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

[Hassan Al-Somal]

The United States just stripped a THAAD battery from the UAE to shield Israel.

Washington’s priority signal is clear: Gulf coverage can be thinned, but Tel Aviv’s missile umbrella must stay saturated.

Every redeployment like this is a live admission that Israel cannot weather sustained ballistic fire without U.S. hardware flown in from other theaters, even at the expense of regional allies.

 

[Arash]

the average net salary in France (after taxes) is EUR 31,000. do you know the average net salary in Iran?

what does high marginal taxes (and high salaries) have to do with Iran's electricity crisis?

Good to know that surprise statistics are so widespread... I live there... and it's certainly NOT that much.... but keep posting...

 

[Persian Gulf]

US moves THAAD system from UAE to Israel

 

[Sarhang]

Almost five decades have passed since the monarchists were thrown out and yet these crooked, outdated leftists and radical religious still shake out of fear at the shadow of the mighty Reza Khan and his son...... The men who lifted Iran from absolute poverty. A nation once gripped by tribal chiefs, endless diseases, chaos was turned into a regional power. And they did it with only a fraction of the oil prices compared to today.

All these Russophiles managed to produce is mayhem, destruction, empty slogans, cheap propaganda, and the nonstop looting of national wealth under the guise of combating 'Imperialism'.

Its like they opened the skulls of these Russophiles, took the brain out and stuffed it with PEHEN and then stitched it back again.

If its not that then how can anyone with healthy normal brain cells declare Russia as anything other than a true enemy of Iran? Just because these Russophiles are paralyzed with anti americanism doesnt mean Iran and Russia are in the same trench at all.

These are the same people trying to convince us that Russia is some 'undeniable ally' of Iran while its the only nation in the modern era that actually stole Iranian territory and has been playing a double game ever since.

The only nation in the world with eyes on Irans resources, wealth and territory isnt the US or Israel its Russia. History has already proven this to us and they remain the only ones truly capable of doing it again and again.

We should all be ashamed in the face of history. Decades and centuries from now we will be judged the same way. Just as Khamenei will be remembered by future Iranians 100 years from now we too cannot escape this fact. Everything is recorded, and it will all be there for everyone to see.

 

[Persian Gulf]

still shake out of fear at the shadow of the mighty Reza Khan and his son...... The men who lifted Iran from absolute poverty.

satire?

 

[Sarhang]

satire?

I suggest you read real history. Proper books. And I dont mean this to belittle or discredit you but to show you the unadulterated side that often gets ignored by the pro IR folks.

If you dont like Iranian writers who have a favorable view of the monarchists then I advise you to read books by neutral credible historians. See for yourself what state Iran was in when Reza Khan took over from the Qajars and what state Iran was in when Khomeini took over from his son. That should tell you everything basically.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Theodore Postol | Professor of Nuclear Science and International Security at IMT: Iran Is Now an Undeclared Nuclear Weapons State

 

[StrategicBear]

Next round Fattah-2 will be used? Hypersonic most advanced in Iran's arsenal...

 

[Persian Gulf]

I suggest you read real history. Proper books. And I dont mean this to belittle or discredit you but to show you the unadulterated side that often gets ignored by the pro IR folks.

If you dont like Iranian writers who have a favorable view of the monarchists then I advise you to read books by neutral credible historians. See for yourself what state Iran was in when Reza Khan took over from the Qajars and what state Iran was in when Khomeini took over from his son. That should tell you everything basically.

Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were patriots and brought a lot of good developments to Iran. A lot of negative too but overall positive and they should be respected. They can be compared very favourably to the Islamic Republic in many aspects.

Reza Pahlavi, on the other hand, is scum of the highest order and if he ever dares to enter Iran again (impossible) he should be publicly hanged for treason. I thought you were crediting Reza Pahlavi for doing something positive for Iran, hence my comment. Otherwise, I don't disagree with you (much) on Reza Shah or Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

 

[Sarhang]

Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were patriots and brought a lot of good developments to Iran. A lot of negative too but overall positive and they should be respected. They can be compared very favourably to the Islamic Republic in many aspects.

Reza Pahlavi, on the other hand, is scum of the highest order and if he ever dares to enter Iran again (impossible) he should be publicly hanged for treason. I thought you were crediting Reza Pahlavi for doing something positive for Iran, hence my comment. Otherwise, I don't disagree with you (much) on Reza Shah or Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

RP is a lightweight in politics and has had no meaningful effect on the opposition in the past four decades. We can say hes useless.

That’s why I always say the IR is here to stay for a long time unless there’s some major foreign plot. We got no proper opposition to IR.

The real patriotic opposition to the monarchist government the ones who actually had reputation and credibility were people like Bakhtiar who tried to steer things in the right direction. But they were all murdered by IR thugs.

Anyway we digress from the main topic though everything is related itss separated by time.

