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Victor Davis Hanson: Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
American Greatness ^ | 19 Oct, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/19/2023 5:52:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Iranians have little clue they are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response.

Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high.

It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon.

The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China.

Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of all Muslims. It gloats that it is feeding the Russian war-machine by exporting its own drones.

Tehran proudly supplied and funded Hamas’s savage murdering of Jewish children in Israel.

It eggs on its other pawn Hezbollah to launch a reputed 100,000-Iranian-supplied missiles into Israel.

It constantly provokes the U.S.—mostly by veiled threats to unleash anti-American terrorists in the Middle East and perhaps inside America itself.

But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.

Biden resurrected the unhinged Obama administration plan of empowering a “Shiite crescent”—of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, including Hamas.

This American idea of a radical bloc would supposedly birth “creative tension” and thus on autopilot balance the dominance of our friends in Israel and the Gulf regimes with our new Iranian clients. Yet the logical result of such madness was the massacre we saw in Israel.

Biden put pro-Iranian envoy Robert Malley—now under FBI investigation—in charge of begging Iran to restart the disastrous Iran Deal.

The anemic Biden administration has reportedly replied only four times to some 83 Iranian attacks on Americans.

Biden lifted sanctions allowing Iran to garner tens of billions of dollars in new oil sales—to be routed to all of Israel’s terrorist enemies.

He sought to pay ransom to Iran to get back five American hostages—at a cost of $1.2 billion per captive and a green-light for Tehran to take more.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Iran
KEYWORDS: deal; fjb; iran; israel; reckless; sanctions; vdh; victordavishanson; waronterror
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1 posted on 10/19/2023 5:52:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Biden isn’t doing anything. Valerie Jarett won’t let him touch Iran.


2 posted on 10/19/2023 5:52:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 10/19/2023 5:53:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Pride goes before the destruction. I don’t know if Iranians read Proverbs. I am almost positive Joe Biden and the vast majority of the MIC doesn’t.


4 posted on 10/19/2023 5:56:37 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: MtnClimber

Correct.


5 posted on 10/19/2023 5:56:38 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Revelation 18:10

“Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.”

Sounds like a nuclear strike to me.


6 posted on 10/19/2023 6:05:22 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: MtnClimber

“Iranians have little clue they are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response.”

With Joe Birdbrain at the helm of the US will that ever happen?


7 posted on 10/19/2023 6:06:20 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MMusson

Or EMP.


8 posted on 10/19/2023 6:08:33 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber
But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.

I fret that Iran is going to make a big move in the coming months and Biden will again underperform and put America at severe risk.

9 posted on 10/19/2023 6:08:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MMusson

I’d expect that if Iran gets into a conflict. Then at least SOME countries will move to actively support the massive hordes of very unhappy Iranian citizens.

At that point, Iran could be looking at external war, and potentially massive civil unrest. Possibly leading to an all out civil war.


10 posted on 10/19/2023 6:08:48 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t agree with the premise of this article. Unless unfolding events prove me wrong, I believe Israel has already blinked. I hope not, but the longer they delay their push into Gaza, the less likely it is that they will do it.


11 posted on 10/19/2023 6:11:20 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: MtnClimber

Biden doesn’t matter.

Think Abrams Accord

Saud Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE will lead the attacks. The US will serve as reserves Iran has attacked Saudi and Emirates soil. And, in the background is Egypt with good reason to fear Iran

Iran covets the wealth of the gulf States and the Kaaba in Mecca


12 posted on 10/19/2023 6:12:57 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MMusson

I seriously doubt the doomed Babylon of The Revelation is modern day Iran. There are much better candidates for the description of economic power and cultural influence attributed to that Babylon than today’s Iran. IMO, the name is a metaphor for a world dominating, materialistic empire that leads people to worship that which is not God.


13 posted on 10/19/2023 6:13:45 AM PDT by Palmetto State Conservative
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To: bert

I still say in the long-run, Turkey is going to be the biggest problem. Iran can never pull off united the Islamic world, but Turkey can.


14 posted on 10/19/2023 6:14:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Avalon Memories

Gaza is a feint.

The real war is with Hezbollah in the North. The Gaza feint is to cause IDF invasion of Gaza thus reducing the military strength against Hezbollah.

Hamas is being killed one bomb target at a time


15 posted on 10/19/2023 6:16:16 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MtnClimber

This whole thing is going to be used by Iran to justify building their bomb.

And sleepy Joe is going to let that happen.


16 posted on 10/19/2023 6:17:34 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t disagree except......

Turkey is at or on the verge of bankruptcy. Erdogan is discombobulated hot air.


17 posted on 10/19/2023 6:18:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MtnClimber

The absolute worst fiasco of the Carter Administration was deposing the Shah. Decades later it continues to worsen everything in the Middle East. Just imagine what future horrors await the world as a result of the Biden Administration, a freak show of incompetence and corruption.


18 posted on 10/19/2023 6:18:31 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: MMusson

God smote Sodom and Gomorrah in a similar description. Were those nuclear bombs?


19 posted on 10/19/2023 6:18:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Palmetto State Conservative

It kind of sounds like the USA.


20 posted on 10/19/2023 6:18:46 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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