Israel are going to start WWIII

Could you even make a basic effort to put whatever prejudice you want to spout into clear English?

You're scraping the bottom of the propaganda barrel there, buddy.

I think you've forgotten that we are not Americans. We actually read and understand History and Geopolitics. We can spot BS miles ( or kilometres) away.

" Ohhhh, Be Afraid of the Scary Islamists!!! Coming to take over our Mid-Western Evangelical Churches!!!. Let us Help our sons in Israel stand up to the Barbaric Hoard!!!""

Wrong audience, buddy.

Precisely.

Remember, the US is cautious about getting too involved for a very, very good reason and their Intel on Iran digs a lot deeper than we can imagine.

Iran has had decades to prepare for a war. Its EXPECTING to be attacked and even knows which sites will be hit.

Don't you think they have a Plan B? A Contingency Plan? You bet your life they do, and the US knows only too well what that could entail. Why do you think even the Saudis are cautious about an all out attack.

Iran is not Iraq or Syria. This is a whole other animal.

Do they really have a plan B though. Russia didn't after the 3 day plan for Ukraines defeat failed. Is Irans military just Russia military but without nukes and an air force. Without a boots on the ground war they can't even do meat attacks. That just leaves them with missiles, which will deplete very fast.

Where are these magical F35s going to land exactly?

They were bombed to kill the people in there. Mostly children.

Do keep up.

I don't know if the regime collapses, but I do I think the US military can rapidly remove most of Iran's ability to wage such a war (i.e. fire off missiles and drones). Iran needs long range weapons to reach out and fight with Israel directly.

The US did destroy Iraq's military power twice, mostly from the air, even if they could not achieve what they wanted with the invasion.

I am not certain of the outcome, but think it is highly risky for Israel to start a war with Iran alone, just with US weapons supplies and aid for it and such, and not direct US military engagement on their side (most of your examples are not really that).

the worry for iran's leadership is will the iranian people back them when they are bombed back into the stone age

Well it hasn't worked in Gaza, or Lebanon, but I guess Iran is third time lucky? If there is no rebel military force I can't see the Iran government being overthrown by a bombing campaign.

It's a bold move, but slaughtering more children should definitely work this time.

Well they were legally mandated to prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel with rockets

No they aren't.

You just made that up.

Yes, I think this is Iran's real problem. My son has a friend (through internet, obviously, but they've been in contact for years now, initially over a shared Multiplayer game, so know each other well by now - I've even spoken to his mother a little!) and it's clear that Iranian youth are nothing like the image the Mullahs want to transmit. I would say it's shades of De Valera's "comely maidens dacing at crossroads" except that the disconnect with reality is of a higher order again.

He often puts photos online of himself and his friends hiking in the mountains - always mixed groups, not just young men. They're also deeply disillusioned with the regime, and with religion. He did his military service recently, in the police force (not his choice) and the conscripts were often kept inside on desk jobs because it was during all the disruption about headscarves, and it was felt by the higher-ups that conscripts could not be relied on to do the regime's bidding but would take the side of the young people and protesters.

So I really don't know how they would send thousands of them -maybe hundreds of thousands - to the abattoir for a war they don't believe in without risking regime collapse. It's not a replay of the Iran-Iraq war.

The Iranian regime survived a near decade long war with Iraq. A bombing campaign from israel would have zero chance of damaging that regime. The Israelis have been bombing gaza for a year and caused unbeleivable suffering yet still Hamas remains.

Only the US could possible remove the regime and that would be through a ground invasion but that will never happen. P

It sounds like human shield is the new buzzword to replace collateral damage. He interesting to see if any posters would shift their opinion on israels actions if they do kill an Irish soldier. But I guess they are all in at this stage, so wont.