One aircraft down after bombs have been raining on you for weeks and you think you're lit plus one pilot have been rescued already IRGC- very worst self acclaimed middle power beaten so bad, Helicopters are even flying over Ur territories even flying low and slow.....
@globaltrendsX When they're ready for the truth, they'll negotiate and end this war fast......it won't be as deadly if trump put boot 👢 on the ground with what happened today
BREAKING: President Trump has been briefed on reports out of Iran that a U.S. F-15 fighter jet has been downed inside the country, @pdoocy has learned. | @FaulknerFocus
Why is the U.S. using F15’s?
It’s 54 years old, there’s so many more advanced and stealth jets to use.
I’m confused why they are using such ancient jets.
If a U.S. fighter jet was downed and American pilots are on the ground, I guarantee Israel or the U.S. will find them with search-and-rescue teams before the terror regime does.
Both Israel and the U.S. are fully prepared for this moment.
🚨 Reports claim a U.S. F-15 has been downed over Iran.
2 things you can count on:
- Our pilots will NEVER be left behind
- Those responsible will be killed
Pete Hegseth:
If you kill Americans, we will hunt you down without apology, without hesitation, and we will kill you.
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In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution that removed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from power. Pahlavi was the Shah of Iran at the time, a title that literally means KING in Persian, the language spoken in Iran.
His dethroning ended centuries of monarchy in the country. Monarchy, the system of hereditary rule by a king and his family, had defined Iran’s governance for generations.
As the first Supreme Leader of the newly established Islamic Republic, Khomeini’s ambitions went far beyond Iran’s borders.
Deeply convinced that this hereditary system violated core Islamic principles, he sought to uproot monarchy across the entire Muslim world.
Almost immediately after the revolution succeeded, he denounced the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE as illegitimate tyrants, criticizing them both for maintaining hereditary rule and for aligning themselves with Western powers.
He openly called on ordinary citizens across the region to rise up and overthrow these regimes, which he termed oppressive and corrupt.
Khomeini’s dream was to create a political-Islam, a society where every aspect of life and government is based on divine Sharia law and Islamic jurisprudence.
He formulated a new system of government around Shia ideology, in which a theological scholar would rule the country as Supreme Leader with ultimate and final say over all matters.
He argued that Islam offers principles sufficient to govern all aspects of life and society, including all the issues facing the entire world at large.
He rejected democracy, secularism, and liberal values as incompatible with true Islam. Many Shia clerics at the time believed Khomeini had gone too far with this expansive political theory.
His aim was to abolish Western social, cultural, military, and financial influence not only in Iran but across the entire Muslim world, replacing it with Islamic principles.
According to this system, obeying the Supreme Leader is required at all times as a religious duty, and disobedience is seen as a sin.
This ambitious vision quickly extended beyond Iran’s borders, creating serious problems for the region as Khomeini began actively promoting the export of the Islamic Revolution.
This development posed a particular challenge to the Saudi royal family, which positions itself and is widely accepted as the leader of the Muslim world due to its custodianship of Islam’s two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.
Iran’s Shia-centric revolutionary ideology differed fundamentally from the Sunni monarchies of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries, creating an ideological clash.
Sunni-Arab countries, which prized stability and their long-standing alliances with the West, now saw Iran collectively as an existential threat to their way of life.
What truly broke the camel’s back was the shocking siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca on November 20, 1979 the same year as the Iranian Revolution.
Hundreds of conservative Wahhabi militants, led by Juhayman al-Otaybi, disguised themselves as pilgrims, hid assault rifles, machine guns, and grenades under their clothes, then suddenly stormed the Kaaba and its surroundings.
They seized control of Islam’s holiest site, took thousands of worshippers hostage, and denounced the Saudi royal family as corrupt tyrants who had betrayed true Islam.
What truly deepened the division between Saudi Arabia and Iran was what followed the siege.
In the tense atmosphere created by the Grand Mosque takeover, Shia communities in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia launched large-scale protests.
These demonstrations were inspired by the Iranian Revolution and received open rhetorical support from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The protesters directly challenged the Saudi monarchy and called for an end to what they saw as oppressive rule by the House of Saud.
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U.S. and Israeli strikes have destroyed aboveground launching facilities, temporarily blocked access to missiles stored underground and halted Iran’s ability to immediately build new missiles, according to satellite imagery. https://t.co/wV0yuCJwYV
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