Iran

[whelk]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

Where will the footballers go on holiday this year? 

Aye people should be thinking of poor old Rio Ferdinand 

[Winnersaint]

3 minutes ago, whelk said:

Although Tice was trying to be the tough guy getting angry at how we weren’t supportive. Maybe he is a bit tense cos his slag of a missus is struggling in Dubai?

I presume she can swim.

[Gloucester Saint]

29 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Because Spain also refused to allow offensive US operations from it's territory, Trump says he has instructed Trade Secretary Scott Bessent to stop all trade with Spain.

I like Spain’s PM, last month restricted the dreadful AI and disinformation activities of Trump and Musk’s big tech firms https://www.reuters.com/technology/spains-sanchez-we-wont-be-swayed-by-tech-oligarchs-social-media-ban-2026-02-05/

That will have more bearing on what Trump has asked Bessant to do.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[inspectorfrost]

2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

A Trump mouthpiece interviewed on CNN;

"We had to attack as we anticipated that Iran was going to retaliate."

Was it true that Yvette Cooper actually condemned Iran for retaliating and urged them to stop doing so?

[Gloucester Saint]

19 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

I presume she can swim.

Let’s hope not. 

[egg]

2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

A Trump mouthpiece interviewed on CNN;

"We had to attack as we anticipated that Iran was going to retaliate."

Yep. Rubio said similar overnight, essentially saying that Israel had said they were going to hit Iran, and the US feared reprisals, so struck first. 

I doubt we'll ever hear such nonsense again to justify war. He needs to get his head out of Netanyahu's arse. 

[egg]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

Markets are not liking this -  @egg give it a few weeks before checking your pension pots

I looked this morning mate. Yesterday's losses were unpleasant, today's will be horrific. I'm not going to do anything - it'll bounce back. 

[Gloucester Saint]

9 minutes ago, egg said:

Yep. Rubio said similar overnight, essentially saying that Israel had said they were going to hit Iran, and the US feared reprisals, so struck first. 

I doubt we'll ever hear such nonsense again to justify war. He needs to get his head out of Netanyahu's arse. 

Never thought I’d praise Tucker Carlson but I’ll make an exception - he called it spot on, Trump is bonkers following Mad Ben headlong into Israel’s conflict.

If it doesn’t blow us all up first, silver lining is it will finish MAGA off if the Epstein files don’t get there first (Quelle Surprise the distraction from those, and Trump). Even he’s having to warn the red hatted numbskulls of higher petrol prices for a while and that’s on top of his horrific economic tableau of tariffs and high inflation. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Gloucester Saint
Hatted, not hatred.

[egg]

Iran were nowhere near having a nuke. No surprise there. 

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-03-26?post-id=cmmara7zt002e3b6uq55ru42m

 

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

Iran were nowhere near having a nuke. No surprise there. 

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-03-26?post-id=cmmara7zt002e3b6uq55ru42m

 

I thought the US had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program last June.

[egg]

16 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

I thought the US had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program last June.

Sounds like they pretty much did - the article says:

'The US’ attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last June left “considerable” damage, Grossi said. Tehran’s nuclear program was therefore “very slow … perhaps we could say frozen, if not, almost stopped,” he continued'

 

[badgerx16]

The RN are sending HMS Dragon to the middle east - last seen starring in No Time to Die as it wiped out Remy Malik's island base.