The Trump administration was preparing Friday for a fresh round of military strikes against Iran, according to sources with direct knowledge of the planning, even as diplomacy continued.
Some members of the U.S. military and intelligence community canceled their plans for the Memorial Day weekend in anticipation of possible strikes, several sources said.
Defense and intelligence officials began updating recall rosters for U.S. installations overseas as tranches of troops stationed in the Middle East rotate out of theater, part of an effort to reduce the American military footprint in the region amid concern about possible Iranian retaliation.
Unpopular opinion. I talked to an Iranian colleague with family in Iran and he said the people are very supportive of the US strike. Said usually it’s 1 army death for 1000 civilians and with the strikes it is finally 1000 army guys for 1 civ dearh. An interesting take that is not portrayed in western media.
Okay I was pretty upset about $2,000,000,000 of my tax dollars being spent per day on this war that we have no business fighting, but after hearing that your Iranian colleague’s family is supportive because it’s killing 1000 army guys with only one civ dearh, I’m totally on board now.
I am not trying to convince you. I just share what I think is an interesting point of view. How many of you talked to an Iranian ? Also those stats are just an Io obvious exaggeration (that he used).
1,190 had been killed, including 435 military members. During 2024-25 protests, >30.000 civilians were killed . > 50.000 imprisoned.
I do not care about what Iranians have to say about my tax dollars bruh
I get that.
Yeah. 160 school children. Really good ratio. I heard there were 160,000 IRGC guys hiding in that school.
The Iranian government needs to burn to the ground and be wiped from the face of the planet. We have no room on this world for them.
But the trump-epstein war was the absolute worst way to go about it. And its yet another war that’s going to go on forever because Iran is no where near beat. All its doing is making everything else worse.