Israel Launches strike against Irans Nuclear Programme

Anyone following Tousi TV for updates on Iran? Seems to have the inside line on what's happening there ahead of mainstream media.

Never knew most young Iranians speak English and islam is apparently in decline in Iran.

I think it should be made clear most people have a strong hatred of the Israeli government which is an extreme right wing coalition which has chosen to inflict bombing and mass starvation and genocide on an civilian population and is happy to bomb hospitals and kill medical or un aid workers .To hate trump,s policys on Gaza or the IDF is not an act of anti semitism or anti American racism . We must remember there are political party's and Jews that are 100 per cent against the genocide in Gaza or the shooting of protestors and aid workers

Two things can be true you know.

1 Israeli conduct in Gaza has gone way too far, the withholding of aid and starvation of a civilian population is unjustifiable.

2 Iran is a horrific regime which has been funding terrorist groups all over the ME, from Hamas Houthis are Hezbollah, and we haven't even left the letter H. Most importantly Iran has been supplying a large number of drones which is helping a war of expansion here in Europe. Thousands of Ukraine citizens have been killed because of Iran. One of the reasons Ireland is spending in the billions every year on Ukranian refugees is because these people are fleeing Iranian supplied weapons.

Anyone defending Iran or hoping they actually get some kind of victory here, just because they hate Israel, can frankly go Fcuk themselves.

I've never been to Iran, but despite the hardline stance of its leaders, I have seen overwhelmingly positive reports of the ordinary people from western travellers. Like, ridiculously hospitable, practically dragging tourists off the street to come have dinner with their family and so on. A good deal of this could be down to actively wanting to challenge the image of Iran as an unwelcoming place or just being so unused to seeing western tourists in their place that they just go a bit overboard, but still it's a weird dichotomy.

@Dick phelan

Anyone defending Iran or hoping they actually get some kind of victory here, just because they hate Israel, can frankly go Fcuk themselves.

Maybe some people hate Israel, I don't know, but I think a lot more are just frustrated that Israel are seemingly allowed to pound Gaza without end and with impunity, receiving little to no censure or sanction from western governments, despite the protestations of their peoples. So that brings us to the f'd up situation where the only hope of a splash of cold water in the face of the Netanyahu government is rocket attacks from Iran maybe possibly forcing them into some kind of compromise.

"….while Western democratic countries are being blackmailed by the Zionist lobby…."

I've heard this claim before but it doesn't go into many specifics about who this lobby is, what exactly their blackmailing ammunition is, or why they are apparently so powerful.

Are there people of a hardcore Zionist bent with the money to influence elections and things? I'm sure there are, but are there no people of an opposing view who have money to influence politics in the opposite direction?

Yes, because further escalation is what will solve this problem.

Depends on what problem Israel or the US wants to solve.

I wouldn't expect to be agreeing with a minister from Pakistan but it's hard to disagree with a single word he says. Western governments are shredding the international order and international law to accommodate Israel and the Zionist lobby - leaving the world a much more dangerous place.

It's probably the most bizarre and surreal spectacle of the last 30 years in geopolitics. Are the Israelis blackmailing them or something?

Syria and Iraq aren’t allowing them to fly over their airspace its more that they are powerless to stop them,a large portion of Iraqi airspace is actually still controlled by America and the Iraqi government asked the US to not allow them through but their calls were ignored.