US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

What a disingenuous post. You can’t criticise the killing of a Down syndrome Palestinian because you have never been to Gaza, yet are outraged that people who have never been to Iran, will condemn Iranian brutality.

That’s ridiculous JohnDoe. The Iran/Israel conflict is directly related to events in Gaza.
Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus and later killed a Hamas leader in Tehran.
Iran struck Israel in retaliation and Israel subsequently attacked Iran in June of last year, in part to degrade its ballistic missile capability and ability to attack Israel.

It is entirely disingenuous to attempt to gatekeep discussions about Iranian brutality but declare Israeli brutality as out of bounds. To condemn the killing of a young Iranian woman by Iranian forces but claim you cannot condemn the killing of a Down syndrome Palestinian man by Israeli forces because it is “whataboutery”.
Why can you not bring yourself to condemn the killing of a vulnerable human being, savaged by a dog, by the Israeli military?
You would be the first person on this thread to condemn Iranian forces for doing it.

So in a thread about an Israeli attack on Iran you want discussion of the Iranian regime but not of the Israeli regime.

You claim to be appalled at the death, suffering and brutality of people but in truth your faux outrage is dictated by who is committed the brutality and killing.

I absolutely condemn the killing of Masha Amini in Iran, she was killed by Iranian police. You won’t condemn the killing of Mohammad Bhar because he was killed by Israeli soldiers.

Not even western politicians believe reports from the IDF terrorists.

Maybe if independent journalists were allowed into Iran and Gaza the figures could be verified to your satisfaction. Or if heavy equipment like bulldozers were not restricted from entering Gaza, the human remains under the rubble could be recovered and counted.

There is no misinterpreting your refusal to answer certain questions and trying to control what gets discussed. Of course zerosquared you could prove this perception wrong by finally condemning the murder of Mohammad Bhar. Also by answering Safesurfer's question to you from earlier in the thread.

This seems to sum up the delay in the US attack.

The United States has been pushing for a renewed set of negotiations, aimed at reaching a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, the very same move that was used to set up an Israeli surprise attack last year. This is not a serious effort and appears more than anything to be aimed at stalling.

Seems like Iran has repeated that it won't develop nuclear weapons.

Will carry on it's civilian enrichment program but at an agreed level under supervision. In return agreement for lifting of sanctions.

They have rejected any discussions on quitting support for the Palestinian resistance groups and limits on ballistic missile ranges.

Netanyahu wants limits on missiles and quit support of the groups.

OSINT based on Chinese satellite imagery confirms that the US has deployed a further THAAD battery to the Middle East.
Basing it in Jordan. https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/chinese-satellites-expose-us-thaad-deployment-jordan-space-enabled-battlefield-transparency/

The US operates 7 THAAD batteries, 3 of which are now directly assigned to defence of Israel.
In the June 2025 war, more than 150 THAAD were launched, approx ¼ of the stockpile and the production rate is currently 96 per annum (planned ramp to 400).

Current intercept doctrine is to fire 2 per target.
That changed at the end of the 12day war as stocks depleted.
The Israelis must be exerting huge pressure to ensure the US deploys 50% of its available interceptor batteries and likely the entirety of its war reserve of THAAD interceptors to defend Israel.

Each single THAAD interceptor costs $12.7million. The Patriot PAC 3, SM3 and SM6 which are also ABM capable, all also cost multiple millions each.
Last year I highlighted how expensive missile defence is, the Iranians will honestly IMHO have doubled down on their Ballistic Missile forces as it offers them a quick means of economic exhaustion of Israeli/US ability to defend.

The Israeli/US forces will need to quickly establish and maintain air supremacy and have aircraft over Iran 24/7 ala Gulf War 1 Scud hunters.
It's certainly possible they can do it.
But?
Much of that potential ability will depend on just how well the Iranians can integrate and operate the new Chinese weapons that have been delivered.

Without knocking out the Iranian launchers far more successfully than they managed last June?
This quickly exceeds available stockpiles of Missiles and Money to prevent impacts in Israel and US bases.

At this stage, it seems you are arguing that any protester or civilian at all was killed by the Iranian regime.
But it was very interesting that you accepted the figures from Hamas without question, but figures from, say, the HRANA as 'propaganda'.

Who killed over 200 Iranian police? Peaceful protestors?

Well it certainly suits you to frame all opposition to American foreign policy that way to excuse your own position. If you were a good faith poster, as well as not avoiding answering questions, you'd acknowledge that it's a perfectly reasonable stance to oppose both the US and oppressive regimes . On the latter i find it strange that, as we have seen throughtout this thread, you accuse others of running cover for an unsavoury regime, whiles you refuse repeated invitations to condemn another unsavoury regime who oppress people and kill them. I wonder why that is.

Hopefully something can be agreed soon….

In the meantime,still tons of US assets pouring into the region. They seem to be gearing up for the long haul.

It is fair comment that the Irish far left-wing have been stronger in their criticisms of the US while giving a free pass to the likes of Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and China over the last decade.

Bullshit.