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Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by DoctorOetker »

einszwei wrote: post #109
cardanome wrote: post #22

Accusing Iran of "lashing out" and being "reckless" by attacking US bases while the US and Israel literally murder school children, bomb hospitals and assassinate state leaders is rich. It didn't have to be this way but they decided this to turn into a fight of survival for Iran and destroy any option for a peaceful resolution. Now they are going to pay the price.

Your comment made me realise that while Iran has attacked a dozen countries, they have yet to attack a school or a hospital. Not condoning anyone but shows the priority of both sides.

This is a truly profound insight, the benevolance of Iran's regime is suspiciously proportional to the interception prowess of the nations targeted by Iran. /s

So every time allied militaries protect their schools and hospitals by intercepting missiles, drones etc from Iran, you give credit to Iran?

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by xdennis »

cardanome wrote: post #38
maratc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had a religious ruling on the range, and they also had a religious ruling on "not creating an atomic bomb." The question of whether the world can assume its security on some religious rulings of some Ayatollas is still standing, as these rulings can apparently be changed or bypassed.

Maybe don't murder the religious leader that made the rulings. Can anyone blame them for considering developing nuclear weapons for real now? I can't.

> Maybe don't murder the religious leader that made the rulings.

Are you saying that politicians should be immune if they also serve a religious role?

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by lm28469 »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #58
cardanome wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe don't murder the religious leader that made the rulings. Can anyone blame them for considering developing nuclear weapons for real now? I can't.

I don't know but I can certainly blame them for oppressing and murdering their own citizens.

Everyone does, the problem is that every time the US came to deliver democracy to the Middle East they left the place in a much worse shape than it was... Also I don't believe for a second Trump or Israel give a single fuck about Iranian citizens

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by chasd00 »

Devasta wrote: post #358
anvuong wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The IRGC is fighting for survival, most Iranian want them gone, and Iran will be better as a whole if the IRGC is all dead. Don't try to conflate the government with the country, they don't always align.

You are absolutely deluded if you think the removal of the IRGC will result in any improvement in the situation of the Iranian people. The US and Israel want to bomb he place into a lawless wasteland, even if a secular democracy was to arise it would make no difference.

It’s trivial for either the US or Israel to do that with one phone call (completely destroy infrastructure on kharg island and the gas fields, this yields an Iranian failed state). The fact it hasn’t happened proves you wrong.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by surgical_fire »

10xDev wrote: post #199
energy123 wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason people left North Korea alone while they were building nuclear weapons is because they weren't arming 5 terrorist proxies and they didn't have a doomsday countdown clock in their capital city.

True, Kim Jong Un is actually pretty chill, just likes testing some nukes towards Japan as a hobby. Are people genuinely retarded? Or is it the severe Israel bias?

Both

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Post by Hikikomori »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #229
cardanome wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe you could ask yourself why people chant this. Maybe people don't fancy your mass murder of their Palestinian brothers and sisters. Maybe Iran didn't appreciate the US supporting Saddam Hussein to fight a war against Iran where he used chemical weapons against the population. The might be a reason the whole region hates Israel and the US. Just saying.

Or maybe you could ask yourself why most of the rest of the region allows the US to have military bases on their soil, and why they are so concerned about protecting themselves against Iran . The "whole region" fears Iran more than they hate the US, judged by their behavior.

9/11 happened because US imperialism. The current regime is in power because of US imperialism, as them and the Brits doing the coup in the 50s.

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Post by lm28469 »

breppp wrote: post #43
cardanome wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe don't murder the religious leader that made the rulings. Can anyone blame them for considering developing nuclear weapons for real now? I can't.

After being caught developing nuclear weapons for real numerous times, now it is really for real?

We have Joe Kent on mic saying Iran was not building nukes and posed no threat to the US.

The only people saying Iran was just about to get nukes are the Israelis, who've been saying that every 5 years for the last 40 years, and the only people who fell for it are magatards

I don't understand how people fall for this shit after the Iraq war scam, which was essentially the exact same propaganda

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by xdennis »

cardanome wrote: post #15
georgeburdell wrote: post #6

The fact that it was unsuccessful does not make it any less worrying. Iran was a regional problem before the war, but this new escalation shows they’re a threat to the entire world. They might have previously had a chance at a Vietnam or perhaps a Korea-style stalemate

Iran is fighting for survival, Israel and the US are fighting by choice. They attacked Iran not the other way round. US bases, even if also used by UK which aides US it their war, are legitimate targets. US imperialism is the greatest threat to the world.

> They attacked Iran not the other way round.

This whole war is a continuation of the Oct 7 attack on Israel by Iran's proxies. It's been revealed recently that Israel took the decision to assassinate the leader of Iran soon after Oct 7 in retaliation. It just took a few years to find the opportunity to do so.

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Post by chasd00 »

cardanome wrote: post #104
gizajob wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Or maybe you could ask yourself why people chant this. Maybe people don't fancy your mass murder of their Palestinian brothers and sisters. Maybe Iran didn't appreciate the US supporting Saddam Hussein to fight a war against Iran where he used chemical weapons against the population. The might be a reason the whole region hates Israel and the US. Just saying.

Being empathetic to someone who wants to kill you does not make you safer. How ridiculous.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by surgical_fire »

georgeburdell wrote: post #6

The fact that it was unsuccessful does not make it any less worrying. Iran was a regional problem before the war, but this new escalation shows they’re a threat to the entire world. They might have previously had a chance at a Vietnam or perhaps a Korea-style stalemate

Are you implying other countries have to join in?

Iran is only a threat because the US and Israel decided it was time to murder some Iranians.

The US and Israel are more of a threat to the entire world.

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