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2025-03-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Trump needs to hit Iran where it hurts: Tehran, not Yemen - opinion

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-30 05:41|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 ...I'm wondering if going after Yemen isn't the point. That is, we turn the place into hopeless craters while telling Tehran - loudly and publicly - that there's not a damned thing they can do about it.

That would send the mullahs into a frenzy. There's a lot of chances for a strategy like that to go sideways, but it'll make a point.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-03-30 07:28|| 2025-03-30 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 First things first. The Hooties are an immediate problem that needs to be dealt with. Doing so in a thorough and enthusiastic manner is bound to have a bit of "kill a chicken to scare the monkey" on Tehran. And if push comes to shove later on, our pieces are already on the board. Let the mullahs stew in their own juices for a while.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-30 10:07|| 2025-03-30 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfinished business from decades ago.

The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis (1979–81) in which militants seized 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. It took place after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978–79 and poisoned U.S.-Iranian relations for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-03-30 10:09|| 2025-03-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a lot of unfinished business between Iran and the US on both sides. Boomers in the US were very influenced by the hostage crisis - their counterparts in Iran lost family and friends to SAVAK

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-03-30 12:48|| 2025-03-30 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 No, you really wanna hurt Iran, hit the only to oil export facilities it has. In in the Persian gulf and the other newer one outside it. It also imports all of its gasoline so hit the couple harbors where ships offload it.

No more money for Iran, no gas to move things around. Check.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-03-30 14:51|| 2025-03-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Just crush Iran and Kabul economically. Drop the price of oil and stop funding the Taliban and the Syrian terrorists. Plug the Houti leadership and any Iranian boats helping with targeting.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-30 16:30|| 2025-03-30 16:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "Occupy Cha Bahar!" used to be a popular phrase or sumpthin

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-30 16:57|| 2025-03-30 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 ^i wonder if Irish Rage Biy is sailing there to seize it himself.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-30 21:22|| 2025-03-30 21:22|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Who wants to play Letters of Marque and Reprisal?

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-30 22:01|| 2025-03-30 22:01|| Front Page Top

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