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Poll: Will this strike affect the peace talks negatively?

Yes 28% (54 votes)
Yes and Iran would definitely respond 42% (81 votes)
No 9% (18 votes)
No and Iran are in a desperate situation so they won't risk tempering with the peace talks 19% (37 votes)
This poll has ended

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Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Leepeak(m): 9:07am On May 26
Irgc please cut those cables passing the straight of Hormuz
Over 10 trillion dollar worth of Cables, carrying data, used by Microsoft, apple, and some Americans companies 40% belongs to Americans please cut it off
Irgc cut them off first make this companies lose assets then u start bombing isreal again with those hypersonic missile
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 9:07am On May 26
Please list the terrorist group in Nigeria Iran is sponsoring please just name them.

And you think if Iran was sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria Trump won't have made mention of it.

UAE is sponsoring terrorism clearly in Sudan but you don't care


ElevationD:
Funny how you do not know the difference between a murderer and a murder’s victim.
Funny how you accuse the USA of murder and terrorism, while you want BAT to end terrorism in Nigeria. The sand terrorism sponsored by Iran.

Well, your comment is termed reverse psychology. The world needs Trump and Netanyahu, whether you and your group like it or not. The world is safer with them.

Netanyahu is the only world leader who knows that terrorist need equal and far measure of response of aggression. Trump shows pity. With Netanyahu, there’s no pity, so thank Trump for discussing that ceasefire. With Netanyahu, the Mullahs would have been history by now.

Hopefully, the Mullahs can dare to respond to the attack.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by ElevationD: 9:08am On May 26
obedience4:
Can't you read? Or is the problem assimilation?? Can't you read were it was stated they fired on ships lying mines on a international water way??.. what happens when a civilian vessel or military vessels gets hits a mine??... well wait till your enemies kill you before you attack... "self defence" doesn't mean you have to wait before you are attacked, preemptive strikes against a potential aggression can be termed "self defence"
But you know that the fellow that you quoted is absolutely bereft of information on Middle East politics and power.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 9:08am On May 26
Like the audacity. They won't cut it but those companies will start paying fees. Obviously. That's a more win for them


Leepeak:
Irgc please cut those cables passing the straight of Hormuz
Over 10 trillion dollar worth of Cables, carrying data, used by Microsoft, apple, and some Americans companies 40% belongs to Americans please cut it off
Irgc cut them off first make this companies lose assets then u start bombing isreal again with those hypersonic missile
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Didijiji: 9:26am On May 26
America easy biko

The ripple effects are hitting countries with clueless governments like ours

Please
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by victoryenergy: 9:26am On May 26
madridguy:
Only US/Israel could bomb you during a peace deal out of self defense grin grin
Because they don't negotiate with terrorist, I don't know why many terrorist sympathisers in this forum are angry when the US are dealing with terrorist in the language they understand, why not face the killings that is happening here in Nigeria 😳
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 9:31am On May 26
Deal with Iran lol.

Seems you guys haven't gotten the memo Iran is not negotiating.

Iran of weeks now have been shooting down both USA and Israeli drones and yesterday fired at a f-15 jet with interceptor.

Tell your USA and Israel to continue killing unarmed civilians that's the trademark.

Reason they never win any war


victoryenergy:
Because they don't negotiate with terrorist, I don't know why many terrorist sympathisers in this forum are angry when the US are dealing with terrorist in the language they understand, why not face the killings that is happening here in Nigeria 😳
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by IsraeliAIRFORCE: 9:32am On May 26
Leepeak:
Irgc please cut those cables passing the straight of Hormuz
Over 10 trillion dollar worth of Cables, carrying data, used by Microsoft, apple, and some Americans companies 40% belongs to Americans please cut it off
Irgc cut them off first make this companies lose assets then u start bombing isreal again with those hypersonic missile
Always talking without verification. All these Islamic telegram groups isn't helping you.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Lifeless101: 9:35am On May 26
God1000:
Terrorist USA is at it again, the murderous trump regime will be held accountable for all the deaths and destruction, just imagine another country bombing US soil and call it self defense, yet Iran is still cast as the aggressor by these lunatics
But you bingoes where praising Iran that they have shown USA they're not Venezuela. Why bashing him now?
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by safarifarms(m): 9:39am On May 26
God1000:
Terrorist USA is at it again, the murderous trump regime will be held accountable for all the deaths and destruction, just imagine another country bombing US soil and call it self defense, yet Iran is still cast as the aggressor by these lunatics
Is it not TACO again?
He acts you complain. He doesn't you call him TACO.
Iran doesn't really want any peace deal. They are just wasting US time beating about the bush while using the time to restock their arsenal. Looks like US just got fed up with the tactics and decided to act and you are here crying.
TACO at it again.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by mrvitalis(m): 9:40am On May 26
HacheNoire:
Dumb Trump and dumb moves!

