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Guess What Time It Is, ‘Iranian Leaders’?

Posted on | March 25, 2026 | No Comments

Do me a favor: Somebody translate this into Farsi, and bring it to the attention of the surviving “leadership” in Tehran, because they obviously don’t know what time it is — it’s time to quit, fellows:

The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
The unit is considered the Army’s emergency response force and can typically be deployed on short notice. The force would include a battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team as well as Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier, the division’s commander, and division staff, according to the people, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans or private conversations.
It’s the latest addition of American troops to the Iran war effort after U.S. officials recently said thousands of Marines aboard several Navy ships will be heading to the region.
While the Marine units are trained in missions that include supporting U.S. embassies, evacuating civilians and disaster relief, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, are trained to parachute into hostile or contested territory to secure key territory and airfields.

You have two choices, Iran: You can surrender, or you can die.

Do you realize that the 82nd Airborne is the best light infantry division on the planet? They can jump out of planes, or they can deploy on helicopters, but once they’re on the ground, they are just combat infantry, and the reason they are “considered the Army’s emergency response force” is because they are trained to a high state of readiness. Every morning begins with a two-mile run, and they do so much physical training, they’re like a team of professional athletes, except there are thousands of them, they carry guns, and every one is a skilled marksman.

Speaking of planes and helicopters and deployment, however, let’s ask a few questions: How many planes and helicopters does Iran’s military have left at this point? Pretty sure it’s close to zero. We’ve wiped out the Iranian air force and sunk the Iranian navy, and if the Iranian army now wishes to get in on the action, exactly how does Iran’s surviving military leadership propose to transport their troops into battle? What, they’re going to ride in trucks? And won’t those truck convoys of Iranian troops be easy targets, rolling down the road, observed in real time by our high-tech surveillance, ready to send bombs and missiles to blow them up?

See, 21st-century warfare isn’t just “boots on the ground.” It’s technology and logistics, and the current state of Iran’s military logistics is FUBAR. (Is there a Farsi synonym for FUBAR?) There is talk about the U.S. seizing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, and I don’t know if that’s true, but suppose it is. Exactly how does Iran propose to defend Kharg Island? How many Iranian troops are on the island now? Are there enough troops on the island to withstand an assault by a Marine expeditionary force, backed up by a battalion from the 82nd Airborne, with the assistance of the 75th Ranger Regiment and whatever Special Forces commando teams might get involved in such an operation?

All told, we’re sending more than 5,000 troops — and perhaps twice that number — toward the Persian Gulf theater of operations, and the Iranian leadership must have some ballpark estimate of how many troops they’ve got on Kharg Island. Pretty sure it’s not enough to deal with all the firepower the U.S.A. could bring to bear on that location, but let’s not even think about that yet. Because, you see, troops have got to eat.

However many troops Iran has on Kharg Island, every one of them consumes a certain number of calories daily, and how much of a stockpile of food do they keep handy on that island? Remember, we sank the Iranian navy, which means that now there is no way that the Iranian regime can send any more food (or troops, weapons, supplies, etc.) to Kharg Island. Whatever the exiting Iranian military presence is on that island, they’re not going to be able to get any help or reinforcement if, as it’s said we’re planning, U.S. troops show up to take the island by force.

Iran has demands? Are you kidding me with this?

Look, I know for a fact that Trump did not — and still does not — want to have to order ground troops into combat in Iran. He sincerely doesn’t want a “forever war” and using ground troops will almost certainly involve casualties more numerous than the handful of unfortunate losses we have suffered so far. Even a one-sided victory over whatever force the Iranians might have on Kharg Island would likely involve dozens of U.S. casualties, and Trump doesn’t want that if he can avoid it.

But the Iranian leadership has demands? We’ve already killed so many of their leaders, we’re dealing with third-string Shiite fanatics at this point and, like I said, Iran’s also lost its air force and navy, so the idea that they’re in any position to make demands is downright insulting. Operation Epic Fury is now in Day 27, and we’ve struck something like 9,000 targets in Iran so far. We’ve blown up so much of their stuff that we’re at risk of running out of targets. The guys running the Pentagon obviously have some very detailed plans for what the Army and Marines can do in Iran — a hunch tells me it’s probably more than just taking Kharg Island — but the Commander-in-Chief would prefer to avoid that, if the Iranian leaders would just decide they don’t want to be the next guy with a mug shot and the word “ELIMINATED” next to it.

Death From Above is coming for you, fellows. And the only way you can stop it is two words — unconditional surrender. Do the right thing.



 

Category: Iran, Military

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