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Comments on: Why Regime Change in Iran Is Unlikely https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/ No Bull, no Fluff, No Smudges Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sherry https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692576 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:36:21 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692576 In reply to Keenan Hreib.

Thank You Keenan! Excellent comment!

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By: Sherry https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692575 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:32:38 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692575 In reply to Pogo.

LOL! Dear Pogo. . . thanks for the belly laugh! I really, really needed that! The “Fart Wars” line is priceless!

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By: Skibum https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692553 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:08:50 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692553 In reply to Keenan Hreib.

Well said!

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By: Skibum https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692552 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:07:22 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692552 In reply to Al.

Pure revisionist history, as if Al has inhaled a few too many tokes from his ganga while hugging his lovely assault rifle that he cherishes more than life itself.

The ONLY foreign military force that ever sent a mass invasion onto the shores of America were the Brits, and was the reason why our forefathers thought it necessary to make sure the U.S. Constitution included language so that Americans had the right to possess muskets to protect themselves in the event that the Brits came ashore a second time. Newsflash!!! Those pesky Brits have given up trying to keep our nation under their king’s control.

But go ahead and fantasize some more about your preferred version of American history. Maybe next about all those African negros who threw down all that they owned, to run en masse to ships travelling across the Atlantic just to have the opportunity to better themselves in “the new land” where they could learn new skills, gratitude emanating from their pores toward their new southern owners. How about that one?

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By: Keenan Hreib https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692510 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:19:55 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692510 When poll #s are down, it is time to bomb countries that are Black and Brown.
It’s difficult to know where to start. It is also very difficult to wrap ones head around a Middle East policy soley run by Israel.
There have been very few guardrails in the last 50 years, but in the last year there are decidedly none.
Iran attacked no one. Iran with the help of Oman was in negotiations with the U.S. President Donald Trump would have you believe that Iran walked away from negotiations. Negotiations that would be unnecessary given the fact that Iran was bombed by Israel and the U.S. in June, and by their accounts the nuclear bases were destroyed. If destroyed why the attack now? WHY? Regime change in the behest of the most violent regime in the Middle East… ISRAEL. Regime change that has been vehemently pushed for decades by Israel in hopes of a “GREATER ISRAEL” expantionism in the Middle East.
Iran and it’s “So called nuclear program” has been used as a smokescreen to do the bidding of Israel’s expansionist hopes.

FACTS raeMATTER:
Henry Kissenger said a couple of very telling things:
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”
” It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
We have bombed Iran for two reasons: Oil and Israel. Greed and tenuous Bible passages that have no bearing on the modern world.
This is very important so listen carefully. There has been the bloodiest, brazen Genocide administered in Gaza for the past two and a half years. An “open air Holocaust on a territory you already own and occupy. Close to 200,000 people surely are dead above and below ground in Gaza. As the killing continues to this moment as tens of thousands of men, women,and mostly children are targeted. Lest we forget a “FAKE” ceasefire since October 2025 has been broken more than 1,000 times. This is ongoing.
now we find ourselves attacking Iran at the behest of Israel, while Iran was ready to negotiate. Israel under no circumstances wants that. They want the Middle East. Period. They are willing to put a target on America’s back, and our administration is willing to tear off it’s own nose to spite our own country.
Let me make this perfectly clear. The United States of America and especially Israel are the single biggest threat to the safety and stability of not just the Middle East, but the world at large.
We have spent the better part of 80 years demonizing the Middle East, while kicking 1 million Palestinians of their land in the first”NAKBA”.
Israel laughs in the worlds face while they call it the “BIRTH OF ISRAEL”. 19 years later the 1967 occupation of the Gaza strip begins. The subjugation of people in their own land as the U.S. floods money into a country that with our help has become the strongest military bully in the Middle East.
This is not in America’s interest at all. It creates and has created the perfect conditions for terrorist groups to birth themselves out of the racist, abusive subjugation raining down on Arabs from a state that was subject to a Holocaust of their own in World War II.
Senseless. Given a state in 48? How it was done was the problem, as well as the fact that Israel is never satisfied. Israel has consistently wanted more and more and more.
Now we arrive here at Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu has wantrd this since 1996. A doctrine called “CLEAN BREAK” by Benjamin Netanyahu. A mad mans document which was and is a blueprint for non stop war. The man is a psychopath. This is and always will be about Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. This aligns with the hegemony that his American counterparts want in the world.
The machiavellianism we see in Donald Trump works seamlessly for Netanyahu. This has been a long standing effort for the CIA as well. We have gone to war in LIBYA, SUDAN,IRAQ,YEMEN, and IRAN for this extremist delusional Israeli leader.
What have we gotten out of it? Millions dead. Trillions of dollars of loss and chaos from Libya to Iran because of this insane ZIONISM.
To say Trump is a liar is a little bit funny, because America knows that everything that comes out of this mans mouth is a lie.
Trump is a puppet of the CIA, Miriam Adelson, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
500 civilians were killed just today in Iran. A girls school was bombed a couple of days ago killing 85. Now a regional war across the Middle East is blooming as we speak.
Impossible to formulate into words. TRUMP HAS MADE OUR COUNTRY A DIVIDED DUMPSTER FIRE, AND NOW WE SEEM HELL BENT ON ONCE AGAIN SPREADING THE WEALTH TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.

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By: The dude https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692477 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:14:53 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692477 How many years and trillions did we waste in Iraq and Afghanistan when we tried regime change there? Libya? Syria?

What has been the net result? How many regimes have actually “changed” and continue to be “changed” after we left?

