Trump threatens to 'massively blow up' major Iranian gas field

This thread is worse off with the loss of @Duckopolis. Open and fair debate requires ALL sides to be present, otherwise it's just an echo chamber.

So Trump, the stable genius, the 'street smart' leader, is now threatening a war crime if Iran doesn't open the SoH...when Iran is in talks over maritime security and has said that the SoH is open, except to its enemies.

This article explains how people around the world have been affected by Israel and US going to war against Iran. Let's hope 401s, pension plans and investment portfolios have time to recover before they are needed. Prayers for the families who have lost loved ones and are those suffering daily as a direct result of this shameless war.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/22/iran-war-global-economy-donald-trump-oil-prices-inflation

Because of the arguments already made that no one answers because, apparently, this forum works on "gotcha!" logic and not materialist reasoning and historical relevance. The fact that my post above was deleted shows that this place is some facade of debate in a supposed free speech environment, because I've had this very discussion plenty of other places that predate Mumsnet by quite some years and never had a mod delete it because of their fee fees being hurt.

By all means keep cowering over the Iran threat none of you cared about until February when this all kicked off. Just like how everyone became virologists overnight when COVID hit the news cycle. Having to explain why Iran has beef with the West is tiresome, so please do keep believing this is the plot to the late great Chuck Norris movie Delta Force where all Muslims are caricature evil cartoon villains wanting to kill the West because they dress sexily and have freedom or whatever. I'm sure the US losing the Middle East and the petrodollar being disbanded won't have any impact on the Islamophobia I see in this thread which goes unquestioned.

Bye.

Also apparently Yemen via the Houthis, Lebanon via Hezbollah, Iraq, Syria & Afghan insurgency brought to you by the IRGC. I wonder if they will help the Taliban against Pakistan's current activities. It was after Iran lobbed some missiles into Pakistan in 2024 that Pakistan and Saudi brokered their mutual defence pact.
Maybe the disparate groups in Iran will listen to reason from the big boys in China. Apparently the Uyghurs are all hunky dory so that's a relief.

Posts on Mumsnet are educational.

Still waiting on your answer, by the way.

Weird, then, how they've had nearly 50 years to make one. And for fifty year, we've been told they're making a nuke.
The DPRK, a far less advanced nation, has had nukes for years. Care to explain this?

Hmm, history lesson, is it? Let me try.

"So this is how we get rid of that madman Mossadegh," announced John Foster
Dulles to a group of top Washington policy makers one day in June 1953.1 The
Secretary of State held in his hand a plan of operation to overthrow the prime minister of Iran prepared by Kermit (Kim) Roosevelt of the CIA. There was scarcely any discussion amongst the high-powered men in the room, no probing questions, no legal or ethical issues raised.

A military show of force by the British navy was followed by a ruthless
international economic blockade and boycott, and a freezing of Iranian assets which brought Iran's oil exports and foreign trade to a virtual standstill, plunged the already impoverished country into near destitution, and made payment of any compensation impossible. Nonetheless, and long after they had moved to oust Mossadegh, the British demanded compensation not only for the physical assets of the AIOC, but for the value of their enterprise in developing the oil fields; a request impossible to meet, and, in the eyes of Iranian nationalists, something which decades of huge British profits had paid for many times over.

The British attempt at economic strangulation of Iran could not have gotten off
the ground without the active co-operation and support of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and American oil companies. At the same time, the Truman administration argued with the British that Mossadegh's collapse could open the door to the proverbial communist takeover.4 When the British were later expelled from Iran, however, they had no alternative but to turn to the United States for assistance in toppling Mossadegh. In November 1952, the Churchill government approached Roosevelt, the de facto head of the CIA's Middle East division, who told the British that he felt that there was "no chance to win approval from the outgoing administration of Truman and Acheson. The new Republicans, however, might be quite different."

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The notorious Iranian secret police, SAVAK, created under the guidance of the
CIA and Israel, spread its tentacles all over the world to punish Iranian dissidents. According to a former CIA analyst on Iran, SAVAK was instructed in torture techniques by the Agency.43 Amnesty International summed up the situation in 1976 by noting that Iran had the "highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief. No country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran." When to this is added a level of corruption that "startled even the most hardened observers of Middle Eastern thievery", it is understandable that the Shah needed his huge military and police force, maintained by unusually large US aid and training programs,46 to keep the lid down for as long as he did. Said Senator Hubert Humphrey, apparently with some surprise:

Do you know what the head of the Iranian Army told one of our people? He said
the Army was in good shape, thanks to U.S. aid—it was now capable of coping
with the civilian population. That Army isn't going to fight the Russians. It's
planning to fight the Iranian people.