 

[BigMela2onin]

I suggest you read real history. Proper books. And I dont mean this to belittle or discredit you but to show you the unadulterated side that often gets ignored by the pro IR folks.

If you dont like Iranian writers who have a favorable view of the monarchists then I advise you to read books by neutral credible historians. See for yourself what state Iran was in when Reza Khan took over from the Qajars and what state Iran was in when Khomeini took over from his son. That should tell you everything basically.

His unnecessary courting of Nazi Germany led directly to UK-USSR invasion, which indirectly led us to our current situation. His rule marked the beginning of direct European intervention in Iran which we had avoided for centuries.

 

[Persian Gulf]

RP is a lightweight in politics and has had no meaningful effect on the opposition in the past four decades. We can say hes useless.

useless is if he tried to be good opposition but failed

openly siding with Israel to this extent is different to useless

 

[Persian Gulf]

 

[hussain0216]

 

[nang2]

Where did Iran’s Arab supporters disappear?​

Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Published: 18 August ,2025: 04:30 PM GSTUpdated: 18 August ,2025: 04:55 PM GST

A deathly silence looms over the Arab street, unmoved by the wave of dramatic events in the region. We have not seen demonstrations, protests, or sit-ins in the Arab countries, and in my view, this is the first time in seven decades or more that such displays have vanished!

What has befallen Iran is no small matter; its military losses and nuclear facilities are immense, facilities that cost billions of dollars and much blood and sweat to build. To its ballistic and nuclear losses, we can add the loss of the popular current it had cultivated across the region, from Iraq to Morocco.

When the Lebanese government took its bold decision to confiscate Hezbollah’s weapons, the response was limited to just a few dozen motorcycles roaming Beirut’s streets in protest! So what happened to the human waves, the millions who once flooded the streets at a mere gesture from the party’s leader or from Tehran?

The collapse of Iranian influence is clear within Arab regions, like the collapse of Nasserism after its defeat in the 1967 war. It lost the ability to mobilize the street and resorted to relying on its socialist party members and labor unions to attend events after the masses, who once filled the squares with passion and spontaneity in response to radio appeals that dominated people’s awareness and emotions for nearly two decades, dwindled. In the wake of that defeat, a sense of shock and betrayal spread across the region, which had been waiting for the liberation of Palestine.

Iran, too, once enjoyed dominance and popular support in the region, defying attempts to block its ideas and curb its activities. It managed to raise generations of Arabs on its ideas. Tehran opened its doors and arms to extremist Sunnis, including leaders of al-Qaeda, overlooking their anti-Shia ideology, and supported most Sunni opposition groups and movements against their governments. It built an organic, deeply coordinated relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. It organized nearly annual conferences and seminars for Arab nationalists and communists. It spent heavily to woo Arab politicians and intellectuals; books were published and odes of praise were written in support of the Imam’s regime and in its defense. Tehran gathered Shias, Sunnis, and Arab Christians alike – thinkers from the Gulf, Egypt, the Levant, the Maghreb, Sudan, Yemen, and Arab diaspora communities. It climbed onto many Arab media outlets to promote Khamenei’s line. At times, we could hardly understand how it managed to reconcile all these contradictions! In Tripoli, Lebanon – a city with tensions against the Shias of Beirut – there were Sunni groups that, since the 1980s, continued to pledge allegiance to Tehran. In Jordan, among the Muslim Brotherhood, some openly declared their affection for Tehran’s leaders. Numerous works emerged in its defense: in Egypt, for example, Iran and Political Islam; in Kuwait, Iran and the West: Conflict of Interests; in the Gulf, conferences were held under the banner of “rapprochement” between sects, celebrating the history of Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah.

All these activities might have been laudable, were it not for the fact that the intentions behind them were not purely for the sake of God Almighty, nor out of love for ending or easing sectarian strife, but rather as part of a political project of domination.

Tehran was managing elite and grassroots movements in dozens of Arab cities; protests against novels, films, negotiations, and regimes.

But in the recent wars, following the October 2023 attacks, the kind of mobilization we were used to in every confrontation faded. The first reason: people do not admire the defeated. The second: the apparatuses that used to orchestrate these gatherings have lost their connections and their resources have dried up. The Arab street venerates the victorious hero until he falls, then replaces him with another hero.

Its believers have been shaken by successive defeats, just as Nasserists were shattered by the setbacks of the 1960s. The remaining challenge is to hold on to its supporters within its Shiite popular base; they are the ones most harmed and who still live the trauma of shock. With time, the Shias of Lebanon will come to realize the truth: that they are victims of Hezbollah and Iran, that it is a burden on them rather than a support. For four decades they have borne the confrontation with Israel and the consequences of ties with Iran: economic and personal sanctions, the destruction of their areas and neighborhoods, the targeting of their remittances from Africa and the Americas, and more.

Why does it feel like some kind of boneless piece of crap?