ain al-Asad base, Iraq (retaliation for Soleimani killing) — 0 killed, >100 U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries.

January 2024: Drone strike on U.S. base in Jordan (Kataib Hezbollah, Iran-backed proxy) — 3 U.S. soldiers killed, >40 injured.

(Iranian proxies conducted dozens more attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq/Syria post-2023, wounding scores but with fewer fatalities.)

Against Israel (or Israeli/Jewish targets abroad)

March 1992: Israeli Embassy bombing in Buenos Aires (Hezbollah/Iran-sponsored) — 29 killed, 242 injured.

July 1994: AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires (Iran/Hezbollah) — 85 killed, >300 injured.

2006: Lebanon War (Hezbollah, Iran-armed/assisted) — ~165 Israelis killed (hundreds of rockets fired; Iranian operatives involved).

October 7, 2023: Hamas-led massacre from Gaza (Iran-backed/funded proxy) — ~1,200 killed (including ~48 Americans), 250+ hostages.

April 13–14, 2024: Direct Iranian drone/missile barrage (>300 projectiles) on Israel — Nearly all intercepted; 1 indirect civilian death, minor damage.

October 1, 2024: Direct Iranian ballistic missile attack (~180 missiles) on Israel — Most intercepted; limited damage/casualties.

June 2025 (12-Day War retaliation): Iranian missile strikes on Israeli cities (direct, amid broader conflict) — ~28–32 civilians killed.

Notes: Casualties focus on Israeli/U.S. victims (proxies often cause far higher total deaths among others).
Many additional low-level proxy attacks (rockets, drones, stabbings) by Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and Iraqi groups have occurred continuously, especially since 2023, but are not individually listed here for brevity.


When they chant Death to America and Death to Israel,they really mean it.
They still don't have a bomb ,they only have the strait of Hormuz as their vital leverage.

Hamxas:
The only country on earth to ever use a nuclear weapon and trethening to still use it if it ever gets attack is not a Muslim nation never have it been ruled by a Muslim.

Deep down within you if u would say the truth, if it was Afghanistan or Iraq or Libia or
Somalia that did a quarter of what the US did to them, by now we would have a nuclear war.
Stop ur nonsense about Muslim being terrorist, America attacked and you expect them to sit idle while being bombed. We all know who is trigger happy here, shouting nuclear this, nuclear that. And we all know who the real terrorist are. No Islamic nation on earth has ever attacked America, so christians are the only people on earth that want peace right. You want to live life so you take mine.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:02am On Apr 14
Scott Jennings of CNN speaks about the left.





Transcript
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:49am On Apr 14
As your Trump hatred makes you pray for the Ayatollahs to get a nuclear bomb ,don't forget to pray for this beautiful 19 year old girl. She is someone's daughter.

Iran’s Savage Regime Sentences 19-Year-Old Girl to Public Execution for Protesting

The bloodthirsty mullahs ruling Iran are showing their true colors once again. Nineteen-year-old Saghar Gholami from Gonbad-e Kavus in Golestan Province now faces imminent public hanging after a sham trial.

Arrested in early February 2026 for taking part in January’s nationwide protests, she has been denied a lawyer, cut off from her family, and given no clear charges. This is not justice. It is pure terror designed to silence anyone who dares challenge the Islamic Republic’s iron grip.

The regime executed at least 1,639 people in 2025 alone, the highest number in decades, with dozens of women among the victims.



Sources:
Visegrád 24 report on X, April 13, 2026
Iran Political Prisoners documentation, April 2026
Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty joint report on 2025 executions
Amnesty International and related human rights updates on Iran’s protest crackdowns

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 7:46am On Apr 14
Obedience40:
After the dust settles in Iran!! Next stop will be Cuba!!!.. The US will and must assert total control and dominance over her sphare of influence in the Americas!!
Cuba next I agree
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 7:45am On Apr 14
As you pray for the Ayatollahs to get a nuclear bomb ,don't forget to pray for this beautiful 19 year old girl. She is someone's daughter.

Iran’s Savage Regime Sentences 19-Year-Old Girl to Public Execution for Protesting

The bloodthirsty mullahs ruling Iran are showing their true colors once again. Nineteen-year-old Saghar Gholami from Gonbad-e Kavus in Golestan Province now faces imminent public hanging after a sham trial.

Arrested in early February 2026 for taking part in January’s nationwide protests, she has been denied a lawyer, cut off from her family, and given no clear charges. This is not justice. It is pure terror designed to silence anyone who dares challenge the Islamic Republic’s iron grip.

The regime executed at least 1,639 people in 2025 alone, the highest number in decades, with dozens of women among the victims.



