Marco Rubio explains the Goal in Iran Operation: eliminate any possibility of Iran gaining a nuclear weapon.

they will change goal by next week or let's be honest next day

Didn't we bomb their nuclear facilities last year? Didn't Tulsi Gabbard say "As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated"?

Thank god we’re finally stopping them from getting a nuke they’ve been one day away from getting for 30 years

So the goal was met before the war even started?

They had a solid deal that Obama signed but your toxic egotistical vainglorious incompetent corrupt greedy evil nasty child molester lying pond slime of a boss decided that it wasn't good enough so here we are billions of dollars many dead people including school kids killed by your recklessness, back at square one. Please just go.

Mission Failed: Reason: You bombed Iran twice unprovoked during negotiations. Result: USA can't be trusted. Your word means nothing. All countries that don't want to get invaded by the Epstein Regime will end up developing nukes.

Best I can do is a massive increase in nuclear proliferation.

That goal can't be archived with bombing. There are only two alternatives. 1. Invade Iran with a large amount of ground forces, wipe out all remains of the current regime, install a puppet government friendly to the US and stabilise it with large occupation forces for decades. (This can still fail like it did in Afghanistan.) 2. An international treaty that is monitored by neutral authorities. Like the one that existed but Trump broke it because it was negotiated by Obama. Now Iran would likely never trust the US to honour a treaty ever again.

Brilliant strategy. 1. Start war 2. Cause global recession 3. declare war won 4. Backdate war aims 5. leave

That's at least the 9th claimed goal of this illegal war. Though in reality now the only goal still active is to disengage in a way Trump's propagandists can handle (without having people return to talking about the Epstein/Trump files).

They haven’t had a nuclear weapons program for more than 20 years and ayatollah khamenei wrote a fatwa that said nuclear weapons were haram. But the US pulled out of one nuke deal, bombed them during two different diplomatic talks and killed the anti-nuke ayatollah. It would be insane for Iran to not develop nuclear weapons now. Their choice is to either be North Korea or Libya. And multiple Israeli and US officials have described their current course of action as the “Libya option”.

He can't guarantee anything.

They are going to paratroop drop on the mountain where they think the materials are stored. Insane

Admitting the bombing runs last year failed must hurt or later admitting this excuse failed might hurt more although the base will accept it was all Biden's fault. Why we will fail.

The goal is to distract from Epstein.

Is not Lil Mario focused on banging his head against Cubas these days?

"Eliminate any possibility of Iran gaining a nuclear weapon" isn't a military objective. As long as some state that calls itself Iran could exist, there is a possible future where they gain a nuclear weapon. Frankly given how belligerent the US is to the current state of Iran, I suggest they have only succeeded in strengthening any ambitions Iran has at developing nuclear weapons and stockpiling them so the US will leave them the f*** alone. Nuclear weapons are expensive to produce and maintain. By stockpiling enough enriched uranium to quickly develope a simple fission bomb Iran could use the possibility of quickly becoming a nuclear power as a deterant without incurring the costs of actually having nuclear weapons. That's why they've been "X number of months away from a nuclear weapon" for decades.

Enriched uranium still remains in Iran. Iran is pissed now and can initiate its nuclear weapon program with a lot more self defense justification than ever before. This proves to the world's middle powers that if you don't want US to kidnap and assassinate your leaders, or destroy your infrastructure at whims, you will need to have your own nuclear weapon program so that they will think twice before touching you. A nuclear arms race amongst the middle powers will arise.

Rubio is a dummy and a puppet

Whatever my demented daddy says

But they can’t achieve this without full scale ground invasion and regime change. So this goal is not going to be met.

If only someone else had thought of that, came up with a plan that the entire World agreed on, and implemented it successfully.

Great. If only a president could get a negotiated agreement. One that is signed and verifiable. Only a fool would turn down something like that, and opt for a never ended war instead.

“Ugh, I give up! Have Marco explain it to them!”

Let’s be honest your goal should be not to screw up the economy more than you already have

Mission objectives are to continually invent plausible mission objectives

I was way off, I thought it was oil.

"Listen and do anything Israel says".

