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Boomdaddy65201
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | BoCoMo |
| Biography: | It’s better to be a master of silence, than a slave to your own words |
| Interests: | The usual & a few not so usual. |
| Occupation: | Master of my domain- Med Sales |
| Number of Posts: | 4380 |
| Registered on: | 3/25/2020 |
| Online Status: | Online |
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re: An update from Centcom
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/3/26 at 6:52 pm to NashvilleTider
‘Member that whole heavy bombardment group enroute…no longer enroute :usa:
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re: “If” the Persians take over Iran, what should they do?
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/3/26 at 1:18 am to Napoleon
quote:
They are Muslims though. They aren't going to give up their religion
Christianity has quietly exploded in Iran, in a purposefully political, yet organic way. The underground church in Iran is reminiscent of 1st C. Rome where the faith is spread in secrecy under the penalty of death. For some it’s religious, for many it’s a direct rejection of a soul crushing Islamic regime.
Persia was the birth place of Zoroastrianism, so many Iranians have been red-pilled in regards to their origins and how Islam was thrust upon them at the point of the sword that we may see one of the greatest cultural shifts ever witnessed.
ICE uses unmarked Subaru Outbacks for operations across the Denver/Aurora Metro
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 11:48 pm
I verified cause I couldn’t stop laughing my arse off :rotflmao:
The comments on X, particularly from Coloradan's :bow:
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been conducting operations in the Denver metro area using unmarked vehicles (which may include a variety of civilian-style cars, though not exclusively identifying Subarus in reports) to conduct surveillance and traffic-stop-style, undercover-style operations.
Jan-Feb 2026
Locations: Operations with unmarked vehicles occurred across the Denver/Aurora metro area, including at The Edge at Lowry, Cedar Run Apartments, Whispering Pines, and various apartment complexes in Arapahoe County.
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For 100% camouflage, they need a bike rack and a bunch of COEXIST stickers on the back—we will never see them coming.
re: Woman calls Iranian women hookers, gets inundated with pics from hot Iranian women
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 11:21 pm to hawgfaninc
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 9:31 pm to DD_Rolltide
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Have there been any reports of any new anti-drone technologies used by US or Israel?
The Israeli’s are using sharks with lasers off the coasts of Tel Aviv and Haifa and the American left is melting.
There’s footage embedded a couple pages back of Israeli laser missile defense in play, not drone related though.
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 9:21 pm to Bunkie7672
quote:
the longer it goes
It hasn’t even been 48 hrs you house fly. :moon:
re: Major League Pitcher Turns Down Padres $40 Million Offer Due To State Taxes
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 8:13 pm to MintBerry Crunch
quote:
Ask Sam Darnold how much he made for the Super Bowl. Spoiler alert, he owed money because of California’s jock tax.
Exactly, came here to say exactly this. There was a really good thread in regards to this on the MSB board during SB week.
Because of the fact that the NFL mandates that each SB team be available to the media for a bare minimum of at least 8 days at the game’s locale leading up to the game, both teams were subject to California’s tax laws. As all NFL teams pay their players over a 18 week schedule not a year round salary. The playoffs and Super Bowl payouts are payed by the league and on a larger pay scale as a team progresses, i.e. players make more for a league championship game than a wildcard game.
California taxed the players on their yearly income and not that post season bonus as a result the players that won the SB received a $187,000ish stipend from the league but Darnold makes $30Mish a year, so it cost him $285,000ish to play the game.
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NFL players, particularly in high-tax states like California, face "8-day tax" liabilities because of jock taxes applied to their income for days spent working (practicing, playing, media) in a specific, non-resident jurisdiction. For events like the Super Bowl, players often arrive ~8 days early, enabling states to tax a prorated share of their season earnings at high rates, often exceeding 13%.
re: Her name is Mooné Rahimi ..
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 7:06 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:
She can ditch the Trump dance and get back to those sultry belly dancing moves
Brother, don’t you live in Brookside?
