SAID does not officially sponsor or fund individual Afrobeats musicians or commercial music genres, but it has heavily invested in Africa's creative economy and entertainment sectors to promote social change.
Most notably, through the Africa Creative Blueprint (ACB)—a collective $3.5 million partnership with Nigeria's Ascend Studios—the agency funded intensive training programs for thousands of young creatives. This initiative was designed to establish a skilled entertainment workforce capable of producing high-quality, "music-infused" television dramas designed to spread positive social messages and foster inclusive economic growth.
Key Details of USAID's Creative Funding in Africa
The Africa Creative Blueprint (ACB): In late 2024, USAID launched this $3.5 million initiative alongside Ascend Studios. The project provided training to 3,500 Nigerian youth across multiple cities (such as Lagos, Abuja, and Enugu) to build infrastructure in TV and music production.
Music Diplomacy Rumors: Because of USAID's historical use of "music diplomacy" and community development programs, the agency has frequently faced claims or political scrutiny regarding how it uses music and pop culture to shape narratives. However, it operates as a humanitarian development agency rather than a commercial music sponsor.
Current Operational Status: It is worth noting that USAID’s spending globally—including its funding programs across Africa—has undergone massive restructuring and freezes following sweeping foreign policy audits by the U.S. administration
Loads of Phone Calls are coming in for the judge in the Lindsay Clancy mrder trial to hold open contempt hearings against the nurse jurors - who other jurors admitted - used their own opinions about medications and toxicology findings to explain medical evidence to other jurors and influence their decisions. Outrage erupted after three of the female jurors made the admission during an interview, saying that nurses on the jury were answering questions about the medications, and walking the panel through a South Shore Hospital report as well as a toxicology report.
Critics say this crossed the line, and violated the rules set in place by Judge Sullivan, who told them: Jurors may not answer questions in the jury room with anything except the exhibits and evidence already admitted in court. Any questions about the hospital report, toxicology report, medications, amounts, reactions, etc. should have been answered by the medical experts who testified under oath on the stand, and not fellow jurors.
If there were questions beyond what they felt they could answer via that testimony, a note should have been sent to the judge asking for clarification.
However, critics say the nurses acted like unsworn experts then used their own interpretations to influence the panel and pressure the one hold-out juror to flip his vote to not guilty. These are the nurses who: Gushed over the performance of defense attorney Kevin Reddington, Praised Reddington for his 'extreme compassion' for Clancy and for being 'really funny'
Said the prosecution was too harsh on a woman who klled her three kids by strangling them to deth.
Attacked the lone holdout juror because he couldn't get over 'how viciously she klled her three kids
Accused the hold out juror of being arrogant because he didn't base his vote on their medical opinions.
Three jurors - foreperson Roni Carlson, fifth-grade special-needs teacher Paula Devlin; and Kellie Farina, a retired chef - talked about what happened in the jury room.
They said the 12-person jury of nine women and three men spent seven days, and more than 36 hours deadlocked 11-1.
They wanted a finding that Clancy was not guilty, but one man would not join them. They said arguments inside the jury room were so loud that the alternate jurors thought they were fighting.
Because the juror would not change his vote, Carlson sent a note to Judge Sullivan accusing the hold out juror of not following the law.
Reddington even asked the judge to remove that juror.
What do you think? Should those jurors have to face contempt hearings for their actions? And was the jury – that was packed with nurses and teachers - biased? #ChristinaAguayoNews
The Obama and Biden presidencies bookend a period of significant change in America’s Muslim demographic and immigration landscape.so naturally we must thank the Democrats, along with Barrack Obama, and Joe Biden, for giving us and for the changing the face of the Muslim refugee policy. That was the reason for the extremely influx of all the new Muslims who have been flooding into our Government latley
Back when Barack Obama first took office in 2009, Muslims represented approximately 22% of U.S. refugee admissions. That share climbed steadily during his presidency, reaching 37% in 2013, 40% in 2014, 41% in 2015, and peaking at 46% in 2016, when Muslim refugees slightly outnumbered Christian refugees for the first time since 2006.
The Biden years saw that trend return after the much lower refugee admissions under Trump. Muslims accounted for 39% of refugees admitted in FY2022 and 44% in FY2023, while total refugee admissions rose sharply as the Biden administration restored refugee programs and pursued an “open borders” policy.
This occurred against a broader demographic backdrop. The estimated U.S. Muslim population rose from approximately 2.4 million in 2007 to 3.45 million by 2017, while the number of U.S. mosques increased from about 1,200 in 2000 to roughly 2,800 in 2020.
The Biden administration also presided over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration at the southern border, including a large number of Middle Eastern “gotaways” (people detected crossing illegally but not apprehended).
