Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[BananaRepublic]

They really think they just bomb Iran, and Iran will surrender or accept the deal on the table?

Either Iran is weaker than we all realized or this whole “bomb” Iran to get them to strike a deal is a ruse so that they can invade Isfahan and extract the material.

Does Iran really think they would be safer if they give up the nuclear material and sign some deal that Trump can throw out next year? When your enemy is so desperate for that nuclear material that they go to IAEA and make them pass a resolution to tell you where it all is?

Hopefully Iran realized that the nuclear bomb is their only way out and have been developing it since June 2025 or Feb 2026.

Giving up the nuclear “dust” will be worst then when Saddam and Ghaddafi did it.

Yep!

USA will not honour any deal.

It’s pointless negotiating.

They cannot accept Iran as an independent state against Israeli expansion.

 

[Persian Gulf]

 

[Mobius]

 

[Watandar]

This is possibly the best solution. Iran should sink Arab oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea. This is even better than hitting Arab oil/gas installations.

you start by hitting the GCC tankers in the Strait and then also target one specific country. This can be the UAE which has a pipeline to bypass Hormuz and has been very aggressive against Iran, for no good reason.

The US has failed via fake uprising, bombing, blockade and bullying to subjugate Iran , and Trump/Hegseth are morons, hence it's going to try bombing again. When this bombing also fails like in the past, I expect Trump to throw in the towel.

 

[Immortals]

OK. So, the war has started already. Multiple Iranian sources confirm the explosions throughout Iran.

Not only Iran didn't do a damn thing when Trump said, several hours ago, that the US would attack Iran today, but it's already been half an hour and Iran hasn't even responded yet.

This is a pattern. Iranian decision makers never have a contingency plan, it seems. God save our people.

Blame the civil government they have made “peace” (aka accepted bribes) with:

Qatar
Saudi Arabia
And now allegedly UAE

So that leaves Bahrain, Kuwait, Kurdistan, and Jordan as the only targets without escalation.

 

[Persian Gulf]

we had hours of notice

shame on us if we don't have a good plan for this occasion to make the enemy regret their attacks

 

[lightning f57]

Only way Iran is getting any deterrence is hurting the US. BM attacks on empty bases will not cut it.

 

[Mobius]

Hard to see Iranians coming to the table after this. Iran needs to go absolutely ballistic on Israel now.....

 

[ShapurII]

Blame the civil government they have made “peace” (aka accepted bribes) with:

Qatar
Saudi Arabia
And now allegedly UAE

So that leaves Bahrain, Kuwait, Kurdistan, and Jordan as the only targets without escalation.

Who is keeping this "civil government" in place?

It seems that Saudi Arabia is off limits this time. The Emirates is still on the menu. Qatar is 50-50.

 

[ShapurII]

Hard to see Iranians coming to the table after this. Iran needs to go absolutely ballistic on Israel now.....

Trust me, the Iranian regime won't give up on "diploomacy".

 

[Watandar]

Blame the civil government they have made “peace” (aka accepted bribes) with:

Qatar
Saudi Arabia
And now allegedly UAE

So that leaves Bahrain, Kuwait, Kurdistan, and Jordan as the only targets without escalation.

Only Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar are off the menu for various reasons. The rest are fair game.

 

[Mobius]

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

Who is keeping this "civil government" in place?

It seems that Saudi Arabia is off limits this time. The Emirates is still on the menu. Qatar is 50-50.

Qatar was literally leading another negotiation tract with U.S. and Iran right now and a Qatari negotiator just left Iran after talks collapsed because Iran refused to directly meet with U.S.

This refusal is again because Qalibaf got tricked and humiliated when Vance came to Pakistan and strung him around for 12 hours in an all nighter, only for Vance to go to the podium the next morning and saying Qalibaf can take the deal on the table or not as Jared and Witkoff giggled in the background. And then left Pakistan.

So yes, like usual, Iranian civil government gets humiliated on world stage by U.S. as has been par the course for last 40 years

 

[Watandar]

Excellent questions. If the US was succeeding in its strategy to blockade and strangle Iran, why break the ceasefire ?

I have a good feeling Iran will absorb these hits, inflict some of it's own and the overall strategic situation will not change. The US will have to compromise in the end.