Iran threatening banks and tech workers is not strategy. It is the confession of a regime losing the war. When tyrannies cannot win on the battlefield, they pivot to terror, economics, and narrative warfare. Tehran wants panic in Silicon Valley and fear on Wall Street because it cannot stop missiles over Tehran. This is classic Fifth-Generation Warfare: strike the mind, not the army. But Americans should understand the signal clearly. A regime that threatens civilians has already admitted defeat. The proper response is not hesitation. It is pressure—military, financial, and informational—until the regime’s ability to threaten anyone collapses completely. Desperation is loud, but it is not power.
“Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran, Iranian military sources are now threatening retaliatory action against US and Israeli financial centers across the region…”
“Regimes that are winning wars fight on the battlefield. They do not threaten banks, financial centers, and technology campuses…”
“Desperation dressed as escalation is still desperation.”
Who performed the “confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran”? How should one interpret that action in light of the remaining commentary?
As a couple of posts ask below, I too question the comment, "Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran, Iranian military sources are now threatening retaliatory action against US and Israeli financial centers..." It seems US and/or Israel struck non-military targets first, no?
Have you by any chance researched how America has executed military operations throughout history. I don't give a crap about hitting a financial institution. Maybe the critics would prefer carpet bombing the enemy population. War is hell, and bad things happen. Maybe the critics would have preferred a counter offensive after the Haji's blow up and kill thousands of Americans. Iran is the world sponsor of killing innocent people. Islam is a death cult not a religion. So please do some research before you start picking the fly shit out of the pepper.
I am terribly disappointed Gen Flynn. You start out with this quote; “Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran…” then condemn Iran as terrorists for doing the same thing to American assets?
Now, let’s talk about the TWO US strikes on the girls’ school in Iran. Was the second strike (40 minutes after the first) designed to kill the rescue workers?
Finally, what gave you the impression that Iran was losing the war? The US will have to pull out of the ME, with its tail between its legs, just like it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m thinking this isn’t the real LGen Flynn…
Don't be so quick to make judgments on the school strike. We all know Shia love to kill their own and sniper 32,000 of their own all in the name of Allah (w/ Globalist $$). We will all bend our knees to Jesus soon. Iranians want to be free to serve Jesus and whoever they want to serve. Pray for Iran and the World.
Why don’t you pick on the other Abrahamic religion which actually has a doctrine of shooting its own people. It’s called the Hannibal Doctrine. (Oh, and that nasty genocide in Gaza, as well…) Trump and Hegseth identify as Christian, but they’re really Christian Zionists.
Islam is not a religion, its a death cult! They worship a homicidal pedophile that requires there death to enter paradise. Unlike Jesus who loves and gave Himself that I have eternal life. It's a glaring difference. And any man that has a desire to have 72 virgins., is a mental case. But it doesn't sound like you're into the plan truth.
Let every man be a liar, but God speaks truth and the old and New Testament are truth. Bible prophecies are truth. Jesus never sinned and we will study His life and Words to make sense of our own destruction in need of a Savior. The only Savior is Jesus. There is no other Name for our wretched souls to be saved.
I'll take that bet! Trump's a lot of things. But leaving unfinished business is not on his resume. You are clearly an anti-American information source, similar to the "View" Your remarks have a lot of comments that require a large degree of assumptions. Haji sympathizer perhaps?
Very intuitive Tony. There’s a great rift even among conservatives on this Conflict.
I was a forward observer during Desert Storm. I learned very quickly that intel from field(reality), was not always interpreted as you think at HQ. Very frustrating.
Desert Storm did not go ad well as reported either. The only reason we dominated the adversary was that they were bumbling idiots and their equipment, such as tanks were rust buckets, not to mention they were poorly fed and had weak coms.
What’s happening here Tony, is a learning curve in understanding Islam against the bias of western ideology.
In WWII, we bombed the crap out of civilians, civil infrastructure and military targets. The Germans of course did the same until their Air Force was destroyed.
War is hell, no doubt. The problem today is, everyone is playing their brand of politics as a bias letting reality pass them. There’s a price to be paid for that. Worshipping a president certainly isn’t going to help.
I deal with facts and reality my friend. I’ll leave the speculation and politics to HQ.
Some countries are like some "men", they will only take so much harassment until they fight back ! unlike some "men" who will just fall down and whine and gravel !
