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2026-03-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump promises to hit Iran 'with a force that has never been seen before' as dozens of US military bases are targeted after Iran launches 'the most ferocious offensive operation in HISTORY'
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Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-01 06:42|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1837 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

1 40 Iranian commanders eliminated in opening strikes

IDF: Roaring Lion prevented Iran from building 1,500 ballistic missiles
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-03-01 07:04||   2026-03-01 07:04|| Front Page Top

2 Unfortunately, Iran had a lot of missile sites we didn't hit yesterday. Perhaps they were successfully camouflaged. Iran is a very big country with a lot of terrain that is good for hiding stuff.
Posted by Lord Garth 2026-03-01 10:10||   2026-03-01 10:10|| Front Page Top

3 Another reef built:
Brandon Weichert
@WeTheBrandon
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12h
🚨🚨BREAKING: US Navy allegedly sinks one of Iran's diesel-electric subs which had deployed to sink the USS Abraham Lincoln
Posted by Frank G 2026-03-01 10:13||   2026-03-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Frank G 2026-03-01 10:15||   2026-03-01 10:15|| Front Page Top

5 Feel good video of the day!
Posted by MegaByses 2026-03-01 10:27||   2026-03-01 10:27|| Front Page Top

6 Instant laughter!
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-03-01 10:40||   2026-03-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

7 What a grand Jiffy Pop moment. If you haven't shared that with the grand kids, now is the time.
Posted by Woodrow 2026-03-01 10:51||   2026-03-01 10:51|| Front Page Top

8 The American sub crew has done something that hasn’t been done in a while. Officially, anyway.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-03-01 10:57||   2026-03-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

9 AI-generated, but entertaining.
Posted by European Conservative 2026-03-01 13:13||   2026-03-01 13:13|| Front Page Top

10 A very big bang!
video at X link
A massive explosion near #Tehran, the Iranian capital, right now, with a thick cloud of smoke rising into the sky.
This explosion is considered the second most powerful after nuclear explosions, and it is believed to have targeted an underground nuclear weapons depot where Iranian ballistic missiles were stored.
The X link
Posted by 3dc 2026-03-01 13:32||   2026-03-01 13:32|| Front Page Top

11 And this money detail
X link
Text:
The 118-year cycle closed this morning.

It began in 1908 when William Knox D'Arcy struck oil in southwest Persia.
Exclusive extraction rights. Sixteen percent royalty—no Iranian permitted to audit the books.
Anglo-Persian Oil Company born.
Churchill called it "a prize from fairy land beyond our wildest dreams."

The British government took 51% controlling stake in 1914.
The Royal Navy ran on it.
Britain's 20th century standard of living was subsidized by Iranian wealth while Iranian workers lived without running water.

When Mossadegh nationalized in 1951, the system corrected.
Operation Ajax installed the Shah.

The MB —now designated T3rr0r1st organization—provided the street chaos then as they have in every managed conflict since.

When the Shah outlived his utility, the Ayatollahs inherited the franchise.

Same architecture.

Different management.

The mechanism has been consistent:
City of London sets global oil prices, insures shipments, banks sovereign wealth, launders for the chaos mafias.

Managed conflict between Israel and Arab states, Sunni and Shia, keeps the extraction flowing.

The wars were never independent events.

They were maintenance payments on the architecture.

Until today.

Trump secured $2 trillion in Gulf sovereign wealth investments—capital that sat in City of London banks now committed to American manufacturing, energy, and AI infrastructure.

The Board of Peace.
Sisi at the table.
Qatar and Turkey involved despite Netanyahu's objections.

This isn't bilateral.
It's architectural.

Treasury Secretary Bessent stated plainly in January: 50% of his job is national security.

The war was always financial.
The kinetic phase settles the account.

The strikes hit precisely—IRGC command, Supreme Leader—not facilities, not population, not the state apparatus.

This preserves the Geneva framework that was already authorized.

Leaves the structure intact for the pragmatist pivot.

JD Vance told the Washington Post Friday: "There is no chance this becomes a forever war." Absolute.

Not hedging.
Marine veteran who built his career opposing forever wars.

The Venezuela template: remove the obstacle, preserve the institution, deal with the remaining government immediately.

"Take over your government. It will be yours to take."
- @POTUS


Not regime change.

Not occupation.

Removing the final veto player who blocked both the old extraction system and the new construction system.

The Barrack-Maliki formation unpauses now.

The GCC absorbed missiles without breaking stride because they were already on the other side of this transition.

The Strait of Hormuz threat evaporates when the actor threatening it is removed.

The $2T flows. The reconstruction begins.

They'll call it Iraq 2003.

They'll scream regime change.

They'll never mention 1908 because that story requires admitting who built the house that just got foreclosed.

The reset isn't coming.

The reset happened while they were watching the explosions.

Historical times.

Credit to @BarbaraMBoyd
via @PrometheanActn
for insights and how this ties into what we, specifically are monitoring on this account.
Posted by 3dc 2026-03-01 13:41||   2026-03-01 13:41|| Front Page Top

12 Thanks 3dc. Very informative and comports with the lengthy tweet posted above. Amazing what can be done when there are actual patriots in charge.
Posted by Remoteman 2026-03-01 14:10||   2026-03-01 14:10|| Front Page Top

13 Iran is a very big country with a lot of terrain that is good for hiding stuff.

Why can't they be like Falestinians and put all their rocket launchers in schools and hospitals?😪
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-03-01 15:03||   2026-03-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

14 "Why can't they be like Falestinians " Iran has mountains and extensive desert wastelands not available in Gaza.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2026-03-01 15:09||   2026-03-01 15:09|| Front Page Top

15 We hacked Iranian TV and DJT made a special guest appearance:

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/2028199803633455232
Posted by Matt 2026-03-01 15:21||   2026-03-01 15:21|| Front Page Top

16 Matt wrap in "less than sign> a "href='your link' > text "less than sign slash a>
Posted by 3dc 2026-03-01 15:42||   2026-03-01 15:42|| Front Page Top

17 Anguper, joke.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-03-01 17:56||   2026-03-01 17:56|| Front Page Top

18 Locals enjoying fireworks.
Posted by Procopius2k 2026-03-01 18:13||   2026-03-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

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