I grew up in Brookside, parents still live on Westover. Please tell me you’ve been to Tasso’s at 84th & Wornall on a Saturday night, belly dancers and ouzo shots, Opa.
Never had a bad meal or bad time there :cheers:
Tasso’s
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 4:24 pm to ItTakesAThief
quote:
I do not see how we have not located many of these missile storage depots by now by following the launchers or the trucks with drones.
Big thread, somewhere back in it, the stealth B2 spirits from Whiteman got into the fray Sat. night Iranian time. Specifically hunting the heavily bunkered, but known underground missile depots. Bye, bye.
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/2/26 at 12:57 pm to BayouBengal51
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Will be interesting how the Lebanese government goes about this. Lebanon is kind of like Mexico, Hezbollah basically controls things much like the cartels do with Mexico.
The new president of Lebanon is the former chief of the Lebanese military. So, he’s had a lifetime of dealing with Hezbollah, knows tactics, locations, and strongholds etc. As recently as just last week before this all kicked off, he warned them to not pull this exact shite.
He was elected as a hardliner and under the promise of disarmament of Hezbollah. Life isn’t black & white, especially in that part of the world, and it would be naive to think there wasn’t a mutual understanding between his government and Hezbollah, in order for Hezbollah to recognize his presidency($$). Realistically you would believe he cuts bait with them and becomes a national hero as they simply have nothing more to offer.
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 10:50 pm to Boomdaddy65201
The clip is from CBS Austin’s Vinny Martorano capturing his crew panning to Iranian expatriates and others waving American, Iranian, and Israeli flags while expressing thanks to Trump and Netanyahu after U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and top commanders. He allegedly defied a text from his producer to ignore the pro-strike rally.
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Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 9:13 pm to hawgfaninc
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 8:58 pm to hawgfaninc
That shows you how much of an echo chamber your typical Democrat lives in.
Van Jones and CNN are just now presenting this to their lemmings, the GD’d Iranian Revolution has been going live on X for the past 2 months, millions of Iranians have been chanting Reza Pahlavia’s name in the streets and from balconies this entire time.
Van Jones and CNN are just now presenting this to their lemmings, the GD’d Iranian Revolution has been going live on X for the past 2 months, millions of Iranians have been chanting Reza Pahlavia’s name in the streets and from balconies this entire time.
re: Hezbollah entering the war?
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 8:37 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:
They’re all quite literally Iran’s puppets.
And none of their checks are clearing.
Lebanon’s new president is the former chief of the Lebanese army, he specifically warned Hezbollah not to pull this exact shite last week. Squeeze them.
quote:
The election of former army chief Joseph Aoun on January 9, 2025, was viewed as a sign of weakening Iranian influence in Lebanon.
Aoun has stated that no group, specifically referencing Hezbollah, is permitted to bear arms outside of the Lebanese military.
The Lebanese government, under this new leadership, has set a goal to bring all weapons under state control.
While accepting Aoun's election, Hezbollah has vowed to resist disarmament efforts
re: OPEC+ to raise oil output
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 7:34 pm to dstone12
quote:
Trump
Goddamn right…
re: Masih Alinejad is awesome
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 4:45 pm to RaginCajunz
I started a thread, albeit at 3:30 this morning regarding her. I don’t believe the Marxist smear campaign as well.
No Marxist alive ever said, “it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump.”
There’s been 3 confirmed attempts on her life, 2 of which have resulted in the would be assassins being locked away in U.S. prisons. The same Iranian hit squads were attempting to assassinate President Trump at the same time.
No Marxist alive ever said, “it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump.”
There’s been 3 confirmed attempts on her life, 2 of which have resulted in the would be assassins being locked away in U.S. prisons. The same Iranian hit squads were attempting to assassinate President Trump at the same time.
quote:
Carlisle Rivera, a man who prosecutors say was hired by Iranian operative Farhad Shakeri as part of a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday.