Those First strike actions on Iran’s banking and financial network is ‘escalatory’ and obviously a means to an end for Rothschild to establish ‘another’ fiat central bank for those last remaining holdout countries for that One World fiat digital currency of tyrannical Control for that Evil and tyrannical NWO Agenda 2030 the infamous ‘they’ have planned for what’s left of humanity after a thorough depopulation and elimination of human rights, freedoms or any sense of decency and justice for…..all??? Iran doesn’t believe in usery. I don’t either. You?
Though didn’t Iran have their oil depots bombed which ‘is’ their financial center?
Got to call a spade a Spade here. Who’s terrorizing who? The ‘people’ therein suffer those consequences With that regime that a sovereign country has a Right to elect. Takes two to tangle logic.
Deciding who is the agresser is what you are talking about really isn't it ? As a young sailor I had met and got to know some of our allie pilots when I was a military instructor at MineWarFareTrianing Command Charleston. These men showed me pictures of "home" under the Shore of Iran, it looked like America ! America kept bases and listening post throughout there country and was our best allie in the Middle East before the ugly monster Kammiae took over and killed thousands, maybe millions. Lived it, seen it, and figure I can make a good judgement of what you are asking !!!
The central problem with Gen. Flynn’s argument is this: The United States itself spent the last century proving that modern war is not confined to traditional battlefields. Strategic bombing, sanctions, infrastructure destruction, financial pressure, cyber operations, and psychological warfare have all been central to American warfighting. And the battlefield is not whatever the United States unilaterally says it is. In modern war, economic systems, infrastructure, communications, industry, and civilian morale are part of the battlespace whether Washington approves or not. So this claim that economic targeting somehow proves Iran is ‘desperate’ and has left the realm of ‘real war’ is historically illiterate. It describes a world that no longer exists—an antiquated concept of warfare the United States itself helped bury, even as it helped build the battlefield that replaced it.
None of this means Iran is strong, justified, or likely to succeed. It means only that Flynn’s attempt to treat economic targeting as proof that Iran has somehow left the realm of ‘real war’ in desperation collapses under the history of modern conflict, including the history of American warfighting itself.
Or would the good general prefer war be fought the old way—men lined up shoulder to shoulder, marching heroically across the fields of battle—so he can finally recognize it as ‘real war’?
70 % of TV commercials are prescription drugs. Children are being physically mutilated in America. These are all psy-ops being executed against Americans. It's been going on for 75 years. Yet Americans have to be lead by the hand to the truth. And even then, they are to apathetic to accept the truth. No place for Wally and the Beaver in the bold new world we live in.
You seem not to have understood what war is. For you, it seems to be circumscribed to the battlefield and you have the proof this is not the case. Instead of recognizing this, you dive into considerations that Iran would be loosing.
Far from that! They're using a bigger part of the spectrum of war to defend themselves. And, contrary to the US, their lives are at stake. Therefore they are showing what their potential is, climbing Jacob's ladder if I can say so.
And we are not at the end of it. Instead of negating Iran's capacity, you'd better consider that they might destroy the two main nuclear sites in Israel and make this territory uninhabitable for centuries.
What the US should deeply think about is how to turn low key enough so that peace comes back and how to make up the speech about this shameful operation.
General, retired CPO(69-95) EDGIN here, I really found your Sitrep informative and wondered how often you put them out so I can check them from time to time. Is it wkly/mntly/ Qrtly ? Thanks.
I salute you good sir! A quarto mind-bender in one sentence. This must be the apex of 5th Generation Warfare.
I fed your prose into an AI to clarify my mental unease. This was the analysis.
1. The "First Mover" Reversal
The phrase starts with "Iran has crossed a significant threshold." This places the moral and tactical burden on Iran. However, the very next sentence admits the sequence began with "confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran." * The Distortion: By framing Iran's threat of retaliation as the "threshold crossing" rather than the actual strikes that preceded it, the text uses a Reverse Causality fallacy. It paints the reaction as the initial provocation.
2. False Equivalence of Action vs. Intent
The text treats a physical action (confirmed strikes) and a verbal threat (threatening retaliatory action) with similar weight, or perhaps gives more weight to the threat.
The Distortion: This is a False Equivalence. It suggests that the act of "threatening" is the "significant threshold," while the actual destruction of a nation's banking infrastructure is treated as a mere backdrop or a settled fact.