Every year at September the 11th the victims’ families get together with the NEW YORK CITIES MAYOR. and o other governmental agencies for a commemoration ceremony in downtown Manhattan, putting aside partisan beliefs and pledging to “never forget.”the tragedy of 9-11. This year i’ts going to be different.
The families petition lists many reasons for wanting to exclude Mamdani, including his long reluctance to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and his associations with individuals like his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented an al-Qaeda tanker-bombing pilot to STAY AWAY FROM THE CEREMONY.
President Donald Trump used the Republican Party’s first midterm convention to justify the Iran war rather than trying to put it behind him, abd making a case for the spiking oil prices
The difference between President Trump and 99% of the Democratic politicians, is that Trump is a man of action, and most Democratic politicians are just men of words, mostly empty words and empty promises, that are actually Lies.
God bless America and God Bless President Donald J. Trump! Keep him and his family healthy safe and successful!,. Big Mike should stick to washing dishes
The Below is a BRIEF RESDON WHY EE NEED TO FINISH THIS WAR WITH IRAN ONCE AND FOR ALL. And hopefully you Trump Haters will read this Since seizing power in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran waged a 47-year campaign of war against the United States. The regime fixated on a principal theme, above all else, with trademark fanaticism nearly every day for nearly half a century: “Death to America.”
Its death campaign against the United States is summarized in the timeline below.
America had to die because, according to the worldview of founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the USA above all manifested Satan and immoral satanic forces worldwide. Khomeini fused Shi’ite sharia with political activism and an anti-imperialist worldview of revolutionary expansion.
The U.S., Khomeini said as his supporters dug in at the American embassy in Tehran to keep dozens of diplomats and staff hostage, was the “Great Satan.”
Israel ranked as a lesser satanic force. The “Zionist entity,” Khomeini said in his November 5, 1979 Great Satan speech, was only the “Little Satan,” a mere extension of American imperialism. Iranian Shi’ite revolutionaries are not Sunni Arabs. They did not view Israel as the tail wagging the American dog.
Khomeini’s distinction, which his successor, the recently departed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intensified almost daily, defined the Iranian regime’s fanatical ideology. That ideology shaped its foreign policy and military strategy. The Great Satan had to die.
The ayatollahs and their Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, executed this ideology with a 47-year campaign of terrorism and subversion against the United States, and a fantastically expensive nuclear weapons program.
The timeline below traces the major events of Iranian regime aggression against American targets, which include embassies, military sites and vessels, and more than 1,000 US military personnel killed directly by Iranian regime proxies.
Every single one of the events in the timeline was an act of war against the United States.
Those events, and others not listed, show that the February 28, 2026 destruction of the Iranian regime was a long-overdue defensive action by the United States. Operation Epic Fury placed America First. True to his word at his historic Riyadh speech in 2017, President Donald Trump worked with allies and partners, each for their own reasons but with a shared, common interest, to eliminate a threat that the failures of his six predecessors had allowed to grow.
The timeline
November 4, 1979: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, publicly backs takeover of US Embassy in Tehran and taking 66 American diplomats hostage, subjecting some to torture. The hostages are held for 444 days, and were not freed until President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981.
April 18, 1983: Iran bombs American Embassy in Beirut, through proxy Islamic Jihad (to become Hezbollah), killing 63. Iran provided financial and operational support.
October 23, 1983: Iran bombs US Marine Barracks in Beirut, killing 241, in deadliest attack on Americans since World War II. Hezbollah acts as proxy.
December 12, 1983: Iran bombs US Embassy in Kuwait.
March 16, 1984: Iran kidnaps CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley, imprisoning him for 15 months and torturing him for much of his captivity until murdering him in June, 1985. Hezbollah acts as proxy.
September 20, 1984: Iran bombs US Embassy Annex in Beirut, killing 24, via Hezbollah proxy.
June 14, 1985: Iran-backed terrorists hijack an American TWA jetliner, flight 847, holding passengers hostage for 17 days and torturing and murdering US Navy diver Robert Stethem.
1985-1991: Iran proxies kidnap Americans in Lebanon, including journalists, academics, and missionaries, facing torture, isolation, and mock executions, killing several. Terry Anderson is held for 2,454 days.
February 17, 1988: Iran proxy Hebzollah kidnaps US Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins, chief of the Observer Group Lebanon. Hezbollah holds Higgins in brutal captivity, murdering him by torture or by hanging.
April, 1988: Iran mines international waters in the Persian Gulf, damaging an American frigate, the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
February 26, 1993: Iran-linked operatives bomb the World Trade Center in New York City. US intelligence and subsequent indictments tie some of the bombers to Iran terror networks in Afghanistan and Sudan.
