War on Iran may provoke a terrorist attack in US - and that may be the point

[marmar]

War on Iran may provoke a terrorist attack in US – and that may be the point

Robert Tait
in Washington

‘Of course there’s going to be retaliation,’ says one expert. ‘It may be that this is what Trump’s interested in’


(Guardian) For decades, the US and its allies have painted Iran as the world’s biggest sponsor of state terrorism – invoking its Islamic rulers’ supposed revolutionary fanaticism and determined support for militant proxies.

Now a long-standing but mainly latent threat is coalescing, with the war waged on the country by the US and Israel, to raise the risk of an attack on American soil to levels unseen since the murderous al-Qaida assaults of 11 September 2001, experts say.

In an election year, opponents of Donald Trump are warning that such an event could rebound to his advantage – providing him with a pretext to crack down on critics by declaring a state of emergency or even cancelling November’s congressional midterm elections.

....(snip)....

Writing on Substack, the historian Timothy Snyder warned that a terrorist attack could work in Trump’s favor and might even explain his reasoning for launching the military action.

“A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States,” Snyder wrote. “This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or ‘federalize’ the coming congressional elections. ..............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/us-iran-war-terrorist-attack

[Cha]

1. Of Course It's the Orange Deranged Nazi's Point..

One of them... I imagine they had all sorts of World Domination Points to Bomb Iran in a Shithole Surprise Attack.

Traitor, Nazie miller boy, and the rest of the Fascist Fucks want Martial Law.

[lame54]

2. No pretext needed...

They act now - make shit up later

[Timewas]

3. My guess

If not real probably a false flag setup

[erronis]

4. This is why many of the regime's brass have moved to military bases. They are provoking a retaliation.

Whether by foreign agents, by internal freedom lovers, or if necessary by their own brown-shirts.

[slightlv]

12. You're right! Of course, they would have us believe they're so terrified

of we, the People, retaliating against them that they had to move to continually guarded facilities. I say if they want that security, move them into one of the concentration camps the admin is building. Chain link, barbed wire cages are perfectly okay for babies, children, and old people... they ought to be "Just right" for the administration big wigs...!

[orangecrush]

5. Of course

[thisaintright]

6. I agree that's the plan...

...my biggest fear is that they are not just hoping it will happen but rather that they are leaving the door open to make sure it happens i.e. folks that should be protecting us will look the other way and let it happen.

[dflprincess]

9. I have no doubt if something happens

it will have been planned at Mar-a-Lago and we will hear an endless "rally 'round the flag" from the media afterward.

[slightlv]

13. This will be beyond LIHOP...

I don't doubt they're engineering something so horrible that the American people will, again, react instead of act. And when we react, we always go to the bitter edge of hostility and cruelty. R's know no other way, nor do they want to find another way to do it. They live on people's fear and rage. And it has worked so well for them... they managed a slow but paced coup here in the US, grabbed another sovereign nation, Venezuela... they're looking seriously at Canada and Greenland and Cuba and who knows where else. Not since Nazi Germany has a country been so dangerous to the world around them, IMO.

[subterranean]

15. Some of the folks that should be protecting us were fired right before the invasion.

Namely, people in the FBI counterintelligence team that tracked terrorism threats, including cases involving Iran.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. He's not that smart. ...

However, he is a psychopath surrounded by some smarter psychopaths and some of them may have suggested it. So, he wouldn't necessarily oppose it. The caveat being that they would have to make him believe it was originally his idea.

Considering that he's a weak minded evil man, it would probably be easy to do that.

[kimbutgar]

8. That's why they were saying a drone would hit California

He hates our governor and state with a passion because we didn’t vote for him in 2016,2020,2024!

I’m proud to be a Californian!

[slightlv]

14. The admin can shoot a drone, do horrible damage,

and say, "Told you so" to the American people about the "Muslims." And at least 1/3 of the population of this country will nod their heads reverently and say, "He's so smart. We MUST do what he says. Death to anyone who opposes him."

[usonian]

10. Nailed it May 2025.

It was frickin obvious.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

[moniss]

11. There is nothing that is too far for these fascists to do. nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Snyder should know better

We had elections after 9/11.

Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami in November.