US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

you are spouting pro Israel Murder machine propaganda here every day as they slaughtered tens of thousands- shame on you

Just thinking about the rumours that the US are planning on sending their marines to Kharg island. I'm not saying that they aren't going to do it but I don't see how it makes any sense:

1. Amphibious landings are extremely difficult and fraught with danger, even with all of the air support and softening up of defensive targets that the Americans can do beforehand. Casualties would be inevitable.
2. Evacuating those casualties would be tricky. They'd likely need to be airlifted off the island back on to a large ship with hospital facilities. Any helicopters would themselves be a target
3. Even if they managed to take the island without any casualties they would now have hundreds (if not thousands) of marines on a small island along with millions of barrels of oil. They'd basically be sitting on a giant bomb. If the Americans now controlled the island then the Iranians could very likely decided to blow it up by sending in a swarm of drones from afar.
4. If they just want to deny the ability of the Iranians to have control over that oil they can do that by blocading the island, although that then would leave their naval vessels open to target from sea and air drones as well as other missiles.

I can only think that the Americans are under the belief that if they can control that island then it can be used as a bargaining chip with the Iranians. Something that they could trade for reopening the straits of Hormuz or even exchanging for the Iranian nuclear material.

That's very hard to imagine though. Any deal like that requires trust and the Americans have already shown that they are not be trusted. The Iranians entered into mediated peace talks with them and they attacked them anyway. Trump is also liable to change his decisions on a whim. The Iranians would be fools to trust him.

the defence analyst obviously hasn’t heard of the Aster 30 missile.

The biggest superpower in the world cannot stop Iran attacking what it wants but Saudia Arabia can if it wants to.

Is that your position?

I am afraid you are not thinking the worst case scenario that is possible here

In Syria Assad and his Russian Buddies destroyed that country thoroughly killing hundreds of thousands and using chemical weapons,

In Iran any combination of Israelis, Saudis and Gulf states {whom been funding misery in Sudan let’s not forget} would not give two ****** about human rights and have the weapons to turn Iran into a cross between Gaza and Syria while Trump walks away

With other neighbours like Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan all grabbing chunks of land with their ethnic groups and maybe Kurds carving away a slice like they done in Syria

That’s the worst case scenario here

If this war doesn’t end soon, history books will be written about what a terrible strategic idea attacking and backing all their neighbours into a corner was.

What US alone can do can be much much worse, they avoided hitting economic targets up to now or carpet bombing every power plant, industry or dam, nor have imposed a blockade, sooner or later that will change if this war doesn’t end.

This war can get much worse for the Iranians, one just needs to look at past history, so far Trump held out in the hope of quick regime change, sooner or later he will either walk away and leave his buddies to mow the grass or double down and bomb the place back to Stone Age

Those warmongers cheering on the expansion of this war by Iran may yet regret cheering for more war

Iranian missile attacks on Dimona in Israel, the town is home to it's nuclear research facilities.

That is fanciful thinking. I would agree that attacking their neighbours by Iran is strategic lunacy but I have seen no serious commentators making the point that gulf states would heavily get involved in this conflict or would be the tipping point.

So a new plane in the region is going to reopen the strait? A bold prediction!

this will only making the israelis more determined to strike iran harder

apparently it was the US that went after iranian nuclear enrichment earlier

Footage of Dimona being hit in the past hour.
No doubt it will be pitched as Iranian retaliation for the strike on Natanz earlier today.

Yes, because before Hamas (1987), Hezbollah (1982) and the IRGC (1979), there and peace and prosperity for ordinary people in the Middle East.

Insofar as the PA has any hope of future progress, it lies in some sort of Israeli-Saudi entente which involves the Saudis demanding some sort of viable Palestinian entity. It's a slim hope, given that the Saudis and other Arab states have shown almost zero interest in the Palestinians either before or since the latest phase of the conflict started in 2023.