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Iran has chosen self-destruction, and is happy to take the world down with it
MSN ^ | 4/15 | Sherelle Jacobs

Posted on 04/15/2024 2:08:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Iranian regime has chosen suicide. True, it will take some time for the logical conclusion of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatal and probably irreversible course of action to play out. Like a pre-AI automaton incapable of adapting to the input of new information, the BBC will continue to blather about Iran’s capacity for “strategic patience” and the risks of Israel “dragging” the US into a regional war.

But one thing seems clear: the Iranian theocracy has now entered a death loop. Unless Israel throws it a lifeline, it is increasingly likely that Tehran faces either a Soviet-style collapse amid a regional war it cannot afford, or bloody regime change as the revolution is eaten by its children.

By directly attacking Israel from its own soil, Iran has initiated a battle of brinkmanship that it cannot possibly win. Some will argue that it was Israel that ripped up the playbook when an Iranian general was killed in Syria in an airstrike that hit parts of Tehran’s “consulate”. Still, Jerusalem’s new red lines are by now perfectly obvious to anyone of sound mind.

Israel knows that it cannot afford to let the Iranian onslaught pass without a response. It also knows that Tehran – possibly soon with nuclear weapons – is likely to escalate co-ordinated displays of aggression from Syria in the east and from Hezbollah in Lebanon in the north. And with the West whispering that a pivot to Asia looms, Israel may well have decided that it is now or never.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: nickcarraway

Iran is full of jihadists, so, to them, Allah is great and sacrificing in his name is what they live for, and die for, and when they take the infidels with them, Allah will grant them 72 virgins (except for the women, who are second class citizens, even in their after-life).


21 posted on 04/15/2024 2:56:08 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: All

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
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The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, Abolfazl Amouei has stated tonight that Iran is prepared to utilize “A Weapon it has never before Used” if Israel decides to launch a Retaliatory Attack.


22 posted on 04/15/2024 3:01:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: nickcarraway

There is only one way to deal with barbarians. Overwhelm them with force, destroy them.


23 posted on 04/15/2024 3:03:02 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: TigerClaws

They misspelled israel in title of article.


24 posted on 04/15/2024 3:04:06 PM PDT by ozarker
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To: ozarker; All

It’s a tough name to spell!

But what is this “weapon they’ve never used before”?

1. Does Iran have nukes already?

2. Would they use one (or more) on Israel?

3. Why? They knew Israel would not be attacked and ignore it and yet they didn’t use a puppet to attack - they did it directly from Iran. Why?

4. We have an aircraft carrier in the area. Is it nuclear capable? Would it become a target?


25 posted on 04/15/2024 3:11:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: nickcarraway

the united states of america is currently committing suicide... how about focusing attention on our demise...


26 posted on 04/15/2024 3:16:37 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: PGR88

Run!


27 posted on 04/15/2024 3:17:54 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: nickcarraway

Can you imagine if Israel responded with the same amount of missiles, the same proportion of drones and ballistic, the devastation which would begat Persia?


28 posted on 04/15/2024 3:31:34 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: ModelBreaker

“We live in an insane world led by insane people.”

Ditto!


29 posted on 04/15/2024 4:11:30 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: whitney69

“. . . And the only way you can stop them (snip) . . . is to kill them!”

There! Fixed it!


30 posted on 04/15/2024 4:13:08 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: nickcarraway

The long referenced “good” Iranians who “hate the theocratic dictatorship ruling them” and are “ready to revolt” and “want Western style freedom and fashions” had better act fast. Assume most of them are cowards.

The British would sometimes use the blood trails in the snow behind shoeless troops in the Revolutionary War to track them.


31 posted on 04/15/2024 4:29:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: nickcarraway

For those who are too young to remember, it was Jimmy Carter who is responsible for the filthy Iran of today because he shafted the Shah up to and including denying him cancer treatment. Totally supported the mullahs.


32 posted on 04/15/2024 4:33:34 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: The Free Engineer

Surgical wipe out of the head mullahs.


33 posted on 04/15/2024 4:44:39 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: nickcarraway

What a crock.


34 posted on 04/15/2024 4:58:07 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Ge0ffrey
I don't think Sherelle is a leftist. Quote: "The lack of evidence lockdowns worked is a world scandal." From her Wikipedia page:

35 posted on 04/15/2024 5:03:29 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: wildcard_redneck

Dude please.


36 posted on 04/15/2024 5:07:47 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: nickcarraway

Well they have friends in the WH so they got that going for them.


37 posted on 04/15/2024 5:33:24 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: SteveH

“Maybe take over a sparsely populated part of iran’s coast and then resettle the “palestinians” there?”

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Nobody wants them, they will start a terror cell wherever you move them. That’s why Egypt built a wall, to keep them out.


38 posted on 04/15/2024 6:20:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: nickcarraway
Some will argue that it was Israel that ripped up the playbook when an Iranian general was killed in Syria in an airstrike that hit parts of Tehran’s “consulate”.

Others will argue that Iran ripped up the playbook many years ago when they bombed the Israeli Embassy in Argentina and killed 29 people.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-court-blames-iran-for-1990s-terror-attacks-on-israeli-embassy-amia-center/

39 posted on 04/15/2024 6:31:41 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes in 2010


40 posted on 04/15/2024 6:34:44 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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