Same you having peace talks in Qatar, is same you bombing!

This orange turd is the most confused living and why the US military is being embarrassed like never before.

Now, oil prices will take flight again!

Anyways! Iran already started installing Christmas lights on Israel!
Iran attacked first
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by tfelicityk(m): 9:58am On May 26
There is something precious and valuables in Iran that the US is eyeing. The allies of US should be brave too.

Soon they will tax Saudi Arabia as usual...
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by AngelicBeing: 10:11am On May 26
franchasofficia:
Level Karg Island and all power plants in Iran and watch Iran surrender unconditionally because all those ballistic missiles they buried underground won't function again and their military commanders will come outside to be routed out like stubborn bush rat they are angry
Gbamsulotey, level is a nice word, Grind the islands to powder and dust ooooooooo mucheche Hahaha 😂
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Amaggedon: 10:13am On May 26
When will this madness end?
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by victoryenergy: 10:20am On May 26
XTruth:
Deal with Iran lol.

Seems you guys haven't gotten the memo Iran is not negotiating.

Iran of weeks now have been shooting down both USA and Israeli drones and yesterday fired at a f-15 jet with interceptor.

Tell your USA and Israel to continue killing unarmed civilians that's the trademark.

Reason they never win any war
The last time I checked, the US and Israel leaders are very much alive, but where is the Iranian supreme leader, he has been touched to hell where he belongs, why couldn't Iran intercept the missiles that killed their leader? Iran is no match for Israel alone, talk of US.
stop deceiving yourself
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 10:29am On May 26
Lol na to kill leader be the problem.
Funny enough the former Iran leader already agreed to give up the uranium but USA signal that as weakness and lunch an attack on him when he was on a meeting.

Now the new leaders are red alert.

No more giving up on the uranium..

Yes obviously Iran isn't a match of Israel same Israel bombing civilians home in labanon why hazbolle is roasting the army. Stick to killing civilians that's what you are known for.

victoryenergy:
The last time I checked, the US and Israel leaders are very much alive, but where is the Iranian supreme leader, he has been touched to hell where he belongs, why couldn't Iran intercept the missiles that killed their leader? Iran is no match for Israel alone, talk of US.
stop deceiving yourself
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 10:33am On May 26
Lol restock they arsenal.
USA threat any country that sell weapons to Iran with sanction.

But Israel continues buying weapons from Germany and Italy.
Same as USA but yes Iran build more of her own weapons is the problem 😂 😂


safarifarms:
Is it not TACO again?
He acts you complain. He doesn't you call him TACO.
Iran doesn't really want any peace deal. They are just wasting US time beating about the bush while using the time to restock their arsenal. Looks like US just got fed up with the tactics and decided to act and you are here crying.
TACO at it again.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by psalmsjob: 10:37am On May 26
HacheNoire:
Dumb Trump and dumb moves!

Same you having peace talks in Qatar, is same you bombing!

This orange turd is the most confused living and why the US military is being embarrassed like never before.

Now, oil prices will take flight again!

Anyways! Iran already started installing Christmas lights on Israel!
The same dumb Iran having talks and still trying to lay mines confused living and why Iran is powerless against us military and being destroyed like never before.

Now oil prices will take flight again!

Anyays Israel drone are flying inside iran lighting up check points inside Iran without Iran doing anything about it....their supleme leader cannot even come out openly out of fear of Israel.

The narrative is not one-sided it just depends on where you are watching from grin are sympathetic to terrorists or in solidarity with Isreal.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by bigpicture001: 10:41am On May 26
XTruth:
Then why don't you just do it.

Iran don't want to negotiate they already stated the uranium won't be leaving Iran.

These current strike is to sabotage the current deal between Iran and qatar.