3. Passive vs. Active Voice (Agency Scrubbing)
Notice the phrasing: "Following confirmed strikes..."
The Distortion: This uses the Passive Voice to obscure agency. It doesn't say "The US/Israel struck Iranian banks." By removing the actor, the strikes appear as a natural phenomenon or a "given" state of the world, whereas the Iranian response is framed with Active Voice ("sources are now threatening"), making Iran appear as the only party with agency and choice.
4. Categorical Slippage
The text moves from "strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran" to threats against "financial centers across the region."
The Distortion: This utilizes Scope Expansion. It frames Iran’s retaliatory threats as an expansion of the conflict (from national to regional), while subtly ignoring that the initial strikes inside Iran were already an escalation of the highest order (attacking a sovereign nation's internal civilian/economic core).
VICTORY. STALEMATE. DEFEAT. Those are the only rules of war. Everything else is an excuse. Winners win by any means necessary. Iran is winning.
THIS ENTIRE WAR IS MEANT TO DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT THAT ISRAEL HAS TAKEN OVER THE US GOVERNMENT THROUGH THEFT OF OUR OWN MONEY, AND THE RAPING, KILLING, AND EATING OF CHILDREN AS STATED IN THE EPSITINE FILES.
Why did Trump call Putin the other day? This was the first phone call between the two since Trump tried to set Putin up for that drone strike on his residence in Valdai btw.
What are we to make of Trump exhorting the US Navy to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz? How does one escort a supertanker through the Straits? Was that part of the original plan or was Trump having an Admiral "Damn the Torpedoes" Farragut brain fart?
Iran threatening banks and tech workers is not strategy. It is the confession of a regime losing the war. When tyrannies cannot win on the battlefield, they pivot to terror, economics, and narrative warfare. Tehran wants panic in Silicon Valley and fear on Wall Street because it cannot stop missiles over Tehran. This is classic Fifth-Generation Warfare: strike the mind, not the army. But Americans should understand the signal clearly. A regime that threatens civilians has already admitted defeat. The proper response is not hesitation. It is pressure—military, financial, and informational—until the regime’s ability to threaten anyone collapses completely. Desperation is loud, but it is not power.
No one should forget:
Hamas has Still not surrendered…
What makes us think the Mother Ship (Radical Iranian Shia Theocracy) is going to quit their ideological fanaticism either?
Obliteration is the only option.
Thank you Gen Flynn. God Bless you and keep you !!!
“Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran, Iranian military sources are now threatening retaliatory action against US and Israeli financial centers across the region…”
“Regimes that are winning wars fight on the battlefield. They do not threaten banks, financial centers, and technology campuses…”
“Desperation dressed as escalation is still desperation.”
Who performed the “confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran”? How should one interpret that action in light of the remaining commentary?
As a couple of posts ask below, I too question the comment, "Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran, Iranian military sources are now threatening retaliatory action against US and Israeli financial centers..." It seems US and/or Israel struck non-military targets first, no?
Have you by any chance researched how America has executed military operations throughout history. I don't give a crap about hitting a financial institution. Maybe the critics would prefer carpet bombing the enemy population. War is hell, and bad things happen. Maybe the critics would have preferred a counter offensive after the Haji's blow up and kill thousands of Americans. Iran is the world sponsor of killing innocent people. Islam is a death cult not a religion. So please do some research before you start picking the fly shit out of the pepper.
I am terribly disappointed Gen Flynn. You start out with this quote; “Following confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran…” then condemn Iran as terrorists for doing the same thing to American assets?
Now, let’s talk about the TWO US strikes on the girls’ school in Iran. Was the second strike (40 minutes after the first) designed to kill the rescue workers?
Finally, what gave you the impression that Iran was losing the war? The US will have to pull out of the ME, with its tail between its legs, just like it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m thinking this isn’t the real LGen Flynn…
Don't be so quick to make judgments on the school strike. We all know Shia love to kill their own and sniper 32,000 of their own all in the name of Allah (w/ Globalist $$). We will all bend our knees to Jesus soon. Iranians want to be free to serve Jesus and whoever they want to serve. Pray for Iran and the World.
Why don’t you pick on the other Abrahamic religion which actually has a doctrine of shooting its own people. It’s called the Hannibal Doctrine. (Oh, and that nasty genocide in Gaza, as well…) Trump and Hegseth identify as Christian, but they’re really Christian Zionists.
