2026

"Our Brave and Powerful Armed Forces will avenge each and every Iranian mother, , father, and child who has been targeted by hostile forces."

"There is no shelter you can be safe"

"We will fill Americans' coffins there is no end to war unless they fully surrender."

"Trump is more than 500 Americans killed dead America first or israel first. Inshallah Khamenei killing has heavy price"

"Irregardless of cost. Not unlike United States of America. Same as Iran has not in past 300 years started wars, Iran is ready for long war."

"Now that we have baited America do not make ceasefire and/or peace we must destroy them"

"From us Iranian people only President son Aga Yusuf Pezeshkian and his buddies have internet connection."

"These attacks from Israel and the United States... were unprovoked. There was no immanent threat. Many would interpret this war to be an illegal war."

"I see no indication that ...those institutions are weak or fraying or that you can destroy ...[them] from the air. ...[T]his administration is trying to justify the war the same way Jackson Pollock used to paint. You just throw a bucket of reasons up against the canvas and hope the result looks good. ...Iranian missiles ... [as] a threat to the United States... falls short of the truth by about 4,000 miles ...[I]f we're doing preventative wars now to prevent countries that might one day be a threat, is North Korea... China... Russia in line? I don't think so. ...I can't make head or tails out of the reason this administration has put forward for this war."

"Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up our political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, we will violate the U.N. charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat."

"If the precedent that is being set is, "Any country with super"

"[I]t is in many ways a final battle to decide what World War II was all about. Will international law crumble as a result of the unwillingness of enough countries to protect the rules of civilized law supporting the principles of national sovereignty, free from foreign interference and coercion from the 1648 to the UN Charter? And with regard to wars that inevitably are to be waged, will they spare s and non-belligerents..."

"Iran negotiators had agreed... not to have an atom bomb... to reduce their refined uranium, to shift the refined uranium outside of the country, and to submit to an unprecedented degree of oversight... But none of this was about an atom bomb... The... reason that America has attacked Iran... was to control Near Eastern oil... and General Petraeus, years ago, had outlined this whole plan... "...all of your profits and rents from the oil will be lent back to the United States, ...priced in dollars and invested in U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. bonds and U.S. stocks, so that the money, the vast dollar inflows from your oil exports, will all be part of the U.S. economy." I sat in on meetings in the in 1974 when this was discussed..."

"The American philosophy is, number one, you bomb civilians, you break all the rules of international law which are against that. You bomb civilians to demoralize them. And if you concentrate, as Trump did, along with Israel, a few weeks ago, you , you bomb the hospitals. That’s American policy in foreign countries. It’s most visible in the case of Israeli policy, in Gaza, and now the West Bank as well. And it is the same policy that the United States has followed in Iran."

"Whenever a state chooses to go to war... you have to ask—where is the intelligence on the threat? ...[T]he Trump administration ...in hurry mode ...chose to set diplomacy aside, despite the fact that the [mediating] Omani foreign minister ...was convinced that remarkable progress had been made on the issue of Iranian nuclear weapons ...[T]wo other arguments for the war: that the US faced an imminent threat from Iran, and that Iran’s capability threatened the United States. Scratch this last claim—it’s simply not true ...Why would a much-weakened Islamic Republic pose an "imminent threat" ..? Marco Rubio has come forward with an absurd argument ...Does anyone truly believe that Israel would go it alone ...without US backing, that the operation was not jointly planned? ...This is all desperate storytelling, not intelligence."

"Ironically, the greatest beneficiaries of the United States’ grave violations of international law are the very actors whom, under normal circumstances, Washington would be seeking to restrain: Moscow will be emboldened to continue its barbaric assault on Ukraine, while China will feel empowered to move on Taiwan."

"It's going to be... tempting for countries to think that in a world where there are no rules.., no rules of war, where that post-war liberal order, imperfect as it was, is now completely being disregarded.., that makes the world more dangerous for all of us. ...[T]here was an order of some kind ...a view that a degree of international consensus was necessary ...before ...intervening in foreign countries. There were rules of war... [A]ll of us need to be... very thoughtful about supporting the creation of a world where anything goes, and might makes right. ...America is still the preeminent power, the , the global hegemon. ...I hope this is a moment for Americans to reflect on the facts that the rules-based international order, which did act as a constraint on American power, also provided America with some meaningful protection."