Alinejad has survived three plots by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap her. She confronted Rivera at his sentencing in federal court in Manhattan. "Now I'm going to face the killer, my would-be assassin,"
Alinejad, an activist and critic of Iran's repression of women, said before sentencing. "But the main killer in my eyes is the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)." Prosecutors said Shakeri was "tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plots against its targets."
They alleged that he directed two men in New York, Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, to murder Alinejad in exchange for $100,000. Shakeri told federal authorities that the IRGC also had tasked him with arranging to kill President Donald Trump before the 2024 election. "The IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, is behind the assassination plots. The same IRGC that is ordering a massacre right now in Iran," said Alinejad.
"I've been bombarded by Iranians receiving videos showing the IRGC using AK-47 military weapons to kill people. The same IRGC gave money to the assassins here to buy AK-47s to end my life." Prosecutors emphasized the seriousness of the plot orchestrated by the IRGC, which they said is "responsible for a spree of plots here and around the world." They said it was intended "to kill the voices of those inside Iran who depend on people like Masih Alinejad to give voice to their hopes."
The assassination attempt on Alinejad was set to take place in February 2024 at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where she had a speaking event. After months of surveillance, the plot was foiled. Rivera and Loadholt were arrested in November 2024 and pleaded guilty before the case could go to trial.
This was the second time that Alinejad had faced a man charged with plotting to assassinate her in the past year. Two men, who prosecutors said were members of a Russian mob hired by Iran, received 25-year prison terms in October for attempting to kill Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.
Alinejad broke down in tears as she entered the courtroom on Wednesday. During an emotional sentencing, she said the Iranian government seeks to silence her. "I had to face him because I live with fear," Alinejad said, looking directly at Rivera. But she told the judge what she wants is to testify against the men who hired the killer, the Revolutionary Guards. "My job is to expose the massacre and the brutality of the regime," she said, but "they are targeting freedom of speech here in America."
Alinejad's husband, Kambiz Foroohar, implored Judge Lewis Liman to hand down the maximum sentence to send a message "that anyone who joins the Islamic Republic to do their dirty work will be held accountable." Foroohar told the court that his family has been deprived of normalcy as they face "dangers from a hostile foreign government."
On one occasion, Rivera missed my wife by just one hour," said Foroohar. "The threats have forced us to abandon our home, our neighborhood, our friends. Fear is a constant in our life." Alinejad sat with her head in her hands as the prosecution talked about voice notes exchanged between Rivera and Shakeri.
They plotted how to commit her murder, including considering a home-invasion-style break-in of Alinejad's home, or a drive-by shooting.
Rivera and Shakeri had met in the New York prison system, prosecutors said. Shakeri was serving a sentence for manslaughter. Rivera spent 18 years in prison after a murder conviction at the age of 18. The judge described conversations between Shakeri and Rivera as "chilling."
Rivera, dressed in a tan prison uniform, wept as he apologized "to my fellow Americans, and to the lady and man that just spoke," referring to Alinejad and Foroohar. Rivera's fiancée sat a couple of rows behind him, crying. During a break in the sentencing, Alinejad approached Rivera's fiancée and embraced her in a hug. His fiancée apologized over and over again. After Rivera was sentenced, Alinejad told CBS News, "Justice is always beautiful. It is justice for me." "But, in the bigger picture, no," she said it is not enough to only put her would-be killers behind bars.
She alleges Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered her killing, pointing to a speech in which he refers to an "American agent" who had compared the compulsory hijab to the Berlin Wall. Alinejad has previously made that exact comparison. "This is kind of the [Iranian] regime challenging U.S. national security, on U.S. soil, sending a signal that we can do whatever we want," she said, adding that real justice would be seeing "the man who ordered my killing ... behind bars," referring to Khamenei. She wants to see him "humiliated the same way as" former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. forces in a military operation in Venezuela earlier this month and brought back to New York to face federal charges. "
Reflecting on Shakeri's alleged role in targeting both her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad said it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump." "President Trump has an army, everything, power. I'm just an Iranian, unarmed woman, with a lot of hair, with a big voice. That's it," she added. "And that shows you that the regime in Iran is really scared of its own people.
