US strikes Iran

[mjf981]

In conjunction with Israel.
Why? Starting wars has never ever ended well for the US, or for the country they are trying to 'help.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t

I am increasingly starting to believe that Trump has lost his marbles, he has just given an insane interview where he repeats the beheaded babies lie, but this time about Iran (so yes Gaza):

"They are among the most evil people on earth"
"They cut babies’ heads off."
"They chop women in half. Take a look at October 7. Take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years"

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2030401974693212633?s=20

Completely insane and he is surrounded by people who are feeding him terrible intelligence and the arrogance to not even check what he's being told.

Credible source - an RAF man

A customer of mine who works on the base

Ah, RAF man...well that seals it then...

Funny there's not been a sniff of anything about these additional direct attacks on Akrotiri in any of the places forces and ex-forces people, including RAF who have actually served in Cyprus/Akrotiri discuss matters various, let alone no mention in the MSM.

mmmm agree

no reports whatsoever
think that RAF man is talking bollocks

That's as maybe.

If he's saying there were thirty alerts/hooter went thirty times/Typhoons launched to do something somewhere thirty times I might just believe it.

Thirty actual confirmed drone attacks on Akrotiri...just no.

The sirens went off in Akrotiri, it's happened a few times now. False alarms?

He was always stupid but now he’s in a place of power has lost the plot

Words are so powerful and can make or break a situation

Iran's foreign minister says the country's "openness to de-escalation" has been "almost immediately killed" by Donald Trump

His stupidity has led him to follow Israel into war that will kill thousands and
his words that will prolong this war

There is nothing on the news about Akrotini being attacked today.
At least, not yet.

Dunno, but I'd guess given recents that's certainly quite possible..

The thing about these wars is it's civilians that pay the price. Look at Iraq....shock and awe they called it but it killed a million civilians.

Iranian people don't want war, they want change but war no. Right now they will be scared because you can't flee...your stuck at the mercy of people dropping bombs....the mercy of what comes next.

Trump is bringing in some of the heaviest bombers on the planet....it will be awful for those close to these bombs.

A president hiding from the Epstein files is using the lives of other people to distract the attention away from the news

As @BelleHathor link

Israel / US bombing a desalination plant in Iran !!

yep
Gaza all over again

I do not think this has anything to do with the Epstein files.
But all to do with the midterm elections being around the corner and Trump will likely lose lots of points and may lose some of his power.
At present, he has free reign.
He can pursue this war.
He wants to address Cuba next. Then maybe Greenland. Or Canada...
Or God knows.
I just watch him surrounded by the big guys of petrochemical companies getting ready to go into Venezuela, inspect their installations, assess what they need and invest billions on fixing infrastructure and keep pumping up. And Trump saying, if China or Russia want oil, he will sell to them. Not a peep about the Venezuelans.
It is just plain bonkers.
But, it is working for him. He is getting whatever he wants. He just goes in and takes it.
The sinking of the Iranian warship, followed by sail away is a good example. Mission: sink ship. Accomplished. Walk away.
The stay to rescue survivors never crosses their mind. They are only people, enemy people. Who cares?

Of course I am not, by any means, pro the Iranian regime, but I have huge doubts this war has been thought through regarding any political outcomes. They seem limited to military targets. But, what is going to happen to Iran itself? Blank.

Good analysis, 18 American intelligence agencies did warn Trump that airstrikes would not work (good on them for putting this on record) he chose to ignore them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/07/iran-intelligence-report-unlikely-oust-regime/

Furthermore the failure of the International community to effectively stop the carnage in Gaza means that International Law has been completely trampled and ripped up. It's the wild wild west our there right now, with absolutely no rules. It has emboldened people like Trump and Hegseth, might is right and anything goes.

However what might seem like winning when you have the power will soon come to bite you in the arse.

I don’t see Israel sticking to just military targets

I think Trump has done it just for sound bites.
He hasnt thought things through, and is vulnerable to clever manipation by more intelligent folks (Putin, Epstien etc) . He's now got to spend a billion a day on this, and the longer it goes on the more likely a world recession becomes. He's devaluing your pensions, about to make mortgages and food and petrol more expensive.
How the American state puts up with him and his crock of idiots is just amazing. If he falls our the window before sunrise it would be perfectly understandable, just saying.

