Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[June 22, 2025]
We did not draw first blood in this fight. The regime in Tehran has terrorized the world, including Americans, for more than 40 years.
This mission was complete success—by President Trump, the armed forces, the Air Force, & the 509th Bomber Wing out of Whiteman AFB.
[….]

72 years ago:

August 19, 1953
Bloody coup fells Iran’s Mossadegh
By United Press

[….]
If the ouster of Mossadegh can be made to stick, Iran’s two-year-old dispute with Britain over the expropriated and nationalized properties of the billion dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. probably will be speedily settled.

(Stock of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., went up immediately on the London Exchange when reports of Mossadegh’s ouster became known.)
[….]

From CIA archives, a 1980 60 Minutes broadcast transcript:

[….] Why do so many Iranians believe in U.S. complicity, guilt? Why do they so fervently endorse the anti-American Khomeini and the holding of hostages?

Of course, we know the embassy takeover was triggered by the Shah’s entry into the U.S. last October for medical treatment. More about that later. But beyond that, the fury in Iran focuses on the undenied fact that the CIA restored the exiled Shah to the Peacock Throne back in 1953. And after that, the Iranians had been told, the CIA helped the Shah set up SAVAK, the secret police force that has tortured so many thousands of them.

A classified Senate Foreign Relations Committee report confirms the CIA’s role in forming SAVAK. It says the CIA provided the Shah money, as well as training, for that purpose. Of course, the brutality came later. [….]

Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r):

WRONG. WE “drew first blood” by assassinating a democratically elected President in 1953 ‘cuz he wanted to nationalize their own oil. WE installed a military dictator that WE bought, who was then overthrown by religious extreme rightists under the Ayatollahs.

You poked the wrong bear!

The tv hack at it again.

We are learning that some Republican lawmakers were told in advance of the strikes on Iran (per CNN). — Those Republicans included House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. — However, top Democrats in the House and Senate were kept in the dark.
Usually, members of BOTH PARTIES (known as the Gang of Eight) are notified, regardless of party affiliation, BEFORE the president orders any major military actions.
By not briefing top Democrats, or asking for their opinions, Trump made the escalation with Iran an extremely partisan issue, and an extremely unconstitutional act.

By not involving the Democrats he eliminated the leaks that ALWAYS try to derail EVERYTHING President Trump does. He is to be praised for this. Great decision President Trump👍

Pete Hegseth (r) begs to differ.

If they had told any democrat they would have told Iran and the safety of the operation would have been compromised and you know that is true.

Pete Hegseth (r) begs to differ. Every right wingnut accusation is actually a confession.

..war monger ready to send troops back to the Middle East! MAGA idiots!

Would you rather the Iranians drop nukes in your area? That’s their promise.

So you’re happy with Iran dropping nukes on U.S. land? Traitors should face a firing squad.

..didn’t you hear? Traitors, like those on Jan 6, get pardons and cash for their service to the felon!
Dude. Iran might be able to hit Greece with a bomb but they have zero capability to make it from the Middle East to the mainland of the USA! Didn’t you pay attention in geography?

No evidence yet to suggest that this attack accomplished anything, the future does not look great.

are we going into a time for violent retribution over decades old injustices?

Apparently so. And for oil.

I advise no travel overseas, because Americans will have big targets on their back big time now.

You just put a target on the backs of 40,000 American soldiers in the Middle East.

And they don’t care.

North Korea has nukes.
They have been threatening us for years.
Do you support bombing them premptively too?
Depending on how you answer that might explain why Iran is pursuing Nuclear Weapons.
We overthrew the democratically elected parliamentary government of Iran in 1953, and installed a brutal dictator.
We did it for cheap oil. We have admitted it.
Of course, Iran doesn’t like us.
We are sadly the “bad guys”.
We created this by forsaking our own values, for greed for cheap oil.
When Iranians stormed the embassy in 1979, the Iranians shouted “Mosaddegh!” the name of the leader we deposed 26 years earlier.
Americans like to pretend things that happened two weeks ago don’t matter anymore.
Other countries have much longer memories.
America supported Iraq in its attack on Iran in 1980, but then secretly supplied arms to Iran against Iraq, which was the Iran-Contra scandal.
And then we ended up fighting Iraq.
The painful irony is, when we went into Iraq one of our goals was to create a democratically elected government to bring stability to the Middle East, if we hadn’t fucked it up in the first place in 1953 we might’ve been there already!
It is our choices as a nation that inflames and aggravates the conflicts in this region.
American politicians using the pretense of threats from Iran to distract the American people from the reality of the situation, and our wrongful acts as a nation have a long history.
maybe, just maybe, if we had a leader with the courage to admit what we did to cause this situation, we could begin the effort to heal the damage and create a better future instead of a permanent state of conflict with Iran.
Obama’s plan was a good start. Trump destroyed it.
Not because it was a good idea, but out of spite.

