A Very Eventful Month, What has Iran Ever Done to Us? and 50 equals 34 million.

A very eventful month:

Israel attacks Iran.

Air India crash in Ahmedabad with 1 lone survivor walking away unaided

America bombs Iran's nuclear plants

Donald Trump talking about Iran and Israel as their bombs continue to fall after the start of his ceasefire: "They don't know what the f**k they're doing"

This has all been extensively covered in the press. What I am going to look at this month is what the Iranian regime has been doing to the West since it took power in 1979. I am just going to report FACTS and I will make some comments at the end.

What has Iran done to us in the last 50 years?

The Iranian regime and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been accused by numerous Western governments and intelligence agencies of sponsoring terrorism globally for decades. This is primarily carried out through funding, training, and directing proxy groups—most notably Hezbollah—as well as deploying its own intelligence operatives to conduct attacks and assassinations.

Ali Hosseini Khamenei - Supreme Leader & President of Iran since 1989

While Iran denies involvement, a significant body of evidence from official investigations, court rulings, and intelligence reports links the regime to numerous attacks on Western targets or interests. Here are some of the most prominent examples.

Major Attacks Attributed to Iran and its Proxies:

1983 Beirut Barracks and Embassy Bombings (Lebanon): In April 1983, a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. Six months later, in October 1983, massive, coordinated suicide truck bombs struck the barracks of U.S. and French members of a multinational peacekeeping force. The attacks killed 241 U.S. service personnel and 58 French paratroopers. A U.S. federal court and declassified intelligence found that Iran's leadership authorised the attacks, which were carried out by its then-nascent proxy, Hezbollah. 

1994 AMIA Jewish Centre Bombing (Argentina): A car bomb destroyed the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. In 2024, Argentina's highest criminal court formally ruled that the attack was masterminded by Iran and executed by Hezbollah. The court identified the attack as a "crime against humanity" and named senior Iranian officials of the time as responsible.

1996 Khobar Towers Bombing (Saudi Arabia): A truck bomb targeted a housing complex for U.S. Air Force personnel in Khobar, killing 19 U.S. service members and injuring approximately 500 people. A U.S. federal grand jury indictment in 2001 stated that members of the Iranian-backed Saudi Hezbollah al-Hejaz carried out the attack and that they were "inspired, supported, and supervised" by senior officials in the Iranian government.

2012 Burgas Bus Bombing (Bulgaria): A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Israeli tourists at the airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, killing five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver, and injuring over 30 others. Bulgarian authorities, with support from international partners, concluded that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack, leading the European Union to designate Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organisation.

Foiled Plots and Recent Activity in Europe:

In addition to these major historical attacks, Western intelligence agencies have uncovered numerous more recent plots on European soil attributed to Iranian intelligence services and the IRGC. These often target Iranian dissidents, as well as Israeli and Jewish interests.

France (2018): European authorities thwarted a plot to bomb a large rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an opposition group, near Paris. An Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was later convicted in a Belgian court and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in masterminding the plot. 

United Kingdom (2022-Present): The head of MI5 has publicly stated that UK authorities have uncovered and disrupted at least 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022, including assassination and kidnapping attempts against individuals on British soil deemed to be enemies of the regime. 

Germany and Sweden: Security services have exposed networks and plots linked to Iran, sometimes involving the recruitment of local criminal gangs to carry out surveillance or attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets, including the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm.

My Thoughts

These incidents highlight a consistent strategy by the Iranian regime to use terrorism and covert operations as a tool of state policy against Western, Israeli, and dissident targets. The Iranian regime provides training, weapons and money to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and Houthis in Yemen in order that they can attack Israel and the West. In Palestine Square in Tehran, there is a 'countdown clock' which counts the days until the destruction of Israel.

Iranian countdown clock to the destruction of Israel

I have not listed the Iranian attacks on Israel, whether direct or via their terrorist proxies. There are far too many to list - they are frequently daily events.

These people are wicked beyond belief and in a way that it is hard for the Western mind to understand. We should all be grateful to Israel and the USA for having destroyed and damaged much of Iran's military and nuclear capabilities. We should also be thinking of the people of Iran who are suppressed by this evil regime. 

The Fordow nuclear enrichment site in Iran before/after US attack

U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers dropped GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment site on 22nd June 2025

I fail to understand why there appears to be so much support for Iran's death proxies in the West. We see regular demonstrations and vandalism by so-called Palestine freedom groups against Israel and either covertly or overtly in favour of the terrorist groups with chants such as 'From the river to the sea' which calls for the destruction of Israel. 

Billions of dollars of Western aid money have been stolen by Hamas and Hezbollah to supply their arms, build their tunnel networks and their luxury houses. These terrorists groups use their own people as part of their weaponry and openly celebrate every time there are civilian deaths as it helps their cause to turn more people against Israel. They use children an elderly people in their war effort as they know the IDF is less likely to attack them.

It is utterly repugnant and the West needs to wake up to their sheer evil. The only way to help the civilians is to rid them of their terrorist rulers. I utterly condemn the Israeli settlers in Palestine who are stealing other people's land and I condemn the Israeli' government's heavy handed approach to the conflict in Gaza. However this in no way justifies the Hamas attacks of the 7th of October which were unimaginably repugnant beyond belief. No sane person can support Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and Iranian Regime. They are a great danger to our world and our values.

 50 equals 34 million

The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own the same value of assets as the poorest half of the population. That's 34 million people. Sounds right? Absolutely not. 

"The top 50 richest families in the UK now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population, comprising more than 34 million people. In 2024, the two richest UK billionaires held more wealth between them than all the billionaires in the 1990 rich list combined.

“Our analysis also shows the vampiric nature of extreme wealth, which is completely incompatible with the health and wellbeing of the nation,” said Priya Sahni-Nicholas, co-executive director of the Equality Trust. “Property, inheritance and finance account for over half of total billionaire current wealth: sources of wealth creation that are responsible for large-scale planetary and community destruction." 

The Guardian May 19th 2025

You can read the full research report here:

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/billionaire-britain-2025/

I remember when I used to buy the Sunday Times every week from my local Newsagent in the 1980s. The annual Rich List was a big deal and the Top 10 had people like the Queen and Lord Sainsbury but as far as I can recall no billionaires. This year the 350th person on the list is worth £350 million. And that's more than most of the Top 10 used to have. 

So what you may say. Let them be. Well the problem is that many of the bottom 34 million people receive money from the state and the Top 50 don't pay much tax. This partially explains why our government is short of money and struggles to provide basic services that we used to take for granted. 

Quote for the Month

The following quote is frequently attributed to Winston Churchill:

“An empty taxi drew up outside Number Ten, Downing Street, and when the door opened, Attlee got out.”

Churchill categorically denied saying this. When challenged, his response was:

“Mr. Attlee,” he said, “is an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody who does.”