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Why dismantling Iranian threat won't create another Libya or Iraq
Jerusalem Post ^ | JUNE 20, 2025 | JOHN SPENCER

Posted on 06/20/2025 1:00:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

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1 posted on 06/20/2025 1:00:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Yeah, Libya and Iraq didn’t spark WWIII!


2 posted on 06/20/2025 1:02:58 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Good point. The new Iran government will be pro US and the West. My bet this will happen soon. Putin loses another comrade.


3 posted on 06/20/2025 1:09:11 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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Will the people be smart enough to get rid of the mullahs on their own? They tried under Biden & Obama. Timing was off.


4 posted on 06/20/2025 1:13:23 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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The new Iran government will be pro US and the West. My bet this will happen soon. Putin loses another comrade.

Russia, China, and Iran are all members of BRICS.
BRICS "Rio de Janerio Great Reset" is set for 7/6-7/2025.
News reports indicate that China buys 90% of Iran's oil production.
Iran has been supplying Russia with drones in its war with Ukraine.
I have not seen anything in the news indicating the Iranian people are rising up against the mullahs. Of course reliable information on what's happening inside Russia, China and Iran is very hard to come by.

5 posted on 06/20/2025 1:25:06 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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Why is Iranian oil off limits? Hit their ports…..no tankers…..infrastructure.


6 posted on 06/20/2025 1:25:25 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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Israel really wants to put Americans in harms way for Israel.

Did Israel sacrifice their soldiers in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)?
Did Israel sacrifice their soldiers in the Persian Gulf War?
Did Israel sacrifice their soldiers in the Second Gulf War?

7 posted on 06/20/2025 1:26:30 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell.k and Trump <p>)
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. The new Iran government will be pro US and the West.

When has a power vacuum in the Muslim world every been filled by pro-US and Western government in the past 25 years?

It's a fantasy that has failed over and over again.

Fundamentalist regimes almost always fill power vacuums in Muslim nations.

8 posted on 06/20/2025 1:29:25 PM PDT by Kazan
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Why is Iranian oil off limits?

Because it will increase oil prices and screw over Americans.

And, how does any sane person expect the Iranian not to hate us if we do that and don't spend money rebuilding the country?

It's an incredibly bad idea.

9 posted on 06/20/2025 1:30:38 PM PDT by Kazan
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Rand Paul labeling this as a “forever war” indicates something is not right with him.


10 posted on 06/20/2025 1:31:39 PM PDT by lasereye
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“Why dismantling Iranian threat won’t create another Libya or Iraq”

because Persians are not Arabs ...


11 posted on 06/20/2025 1:32:11 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Rand Paul might be right—we may have to occupy Iran for decades.


12 posted on 06/20/2025 1:33:03 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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“Trust me bro, THIS time it will work…”


13 posted on 06/20/2025 1:34:56 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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Ideally regime change will be organically driven by Iranians themselves and the creative efforts of various intelligence agencies. Expect the theocrats and military to steadily come down harder and harder on the people to the point where they organize and rise up. It will be brutal and ugly, but necessary.


14 posted on 06/20/2025 1:35:55 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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Well, thank goodness. We should all just trust this John Spencer guy and take him at his word.

/heavy sarcasm off/

15 posted on 06/20/2025 1:37:24 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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Did Israel sacrifice their soldiers in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)? (and "Persian Gulf War", and "Second Gulf War")?

Didn't the Bushes ask Israel not to participate so as to not offend the Muslim sensibilities of the Muslim nations that helped us?

16 posted on 06/20/2025 1:41:05 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Ideally regime change will be organically driven by Iranians themselves and the creative efforts of various intelligence agencies


17 posted on 06/20/2025 1:41:30 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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Yeah, let’s follow the Clinton/Albright doctrine who allowed North Korea to build their bombs. Ho0w did that work out?


18 posted on 06/20/2025 1:44:45 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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This guy is way too confident. No one has any idea what will happen if the current regime is deposed. It could be a pro-Western government. Or it could be years of civil war and chaos leading to another ISIS on steroids. That’s not a reason to keep the regime in place. But no one should be glib about what will happen.


19 posted on 06/20/2025 1:50:37 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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“ Yeah, let’s follow the Clinton/Albright doctrine who allowed North Korea to build their bombs. Ho0w did that work out?”

No harm to the US so far. Avoided another war.

Pretty good, IMO.


20 posted on 06/20/2025 1:54:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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