Israel Launches strike against Irans Nuclear Programme

Yes because if we cut through the propaganda and analyze what the Iranian government actually does they are quite calculated and rationale in their foreign policy decisions. If the propaganda about them being a fanatical death cult, who love martyrdom over life, were indeed true they would have engaged in an all out war with Israel long before now and been happy to achieve their martyrdom in defeat. As you say even in the event of them acquiring a nuke I don't see them using one as what they would receive in return would ensure the end of their regime. The real reason Bibi does not want Iran with a nuclear weapon is because it gives Iran leverage and upsets the power balance in the region.

Exactly - if Iran wanted to 'destroy Israel' and 'wipe it off the face of the earth', they would have invaded long ago and not even have been worried about the consequences for themselves.

One wonders if the vast legions of Zionist bots on social media even believe this 'Israel is fighting for its very survival' stuff or if they are motivated purely by racism and malice.

Russia is about to loose an important ally

Tonight will be very interesting. Either Iran goes all in, or it's government begins the death march.

If Iran has made the destruction of Israel its primary goal since 1979, why did Israel provide them with billions of dollars worth of weapons in the 1980s?

I think the Israeli attack has two goals. Render Iran militarily impotent and force regime change. If Iran can't muster a significant response to Israel's aggression them the regime loses face and will ultimately fall.

Iran doesn't want to be another Iraq so I doubt it will give up its nuclear programme. Hard to see how this will end as the regime there wont want to give in to pressure from Israel and the US

What good would regime change be to Isreal ?

How come Israel doesn’t have to adhere to the agreement?? When was the last time their nuclear arsenal was inspected by independent groups??

This doesn't even make sense.

How could Iran possibly invade Israel? Or vice versa for that matter. The countries are more than 2 thousand kilometres apart.

It's pretty much the same distance from London to the Russian border, not to mention the countries in between.

It can only ever be a long-range war and for that Israel is 20x better equipped.

So no, the idea that Iran would have "invaded long ago" is no sort of validation whatsoever that Iran doesn't really want Israel gone from the local map.

Never mind the distances, why hasn't full scale war between Iran and Israel already happened? If Iran is supposedly a psychotic, maniacal regime whose sole raison d'etre is to 'destroy Israel', this war to the death would have happened many years ago - they certainly wouldn't have waited 30 to 40 years to try and develop a nuclear weapon.

"If Iran is supposedly a psychotic maniacal regime"

I knew Iran would be retconned to being respectable now "Evil Israel" has attacked the poor guys.

Because Iran can't destroy Israel, and it cannot take it on in any sort of war. It doesn't have the means and never has.

Hence why it chooses to fund proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah instead.

I don't know how you can say "never mind the distances" when the countries are 2,000km apart.

The only way Iran could threaten Israel in an existential sense is via a nuclear weapon, or having a sophisticated air force and power projection capability.

It has none of those things, and a nuclear weapon at this stage is the only thing it could reasonably obtain.

Israel has bombed Iran many, many times to (as Israel claims) stop development of nuclear weapons. This isn't a new development. There's no need for an all-out-war because it doesn't even make sense for either side.

Again, they are thousands of km from each other. There's no need for Israel to wage a long-term war like that when they can just periodically sweep in, obliterate Iranian targets/forces, and fly home with zero damage.

Iran has no effective way whatsoever to strike at Israel via conventional means, let alone engage in some kind of actual longer-term war.

It could be weak internally now because its enemy has wiped out most of the military leadership that is responsible for crushing internal dissent. An underground bunker didn't save them

If Iran cannot come up with a response that will have the Americans keen to deescalate the situation it could be curtains for the regime. They should look to the deal Donnie made with the Houthis when considering what would be the most effective response.

why are you asking me?