When she first learned the same man had plotted to kill her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad laughed and told her husband: "Wow, they think I am as powerful as President Trump ... Just my voice. My weapon is my voice." At the same time, she recalled feeling fear, remembering how for years the Iranian regime said America is the "great Satan" and "the biggest enemy of Iran."
"The same group who targeted President Trump, they wanted to target me," said Alinejad. "It means that now in their eyes, I am the great Satan. I am their biggest enemy."
re: Rumor: Temporary acting Supreme Leader of Iran killed; was appointed this morning
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 3:33 pm to Contra
The IRGC right now…
re: Report says Mossad posed as Dentists and implanted tracking devices on all Iranian leaders
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 3:33 am to davyjones
quote:
Going a bit far? Lol how so
It is a “badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 3:27 am
Alinejad said it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump.
Masih Alinejad is fearless and awesome.
She destroyed Mamdani on X today and then went on CBS tonight and took them to task, “Where have you been? My people have been getting slaughtered and we want Democracy so bad we’re dying in the streets for it and all you people cover are Americans who hate Democracy and have never had to fight for it.”
Her story for those that muh Iran, why should I care? It doesn’t affect me or America.
Masih Alinejad is fearless and awesome.
She destroyed Mamdani on X today and then went on CBS tonight and took them to task, “Where have you been? My people have been getting slaughtered and we want Democracy so bad we’re dying in the streets for it and all you people cover are Americans who hate Democracy and have never had to fight for it.”
Her story for those that muh Iran, why should I care? It doesn’t affect me or America.
quote:
Carlisle Rivera, a man who prosecutors say was hired by Iranian operative Farhad Shakeri as part of a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday.
Alinejad has survived three plots by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap her. She confronted Rivera at his sentencing in federal court in Manhattan. "Now I'm going to face the killer, my would-be assassin," Alinejad, an activist and critic of Iran's repression of women, said before sentencing. "But the main killer in my eyes is the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)."
Prosecutors said Shakeri was "tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plots against its targets." They alleged that he directed two men in New York, Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, to murder Alinejad in exchange for $100,000. Shakeri told federal authorities that the IRGC also had tasked him with arranging to kill President Donald Trump before the 2024 election.
"The IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, is behind the assassination plots. The same IRGC that is ordering a massacre right now in Iran," said Alinejad. "I've been bombarded by Iranians receiving videos showing the IRGC using AK-47 military weapons to kill people. The same IRGC gave money to the assassins here to buy AK-47s to end my life."
Prosecutors emphasized the seriousness of the plot orchestrated by the IRGC, which they said is "responsible for a spree of plots here and around the world." They said it was intended "to kill the voices of those inside Iran who depend on people like Masih Alinejad to give voice to their hopes."
The assassination attempt on Alinejad was set to take place in February 2024 at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where she had a speaking event. After months of surveillance, the plot was foiled. Rivera and Loadholt were arrested in November 2024 and pleaded guilty before the case could go to trial.
This was the second time that Alinejad had faced a man charged with plotting to assassinate her in the past year. Two men, who prosecutors said were members of a Russian mob hired by Iran, received 25-year prison terms in October for attempting to kill Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.
Alinejad broke down in tears as she entered the courtroom on Wednesday. During an emotional sentencing, she said the Iranian government seeks to silence her. "I had to face him because I live with fear," Alinejad said, looking directly at Rivera.
But she told the judge what she wants is to testify against the men who hired the killer, the Revolutionary Guards. "My job is to expose the massacre and the brutality of the regime," she said, but "they are targeting freedom of speech here in America." Alinejad's husband, Kambiz Foroohar, implored Judge Lewis Liman to hand down the maximum sentence to send a message "that anyone who joins the Islamic Republic to do their dirty work will be held accountable."
Foroohar told the court that his family has been deprived of normalcy as they face "dangers from a hostile foreign government." On one occasion, Rivera missed my wife by just one hour," said Foroohar. "The threats have forced us to abandon our home, our neighborhood, our friends. Fear is a constant in our life."
