The Sunni Arabs and Persian Shias have a long rivalry, now punctuated over oil wealth.

Many of these Gulf States have Shia minorities which are oppressed, like the Houthi tribe

The Iranian people's revolution of 1979 continues to pose a threat to the Sunni Arab Gulf emirates and Saudi Arabia.

CIA, DIA, CENTCOM J2 all knew that Shia Iran would retaliate against the Sunni Gulf States that host US military bases and do everything they can to undermine one of the few non-monarchies in the Middle East-- which is also a petro-competitor.

Moreover, the Iranian theocracy exposes the hypocrisies of the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia.

I watched caravans of wealthy Saudis drive across the King Fahd Causeway into Bahrain to drink, gamble, and whore around on the weekend.

The pious Iranian leadership doesn't do that.

This causeway was recently struck by an Iranian drone.

Poor hypocritical Saudis can't booze it up safely in Bahrain now.

**** Relative of Killed USAF Crewman Calls Attack on People of Iran "Uncalled For" ****

"Cousin of Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons, whose military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, says: We didn't need to be in this war.'

Simmons's family urged US citizens to register to vote as a means of advocating for political change.

"Families are suffering right now," Simmons's grandmother, said Bernice Smith. Without explicitly mentioning Dummkopf Trumpf's junta, she added: "Just to create a war because you want to create a war is not right."

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Approximately 200 Servicemembers have been wounded during the unlawful attack on the people of Iran.

The US lost a dozen MQ-9 Reaper drones; each one costs at least $30 million to produce, meaning the US has lost about $360 million worth of the drones in less than three weeks.

US midterm elections are on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.