Iran will now stop at absolutely f****** nothing to get nukes now. In fact any country that values its independence is going to look at China, America, and Russia, and start speed-running nukes.

Which they most likely never had to begin with

What was that thing with Bush about WMD’s?

There’s only really one way to ensure this

Good to know that Rubio thinks Obama got it right. Treaty with inspections was working until Trump threw it out. Bunch of children leading the US right now.

Ok, we leave...I wonder what the absolute first thing Iran is going to do, no matter the cost or international fallout, as soon as they possibly can? Become a nuclear state. It's their only defense at this point. They can't trust the US to negotiate a deal they will uphold, let alone not get bombed midst negotiation. This was just a pants shittingly insane/stupid move by this administration. I fear the end game here is limited nuclear weapon usage to "save face". Who is telling Trump "that's an insanely stupid idea" at this point? His entire cabinet thinks Armageddon is going to be where they all get raptured to live with Jesus, and all the Liberals, guys, and brown people get punished. It's actually terrifying, because these people are unhinged religious zealots. There is no negotiation or actual long term goal here. Not to mention Israel LITERALLY being a Rogue nuclear state, while using this administration to run another Crusade level extermination of Arabs. It's all bad, and I don't feel like people understand HOW bad. The genie is out of the bottle. The toothpaste is out of the tube. The barn door is open and the horses are gone. WW3 is on the cusp of kicking off.

So no regime change? Or harming civilians? I'm so confused.

Iran was 2 weeks from a nuke for 20 years now, how many ways do you f****** beat a dead horse.

Sounds familiar

How though? If North Korea could do it, while having none of the strategic advantages Iran has, and you apparently don't care for a negotiated settlement... *how* are you going to prevent this? Permanent occupation? A new bombing campaign every year? Fragmenting the country so strictly speaking Iran doesn't exist so whichever successor states obtain nuclear weapons at least aren't called "Iran"?

That's not going to ever change

So where do we go from here with the Epstien-Nukes?

To do that you'd have to eliminate Russia.

How can he make sure they can't buy it from russians?

Goalposts change every hour

If nuclear weapons were the issue then why does North Korea have them? Despite knowing they were developing them

I thought they did that when they decimated them last time. Guess they had shovels.

Yeah that’s it. ‘Newclear’ weapons. “Yeah! That’s the ticket!”

that’s an impossible goal to achieve with a limited war

OK, that’s a tangible goal. I’d like to know how any of this moves us closer to that goal. US diplomacy can’t be trusted as we’ve demonstrated twice in the last year. Security guarantees aren’t worth a warm bucket of piss as demonstrated by the US’s inability to defend anyone in the region. Military actions against the regime have thus far resulted in massive damage to the USs allies. So… what? Are they planning on glassing the entire country?

Y'all gonna bomb Iran every 6 months forever then?

Thought Trump said we obliterated their nuclear operation last summer?

They are doing the opposite while showing the rest of the world that you need nukes not to be the next target

I don't see that is even remotely possible without a permanent presence on the ground.

...for now. Eliminating the possibility for now, lil Marco. Get Donnie's balls out of your mouth and say something useful you little prick.

So, did they lie last year when they "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program, or are they lying now?

How does his wife stomach being married to the neutered spineless little insect?

How many non combatants have been killed so far ? They bragged about accuracy of their bombs how about some stats ?

I thought it was to distract from the pdf files, and all the blackmail Benny Nutanyahoo and Putski have on Orange Caesar.

they don't have a goal.

The irony is that if nothing else, operation Epic Fail will virtually guarantee that some of the enriched uranium that Iran has already made will find its way to the hands of terrorists. If they can't make a fission bomb, they'll use it to make some downtown area somewhere uninhabitable.

Sure, lil’ Marco.

Which they said they already did back in January and insisted it was "fake news" to say otherwise.

Man I wish we could just like make a deal with them to not make Nukes. Oh wait…

I thought that did that last year. They said they did anyway.

Did you forget back last summer several bunker destroying bombs were dropped n did just that according to Trump he ended the war before he started it

Maybe the real goal in iran is the friends we ~~made~~ lost along the way?