The Iran War

March 14, 2026, 05:57 AM

Dave Bean

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Where are the Iranian people? Why haven't they risen up and seized the government?

It is happening but there's heavy internet cutoffs so those protests are not getting the news exposure they need.

Israel just messaged everyone inside Iran to tell them where the IRGC ground/street locations are. I think they have a way to verify and start dropping bombs. There will be accidents, to be expected in the fog of war.

March 14, 2026, 06:06 AM

Ronin101

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Originally posted by Dave Bean:
quote:
Originally posted by downtownv:
Where are the Iranian people? Why haven't they risen up and seized the government?

It is happening but there's heavy internet cutoffs so those protests are not getting the news exposure they need.

Israel just messaged everyone inside Iran to tell them where the IRGC ground/street locations are. I think they have a way to verify and start dropping bombs. There will be accidents, to be expected in the fog of war.

protests? That will get them all butchered. I think we are talking about armed insurrection!!!
Seems like people in the Mideast don't care if they are free.

March 14, 2026, 07:33 AM

ScreamingCockatoo

quote:
Originally posted by downtownv:
Where are the Iranian people? Why haven't they risen up and seized the government?

I get the feeling all the countries we've been in want others to do it for them.
Then them reap the rewards.
South Korea is the only country since WWII that actually thrived.

All the others, the people decided that freedom is not worth the sacrifice.

March 14, 2026, 07:36 AM

braillediver

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Originally posted by tleddy:
Iran used a “cluster bomb” on Israel.

From Mar 10, 2026

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Security official: Half of the Missiles from Iran had cluster warheads

"A security source reveals that about half of the missiles launched from Iran since the beginning of the war had a cluster warhead."

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423698

March 14, 2026, 08:36 AM

mrprovy

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Originally posted by Ronin101:

protests? That will get them all butchered. I think we are talking about armed insurrection!!!
Seems like people in the Mideast don't care if they are free.

This is a excerpt from a article disgusting our second amendment

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Iran has roughly 90 million people. The Islamic Republic has ruled them for 47 years through the machinery of the IRGC, the Basij militia, and systematic political terror. The regime tortured dissidents, executed political prisoners, sent teenage boys across minefields in the Iran-Iraq War, funded terrorist organizations across the region, and for nearly five decades answered every protest movement with lethal force.
When Mahsa Amini died in custody in 2022 and millions of Iranians took to the streets, the protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails. They were shot. The regime held.
Iran's 1991 Firearms Law created a licensing regime so restrictive that civilian gun ownership is effectively limited to regime loyalists and a small number of hunters willing to navigate a bureaucratic obstacle course. According to Small Arms Survey data, Iran has roughly 7 civilian firearms per 100 people. The United States has approximately 120 firearms per 100 people, which means America has more guns than people.
Think about what that number means in concrete terms. Tennessee has about 7 million people. If Tennessee's civilian gun ownership rate reflected the national average, Tennesseans possess well over 8 million firearms. The entire population of Iran, 90 million people, has fewer civilian firearms than a state with less than a tenth of their population. They have fewer than any fellow Tennessean's immediate circle of neighbors, to say nothing of the pistols and hunting rifles and shotguns and everything else sitting in gun safes and closets and truck cabs across the state.
When the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, and began systematically decapitating the Iranian regime, those 90 million people had essentially no capacity to participate in their own liberation. They could watch. They could hope. They had no practical means to accelerate the end of the people who had been oppressing them for nearly five decades. The most powerful military in the world had to do for them what an armed population might have been able to begin doing for itself.

March 14, 2026, 09:50 AM

chellim1

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When the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, and began systematically decapitating the Iranian regime, those 90 million people had essentially no capacity to participate in their own liberation. They could watch. They could hope. They had no practical means to accelerate the end of the people who had been oppressing them for nearly five decades. The most powerful military in the world had to do for them what an armed population might have been able to begin doing for itself.

The Iranian army is separate from the IRGC. They will have to side with the people and against the IRGC. There is some of that going on now... more will be required.

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

March 14, 2026, 09:55 AM

nukeandpave

Maybe we should be airdropping pallets of AKs and ammo into Iran.

March 14, 2026, 11:23 AM

John Steed

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Originally posted by nukeandpave:
Maybe we should be airdropping pallets of AKs and ammo into Iran.

Israel should have a lot of that they confiscated in the last couple of years.

March 14, 2026, 11:42 AM

6guns

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...Xqz6ld4FrvQ15dXh4%3D

Trump Says Other Nations Joining US Patrols in Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. president said he hoped major powers with a stake in global energy flows would join the effort.

