Iran – The Foreigner in Formosa

Never Gets Old

Israeli Intelligence trolls the ayatollahs:

So basically. pic.twitter.com/Gh9ODDDl0w

— The Mossad (@TheMossadIL) May 10, 2018

Iranians murdered & maimed an awful lot of American soldiers with IEDs in Iraq. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see those Islamofascist sons-of-bitches being sent back to Teheran in bodybags.

Iran has long been building up a force on Israels borders in Syria along the Golan and in Lebanon via Hezbollah. War with Israel was imminent and probably forced Trump’s decision to scotch the deal to preserve strategic clarity.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

It would have been absurd to keep the deal in the face of a conflict where America could not remain neutral. Besides, Iran's has fallen into a strategic trap too good to be missed.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

Iran is now fighting two major foreign wars. One against anti Assad forces and now against Israel. The ayatollahs would have been invulnerable had they remained within Iran. But the Islamic elite became an expansionary force and sowed the seeds of their own destruction.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

Israel's strategic problem was to lure the Iranians close. The IDF has always been a very short range force. All its wars have been fought near or inside Israel itself. In Iran the ayatollahs were beyond the combat power of Israel to destroy.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

Part of the problem was solved by the Iranian guard itself. They moved into Lebanon where thru Hezbollah they ruled a lucrative private state, where they could launder money and run rackets. The neck was out, but Israel needed the body.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

The rest of the solution was provided, albeit unintentionally, by Obama. The collapse of Syria tempted bigger forces in. Iran are now the foot soldiers of the wretched Assad. The money Obama so generously provided paid for their deployment into the foreign quagmire.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

Iran is now neck deep in Syria and Lebanon. The ayatollah's foreign legions are far from home loaded down with the crippled Assad and inside the lethal short range of the IDF. They must either retreat or be bled dry.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

I don't think Trump plotted this. Maybe Netanyahu did. But it would have clear to Mattis who realized the Deal would become a dead letter in that scenario. So Trump did the only thing he could. He chose a side.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

Eventually clearer heads in Tehran will grasp the magnitude of the debacle and we may see them try to negotiate an exit from Syria. Not total victory but a bigly one.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 10, 2018

UPDATE (May 14, 2018): Has Iran fallen into a strategic trap? (A longer-form, blog entry expanding upon the points above).

Laying The Groundwork For A Saudi Bomb?

Saudi Arabia claims it can't produce enough natural gas for its domestic needs.

Yeah, sure. Pretty similar to those excuses for a nuclear program that we heard out of Iran a few years back.

Iranian General In The Running For This Year’s Darwin Award

"I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men."
— Don Corleone, The Godfather

From today's Jerusalem Post:

"The Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria reported on Saturday that a Hezbollah investigation into [an Israeli airstrike in Syria that killed an Iranian general and the Hezb Allah commander in charge of Syria & Iraq] found that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Mohammed Allahdadi kept his cellphone on in a sensitive area targeted by Israeli intelligence…" [emphasis added]

Argentina’s President Accused Of Trading Jewish Blood For Iranian Oil

An Argentine prosecutor claims to have wiretaps proving President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner helped cover up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center – in exchange for discounts on Iranian oil.

Pretty serious charge. The prosecutor better damn well have the goods.

UPDATE (Jan 19/15): The prosecutor is found dead of an apparent suicide, hours before he was to appear before Argentina's parliament.

Fortunately, there's nothing in the least-bit suspicious in all of this.

UPDATE (Jan 21/15): No powder residue found on the hands of the prosecutor who is said to have committed suicide.

UPDATE (Jan 22/15): More than one entrance to site of the apparent suicide, and two were unlocked.

UPDATE (Feb 13/15): President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is charged with covering-up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish center. More here.

Breaking News From 1979

Islamofascist Iran committed to “Death to America”

Birds of a Feather

Surprise, surprise: Chinese Sino-Imperialists arm Iranian Islamofascists with lots and lots of shiny new Dalian riot control trucks. ("Tiananmen Square" brand billy clubs cost extra, apparently.)

Chinese Dalien riot control truck. Scary black truck with a cowcatcher in the front.

(Image from Popular Science.)

She's a beaut, ain't she? I'll bet Chiu Yi is kickin' himself he didn't have one of THESE babies during the KMT election riots of '04.

Cheer up, Chiu. You've still got 2012 to look forward to. Why, in a few years time, you'll be out there crackin' heads with the rest of 'em!

And moving not so far off topic I see that Iran has joined China in their jihad against Google. (Good news indeed, for China's new Google substitute.)

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