CIA

alejoSOTO

I get his point, I'd just say that the US has not been a "moral leader". Remember kids, the original 9/11 was democracy getting raped in Chile with the CIA's hand and dildo right in it.

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

it's great. fwd multiple much lower than in october 2025, if you believe such things. kinda primed for a monster rally if CIA can topple IRGC

Nervous-Present-6890

it's not true at all. just standard CIA propaganda

yoboijakke

CIA handbook? Can you elaborate?

f0xinaround

Imagine getting sooo upset over a freaking number. It's all a simulation y'all. Didn't you read the CIA handbook??

Traditional-Koala927

Probably the director of The CIA is lying to an international community of spies when he says that we're coming for you

TheOriginalBushToad

Well....Trump believed Putin over his own CIA so.....

ThisIsPaulDaily

Just pointing out that the meme is misused and the caption from Makrov is about how they want to speak only English because Makrov knows the player is actually from the CIA and spoiler, at the end of the mission kills the player leaving a dead American as the only remaining dead terrorist with witness reports of the assailants speaking English.  Therefore all of Russia will seek revenge.  So. They would all be Bears dressed like Bulls saying No Bears to get the Bears to Blame the Bulls. Idk man.  A surface level take the Bulls kill all the Bears, on a plot of the actual game this was taken from Bears dressed as Bulls kill all the Bears and Blame the Bears.  It is like Four Lions when the guy wants to blow up a Mosque and they Punch themselves in the face to get angry enough to take action. 

cruisin_urchin87

The enemies that surround them are filled with Shia. Kuwait, Iraq, UAE, Qatar, all these places have majority Shia populations. If anything these places are now rife for “revolution” só they become friendly or client states to Iran. Surprised the CIA didn’t tell Donny that.

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

one wonders if factions within Iran wanted the legacy IRGC leadership out, and worked with CIA & Mossad to help things a bit. also, to my knowledge, none of the Iranian army (different from IRGC) leaders were assassinated either. pretty important detail imho

PlanSeekX01

idk i think this whole shitshow was a mistake I think we should've handed this mission over to the CIA instead, fund and arm some rebels then one day boom it looks like a revolution is happening.

Late-Combination5060

CIA shit I'm sure . No way they let him do anything without permission 

Hugheston987

I got perma banned from them too, for saying that the CIA started the euro maiden uprising in Ukraine or something like that

Sportfreunde

The CIA pulled another coup there and jailed the Pakistani leader a few years ago. It's an American puppet govt there now anyways.

TheOriginalBushToad

Hegseth gonna put a CIA agent in the White House tonight to place subliminal messages in Mango's head to attack....

ELHOMBREGATO

$1.7 Billion was Iran's money that the USA froze when they kicked out the CIA's Shah or Iran...

AnonymousLoner1

We just lost (probably permanently) control and military bases all over the Middle East, the results of decades of coups, invasions, CIA/Mossad operations, and building up and propping up Israel.  All because we chose to attack the wrong country one too many times. But sure, from where we're standing, it's just higher gas prices.  So yeah...nothingburger.

rickscarf

THANK YOU They have multiple food courts and cafeterias within the Pentagon (and CIA etc) nobody is ordering pizza from outside vendors - how would a driver even deliver it?

Sharp-Direction-6894

I wonder if Iran has a CIA branch and how much effort they're putting in to identify trump's position and pinpoint him.

spacemoses

This is a super top secret CIA misdirection campaign, didn't yall watch the presser yesterday?

binarypolitics

This projection is comedy gold from the guy whose entire post reads like ChatGPT on training wheels. No, the Egyptian military ousting Morsi after millions protested his Brotherhood power grab and tanking economy wasn’t a “CIA-backed coup”—Obama slammed it, cut aid, and the move had broad Egyptian support at the time, unlike your cherry-picked South America analogies from half a century ago. US aid to Egypt buys the Camp David peace treaty, Suez stability, and counter-terror cooperation, not “puppetry,” while Venezuela gets sanctioned for inviting Russian/Chinese/Iranian bases and destroying its own economy through socialism. Palestinian casualty counts and “IDF murder” claims ignore Hamas starting every round with rockets and human shields, with actual incidents investigated unlike the Brotherhood’s terror record. Your selective outrage exposes the bias, not some grand US conspiracy against Arab democracy that never existed.

onamixt

The CIA spent 23 years and $2 billion studying how to separate your profits from your portfolio. It takes 20 minutes. Try it tonight, after 20:00 ET.