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By: Ray W. https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692476 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:54:24 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692476 This from Reuters:

Kuwait shot down three American military jets; all crew were recovered.

Iran struck a British air base on Cyprus with missiles.

Iran struck multiple U.S. bases in multiple Arab nations with missiles and drones.

Iran struck Israel with missiles and drones.

Hezbollah struck Israel with missiles.

Israel struck Lebanon with missiles in retaliation.

Israel has listed Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassan, a “target for elimination.”

Three crude oil tankers have been struck; several hundred more, per tracking data, have dropped anchor.

Commercial aviation into and out of the region has ceased.

After a drone strike, Saudi officials shut down the country’s largest refinery.

Qatar has ceased natural gas liquefaction production for export.

President Trump has repeatedly called upon the Iranian people to rise up and seize power from Iran’s clerics.

Per the reporter, a 52-year-old teacher calling from Tabriz said: “They are killing children. They are attacking hospitals. Is this the type of democracy Trump wants to bring us? Innocents were first killed by the regime and now by Israel and the United States.”

A U.S. government spokesperson says the time may come when talks with Iranian leaders will begin, but the military operation is not yet over.

Iranian leaders say they do not intend to talk. One Iranian leader called to tell the reporter that Iran was defending itself against aggressors and would continue to do so.

European leaders, per the reporter, say that Trump’s initial decision to go to war “fell short of the legal threshold of responding to an imminent threat”, but now that it has come to pass, Europe will help to restrict Iran’s capacity to retaliate.

Make of this what you will.

Me?

Who knows the potential spread or containment of violence under the name of “epic fury”? Who knows the time boundaries? I don’t. All I know is that retribution, that vengeance, seldom works, that retaliation begets retaliation, that every innocent killed risks converting others to fanaticism. What can man do against such reckless hate?

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By: .PaulT https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692462 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:08:45 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692462 Trump doesn’t have a plan. In fact he doesn’t have a clue about what should follow the madness of his war.
He bumbles about IRGC ‘soldiers’ handing their weapons to the ‘citizens’ they and their militia allies have been terrorizing and killing.
Then he switches to citing post Maduro-grab Venezuela as the perfect solution for governing Iran, use the existing, headless, government to run the country under Trump’s direction.
Meanwhile Hegseth is calling on God to help the US military demolish a country run by clerics who are no doubt calling on God to protect Iran.
Is it the same God? Or are we back to the days of multiple Gods pitted against each other, jostling for power without thought of the consequences.

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By: ED https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692457 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:43:19 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692457 You liberal hacks never cease to thrill and amaze with your prose.

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By: Al https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692451 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:42:06 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692451 Nice article as it points out 2 very good facts.

1) as Americans nothing is impossible, it may be hard and take time but impossible no.

2) this why we own guns in this country. The author referenced lack of arms and bare hands as a factor. This is why the left wants to remove guns from American homes. Also remember that thru history unarmed peasants have brought down some of the mightiest rulers.

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By: Jim https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692442 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:19:56 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692442 I hope Donald Heflin is wrong about how this ends. Unfortunately, I think he’s most likely correct. We’re going to bomb Iran and most likely destroy most of their missile capability. We’ll kill a lot of their leadership. They will be severely degraded when it’s over. What will not happen is that the Revolutionary Guard and other military units will be destroyed or degraded. There will be thousands of them left with plenty of small arms and tanks, etc. to put down any attempted revolt by the people. And the people may not have any appetite for additional bloodshed after the recent attempt where so many died. Not to mention they won’t have any faith in the USA coming to their assistance. If they have doubt, just look at Venezuela.
So, in the end, Iran will be severely damaged and it’s leadership will hate us even more than they do. They’ll still be in charge. And, I expect, they will either begin planning or carry out something already planned that will be a major attack on US assets or the homeland.
The worst thing about this is that whatever this administration says was accomplished can not believed. Trump said we “obliterated” the Iranian nuclear capability in July 2024. Now, one of the “reasons” given for these actions is than Iran was “one week from having a nuclear bomb”. Which is true? We’ll never know.
And I hope everyone is taking note of the number of allies we once had who are sitting this one out. Our ally in this is Israel alone. Pay attention to that. It’s a sign of what’s coming in our future.

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By: Pogo https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692433 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:48:11 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692433 @Please, wait for an usher to assist you

Act I: The Storm

Act II: Return of the Shah

Act III: The Shah agrees to be acquired by the Trump Group
The End of Fat Ali, by Bigly Small
Harry Mudd Publishing, an imprint of Mar-a-Lardo Press
ISBN BR549

Coming in 2028: Fart Wars — Trump Pulls His Own Finger

Extra credit for AP trolls, and other bougie toffs
https://www.bing.com/search?q=gilgamesh

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By: Deirdre https://flaglerlive.com/iran-strikes/#comment-3692430 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:02:12 +0000 https://flaglerlive.com/?p=228651#comment-3692430 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and the UAE have issued a joint declaration, asserting their rights to respond to any aggression from Iran.

Didn’t Trump make a lot of money from all of those countries personally?
Didn’t they shower him with gifts and buy his cryptocurrency?

I wonder if that had anything to do with Trump’s decision to bomb Iran. They all knew Iran would bomb them if Trump started things, great excuse, could it be that was the point?

Always about the money… seems they bought him along with Israel, it’s not like he cares about the people in Iran or anywhere else.
He certainly doesn’t care about the people of America! We’re just his piggy bank.

Also, BTW, release the Epstein files! Don’t stand in the way of midterm elections! Do you think that these little distractions like starting WWIII could also be a factor?

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