Una funny I swr.
It's not any sabotage...they are laying mines against free water ways....

Iran does not want any deal ,period!
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by DimIsaac10(m): 10:43am On May 26
Iran will also respond
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by XTruth: 10:46am On May 26
Any proof they were laying mines or your just believe USA side of the story.

Same way they killed fisherman. In Venezuela even the boat wasn't an power boat. Last month they killed civilians around the Gulf of oman. Still claimed it's was Iran Navy.

And so funny 🤣 they are acting as if the control who pass the straigt of homus. While ships are already paying the environmental fees already.

The water way you said is call Persian Gulf for a reason


bigpicture001:
It's not any sabotage...they are laying mines against free water ways....

Iran does not want any deal ,period!
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by ruffhandu: 11:04am On May 26
Many people here commenting lack information. Iran attacked US war ship, US neutralised them, then went in on an attack mode as a form of defence.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by ElevationD: 11:14am On May 26
XTruth:
Please list the terrorist group in Nigeria Iran is sponsoring please just name them.

And you think if Iran was sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria Trump won't have made mention of it.

UAE is sponsoring terrorism clearly in Sudan but you don't care
I wonder why youths like you never take you time to read and research. How is it that you simply follow the crowd and assume that the regime in Iran is innocent of the accusations against them.

Have you ever heard of El Zakyzaky and his IMN? If you have heard it, should you not wonder why Buhari held the leader for the long periods in detention? Have you not wondered why El Rufai ensured the man’s detention for such long periods. El Zakyzaky belongs to the Iranian Shia Muslim group. The group has deep ideological ties to Iran demands an Iranian style of leadership in Nigeria and always organizes solidarity rallies in support of Iran.

IMN imams preach that the West conspires to “dominate minds and resources” of Muslims by converting them to Christianity and secularizing them, Jews are the “lowest creatures on earth” and the “children of monkeys and pigs,” the West fabricated the 9/11 attacks on the United States, and the Nigerian government created Boko Haram to justify Western-Christian “occupation” of the Muslim world and northern Nigeria. This rhetoric appeals to broad sectors of Nigeria’s Muslim population, including Sunnis. For example, at more than ten IMN-led protests over the U.S.-made film Innocence of Muslims in August 2012, most participants were neither IMN members nor Shi`a and never saw the film, but were persuaded by the IMN’s message. Boko Haram also capitalized on the upsurge in anti-American sentiment by issuing a widely viewed YouTube video in which its leader, Abubakar Shekau, promised retaliation against “evil plotters of the blasphemous film.”

The IMN’s rhetoric has in some cases translated into violence. In 1991, an IMN imam in Katsina (who also spoke at film protests in 2012), Yakubu Yahaya, whose hero was Khomeini, led hundreds of IMN members in an attack on the office of the Daily Times newspaper after it portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in a cartoon marrying a prostitute.

In the 2000s, the IMN clashed most frequently with Sunnis in Sokoto, which is the seat of the sultan of Sokoto and where Nigerian intelligence reported that IMN established training camps for recruits from across northern Nigeria.

In 2005, IMN imams sought leadership positions in mosques in Sokoto, which led to violence between Sunni and Shi`a.

In 2007, Nigerian security forces destroyed the IMN’s headquarters in Sokoto and arrested an IMN imam after a Sunni cleric was assassinated at a mosque allegedly by the IMN in revenge for the cleric’s support of the crackdown on the IMN in 2005.

Al-Zakzaky, however, claimed the IMN was framed to justify ousting the IMN from Sokoto.

In 2012, al-Zakzaky again accused Nigerian security forces of a plot to assassinate the IMN’s imam in Yobe, Mustapha Lawan Nasidi, while Nasidi was leading prayers, but the attack failed insofar as it killed Nasidi’s brother, driver, and two people seated near him. When Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited Abuja in 2009, El Zakyzaky said that Nigerian security forces targeted the IMN for Israel because “Iran is waxing stronger in Nigeria through me, and this is why they want to attack us, to finally slay the growing Iranian influence and our movement.”

In several cases, IMN members have been radicalized in the movement but then formed or joined more violent groups. One example was when a mob of former IMN members turned Salafi-jihadists publicly beheaded a Christian Igbo trader in Kano in 1994 for allegedly desecrating the Qur’an. According to a prominent Zaria-based Salafist imam and Nigerian scholars, Boko Haram founder Muhammad Yusuf also met and followed El Zakyzaky before Yusuf became Borno State amir of Jama`at al-Tajdid al-Islami (Movement for the Revival of Islam, JTI).

