Iran

Welcome to the Precious Metals Bug Forums

Welcome to the PMBug forums - a watering hole for folks interested in gold, silver, precious metals, sound money, investing, market and economic news, central bank monetary policies, politics and more.

Why not register an account and join the discussions? When you register an account and log in, you may enjoy additional benefits including no Google ads, market data/charts, access to trade/barter with the community and much more. Registering an account is free - you have nothing to lose!

60 Minutes

Reza Pahlavi on the future of Iran​

Mar 1, 2026
Prince Reza Pahlavi, a leader of the opposition to the Islamic Republic, discusses whether regime change is coming, who leads a transition, and nuclear weapons.


13:14
 
60 Minutes

Reza Pahlavi on the future of Iran​

Mar 1, 2026
Prince Reza Pahlavi, a leader of the opposition to the Islamic Republic, discusses whether regime change is coming, who leads a transition, and nuclear weapons.


13:14

He needs assassination now, we can't have scum taking over if we are successful in destroying the Mullahs.
 
Thermobaric bombs suck out all the oxygen...



In case you get fooled....
 


GEN. DAN CAINE SPITTING TRUTH...

No fluff. No weak-kneed hand-wringing from the pearl-clutching cowards in D.C. who still think “restraint” means letting savages build nukes while they chant “Death to America.”

Gen. Dan Caine stepped to the podium and laid it out raw, lethal, and unapologetic...

“Across every domain..:land, air, sea, cyber...the U.S. joint force delivered synchronized, layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny, and DESTROY Iran’s ability to conduct and sustain combat operations.”

Read that again. Slowly.

This isn’t some surgical pinprick.

This is total domain dominance...the kind that turns the Islamic Republic’s wet dream of regional hegemony into smoking craters and dead command nodes.

Air defenses shredded before breakfast.

Missile stockpiles halved and the factories that were churning out hundreds more per month?

Vaporized.

Navy? Sunk or hiding like rats in the shallows.

Cyber? Their grids are blinking out while their mullahs scream into the void.

Land forces? Watching their supply lines evaporate under precision munitions that don’t miss.

Operation Epic Fury.

Trump greenlit it with six words that should be etched on every enemy’s tombstone:

“Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck. Close.”

And the machine moved.

Over a hundred aircraft surging at dawn, Israeli triggers, American steel, joint force executing like the most lethal, precise war machine humanity has ever forged.

Local air superiority locked in.

Hundreds of targets hit...Revolutionary Guard rat nests, ballistic missile sites, naval assets...all while the regime’s Supreme Leader got the dirt nap he earned.

Three American heroes already paid the butcher’s bill in Kuwait.

More will.

That’s war.

That’s the price of being the apex predator on this planet.

This isn’t “endless.”

This isn’t Iraq 2.0.

This is decisive, devastating, final...the opposite of the forever-war grift the neocons and globalists peddled for decades.

Pete Hegseth called it the most lethal air campaign in history. Caine just proved it with cold, clinical precision.

To the cockroaches still crawling in Tehran:

your time is measured in days, not decades.

Your proxies are next.

Your “axis of resistance” is becoming an axis of graves.

You poked the sleeping giant one too many times, and now the giant is wide awake, armed to the teeth, and done playing nice.

To our warriors in the fight...You are the sharp end of the spear that keeps the wolves at bay.

To the rest of the world watching:

this is what peace through overwhelming, merciless strength looks like.

No apologies.

No negotiations with evil.

No mercy for those who would drag civilization back to the 7th century.

Gen. Caine didn’t just brief the press.
He pronounced sentence.

And the sentence is death to the Iranian regime’s war machine.

Steel rain. No mercy.
 


GEN. DAN CAINE SPITTING TRUTH...

No fluff. No weak-kneed hand-wringing from the pearl-clutching cowards in D.C. who still think “restraint” means letting savages build nukes while they chant “Death to America.”

Gen. Dan Caine stepped to the podium and laid it out raw, lethal, and unapologetic...

“Across every domain..:land, air, sea, cyber...the U.S. joint force delivered synchronized, layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny, and DESTROY Iran’s ability to conduct and sustain combat operations.”

Read that again. Slowly.

This isn’t some surgical pinprick.

This is total domain dominance...the kind that turns the Islamic Republic’s wet dream of regional hegemony into smoking craters and dead command nodes.

Air defenses shredded before breakfast.

Missile stockpiles halved and the factories that were churning out hundreds more per month?

Vaporized.

Navy? Sunk or hiding like rats in the shallows.

