Iran War?

[Tonitrus]

I have definitely encountered a few nutty/religious folks (pretty evenly spread between enlisted, officers/commanders, and a couple chaplains...especially Army ones) in the military that have blown over the religious lines.  But also the opposite...some of the most hippie, make-their-own-kombucha types you could imagine.

When I worked in the UK with mostly British colleagues...there was no such taboo, almost none at all.  One dude I worked with was quite the Anglican fundamentalist, something I had thought was a contradiction in terms. 

Edit: I should caveat though...I mostly lived in the military intel world, which felt pretty insular from most of the rest of the military, and perhaps much more sane.  

[Jacob]

I heard the regime was spreading among the soldiers that this war would somehow help Jesus return, I don't know if that is true but...you can just read anything in Revelations can't you?

Sounding suspiciously like something the harlot would say

Trump is the whore of Babylon.

[Legbiter]

Mojtaba Khamenei, the hardline 56-year-old son of Iran's late dictator and a close ally of the Revolutionary Guards, has reportedly been named Supreme Leader. He was recently injured and will likely continue to be a target of Israeli assassination attempts

https://x.com/ksadjadpour/status/2028937491151990939



Chip off the old block. Anybody want to bet how long until..?

[PJL]

If that happens, the exiled Iranians wishing the monarchy to return to rule will get their way, after a fashion. It'll just be a different dynasty.

[The Minsky Moment]

Half life of an Iranian mullah now is somewhere between a fruit fly and a Russian dissident within 10 feet of an 8th floor window.

[crazy canuck]

If that happens, the exiled Iranians wishing the monarchy to return to rule will get their way, after a fashion. It'll just be a different dynasty.

The diaspora will take anyone over the Mullahs.   

[mongers]

Thanks for nothing moron*







* BSer in chief, not you guys

[Sophie Scholl]

I miss when millenarian cults just made good furniture, drank kool-aid, or danced. 

[Valmy]

If that happens, the exiled Iranians wishing the monarchy to return to rule will get their way, after a fashion. It'll just be a different dynasty.

The diaspora will take anyone over the Mullahs.   

What if the country collapses into Balkanized violence? Things can always get worse.

[Tonitrus]

CIA Arms Iran's Kurds For Regime Change — Why Is The Opposition Against Them?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/guneyyildiz/2026/03/03/cia-arms-irans-kurds-for-regime-change---why-is-the-opposition-against-them/

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces inside Iran. President Trump called Kurdish leaders personally over the weekend — and on Tuesday spoke directly with Mustafa Hijri, president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, whose camps the IRGC had just struck with drones. Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House with Kurdish uprising numbers already mapped. Weapons have reportedly been smuggled into western Iran since last year's twelve-day war. Israeli strikes are targeting Iranian military outposts along the Iraq border to clear a path for ground operations.

Meanwhile, Iran's Ali Larijani — steering what remains of a state whose command structure has been decapitated three times in nine months — threatened "secessionist groups" with severe consequences.

And the man Washington's allies are grooming as the alternative? Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi denounced the Kurdish coalition as separatist.

I mean, setting up and then betraying the Kurds is just about a habitual fetish for our leadership at this point, isn't it?

[HisMajestyBOB]

At this point if the Kurds trust us it's on them.

[DGuller]

It doesn't make sense for Trump to betray the Kurds, no one would trust him again if he were to do so.

[crazy canuck]

If that happens, the exiled Iranians wishing the monarchy to return to rule will get their way, after a fashion. It'll just be a different dynasty.

The diaspora will take anyone over the Mullahs.   

What if the country collapses into Balkanized violence? Things can always get worse.

As noted in my previous post.

[HVC]

It doesn't make sense for Trump to betray the Kurds, no one would trust him again if he were to do so.

Sarcasm?

[DGuller]

It doesn't make sense for Trump to betray the Kurds, no one would trust him again if he were to do so.

Sarcasm?

I would never engage in sarcasm.