June 25, 1996: Iran bombs the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US Air Force personnel and injuring nearly 500. A subsequent US federal court verdict in 2018 found that Supreme Leader Khamenei personally approved the bombing and that the IRGC financed and directed it proxy Hezbollah al-Hejaz.
2000-2010s: Iran-backed networks in Latin America conspire to kidnap or assassinate American officials and their families, with some plots foiled by US law enforcement and intelligence.
2003-2011: Iran kills more than 600 American military personnel and wounds thousands in Iraq by financing, training, and arming jihadist insurgents in Iraq. IRGC Qods Force orchestrates the attacks of Iraqi Shi’ite militias (Mahdi Army, Kataib Hezbollah), and provides Iranian-made Explosively Formed Penetrators
Stocks dropped another 350 plus. Thursday after U.S. oil prices topped $100 a barrel, amid growing fears of higher inflation from a prolonged war in the Middle East.
Your timeline doesn't start earlier for a reason. You left off this...
August 1953: Operation Ajax to restore the Shah of Iran to power after Iran's Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, nationalized the country's oil industry and took control away from British companies.
And that bigly contributed to what came after. The Great Satan installed the Shah to steal the oil of Iran. But the Right ignores that so they can place all blame on Iran. "They hate us for our freedoms" is the reason according to the Right. Otherwise they have absolutely no reason at all to be angry🙄
Blowback.
The US has a history of interfering in the affairs of other countries and they end up hating us as a result.
King donald just stole a bigly portion of the oil of Venezuela, setting up future blowback. This is a big reason why they hate us.
...historians widely consider the 1953 CIA-backed coup to be the foundational instigating incident for modern anti-American sentiment in Iran.
The divergence between the political rhetoric and historical consensus highlights two very different starting points for the conflict...
👉1. The Historical Perspective (1953).
For most historians and the Iranian public, the timeline of hostility began decades before the hostage crisis.
The Root Cause: The United States overthrew a democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh.
The Consequences: By re-installing the Shah, the U.S. became explicitly tied to twenty-six years of political oppression and economic disparity in Iran. When the 1979 Revolution occurred, the anger was not directed at "American freedoms," but rather at decades of direct American intervention in Iranian sovereignty.
The Hostage Trigger: The storming of the U.S. Embassy in November 1979 happened specifically after the U.S. allowed the exiled Shah into New York for medical treatment. Having lived through 1953, the revolutionaries deeply feared that history was repeating itself and that the U.S. was planning another coup to restore the Shah to power.
👉2. The Political Narrative (1979).
The narrative that hostilities began in 1979 is standard among many U.S. political figures, particularly on the right.
Donald Trump's Stance...
Donald Trump's views on Iran are heavily rooted in the 1979 hostage crisis. Dating back to media interviews he gave as a private citizen in 1980, Trump frequently pointed to the crisis as a "horror" and a defining moment where the U.S. lost global respect by not using military force. In public statements, he has frequently referenced "decades of terror" tracing back specifically to the rise of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
"They Hate Us For Our Freedoms"... This phrase, popularized by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, frames Middle Eastern anti-Americanism as an ideological clash of values (democracy vs. fundamentalism).
👉Summary...
While U.S. political rhetoric frames the conflict as starting with unprovoked aggression against Americans in 1979, historical analysis shows that the 1979 crisis was a direct reaction to the 1953 coup and subsequent U.S. support for a brutal dictatorship.
That's the plan John Ratcliffe likes? donald trump must be happy with the job he is doing, given that he has nominated him for a number of positions. Given this, the purpose of this post is to say that this is great and you endorse it? Why don't you explain why you think this is a fantastic idea?
Wikipedia: In February 2020, Trump nominated Ratcliffe for a second time as the director of national intelligence. Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate in May. In November 2024, Trump named Ratcliffe as his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ratcliffe appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence prior to Trump's second inauguration and was confirmed by the Senate that month.
I'm not expecting that donald trump is going to send me $5k if republicans win the midterms. Same as I never expected that there would be a DOGE or tariff rebate. Even though donald trump floated both payments. But the Turd king donald trump wasn't talking to me. He was talking to YOU (morons replying above... "Me" and "Anonymous").
It was one year since the left murdered Charlie Kirk. And why was he Murdered? Charlie Kirk did not use hate speech, and he never did. But he used speech that they hated. They killed him not for telling lies, but for telling the truth. He stood publicly for the truth as he understood it, he defended his faith, and he continued to engage with people who disagreed with him in an normal , and courteous way He did not shy away from controversial conversations, he said what needed to be stated, and he upheld his christian values. He used the large following he had to preach the Gospel in a political light, and made this the core of his career.