Cyber? Their grids are blinking out while their mullahs scream into the void.

Land forces? Watching their supply lines evaporate under precision munitions that don’t miss.

Operation Epic Fury.

Trump greenlit it with six words that should be etched on every enemy’s tombstone:

“Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck. Close.”

And the machine moved.

Over a hundred aircraft surging at dawn, Israeli triggers, American steel, joint force executing like the most lethal, precise war machine humanity has ever forged.

Local air superiority locked in.

Hundreds of targets hit...Revolutionary Guard rat nests, ballistic missile sites, naval assets...all while the regime’s Supreme Leader got the dirt nap he earned.

Three American heroes already paid the butcher’s bill in Kuwait.

More will.

That’s war.

That’s the price of being the apex predator on this planet.

This isn’t “endless.”

This isn’t Iraq 2.0.

This is decisive, devastating, final...the opposite of the forever-war grift the neocons and globalists peddled for decades.

Pete Hegseth called it the most lethal air campaign in history. Caine just proved it with cold, clinical precision.

To the cockroaches still crawling in Tehran:

your time is measured in days, not decades.

Your proxies are next.

Your “axis of resistance” is becoming an axis of graves.

You poked the sleeping giant one too many times, and now the giant is wide awake, armed to the teeth, and done playing nice.

To our warriors in the fight...You are the sharp end of the spear that keeps the wolves at bay.

To the rest of the world watching:

this is what peace through overwhelming, merciless strength looks like.

No apologies.

No negotiations with evil.

No mercy for those who would drag civilization back to the 7th century.

Gen. Caine didn’t just brief the press.
He pronounced sentence.

And the sentence is death to the Iranian regime’s war machine.

Steel rain. No mercy.

In the mean time, Kuwait shoots down 3 F-15's...
 
He needs assassination now, we can't have scum taking over if we are successful in destroying the Mullahs.
I haven't watched 60 minutes in years but I watched this entire segment. When asked what his stance would be he listed 3 things that struck a cord with me...
1) Peace with Israel
2) Democracy
3) Dismantle nuclear program

Why do you think he should be assasinated?
Who do you think should run the country?
 
He thinks he is royalty, and his dad DID NOT practice democracy....
Israel is a welfare state bleeding Americans dry...
Iran was sneaking into nuke weapons back then too.
Not fucking us, we need to leave.
 

Israel better hope the US can take out all the missile bunkers before Israel runs out of patriots.
If Iran and Russia and China were smart they would develop a fake missile that is cheap that they can just lob thousands of them and burn up the defense systems.
I do think if Iran gets too many missiles through Israel will just start launching nukes.

Support for this war in the US is very very low. Lots of people across all age groups asking why we are there and why we are always supporting Israel?

One question I have is , if we are going after terrorist states when are we going to go after Saudi Arabia? They did supply 17 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11
 


These images tell you everything the Pentagon briefings will not. What you are looking at is an Iranian ballistic reentry vehicle escorted by a swarm of penetration aids — decoys engineered to simultaneously exhaust and blind every layer of the defensive stack: Patriot in the terminal phase, THAAD in the upper atmosphere, Arrow 3 in space.

This is a purpose-built solution to a specific problem — and the problem Iran was solving was the entire architecture Washington spent hundreds of billions constructing and sold the world the lie that these systems are impenetrable. capacity was already dangerously low after last June, and interceptors are being consumed faster than they can be manufactured — penetration aids don’t need to defeat the shield, they only need to empty it. The weapons “the world has never seen” were not a boast. They were a technical briefing delivered at reentry velocity. Stay tuned for what comes next.

Carrier killers may well be coming at the next phase.
 
Knowing what we do about Obama now...



Flashback, August 2015.
Barack Obama after the Iran nuclear deal:
“Iran will gain access to $56B. Our best analysts expect it to improve the economy and benefit the Iranian people.”

That money fueled Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and Iran’s campaign to destroy Israel.
Not schools. Not hospitals. Terror.

This is what “strategic optimism” bought the world. Good thing Trump was elected.
 
Last edited:


Mainstream media ABC News Los Angeles forced to admit those who were against Donald Trump before the Iran strike are now praising Trump

“Here in Southern California, hundreds of Iranian Americans rallied and celebrated the deaths of Iran's supreme leader. Some who even said they were opposed to President Trump before are now praising his military action.”

“Massive crowd gathered outside the federal building in Westwood. They waved Iranian flags along with the American and the Israel flags. There were messages thanking President Donald Trump”

The tides are changing
 
Back
Top Bottom