Donald Trump has given Iran 48 hours to reopen the strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launched its most destructive attack yet on Israel.

The ultimatum, made just a day after the US president said he was considering “winding down” military operations after three weeks of war, came as the key oil passage remained effectively closed and thousands more US Marines headed to the Middle East.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US would “hit and obliterate” Iranian power plants – “starting with the biggest one first” – if Tehran did not fully reopen the strait within 48 hours, or 23:44 GMT on Monday according to the time of his post.

Tehran in response said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East, including vital water systems, if the US follows through on Donald Trump’s threat.

This is about to be the biggest phuck around and find out event of 2026.

Iran already laughed this one off. And said they will further disrupt middle eastern power plants in the region if he did try. More bluster from the buffoon who has been declaring victory since week 1. We are supposedly done but Hegseth needs $200 billion more. I guess it’s for more steak, crab legs, and overpriced office chairs.

I hear the Iranians are sending a negotiation delegation over right away!

Trump already has. It's not even a question.

Amazing how the left seems to think Iran is some powerful world leading nation that can conquer anyone who challenges them.

So Iran threatening threatening it's neighbors they will strike if the US doesn't stop and those idiots are telling Iran that if Iran attacks them they will retaliate against Iran. The stupid logic. If someone hits you because someone else is pissing them off you are supposed to immediately jump on their side and attack that person that "Made them attack you.

Sarcasam there BUT that is Iran's logic. That's just how backwards their thinking is. Although Iran has lots of dirka dirkas like that part of the world is full of (we have some too) their upper end people, their leadership has lots of highly intelligent people, but you can be intelligent and yet still be a failure due to backwards thinking. Either that or it was a gamble because they are limited on options. It would be like the US siding with Japan after they bombed Pearl harbor, which the Japaneese plan was to hit us so hard believing the US didn't have the stomach to fight. They learned. There is this strong beliefe that Americans are aspiled, cozy, weak people who can't handle hardship. It's still widely believed. What they also forget now is that we have nukes, a lot of them, and our way of delivering them is proven, and I honestly believe that if we ever got pearl harbored again, nukes would be used, especially if that nation doesn't ahve them. Fun fact, when the USS liberty was attacked, they believed it was Egypt and a F4E took off an aircraft carrier witha nuke on board with orders to hit Cario and then we learned it was an "accident" from Israel. Now we all know, but the point was that hesitiation prevented a nuke strike.

It must get tiring taking L after L after L while never leaving your house but you pull it off!

These people absolute moron and he created a straw man. No one has made the argument that Iran can conquer the United States. The argument made id that the Iranian regime could withhold and United States campaign and stay in power and create economic chaos if they continue to control Atrai of Hormuz. This so far is exactly what has happened which is why Trump is saying a million different things all the same time. It's really beneath us to have these conversations with people who are this fucking stupid and biased

Lol what a stupid question

killed their dictator and over 70 military leaders, who is going to bend the knee? they're dead idiot

Their military structure is mosaic, you stupid fucking red.

It’s broken up so knocking out 70 leaders doesn’t make a difference. They’ve been prepping for this for 40 years, demonstrated by the obvious ass whipping Drumpf is taking.

Trump is about to drop 1000 troops on Karg Island and take it over

Bump

Then what?

Like Trump thinks that far ahead.

Look the underpants gnomes are running this campaign and that means step 2 is a mystery. Step 3 is a guaranteed win though

What is means is gas getting a quick jolt past $6.00 a gallon, MEU's getting slaughtered ----> excuse for a full blown attempt and ground evasion, Iran blowing up their infrastructure so the US doesn't have control over it, and this thing dragging on for years lol.

Some Republicans in Congress are already having a meltdown over Trump wanting to send in ground troops ...


‘Another Iraq’: Nancy Mace Walks Out of Iran Briefing, Warns ‘They’ Want Boots on the Ground
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Like I was saying earlier. Senate republicans are going to convict this guy post midterms the worse this get after the House impeaches him.

