Trump delivered on his threat to strike Iran and announced a military campaign there on Saturday assisted by Israel. He also called for regime change.
"We have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, & who has the power & will to project terror & violence anywhere on earth for any reason or none.
That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump."
So Trump calls for regime change because reasons, flunkies go ‘homina, homina’ and the Strait of Hormuz might now be closed.
For Trump, this Iran bombing fiasco is another West Asia “mission accomplished” moment only this time there’s none of the necessary parts to justify war: coalition of the willing, UN / NATO support, Congressional approval etc.
So for Trump, the Iran decapitation attack could have been questioned as another “War Powers” issue but because Trump is too stupid to even think about AUMF, and since there’s a tiny GOPhascist congressional majority and a fractured SCOTUS, he thinks he can bully his way forward onto the legacy as the worst POTUS ever. Even the Democrats in the “gang of eight” may have anticipated that Trump’s poor impulse control could destroy the GOP for perhaps a generation.
His vain hope is the possibility that Putin will bail him out (again) or stall out the clock to 2028. All that justice obstruction and lawfare has worked so far for his feloniousness as long as he has enough lawyers.
Besides, he’s making a lot more illicit money in the second term.
Trump’s fear of being called to account for his depraved Epstein crimes is his actual motive since the victims are still alive, and apparently there’s more than one who can do that thing the GOP wanted Bill Clinton to suffer, identifying the perpetrator’s body parts.
This whole disaster really is closing in on him regardless, especially with a legacy as a child rapist among his other crimes yet to be revealed, because he thinks the pursuers can either be coerced or bought off. They’re like his J6 minions, open to clemency, pardons, and with regard to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), offers of immunity. Unfortunately, martyrs don’t have a price even if you launder their money. In this case Trump cannot explain specifically what justifies the current war, beginning with ‘obliterated’ targets.
Ivanka in Baku. Trump has not sanctioned an Iranian firm with ties to the Revolutionary Guard and a Trump Organization business partner. www.newyorker.com/...
- This X post promotes a rare 1981 pin-back button from the satirical "Reagan for Shah Committee," a Berkeley activist group that used irony to equate Ronald Reagan's policies with the Shah of Iran's authoritarianism, amid post-election anti-Reagan protests.
- The button, in mint condition and priced at $23 on eBay, comes from seller Larry Fox's collection; Fox, known as "The Button Man," specializes in historical political memorabilia tied to U.S.-Iran tensions like the 1979 revolution and hostage crisis.
- The committee's absurd tactics, including Doo Dah Parade marches and affiliations with parody outfits like "Ladies Against Women," highlighted 1980s countercultural satire against Reagan's neoliberal shift, as documented in punk histories and activist archives.
The IRGC isn’t exactly ICE or the DHS (yet).
After Khamenei's death, Trump offered immunity to IRGC and Iranian security forces if they surrender and urged them to join opposition forces. He warned those who resist will face death. Iran's IRGC has vowed fierce retaliation as tensions escalate in the ongoing US-Israel conflict with Iran.
Has Trump misunderstood Iran's IRGC and the Basij forces? The US president called for IRGC members to lay down their arms or face 'certain death'. Here's how he misunderstands the IRGC.
The IRGC, however, is also deeply entrenched in Iran’s political and economic structures. Its economic role expanded during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, as it handled engineering and logistics to sustain Iran’s war effort. Firms affiliated with the IRGC reportedly have contracts in key sectors such as Iran’s natural resources, transport, infrastructure, telecommunications, and mining. Iranian officials call this the “resistance economy” and say this is part of how the country has circumvented sanctions.
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In fact, some analysts believe the latest attacks on Iran and the assassination of Khamenei might even expand the IRGC’s control over the Iranian state.
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August of 1953, the Eisenhower Administration approved Operation Ajax. The overthrow a the duly elected government of Iran over oil. Installing the Shah of Iran and setting the stage for the hostage crisis of 1979 that undermined Jimmy Carter's presidency. Putting Reagan in the White House 1980.
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— Arthur A Bundy (@arthurbundy.bsky.social) Feb 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Significant regime change operations included the United States and United Kingdom–planned 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion targeting Cuba, and support for the overthrow of Sukarno by General Suharto in Indonesia. In addition, the U.S. has interfered in the national elections of countries, including Italy in 1948,[1] the Philippines in 1953, Japan in the 1950s and 1960s,[2][3] Lebanon in 1957,[4] and Russia in 1996.[5] According to one study, the U.S. performed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections from 1946 to 2000.[6] According to another study, the U.S. engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change during the Cold War.[7] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States has led or supported wars to determine the governance of a number of countries. Stated U.S. aims in these conflicts have included fighting the war on terror, as in the Afghan War, or removing supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), as in the Iraq War.
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"We have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, & who has the power & will to project terror & violence anywhere on earth for any reason or none.
That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-02T14:13:08.719Z
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There was no imminent threat. The narrative keeps shifting. The nuclear claims are contradictory. So let’s start there.
As we just saw in the Pentagon press-con, there is no clear strategy.
This bipartisan Iran War Powers Resolution has been sitting with Speaker Johnson since June 2025.
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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) Mar 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Prior to it being de-listed by the U.S. as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2012, John Bolton spoke in favor of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK). MEK has opposed the Iranian theocratic state since shortly after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
In 2012, NBC News' Richard Engel and Robert Windrem published a report quoting U.S. officials, who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity, that the MEK was being "financed, trained, and armed by Israel's secret service" to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists.[260][261] A senior U.S. State Department official said the Department never claimed that the MEK was involved in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.[262] Former CIA case officer in the Middle East, Robert Baer said that the perpetrators "could only be Israel", and that "it is quite likely Israel is acting in tandem with" the MEK.[263]
On 27 November 2020, Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated. Iranian Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, blamed Mujahideen-e-Khalq and Israel.[264]
Relationship during Trump presidency
In 2017, the year before John Bolton became President Trump's National Security Adviser, Bolton addressed members of the MEK and said that they would celebrate in Tehran before 2019.[266] By 2018, operatives of the MEK were believed to be still conducting covert operations inside Iran to overthrow Iran's government.[267] It also maintained some operations in France, and in January 2018, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani phoned French president Emmanuel Macron, asking him to order kicking the MEK out of its base in Auvers-sur-Oise, alleging that the MEK stirred up the 2017–18 Iranian protests.[268] By 2018, over 4,000 MEK members had entered Albania, according to the INSTAT data.[269]
On 30 June 2018, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, lectured an MEK gathering in Paris, calling for regime change in Tehran. John McCain and John Bolton have met the MEK's leader Maryam Rajavi or spoken at its rallies.[270][271]
During the Free Iran 2019 conference in Albania, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani attended an MEK forum, where he described the group as a "government-in-exile", saying it is a ready-to-go alternative to lead the country if the Iranian government falls.[230] Additionally, the Trump administration said it would not rule out the MEK as a viable replacement for the current Iranian regime.[272]
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Two of Trump's most trusted confidants pushed hard for a company looking to take away the guardrails preventing Saudi Arabia from becoming a nuclear power.
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Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon met with King Abdullah II while Flynn was reportedly pressing for a controversial, for-profit deal to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
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The Mueller investigation (was) pursuing investigative threads related to the UAE and possible corruption that seemingly have little connection to an investigation into collusion with Russia—but these two investigative threads may in fact be directly connected by way of the "Middle East Marshall Plan" backed by Michael Flynn.
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Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran.
Both countries have major financial ties to Trump & his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth. Period.
https://popular.info/p/the-money-behind-the-new-iran-war
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— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) Mar 2, 2026 at 12:12 PM