TickTockTaudit

CIA reports to POTUS. POTUS reports to FSB. Makes things tricky on occasion.

AllianceOrTheHorde

If i was in the CIA, I'd be having an aneurysm 24/7

dljmonkeyboiz

Mossad and CIA spreading the Khamanei Jr. is unalived news and threats to blow up infrastructure, in discussions with their selected regime and hoping to see Iranians start a revolution in the next 8 hours.

1-866-867-5309

> This lazy AI-slop comment is peak historical illiteracy the guilty always accuse others of what they're doing, look how AI slopped your own comment was, even has the most ridiculous AI-sounding summarization ending sentence ("These factors have made the U.S.-Israel relationship a cornerstone of American foreign policy for decades") https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1sdse4d/us_allies_are_pressing_for_a_last_minute_deal/oelyrq5/ > forced the Egyptian military that's usually how CIA-backed coups work, look at all the other examples in South America > stems from decades of their own regimes’ propaganda and failed leadership maybe the Palestinian death toll will give you a clue, as well as the IDF's continued murder of journalists, medics, and international aid workers, which IDF has lied about and tried to cover up (until video evidence makes it impossible in some cases) > not US puppetry keeping dictators in power to spite “true democracy.” what do you call the military support and funds to Egypt then? you bring up Egyptians celebrating Morsi's fall, yet ignore all the protests against el-Sisi's sham elections and the US's continued support for him https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/el-sisi-egypt-dictator-103628/ meanwhile a country like Venezuela gets sanctions, blockades, and military invasions from the US because the State Department called out their sham elections, but stay hypocritically silent on Egypt's

JustWordsSnowflake

You’re not wrong. They just fired his top general who would absolutely not let the president nuke Iran. I’m not saying it’s gonna happen, but it would not surprise me if he nuked Tehran. Also watched an interesting podcast from a former CIA agent that says isreal had Epstein as a spy to gather incriminating stuff on the elite to use against them in the future. Funny how isreal is using Trump to wage this war on their sworn enemy and he’s not backing down. I’d wager they have everything they need to burn his ass.

Late-Combination5060

In all seriousness, is Trump even in control or the CIA? You really think he would be allowed to push a button and make big decisions without them directly interfering or telling him what to do? No chance he is actually in charge.... Whatever that means. 

RareGuarantee3532

first about giving women a driver licence, then about saving the protesters, then changing the government, then "prevent Iranian strikes on Israel", then dismantle nuclear facilities, and now about oepning the strait of Hormuz. It's a pity because women were already allowed to drive, JDon admitted yesterday providing weapons to oponents to "assist a revolution", the supreme leader had 7 cancers and was already about to die, Iran has never strike Israel first, the CIA bi annual reports states for the last 10 years that Iran is not building nuclear weapons, and the straight of Hormuz was open. So this is a bit confusing overall.

Available_Road_2538

\*stocks do anything\* Fucking troglodyte redditors: yeah no when I hit my bong this ain't what I predicted, I think the CIA is pumping this

FairEngineering2469

“I did say and I say again, you need not be a Jew to be a Zionist.” -Kamala Harris Both of your options were soulless, sociopaths. Seeing Americans act like your country was going to be kinder to outside nations under Kamala, is bizarre. You're a CIA led war machine, looking to cash in the exp points.

Fearless-Hat-3272

Here is the guy the USA got rid of in 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh Iran was democratic and they generally loved the guy. ___ The CIA put in the Shah and helped create a police state military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi SAVAK (Organization to Protect and Inform the Nation): Formed in 1958 with help from the CIA and Israeli intelligence, this secret police force was notorious for its methods.

