The Poolie Bunker

Whats he trying to achieve, did he never do history at school and the mess The States left countries in although Vietnam and South Korea have recovered but not Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. In a joint mission with Israel they are bombing Iran who in retaliation are firing missiles into the neighbouring Arab countries.What happened to the President of peace, Putin must be laughing at him.

It's forecast the price of Oil to go up.

What a great excuse to smash our energy bills up from July.

Inflation down to 2%.
Ye the fake one.

Yeah that hypocrite Putin, encouraging Pakistan and Afghanistan to get around the table for peace talks, oh the irony.

They’ve just murdered 30’000 of their own citizens. It would be shocking if the West didn’t do something about it.

Its called mowing the lawn. The Iranians build their nuclear programme, the Yanks and the Israelis bomb it smithereeens. The Iranians start again and a year or so later the Yanks and Israelis bomb it to smithereens. And so it goes on. Mowing the lawn is a rather tedious job but it has to be done.

Well the crowds are cheering in the street in Teheran, they’ve heard the news.

Can't allow a regime controlled by religious fanatics to build nuclear weapons. Simple as.

Some day the nukes will be released otherwise it was a waste of time building them.

Maybe, but to let these religious fanatics have the capability of indiscriminately wiping out millions and say it's God's Will would be suicidal.

The last bombings were supposed to have destroyed Irans capabilities of building a nuclear bomb, this one is about regime change, what difference will it make. Another fanatical mullah will step up to take the place of the one who was reported to have been killed, you just can’t bomb Iran into submission, the more you bomb these people the more determined they become to wipe out Israel etc. Look at Gaza, flattened thousands dead but Hamas still fighting on.

So why are they also attacking their Arab neighbours…….you overrate their capabilities, the people of Iran don’t deserve their so called leaders.

The people in Tehran celebrate ..The UK Left declares 40 days of mourning..

What sort of World would we have now if the democrats were in power,Jamie..It must frighten you?

We all know who frightens Jamie ……..

the whole area has always been unstable and will continue to be so. it will kick off again in a few years time and in another region before then.

What reason in your opinion is Trump bombing Iran Sussex, he has already claimed to have shut down their nuclear facilities. The Yanks have left as I said Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan in turmoil, they are good at starting wars but never appear to win any.

Aye they did at one time but they got gubbed in the Denton and Gorton by election of course now claiming about family voting, would they be complaining if Reform had won, I doubt it. Reform have shot themselves in the foot by allowing people from a failed party of 14 years to join them.

Trump said they had destroyed Irans nuclear processing facilities, has Trump been telling porkies again ?

You can bomb the hell out of these people but they will keep bouncing back, very resilient.

Do I have to answer that Snowy, rather obvious is it not ?

They can’t have made a very good job of blowing it to smithereens the first time. it’s not a Lego set, it would take years to reconstruct.

Of course Trump tells porkies, he's a politician. Of course he's going to say he blew facilities to smithereens, what do you expect him to say? And, crucially, even if he did blow a facility to smithereens there's nothing to say it was the only facility developing nukes. Iran's response in targeting near neighbouring countries and Cyprus shows exactly why these mad bastards cannot be allowed nukes, and their response to their own people protesting against them is reason that they should be replaced.
Assad was overturned by Syrian rebels not by the US although they had support from the US, the citizens of Syria wanted regime change. Iranians want regime change. Let's see if they rise up and install a more progressive and tolerant leadership. The prize at the end of the day will be prosperity beyond anything they can have dreamed of.

Bombing all their 'once friendly ' neighbours now, it's not a smart move by Iran,Jamie...What does this tell you about their regime?

Iran and Libya wanted regime as did Afghanistan, look where they are now, Cyprus, do expect Iran not to seek a bit of revenge, if they go down they will take 1000s with them.

It is not hard to understand. The Iranians rebuild the bombed nuclear facilities so they have to be bombed again in a repetitious cycle of bomb build bomb and so on.

Will you be standing as the Labour candidate in the East Teheran seat after this lots over…?
9 consecutive posts in a row is new record, I admire your stamina.

Bit late for that. Israel already has the bomb and Netenyahu is kept in power by religious fanatics. They believe they have a divine ancestral right to the entirety of the biblical "Land of Israel" - from the Nile to the Euphrates (in Iraq).

That's not going to end well either.

Israeli government and Netanyahu are not in the same league as the Ayatollahs.

I suspect Netanyahu will be on his way after this lots over, he’s hanging on while this situation is going on.

Precisely. Israel is a Western style democracy and has very close ties with Europe and the US. Israel has the bomb but would only ever consider using it as retaliation following a premptive strike. Israel is surrounded by hostile states so I dont blame them for having every weapon known to man. Netenyahu is no ones idea of the perfect leader but he would never use a nuke. The same cannot be said of the various death cult merchants who seem to have had power in Iran since the overthrow of the Shah.

Unfortunately not tech savvy to know how link to all the quotes in one reply.

We need to recruit some of the Iranians if they can rebuild a nuclear processing facility in a matter of months.