The gist is, whatever plan these people have in place is going to spectacularly backfire on them.


This is all while private credit markets are fracturing, and rising oil prices igniting a fire on an already decrepit labor market, with the Fed in a straight jacket.

Then this

Respect, she didn't scream like a bitch and one dude starting screaming God is great instead of wailing like a girl.

Any ways, to the poster who said what's next, the US will start targeting civilian infrastructure, probably their dams and electricity power stations which will cause a massive humanitarian crises. But who cares, how many Iraqi civilians died? I guess the west and Europe are going to become more culturally enriched and Israel will gain more land and more billions of dollars and US military tech.

We will also start paying more for stuff and have our quality of life slowly erode.

The navy can't make it through Hormuz.

Maybe these special forces fly themselves in, but the US is still stuck in a Cold War mentality of war with massively inefficient, expensive munitions that are massively depleted, hence why they're begging Congress for 200b.


The units that Neocon Don sends in aren't familiar with modern day drone warfare, as you already alluded to.

That's what I was thinking. If there aren't ships there is no missile/drone defense, so 1,000 US troops on a nearby island will be a juicy target for Iran.

Maybe Trump is just confused and thought he was sending troops to Epstein island for some R&R.

India is sending a tanker escorted by its navy. On the discord our old friend 5x10 promised me the pahjeets will have the strait blown open in short order. Im skeptical but i've been told i dont trust the plan because im a blue haired libtard

The US Navy could, but they risk attrition. They have it mined pretty bad and dumbfuks in the brass have decommissioned so many minesweepers over the past years without replacing them.

Sometimes, some of this stuff I think is designed as a tactic of the MIC lobby to get more funding to the MIC. The brass of the military itself, as well as the industry surrounding it, their biggest fears are budget cuts. When the Gulf War happened, I'm sure they were all proud, but then right after the USSR fell and the cold war was over. US was the only superpower. Victory right? For people who's career is the military, it was terrible. 1992 HUGE budget cuts and so many people's careers were destroyed. Resulted in a lot of innovation which boosted our economy, but it was a shake up for sure.

What I'm getting to is as a career choice, those will use any data that the Russians/Chinese/ect have some new weapon, they go to congress and other leaders saying they are going to need 100 billion trillion kazillion dollars or we are going to get blown up. Hegseth is one of them. He said how they played out 10 scenereos of a military operation against China and every one of them we lost so we need a serious buildup of the military. Remember they were saying we need a new Tank because this new Russian tank was so advanced, and that very Russian tank got slaughtered by a 30 year old export Bradly in Ukraine. I'm not saying everything China, Russia, Iran has is complete garbage, but saying they "worked as advertized" sure got Abrams billions of dollars to counter a tank that didn't exist.

No, they wouldn't. No way to deal with mines, no way to deal with drones, no way to deal with fast attack boats iranians use. We already know how this ends from the ukraine war, it's just that no one wants to accept reality and so a lot of Americans are going to get killed for nothing.

Drones are the most important weapon in modern war. Tanks and ships still have their place but if you don't have drones they're just a big target that is going to get popped. And one ship going down in flames is going to kill the political will for the fight to say nothing of our reputation as a power which is essentially all we have to sell to the world. No one is going to believe stories about laundry fires much longer.

No way to deal with drones? Then why have they not hit yet? You know nothing about military. Laser and mircowave weapons already deployed, but it's new tech so not on all ships.

Second, a ship going down in flames would be more likely to cause the war full scale than to make us lose the will to fight.

Are you American? Because your poath of thinking is clearly foreign.

Also funny thing to note how you speak like you know the US is losing and has been beat by Iran. You speak with such confidence. Not what could or might happen, it's according to you, has happened.

Yes, no way to deal with drones. Countermeasures will stop a few of them but most will get through. You are an idiot.