He will be remembered for his courage and for his faith, bringing millions of people closer to God. He was Truly a servant of the Lord. And the murdered him not because of why he said. but because he threatened them by telling the truth. His legacy is to be carried on. We are Charlie Kirk
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I knew who he was, but I had never had much of an opinion on him. I've seen several video clips over the past year or so since his murder and I have yet to see an example of him being the monster or anything bad as he's been portrayed by the left as they say Nonetheless, it's incredibly disturbing and alarming to see so many people overjoyed and mocking the brutal murder of a man who left behind a beautiful and wonderful wife and two young children simply because his political views were different than theirs.are! What a shame and waste.
donald trump is the most corrupt president in American history. I don't know who is more corrupt in world history. Probably Putin. Putin is very wealthy, having profited enormously from being president of Russia. donald trump is following in the Putin mould and using the US presidency to corruptly profit from being president.
He is also a White Supremacist and incredibly stupid. I think that anyone who disagrees with this correct assessment is likely not that bright themselves. Given that what I wrote is true and easily discernible to anyone paying attention.
btw, Bernie Sanders is a great man and should have been president. If Bernie Sanders had been president things would be much different today. By which I mean better.
The US military removed the guy at the top. Their corrupt regime is still in place. Now US oil companies are back to steal the natural resources of the country. You think the ordinary Venezuelan citizen will benefit, or the corrupt government? And you think there will be no anger or resentment directed at the United States?
...a new poll ... conducted by the Caracas firm Meganálisis shows their [Venezuelans] approval of President Trump’s handling of the post-Maduro transition has plummeted. More than 90% of Venezuelans told Meganálisis in January they were grateful to Trump for sending U.S. special forces into Caracas that month to remove Maduro, who's now facing drug-trafficking charges in New York.
But only about half said they feel good about Trump now. More than three-fourths say things are going badly, and only 6% see things going well, under interim President Delcy RodrÃguez — the Maduro regime holdover whom Trump has strongly praised for letting the U.S. take control of Venezuela’s oil.
Almost 90% percent disapprove of Trump’s support of RodrÃguez, and 94% say she’s doing too little to move Venezuela back to democracy. ... In the January Meganálisis poll, most Venezuelans said they felt Trump was more interested in extracting their country's oil than in restoring its democracy. Link
There won't be any 5k to "earn" regardless of what happens. Win or lose, this is money that won't be given. The SAME as there were no DOGE or Tariff rebates. donald trump lied. You actually believe there will be 5k for every adult citizen if republicans retain power?
I heard the total would be over a trillion dollars. Congress won't pass any legislation appropriating it. That's aside from the fact that donald trump broke the law by offering to bribe US citizens into voting republican.
Tyler James Robinson was arrested and will be tried for murdering Charlie Kirk. Tyler James Robinson does not represent the Left. He was not elected to head "the Left". Democrats have condemned the murder.
FYI, "Robinson's grandmother said most of the family are Republicans, and added that she did not know a single Democrat".
The Charlie Kirk murder was more republican-on-republican violence. Remember that the first two alleged assassination attempts against donald trump were carried out by republicans.
The Stock Exchange lost 315 points After news of Crude supply routes through both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea disrupted by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Brent crude jumped 6% to $107 a barrel, adding to inflation worries and fueling expectations the Fed will raise interest rates at its policy meeting on Wednesday.
Why do the Iranians hate the Americans The tension between Iran and the United States stems from a very long history of political conflict and the ideology of Iran's ruling government. While the government and its leaders promote strong anti-American policies, the everyday people in Iran are often very welcoming and do not harbor personal hatred for ordinary Americans.
Of course they'll raise interest rates. Funneling more wealth accumulation to capitalist financial institutions as people rely on credit just to survive the inflationary spiral created by twiddle dee trump.
48 comments:
The Question Is, “. Is Rap Dying Because of USAID?
The Answer Is. Who The shell Gives A Damn?
Huh?
Its all Afrobeats now...
SAID does not officially sponsor or fund individual Afrobeats musicians or commercial music genres, but it has heavily invested in Africa's creative economy and entertainment sectors to promote social change.
Most notably, through the Africa Creative Blueprint (ACB)—a collective $3.5 million partnership with Nigeria's Ascend Studios—the agency funded intensive training programs for thousands of young creatives. This initiative was designed to establish a skilled entertainment workforce capable of producing high-quality, "music-infused" television dramas designed to spread positive social messages and foster inclusive economic growth.
Key Details of USAID's Creative Funding in Africa
The Africa Creative Blueprint (ACB): In late 2024, USAID launched this $3.5 million initiative alongside Ascend Studios. The project provided training to 3,500 Nigerian youth across multiple cities (such as Lagos, Abuja, and Enugu) to build infrastructure in TV and music production.
