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Here's the Reason Why President Trump
Authorized Operation Epic Fury

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 2/28/2026 5:28:30 PM

Today marked a historic victory for not only the United States and Israel, but the Iranian people as well. The U.S. and Israel launched a massive military strike on the Islamic nation overnight Eastern time, striking at military targets and the Iranian leadership. At least 40 members of the Iranian regime leadership have been killed, including the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself, according to multiple sources. Khamenei was killed in the Israeli strikes on his compound, per multiple reports.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 2/28/2026 6:08:22 PM (No. 2074400)
Fine with me, in fact, excellent. The dems on the other hand are having a fit. Which is nothing new. Inflated dancing frogs, really?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 2/28/2026 7:29:27 PM (No. 2074431)
I'm sure there are a thousand things going on in the background that we will never know about. Whatever information is released by the government is certain to be a fabrication. I'm leaning toward the belief that we attacked because Israel told us to. Really though, any action that reduces the number of living Moslems is sure to make the world a better place.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: red1066 2/28/2026 7:45:53 PM (No. 2074439)
Trump, like so many others were tired of the gum flapping from the Iranian negotiators. The Iranians thought they could delay. delay, delay and grind down the negotiators on the other side just they have done for decades while growing their military, arming terrorist groups, killing Iranians. Little did they know that their time was running out because Trump doesn't pay that game.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WI Cynic 2/28/2026 9:53:56 PM (No. 2074489)
Think how much better off the region and the entire world would be if Jimmuh Cahtah had taken this approach.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mifla 3/1/2026 5:22:18 AM (No. 2074542)
Love to be a fly on the wall at a meeting of whatever is left of the Iranian cabinet. They will likely draw straws on who the next leader of Iran will be. Loser becomes the leader.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 3/1/2026 6:52:43 AM (No. 2074580)
Iranian media has acknowledged that Khamenei is indeed dead! My Iranian friends will be celebrating that he is gone.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: udanja99 3/1/2026 7:18:38 AM (No. 2074604)
I think it’s probably more likely that we and the Israelis chose this moment because they had moles inside the Iranian regime who passed on word about the meeting. We all wondered why PDT was waiting to act and now we know. It’s time to take out Larijani and the rest of the remaining leaders. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen in the next couple of days. God bless President Trump, Netanyahu, Mossad and both of our countries’ militaries.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rumblehog 3/1/2026 9:53:34 AM (No. 2074686)
I'm all for making the world a safer place through targeted assassinations of really bad dictators, tyrants, and thugs. The reason behind my thinking has nothing to do with "kumbaya do-gooderism," but has everything to do with giving millions of refugees, migrants (both legal and otherwise), and asylum seekers absolutely NO reason to NOT go back from where they came. Let's send bombs that will encourage, yea, verily DEMAND repatriation FROM America, the once beautiful (which was before unchecked immigration and globalist-elite refugee vacuuming operations).
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 3/1/2026 11:50:31 AM (No. 2074740)
I agree with #7's assessment. To take it a bit further, there are likely moles in now place throughout iran's governmental hierarchy. It took a long time to accomplish this. Critical intel regarding iran's nuclear program was gathered that revealed a doomsday scenario. As such, iran was ripe for governmental decapitation.
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