Islam is not a religion, its a death cult! They worship a homicidal pedophile that requires there death to enter paradise. Unlike Jesus who loves and gave Himself that I have eternal life. It's a glaring difference. And any man that has a desire to have 72 virgins., is a mental case. But it doesn't sound like you're into the plan truth.
Let every man be a liar, but God speaks truth and the old and New Testament are truth. Bible prophecies are truth. Jesus never sinned and we will study His life and Words to make sense of our own destruction in need of a Savior. The only Savior is Jesus. There is no other Name for our wretched souls to be saved.
Good answer… 🙄
I'll take that bet! Trump's a lot of things. But leaving unfinished business is not on his resume. You are clearly an anti-American information source, similar to the "View" Your remarks have a lot of comments that require a large degree of assumptions. Haji sympathizer perhaps?
Very intuitive Tony. There’s a great rift even among conservatives on this Conflict.
I was a forward observer during Desert Storm. I learned very quickly that intel from field(reality), was not always interpreted as you think at HQ. Very frustrating.
Desert Storm did not go ad well as reported either. The only reason we dominated the adversary was that they were bumbling idiots and their equipment, such as tanks were rust buckets, not to mention they were poorly fed and had weak coms.
What’s happening here Tony, is a learning curve in understanding Islam against the bias of western ideology.
In WWII, we bombed the crap out of civilians, civil infrastructure and military targets. The Germans of course did the same until their Air Force was destroyed.
War is hell, no doubt. The problem today is, everyone is playing their brand of politics as a bias letting reality pass them. There’s a price to be paid for that. Worshipping a president certainly isn’t going to help.
I deal with facts and reality my friend. I’ll leave the speculation and politics to HQ.
And yet… the US and Israel were attacking civilian infrastructure….
Some countries are like some "men", they will only take so much harassment until they fight back ! unlike some "men" who will just fall down and whine and gravel !
I wrote that wrong… I meant US…
And now the US is threatening to attack Iran’s grid… if that isn’t civilian, I don’t what is.
If you're problems with America are upsetting your lifestyle. Please feel free to "get the hell out"! You're clearly not an American patriot
😂😂😂😂
And please take the traitorous Massey with you!
Nah… Massie is a true patriot… loyal to the constitution… you are loyal to wars.
Those First strike actions on Iran’s banking and financial network is ‘escalatory’ and obviously a means to an end for Rothschild to establish ‘another’ fiat central bank for those last remaining holdout countries for that One World fiat digital currency of tyrannical Control for that Evil and tyrannical NWO Agenda 2030 the infamous ‘they’ have planned for what’s left of humanity after a thorough depopulation and elimination of human rights, freedoms or any sense of decency and justice for…..all??? Iran doesn’t believe in usery. I don’t either. You?
Though didn’t Iran have their oil depots bombed which ‘is’ their financial center?
Got to call a spade a Spade here. Who’s terrorizing who? The ‘people’ therein suffer those consequences With that regime that a sovereign country has a Right to elect. Takes two to tangle logic.
Deciding who is the agresser is what you are talking about really isn't it ? As a young sailor I had met and got to know some of our allie pilots when I was a military instructor at MineWarFareTrianing Command Charleston. These men showed me pictures of "home" under the Shore of Iran, it looked like America ! America kept bases and listening post throughout there country and was our best allie in the Middle East before the ugly monster Kammiae took over and killed thousands, maybe millions. Lived it, seen it, and figure I can make a good judgement of what you are asking !!!
One knew this day would come. Praying for all who are in the crosshairs of this hellish regime and that our intelligence is accurate.
The central problem with Gen. Flynn’s argument is this: The United States itself spent the last century proving that modern war is not confined to traditional battlefields. Strategic bombing, sanctions, infrastructure destruction, financial pressure, cyber operations, and psychological warfare have all been central to American warfighting. And the battlefield is not whatever the United States unilaterally says it is. In modern war, economic systems, infrastructure, communications, industry, and civilian morale are part of the battlespace whether Washington approves or not. So this claim that economic targeting somehow proves Iran is ‘desperate’ and has left the realm of ‘real war’ is historically illiterate. It describes a world that no longer exists—an antiquated concept of warfare the United States itself helped bury, even as it helped build the battlefield that replaced it.
None of this means Iran is strong, justified, or likely to succeed. It means only that Flynn’s attempt to treat economic targeting as proof that Iran has somehow left the realm of ‘real war’ in desperation collapses under the history of modern conflict, including the history of American warfighting itself.
