Khamenei has called Trump's bluff and threatened to bomb US bases all over.
Here's my wager: -
Trump the small-dick moron will punk out like the coward he is.
Iran threatens US with ‘irreparable damage’ if Trump joins war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/iran-threatens-us-with-irreparable-damage-if-trump-joins-war
What is the Ayatollah supposed to do other than threaten "irreparable damage"? He is literally living on borrowed time bought for him - according to some sources - by Trump. I can't see anything good coming out of this for anyone if the US intervenes. Iran would of course be screwed even faster. But the total collapse of whatever is remaining of the post world war 2 order is the more consequential.
Hezbollah has been curiously silent. I just looked into it, and found they were defanged a few months ago by Israel.
The US is not as strong as you think. We learned from Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The US spent trillions only to kill 1 million innocent Iraqis, wounded thousands of US soldiers. The same is likely to happen. Millions of innocent poor Iranians will suffer and dollars wasted. If Ayatollah is killed and missiles will also come our way and there maybe a revolution in the US in homegrown regime change. Americans have fed up with Trump administration as witnessed by ongoing protests never seen in 250 years history. No want wants wars here and most Americans are pro Iran but Govt and AIPAC-ran media and parties paints a different picture. I'm sure morale in US military is at all time low.
Termie is given to hysterics about US powerplays. He thinks missiles are toys... a perfect mirror of the Trump he so scorns.
If the US "intervenes" - whatever that means - they cannot overthrow the theocracy by bombs. It's deeply entrenched. A ground invasion of course will be another Afghanistan/Iraq - where the US is still leaking its wounds.
So plain bombers - like I said did not even put an end to the Houthi mungiki-level militia. And that is in dirt-poor Yemen where there are 2 governments. Westwing pressers is so cheap - dare to
overthrow the Ayatollah we are all watching.
Iran is likely to suffer heavy losses as oil fields & infra gets smashed. But the Ayatollah is going nowhere - and they will definitely go for the nuke now. All but guaranteed.
China must be pleased. At least I imagine strategically it's good news if the US is sunk into another forever war.