• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    As Tehran residents evacuated the capital in increasing numbers, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, threatened to make Tehranis “pay the price” for Ali Khamenei’s decision to keep firing missiles at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli attack.

    This is literally an adult… saying “why are you hitting yourself”.

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      If anyone does. It’ll be Nosferatu. All to cover his own ass. Because once he’s out as pres he’s going to jail for a loooot of corruption apparently.

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      13 hours ago

      Canned sunshine is the most terrifying and badass name I’ve ever heard used to describe a nuke.

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      I don’t think they will, but I’ve been thinking that one way Israel could get current and potential future enemies off their back for good would be if they finally showed the world that they do possess nukes and are not afraid to use them, possibly by making an example of someone. I do hope they won’t prove quite so callous.

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        If that happens (and I hope it doesn’t, but they’re crazy enough to do it), can the west stop supporting them and leave them to their own devices?

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      Does Iran have operational nukes? They’d probably respond in kind. If not, they’d probably launch basically everything they have at Israel.

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        Even if they don’t have any nukes that they developed themselves, there’s always the possibility they could’ve bought one or two from North Korea…

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        Pakistan has made guarantees that they will retaliate with their nuclear weapons if a nuclear strike occurs on Iran.

        EDIT: I went to find a source and Pakistan has walked this back and are denying that they ever said it

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        They do not, that’s kind of what this whole deal is about dude. And they’ve been launching what they have at Israel for a few days, it’s not much.

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          Most countries, Israel included, don’t possess the material for a protracted war. Most Non-US countries can make war, at best, for six months.

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          It’s not much? They broke through the iron dome, that’s a bit more than not much my dude.

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      Yeah, he seems narcissistic enough that he really doesn’t think there would be consequences.

      Hopefully there are other people around him who doesn’t want the rest of the world aiming everything they have at them.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    15 hours ago

    Why is Isreal bullying Iran they didnt do anything to deserve this.

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      Netanyahu has had a hard on for regime change in Iran for 30 years. Israel wants to destroy every country in the region that is pro Palestine. With the help of the US neocons, he has virtually succeeded; turning Syria, Libya, Iraq, Sudan into failed states that pose no threat to Israeli hegemony.

      This policy was first set out in the 1980s by Israeli strategist Oded Yinon who called for breaking up Arab states into weak, sectarian mini-states (Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, etc.) fragmenting states in the Middle East to weaken them

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      Bibi has to keep the war going or he’ll lose control over his dictatorship

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      My government are insane people. They will nuke Israel the second they got their hands on a nuclear bomb and Israel is a small country. Also if you look at how they’re treating us citizens you’ll know both sides are horrible people

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        If that’s true why haven’t they obtained a nuclear weapon in decades given Netanyahu has been warning that Iran is weeks away from developing a nuke since the 1990s?

        Why did Iran sign the JCPOA in 2015 which limited Uranium enrichment?

        Why did they let in IAEA to monitor enrichment?

        Why did Tulsi Gabbard say Iran is not producing a nuclear weapon in March?

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          Radiation signatures can tell you if its enriched for fuel or enriched for bombs.

          Iran did NOT want to use it for bombs. Nuclear energy would greatly benefit their energy portfolio. But cretin westeners cant see beyond bibis fearmongering and everyone thinks these people are stupid or something.

          Now I think Iran should make a couple.

          I also think Israel does not have any nukes themselves. No tests. No drills, no payload development. No IAEA inspections (THE DPRK ALLOWS IN THE IAEA). I think its much more profitable for Israel to fake nukes until the US helps them with actual ones when needed launching.

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        Hush my child… The real world doesn’t fit the anti Israel rhetoric that many lemmy users are so used to.

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        That was my thought, having followed the social media coverage of recent unrest in Iran over hair covering and so on. Iran does need regime change, but Israel is definitely not the right people to do it. No idea the solution, but I hope people can find a way to stay safe.

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        Islamophobic sentiment. Iran is as big as Germany.

        Dont make 1 dimensional accusations of the country. They want to live their lives without Imperialism knocking on their door.

        Of course they will retaliate.