Music Diplomacy Rumors: Because of USAID's historical use of "music diplomacy" and community development programs, the agency has frequently faced claims or political scrutiny regarding how it uses music and pop culture to shape narratives. However, it operates as a humanitarian development agency rather than a commercial music sponsor.
Current Operational Status: It is worth noting that USAID’s spending globally—including its funding programs across Africa—has undergone massive restructuring and freezes following sweeping foreign policy audits by the U.S. administration
Do i hafta rap?
Loads of Phone Calls are coming in for the judge in the Lindsay Clancy mrder trial to hold open contempt hearings against the nurse jurors - who other jurors admitted - used their own opinions about medications and toxicology findings to explain medical evidence to other jurors and influence their decisions.
Outrage erupted after three of the female jurors made the admission during an interview, saying that nurses on the jury were answering questions about the medications, and walking the panel through a South Shore Hospital report as well as a toxicology report.
Critics say this crossed the line, and violated the rules set in place by Judge Sullivan, who told them: Jurors may not answer questions in the jury room with anything except the exhibits and evidence already admitted in court. Any questions about the hospital report, toxicology report, medications, amounts, reactions, etc. should have been answered by the medical experts who testified under oath on the stand, and not fellow jurors.
If there were questions beyond what they felt they could answer via that testimony, a note should have been sent to the judge asking for clarification.
However, critics say the nurses acted like unsworn experts then used their own interpretations to influence the panel and pressure the one hold-out juror to flip his vote to not guilty.
These are the nurses who: Gushed over the performance of defense attorney Kevin Reddington,
Praised Reddington for his 'extreme compassion' for Clancy and for being 'really funny'
Said the prosecution was too harsh on a woman who klled her three kids by strangling them to deth.
Attacked the lone holdout juror because he couldn't get over 'how viciously she klled her three kids
Accused the hold out juror of being arrogant because he didn't base his vote on their medical opinions.
Three jurors - foreperson Roni Carlson, fifth-grade special-needs teacher Paula Devlin; and Kellie Farina, a retired chef - talked about what happened in the jury room.
They said the 12-person jury of nine women and three men spent seven days, and more than 36 hours deadlocked 11-1.
They wanted a finding that Clancy was not guilty, but one man would not join them. They said arguments inside the jury room were so loud that the alternate jurors thought they were fighting.
Because the juror would not change his vote, Carlson sent a note to Judge Sullivan accusing the hold out juror of not following the law.
Reddington even asked the judge to remove that juror.
What do you think? Should those jurors have to face contempt hearings for their actions? And was the jury – that was packed with nurses and teachers - biased? #ChristinaAguayoNews
The Obama and Biden presidencies bookend a period of significant change in America’s Muslim demographic and immigration landscape.so naturally we must thank the Democrats, along with Barrack Obama, and Joe Biden, for giving us and for the changing the face of the Muslim refugee policy. That was the reason for the extremely influx of all the new Muslims who have been flooding into our Government latley
Back when Barack Obama first took office in 2009, Muslims represented approximately 22% of U.S. refugee admissions. That share climbed steadily during his presidency, reaching 37% in 2013, 40% in 2014, 41% in 2015, and peaking at 46% in 2016, when Muslim refugees slightly outnumbered Christian refugees for the first time since 2006.
The Biden years saw that trend return after the much lower refugee admissions under Trump. Muslims accounted for 39% of refugees admitted in FY2022 and 44% in FY2023, while total refugee admissions rose sharply as the Biden administration restored refugee programs and pursued an “open borders” policy.
This occurred against a broader demographic backdrop. The estimated U.S. Muslim population rose from approximately 2.4 million in 2007 to 3.45 million by 2017, while the number of U.S. mosques increased from about 1,200 in 2000 to roughly 2,800 in 2020.
The Biden administration also presided over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration at the southern border, including a large number of Middle Eastern “gotaways” (people detected crossing illegally but not apprehended).
Every year at September the 11th the victims’ families get together with the NEW YORK CITIES MAYOR. and o other governmental agencies for a commemoration ceremony in downtown Manhattan, putting aside partisan beliefs and pledging to “never forget.”the tragedy of 9-11.
This year i’ts going to be different.
The families petition lists many reasons for wanting to exclude Mamdani, including his long reluctance to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and his associations with individuals like his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented an al-Qaeda tanker-bombing pilot to STAY AWAY FROM THE CEREMONY.
Progressive Hater
President Donald Trump used the Republican Party’s first midterm convention to justify the Iran war rather than trying to put it behind him, abd making a case for the spiking oil prices
The difference between President Trump and 99% of the Democratic politicians, is that Trump is a man of action, and most Democratic politicians are just men of words, mostly empty words and empty promises, that are actually Lies.
