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There is a reason Khomeini found such an enthusiastic response for his revolution 45 yrs ago, Pahlavi was a murdering tyrant. If they can't do any better than dream of resurrecting the heirs of SAVAK they might as well leave the crazy mullahs alone.

Gasoline prices have crept up about 8% so far around here.

ETTD

It a question of what the real comparison is. The point is the IEAE has at least as good a chance of figuring out what is going on with negotiated access to sites on the ground as we do with remote intelligence from sapce of a bunch of buried stuff. Remember Saddam froze international inspectors out because he realized they were too close to exposing that his nod and a wink claim to have weapons was a sham and his logic was that once he lost that threat, he was toast.

I think this whole thing is a pretty strange role inversion. It used to be Conservatives that chided liberals for celebrating symbolic things that felt good but didn't do any real good or change anything. Until some kind of concrete evidence emerges of change on the ground in Iran, where the IRG army is still clearly in control of military operations, Trump and Bibi have accomplished exactly nothing but make themselves (and TH!) feel good. Not saying something good might not yet happen, but until then they are channeling George Bush on the Abraham Lincoln.

More respect for them than the man that sent them to their deaths ever showed them.

His ballhandling is improving I think. His assists are up, TO's are down - but his shooting is going backward - with a significant drop in his FT %. A slasher that can't put away his free-throws is not the best combination.

This. We've seen Compher play very well in stretches, and Ras too though in only shorter stretches. I suppose the NHL game today is played so close to the limit of human aerobic capacity that there must be guys who just don't have the genetics to maintain an elite energy output level on a consistent basis or neurologically just can't drive themselves to it, so despite whatever skills they flash, in the end you've just got a jersey.. Also TBF, the Wings did come back in this one- McLellan seemed to be deflecting away from Talbot here.

Bombing Iran would be one way to help expose jihadi's hanging out in the US......if you don't mind their victims as collateral damage.

He doesn't even know how the mafia works. Whack the boss and all you get is turf wars.

Decapitating the regime worked in Venezuela didn't it? ...oh, wait, nevermind.

and so it begins.

Good to know that any 5th grade class can muster as much intelligent discussion as the US Congress.

remember when people thought he might be on the 'reform' side? Good times.....

Jurist from the Gaurdian Council == Likely next Supreme Leader.

are we seeing any evidence of regime change yet?

Or it pulls the Saudi's into the shooting.

Under normal circumstances, after the Supreme leader dies the new supreme leader is chosen by a council of top mullahs - sort of like the cardinals picking a pope. But I would be bet you are correct that there is a process for an immediate interim leader for a wartime footing.

the thing I worry about with Iran is along the lines of MB's post above. The regime has been pushed hard before by protest and absorbed the blow pretty easily. One of the things in the West is that like Iraq before the war, we see mostly the Iranians who want what we want. The western press is always looking for the protestors. But once you get outside Teheran, how deeply conservative is the rest of the population? We don't know because we don't see/hear from them. It would be tragic if it turns out the parallel to Afghanistan holds, where the real problem for all those westernized people in Kabul was less our perfidy than the fact that a huge portion of the countryside actually does want to live in the 7th century. I hope you are right, but with no US boots on the ground to take physical control of the levers of power and then hand them to the right people, it's still looks like a crap shoot to me. Which is definitely not saying I want US boots on the ground there.

TBF, you don't have same civil war potential in Iran as in Iraq because 'liberation' in Iran will not mean an armed and previously dominant minority ethnic group is going to be deposed and is going to fight to the the death to hold on. That said, in that part of the world, anything that can go sideways usually does. How deep and hard to dislodge will the power structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran turn out to be? It is as thin as Suprme leaders clique or does it have the ability to reconstitute itself? It's had a long time to get entrenched. But's it's also ticked off almost all the Iranians - at least that is the impression we have in the West.

Celebration is good, but someone better start figuring out how to disarm the IRG, or this could all be short lived.

GHWB and Schwartzkopf

Ex-Congresswoman. Tweets are cheap ego massage. If she had at least hung around she might have done some good voting against him.

the story is on Reuters now and the name are public. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/first-brands-nears-bankruptcy-settlement-tees-up-business-unit-sales-2026-02-27/ Sounds like there might be a chance Ford steps in to straighten it out. That would probably be the best outcome for the employees, but it's not like FoMoCo doesn't have enough problems of it's own either.

turn the question around. If they don't keep Duren, who can fill the void he leaves behind that they either have, or can get? Duren's not a perfect player but I always get a sense of 'the grass is greener' going on in the dissatisfaction level over him. Mitchell may not have been playing but Duren was making a guy that had led the league in the past in DWS look like a child. I get that maxing any player is a tough call, but to me that decision is more about whether the team can afford two maxes in general, less about whether Duren could be one.