Fearless-Hat-3272

You realize the "free" was a brutal dictator the CIA had put in place after the CIA killed the democratically elected president...because he didn't want to give all of their resources away...almost like he knew something like this could happen

RCbuilds4cheapr

I live and commute near DC and northern VA. I saw a single black SUV speeding towards the CIA headquarters w lights and sirens this morning and it could’ve been nothing, or like a car accident or something insignificant but all I could think of was some CIA agent racing towards his SCIF for damage control like “they’re gonna WHAT?!”

merkarver112

I mean, if you want to get technical... Nov 1979 – Jan 1981: Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran; 52 American diplomats and citizens held for 444 days. April 1983: Hezbollah suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. Oct 1983: Hezbollah truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. service members. 1984–1989: Kidnapping and murder of American officials in Beirut, including CIA Station Chief William Buckley (1984) and Marine Col. William Higgins (1989). June 1996: Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, targeting a U.S. military housing complex, killing 19 U.S. airmen. U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China +4 21st Century Attacks and Proxy Warfare 2003–2011: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) supported Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated IEDs, causing roughly 600 U.S. military deaths. Jan 2016: Iran captured and briefly held 10 U.S. Navy sailors on Farsi Island after they entered Iranian territorial waters. Dec 2019: Kataib Hezbollah (Iran-backed militia) fired rockets killing an American contractor in Kirkuk, Iraq. Jan 2020: Iran fired ballistic missiles at the Ain al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, injuring over 100 U.S. troops, in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani. 2021: Multiple naval confrontations in the Gulf of Oman, including helicopter threats to the USS Essex. 2023–2024: Iran-backed militias launched over 170 attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan following the Gaza conflict, resulting in numerous injuries. Jan 2024: A drone strike by Iran-backed militants killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. Foundation for Defense of Democracies Foundation for Defense of Democracies +5 Cyber and Assassination Attempts 2021-2025: Indictments of Iranian individuals for cyberattacks against US municipal power companies and ransomware attacks. 2022-2025: Disrupted plots to assassinate American officials and dissidents, including a plot against President Trump and journalist Masih Alinejad Seems they have been attacking the USA first for a while now...

TJMBeav

Go watch the Netflix documentary (very well done) and then get back to me. It is true that it was CIA backed but that doesn't tell the story. But I'm guessing you know that

Overall-Fold-9720

Bay of pigs was CIA and military backed, so not really fair to call it just "a bunch of crazy Cuban immigrants" But we could make more fit to the situation with the cluster fuck that was eagle claw

Samjabr

Bro, this was my 2nd favorite part. My 1st was the CIA director saying "we know where you are" That was some cold shit

AnonymousLoner1

Mexico actually elected a woman president before America (and Mexico is overrun with CIA-trained cartels).  Something "free" America apparently doesn't want to happen either.

Traditional-Koala927

Remember when the CIA decided that the Iraqi populace had no idea who journalists were so they set up print shops in Iraq before convincing commodity markets that aluminum could be priced against WMDs

cadernera

Finally some US citizens realize that US has been the biggest sponsor of terrorism for the las 70 years. Through dubious wars (mass desttuction weapons in Irak), suporting dictatorships (Allende, noriega, etc), CIA (condor) and direct sponsorhsips of terrorist groups such as ISIS, afghan fanatics

outworlder

Also keep in mind that the current dictatorship is only in power because of a CIA coup in 1953. They had a democratically elected government, who decided to nationalize their oil industry. You don't mess with oil.

jostradumass

So how realistic are sleeper cells? Didn’t that CIA operator that’s always on Shaun Ryan hint something recently?

mrmagootoyou2

Something embarrassing is no one is talking about apparently the CIA gave Kurdish forces a bunch of guns to distribute to protestors The kurds said thanks bro, and just kept the guns

RareGuarantee3532

did he forgot that 20min ago he congrats the CIA that officially reports every 6 months about Iran not building Nukes for the last 10 years ?

ShittyUsernane1222

I bet they play 🥭 speeches 24/7 in Guantanamo bay and CIA black sites.

