the israeli war on iran in in process right now with these 'protests' as larry will speak about;

The title of this piece is my reaction to tonight’s (Saturday) report in the NY Times that contains this blurb:

The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country.

Ok, Donald Trump, the ball is in your court. According to a number of press reports, Iranian security forces have killed some of the Iranians who the West describes as protestors, conveniently ignoring the fact that there are Western-backed radicals with firearms killing Iranian police and torching government buildings in several cities in Iran. As I have written previously, I believe that Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu on Monday, December 29, 2025, included a discussion of plans for a new series of military attacks on Iran. It is no coincidence that the protests erupted across Iran just prior to Trump’s meeting with Bibi.

While a majority of Iranians are unhappy over Pezeshkian’s mismanagement of the Iranian economy, this does not mean they are ready to put an end to the Islamic Republic. It is important to understand that many of the protestors include Kurds and Baluchis — ethnic groups with longstanding ties to the CIA and Mossad — and it is highly likely that they are the foot soldiers tasked with executing an intelligence operation designed to portray the Islamic Republic as a weak, unpopular authoritarian regime that can be easily toppled… The ultimate goal is to create a pretext to launch a new wave of military strikes on Iran...........more...........