Alinejad sat with her head in her hands as the prosecution talked about voice notes exchanged between Rivera and Shakeri.
They plotted how to commit her murder, including considering a home-invasion-style break-in of Alinejad's home, or a drive-by shooting.
Rivera and Shakeri had met in the New York prison system, prosecutors said. Shakeri was serving a sentence for manslaughter. Rivera spent 18 years in prison after a murder conviction at the age of 18.
The judge described conversations between Shakeri and Rivera as "chilling."
Rivera, dressed in a tan prison uniform, wept as he apologized "to my fellow Americans, and to the lady and man that just spoke," referring to Alinejad and Foroohar.
Rivera's fiancée sat a couple of rows behind him, crying. During a break in the sentencing, Alinejad approached Rivera's fiancée and embraced her in a hug. His fiancée apologized over and over again.
After Rivera was sentenced, Alinejad told CBS News, "Justice is always beautiful. It is justice for me." "But, in the bigger picture, no," she said it is not enough to only put her would-be killers behind bars.
She alleges Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered her killing, pointing to a speech in which he refers to an "American agent" who had compared the compulsory hijab to the Berlin Wall.
Alinejad has previously made that exact comparison. "This is kind of the [Iranian] regime challenging U.S. national security, on U.S. soil, sending a signal that we can do whatever we want," she said, adding that real justice would be seeing "the man who ordered my killing ... behind bars," referring to Khamenei. She wants to see him "humiliated the same way as" former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. forces in a military operation in Venezuela earlier this month and brought back to New York to face federal charges. "
Reflecting on Shakeri's alleged role in targeting both her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad said it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump."
"President Trump has an army, everything, power. I'm just an Iranian, unarmed woman, with a lot of hair, with a big voice. That's it," she added. "And that shows you that the regime in Iran is really scared of its own people.
When she first learned the same man had plotted to kill her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad laughed and told her husband: "Wow, they think I am as powerful as President Trump ... Just my voice. My weapon is my voice." At the same time, she recalled feeling fear, remembering how for years the Iranian regime said America is the "great Satan" and "the biggest enemy of Iran." "The same group who targeted President Trump, they wanted to target me," said Alinejad. "It means that now in their eyes, I am the great Satan. I am their biggest enemy."
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 3/1/26 at 3:07 am to hawgfaninc
quote:
Masih Alinejad
She is fearless and awesome.
Alinejad said it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump
She destroyed Mamdani on X today and then went on CBS tonight and took them to task, “Where have you been? My people have been getting slaughtered and we want Democracy so bad we’re dying in the streets for it and all you people cover are Americans who hate Democracy and have never had to fight for it.”
She deserves her own thread, I included the whole article.
quote:
Carlisle Rivera, a man who prosecutors say was hired by Iranian operative Farhad Shakeri as part of a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday. Alinejad has survived three plots by Iran's regime to kill or kidnap her. She confronted Rivera at his sentencing in federal court in Manhattan. "Now I'm going to face the killer, my would-be assassin," Alinejad, an activist and critic of Iran's repression of women, said before sentencing. "But the main killer in my eyes is the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)."
Prosecutors said Shakeri was "tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plots against its targets." They alleged that he directed two men in New York, Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, to murder Alinejad in exchange for $100,000. Shakeri told federal authorities that the IRGC also had tasked him with arranging to kill President Donald Trump before the 2024 election.
"The IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, is behind the assassination plots. The same IRGC that is ordering a massacre right now in Iran," said Alinejad. "I've been bombarded by Iranians receiving videos showing the IRGC using AK-47 military weapons to kill people. The same IRGC gave money to the assassins here to buy AK-47s to end my life."
Prosecutors emphasized the seriousness of the plot orchestrated by the IRGC, which they said is "responsible for a spree of plots here and around the world." They said it was intended "to kill the voices of those inside Iran who depend on people like Masih Alinejad to give voice to their hopes."
