We really are a laughing stock

[Alex]

I don't know why they're bothering with peace talks.  Iran/Hezbollah will just regroup and come back stronger, they need to be finished off !

[klondike]

They do but it seems that Trump is finding out that they are a lot more resilient than he thought. Right now it looks to me like Iran are winning this and he has run out of ideas.

[muddy]

I don't think they are winning .
They have no navy no airforce and no income .
Sooner it later they will capitulate I only hope it's sooner but how can you deal with religious fanatics ?

[klondike]

Exactly. They are fanatics. They have been spending the countries wealth on attacking the west ever since they gained control.

Now they have been pushed to the limit and until all the leaders and their equally nutty Iranian National Guard are dead they will make it dangerous enough to get through the strait that the insurance wont be available to try.

I have no idea  where it will end but it wont be anywhere that can be described as a great victory for either side.

Regarding no income they are being supplied with weapons by that other bankrupt fanatic Putin.

[muddy]

If they were how would they be getting them now ? 
They have been stockpiling weapons for years but many of these have been destroyed .
How will they get more ! 

[klondike]

Russia. Putin is an ally and admits he has been helping them. He is known to have been giving them targeting information and is copying their Shaheed drones in Russian factories for use against Ukraine and now sending them to Iran too

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/european-intelligence-agencies-russia-supplying-drones-iran

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/from-drones-to-rocket-fuel-china-and-russia-are-helping-iran-through-supply-chains/

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting

They can't continue indefinitely but nor can the Americans. Trump has had to ask for emergency funding for more munitions. Partriot and Tomahawk missiles have been used at an alarming rate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y73gwk1qdo

[muddy]

That's not good but by blocking off the movement in the straits of Hormuz surely this will stop the supply of cheap oil to Russia and China ? 
Unless they have a pipeline somewhere .

[klondike]

Russia has its own oil. China do get oil from Saudi Arabia and the Iranians were letting those through but they also have other sources including Russia although the Ukrainians are slowing applying their own explosive sanctions to that source with their drones and missiles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/least-40-russias-oil-export-capacity-halted-reuters-calculations-show-2026-03-25/

The western sanctions on Russian oil were not especially effective with Russia running a huge fleet of "shadow" tanhers. Trump is likely to extend the lifting of American sanctions in the hope that may stop the ever upward world oil pricing that will be costing him dearly in the US mid term elections.