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Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, “Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!” Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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One of Trump's greatest legacies will be how he blew up a half-century of western diffidence, restraint, and failure on terrorism. As the era of Islamic terrorism began in the 1970s, western countries (very much including Israel) spun up all kinds of pseudo-sophisticated theories and excuses to avoid carrying out the only successful policy, which is killing terrorists -- as many as you can, whenever you can.

There are entire university departments, think tanks, media outlets, NGOs, foundations, and political parties devoted to promoting self-defeating, enervating fictions about terrorism designed to tie the hands of the West. We just have to live with it, deal with it, accommodate it, accept the barbarism. Terrorists have grievances. It's partly our fault, after all, because reasons. There are no military solutions. If we're nice to the terrorists they will actually help us stabilize the region. The tropes go on forever and they are invented by people who want the west to lose, and who would rather be wrong but appear sophisticated than be right and appear crude.

Trump wants our side to win. The winning approach to terrorism is very simple. Bomb them to smithereens. Kill them off. Decapitate the regimes. Sanction them until they have no more money for jihad. Trump gets it, because unlike so many people in politics, he doesn't care whether Harvard likes him.

Winning is going to generate a real peace dividend for America. Finally dealing with Iran -- the head of the snake -- will enable the US to step away from the Middle East. It will send a message to our adversaries that the big dog is still in charge. And very enjoyably, it will sweep aside decades of dumb elite groupthink about how we have no alternative but to cut deals with terrorists. Thank you President Trump.

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Here's a truth-bomb for you, SIX: The biggest state sponsor of terrorism is the USA.

Israel is one of our henchmen. ISIS was another.

Khamenei is a saint by comparison.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Here's a truth-bomb for you, SIX: The biggest state sponsor of terrorism is the USA.

Israel is one of our henchmen. ISIS was another.

Khamenei is a saint by comparison.

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That's how it's been until now.

I don't see why you think Trump is in any way a continuation of what was.

He single-handedly changed the Republican party from the inside and what is left of the NeoCons is dying off.

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Then why is he sucking Lindsay Graham's dick so hard? Republican neocons aren't limited to the group of people you named.

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And today, the Democratic Party is in its death throes.

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Until the midterms.

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And they've thrown every legal obstacle in front of him they could cook up on top of 6 failed assassination attempts and counting on his life and he's still fearlessly going forward with his plans.

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The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

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And both of those parties have done everything you just said we've done, and installed their puppets all over the world for decades. Installing all of those NGO's all over the world with no oversight or ability for any American citizen to track where any of that money was really going and what it was being used for.

Trump gutted all of those NGOs, and he has been taking out all those US installed terrorist dictators all out one by one.

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OMG! You really believe that?

Ok this is where I quit.



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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Donald Trump and the neocons are wild with joy tonight over the murder of the Ayatollah Khamenei… This is just one more example of Western ignorance about the implications of the Ayatollah’s martyrdom. Let’s start with the fact that the Ayatollah is the one who issued the fatwa 36 years ago declaring that it would be a sin for Iran to build or use a nuclear bomb. So the West thinks that killing the one guy who has been the main obstacle preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is a good idea?

The Shi’a communities across the region took to the streets to protest and mourn the Ayatollah’s passing. In neighboring Baghdad a large crowd of Shi’a are now trying to breach the Green Zone. Iraqi security forces are trying to hold them back. This assassination by the United States and Israel was intended to weaken the Islamic Republic and set the stage for regime change. I think it will have the opposite effect, i.e., strengthen support for the government and bolster the status of hardliners who have zero inclination to compromise with the West.

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Doris Day
Red China [3]
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Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Studebaker
television
North Korea [12]
South Korea
Marilyn Monroe

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Sugar Ray
Panmunjom
Brando
The King and I
and The Catcher in the Rye

Eisenhower
vaccine [23]
England's got a new queen
Marciano
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Santayana
goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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Malenkov
Nasser
and Prokofiev
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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock
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Sputnik
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It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone, it will still burn on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning

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111 - Ayatollah's in Iran (Not no mo, there ain't!)

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Peter Hanseler – Thoughts in Dubai

Peter Hanseler is in Dubai with his family. A sober analysis of a vacation that is no longer a vacation.

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MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS: Joining me now is His Royal Highness, the exiled former Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, live from an undisclosed location this morning. Your Highness, thank you very much for being here. Wow — we are at this day. We have been together many times in the last several years talking about this.