The assassination attempt on Alinejad was set to take place in February 2024 at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where she had a speaking event. After months of surveillance, the plot was foiled. Rivera and Loadholt were arrested in November 2024 and pleaded guilty before the case could go to trial.
This was the second time that Alinejad had faced a man charged with plotting to assassinate her in the past year. Two men, who prosecutors said were members of a Russian mob hired by Iran, received 25-year prison terms in October for attempting to kill Alinejad at her Brooklyn home.
Alinejad broke down in tears as she entered the courtroom on Wednesday. During an emotional sentencing, she said the Iranian government seeks to silence her.
"I had to face him because I live with fear," Alinejad said, looking directly at Rivera. But she told the judge what she wants is to testify against the men who hired the killer, the Revolutionary Guards. "My job is to expose the massacre and the brutality of the regime," she said, but "they are targeting freedom of speech here in America."
Alinejad's husband, Kambiz Foroohar, implored Judge Lewis Liman to hand down the maximum sentence to send a message "that anyone who joins the Islamic Republic to do their dirty work will be held accountable."
Foroohar told the court that his family has been deprived of normalcy as they face "dangers from a hostile foreign government."
On one occasion, Rivera missed my wife by just one hour," said Foroohar. "The threats have forced us to abandon our home, our neighborhood, our friends. Fear is a constant in our life."
Alinejad sat with her head in her hands as the prosecution talked about voice notes exchanged between Rivera and Shakeri. They plotted how to commit her murder, including considering a home-invasion-style break-in of Alinejad's home, or a drive-by shooting.
Rivera and Shakeri had met in the New York prison system, prosecutors said. Shakeri was serving a sentence for manslaughter. Rivera spent 18 years in prison after a murder conviction at the age of 18.
The judge described conversations between Shakeri and Rivera as "chilling."
Rivera, dressed in a tan prison uniform, wept as he apologized "to my fellow Americans, and to the lady and man that just spoke," referring to Alinejad and Foroohar.
Rivera's fiancée sat a couple of rows behind him, crying. During a break in the sentencing, Alinejad approached Rivera's fiancée and embraced her in a hug. His fiancée apologized over and over again.
After Rivera was sentenced, Alinejad told CBS News, "Justice is always beautiful. It is justice for me."
"But, in the bigger picture, no," she said it is not enough to only put her would-be killers behind bars.
She alleges Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered her killing, pointing to a speech in which he refers to an "American agent" who had compared the compulsory hijab to the Berlin Wall. Alinejad has previously made that exact comparison.
"This is kind of the [Iranian] regime challenging U.S. national security, on U.S. soil, sending a signal that we can do whatever we want," she said, adding that real justice would be seeing "the man who ordered my killing ... behind bars," referring to Khamenei. She wants to see him "humiliated the same way as" former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. forces in a military operation in Venezuela earlier this month and brought back to New York to face federal charges. "
Reflecting on Shakeri's alleged role in targeting both her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad said it is a "badge of honor" that "they want to get rid of me as much as they want to get rid of President Trump."
"President Trump has an army, everything, power. I'm just an Iranian, unarmed woman, with a lot of hair, with a big voice. That's it," she added. "And that shows you that the regime in Iran is really scared of its own people.
When she first learned the same man had plotted to kill her and Mr. Trump, Alinejad laughed and told her husband: "Wow, they think I am as powerful as President Trump ... Just my voice. My weapon is my voice." At the same time, she recalled feeling fear, remembering how for years the Iranian regime said America is the "great Satan" and "the biggest enemy of Iran."
"The same group who targeted President Trump, they wanted to target me," said Alinejad. "It means that now in their eyes, I am the great Satan. I am their biggest enemy."
re: Saudis are on the side of Israel vs a muslim country
Posted by Boomdaddy65201 on 2/28/26 at 8:11 pm to Speckhunter2012
quote:
True peace and prosperity transcend religious differences.
Every single MSM propagandist in this country told me this impossible, don’t believe your eyes.
Jews and Iranians dancing together in the streets of London. Evil is evil, shine the light.
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