JTI was a Kano-based IMN breakaway group founded in 1994 that continued El Zakzaky’s confrontational stance toward the government but through Salafist doctrine and whose members reportedly carried out the beheading of the Christian trader in Kano.

In 2002, Yusuf founded Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama`a (Companions of the Prophet), which was known locally as the “Nigerian Taliban” or “Yusufiya” (Followers of Yusuf), and became the Borno representative on the Supreme Council for Shari`a in Nigeria.

In July 2009, the Nigerian security forces killed Yusuf and 1,000 of his followers, who were by then known as “Boko Haram” because of the radical teachings of Yusuf and his deputy, Abubakar Shekau (“Boko Haram” means “Western education is sinful” in Hausa). In July 2010, Shekau announced that he succeeded Yusuf, and he formed the Salafi-jihadi group Jama`at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da`wa wa al-Jihad (Sunni Group for Preaching and Jihad), which has continued to be known as “Boko Haram” since it began waging an armed insurgency in September 2010.

Yusuf and Sunni leaders of JTI and the more popular Izala movement that subsumed JTI in 1999 likely split from the IMN because of three main reasons: first, they started to believe al-Zakzaky was “smuggling a Shi`a agenda” into the purported “Islamic Movement”; second, the war between Shi`a Iran and Saudi Arabia-backed and Sunni-led Iraq from 1980 to 1988 polarized Shi`a and Sunnis throughout the Muslim world and, third, Nigerian Sunni leaders, including Yusuf, began receiving funds from Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan, to promote Sunni Islam and Salafism to counter Iran’s influence. Nonetheless, Boko Haram and IMN still share similar doctrines, including: demonizing the United States and its allies; comparing their conflict against the Nigerian government to conflicts between the United States and Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; viewing the secular state as “illegitimate”; blaming the “corrupt” government for poverty of the masses while proposing an Islamic system as the solution; claiming Usman dan Fodio’s legacy (while condemning Dan Fodio’s heirs, such as the sultan of Sokoto), exploiting sensitive issues to Muslims; and targeting northern Nigeria’s unemployed youths for membership.

Unlike the IMN and virtually all Nigerian Salafist movements, however, only Boko Haram prohibits Western education, service in the government, female membership, and looks to the Taliban and al-Qa`ida (particularly al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb and al-Qa`ida in Iraq) for inspiration in carrying out violent jihad, including assassinating Salafist imams who preach non-violence and Christians—although Boko Haram has never targeted Shi`a. It is therefore believable that a former Boko Haram member interviewed in August 2013 claimed he was a member of an “Islamic movement” called “the Shi`a” that sent members to Iran for training before he joined a Boko Haram faction in Kaduna that attacked Christians and security forces.

Iran’s Quds Force and Hizb Allah’s global operations have involved Nigeria for more than a decade, but their activities were exposed in October 2010. Nigerian customs officials in Lagos seized 13 containers of weapons from a ship operated by the same French-Lebanese businessman’s company that in March 2011 saw a ship bound for Sinai, Egypt, via Syria to supply weapons to Hamas in Gaza intercepted by Israeli naval commandos. The containers in Lagos, which included 107mm Katyusha artillery rockets used by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006, were shipped on behalf of a Tehran-based Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “front company” and were picked up at Bandar Abbas in Iran, where the IRGC has a naval base. According to the then Nigeria’s foreign minister, the weapons were destined for a warehouse in Abuja, but shippers altered documents to send them to Gambia (presumably for anti-Senegalese rebels in Casamance). Nigerian security officials arrested four individuals: a senior Quds Force officer; a Nigerian who formerly studied in Iran and worked at Radio Tehran’s Hausa language service; and two Nigerian customs officials. A fifth Iranian suspect, Sayyed Akbar Tabatabaei, who was the Quds Force Africa Corps commander, took refuge in the Iranian Embassy, flew back to Tehran with Iran’s foreign minister and was reportedly reassigned to Venezuela to run Quds Force operations in Latin America. One month after these arrests, $10 million worth of heroin hidden in auto engine parts suspected of being linked to the weapons shipment in October was seized in Lagos from a ship originating in Iran.

