TRUMP MADE A GROWN MAN CRY: HUMILIATED AND TRAUMATIZED IRAN.

ICHEOKU says what an unmitigated disaster  it was for the hubris islamists of Tehran, who are delusional about their status in the world. They thought that they have become a first rate military power because they bought some missiles from Russia and have been freely roaming around in the region, fermenting trouble. As a result, they became emboldened and over extended themselves by wagging their little finger at the United States of America. 

Unfortunately for them, they misjudged the patience of President Donald John Trump, who passed on their shooting down of two American drones and their attack on Saudi Arabia oil installations. This time, it did not end well for them as they got their lips busted and their leader was humiliated into crying in public. It was their choosing to provoke the conflict when they killed an American military contractor and followed it up by invading American embassy in Baghdad, nearly destroying it. 

This is a country which could not defeat Saddam Hussein's army during their eight years protracted with Iraq and which has never victoriously prosecuted any military campaign since their days as Persian Empire. A country which relies heavily on their funded terrorists and militias to do their dirty deeds; but which suddenly thought itself a giant killer and made a play at the United States of America. They wanted and literary begged for a confrontation with America and were handed their booger and forced to eat them. In fact even crows were added to the menu and they willy nilly chowed everything down. 

First, their backbone and the will to carry on was instantly broken when their terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani was sliced up into body parts by a Hellfire blade bomb and ensuing conflagration consumed most of his remains. He was such an important and indispensable fixture of the Iranian power structure that the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei cried like a baby at his funeral. It was such a humiliating and pitiful sight to behold, of a bearded old man, the symbol of religious authority of a theocratic Iran, tearing up in public like a sissy, because of the pain and hurt feeling which the death of his chief enforcer caused his bosom. 

Then add the loss of 55 Iranians who perished, trampled to death during the funeral of the whacked Qassem Soleimani. Soon after, the Iranians mounted Operation Martyr Soleimani, an effort to avenge his death, with multiple Russian made and supplied SAM 15 ballistic missiles strikes into American military basis in Iraq. The Iranians acted with bad intention, they wanted to kill as many American soldiers as they could possible kill, the reason they launched over two dozen missiles in the dead of the night into military bases housing American soldiers; but they failed woefully. 

It was so disgracefully humiliating that they could not score even one hit on an American soldier despite the presence of thousands of them. None of their over two dozen missiles was able to score a bullseye, not even taking out one American soldier. An incontrovertible testament to their incompetence as a first rate military power. The same sophomoric ability made them commit the worst fumble during the intense short week; the shooting down of Ukrainian passenger plane Flight 752 with 176 passengers and crew on board, including  137 Iranians.  They initially denied culpability, but were later forced by overwhelming evidence to admit that their military mistakenly shot down the plane. 

ICHEOKU says as if all these were not enough already and indeed too much for just one country to bear, then came additional economic sanctions from President Donald John Trump to punish them further for attempting to kill American soldiers while they slept. What Iran sought to achieve when they overreached and crossed the president's red line is beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension. May be they were encouraged by their believe that the president will not do anything to them, having waved off their two other previous direct acts of confrontational behaviors. But bad for them, they went too far and were smacked. 

The pain, the anguish, the humiliation and the cutting down to size is enough for any reasonable and rational country to call a truce and even repair its relationship with America, pronto. Iran also lost face for lying about their shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane. It is also disappointing for a leader of a people to publicly cry like a baby and leaders don't cry. If they cry, what do they expect the people they lead, who look up to them for protection and safety to do, run to the hills? It showed weakness and hopelessness; and it took a toll on the psyche and psychology of every Iranian and with it, their will to fight disappeared. 

The week under review was a PR disaster for Iran. They also lied that they did not specifically target American soldiers to kill them, yet they fired over 20 missiles at night into American military bases housing thousands of American soldiers and contractors while they slept. Why that many missiles if there was no bad intention to draw blood? Iran could not have expended over 20 costly Russian made SAM 15 missiles in vain, without an expectation of maximum casualties of American soldiers. 

How could any reasonable person believe their story, a tall tale which evaporated by their heightened level of anxiety and jittery over possible American reprisals strikes, following their own strikes. If Iran did not intend to kill American soldiers with their missiles strikes and in fact believed that they succeeded, why did they panic after they struck. They were aware of the Trump Doctrine of "Respond only when an American life is involved" and they started firing their air defenses missiles at any light orb in their sky, resulting in the shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane. 

So, it was a week to remember for the Iranians; although they wished they had not  provoked it. It will forever live in their memory as a week in which they were humbled and humiliated beyond expectation; and put in their place as a third rate country with a third rate incompetent military which wasted over 20 missiles without taking even one American soldier's life to show for it. Their leader cried and leaders don't cry; which now places his leadership in quandary, with Iranians now asking whether it is not about time he is gone. 

ICHEOKU says may be it is about time, the bearded fellas in Tehran who are holding Iranians hostage, give way to make way for a new direction for Iran, different from the theocracy which has not yielded any fruit since 1979. But hey, Iranians will decide what works best for Iranians and hopefully they can muster the courage to decisively free themselves their mullah's clutches and become a country which indeed belongs in civilized modern times and which could well fit into comity of nations.