Your reaction to Khamenei's death and this U.S.-Israeli strike against Iran.

REZA PAHLAVI — FORMER CROWN PRINCE OF IRAN: There’s no question that this is the game-changer we’ve been waiting for all this time.

The jubilation of Iranians at home and abroad shows how much people were hoping for this moment, and I join millions of Iranians in thanking President Trump for taking this into action and delivering on his promise.

We are so elated by the fact that now we have the beginning of the very end of the regime, because at least we are going to see more and more decimation of this regime, which can only equal the playing field so that the Iranian people can come back to the streets and claim their country back from this hated regime.

And that is exactly what President Trump has been telling and messaging to the Iranian people: Take back your country.

MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS: How can they do that, sir?

REZA PAHLAVI — FORMER CROWN PRINCE OF IRAN: Well, Maria, this is the time now for a very strong, stable transition.

I am leading this transition. I have the support of millions of Iranian people. I have people inside the country who are joining and broadening the coalition of forces that will be at play in filling the vacuum.

The military will side with us, and we have a plan of action and a transition plan.

As a matter of fact, I’m glad to hear what Senator Fetterman was saying. It’s music to my ears.

I always thought that this should be a bipartisan issue when it comes to America’s national security interests, as well as business opportunities in the future.

We, as Iranians, look at America as our best partner in reconstructing ourselves. You know, the president says MAGA — we say MIGA, Make Iran Great Again.

In that sense, a different Iran that will now be at peace with the region, work with our neighbors, and bring an element of stability will be good for American national security.

But most importantly, it will be an opportunity to be successful in terms of economic growth and what have you, just by the change that we hope to bring to the table — probably over one trillion dollars’ worth of impact and revenue to the American economy, just by Iran’s market being open to America and how much we stand to benefit from billions of dollars willing to be invested into Iran.

All that was needed was for this regime to no longer be there, and I think that is something that should be important to America and Iran both.

MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS: So where does this transition leave the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, where leadership there is still vowing revenge?

How does this transitional government look when you have Persians, Shia, Sunni — a secular government?

What do you envision?

REZA PAHLAVI — FORMER CROWN PRINCE OF IRAN: Well, Maria, obviously I think this campaign this time is not just to set back the Iranian nuclear program or anything like that.

This is full decapitation of the regime, and ultimately what will expedite its total collapse.

The Iranian people have suffered too much to settle for anything less than that.

But as soon as the transition plan is put into gear, we want to make sure that we address these issues immediately — to make sure that we have the ability to have a stable process that leads ultimately to a democratic outcome, so the Iranian people get to choose their future government and system.

What we need to do now is to make sure that we bring all the elements that can help that process into place.

I was talking earlier today with Senator Lindsey Graham, who’s a good friend of Iran. In fact, people now call him lovingly “Uncle Lindsey” for his position.

He talked to me earlier, saying that he would like to try to organize a bipartisan group at the Senate level for us to present that plan, so both the administration and Congress will understand better what we have in mind and get more into the details.

You and I have talked about the IPP project — the Iran Prosperity Project — before, and the first 100 days are critically important in terms of how we do that for the initial transition.

I’ve been working with a number of Iranians from across the spectrum who are united in this purpose.

We have the most diverse coalition of people dedicated to that process, representing different parts of the country, including religious minorities and ethnic groups, all aligned in this national project that we have.

So I feel extremely confident that we can get this into place and make sure that we fill the vacuum, and that — unlike other scenarios that did not pan out so well, for example post–Saddam Hussein de-Ba’athification — the Iranian scenario is very different.

It’s different than Venezuela.

We do have an absolutely ironclad plan in mind.

Of course, what’s critical is that the more this regime is totally weakened and collapses, whatever remains behind that is not part of the solution is not incorporated into our transition.

The civilian bureaucracy, as well as the military and security forces, will be incorporated appropriately.

MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS: OK. We’ll be watching all of that. How long would you expect your transitional leadership to be?

REZA PAHLAVI — FORMER CROWN PRINCE OF IRAN: Well, Maria, to be realistic, from the time that we start until the day we can have the final referendum, I anticipate a period that should not be longer than a couple of years at most.

What’s critical is the first 100 days — to immediately stabilize the country and the Iranian economic situation, and to ensure that the apparatus of government remains as intact as possible so the functioning of the country continues to be in place while we bring all the components together.

At the very end, the people will have a choice, and various plans will be proposed in the Constitutional Assembly, which is the entity that will, of course, debate all these issues.

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