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It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East.
Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar — the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out — and a ceasefire.
Iran would have been better off not launching such a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of impotence.
Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated U.S. President Donald Trump.
So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable terror state of Iran, the bane of the last seven American presidents over half a century.
For Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, it was hard to swallow that U.S. bombers got their permission to fly into Iranian airspace from the Israeli air force.
A good simile is that Trump put a pot of water on the stove, told Iran to jump in, put the lid over them, then smiled, turned up the heat — and will now let them stew.
As postbellum realities now simmer in Iran, the theocracy is left explaining the inexplicable to its humiliated military and shocked but soon-to-be-furious populace. All the regime’s blood-curdling rhetoric, apocalyptic threats against Israel, goose-stepping thugs, and shiny new missiles ended in less than nothing.
A trillion dollars and five decades’ worth of missiles and centrifuges are now up in smoke. That money might have otherwise saved Iranians from the impoverishment of the last 50 years.
How about the little Satan Israel, to which Iran for nearly 50 years promised extinction?
Israel had destroyed Iran’s expeditionary terrorists, Iran’s defenses, its nuclear viability, and the absurd mythology of Iranian military competence. And worse, Israel showed it could repeat all that destruction when and if necessary.
So, the most hated regime in the world crawled into the boiling pot because it looked around in vain for someone to void Trump’s ultimatum for a cease and desist.
But there were no last-minute saviors to rescue them.
The dreaded decades-long Iranian nuclear threat?
It is either gone for now, or if it resurfaces, it will be again far easier to vaporize at will than to rebuild a lost trillion-dollar investment.
Russia? Its former Obama-Kerry re-invitation back into the Middle East lasted only a decade.
It will now cut its losses like it did with the vanished Assad kleptocracy in Syria. Putin exits the Middle East not entirely displeased that his lunatic Iranian client did not get a bomb — but did get its just desserts. A tense Middle East tends to prop up Russian export oil prices.
Did China come to the mullahs’ aid?
No, they were not shy about ordering their Iranian lackey to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, through which 50 percent of Chinese-purchased oil passes.
For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Iranians are treated as little more than Uyghurs with oil.
The world decided that it was tired of a half-century of crybully terrorism, empty nuke threats, mindless mobs screaming scripted banalities, cowardly murdering, and medieval theocrats threatening the general peace.
So, the world turned its back on Iran. And with a wink and nod, it let Israel and the U.S. do what they must.
As for Iran’s terrorist appendages, Hezbollah’s commanders are either dead, maimed, or in hiding.
Hamas has fled into a subterranean labyrinth.
The last Assad thug fled to Russia.
The crazy Houthis? They are reconsidering the idea of launching their last missile at the cost of their last port or power grid.
The anti-Trump Democrats and loony left?
Their talk of impeaching Trump for the supposedly “illegal” 35-minute, one-off strike will fade.
The Trump mission equaled less than one day of Obama’s predator drone strikes, targeted killings, or his five-year chaotic bombing in Libya.
Is the incoherent left furious that there is no more Iranian nuclear threat?
Mad that no Americans were killed last Saturday night?
Furious America likely killed few if any Iranians.
Or is it raging because Trump ignored Iran’s last-gasp attack and instead orchestrated a cease-fire?
Of course, in the Middle East, there is never a real end to anything.
We may see freelancing terrorists try to fill the vacuum of Iran’s decline. Or Iran itself may try to let loose a terrorist cell. It may later boast it has hidden away some enriched uranium.
But no matter.
The dimensions of this new Middle East will persist.
The new reality is that either Israel or the U.S. — if they keep their earned confidence within proper limits — can now ensure a non-nuclear Iran by easily blowing up its costly nuclear program as often as it is rebuilt.
The “supreme leader” Assaholah looks very infirm. I bet he has to be pushed around in a wheelchair when the video cameras are off.
Why President Trump refuses to take the weak ass mullahs out, I have little idea. But I know they need to go. The Iranian people need to be rid of them. Nothing that replaces them could be worse. Most chicks there want to walk around without head rags and shop for nice clothes.
If they walk to San Jose, I’ll treat them right. And the head rags will come off with the rest of their clothes.
” And the head rags will come off with the rest of their clothes.” Who exactly is supposed to be impressed by such statements?
How does someone walk from Iran to San Jose?
Imsix vs. Bargholz = Intrepid vs. THX138?
The Leftist used the useful idiots Iran to be just another cog in the wheel of Communism and just like all the other failed adventurism’s the Left will seek out a new group of Useful Idiots to help destroy the world.
Mr Hanson thank you again and again and again for sharing with us your thoughts and ideas. You simplify world and
local issues so even our vaunted congress and senate must be able to understand. Unfortunately you must now
let these politicians know how to respond to your wise thoughts!!!
The Iranian people are right and justified for hating that brutal cruel oppressive and even murderous Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran
For example, the many arrest and imprisonment and even execution of people , repeatedly, who had peacefully protested that “mullah tyranny” of Iran only further exposes the weak ,fearful and intolerant nature of those in power in the oppressive and brutal “mullah regime “ of Iran.
Therefore, the Iranians people are more than justified in wanting that brutal cruel oppressive Islamic tyranny to be overthrown and replaced with a genuine government.
As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
That horrific Islamic tyranny of Iran is evil in sense of that word.
For that horrifically, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights. As in consequence the people of Iran would and should revolt against that viciously brutal tyrannical “’mullah regime” of Iran.
Accordingly, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, some of the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyrannical government.
Cato used to end every speech with “et Carthago delenda est!” – And Carthage must be destroyed!
Khomeini would always say “Isra’il-ra bayad az bein bord!” Israel must be destroyed!
Time for all civilized people to start saying “The Islamic Occupation Regime in Iran must go!”