Loose lips sink ships and get people killed. Donald Trump does not understand the real world ramifications of war and all that accompanies it, intelligence being a key component. He’s not mentally wired in such a manner as to grasp the brutal reality of spy versus spy. Maybe that will change since headlines abroad are blaring the fact that “Iran arrested 700 people in connection with Israel spying” and oh yeah, three of them were hanged already. And this is just a few days after Trumpty’s bombing spree, meant to impress the world with spectacle and pageantry and get him a Nobel Peace Prize. Times Of Israel:
Iran has, over the last 12 days, arrested more than 700 people accused of ties with Israel, state-linked media reported Wednesday in the wake of a ceasefire between the two countries that cut short almost two weeks of war.
“Since the beginning of Israel’s attack on Iran, the Zionist regime’s spy network has been highly active in the country,” said Fars News, reporting on the arrests.
Additionally, the Islamic Republic on Wednesday morning executed three people it accused of collaborating with Israel, its judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced.
The agency named those executed as Idris Ali, Azad Shojai and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, saying they smuggled equipment used in the assassination of one unnamed person.
The men were “arrested and tried for… cooperation favoring the Zionist regime,” Mizan said, referring to Israel. “The sentence was carried out this morning… and they were hanged.”
The executions took place in Urmia, a northwestern city near the border with Turkey, Iran’s judiciary said, sharing photos of the three men in blue prison uniforms.
Tehran regularly announces the arrest and execution of agents suspected of working for foreign intelligence services, including Israel, a country it regularly vows to destroy.
Iran is the world’s second-most prolific executioner after China, according to human rights groups, including Amnesty International.
FAFO is a way of life in that part of the world. And it’s not a time to be in the espionage business with Trump in the White House because he can’t keep his mouth shut.
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Trump in the clip: “You know, Israel, they have guys that go in there after the hit …” pic.twitter.com/QIFBw6JaND
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 25, 2025
Yeah, they have guys that go in — and get caught and get hung. We haven’t heard Trump’s Battle Damage Assessment because that was scheduled for yesterday and got canceled. It’s supposedly set for tomorrow, don’t hold your breath is my assessment. Rick Wilson has two cents to kick in.
It’s always the same movie with Donald Trump. Same clunky script. Same overacting. Same goddamn ending. He opens with fireworks, chest-thumping, and the subtlety of a meth-addled rhinoceros, but when the smoke clears, the big, beautiful explosion he promised turns out to be a firecracker in a trash can.
This week’s sequel?
Mission: Accomplished in Iran, a geopolitical fantasy where Trump personally crafts an OPLAN of a B-2 strike so earth-shatteringly awesome that it allegedly vaporized Iran’s nuclear capability in one glorious orgy of American might. He swaggered to the microphones and his Dollar Store social media platform like a C-grade Bond villain, declaring the “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear program. All caps. All lies.
Before any intelligence assessment was even a gleam in the eye of some smart DIA and Stratcom intel officers, Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program “totally obliterated.”
It was Trump’s version of Trump’s version of BDA, but instead of Battle Damage Assessment, it’s Bullshit Delusion Always.
Nothing changed in the Middle East this past weekend other than to get worse. And don’t be fooled: Iran will retaliate against the United States. Trump worsened our position substantially.
Retaliation will come, but not in the form Trump fantasizes about.
What’s far more likely are asymmetric responses: a car bomb in a European capital targeting American or Israeli diplomats. American tourists snatched and held hostage. A mysterious fire at some American shipping or logistics hub in Iraq. A cyberattack that cripples Gulf oil infrastructure. A drone strike on a U.S. ship in the Red Sea. Attacks on the American power grid in the peak of this hellish summer. Maybe even a targeted assassination of American troops in Europe or the Middle East.
Iran’s response won’t be broadcast with a countdown clock. It’ll come like all their dark work, in ways that are deniable, precise, and bloody. They’re masters at using proxies to execute their horrors.
Trump doesn’t understand this because he thinks wars are waged in slogans. Iran, on the other hand, has made an art out of calibrated, strategic vengeance. They’re patient. And brutal.
All Trump accomplished was to incense an already powerful enemy. And the problem is, as always, there will be retaliation but he’s immune to it. Who knows what the yous and mes might have to cope with?
Let’s see…he destroyed 6000 families at the border the first time around although his ancestors came to this country ILLEGALLY…he got untold numbers killed with his moronic stance against a deadly virus, which is still with us thanks to his lies and his 30% cult member petri dishes status…he has gotten service members killed with his moronic decisions, he threw our Kurdish allies under the bus, getting them slaughtered, and has played loose and fast with top secrets, getting who knows how many of our allies’ agents killed…he is trying to compete with Mao and other dictators. Millions dead. Good job America. As long as you have a tv in every room, and a new phone in every hand, I guess you are the light on the hill. You actually look like a fly covered single watt bulb hanging in a nasty truckstop bathroom. He’s the perfect king for a greedy moronic culture that refuses to own it’s bloody history of racism and greed. I guess that’s why we are here.
Kudos to your creative way with adjectives and descriptive metaphors, SSJ. James Joyce’s facility with language comes to mind. No higher praise, unless someone points to another author to consider.
Thanks. Now if I can just not become a drunk living in this eroding democracy. Of course, that’s not prohibitive to a high paying position in this moronic cabinet.
Brain: what’re we going to do pinky?
Pinky: we’re going up to the lab and take over the world!!!