Trumps attack on Iran - 2026 edition

[Highway Man]

Probably, but it makes no sense that the hostages were released a few days after Reagan was sworn in if there wasn’t some kind of sweetener.

It makes no sense that hostages were released ??? OMG I have heard it all. Should they have maybe given it a few months more so that nobody would think it is a bit suspicious. Jeeez

 

[Koolpc]

Woof [TM]

 

[blup]

It makes no sense that hostages were released ??? OMG I have heard it all. Should they have maybe given it a few months more so that nobody would think it is a bit suspicious. Jeeez

Turns out there was a sweetener, the US paid 30 billion for the return but their release was delayed to damage Carters chances of reelection.

 

[Highway Man]

Turns out there was a sweetener, the US paid 30 billion for the return but their release was delayed to damage Carters chances of reelection.

Not quite the fact you are trying to prove, if a congressional task force could not find any evidence, I doubt that you have.

• Congressional Findings: A 1992-1993 House October Surprise Task Force found "no credible evidence" that the Reagan campaign held talks with Iranian officials to delay the hostage release.

 

[Odds]

And now a word from the Moslem Sisterhood...

 

[Highway Man]

And now a word from the Moslem Sisterhood...

What a load of codswallop

 

[blup]

Not quite the fact you are trying to prove, if a congressional task force could not find any evidence, I doubt that you have.

• Congressional Findings: A 1992-1993 House October Surprise Task Force found "no credible evidence" that the Reagan campaign held talks with Iranian officials to delay the hostage release.

I said probably not.

 

[Odds]

I said probably not.

Mueller found credible evidence that trump colluded with Russian officials in his 2016 campaign but not enough to satisfy Republican trolls.
Did he try to find a way to smear Clinton with help from Russian spies?
Probably.

 

[Highway Man]

Mueller found credible evidence that trump colluded with Russian officials in his 2016 campaign but not enough to satisfy Republican trolls.
Did he try to find a way to smear Clinton with help from Russian spies?
Probably.

 

[Vinty]

Do you think they should consider Iran their friend and thereby isolate themselves from the rest of the world? (

What world are you referring to.
America and Europe make up about 10% of the Global population.
Where is the evidence that the non Western world wants to isolate Iran.
Anyway the Iranians and the Arabs have lived next to each other for 1000's of years and will continue to do so long after America and Europe have declined into insignificance.

 

[Vinty]

Trump has had a grudge against Iran ever since the Tehran hostage crisis and other events which he considered a humiliation of USA.

Maybe the Iranians should bear a grudge against the Americans for subverting their democratically elected government in 1953 and installing a puppet who ruled as a tyrant, all of which has led to the situation we are in now.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

You're actually being very silly now. The Iranians have been protesting against the IRGC for years, the more serious uprising started weeks if not months before Trump got involved.

Trump can justifiably be criticised for many things, but to suggest he started the uprising in Iran, you are simply making a ***t of yourself.

Where did I assert he started it? I was referring to this.

'Help is on its way,' Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting - live updates

It comes as an Iranian security official says 2,000 people have been killed so far after a crackdown on anti-government protests.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Vinty]

Why Reagan ?? he inherited the problem from Carter who authorised a failed military rescue mission

Wasn't Reagan involved in the Iran Contra affair.
While pressuring other countries not to supply arms to the Ayatollahs
he secretly authorised the supply weapons of weapons to them by Israel in return for the realease of American hostages in Lebanon.

 

[fillyboy]

Where did I assert he started it? I was referring to this.

Here.

Conversely, he advised the Iranian people to rise up and that help was on the way. What? x weeks later? I reckon those statements likely led to 100s (1000s?) more getting killed.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Here.

MMmmm, I must be missing it. I still can't see anything in my statement that asserts this was the start or beginning of anything.