Iran Did Not "Win" the War
- Fred
- 4 minutes ago
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Iran won the war according to these news outlets:
I don't think I need to go on, you get the gist.
But, me, I'm a little more of a traditionalist. I want to see dead leaders laying in rubble. Did Donald Trump die? No, Iran was unable to clip the immobile, 80 year old Donald Trump, that slept in public view at the NBA Finals and at a UFC Event.
Is JD Vance alive? Yes.
Are all of our 4-star generals alive? Yes.
Trump Kids? Yes
Senators? Yes. Members of the House of Representatives? Yes.
Well, then what Americans were killed in the Iran War? 13 soldiers, the highest rank being a field grade officer.
What Iranian leaders died?
From Wikipedia: Name: Position: Date Killed: Cause of Death
Ali Khamenei | Supreme Leader of Iran | 28 February (2026) | Killed in an airstrike on his compound in Tehran |
Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani | Secretary of the Iranian Defense Council | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Major General Mohammad Pakpour | Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi | Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh | Minister of Defense | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Brigadier General Hossein Jabal Amelian | Head of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), Minister of Defense | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Brigadier General Reza Mozaffari Nia | Former Head of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), Minister of Defence | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Mohammad Baseri | Senior Intelligence Ministry official | 28 February | Killed in US–Israeli strikes |
Yahya Hosseini Panjaki | Deputy Minister of Intelligence for Israel affairs, Head of Directorate for Internal Security of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) | 28 February | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership in Tehran |
Brigadier General Saleh Asadi | Deputy for Intelligence of the Armed Forces General Staff[15] and Head of Intelligence Directorate, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters | 28 February | Killed at the Iranian Defense Council meeting |
Brigadier General Mohammad Shirazi | Head of the Military Office of the Supreme Leader | 28 February | Killed in an airstrike alongside Khamenei |
Akbar Ebrahimzadeh | Deputy Head of the Military Office of the Supreme Leader | 28 February | Killed in an airstrike alongside Khamenei |
Major General Gholamreza Rezaian | Head of the Iranian Police Intelligence Organization[5] | 2 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes on command centers |
Brigadier General Bahram Hosseini Motlagh | Head of Planning and Operations for the General Staff of the Armed Forces | 2 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes on command centers |
Brigadier General Hassan-Ali Tajik | Head of the Logistics Department of the Armed Forces General Staff | 2 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes on command centers |
Brigadier General Mohsen Darrebaghi | Deputy for Logistics and Support, General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran | 2 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes on command centers |
Mohsen Mahdavi Kalateh | Deputy Minister of Intelligence | 3 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Ali Hashemi | Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Saheb al-Zaman in Isfahan | 8 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Mohammadreza Saqafifar | Special Assistant to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei | 8 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Asadollah Badfar | Head of the paramilitary Basij forces, General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces | 9 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Esmail Dehghan | Senior Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force | 10 March | Killed in airstrikes in Arak |
Akbar Ghaffari | Deputy Minister of Intelligence | 12 March | Killed in strikes on leadership in Tehran |
Naqi Mohaddesnia | Head of Clergy Affairs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in East Azerbaijan | 12 March | Killed in Israeli attacks |
Major General Abolqasem Babaeian | Chief of Staff of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters | 14 March | Killed in strikes in Tehran |
Brigadier General Abdullah Jalali-Nasab | Senior officer of Khatam al-Anbiya Emergency Command's intelligence branch | 14 March | Killed in an Israeli attack on leadership |
Brigadier General Ali Larijani | Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership in Tehran |
Brigadier General Gholamreza Soleimani | Head of the paramilitary Basij forces | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on the Basij meeting in Tehran |
Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi | Head of Intelligence for the paramilitary Basij forces | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on the Basij meeting in Tehran; deputy to Gholamreza Soleimani |
Alireza Bayat | Deputy for Internal Security of the Supreme National Security Council | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership in Tehran |
Morteza Larijani | Assistant for Internal Security of the Supreme National Security Council | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership in Tehran; son of Ali Larijani |
Ali Bateni | Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership in Tehran |
Qassem Qoreishi | Deputy Head of the paramilitary Basij forces | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on the Basij meeting in Tehran |
Azim Esmaili Khosrowabadi | Deputy Commander of the paramilitary Basij forces | 17 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on the Basij meeting in Tehran |
Esmaeil Khatib | Minister of Intelligence | 18 March | Killed in strikes on leadership |
Afshin Naghshbandi | Representative of General Staff of the Armed Forces to the paramilitary Basij forces | 19 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Second Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini | Spokesperson of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Deputy for Public Relations | 20 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership |
Mehdi Qureishi | Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force | 20 March | Killed in strikes on leadership in Isfahan |
Mehdi Rostami Shomastan | Senior Commander in the Ministry of Intelligence | 20 March | Killed in Israeli strikes on leadership |
Ghadir Azarian | Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in East Azerbaijan province | 21 March | Killed in airstrikes on leadership |
Ebrahim Mortazavi-Nasb | Commander of a paramilitary Basij unit in Shiraz | 22 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes |
Commodore Alireza Tangsiri | Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy | 26 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes in Bandar Abbas |
Behnam Rezaei | Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate | 26 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes |
Brigadier General Jamshid Eshaghi | Chief of the Office of Budget and Financial Affairs within the Armed Forces General Staff | 31 March | Killed in US-Israeli strikes |
Mohammad Ali Fathalizadeh | Commander of the Fatehin unit | 1 April | Killed in US-Israeli strikes |
Major General Majid Khademi | Head of the Intelligence Organization and Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | 6 April | Killed in Israeli strikes |
Yazdan Mir | Commander of Unit 840 of the IRGC Quds Force | 6 April | Killed in Israeli strikes; a.k.a. Asghar Bagheri |
Kamal Kharazi | Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2005) | 9 April | Succumbed to wounds from US–Israeli strikes |
Iranian officials in Lebanon
Name | Position | Date of Death | Notes |
Reza Khazaei | IRGC Quds Force Official | 3 March | |
Majid Hosseinikandesar | Head of Finance of the IRGC Quds Force (Lebanon Corps) | 8 March | Killed in Israeli drone strike on Ramada Plaza Hotel, Raouché, Beirut |
Alireza Bi-Azar | Intelligence Officer of the IRGC Quds Force (Lebanon Corps) | ||
Ahmad Rasouli | Intelligence Officer of the IRGC Quds Force (Palestine Corps) | ||
Hossein Ahmadlou | Israel Desk Officer of the IRGC Quds Force ("Zionist File") | ||
Abuzar Mohammadi | IRGC Missile Operations Commander in Hezbollah's missile unit | 12 March | Killed in Israeli attacks; targeted strikes occur on 10 March |
Davoud Alizadeh | Commander of the IRGC Quds Force (Lebanon Corps) | 12 March | Killed in Israeli attacks |
Uh, that's a lot of dead Iranian Leaders. Estimates are around 5,000 citizens and/or soldiers also perished in the Iran War.
Your counter argument is that we paid a third of a trillion dollars to get out of that war? I will listen to that argument, but I've been unclear, for the last month, who the Trump Team was even negotiating with.
Now if Iran's definition of "winning" was standing toe to toe with the United States, then waiting for America to get tired of bombing them, then, yeah, I guess you could argue that, maybe, they tied.
But under no modern metric did Iran WIN that war.
Just a reminder, the Vietnamese Army lost every battle, but won the war.
"You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." - Ho Chi Minh
But that's not what happened in Iran. I cannot re-iterate this enough, the Iranian Soccer team tied New Zealand 2-2 yesterday in Los Angeles. If the Iran War was a traditional war, Iranians wouldn't be kicking a ball around on grass field in the suburbs of L.A. Iran waited for the war to become very unpopular in America due to rising gas prices. There were no flag-draped American Coffins on the news.
War isn't even a great word for what happened in Iran, it was more like an Idiot Contest with weird rules.
Talking about soccer.....