VincentMac1984

Oh boy, here comes back the clown rambling again. 53 minutes in and all them wasted time except John the CIA guy who wrapped it up in 4 minutes

Independent-Egg9086

CIA we got him move!

meifx

President had huge energy when he slapped the CIA Director on the arm

centered_chaos

CIA guy is eating up 🥭 dirty diaper ass

JPowTheDayTrader

This CIA director might as well give Mango a blow job on live TV lmao What an ass kisser

tinim9

calls on CIA

Soft_Walrus_3605

Bring back George H.W. Bush as CIA Director

ChampionshipOdd947

So the CIA wasn't about results before?

VincentMac1984

28 minutes in, Now John the CIA guy is going to talk about the heroic rescue in terms that the adults in the room can understand

ecoburner87

mango just said right out in the open that CIA/Mossad distributed weapons in early January in the areas where the most incidents happened, so it sounds like they were putting down an insurrection, no one has confirmed the 30-40k number but warmonger israeli/US media. the UN hasn't

Redordit

A CIA and KGB agent walks into a bar. John says “Hey Ivan, you guys have amazing propaganda game!” Ivan say “Haha thanks but not as good as your propaganda!” John replies “What propaganda?”

Sea_Variety_1691

Honestly they should have caught many times. Made a bunch of mistakes. Like some of those guys were on watch lists roaming the US. The CIA and FBI didn't communicate at all

TotalEmployment9996

CIA

modder9

Does it mention how the CIA/Mi6 coup years prior lead to the revolution?

Maximum-Tone164

I see a great many of mentions about BTBD. I don't understand it. How does one go from Dairy Queen to drones? What are they putting in those Blizzards, secret files on thumb drives? Are the remaining stores merely fronts for CIA offices?

CriticismOtherwise78

The DoJ Epstein files are a nothing burger. The real secrets are in the CIA Epstein files but we'll never see them. Are grandkids might.

Moepenmoes

"The CIA confirmed the identity of the downed F-15 crew member, there were concerns it could be an Iranian trap. Within 8 hours, we had planes in motion. Within almost 12 hours we were on the ground in Iran. The CIA ran a deception campaign, leaking plans of a maritime exfiltration to draw Iranian forces away from the area where the downed F-15 crew member was located; officials say it worked." \- FOX News

HeteroflexibleHenry

The Islamic Iranian government is crazy, the Persian people aren't. That doesn't justify the actions of CIA, etc. I never follow the narrative, everything is always very very gray.

grogi81

Directly - no. Indirectly - absolutely. Iran was the biggest ally of the west, CIA was running the whole middle east operations out of Teheran... However, the oil business didn't like the reforms of Mossadegh. CIA + MI6 did stage a coup in Iran in 1953 and introduced a brutal regime of the shah. The revolution was a direct response to absolutely brutal regime.

SirButcher

Funding and supporting religious extremists to topple the government rarely ends up in a peaceful, democratic government, and almost always creates a power vacuum for extremists - and look what happened! Religious extremists took over! What a huge surprise! Hell, Osama Bin Laden was a CIA-trained, US-funded ~~terrorist~~ ~~freedom fighter~~ terrorist. The US directly caused a huge amount of suffering, pain and death in the Middle East. Just the war on Iraq and Afghanistan dwarfs ANYTHING you can bring up, what all the Middle Eastern countries did against the US.

NewAccount428412

I read an article that said CIA used "unique capabilities" to find pilot...I wonder what those are.

avdvetf

I hope the rumors are true and the CIA finally stepped up and did what was needed

nhalas

Let me share my views as someone living close to that region. What we’re seeing right now is Trump trying to open the way for China and Russia. For that reason he deliberately got into this situation, and even though it looks like he messed things up, that was actually exactly what he wanted to do. As for the Iran side, the mullah regime is already under U.S. influence. As long as this leadership installed in Iran with the help of the CIA remains in power, Iran will never truly recover. Recently they replaced the oldest of the increasingly unpopular clerics. If they had just left Iran alone, people were on the verge of carrying out a revolution. U.S. involvement became a shield for them, and now, in a wartime environment, people are no longer in a position to go out into the streets and protest. In short, the mullahs are already America’s men. This war is completely a theater as well. Trump wanted to give them a gift before meeting with China, so that China wouldn’t take Taiwan during his term and could help him in the elections. It’s similar for Russia, but he hasn’t been able to take steps there yet because of the Europeans. Now he’ll bring up energy security and get them to the table as well. We can understand this from the removal of the sanctions applied to Russian oil. Just yesterday he was begging India and Turkey not to use Russian energy, and now he has lifted all the restrictions after prices have already skyrocketed. Europeans have also lined up to start buying gas from Russia again. So once again this will end up being pushed onto ordinary people. The U.S. has a lot of debt to roll over and can’t manage it; it imposes tariffs here and there, but even though it’s a country that operates like a giant factory, it also consumes a lot. These events will reduce purchasing power, and while that happens they invent things to keep people distracted.

