An article by Patrick Wintour in The Guardian describes Iranian responses to Trump’s threat to bomb Iran’s power grid unless Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz.
This comment stood out:
One well-known Iranian reformist writer Ahmad Zeidabadi likened what could lie ahead to the post-apocalyptic novel Blindness by José Saramago in which the whole world gradually becomes blind. The normally constrained Zeidabadi described Trump’s attack as “the greatest threat posed against our country or any other country in the world throughout history”.
He said: “If electricity to 90 million people were to stop, homes and streets would be plunged into darkness, the elderly and the disabled would be trapped in residential towers and water, gas, gasoline and diesel would become scarce, followed soon by no food, no hygiene and no transportation.
He went on: “If the people of America or other countries do not stop this savage being, the Middle East will instantly become an unimaginable hell and then a barren and uninhabitable land.” He described Trump as a mad individual who was nonetheless “the main decision-maker of the world’s greatest military power”. The sense that the US is in the grip of a deranged figure is quite common among Iranians.
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Was this Iranian one who was begging the U.S. to intervene and overthrow the Iranian regime? Because this exact scenario is exactly what has been predicted for the last 50 years if the U.S. intervened to overthrow the Iranian regime.
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No, he warned that political adventurism and outside pressure could drag Iran into a destructive war and humanitarian crisis, while still expressing hope that diplomacy might succeed.
His recent comments are consistent with his overall concern about the consequences of war.
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Thank you . That’s good to know.
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Trump likely would pride himself on being the “Cruelist [Cruelust?]-of-all Time.” What a distinction, to be a winner of another race to the bottom.
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Trump is insane.
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The breakdown of checks and balances within Montesquieu’s vision have become starkly obvious.
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It’s not as if the Iranian regime is anything to rave about. The ruling party or government is still a theocratic oligarchy or dictatorship. Iranians are not free to criticize the government or its rulers, it has been reported that thousands were murdered by the government for daring to protest. All that being said, bombing the crap out of Iran will not win the hearts and minds of most of the Iranians. Will the US and Israeli bombings of Iran cause a civil war or an overthrow of the religious fanatics who run the government? It’s anyone’s guess.
Who knows what will be Trump’s next moronic move?!
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The U.S. regime isn’t anything to rave about either. So should some other country regime change us?
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I’m deeply troubled by the thought that my tax dollars and my country’s military are causing so much suffering around the world.
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David,
I agree. Thousands of troops are en route to Iran. Why? Trump could blunder into a world war. He says the whole thing was Pete Hegseth’s idea. Pete loves war. That must be why he changed the name of his department.
I can’t help but think of Trump’s DOGE adventure in 2025 when he insisted he was cutting the budget. The war costs $1 billion a day. Whatever he and Musk cut must be long forgotten.
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The sense that the U.S. is in the grip of a deranged figure is quite common among many Americans also.
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Trump is a TV performer who believes his own press releases.
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My sister-in-law is Iranian and still has family there. She is a US citizen. She and her family all believe tRump is deranged and evil. Of course she is completely frightened for her extended family members, most of whom she has not been able to reach since the “little excursion” began.
This will not end well for the Iranian people, or the US for that matter. At least not for foreseeable future.
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She is right. I hope her family is safe.
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It took the Mongol army two years to wipe out the Khwarazmian Empire, which included Iran. Israel and the USA are competing to be more savage than Ghengis Kahn who has been dead for 800 years.
I wonder if people 800 years from now (assuming there are still people and we haven’t all died from nuclear winter) will read about the two psychotic militaristic savage nations terrorizing the world in 2026?
While us and our buddy Israel are nowhere near 100 million kills (Kahn’s supposed death toll), this article shows the roadmap that could get these combined murderous scumbag warpig states close to Ghengis Kahn numbers. And that does not even factor in the retaliatory numbers.
I hope Ozzy was right and one day the “warpigs will have to crawl and beg mercy for their sins.” And I hope he is also right that on that day “Satan will laugh and spread his wings.” Oh, Lord, yeah!
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