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[Lupo]

Only know one Iranian, Hamid, owns The Boatyard in Bridgnorth and makes a damn fine burger. Really nice guy too

 

[Derby Wolf]

Only know one Iranian, Hamid, owns The Boatyard in Bridgnorth and makes a damp fine burger. Really nice guy too

Soggy burger bun? You're alright.

 

[Lupo]

Soggy burger bun? You're alright.

Bloody sausage fingers again

 

[sycophantia]

Are you saying Iran 'started' the conflict with the US? You might want to check your history, if so.

I'd say kidnapping 66 civil servants in 1979 is pretty warlike.

 

[sycophantia]

I'd say kidnapping 66 civil servants in 1979 is pretty warlike.

BTW, no way am I condoning Trumps actions.
Not only was it illegal, it also was mental with no plans, no exit stategy or thoughts about the repercussions.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Poor JD has been feeling left out on the nutter stakes so has said the quiet bit out loud.

JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs

Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects

www.theguardian.com

 

[Alan]

Jesus Christ, to think my brother in law nearly stayed in the Navy. I’m so glad he doesn’t have to take orders from these.

It was hard enough knowing he’d lead a sub through the Suez during peacetime.

 

[Dire Wolf]

I'd say kidnapping 66 civil servants in 1979 is pretty warlike.

I think you need to read about what the CIA/USA/UK did in 1953. THAT was what started Iran on the path to where it is now. US intervention is ALWAYS the start of bad things. If you know why those hostages were taken Iran is not the bad guy who initiated things.

Iran had a perfectly fine social democracy with a popular, elected government who decided that they wanted to take back control of their own oil. Oil companies (BP I'm looking at you) decided they didn’t like Iran having control of their own oil, they wanted to keep the massive profits they were making and so the CIA manufactured unrest and overthrew the elected government and installed the vicious Shah who dutifully allowed the oil profits to keep on flowing.

After the Islamic revolution ousted the Shah, the US spirited him away along with hundreds of millions of dollars that Iranians thought should be returned. Which was where the hostages come in. Everything going on in Iran now can have a line drawn straight back to US intervention and oil companies profits.