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Iran 'threatened Trump with sleeper-cell revenge terrorist attacks inside US' days before nuclear strikes

multivita-man said:
I am skeptical. They could have threatened it directly or not, but the post-9/11 blueprint makes it clear what happens if state-sponsored terrorism visits American shores. That would be the end of the Ayatollah, and depending what 'sleepers' do, maybe the end of Iran, and Iran knows it.
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Only if they can prove that it was Iran
 
ClaraD said:
Only if they can prove that it was Iran
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Terrorists typically want their victims to know who did it. The whole point of terrorism is to claim responsibility, to send a message and also to recruit more terrorists.
 
multivita-man said:
Terrorists typically want their victims to know who did it. The whole point of terrorism is to claim responsibility, to send a message and also to recruit more terrorists.
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In this case their main goal may be simply revenge and less about people knowing who was responsible
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
You're just advancing an opinion, sorry.

In 1901, William Knox D'Arcy, a British businessman, secured a 60-year concession from the Shah of Persia (now Iran) giving him exclusive rights to prospect for oil in most of the country. This agreement, known as the D'Arcy Concession, granted D'Arcy the right to explore, exploit, and market oil, gas, asphalt, and ozokerite. In return, the Persian government was promised £20,000, a share in the company's stock, and 16% of future profits. This deal laid the foundation for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and then BP), marking the beginning of British involvement in Iran's oil industry.

Sounds like a pretty shitty deal to me.
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Yeah to all that and what I've posted about the oil fields and the UK owed industry is fine. However trying and failing to nationalize an oil company is not a failed coup d'état. This is fact NOT opinion no matter how much you don't like it. Your myopic posts are fixated on the oil industry to the absolute exclusion of all other factors.

The coup was the CIA, MI6 and the Iran military removing the prime minister Mosaddeq who had become a dictator. His failed attempt to nationalize was the trigger to throw the bum out. Mosaddeq had stopped the 1952 general election vote count when he took a narrow lead then dissolved the parliament after it gave him dictatorial powers.

The coup d'état was removing the prime minister Mosaddeq. This is what a coup is, an action of state, removing the leader and his government.

The coup settled the issue of nationalization which did not happen. The Shah gave the oil concession to a UK led consortium that for the first time included the USA. The Shah used the revenue to elevate dramatically the Iranian standard of living to include land reform that compensated the elites while small farmers thrived anew. The still privately owned oil industry post Mosaddeq was newly socially conscious.
 
armycowboy said:
That was the beginning of a colony. Nothing to do with the founding of the nation.
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(1620) It was the founding of the American Nation. It represented the first body politic of the people that would make up that Nation. "Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith...."

Lees
 
reinaert said:
David Barton appreciates the fealty.
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So glad he agrees with me.

I looked up his name as I didn't know who you were talking about. Though I think, in seeing the books he has written, that I might have one, the one about the lies and myths of Jefferson. But I have never read it as it came with a group of books given to me. But now that you have brought it up, I will be sure to add him on the list of books to read.

Thanks

Lees
 
Lees said:
So glad he agrees with me.

I looked up his name as I didn't know who you were talking about. Though I think, in seeing the books he has written, that I might have one, the one about the lies and myths of Jefferson. But I have never read it as it came with a group of books given to me. But now that you have brought it up, I will be sure to add him on the list of books to read.

Thanks

Lees
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I guess you're both into pseudo history. Whatever floats your boat.
 
Lees said:
Do you have to ask? When you pass a mosque and they all are on a rug with their ass in the air, do you think maybe they are Muslim?

Lees
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Maybe trump said he wanted to **** some Muslims in the ass and when no Muslims volunteered some MAGA showed up to act as stand-ins!
 
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