You act before they do repair their facilities, once they do, it’s too late.
The Iranian people are desperate to be rid of their religious zealots…and they are the ones who matter….any country that has a huge secret police force to keep control and ‘elections’ where there’s only candidate tell you all you need to know.

And it would hardly be a surprise if they had more than 1 nuclear development and enrichment facility.
The way they've lashed out in retaliation at near neighbours is surely indicative of why their nuclear ambitions need to be curtailed, they'd use them at the drop of a hat and claim it was God's Will.

Is there an ulterior motive to bombing Iran, a report by an American journalist pointed out Iran exports 80% of its oil to China, Venezuela as well but not in the same quantities as Iran. The journalist said by stopping oil exports to China it will stifle their economy which is catching up on Americas ?

Hint: I suspect the Americans do not wait until the facilities are complete before they destroy them. Possibly they are only partly built. I hope this helps.

Putin's statement is pure comedy!

Well if one American 'journalist' made this allegation it must be 100% true. No doubt hundreds of journalists would say that the US and Israel are attacking Iran because they have been a destablizing influence in the Middle East for decades, sworn to destroy Israel and are trying to build a nuclear weapon. Fancy only one journalist telling the truth.

I was only quoting a journalist and it makes sense, Trump targeting two oil producers supplying China to destabilise their economy, now with the markets collapsing Trumps billionaire mates will be buying up all the cheap stocks.
Russia has nuclear weapons and have threatened to use them in the war in Ukraine, I haven’t heard that Trump is going to bomb Russia, they are having a destabilising effect on Europe, he more or less has withdrawn any support for Ukraine. A good summary in this link,
https://youtube.com/shorts/t50z94t9cFc? ... QbY7HN1qjy

Russia have had nukes for years and are highly unlikely to launch them given that it would likely lead to a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
The Ayatollahs on the other hand would more likely launch pre-emptively at the US it's allies and certainly Israel.
Trump has struck hoping that the Iranians will do the groundwork leading to the installation of more moderate government that won't see the need to develope nukes.
Disrupting the global oil markets will hurt the US too.

How will a change of regime benefit The States, Iran poses no threat to them, they don’t have the capabilities to strike The States with missiles, Israel yes. Now the Iranians are taking revenge out on its neighbours, how many Americans will be killed in those countries ?
Regime change was attempted in other Arab/Muslim countries and look what has happened there, their economy isn’t exactly booming is it. now we ‘reap’ the benefits and have thousands of refugees seeking asylum in the U.K..
You don’t get my point, The States is one of the biggest oil exporters, they will benefit from rising oil prices where as the public pay for increase in fuel prices.Trump will have dropped a hint to his mates about attacks and they will all be shorting on stocks, the markets are down 100s of points today.

a destabilizing influence. wonder when that area was stable last if it ever has been for that matter.

So an Iran governed in the same way as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or even Saudi wouldn't be an improvement on the current regime? Go and ask the man or woman on the streets of Tehran that question. And of course a less volatile and hostile government would benefit the rest of the region and the world, the present Iranian government are sponsoring global terrorists. Not everything is about your precious stock markets. The markets are a consequence not a driver is the general consensus, it's about a rogue state not your pension fund or investment portfolio.

The Middle East has always been a basket case but for years the Iranians have actively encouraged trouble by arming any tin pot rebel group that has a grudge against anyone, particularly the Israelis. Thus they have sponsored Hezbullah,Hamas, the Houthis and others. With a peaceful Iran, the region would not be perfect but it would be a darned sight better than it is with Iran stirring the shit at ever opportunity.

The well worn lefty trope that everything is about oil and lining the pockets of big business. Risible shite.

Whats it about then, Iran poses no threat to The States, it’s Trump trying to be the big I am, do a bit of research and see how many Americans support his actions, fact is ask the average American to point out on a map of the world where Iran is. I was over there several times, I was asked where I come from, the U.K. oh is that near Australia.

Are you serious, do you work on the principle if it’s far, far away so it won’t hurt you….?
Giving those who run Iran (not the Iranian people) a nuclear capability would be like giving a baby an hand grenade to play with.

Trump is a total nut job . Unstable and unpredictable . Bombing Iran just lights the touch paper . I’m no fan of Iran but we need to stay out of other peoples wars. Most Americans don’t want this . And as regards the Brits, oil prices will soar again and the populations purses will be squeezed even tighter . Trumps tariffs put pressure on the world economy and this idiots war mongering will add to it . Starmer needs to grow a pair and stop being the nut jobs puppet

Starmer hasn’t got a pair to grow…..turns out Canada, Australia (both labour governments), France and Germany are backing Trumps action….

Starmer in charge is like the prefects running the school and quicly turning into Lord of the Flies.

Its interesting that the well resourced military in the region in Saudi, UAE, Qatar etc are not bombing Iran, its just the US and Israel. Maybe the region wasn't fussed about regime change. The only good news about all of this is it stops Iran giving drones and missiles to Russia to use in Ukraine.