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I suspect Israel's goal was either to start a civil war this is supported by the fact they tried to make it look like Iran lost so much and was in chaos, and they burned lots of tyres and exaggerated on everything.If we go by the simpleton view that "entirety" of Iranian nuclear program was gathered in few of those rooms to take the US hit in those facilities then yes but world is not so simple otherwise AIPAC run US would not be negotiating with Iran again, nuclear spy arm "IAEA" would not be dying to return to Iran either. Nuclear program is not a tangible entity that can be destroyed by 2 bombs dropped in sand. The knowledge, the expertise, the tools, blueprints all is there in one of the worlds most technically educated nation with a large terrain to hide in. Here is the connected question that no one is even asking, where is that ~half a ton 60% HEU ? If Israel goal was to prevent Iran from using that HEU to make WGU and subsequent devices then its still inside Iran in hands of same leadership they claimed is going to use them to make bombs (netanyahu's words). What did Israel achieve here ?
Besides, what is the guarantee that all these years IRI just did not build a parallel more secretive micro facilities like other nuclear armed countries. The idea of such a system actually came from Israel itself if your read its own nuclear program. This is not just my view, few mainstream journalists hold the same opinion that IRI always knew this possibility so they may have shifted to the parallel micro-sites the first time they were threatened by US bombing. Different debate.
You are naming their designations to make them sound some HUGE losses but were they? Most were crude ground soldiers from Iraq war era who IRI mullah leadership just politically trusted because they were ideologically aligned so they became "Chiefs" and "Heads" of this and that. Majority was way past retirement, most were idiots like motor mouth Salami and clueless Bagheri under whom the Iranian armed forced regressed the most. The scary nuclear "scientist" Davani was the same fool who once claimed Iran is a superpower on par with US. At best these old men were roadblocks and nothing else. Only actual loss felt at first was Hajizadeh but IRGCAF's strike after strike proved that even he was not some key player. We are living in AI age, individuals do not matter that much the way they did few years back.
Just for sake of argument even if we say they were HUGE losses, I will ask again, what did their killings bring to Israel? If the goal was to cripple IRGC then that did not happen so what did Israel achieve by taking out these clowns ?
See this is the issue here, if Khamenei's survival is important for Israel and he is the absolute power in Iran then why even wage war at first place? Their most trusted ally is sitting on throne in Tehran right ? This is exactly my point that what did Israel wanted to achieve in this war because from broader perspective they achieved literally nothing.
Deterrence was not established by Israel at all. Killing of generals, bombing civilians, using hundreds of hired agents (disgruntled Iranians) from within Iran to do internal terrorism disguised as "aerial attacks" nothing worked because IRGC kept firing back in the heart of the Israel, IRI leadership is still sitting on throne, nuclear program cant die, close to half a ton HEU is still inside Iran, Iranian nation rallied around Mullahs. It would have been an absolute victory for Israel if even half of their goals were achieved but they did not. You are seeing micro details of who killed how many random people on street but wars are won strategically when goals are achieved otherwise Nazis won the WWII because they killed the most people.
IRI is a dysfunctional system run by illiterate self appointed priests under decades of sanctions. Israel on the other hand is a power group that controls entire US and EU, PGCC. Both failed, Iranian case is understandable but why did Israel fail miserably in its goals?
It is undeniable that the main goal was regime collapse (and not regime change)I suspect Israel's goal was either to start a civil war this is supported by the fact they tried to make it look like Iran lost so much and was in chaos, and they burned lots of tyres and exaggerated on everything.
The other possibility is that they simply wanted to economically wear Iran down further.
If the former then they achieved it to some degree, just depends how much more they have lost compare to Iran and who can take it more. If the latter then of course they failed.
Where would Iran be today if the Pahlavi regime had not collapsed? The Pahlavi regime had its problems and corruption. The shah's brother had to be a partner in any Iranian company of significance. Shah's sister Ashraf was like the cartel. She was the opium and heroin queen. But I can say that the fake country of the UAE would be as irrelevant as Oman.
The chances of a negotiated settlement of repatriation of Azerbaijan would be a reality, although at the cost of significant concessions to the Americans.
You mean Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, I guess.You forget Reza Pahlavi got cancer, even if he stayed in power he would have died long before Iran was able to escape being a vessel state (and become say more like Turkey in that they are both aligned and disaligned with the West).
With Reza dead a power vacuum would have occurred and who knows where Iran would have ended up.
The containment theory did its job though. It took time, but it weakened Iran to the point of economic collapse with literally no cost to the US.Now with the recent Armenia-USA-Azeri deal, it looks like all that was required for Iran to lose all its influence in the Middle East was an America that had resolve to confront it seriously instead of playing containment theory (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, etc). Trump was a disaster for Iran because he gave Bibi the greenlight to dismantle the Axis and we found out that Iran was mostly all talk hiding behind bluster and bravado.
They are not Muslims. The last Sunni Islamic empire was the Ottoman Empire. When it fell, its former territory was used to create current countries like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and many others. These countries were created by foreign colonizers, who put anti-Islamic puppets in power at their founding. You'll even see that the Young Turks and Atartuk went so far as to ban Islamic practices and even tariqas! Over the decades, the US and Israel have created the "Far right NEOCON": puppet politicians of Zionism who pretend to be conservatives of some Christian or Islamic culture. Hence: Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Ronald Reagan, Geert Wilders and many others. They have always been working for Zionism. ALWAYS, but now with the internet + the public genocide of the Palestinians, this became VISIBLE for those who hadn't seen it yet.lets face it
all the muslim countries are led by coward and corrupt people who are traitors.
The muslim people are in for a world of hurt in whats coming soon. We will learn the hard way, yet again by seeing our countries destroyed internally and externally.
its the way things are, whether or not you're a nuke power. It doesn't matter when your populations are struggling for steady jobs/income/food/shelter/basics of life etc.
It was a completely childish and irrelevant move...who got hurt economically from all those stupid slogans? Us or the USA? Who got isolated, attacked and sanctioned to death...us or them? Man, I'm all for resistance if it has a meaningful conclusion or result...but the old man cultivated nothing. So many young, brilliant Iranians lost their future, their chance. It saddens me to no end to see UAE, Qatar, and even Turkey thrive, while our young generation struggles to make ends meet. They fucked up, and I want them to admit it.You forget Reza Pahlavi got cancer, even if he stayed in power he would have died long before Iran was able to escape being a vessel state (and become say more like Turkey in that they are both aligned and disaligned with the West).
With Reza dead a power vacuum would have occurred and who knows where Iran would have ended up.
Either way resisting American Empire for 45 years while noble, ended up bankrupting Iran and destroying its social fabric.
Now with the recent Armenia-USA-Azeri deal, it looks like all that was required for Iran to lose all its influence in the Middle East was an America that had resolve to confront it seriously instead of playing containment theory (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, etc). Trump was a disaster for Iran because he gave Bibi the greenlight to dismantle the Axis and we found out that Iran was mostly all talk hiding behind bluster and bravado.
At this point, IR of iran is headed towards collapse or irrelevance unless some turns their fortunes around.
Pezeshkian defends possibility of talks with EU/USA, saying even if we rebuild our sites, Israel/US will just bomb them again so we need to reach a political resolution. and he says any talks must be approved by the government.
two takeaways:
1) IRI/hardliners use reformists as scapegoat while they decide and approve the policies behind the scenes (which does not excuse Pezeshkian's weak character and lack of leadership which frequently embarrasses Iran)
2) the military has failed to provide alternative options to the decision makers, meaning they have no choice but to pursue diplomacy and capitulate on our rights since we can't defend them militarily:
@ShapurII
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