Trying to move the goalposts by your fact-free claim that people here hate Trump is doomed to failure

“Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces: Human error at time of crisis caused by U.S. adventurism led to disaster,” the country’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Twitter.

You're still going to have update your outdated world view though! Whilst full energy independence maybe up for debate, what isn't is the fact that the US is now the largest producer of oil in the world, and that she is also a net exporter of oil.

The result of this is that the price of oil barely moved this week after what happened, something that was unthinkable a decade ago. The boom in US oil means that she can afford to distance herself from the Middle East, and it will become less tenable to argue that oil is the reason for US interference in the Middle East.

Quoting the Foreign Minister of a totalitarian regime, oh dear! What is your point? Do you think they're the victims here? I think I've heard enough!

You are the one who has an outdated view. For a real-world view, look at what happened to crude oil prices after the September attack on the Saudi refineries with a spike of over 20%.

The US still needs Middle East oil, more here.

Quoting sources supports credibility which is a lesson you could usefully learn.

Which totalitarian regime are you talking about? You are deluded if you imagine that that the USA is any other than an oligarchy. True, the people go through the sham of voting at regular intervals, but ultimately it is either for the oligarch team "Democrat" or the oligarch team "Republican" and these are anyway, and especially with regard to foreign policy, more or less identical.

Are you going to tell us next that the citizens of Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan etc. are all rushing to lay bunches of flowers at the feet of soldiers of the benevolent US liberators ?

If your goal on this thread is to rehabilitate Trump and his band of warmongers in the eyes of the participants here then, IMHO, you are flogging a dead horse.

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Well, let's begin by not starting another war then...

Btw, criticising a country's president/regime/government doesn't mean one hates them. Or its people.

Some might, who knows, but you're generalising and that is not fair. You're trying hard to stir the pot with these comments..

Imagine if the US rounded up and arrested people for "immoral activities", or if the US arrested and tortured protesters, or if the US oppressed women, or if the US hanged gay people from cranes, or if political opponents of the "oligarchy" in the US were executed, imagine then, you may have had some justification for your outrageous argument!

...or executed people on dodgy evidence?

Stop trying to paint the US as whiter than white, it’s embarrassing.

Whilst shameful people on this forum have been defending the Iranian regime for admitting shooting down a passenger plane, the good people of Iran are quite rightly outraged and are risking their lives by taking to the streets in protest. What an inspiration!

Nobody and let me repeat that, nobody has defended the Iranian regime for doing that. Stop stirring the pot and stop reading selectively.

Interesting that you chuck all these accusations around but are incapable of producing a single example of someone ‘defending the Iranian regime’. What a pathetic way of contributing to a discussion.

"Very respectful to admit such a disastrous mistake and apologize!"

Followed by FIVE thanks. Followed by a load of nonsense about Iranian Flight 655 and the US. I see you!

You misread. That is not for shooting it down but for owning up, which some other countries have not done.

If one continues to bring up an incident that happened over 30 years ago, the SOLE intention is to lessen what has just happened in Iran, and in doing so, defend it. There is also no misreading of the word "respectful".

Absolute codswallop. Yet you claim English as your first language.

Immoral activities like being Japanese?

Or being a Mexican child?

Then explain the purpose to this illiterate the continued bringing up an event from over 30 years ago that not one person has defended.