US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Yep, I haven't spoken to our Iranian friends for years. They were very balanced and not radicalized so I'd be inclined to believe them but not calling up to ask that. They weren't in love with the Iran regime but nor did they hate it and we spoke about the history Iran/ Iraq war.

II don't know your friends. Perhaps they support the Shah or hate islam or perhaps they're just really worried being away from Iran or maybe they have accurately assessed the situation via their phone calls home. I don't know and I don't know you so am only going on what I read/ experience etc

I honestly have no issues with Israel taking the war and the fight to Iran. The Iranian regime are scumbag dictatorship terrorists who mass slaughter their own citizens, and fund terrorist groups in the region like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis etc.

None of their neighbouring Arab countries like them either, and that really should tell you everything you need to know about the Iranian regime. Iran, Israel and the Middle East in general will be much safer places, once the scumbags in currently in power in Iran are put out of commission.

It was the Iranian government who were the ultimate plotters and masterminds behind the October 7th 2023 attacks on Israel. Israel should have went after Iran immediately in the aftermath, but i can also understand why they wanted to hold off until a US president who is fully behind them like Trump was back in the White House.

War is horrible and war is ugly, but as in the case of this conflict and World War II sometimes war is the only way and the only viable path forwards unfortunately.

'Ah shure, war is war'. The usual intellectually devoid response from apologists for mass murder.

Indeed, but it's starting to look like the Iranian regime may come out of this even stronger (domestically), which means Iranians will suffer even more.

I don't support Trump nor his actions but I was hoping against hope that this would somehow trigger regime collapse, but even that doesn't look likely.

I'm actually surprised it's taken Israel this long to take serious action against Iran who've been endlessly firing rockets at them through proxies for decades, but yeah chickens coming home to roost and all that. And as we've seen not a single neighbour in the region is shedding a tear for the Iranian regime.

As I predicted before, if Trump/Israel can't make a vassal cowed state out of Iran's leadership, then they will smash all it's military/nuclear means and leave it as toothless as they can. Also set it up so they can "visit" again whenever they want.

I suppose if you tell yourself a lie often enough you'll end up starting to believe it's true eventually.

CBS News senior White House reporter saying Iran are starting preperations to lay sea mines along the shipping lanes in the strait of Hormuz. They are estimated to have up to 6000 mines in stock.

Trump has stated if they do that they will be bombed like they have never been bombed before.

Both are dangerous, unpredictable and ruthless. And they hate each other completely. A war between them will only end when one is defeated completely

Only one has nuclear weapons and I would not put it past them to use them

Hard to lay mines when your navy is gathering barnacles at the bottom of the sea, something Iranian regime now has in common with their Russian allies

Can't Iran just attack the boats that try to pass teh strait from the land? Wonder if this will be part of the Russian- assisted negotiated climb down by Trump,

Thought this was a very good long read on the real motives at play from the US and Israel.

Goes into the true insane background to the ideology of the current Israeli government and how they are carrying on the ideology of the headbanger terrorist rabbi Meir Kahane who was murdered in 1990 and how Greater Israel is their goal.

My bet is this war isn't ending any time soon.

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order

One of the things that really bugs me about western media in the run up to this and in the early stages last week was how idiots from the Iranian diaspora were platformed to manufacture consent.

The regime in Iran is awful, like, duh.

Unfortunately the Iranian diaspora people who were platformed seemed to believe it was a case of simply flicking a switch to replace the regime were utterly clueless that it was not actually that simple and they were also clueless of the horror the US and Israel would inflict on the population of Iran.

The most basic mistakes of 2003 made again.

Interesting as it is majority Shia. The most recent poll I could find (2023) found show differing opinions on Iran, along sectarian lines but overwhelming opposition to a US strike on Iran among both Sunni and Shia.

I suspect Bahrainis have different opinions after this attack on civilian housing