Maryam Rajavi Rejoices!

Well, Trumpy Boy finally carried out what he had threatened Iran with. This morning, US B-2 bombers presumably carrying bunker buster bombs utterly "obliterating" these sites in Trump's words. Trump had threatened Iran time and again that there would be military action if the Iranians did not agree to scrap their nuclear programme. Trump has a reputation for being true to his word, and this morning's strikes prove yet again that he not only walks the walk but talks the talk.

The Israelis started this war with Iran when they attacked targets of a military nature all across Iran. Targets also included sites related to government control. Netanyahu had been talking up Iran's nuclear bomb capacity for 30 years. Netanyahu has been chomping at the bit to attack Iran, whether Iran was close to making nuclear weapons or not. Trump greenlighted Bibi to proceed, and so biblically, as they say, "it came to pass". Iran was caught by surprise in a Pearl Harbour type way. The Iranians didn't see it coming. Trump had lulled the Iranians into a safe mode of thinking that everything was okay. Trump told the Iranians there would be yet another round of talks wth them over Iran's nuclear industry. So as the Iranians went to bed that night and slept peacefully, all hell broke loose over their heads.

For Iran, it was a shock and probably a betrayal. Many of their top military leaders were taken out, and a top advisor to the Ayatollah was killed. Since then, Israel has been using American-supplied F-35 stealth jets to wreak havoc in the interior of Iran. Iran's air defence doesn't seem up to the job of taking these planes down. Iran's air force is outgunned, outmatched, and outdated compared to these state-of-the-art jets. However, Iran recovered and regrouped and fired missiles into Israel. Iran's strength is its missile and drone capability.

Iran has different missiles and drones for tasks and ranges. Iran has rained down projectiles of death onto Israel, causing injuries, death, and destruction. Netanyahu moaned that an Iranian missile had hit an Israeli hospital. And as horrible as this is, Netanyahu must have amnesia, as the IDF has taken out many medical facilities in Gaza. Bombing hospitals, religious places, and civilian infrastructure should always be a no-no.

Israel does not have the munitions to destroy Iran's nuclear sites. The US, with its B2 bombers and bunker buster bombs, has. Of course, Bibi was praising the US attack as he would. Trump congratulated his air force on their successful operation. All the American planes returned safely, he said.

Sir Keir Starmer urged Iran to come back to the negotiating table. This week, with foreknowledge, he and Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned that any American attack would escalate the war. Lammy and Starmer had been calling for Trump not to attack. Well, such a pig-headed, pugnacious, stubborn man like Trump didn't listen. He went ahead and did it, obviously with Netanyahu's blessing, as he thanked Yahweh, though he is- an Athiest and secularist presumably. Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela all condemned the US attacks. No doubt, China and North Korea will not be happy either. These nations are Allies of Iran, so it's not surprising.

The UN General Secretary, Antonio Guterres, said the US's actions had poured oil on a fire already burning. Well, those were not his exact words, but that is what he meant essentially. The question is what will Iran do now? Will the Ayatollah Khamenei drink that poison chalice that Ayatollah Khomeini had to when the Iran-Iraq War was going against him? When his advisors told him the US was getting into the war on the side of Iraq. So Khomeini had to sue for peace, and the 1988 Iran-Iraq War ended. Little did anyone know that a few years after this war ended, with America being a friend of the Saddam regime at the time, the US would lead a coalition of nations against them in 1990/91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

Iran has two choices now: to sue for peace and come back to the negotiation table, or continue the war. Either way, there are risks for the Islamic Republic of Iran. If it fights, there will be more and possibly worse horrors inflicted on Iran by the US and Israel. However, the Iranians are resilient people and suffered much in their war with Iraq. The clerical regime survived. If it agrees to a peace deal with the US, it will be humiliating for them as their nuclear programme will be disbanded, and maybe their missile programme too. On the plus side, the regime survives.

Should the regime fall, there are two possible replacement regimes. One is the Son of the Shah, whose father was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution. Would the Shah's Son returning even be an option, and would his people welcome him? Would he be supported by the Americans, Israel, other Western nations, and other Arab and Islamic nations?

The other option is the MEK or Mujahideen e Khalq. A group whose modus operandi is a marriage of Communism and Islam. MEK supported Saddam in his war with Iran, and many Iranians have never forgiven them for this. Would they be welcome as an alternative government? As with the Shah, would their return be supported by the Iranian people, the US, Israel, Western nations, plus Arab and Islamic nations?

Both MEK and the Shah could become authoritarian regimes themselves. The Iranians would not want this as they have already lived under a theocratic regime of oppression. However, it might not be like that. Of course, all this is speculation; the regime of the ayatollahs survives and is still lobbing missiles at Israel. Potentially, now that the US has struck Iran, unless Iran comes back to the negotiating table, it could strike back at American bases in the area. If that were to happen, only God knows where that slippery slope would lead us.

Maryam Rajavi, the Head of the MEK and the Council of Resistance in Paris, welcomed the strikes. She said the Ayatollah must go, and his project of nuclear enrichment had cost Iran $1.5 trillion or £2 trillion. And for what she asked? All this money wasted on the Ayatollah's pet project, which has gone up in smoke.