Augustus Cato

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Qatar putting a pause on its Gas exports is terrible for China- Iran's patron. In terms of volume of China's liquefied natural gas imports, Qatar is its second biggest supplier with 23% of its needs, Oman is the eight largest and the U.A.E is the 11th. Maybe the Ayatollah regime has decided its time to go out spectacularly and hurt China in the process.

For more than four decades, Donald Trump has called for invading Iran, seizing its oil, and preventing it from gaining a nuclear weapon. In 1980, Trump complained that the Iran hostage crisis was a sign that America no longer commanded international respect. His interviewer replied, “Obviously you’re advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out like Vietnam.” Trump replied: “I absolutely feel that, yes. In a 1987 speech, Trump suggested, that the United States should “attack Iran and seize some of its oil fields in retaliation for … Iran’s bullying of America.” In 1988, Trump told The Guardian, “I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools. One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I’d do a number on Kharg Island,” an Iranian oil hub. 2011, Trump told Bill O’Reilly, “I wouldn’t let them have a nuke”—referring to Iran. He then dismissed Barack Obama as a “weak president that kisses everybody’s ass.” In 2024, after intelligence officials told Trump that Iran was attempting to assassinate him, Trump declared, “An attack on a former President is a Death Wish for the attacker!” https://www.compactmag.com/article/trump-was-always-an-ir… 📝 816ebafe…

Khamenei, who fashioned himself [as] the heir to an Islamic revolution against the enemies of God, was killed by the Jewish state on the eve of the Jewish festival that celebrates the destruction of a Persian enemy who sought to destroy the Jews. https://critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/this-is-the-end

Maybe Azerbaijan is next? 📝 7744a1f1…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran following an air strike

When has a global superpower ever been an isolationist? 📝 40917938…

Flash showing himself to be a Sunni who's cosplaying as revolutionary whilst living a comfortable life in the West. 📝 e7432da6…

@War Monitor

The Islamic Revolution in Iran, even at its end* is being very abnormal. Building a statute of Ba'al, and they couldn't even give it four faces. 📝 e59812de…