Can someone please explain to me this Iran war

[Spiritual Warrior]

I am very out of the loop when it comes to news. Can someone please explain to me why the U.S. is at war with Iran? 

Please and thank you 🙂

[cistanche_enjoyer]

There are many possible explanations. The one that makes most sense to me is that Mossad has pictures/videos of Trump having sexual intercourse with minors, and used them to blackmail Trump to go to war with Iran.

[Raze]

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:51 AM by Raze

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[Ramasta9]

8 hours ago, Spiritual Warrior said:

I am very out of the loop when it comes to news. Can someone please explain to me why the U.S. is at war with Iran? 

Please and thank you 🙂

Here's another perspective. There is only about 3 countries left not owned by the Jewish Rothschilds family banking system: Russia, Iran and North Korea. Maybe now we can understand the media and the wars better Its always much deeper than the mainstream media reveals. 

It also has to do with spirituality and 12/13 spiritual gates, the biggest one being in Iran, I'll stop there. The rest is a mystery. 

Most of the other stuff people post on this forum, distraction technology and media. There to keep you busy.

Edited yesterday at 01:22 AM by Ramasta9

[UnbornTao]

@Ramasta9 often likes to spread conspiracies and conspiratorial thinking.

Is he a propagandist funded by dark forces working to destabilize the emotional atmosphere of the forum?

[kylan11]

More often than not, the simplest answer is the correct one, no matter how stupid it seems. And with Trump it's pretty much a guarantee.
Tulsi Gabbard all but confirmed Iran was not posing an imminent threat to the US and it was the president's direct decision.

So my money is on this: Trump wants to look good. He smelled Iran's weakness (and to be fair the regime is on life support and has been for a few years now) and thought that by solving that problem,which has plagued the US for 50 years, he'd be hailed as a resolute, pragmatic strategic genius. He loves to be seen as the dude who inherited a mess and solved the issues Obama and Biden couldn't.

Except he and his cronies are so incompetent he could not verbalize a clear military goal or purpose to the war, contradicted himself a thousand times as usual, completely overlooked the Strait of Hormuz card and now he seems so desperate to make a deal it's actually Iran who holds the winning hand and just needs to wait for the world to feel the pain of stagflation and TACO the fuck out of their land.

I still root for the US to overthrow those religious psychopaths but it's hard to be optimistic

Edited 10 hours ago by kylan11

[zazen]

On 15/03/2026 at 10:14 AM, zazen said:

I think it’s all of the above but to varying degrees - with Jiang weighting ideology as a driver being the weakest, Israel’s influence being mid, US strategic dominance being the heaviest driver.

Israel is a highly influential node in a larger US imperial system - it can nudge actions at the margins or set the pace or timing of events, but never control the empire to do the events in the first place.

US-Israel interests converge in wanting regional domination. US for grand strategy / control of important choke point, dollar dominance, and an important trade corridor on the largest landmass on earth - Eurasia - which connects to its two rivals (China-Russia).

Israel security and gulf stability to protect oil flows is also important as the global economy runs on it - including petro dollar. But much of the insecurity comes from zero sum thinking around how to go about security which is neoconesque - domination and submission of any defiant / autonomous actors.

They want Iran to capitulate and it won’t because it has a history of dealing with Western imperialism it doesn’t want to repeat - and feels it has the cards not to ie its geographic WMD the strait of Hormuz which their using as we speak to impose costs on the empire.

I’d guess it’s 50% US empire, 30% Israeli influence, 10% domestic politics (Trump / Bibi) , 5% ideaology (Christian Zionism / eschatology), 5% capital interests (MIC, big oil)

British and then US empire are underpinned by control of corridors (trade) and clearance (the currency that trade is settled it). 

Any country important enough that is outside that systemic control or resists it is a target.

The primacy of that system is being contested by new emerging powers. China/Russia would be too catastrophic to go to direct war with - so weaker links are tackled and any strategic advantage is being locked in to prevent their dominance dilute further.

The empire became financialized (paper heavy), as rocks (resources) and scissors (industry) got outsourced. That made it brittle and vulnerable to new powers emerging who do have strong rocks (Russia) and scissors (China) who together are creating a parallel system (paper/financial rails) circumventing the US one.

The system (paper) has to be backed by something (rock/scissors) but increasingly is seen as hollow (outsourced industry) and vulnerable (high debt). Empire needs to re-anchor the system to material power to keep its credibility and enforce the quality of its collateral (US system perceived as pristine condition). This is being done coercively as we can see.

There’s a scramble to re-industrialise and lock down critical supply chains and industry (friend/re-shore) to become resilient. JP Morgan has a fund earmarked for 1.5trillion dollars over 10 yrs for this. BlackRock are going in on stabelcoins and tokenization to extend dollar reach and maintain its primacy against de-dollarisation.

None of this has to be some grand strategy on behalf of Trump, but it’s more so institutional logic, instinct and inertia with multiple actors converging on the same incentives to keep the system they benefit from dominant, against a rising challenge.

I think that’s how VZ, Greenland (new Arctic trade corridor opening), Donroe doctrine and hemispheric co from, and now Iran make some sense.

Edited 10 hours ago by zazen

[Lila9]

Here is an unbiased explanation:

At the end of February 2026, Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran militarily.

On the first day of the attack, they killed the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.
In Iran, there is the Ayatollah regime (an Islamic totalitarian theocracy) which oppresses the Iranian people, and it is estimated that 50%-70% of Iranian citizens oppose it.

The U.S. and Israel claim that the reason for the attack is to disarm the regime that has rejected and threatened Israel and the U.S. for decades because they represent Western values.

Iran works with proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, which are terrorist organizations, to achieve its ultimate goal of establishing dominance; part of this is to remove the "Zionist entity," which is basically the destruction of Israel.

Iran is considered to be in a sort of cold war with Saudi Arabia (which is more pro-America and pro-West) over who will dominate the Middle East.

Some people claim that the U.S. and Israel leadership started the war merely to distract their citizens and the world from their corruption and shady dealings.

(This may be true, but here we are at risk of entering the rabbit hole of brain‑rotting, unproven conspiracy theories, so we need to be careful)

The bigger picture is that this war is part of a long struggle between the West and the East: Western values vs. communist/totalitarian values: Russia/China vs. the U.S.

You can see this by the allies of each side.

The U.S. is allied with other countries with the same Western democratic and capitalistic values, like Europe, Israel, Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc.

Iran is allied with regimes with the same communist/totalitarian values, like Russia, North Korea, and China.

This is a war about control of the narrative, values, and territory.

 

[Ramasta9]

10 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

@Ramasta9 often likes to spread conspiracies and conspiratorial thinking.

Is he a propagandist funded by dark forces working to destabilize the emotional atmosphere of the forum?

Like a true moderator / robot  trigger trigger chicken dinner.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Ramasta9 every statement is a confession. 

[Ramasta9]

9 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@Ramasta9 every statement is a confession. 

Aye eye Captain