God bless America and God Bless President Donald J. Trump! Keep him and his family healthy safe and successful!,.
Big Mike should stick to washing dishes
Bring lots of Eggs and Tomatoes to the 9-11 Ceremonies just in case Zohran Mamdani shows up.
The Below is a BRIEF RESDON WHY EE NEED TO FINISH THIS WAR WITH IRAN ONCE AND FOR ALL. And hopefully you Trump Haters will read this
Since seizing power in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran waged a 47-year campaign of war against the United States. The regime fixated on a principal theme, above all else, with trademark fanaticism nearly every day for nearly half a century: “Death to America.”
Its death campaign against the United States is summarized in the timeline below.
America had to die because, according to the worldview of founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the USA above all manifested Satan and immoral satanic forces worldwide. Khomeini fused Shi’ite sharia with political activism and an anti-imperialist worldview of revolutionary expansion.
The U.S., Khomeini said as his supporters dug in at the American embassy in Tehran to keep dozens of diplomats and staff hostage, was the “Great Satan.”
Israel ranked as a lesser satanic force. The “Zionist entity,” Khomeini said in his November 5, 1979 Great Satan speech, was only the “Little Satan,” a mere extension of American imperialism. Iranian Shi’ite revolutionaries are not Sunni Arabs. They did not view Israel as the tail wagging the American dog.
Khomeini’s distinction, which his successor, the recently departed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intensified almost daily, defined the Iranian regime’s fanatical ideology. That ideology shaped its foreign policy and military strategy. The Great Satan had to die.
The ayatollahs and their Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, executed this ideology with a 47-year campaign of terrorism and subversion against the United States, and a fantastically expensive nuclear weapons program.
The timeline below traces the major events of Iranian regime aggression against American targets, which include embassies, military sites and vessels, and more than 1,000 US military personnel killed directly by Iranian regime proxies.
Continued
Every single one of the events in the timeline was an act of war against the United States.
Those events, and others not listed, show that the February 28, 2026 destruction of the Iranian regime was a long-overdue defensive action by the United States. Operation Epic Fury placed America First. True to his word at his historic Riyadh speech in 2017, President Donald Trump worked with allies and partners, each for their own reasons but with a shared, common interest, to eliminate a threat that the failures of his six predecessors had allowed to grow.
The timeline
November 4, 1979: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, publicly backs takeover of US Embassy in Tehran and taking 66 American diplomats hostage, subjecting some to torture. The hostages are held for 444 days, and were not freed until President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981.
April 18, 1983: Iran bombs American Embassy in Beirut, through proxy Islamic Jihad (to become Hezbollah), killing 63. Iran provided financial and operational support.
October 23, 1983: Iran bombs US Marine Barracks in Beirut, killing 241, in deadliest attack on Americans since World War II. Hezbollah acts as proxy.
December 12, 1983: Iran bombs US Embassy in Kuwait.
March 16, 1984: Iran kidnaps CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley, imprisoning him for 15 months and torturing him for much of his captivity until murdering him in June, 1985. Hezbollah acts as proxy.
September 20, 1984: Iran bombs US Embassy Annex in Beirut, killing 24, via Hezbollah proxy.
June 14, 1985: Iran-backed terrorists hijack an American TWA jetliner, flight 847, holding passengers hostage for 17 days and torturing and murdering US Navy diver Robert Stethem.
1985-1991: Iran proxies kidnap Americans in Lebanon, including journalists, academics, and missionaries, facing torture, isolation, and mock executions, killing several. Terry Anderson is held for 2,454 days.
February 17, 1988: Iran proxy Hebzollah kidnaps US Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins, chief of the Observer Group Lebanon. Hezbollah holds Higgins in brutal captivity, murdering him by torture or by hanging.
April, 1988: Iran mines international waters in the Persian Gulf, damaging an American frigate, the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
February 26, 1993: Iran-linked operatives bomb the World Trade Center in New York City. US intelligence and subsequent indictments tie some of the bombers to Iran terror networks in Afghanistan and Sudan.
June 25, 1996: Iran bombs the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US Air Force personnel and injuring nearly 500. A subsequent US federal court verdict in 2018 found that Supreme Leader Khamenei personally approved the bombing and that the IRGC financed and directed it proxy Hezbollah al-Hejaz.
2000-2010s: Iran-backed networks in Latin America conspire to kidnap or assassinate American officials and their families, with some plots foiled by US law enforcement and intelligence.