Apprehensive_Rub3897

The CIA would handle the shady shit, now it's the executive branch.

One-Possession8942

Lol so you don't care about the shady things. Just them bragging about it . The USA military has been one of most destructive and murderous terrorists the world has ever seen . Dropping bombs from the sky into countless countries at this point . Using CIA to overthrow democracies to install friendly puppet dictatorships . No terrorist organization or rogue nation has murder more civilians since WW2 than the USA . We are not the good guys and haven't been for a long time . We lied and used a false flag for Vietnam Desert storm we had to stop Saddam after WE gave him weapons After 9/11 we invaded Iraq after Saudis did 9/11 on lies that Saddam had wmd's And on and on and on Brake your brainwashing . The USA is not a good guy . It's a super power that wants to impose it's will on others and use force to enrich the oligarchs

InterestingMuscle233

What about US proxies in the middle east? The mujahadeen, saddam hussein in the 1980's, Syrian Rebels, CIA backed iranian rebels that over threw mossadegh, Afghanistan rebels aka the Northern Alliance, the peshmerga, the SDF, now backing the ex isis leader of Syria. These were all funded overtly or covertly by the USA. Roughly the low estimates for how many people these groups killed is 1.6 million, the high estimate is nearly 3 million people. This is if you do not consider the IDF to be a proxie of the usa (which they are, they are armed and funded by the USA in much the same way you could say Hezbollah are armed and funded by Iran). If you included the number of people killed by the IDF in this equation the number is magnitudes higher. Rough numbers for now many people Iranian backed proxies have killed is about 6500, of which roughly 1500 was during the second Iraq war. Compare those numbers and then tell me Iran was the threat.

Xelonima

He hosted an ex-CIA official in his channel, she explicitly warned that this war would be catastrophic. He seemed to take her seriously, I doubt he still supports the war

Basic-Kale3169

A brief history of Iran. Before world war 2, the Iranian regime was a monarchy under the leash of the British and all resources were stolen by the British. During world war 2, Russians, Great Britain and USA fought for influence over Iran. A decade later, Iran elected a democratic president named Mossadegh who nationalized oil and kicked out the British and Americans petroleum companies who were stealing half of the profit from every gallon of oil. The West started to impose sanctions. The CIA and M6 organized a coup d’état to put back the shah (king), who was a very unpopular tyrant. He gave back the oil to the Americans and British, tortured people, acted like a dictator, and this led to an inevitable revolution. This proves beyond doubt that the west doesn’t believe in democracy, but only in exploitation. Democracy is an illusion. The opinion of the people doesn’t matter, except when it’s aligned with the exploitative nature of western imperialism.

Nom-De-Gruyere

This is literally how you prepare the situation for a military coup to happen. If these guys have the loyalty of the ranks below them it sets up a dangerous situation if things start to crack at the top. Suppose most of the military except for the yes men at the top think the current government is disrespectful and undeserving of their command over them. Suppose most of the CIA except for the yes men at the top are pissed at how they have to support the russians after a career of working against them. Suppose most of the FBI except the yes men at the top think the current government are actually criminals (because they had to redact the evidence themselves) and should be in prison. At some point it could boil over.

SZJX

lol that’s such a weird comment. The CIA “helped” set up the shah, i.e. it helped that faction come to power. Of course the faction had to exist in the first place as well. What’s anything weird about this? This is something that has happened since time immemorial.

