Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps. Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival.

Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps. Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival.

    • Ugandan Airways@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m convinced Bibi has videos of DJT fucking kids and that’s what we are in a war. Like it’s not even a conspiracy theory it’s just the most likely scenario.

      • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Iran also said it had footage of the same kind, and did promise to release it if struck. Time to see if they were bluffing.

          • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I wouldn’t know how to source that. It originated from Telegram I think, so it’s nothing more than a claim/threat thus far, from sources I know nothing about. Why I was wondering if it was a bluff. There’s heresy about it on social media, with millions of views, but no official story.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Gee…

    Maybe we shouldn’t have had presidents from both parties normalize “support this other country no matter what” for decades…

    And that presidents from both parties didn’t say anything when Israel canceled annual elections the last five years. Like, Israel isn’t a democracy anymore, considering they’re the reason we’re having war in Iran again, they’re obviously just going to keep doing this as long as it works.

    And trump has openly been saying for years he loves the idea and wants to do it to.

    Even if this calms down by our midterms, he’s gonna start new shit before the election because he’d rather be at war and in power than out of office and in jail. Hell create whatever chaos and damage keeps him in power, there’s no line.

    Just like Bibi, their only goal is to die in office. And they don’t care how many of us die in the process

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Killing Supreme Leader did not boost US/Israeli poll numbers in region, including in Iran.

    Hezbollah now angry, and Israel just bombed Beirut.
    US marines in Pakistan had to kill 22 people.
    Iraq is most likely to have every American killed, and they would welcome Iranian military to walk in and do it. Every US occupied colonial pig fucker government in the Gulf, doesn’t even pretend to be a democracy, but lose popularity more by siding with US/Israel.

    The plan, trust Bibi and lose the middle east. Either Iran magically embraces Bibi’s favorite leader, or Iran gets destroyed a bit, then detstroyed again some year later. The plan is to divide middle east more.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Israel has made a calling card of using the prospect of peace as a tactic to prosecute wars against its enemies. In June, during the last round of US-Iranian negotiations over the nuclear file, Israel killed Tehran’s chief negotiators and tried to decapitate the civilian government on the first day of its twelve-day war against Iran, which the United States joined on the last day. In September, when diplomacy over the Gaza war was nearing a ceasefire deal, Israel attacked Hamas’s political wing in Doha.

    From the US perspective, negotiations with Iran have been framed by Trump’s desire to win a deal more advantageous to the United States than the “terrible” deal Barack Obama finally negotiated in 2016, after over a decade of diplomacy between Tehran and the world powers. During his first term, Trump unilaterally exited the deal and has since assumed a maximalist position in negotiations with Tehran consistent with the long-standing Israeli demand that Iran must be denied its right to enrich any uranium.