I mean, they have set military goals/ plans, but there is not a political one.
Not tgat they are only bombing military areas.
They never do the latter. In any war!

Trump is going to stick with this until a week before he’s due to meet China on 31st March. At that point, he’ll get bored, like he did with Ukraine (remember he was going to sort that within 24hrs) and Greenland. Then he’ll pull all his resources out and leave the Middle East fighting each other, and the rest of the world suffering with oil at $120 a barrel causing global economic chaos.

In the meantime, Russia is going to be quids in because he’s already lifted sanctions on India buying oil from Russia and no doubt China will follow suit. He’ll be just fine as the US is the biggest oil producer in the world. The rest of us are going to be living with a coat of living crisis that will go on for months, if not years. I’m bloody furious with Americans who voted this imbecile in.

@edwinbear - agree with your post and I feel the same!

Questions to posters - do you think Trump will force Europe and associated countries (eg Canada etc) to lead and pay for the reconstruction of Iran, once he has declared the war won? And if they argue then he will bully them with tariffs?
I think Trump could say that the US paid for the ‘winning’ of the war (and I have heard cost estimates of $2b/day), so it will rest with Europe to lead the funding of the rebuild?

And more generally - do posters think that Tony Blair should just STFU? See his Telegraph article.

Your first question - no idea who will pay for the reconstruction of Iran.

Second question re his comments reported in the Telegraph, I think Tony Blair has the right to express his opinions even if not everyone agrees with them. This is what he said for those who don't know:

At a Jewish News event on Friday, Sir Tony said: “I’m not saying anything to you that I wouldn’t and haven’t said to the Government. I think we should have backed America from the very beginning.

“They were asking us to use our bases for refuelling. It’s not like Vietnam. It’s not like, as we did in Iraq, sending in 1000s of British troops.

“So I think you’ve got to make the argument to the public that this American relationship matters. It matters particularly today.

“It’s not a question of whether it’s this president, that president, if they’re your ally and they’re an indispensable cornerstone of your security, you better show up.”

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/03/07/blair-rebukes-starmer-failing-to-back-trump-war/

Interesting @Twiglets1

Trump is known for ignoring advice. Example being John Bolton, sacked because he didn't like his advice.

America has the fire power to demolish any country but that isn't winning. It was the British that taught the Americans about hearts and minds, killing doesn't work....it just creates anti west sentiment.

Iran is what it is thanks to America and Israel, a brutal government that came to power after a bloody revolution. Sanctions and espionage created the Iran you have today. In Iraq Saddam Hussain was American backed and then they backed the Kurds which he gassed. You see my point on American foreign policy.....it's very bloody.

Last night they bombed Iran's oil refineries.... another example of the type of tactics I'd expect from Iran or Putin. No regards for the people in Iran who are facing horrendous inflation and poverty and no regards for the environment.

The British have been bullied into this conflict, firstly being caught off guard because we were not told about the plans and secondly being berated publicly for not allowing the use of our air bases. Is this how America treats it's friends.....from my perspective it shows no respect. The British have had to rush to defend its bases which are now under attack, thankfully we have friends in Europe that have come to our aid....the Spanish and the Italians.

It's Trump that is destroying alliances because he's not a good president. He's a horrible bully and always has been.

It will be nice when the day returns to being civil and we have a world that seeks to resolve differences through talks and not war.

The issue is how do you deal with a rogue state such as Iran, the law protects the state not the people.

If the IRGC can do whatever brutality they feel fits for decades what can the Iranian people do?

Times article : Iranians want the bombs.
Some obviously

Children are being asked to report on their parents , irg enforcers are terrorising villages at night and in flats enforcers are knocking on doors ,no parries ,black clothing to respect mourning
People will be shot.
No one can break free yet.

There are plenty of regimes like it, don't support them but are you suggesting we go to war with every one of them.

With stock piles of uranium the Americans now have the problem stopping all that getting into the wrong hands of someone who could create a dirty bomb.

The whole thing could turn into a disaster for us, because ISIS are still very much operating in Syria and the borders of Iran....if they get hold of it you could find a city being the next Chernobyl.

The whole war is reckless.