2003-2011: Iran kills more than 600 American military personnel and wounds thousands in Iraq by financing, training, and arming jihadist insurgents in Iraq. IRGC Qods Force orchestrates the attacks of Iraqi Shi’ite militias (Mahdi Army, Kataib Hezbollah), and provides Iranian-made Explosively Formed Penetrators
And President Trump says that the Iran war 'will end immediately after' US midterm elections
Stocks dropped another 350 plus. Thursday after U.S. oil prices topped $100 a barrel, amid growing fears of higher inflation from a prolonged war in the Middle East.
Skimmed your info above. Video not watched. Seems like conspiracy theory BS. Actually, given the source, that's a given.
Anonymous: The timeline...
Your timeline doesn't start earlier for a reason. You left off this...
August 1953: Operation Ajax to restore the Shah of Iran to power after Iran's Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, nationalized the country's oil industry and took control away from British companies.
And that bigly contributed to what came after. The Great Satan installed the Shah to steal the oil of Iran. But the Right ignores that so they can place all blame on Iran. "They hate us for our freedoms" is the reason according to the Right. Otherwise they have absolutely no reason at all to be angry🙄
Blowback.
The US has a history of interfering in the affairs of other countries and they end up hating us as a result.
King donald just stole a bigly portion of the oil of Venezuela, setting up future blowback. This is a big reason why they hate us.
Via Gemini...
...historians widely consider the 1953 CIA-backed coup to be the foundational instigating incident for modern anti-American sentiment in Iran.
The divergence between the political rhetoric and historical consensus highlights two very different starting points for the conflict...
👉1. The Historical Perspective (1953).
For most historians and the Iranian public, the timeline of hostility began decades before the hostage crisis.
The Root Cause: The United States overthrew a democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh.
The Consequences: By re-installing the Shah, the U.S. became explicitly tied to twenty-six years of political oppression and economic disparity in Iran. When the 1979 Revolution occurred, the anger was not directed at "American freedoms," but rather at decades of direct American intervention in Iranian sovereignty.
The Hostage Trigger: The storming of the U.S. Embassy in November 1979 happened specifically after the U.S. allowed the exiled Shah into New York for medical treatment. Having lived through 1953, the revolutionaries deeply feared that history was repeating itself and that the U.S. was planning another coup to restore the Shah to power.
👉2. The Political Narrative (1979).
The narrative that hostilities began in 1979 is standard among many U.S. political figures, particularly on the right.
Donald Trump's Stance...
Donald Trump's views on Iran are heavily rooted in the 1979 hostage crisis. Dating back to media interviews he gave as a private citizen in 1980, Trump frequently pointed to the crisis as a "horror" and a defining moment where the U.S. lost global respect by not using military force. In public statements, he has frequently referenced "decades of terror" tracing back specifically to the rise of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
"They Hate Us For Our Freedoms"... This phrase, popularized by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, frames Middle Eastern anti-Americanism as an ideological clash of values (democracy vs. fundamentalism).
👉Summary...
While U.S. political rhetoric frames the conflict as starting with unprovoked aggression against Americans in 1979, historical analysis shows that the 1979 crisis was a direct reaction to the 1953 coup and subsequent U.S. support for a brutal dictatorship.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this. Obviously donald trump thinks his supporters are this dumb.
Well Professor You Are Dumb
That’s Right professor sanders your as DUMB, and as STUPID as they come!.
Google Ai would beg to differ
That's the plan John Ratcliffe likes? donald trump must be happy with the job he is doing, given that he has nominated him for a number of positions. Given this, the purpose of this post is to say that this is great and you endorse it? Why don't you explain why you think this is a fantastic idea?
Wikipedia: In February 2020, Trump nominated Ratcliffe for a second time as the director of national intelligence. Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate in May. In November 2024, Trump named Ratcliffe as his nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ratcliffe appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence prior to Trump's second inauguration and was confirmed by the Senate that month.
I'm not expecting that donald trump is going to send me $5k if republicans win the midterms. Same as I never expected that there would be a DOGE or tariff rebate. Even though donald trump floated both payments. But the Turd king donald trump wasn't talking to me. He was talking to YOU (morons replying above... "Me" and "Anonymous").
Only an ASS-HOLE LIKE YOU Sanders would take a screen'-name with the name of that Other ASSHOLE BERNIE SANDERS as YOU did
It was one year since the left murdered Charlie Kirk.
And why was he Murdered? Charlie Kirk did not use hate speech, and he never did. But he used speech that they hated. They killed him not for telling lies, but for telling the truth. He stood publicly for the truth as he understood it, he defended his faith, and he continued to engage with people who disagreed with him in an normal , and courteous way He did not shy away from controversial conversations, he said what needed to be stated, and he upheld his christian values. He used the large following he had to preach the Gospel in a political light, and made this the core of his career.
