Interesting snippet on Sky News this morning that the US has been augmenting its aircraft in the uk with a ‘large’ inlux of F-35s and C-17s in the last few days into Mildenhall and Fairford.
A few comments that this for an Iran operation…
With their tails cocked high after the Venezuala success, lets hope - if true - they can take out the old codgers and their militias.
Unfortunately that probably won’t solve Iran’s biggest problem, it’s not the mullahs - it’s water; Tehran’s population is around 10 million people, but the city no longer has water.
Here is a very clear assessment of how Iran has arrived at desertification primarily by its own hand. Political mismanagement
Even with pressures of climate change, the old systems might have withstood but hard to say with Iran’s neighbours being busy undermining everything in the region.
Our concern ought to be, when they run out of water, where will they all go?
Again, it will be the innocent that suffer and will become water migrants.
Their problem has been there for a long time, but the stupid religious nuts chose to finance the nuclear bomb over desalination .
The problem with your reasoning is that not all things are logica.l
Is desertification the price to pay to be rid of Ayatollah Khamenei? If his assets of 95 billion dollars’ worth of stolen Iranian monies can be retrieved, after his purported departure, then maybe it is?
…and then be put straight into the bank accounts of US entities. Do you really think the country and its people would see any of that money? All evidence suggests otherwise.
To pay for ‘helping liberate them’?
Iran used to be an oil fiefdom of the West (specifically America) under the Shah - if the mullahs’ regime were to disappear I would think it might easily revert to that status again.
I do recall reading, one of the things that got the population up in arms against the west was that a lot of porn films were shot there. A little like Marrakech at one time, Tehran may have been treated as a playground without rules by westerners.
I didn’t know that! Obviously I don’t watch enough porn. 
On that basis I would say that you watch enough. 
And the UK has agreed to host this ?
Haven’t times changed ?
At least, based on what the man in charge in the US seems to have been saying about NATO ? To the extent that you could start to wonder in terms of defending Western and Central Europe, does the A in NATO have a future.
I thought Beirut perhaps, I knew someone from Tehran and there waa never any.hint of this.
EDIT On reflection perhaps she was too well brought up.
They’re US airfields so it’s covered by existing agreements
For some strange reason, when the US base at Ruislip closed a number of years ago now, I thought that was part of a general pulling out of US bases from the UK.
I was a comment made in an aeromodelling magazine several decades ago (I used to build and fly planes, and also had a large stack of magazines from my father, going back to the 1960s). The author had been drafted to help the Shah, who apparently wanted to fly model aeroplanes too, and in the closing comments mentioned a number of issues that lead to the Shah’s overthrow including the brutality of the secret police, various excesses and making porn films there. I’ve no idea about the veracity, and it’s likely the author is dead now.
I’d think it likely that the daughters of the better educated would be kept well away from such things.
I was once detained by SAVAK for taking a photo of the Shah as he passed by in a motorcade. It is hard to understand how such a strong and heavily armed regime could fall so quickly and be replaced by a wizened old cleric in France. I seem to remember there was a conspiracy in his entourage that turned against him. That may be the better option in the current crisis rather than have Trump waving his willy at them.
My feeling is that Trump’s intervention can only make the Iranian authorities feel a harsh crackdown is justified, rather than asking if they should step aside.