"[I]f it's... possible that there are about to be acts of terrorism by Iran inside the United States, how can Congress continue to blockade funds for the Department of Homeland Security until it gets reforms... including an end to the lying..? You're going to see a real press by the Trump administration to say, "Release the funds and let the Department... resume... operations.., including falsely calling people terrorists if they operate a camera near an immigration agent." You're going to see attacks on the freedom of the press. This administration... regards it as illegal, criminal, for reporters simply to ask questions of Pentagon employees... Only the designated leaders... get to speak... and if they're... saying things that look like they might not be true, you can't second guess or question them. We have had many instances... of false indications of emergency powers. The whole tariff nonsense... rested on false claims of the president... about economic emergency. ...[N]ow there's a real war.., a real risk of terrorist activity... That's a much more plausible emergency.., and... what court will say, "We don't think you're telling the truth about this either"? ...So there will be new assertions of emergency power... [P]eople who have the president's ear have been urging him to use emergency powers against the elections of 2026. The possibility of that... are much higher today... than... a week ago. ...We're moving into extraordinary danger to democratic institutions. The war in Iran... is an urgent domestic policy question... a massive grant of power to a president and administration that have proven... that they will abuse any powers that they are entrusted with."

""Senate votes down resolution to stop Trump from continuing war with Iran" (Mar 4, 2026)"

"Nobody gets to hide and give the president an easy pass or an end-run around the Constitution. Everybody's got to declare whether they're for this war or against it."

"War is ugly, it always has been ugly, but we're taking out a regime that has been trying to attack us for quite some time."

"I learned when I was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, pound their chest, talk about the costs of war and act tough, they're not talking about them doing it, they're not talking about their kids. They're talking about working class kids like us."

"Why are we going into Iran? ...[I]t is the president's vainglory. He thinks he's on a roll, that... this is easy to do; that you can knock off dictatorships like Venezuela, and then have a parade; that this solves a lot of his problems. It gets people not talking about the Epstein files. ...[A] huge chunk of Donald Trump's foreign policy is rooted in trying to get people to stop talking about the Epstein files. ...[H]e is that narrow and crass. ...Now he's going to say he's a war president. That means you can't criticize me... I can stomp on the press... I can declare a national emergency. ...As the British Parliament said... in [~]1944... "This is not a propitious time for an election." ...[[wikt:mischief#Noun|[M]ischief]] comes with a war because... presidential war powers... become almost unchallengeable."

"The president was not going to be just another president on a very long list who sat back and stood by and passed the buck of this direct threat to the next administration. The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons."

"[T]o take on the extraordinary risks... without having made the case with the American people.., citing immanent threats that aparently don't exist... that's problematic, and the chances of unintended consequences... are... very serious... [W]e're... using.., in many cases very expensive weapons to take down $20,000 drones. That's not a good equation... over time. ...I'm worried about ...second and third order consequences ...we so deplete our arsenal, and it takes a long time to rebuild ...puts us in a disadvantageous position when it comes to ...a China or ...Russia. ...[M]uch as ...everyone should want to see a change... it may simply ...reinforce the IRGC ...[I]t's very hard to produce regime change from outside. You can't bomb your way to it. ...The red flag ...is that this could be Syria redux or ...Libya redux ...the country fracturing, imploding or even exploding with refugees and migration.., extremist groups taking hold... It's incredibly ...dangerous. ...[I]t's never too late for diplomacy. ... [W]hen Russia is ...reaching a weak point because of its dependence on oil to fuel its war economy ...they get a lifeline, ...the price of oil is going up. The Europeans, in having moved away from Russian gas, are now more dependent on the Middle East. ...If the gets tied up ...that's ...a lot of pressure ...So mapping out, gaming out, planning out and ...making sure you have something in place to deal with ...second and third order effects is ...important, and it's not ...clear ...that was done ...There's been a shifting rationale ...[or] explanation for why this, why now? ...That's why it's so important to have ...laid this out before the American people, and our partners and allies. We might have had less friction with them if there was a compelling case ...and had them on the take-off, not mid-flight or on the landing."