But North Korea is home to Trump’s love interest, Kim Jong un…..who has condemned the US attacks on Iran and accused Trump of attempting to provoke a regional war.
Uh, oh….[….]

Gas is going up already?

You watch to much tv… Moe, Larry and Curly would make a better government.

Propaganda team working overtime on this trying to convince your constituents it was the right move. Just a heads up, reposting the same sentiment over and over without backing it up with data is laughable.
Do better

Lies and betrayal.

Fake weather boy remains an ignorant, feckless Muskrumpian shill. Doesn’t understand the Constitution and embraces anything Muskrump does. Tides will turn and when Muskrump is nothing more than a horrible memory…will Muskrumpians feel the same if an off the rails ultra leftist cancels out the right? Yeah…I thought not. Fake weather boy, you betray your constituents on a daily basis.

You’re absolutely right: this all started due to Carter’s fecklessness; was exacerbated by Hillary giving them uranium; then by Obama giving them $1.7B to fund their nuclear program; then by Biden by releasing another $16B for them to resume pursuing it.

Fell asleep in school.

Pretty sure no one in Washington really cares about your opinion little man.

Says the man who was supposed to vote WITH CONGRESS TO ATTACK A COUNTRY THAT HAD NOT ATTACKED US!
MAGA is falling all over themselves today but let’s see what they say when there is blowback!

Donnie is mad that people protested his birtday.

Face it trump is now the international schoolyard bully who attacked a weaker classmate on the playground because he is a bully and you and others in congress let him get away with it.

Millions of taxpayers dollars up
In smoke for a few holes in the desert! Great success fucking the American people. Bravo 👏

No one is listening to you liars.

No Balls! Allowing an authoritarian president to bunker bomb nuclear materials near civilian populations is not limited attack. Israel had already defeated Iran. Trump did this because his ratings were a flop and dragged us into the conflict because he is a loser. He did this against the constitution and without Congress approval. If you don’t stand up now you will always be a bootlicker. There is a King now so don’t need congress. You’ve been DOGEed. Go home. You are fired!

you’re from VIRGINIA….worry about your shit and stay the fuck OUT of MISSOURI!!!!

Well, we do have a U.S. senator who lives in Virginia. Sometimes he visits. Sometimes.

Aren’t you glad we replaced Pentagon brass trained in warfare and intelligence with political favor hack fake news television host with no leadership period?

Bombing without congressional approval and they’re thanking God for dropping bombs too. MAGA are unhinged, morally liquid weasels.

Trumps war.

You phony, trying to compare an air strike to a withdrawal from a country. It’s not even close to being in the same category of a mission, to begin with, and the guy whose ass you’re sucking, screwed the chances, of an orderly withdrawal, up, when he closed the airbases and withdrew so many troops out and caused the release of terrorist prisoners in the first place. Just another Trumpty suckass.

Marky is a phony and a disgrace. [….]

Fucking idiot Alford.
Doesn’t think the 1953 coup orchestrated by the CIA, which deposed a democratically elected Prime Minister and instilled the brutal and oppressive Shah, was “first blood.”
Go home, Alford. You’re too fucking dumb.
But you do get credit for using the bombing of Iran to change the narrative away from the Orange Tariff Taco Man.

Congressman Mark Alford you are a fascist idiot that has no business speaking of this. This is serious and you are not. You’re a lying, fascist POS.

In 2020:

“No war on Iran!”

And here we are.

Previously:

No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020 (January 4, 2020)

No War With Iran – Kansas City – January 9, 2020 (January 9, 2020)

Fringe Lunatic (June 17, 2025)

“…That was somewhat pre-nuclear. It was the nuclear age but nothing like it is today…” (June 20, 2025)

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (June 21, 2025)

“We’ll all go together when we go…” (June 22, 2025)