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petros

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Not seeing where anyone that doesn't own shares in either a news outlet or defence contractor is benefiting. Probably some muslim terrorist groups are seeing an uptick in donations.
Dude. All commodities are going up. ALL OF THEM. By end of summer inflation will be up another 20%.
 

petros

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This is the problem with letting religious fruitcakes get into positions of power. I don't mean the people that believe in a higher power, but the fanatics. In reality, there is no real difference between a muslim fanatic or a christian fanatic. Both want to impose their warped idealism on the rest of the world, and give people of faith.
Ever heard of the Israelite God Baal?
 

Ron in Regina

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Iran said it was going to hit any US business partner and facility ME wide and they successful did. Did they not?
Well, they are sure pissing off their potential allies or at least sympathizers. I guess it’s good to have goals.
Dude. All commodities are going up. ALL OF THEM. By end of summer inflation will be up another 20%.
Good times…
Ever heard of the Israelite God Baal?
He might live three doors down from me. First name Randy? Drives a white pick up?
 

Retired_Can_Soldier

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How do you shitheaded so called "atheists" support this shit?

If God is a farce and doesn't exist, neither do Jews, Zionists or Christians or Muslims and the Biblical.claims of "Chosen People".

Di Borja rozamu.

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Geez, you're like the Islamic Revolution striking out at everyone.
I don't care if it's an illegal war.
I don't care if it pisses off the Lefties and the Antisemites.
I don't care if they impeach Trump afterward.
All I care about is that they keep killing these terrorist fucks.
Iranians on Canadian Streets are celebrating.
Palestinians are burning our flag and chanting death to Canada.
 

petros

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Geez, you're like the Islamic Revolution striking out at everyone.
I don't care if it's an illegal war.
I don't care if it pisses off the Lefties and the Antisemites.
I don't care if they impeach Trump afterward.
All I care about is that they keep killing these terrorist fucks.
Iranians on Canadian Streets are celebrating.
Palestinians are burning our flag and chanting death to Canada.
Well Mark of the Beast, get off your fat ass, pick up a gun and go fight for Zion.
 

Ron in Regina

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Iran has been in the news a lot lately, trying to “not” have violence spread into a larger Middle Eastern conflict, while spreading violence in the region into a larger Middle Eastern conflict…or at least it sure seems like it from the outside looking in.
And…back to the ongoing ongoing…Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran's temporary leadership council had approved suspending attacks on nearby countries - unless an attack on Iran came from those nations.

"I personally apologise to neighbouring countries that were affected by Iran's actions," he said. How far Pezeshkian's statement reflects a decision to back off by Iran, or why, is not yet clear, with some strikes still reportedly directed at Gulf states on Saturday morning.
Iran still has enty of Arab and Indo Allies. Indos are the bulk of the Muzzies not Arabs.
As of March 2026, Iran’s primary allies in the Middle East remain the "Axis of Resistance," a network of non-state militant groups, with Hezbollah in Lebanon being the most active partner. While some proxies have reduced participation, Hezbollah, the Houthi movement in Yemen, and certain Iraqi militias continue to align with Iran. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has already spilled beyond Iran's borders, as Tehran has responded by hitting Israel and ‌Gulf Arab states hosting U.S. military installations and Israel has attacked Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah armed group.

The UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have all reported drone and missile attacks over the past week. Gulf states voiced immediate outrage that their civilian infrastructure - hotels, ports and oil facilities - ⁠were struck despite their having had no part in the U.S.-Israeli attacks.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in an ongoing struggle for influence in the Middle East and other regions of the Muslim world. The two countries have provided varying degrees of support to opposing sides in nearby conflicts, including the civil wars in Syria and Yemen; and disputes in Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar, and Iraq.
Iran had mended fences with its Gulf neighbours in recent years, including with former regional arch rival Saudi Arabia - a diplomatic campaign that imploded as the Revolutionary Guards launched a blitz of drones and missiles over the past week.
Gulf states voiced immediate outrage that their civilian infrastructure - hotels, ports and oil facilities - ⁠were struck despite their having had no part in the U.S.-Israeli attacks.
Add Israel (& the Jews) to the region and it gives the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims someone they can both agree to hate, and a welcome distraction until the river to the sea thing, and then the Middle East can go back to just cannibalizing itself.
Oh wait…Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on ‌Saturday that its temporary leadership council had approved the suspension ⁠of attacks against neighboring countries unless an attack on Iran came from those countries. The announcement came as ‌Iran ⁠continued to launch attacks in the region against neighboring countries in ⁠response to U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic ⁠Republic.
A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards challenged U.S. President Donald Trump to deploy U.S. ‌naval vessels to escort oil tankers from neighbouring countries through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported on Friday. At least nine vessels have been attacked so far since the U.S. and Israel first began ⁠strikes on Iran on Saturday and the Guards ordered ships not to cross the strategic waterway.
"We recommend that, before making any decision, the Americans remember ⁠the fire on the American supertanker Bridgeton in 1987 (The explosion of an Iranian mine in the Gulf's shipping channel damaged Bridgeton's outer hull but did not prevent it from completing its voyage. Nevertheless, the incident was a propaganda victory for Iran) and the oil tankers that were recently targeted," ⁠IRGC spokesperson Alimohammad Naini said.
 

Ron in Regina

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Then there’s Al Jazeera’s take on this:

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said neighbouring countries that Iran has been attacking will no longer be targeted, unless an attack originates from there, as the war launched by the United States and Israel, which triggered sustained “retaliation” from Tehran on its neighbors not involved in the attack across the Gulf and beyond, enters its second week. The Iranian interim leadership council approved the motion on Friday, Pezeshkian said on Saturday.

Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran said, The Iranian president’s statement “is a deescalation, however small, in a very escalated situation as it is day eight of the initiation of the US and Israeli strikes across Iran. We have received reports of a continuation of these air attacks in more than 170 cities.”

“That we surrender unconditionally is a dream that they must take with themselves to the grave. What we adhere to are international laws and humanitarian frameworks, ” Pezeshkian said in his statement. US President Donald Trump had issued a maximalist Friday to Iran, demanding “unconditional surrender.”

However, the Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also weighed in. “Following the statements of the president, the armed forces once again declare that they respect the interests and national sovereignty of neighbouring countries, up to a point, and up to this point, have committed no aggression against them,” (???) the statement, which was carried by state media, said.

Maybe something huge was lost in the translation from whatever into English above?

“However, should the previous hostile actions continue, all military bases and interests of criminal America and the fake Zionist regime on land, at sea, and in the air across the region will be considered primary targets and will come under the powerful and crushing strikes of the mighty armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Pezeshkian’s message is overshadowed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s dominance, says Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar. “Political figures in Iran are responsible for running state affairs and ‘non-strategic’ affairs. But when it comes to strategic affairs, such as the country’s foreign and security policies, politicians don’t have a say, including the president, who, according to the constitution, is the number two in charge – this is a very well-known fact in Iran,” Serdar said.

The centre of power lies with the office of the supreme leader and with the IRGC, even during peacetime, he added. Now that the country faces what it sees as a war of survival, Pezeshkian is not in a position to stop any attack, and his message to regional countries carries no weight, Serdar said. “The IRGC is now in charge fully, and they will decide whether to attack or not,” Serdar said, adding that IRGC chief, Ahmad Vahidi, is considered one of the “most radical commanders” of the group since its foundation.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations, have been targeted due to the presence of US assets within and around their borders. Iraq, Jordan, Azerbaijan and Turkiye have also been caught in the crosshairs.

In the Gulf, there have been deaths, damage and major disruption to flights, closure of airspace, and a heavy knock-on impact on oil and gas production reverberating across the world.

Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi, meanwhile, has said exports from the Gulf region could come to a halt “within weeks”if the war on Iran continues to escalate, throwing global energy markets into turmoil.

Al-Kaabi told The Financial Times (FT) newspaper in an interview published on Friday that if the war continues for weeks, “GDP growth around the world will be impacted. “Everybody’s energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products, and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply,” al-Kaabi was quoted as saying.