"Majority of Experts Assembly has come to pick next leader who is Seid."

"Unprovoked attacks by the US and Israel... violate the fundamental prohibition on the use of force, sovereign equality, , and the duty to peacefully settle disputes... They also violate the ... We cannot pick and choose when international law applies. Unlawful military intervention is not a solution... These attacks do not strike military abstractions – they strike people... s are bearing the brunt of this war... In a country that has already lost thousands to violent repression... these attacks deepen... profound human tragedy... The targeting of civilians, educational facilities, and medical institutions constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law... Any path forward must be grounded in the rule of law, the will of the Iranian people, and full accountability for the violation of international law, by all parties..."

"The Crown Prince and other Gulf leaders have been urging America not to undertake military action against Iran, because all of us believe... action will not remain confined to Iran; that Iran will retaliate against American in the area, which is present in all of the Gulf states, and as far away as Turkey... They've been warning the Americans not to undertake military action and suffer the consequences. ...I don't think the system in Iran will collapse any time soon. ...Iranian leadership has been preparing for an eventuality like this, because of what they have continued to hear from Mr. Netanyahu in the past 40 years. He has been calling for the destruction of Iran, and so the Iranians... have been preparing themselves for such an eventuality. ...The only way the system will go... is through the Iranian people."

"Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever been hit before.., THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!"

"I think the war is very complete, pretty much. [Iran has] no navy, no communications, they've got no air force. Their missiles are down to a scatter. Their drones are being blown up all over the place, including their manufacturing of drones."

"The recent sedition was like a coup d'état — of course, the coup was suppressed."

"That Iran has been systematically erased, replaced by an Islamic Republic of death and destruction"

"We are left with graveyards... The world must act with the urgency this moment demands."

"You tried to kill me, but you couldn’t… I live with survivor's guilt because many Iranians do not have the same protection"

"Your struggle is not in vain. This moment is yours. This time will be remembered as the turning point, when the Iranian people took their future back into their hands... Light will prevail over darkness."

"My courageous compatriots, Your presence in the streets across Iran has kindled the flame of a national revolution... Do not abandon the streets"

"Several thousand were killed... Trump's hands are stained with the blood of Iranians"

"France is welcoming the injured in its hospitals and stands ready to provide any assistance"

"Initial witness accounts cited a fire that spread quickly, generating a lot of smoke and a huge wave of heat. Everything happened very fast."

"We are liaising with Swiss authorities to provide medical assistance to the victims through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism."

"ICE is dedicated to ensuring that everyone that visits the facilities will have a safe and secure event."

"I really don’t care. I think Iran is a very badly defeated country. They’re running on fumes."

"Fifa is focused on ensuring fair access to our game for existing and prospective fans. As a not-for-profit organisation, the revenue Fifa generates from the World Cup is reinvested to fuel the growth of the game - men, women, youth - throughout Fifa's 211 member associations globally"

"Right now, we’re expecting the Iranian team to come. I think it’s a great opportunity for the Iranian diaspora here in the United States of America to be able to celebrate their country."

"The golden days of Italian football are well and truly gone."

"Can I keep it?"

"Half a billion ticket requests in just over a month is more than demand – it’s a global statement. On behalf of FIFA, I would like to thank and congratulate football fans everywhere for this extraordinary response. Knowing how much this tournament means to people around the world, our only regret is that we cannot welcome every fan inside the stadiums.That is why we are committed to creating multiple ways for fans to be part of the World Cup – through a wide range of fan experiences beyond the stadiums, both in person and online – so that as many people as possible can share in what will be the biggest sporting event ever staged."

"Lizzie Freeman as Pomni"

"Micheal Kovach as Jax"

"Amanda Hufford as Ragatha"