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Re: Khamenei Dead

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Post by _zagj »

CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #73
tim333 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends a bit on what they do with the weapons. The Ukraine invasion is a nasty business.

Do you think the USAs and Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran is a nasty business, or only that Russia's attack on Ukraine is a nasty business? How about NATO attacking Yugoslavia unprovoked? Was that a nasty business? NATO attacking Libya, unprovoked, was that a nasty business? The USA attacking Afghanistan unprovoked, was that a nasty business?

> USA attacking Afghanistan unprovoked

Unprovoked? This has to be one of the dumbest, most ahistorical bits of tankiespew I've ever read on this site.

Re: Khamenei Dead

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Post by chewz »

helaoban wrote: post #8

So now heads of state are fair game for unilateral elimination without a declaration of war This should be fun.

Ursula is next? US doesn't like European leadership either...

Would be fun to see Ursula before judge in NY soon.

Re: Khamenei Dead

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Post by bell-cot »

kibibu wrote: post #70
cogman10 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Israel also doesn't tend to report on major kills that didn't happen. It's one thing that they are fairly reliable on. If they say someone is dead, they likely are.

Oddly enough, they also don't tend to report on minor deaths that do happen

Sadly enough, yes.

But not reporting "minor" deaths is SOP in the kill biz.

Re: Khamenei Dead

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Post by CLPadvocate »

mullingitover wrote: post #65
mrtksn wrote: post #9

So, what does that mean? Is Iran one of those regimes that fall when the leader is killed or is it one of those regimes that they just choose/install someone else and keep going? If it falls, will the democracy kick in or a civil war?

Iran is already a parliamentary democracy, the aspect that’s criticized is the fact that candidates must be approved by their religious council. The Ayatollah didn’t/doesn’t exercise direct executive control over the country, so his removal wouldn’t create an immediate leadership vacuum. For as much as the far right in the US likes to criticize Iran, ultimately their only real complaint about their ‘theocracy with de…

where did you get this bullshit from?

by every definition of democracy, Iran is very close to the worst end of the scale - just as an example https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democracy...

Re: Khamenei Dead

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Post by kibibu »

bell-cot wrote: post #93
kibibu wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oddly enough, they also don't tend to report on minor deaths that do happen

Sadly enough, yes. But not reporting "minor" deaths is SOP in the kill biz.

(I was leaning on the dual meaning of "minor" here...)
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