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[–] 94 points 5 months ago (8 children)

They've got the tiger by the tail now, then. Either the US and Israel pursue this all the way through to full regime change, or when they finally withdraw they're going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.

I'm sure Trump thought this all through in thorough detail, though, and has a long-term plan.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah plan is Israel takes whatever land they want, US removes their nuclear capabilities, bleeds them dry of resources/oil, tries to instate some puppet leader and then bounces only to let them fall into another awful dictatorship and the cycle continues.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you think that Israel will take land from Iran you better double-check where these countries are on the map.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You don’t think countries can exist non-contiguously?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not in this neighborhood, no.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Israel has no reason not to try it with US support. I’m sure they’d love to establish some territory to the east and then squeeze to the middle.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It literally makes zero sense for Israel to claim hostile territory over 2000 kilometers away when the US already has numerous bases in the surrounding countries.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah about that, he already "promised" the Islamic republican guard full immunity, you know those guys brutally slaughtering peaceful demonstrators...

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  • [+] -33 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Got a reliable source on that slaughter of peaceful people that isn't just a mouthpiece for the US/Israeli agenda?

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/21/at-least-3117-people-killed-during-iran-protests-state-media-reports

    Iranian state television has released the first official death toll from the recent antigovernment protests that engulfed the country, reporting that 3,117 people were killed during the crackdown.

    That was the official number by 2026/01/21

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  • [+] -33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's a few but the comment was that they were peaceful protestors. This makes no mention of peaceful protestors. We know that Mossad were arming people and firing upon IRGC so there's no surprise there's a death toll in the thousands

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Do we know the mossad was arming people. Do you have a credible source and not a mouth piece news organization

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