Sources:
Visegrád 24 report on X, April 13, 2026
Iran Political Prisoners documentation, April 2026
Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty joint report on 2025 executions
Amnesty International and related human rights updates on Iran’s protest crackdowns

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 6:27am On Apr 14
I was derided and have been here for making the claim that all these actions by Trump are aimed squarely at China.

This newest move from Trump confirms that he has a plan, has a timeline, and is thinking many steps ahead.

Trump removed Chinese influence over Panama Canal, took out Maduro, and gained control of Venezuela’s oil supply, because he knew this standoff with Iran would happen.

Anyone claiming Trump doesn’t have a plan or is dumb, is just objectively wrong. You might not like Trump or agree with his plan, but the fact that he has a plan, is incontrovertible.

All the pundits and “experts” were, are, and will continue to be, dead wrong about everything.

- Clandenstine
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:17am On Apr 14
LordReed:
That is a big ask for someone like basilico. Nuance flies over their head like supersonic jets.
I don't think conservatives are saints if I must add to make you happy. Some are devils, but my theory is that liberals are inherently more evil, asinine and irrational.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:14am On Apr 14
Tulsi Gabbard released documents showing the sham impeachment 1 was manufactured .

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2026/4154-pr-06-26

IC Inspector General Atkinson aggressively advanced a so-called “whistleblower’s” narrative, using a witness who co-authored the 2017 Russia Hoax, that was used as the basis for Trump’s impeachment

Main players
1.Eric Ciaramela
2.Alexander Vindman
3.Peter Strzok
4.Inspector General Atkinson
5. Adam Schiff
6. Nancy Pelosi.

I'll add Mary McCord as the Prime Mover who has had an incestual relationship careerwise with the Inspector General.

During his preliminary investigation into President Trump’s July 2019 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former IC IG Michael Atkinson did not follow standard IG procedures and relied upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:59am On Apr 14
Obedience40:
What a joke!!! Them kill your supreme leader. dozens of your highly ranked military and political leaders are dead!!!... your country was bombed over and over again for weeks!!!...

Na now you wan show us your real capabilities!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So you have been fighting with olden methods!! Suddenly after weeks of fighting..you now realise that you have a modern method of fighting!!🤣🤣🤣

Persia are built differently enhh?? Yeah built stupidly!!!
Do you think there is an IQ problem there? Seems like Iran regime is full of ret*rds and imbec*Les.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico:
If the Ayatollahs had a bomb they would use it. They are different from say North Korea Kim Jong Un who wants to live longer and neds the bomb to starve off any attempt to remove him from power
The Ayatollahs would love nothing more than be the ones who exploded a nuke on American or Israel soil,knowing that if they die in the process,Allah will reward them with 72 houris ( perpetual virgins)

Big difference,they are suicidal maniacs .A good chunk of the Islamic world would screech allahu Akbar for years to come. They will celebrate any loss of American or Israel life whether 10 times more Muslims die in the process.
You have seen many here hoping Dimona plant is hit ,and the nuclear fallout wipes Israel of which around 20 % are muslims.



FoolishBoy419:
No, the reason for this war is to install a puppet regime, completely destroy Iranian missile program, seize Iran's enriched uranium and completely disable Iran's ability to enrich uranium.

That said, you're right. Israel is fighting alongside a superpower that is willing to sacrifice itself and its Arab allies for them. But with the way things are going in the US, they'll not have that privilege for much longer.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:26am On Apr 14
DeepSight:
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This works for me.
If one sees creation as the emanation of Light from an eternal source, then creation continues forever.


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What is easier is not necessarily what is true.
Personally I better spend more time bashing liberals here than investigating the creator of that source of light which triggered the creation of things , especially the intelligent man
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:15am On Apr 14
Finally .. Prosecutors fired for their part in jailing those who protested outside Planned Parenthood baby murder clinics.They stretched the FACE Act

The Justice Department has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration, a government official familiar with the firings told CBS News.

Among those fired Monday is Sanjay Patel, a longtime federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section who was placed on administrative leave last month, sources told CBS News at the time. The terminations occurred at about the same time a report on the FACE Act and the Biden Justice Department was being finalized.

Congress passed the FACE Act in 1994 to address rising concerns about threats and intimidation that women were facing at reproductive health clinics. Nonviolent and first-time offenses of the law are misdemeanors, while repeat offenses or violations that result in bodily injury or death can be treated as felonies.

The FACE Act report is being drafted by the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group,” established in the first days of former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s tenure.

A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that the department “has terminated the employment of personnel responsible for weaponizing the FACE Act who still remained at the department.”

The judges should also be impeached and removed from office.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:22am On Apr 14
Spanish PM emerged a hero after denying Trump the use of Spanish bases and flight paths in Operation Enduring Furry.

His wife is being charged with corruption His brother and top party officials are also under corruption probes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/spanish-pms-wife-charged-with-corruption-after-two-year-probe/ar-AA20N42o

He should resign.

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