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2020-01-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'You can't do a damn thing!' Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei hits back at Donald Trump after the president threatened to make him pay a 'big price' for US embassy attack
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 While you are playing checkers, the Orange Man plays three dimensional chess.

The only thing between your neck and the noose is the palace guard that has no problem at the moment killing the people of Iran. Your current actions do nothing to alter that fact. It doesn't endear you or them to the people.

You have provided the Orange Man with useful local political agents who are his avowed enemies the bat calling for action against you. Do Something!!

It would be terrible if for some reason the Orange Man could somehow degrade your 'center of gravity', that palace guard, quickly and swiftly enough to allow nature to take is own course in your country.

You make the same mistake his domestic enemies do, believing your own propaganda.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-02 06:51||   2020-01-02 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 MM have nothing to lose P2k - that's what makes them so dangerous.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-02 07:21||   2020-01-02 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfinished business from the Carter administration.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-02 07:59||   2020-01-02 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 In fact they believe if they provoke a strong enough response the 12th iman will finally come out of his well. If it kills most of the people of Iran it’s worth it in their eyes.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-01-02 08:47||   2020-01-02 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Mullahs or the Papacy or any other faith based movement (to include the Greens) - at a certain point corruption overpowers all else. Then they have something to lose.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-02 09:08||   2020-01-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 My point, they can't hold on to power and they know it.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-02 09:25||   2020-01-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 they believe if they provoke a strong enough response the 12th iman will finally come out of his well.

... in College Station TX?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-02 09:48||   2020-01-02 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 They wanna double down on that bet?
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-02 13:16||   2020-01-02 13:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump should rescind the anti-assassination order. See if the Iranian Secret Service can defend their boy. Let Khamenei feel he has some skin in the game.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-02 15:32||   2020-01-02 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Modify 3 MOABs.
1)cover with about 1 inch of cement for heat shielding
2) put on grid fins like on the F9 first stages and air puffers to align
3) Put them on a Falcon Heavy
4) Put them in orbit above Iran.
watch for Khamenei or Suleimani
Re-enter a bomb
and steer to target from above with say Iridium
Posted by 3dc 2020-01-02 17:47||   2020-01-02 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11 One B-2 can drop 80 500 lb JDAMS over any target in Iran, including houses where the leadership live. Might be the first time in history decapitation of an entire national leadership is possible w/o killing much of the population.
Posted by Squinty Glomose4506 2020-01-02 21:37||   2020-01-02 21:37|| Front Page Top

#12 160 SDBs would be better
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-02 22:02||   2020-01-02 22:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Or a single guided bomb dropped on a couple of very important military figures in Baghdad International Airport.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-02 22:07||   2020-01-02 22:07|| Front Page Top

#14 watch for Khamenei or Suleimani
Re-enter a bomb and steer to target from above with say Iridium

3dc 2020-01-02 17:47

Prophetic!
Posted by Lex 2020-01-02 22:14||   2020-01-02 22:14|| Front Page Top

#15 My guess is someone along the airport road pointed a SOFLAM (laser) or two, and.... end of story.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-02 22:19||   2020-01-02 22:19|| Front Page Top

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