Iran’s role in weapons trafficking resurfaced in May 2013 when Nigerian security forces uncovered a weapons “armory” in a Kano home owned by the Lebanese consul to Sierra Leone. The security forces arrested three individuals, all of whom admitted to receiving training from Hezbollah including: a Lebanese citizen, who owned a supermarket and amusement park in Abuja; a second Lebanese citizen, who was arrested at the airport in Kano before boarding a flight to Lebanon; and a dual Lebanese-Nigerian citizen. Although the weapons were rusted, Nigeria’s director of the State Security Service said they were “serviceable,” and a Nigerian brigadier general said they were intended for attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in Nigeria. Nevertheless, some of the munitions, such as anti-tank mines, are more compatible with rebel groups than a terrorist group and may have been linked to the weapons and heroin shipments in Lagos in 2010.

In February 2013, three months before uncovering the “armory,” Nigeria announced it also uncovered an Iranian-funded cell whose leader admitted to plotting attacks on “prominent Nigerians” to “unsettle the West. Such leaders included Nigeria’s former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, and former sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, as well as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Nigeria. The cell also conducted surveillance on USAID, the Peace Corps, an Israeli shipping company, a Jewish cultural center, and hotels frequented by Americans and Israelis in Lagos. The cell’s leader, a Shi`a imam in Ilorin, attended a course at Imam Khomeini University in Qom in 2006. In 2011, he trained in the use of AK-47 rifles and improvised explosive devices in Iran, and in 2012 he traveled to Dubai to receive funding to form the cell.

Iran primarily operates in Nigeria and Africa through IRGC and Hezbollah, focusing on weapons smuggling, intelligence gathering, and attacking Western or Israeli targets. Hezbollah maintains sleeper cells and conducts logistical, financial, and weapons-smuggling operations across Africa. They have been tied to historical attacks, such as facilitating the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Reports indicate tactical and operational cooperation between Iran and the Somali-based al-Qaeda affiliate, particularly in maritime security and technical/drone training.

Should I continue or you want to carry out your research? Do not be lazy. Read and understand.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by oshonwambada: 11:16am On May 26
bigpicture001:
The US is blocking is real from totally freeing up Iran once and for all..

If the US are not involved, by now isreali ttacks won't stop ND Iran regime would have crippled ,they ppl would have been free and the new government would happily give away all those nuclear arsenal in exchange for economiçs freedom...

Iran DN want to negotiate Trump is just being dump..Stan aside an allow isreali takeover...just stand and watch
Check what u wrote and correct urself so that other readers wil comprehend.
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Akuruoulo(m): 11:16am On May 26
HacheNoire:
Dumb Trump and dumb moves!

Same you having peace talks in Qatar, is same you bombing!

This orange turd is the most confused living and why the US military is being embarrassed like never before.

Now, oil prices will take flight again!

Anyways! Iran already started installing Christmas lights on Israel!
This won't let Any ship in or out of Iran even if it's owned by China + Russia
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Akuruoulo(m): 11:17am On May 26
God1000:
Terrorist USA is at it again, the murderous trump regime will be held accountable for all the deaths and destruction, just imagine another country bombing US soil and call it self defense, yet Iran is still cast as the aggressor by these lunatics
Stop crying.
Ur tears won't allow ships enter or leave Iran
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Akuruoulo(m): 11:18am On May 26
madridguy:
Only US/Israel could bomb you during a peace deal out of self defense grin grin
Because that's the language terrorists understands
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Akuruoulo(m): 11:18am On May 26
Saturnalia:
How can a Country launch a “Self Defense” strikes against another Country that is thousands of miles away from her border?

The United Snakes of Amerika is about to reap all the rotten fruits of her parasitic labors.
let terror Iran do something already
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by mastermaestro(m): 11:27am On May 26
Trump should let Netanyahu handle this war once and for all. Bibi is a master finisher. wink
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by Maj196(m): 11:36am On May 26
Let sleeping dogs lie, US no go hear word
Re: US Military Says It Has Launched New Strikes On Southern Iran by huptin(m): 11:37am On May 26
Iran will send missiles into neighbouring countries and use AI to kill Trump and Netanyahu....Isreal seems very satisfied with that level of retaliation.
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