He will be remembered for his courage and for his faith, bringing millions of people closer to God. He was Truly a servant of the Lord.
And the murdered him not because of why he said. but because he threatened them by telling the truth.
His legacy is to be carried on. We are Charlie Kirk
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I knew who he was, but I had never had much of an opinion on him. I've seen several video clips over the past year or so since his murder and I have yet to see an example of him being the monster or anything bad as he's been portrayed by the left as they say Nonetheless, it's incredibly disturbing and alarming to see so many people overjoyed and mocking the brutal murder of a man who left behind a beautiful and wonderful wife and two young children simply because his political views were different than theirs.are! What a shame and waste.
They say “ NEVER FORGET “
But I think that they Forgot a long time ago.
When they Forgot st the Voting Booths.
Ratcliff supports funding USAID? Who knew?
Wow, the Venezuelans hate us for pumping the oil Chavez and Maduro preferred to leave in the ground... imagine THAT!
donald trump is the most corrupt president in American history. I don't know who is more corrupt in world history. Probably Putin. Putin is very wealthy, having profited enormously from being president of Russia. donald trump is following in the Putin mould and using the US presidency to corruptly profit from being president.
He is also a White Supremacist and incredibly stupid. I think that anyone who disagrees with this correct assessment is likely not that bright themselves. Given that what I wrote is true and easily discernible to anyone paying attention.
btw, Bernie Sanders is a great man and should have been president. If Bernie Sanders had been president things would be much different today. By which I mean better.
All you need to do to earn your $5k in November is not vote, Derv. How hard could that be?
So who is it in Turd-2 that supports this supposed program? If nobody, why does it still exist?
The war with Iran is the dumbest war in US history, started by the dumbest US president ever.
The US military removed the guy at the top. Their corrupt regime is still in place. Now US oil companies are back to steal the natural resources of the country. You think the ordinary Venezuelan citizen will benefit, or the corrupt government? And you think there will be no anger or resentment directed at the United States?
...a new poll ... conducted by the Caracas firm Meganálisis shows their [Venezuelans] approval of President Trump’s handling of the post-Maduro transition has plummeted. More than 90% of Venezuelans told Meganálisis in January they were grateful to Trump for sending U.S. special forces into Caracas that month to remove Maduro, who's now facing drug-trafficking charges in New York.
But only about half said they feel good about Trump now. More than three-fourths say things are going badly, and only 6% see things going well, under interim President Delcy RodrÃguez — the Maduro regime holdover whom Trump has strongly praised for letting the U.S. take control of Venezuela’s oil.
Almost 90% percent disapprove of Trump’s support of RodrÃguez, and 94% say she’s doing too little to move Venezuela back to democracy. ... In the January Meganálisis poll, most Venezuelans said they felt Trump was more interested in extracting their country's oil than in restoring its democracy. Link
There won't be any 5k to "earn" regardless of what happens. Win or lose, this is money that won't be given. The SAME as there were no DOGE or Tariff rebates. donald trump lied. You actually believe there will be 5k for every adult citizen if republicans retain power?
I heard the total would be over a trillion dollars. Congress won't pass any legislation appropriating it. That's aside from the fact that donald trump broke the law by offering to bribe US citizens into voting republican.
Tyler James Robinson was arrested and will be tried for murdering Charlie Kirk. Tyler James Robinson does not represent the Left. He was not elected to head "the Left". Democrats have condemned the murder.
FYI, "Robinson's grandmother said most of the family are Republicans, and added that she did not know a single Democrat".
The Charlie Kirk murder was more republican-on-republican violence. Remember that the first two alleged assassination attempts against donald trump were carried out by republicans.
I never forgot that george w bush was warned that 9/ll was coming but chose to do nothing.
Why don’t you STOP being such a PRICK
He Can’t he’s an OBSESSED PROGRESSIVE . Therefore he’s a PRICK
The Stock Exchange lost 315 points After news of Crude supply routes through both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea disrupted by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Brent crude jumped 6% to $107 a barrel, adding to inflation worries and fueling expectations the Fed will raise interest rates at its policy meeting on Wednesday.
Steve
Why do the Iranians hate the Americans
The tension between Iran and the United States stems from a very long history of political conflict and the ideology of Iran's ruling government. While the government and its leaders promote strong anti-American policies, the everyday people in Iran are often very welcoming and do not harbor personal hatred for ordinary Americans.
So, as an obsessed reichwing republican we must assume then that you are a PRICK?
Wait, it is only going to get worse.
Of course they'll raise interest rates. Funneling more wealth accumulation to capitalist financial institutions as people rely on credit just to survive the inflationary spiral created by twiddle dee trump.
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