Or would the good general prefer war be fought the old way—men lined up shoulder to shoulder, marching heroically across the fields of battle—so he can finally recognize it as ‘real war’?
70 % of TV commercials are prescription drugs. Children are being physically mutilated in America. These are all psy-ops being executed against Americans. It's been going on for 75 years. Yet Americans have to be lead by the hand to the truth. And even then, they are to apathetic to accept the truth. No place for Wally and the Beaver in the bold new world we live in.
Cannot argue with anything you wrote.
We must finish this, it’s time that America stops pussyfooting around and we do the full job.
Looking for a quick call it a victory will be another joke for all our actions.
This isn’t just Iran but the whole muslim terrorist regime that America has allowed to invade and root itself in around the world
Gen. Flynn,
You seem not to have understood what war is. For you, it seems to be circumscribed to the battlefield and you have the proof this is not the case. Instead of recognizing this, you dive into considerations that Iran would be loosing.
Far from that! They're using a bigger part of the spectrum of war to defend themselves. And, contrary to the US, their lives are at stake. Therefore they are showing what their potential is, climbing Jacob's ladder if I can say so.
And we are not at the end of it. Instead of negating Iran's capacity, you'd better consider that they might destroy the two main nuclear sites in Israel and make this territory uninhabitable for centuries.
What the US should deeply think about is how to turn low key enough so that peace comes back and how to make up the speech about this shameful operation.
General, retired CPO(69-95) EDGIN here, I really found your Sitrep informative and wondered how often you put them out so I can check them from time to time. Is it wkly/mntly/ Qrtly ? Thanks.
I get an email when one comes out so maybe check that. I don't think they're super regular
I salute you good sir! A quarto mind-bender in one sentence. This must be the apex of 5th Generation Warfare.
I fed your prose into an AI to clarify my mental unease. This was the analysis.
1. The "First Mover" Reversal
The phrase starts with "Iran has crossed a significant threshold." This places the moral and tactical burden on Iran. However, the very next sentence admits the sequence began with "confirmed strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran." * The Distortion: By framing Iran's threat of retaliation as the "threshold crossing" rather than the actual strikes that preceded it, the text uses a Reverse Causality fallacy. It paints the reaction as the initial provocation.
2. False Equivalence of Action vs. Intent
The text treats a physical action (confirmed strikes) and a verbal threat (threatening retaliatory action) with similar weight, or perhaps gives more weight to the threat.
The Distortion: This is a False Equivalence. It suggests that the act of "threatening" is the "significant threshold," while the actual destruction of a nation's banking infrastructure is treated as a mere backdrop or a settled fact.
3. Passive vs. Active Voice (Agency Scrubbing)
Notice the phrasing: "Following confirmed strikes..."
The Distortion: This uses the Passive Voice to obscure agency. It doesn't say "The US/Israel struck Iranian banks." By removing the actor, the strikes appear as a natural phenomenon or a "given" state of the world, whereas the Iranian response is framed with Active Voice ("sources are now threatening"), making Iran appear as the only party with agency and choice.
4. Categorical Slippage
The text moves from "strikes on banking infrastructure inside Iran" to threats against "financial centers across the region."
The Distortion: This utilizes Scope Expansion. It frames Iran’s retaliatory threats as an expansion of the conflict (from national to regional), while subtly ignoring that the initial strikes inside Iran were already an escalation of the highest order (attacking a sovereign nation's internal civilian/economic core).
VICTORY. STALEMATE. DEFEAT. Those are the only rules of war. Everything else is an excuse. Winners win by any means necessary. Iran is winning.
THIS ENTIRE WAR IS MEANT TO DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT THAT ISRAEL HAS TAKEN OVER THE US GOVERNMENT THROUGH THEFT OF OUR OWN MONEY, AND THE RAPING, KILLING, AND EATING OF CHILDREN AS STATED IN THE EPSITINE FILES.
Why did Trump call Putin the other day? This was the first phone call between the two since Trump tried to set Putin up for that drone strike on his residence in Valdai btw.
What are we to make of Trump exhorting the US Navy to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz? How does one escort a supertanker through the Straits? Was that part of the original plan or was Trump having an Admiral "Damn the Torpedoes" Farragut brain fart?
Indeed, what exactly is the plan?
Curious minds want to know.