President Donald Trump said on March 14 that some countries affected by Iran’s attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are joining the United States in patrolling the strategic oil-shipping waterway.

While the U.S. strikes over the past weeks have sharply reduced Iran’s fighting force, the president wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Tehran still retained the ability to threaten ships passing through the strait with smaller weapons.
“Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe,” he wrote.

Trump did not identify which governments are participating, but said he hoped other major economies with a stake in global energy flows would join the effort.

“Hopefully, China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,” Trump wrote.

In the meantime, Trump said, U.S. forces would continue targeting what remained of Iran’s naval capabilities and striking sites along the coastline.

Iran has demonstrated ability to use its shoreline and nearby waters to launch attacks with small boats, drones, mines, shore-based missiles, mobile artillery, and submarines against commercial shipping in the narrow passage.

“One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE,” Trump said.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

March 14, 2026, 11:52 AM

Ronin101

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Originally posted by John Steed:
quote:
Originally posted by nukeandpave:
Maybe we should be airdropping pallets of AKs and ammo into Iran.
Israel should have a lot of that they confiscated in the last couple of years.

They need to have the desire to fight. Doesnt matter how many pallets you drop. You kill some republican guard and take thier weopons

March 14, 2026, 12:39 PM

armored

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Exactly!

The Iranians that want freedom must show they are more than just talk. Trump should emphasis to them that we are not there to go hand to hand with there enemy, we can accomplish our mission and leave with the threat to who ever ends up in power that we will come back and flatten them again if they re-build.
We are not there to occupy, we have learned our lesson.
The people that want regime change are the grand kids and kids of the people that lost or gave there freedom away when they drove out the Shaw of Iran.
Sorry, but I don't trust any of them!

March 14, 2026, 12:47 PM

slosig

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Are you guys saying we don’t have tools to deal with a couple hundred small boats?

Hmmm, my totally ignorant, riffing off PDJT’s comment about things getting much worse, is to wonder about taking whatever (B-1s, B-2s, B-52s, whatever else) and just absolutely laying waste to every single port or harbor along their coast. Wouldn’t be very cool, some might call it a war crime, but they were warned, and FAFO…

I guess one could start with one port or harbor where intel shows they are putting out from to set mines, then do the next three or four along their coast, pause, and announce that they have 24 hours to remove every mine they set or we’re going to do their entire coast. Probably excessively harsh, but they were warned.

March 14, 2026, 01:05 PM

Rawny

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Originally posted by Ronin101:
They need to have the desire to fight. Doesnt matter how many pallets you drop.

There's obviously plenty of desire. The problem is the lack of training. Doesn't matter how well armed they are. If they have no experience fighting as a cohesive force, most will cut and run when bullets whizzed by their ears. Furthermore, there is no charismatic figure in country to lead and inspire them.

A more likely scenario is elements within the regular army that is pro West decide to form up and take control by neutralizing the hardcore IRGC and the Mullahs. Then you'll have a military junta. It's nowhere near ideal, but it would be a start.

March 14, 2026, 01:08 PM

Cookster

Recently posted at The Conservative Treehouse -

https://theconservativetreehou...ve-harbor-of-canada/

Iranian Regime Clerics Flee to Save Harbor of Canada?

March 14, 2026

This is quite a remarkable development. Someone in the Toronto airport captured video of Iranian Cleric Hojjatoleslam Morteza Tayebi arriving in Canada yesterday [Video Here]. As the story is told, apparently 700+ members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who carry out regime terrorism, reside or have dual citizenship in Canada. [HERE]

“The individual observed in the Pearson Toronto Airport videos, carrying a suitcase while dressed in clerical attire, is Hojatoleslam Morteza Taieb. According to some reports, he holds residency or citizenship in Canada and travels between Iran and this country.” {Source}

Canadian Member of Parliament Melissa Lantsman has been trying to draw attention to the issue for several years, claiming the IRGC is carrying out domestic terrorism in Canada while supporting the activity of the Iranian government.

Melissa Lantsman, “the government knows there are IRGC agents here in Canada. They know these terrorists perpetuate violence, terrify our citizens, and do the work of the mullahs in our own streets. But the government lets them stay in Canada. Why?

Great question. Additionally, if Iranian Mullahs and Clerics are part of a fanatical war against the U.S. then wouldn’t their ability to seek safe harbor in Canada represent a threat to the United States?

That said, the IRGC members living in Canada in combination with dual citizenship for Mullahs and Clerics certainly explains the soft response from Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A very sobering and troubling assessment of the situation by this Canadian member of Parliament -

https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/.../2032751309363818982