AnonymousLoner1

Good Mossad bot.  Netanyahu would be proud. https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-frustrated-that-mossad-promises-of-iran-uprising-have-fallen-short/ Maybe if your CIA counterparts were here, they'd do a better job than you did faking these "protests", like they did decades ago. > Shaping the crowds on Tehran’s streets proved critical to the operation. The CIA organized demonstrators to pose as pro-shah protesters, including paying individuals to chant slogans and confront Mossadegh supporters. > These orchestrated demonstrations climaxed on Aug. 19, 1953, when pro-shah forces and sympathetic leaders in the Iranian military – with CIA financial and logistical backing – seized key points of the country, confronted Mossadegh loyalists and helped topple his government. Estimates suggest around 200 to 300 people were killed in the chaotic fighting in Tehran. https://theconversation.com/cia-agents-successfully-executed-a-plan-for-regime-change-in-iran-in-1953-but-trump-hasnt-revealed-any-signs-of-a-plan-277202 ...with this being the result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_State_of_Iran

financiallythriving

Imagine doing Face ID and allowing the CIA to use your facial data

dipolesolution

70 years of evil CIA and politicians exploiting foreign countries ***. Fixed that for you. Now the USA is being dismantled by an evil clown + Israel from the inside. I would say it’s karma, but everyone innocent is suffering more than the pieces of shit that caused this.

EvillNooB

Bold of you to assume that it's still not some phase of the CIA plan

OverSpecific2113

I mean the whole reason there’s instability in the Middle East in the first place was due to unlawful attacks by the CIA/British/Israeli intelligence

SharpestOne

The “CIA did this” narrative is just racism in new clothes. Let’s not pretend Iranians had no agency

MemevendorO-o-O

70 years of CIA missions to keep foreign countries using the petrodollar undone by an evil clown /sad

ChaseballBat

Didn't the CIA set up the current leadership in Iran decades after WWII?

whistlar

How hasn’t the Iranian people just completely revolted by now? You’d think this would be a slam dunk for the CIA to be working behind the scenes to bring it down. That said, fuck everything and every side of this idiotic war.

Dry_Werewolf_1597

Iran’s internal repression is a separate debate. This article is about whether Iran is an imminent threat to the US, and on that the record is clear: they haven’t attacked the US homeland and ‘imminent threat’ claims before Middle East wars have a bad track record. Remember the WMDs. Also, America already tried running Iran. The Shah was Washington’s guy — his secret police tortured thousands with CIA support. That’s literally what caused the 1979 revolution. Iranians didn’t overthrow one foreign-backed ruler just to get another one. ‘Their government is bad’ and ‘they’re about to attack us’ are two completely different arguments. Mixing them together until nobody can tell them apart is exactly what propaganda does

Davereeno

Pretty sure the State Department, CIA, Pentagon, etc., all had staff experts on Iran and Middle East politics. But the Trump administration has probably fired all of them that weren’t yes-men. There’s nobody there to tell Trump, hey this is a very bad idea.

Pretty_Property9155

Dude is on line support in some tunnel the CIA has found

No_Relief_8705

This is a CIA torture psy-op.

BaconKittens

What? Iran has been a consistent aggressor and Israel has been the target of a lot of that. There are plenty of reasons to stop Iran from having weapons of mass destruction. It’s almost like people here don’t know history. November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff. April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans. October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut. March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year. September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut. December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials. June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac. July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon. April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip. August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others. February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans. March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center. May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank. June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia. September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens. August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens. August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans. January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank. July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem. October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza. Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.” August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American. August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict. January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center. March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison. July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF. October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank. December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq. January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq. September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors. July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria. September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan. November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad. March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria. October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre. December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq. January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan. Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members. November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump. June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.

