2020s-in-iran

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

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

"[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."

"This is a war that should end it once and for all."

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

"[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."

"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."

"I can see that the peace deal is within our reach... if we... allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there... I don't think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem. ...The heart of this deal is very important and ...we have captured that heart. ...[I]f the ultimate objective is to ensure forever, that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb ...we have cracked that problem ...[W]e are talking about zero stockpiling ...[I]f you cannot stockpile material that is enriched ...there is no way you can ...create a bomb ...and ...equally important ...full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA ...The current stockpiles ...will be down-blended to the lowest level possible ...and converted into fuel that ...will be irreversible. ...I am ...confident ...that even the United States inspectors will have access at some point ...if we have a deal that is respected, and fair, and ...durable ...We have agreed, in general, to discuss economic and security cooperation between Iran and its neighbors, and set up a process of dialogue that will ...start the elements of building confidence, ...a rapport, a process that can ...lead ...to an understanding on all these ...areas of concern ...on the Iranian side, and ...on the GCC side. ...Broad terms, ...the politics, the ...main issues ...can be agreed [upon] tomorrow. The technicalities will take some time to work... out with... the IAEA. ...[T]hat can also be done ...relatively quickly, because a lot of this ...groundwork was done years ago, and it's ...in place. ...The substantial progress... is... far more than any time before. We just need that bit of extra time to close the deal."

"Your children shall read Quran while sitting by the missile launchers tonight."

"Iran’s leaders before the attack had been clear that they were willing to negotiate on the nuclear question. Talks were ongoing... There had appeared to be a good basis for agreement, given... an Iranian government that... was not in a position to enrich uranium... for the foreseeable future. ...Americans ...were deeply unhappy with the results of America’s last big wars of ...in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the beginning of this joint US–Israel campaign against Iran, only about a third of Americans supported the adventure..."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"400,000 armed people are ready to go to revolt against the United States government system"

"If anyone comes to street they are seen as enemies and not as protestors.All our kids are putting their finger on triggers all alleys , streets , city squares belong to Police, special units and The IRGC Basij."

"War's balance changed and Islamic Republic of Iran has the upper hand, there won't be a negotiatons any country who helps America will be targeted as enemy"

"Our enemy is the stupidest idiot. Our defense system is an ideology not just a defense system, while when we hit Haifa their people were begging for car gas"

"We are prepared to wage war against America for next at least another 10 year"

"Like thunder we will strike Haifa"

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

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

"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."

"[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..."

"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."

"Mahdi is with us and in charge of Umma, he has through Assembly of Experts introduced Ayatallah Mojtaba Khamenei"

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

"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."

"firm of heart against the disbelievers, compassionate among themselves."

"There's a special place in hell reserved for pro-Trump Iranians."

"Russia and China will win the war not just Iran"

"We have arm around Americans neck we will be slapping it when it moves"

"The revolution will not sit down until flag of Mahdi is raised on all corners of earth"

"To save his soldiers Trump has gone to Volodymir Zelensky president-clown of Ukraine for aid"

"A vessel has passed through Hormuz strait , an United States (US) military navy escorted her. In Playstation"

"We have only just begun our missiles have left utter ruin and destruction ,Netanyahu won't let you see"

"All vessels shall not pass Hormuz Strait"

"How much of a cuckold is American president, Australian police has taken our girls out of the hotel and forced and made them to apply for asylum"

"Iran is the conscious of the humanity, its real dignity and glory. It is chosen people fighting for the Victory of the Light. It it Ormuzd, Ishraq. Mahdi people."

"The recent war is between good and evil"

"There is no shelter you can be safe"

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

"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."

"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..."