raynorelyp

Dude that’s not even close. Bay of Pigs wasn’t a disaster because it was a failed invasion of Cuba. It was a disaster because the CIA started an invasion of another country without the approval of the president and then when the president found out he pulled the plug. Except the invasion has already started so the first wave was left out to dry while the US military watched them get executed because they were forbidden from participating. It was bad for the US because it made the president look not in control of his own military, the military look weak against a lesser power, and solidified the Cuban regime. The Iran Contra affair wasn’t controversial because of Iran or the Contra. It was because what Reagan did was literally high treason and he weaseled his way out of it due to a lack of concrete evidence. ICE might be paramilitary, but they aren’t rogue, and paramilitary has been pretty normal in the US for a looooong time. Just because they’re awful doesn’t mean they are ignoring the orders of the executive branch, which is what rogue would mean in this context.

uwu_owo_whats_this

Lmfao bro is in the CIA because no deployment is really ever on blackout unless someone dies or shit is about to go down

Shot-Maximum-

If that was the case then Hegseth and Vance would already be rotting in a CIA black site for their handling of "Opsec"

Upper_Possession6275

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/01/766191/pezeshkian-letter-American-people Hopefully I don’t get put on a CIA watchlist

Garbage-Disposal-938

Ok interesting discussion. Here's what I see. The US has always been the strongest force within NATO. It was the US that involved itself in Ukraine's affairs in recent decades, transforming it into a pro-Western country with pro-Western leaders. The US had something like 11 CIA bases in Ukraine up until this war broke out. The National Endowment for Democracy and the US State Department were instrumental in all this. And right now, it is the US that runs the Ukrainian defense, not EU/NATO. They don't have the troops or the weaponry. Even we don't have the troops. And we're running out of weaponry. But our generals in US/German bases have been calling the shots and providing intelligence and weaponry to Ukraine which their soldiers are fighting. Eventually Russia will be the acknowledged winner and will keep the eastern parts of Ukraine. EU NATO leaders are more or less puppets screened and/or appointed by the US. EU nations do not have a military which can match the Russian army right now. They've leaned heavily on the US for decades. This is what Trump complained so much about in his first term: EU not paying its fair share for NATO. Over the last year or so, some EU leaders have bloviated about rebuilding their economies with large increases in defense spending so that they can face down this Russian menace and maybe even take Russia's natural resources and pay down their own massive national debts. But right now, their militaries are just not in a state to do such a thing. Their entire industrial economies are hobbled by very high energy costs now. Industrial bases in the EU are shrinking, not expanding. How will they build massive quantities of military equipment? On the other side, before Trump, the Germans had been doing a good energy pipeline business with Russia, which, I think, strongly suggests they weren't worried about feeding the Russian bear and making it stronger. Germans saw the cheap natural gas as a good deal and beneficial for their economy. Obama recognized that Russia had escalation dominance in Ukraine and that the US had no incentive to try and push on them. Then we got Trump/Biden/Trump. Trump said, I don't know how many times, that he would end the war with Russia in 24 hours. If Russia were losing, why did they rebuff Trump? So I see it differently. EU countries don't have enough of their own energy supplies and imports are way too expensive. They have big debt problems, their social fabric is unraveling and their industrial bases are fading fast. They need outside help if Russia attacks. But I also don't think Russia will attack because what would be the point for them?

FunkyMonk100k

Well we’ve tried using the CIA installing a puppet leader (Iran), invading and getting their leader killed (Iraq), and invading to remove a political party (Afghanistan). None of that seemed to work. We bombed the shit out of Germany and Japan then brought them into the world economy and that seemed to work. It’s like when you’re poor then get an extremely high paying job, you don’t go shoplifting or breaking into peoples houses for money

chessto

Destabilizing governments, attempting/performing assassination of foreign leaders, arming opposing factions, creating chaos in democratic emergent countries, keeping concentration camps and using torture for interrogation. Give me a break, the US has been a terrorist nation. Does operation Condor ring a bell? my country suffered a lot from the CIA interventions and still does to this day, just that the media factory in the US has promoted the idea that in order to be a terrorist you need to be an army without a state.

OrdinaryMix4013

goddamn its like the CIA FBI removing comments here for no reason

Calibrumm

not saying Trump was or wasn't willing, I don't like him regardless, but I don't think you understand that none of these people were given a choice and this has been going on wayyyy before Epstein. this is 1950s CIA blue suite playbook but now with Israeli management.

AgitatedJump8459

Do you think CIA checks wsb?