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Iran has chosen self-destruction, and is happy to take the world down with it
MSN ^ | 4/15 | Sherelle Jacobs

Posted on 04/15/2024 2:08:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Iranian regime has chosen suicide. True, it will take some time for the logical conclusion of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatal and probably irreversible course of action to play out. Like a pre-AI automaton incapable of adapting to the input of new information, the BBC will continue to blather about Iran’s capacity for “strategic patience” and the risks of Israel “dragging” the US into a regional war.

But one thing seems clear: the Iranian theocracy has now entered a death loop. Unless Israel throws it a lifeline, it is increasingly likely that Tehran faces either a Soviet-style collapse amid a regional war it cannot afford, or bloody regime change as the revolution is eaten by its children.

By directly attacking Israel from its own soil, Iran has initiated a battle of brinkmanship that it cannot possibly win. Some will argue that it was Israel that ripped up the playbook when an Iranian general was killed in Syria in an airstrike that hit parts of Tehran’s “consulate”. Still, Jerusalem’s new red lines are by now perfectly obvious to anyone of sound mind.

Israel knows that it cannot afford to let the Iranian onslaught pass without a response. It also knows that Tehran – possibly soon with nuclear weapons – is likely to escalate co-ordinated displays of aggression from Syria in the east and from Hezbollah in Lebanon in the north. And with the West whispering that a pivot to Asia looms, Israel may well have decided that it is now or never.

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1 posted on 04/15/2024 2:08:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Original link:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/15/iran-chosen-self-destruction-happy-to-take-world-with-it/

MSN writes nothing.


2 posted on 04/15/2024 2:10:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nickcarraway

“But one thing seems clear: the Iranian theocracy has now entered a death loop.”

Isn’t that pretty much their reason for existing?


3 posted on 04/15/2024 2:13:27 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: nickcarraway
it is increasingly likely that Tehran faces either a Soviet-style collapse

Whenever a foreign nation or regime collapses, we are further enriched with multicultural refugees and the vibrant diversity they bring.

4 posted on 04/15/2024 2:14:07 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: nickcarraway

It seems that some covert arming and training of Iranian dissidents would be beneficial.


5 posted on 04/15/2024 2:14:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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Jacobs1

Guardian and Telegraph author Sherrelle Jacobs. Apparantly an Iranian/mideast and strategic/military expert also.

6 posted on 04/15/2024 2:17:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

Should have wiped the basetards off the map back in 1979-
Still time to clean the slate-

Color Revolution any one?-
Where are you Ms Nuland when your actually needed.


7 posted on 04/15/2024 2:19:07 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“It seems that some covert arming and training of Iranian dissidents would be beneficial.”

That would be logical from this administration. Send billions to the Ayatollahs and then send guns to the folks trying to oust the Ayatollahs. Then pre-approve Iran’s missile attack. Then shoot down the missiles. Then say our support for Israel is “ironclad” but that Israel better not retaliate.

We live in an insane world led by insane people.


8 posted on 04/15/2024 2:20:10 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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maybe take over a sparsely populated part of iran’s coast and then resettle the “palestinians” there?


9 posted on 04/15/2024 2:26:19 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: TalBlack

“Isn’t that pretty much their reason for existing?”

Yep. When you deal with iswlamic terroist groups youy can expect a couple of things:

They have the delusion of thinking they can conquer the world for their god.

They consider life a success with death if they die trying and are killed by the infidel.

They don’t care who they harm or kill doing it.

They will lie, cheat, steal, murder, amd use their supporters this way ever single time.

You cannot make a deal with them as they will break it.

You would think after all these years of consistency with these points people would learn. And the only way you can stop them is make their supporters stop sheilding them so they have no safe haven without having access to weapons. Then they are nothing but sad people who threaten without substance. And then they can be identified and dealt with in the open.

wy69


10 posted on 04/15/2024 2:29:38 PM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: TalBlack

“Isn’t that pretty much their reason for existing?”

Yep. When you deal with iswlamic terroist groups youy can expect a couple of things:

They have the delusion of thinking they can conquer the world for their god.

They consider life a success with death if they die trying and are killed by the infidel.

They don’t care who they harm or kill doing it.

They will lie, cheat, steal, murder, amd use their supporters this way ever single time.

You cannot make a deal with them as they will break it.

You would think after all these years of consistency with these points people would learn. And the only way you can stop them is make their supporters stop sheilding them so they have no safe haven without having access to weapons. Then they are nothing but sad people who threaten without substance. And then they can be identified and dealt with in the open.

wy69


11 posted on 04/15/2024 2:29:38 PM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: nickcarraway

Who doesn’t know their eschatology?

They’re creating mayhem so their 12th imam can drop in to turn the world into a Shia paradise. Minus the Jews and Christians.


12 posted on 04/15/2024 2:33:39 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s what Moslem Caliphates do.

Thanks Jimmy.


13 posted on 04/15/2024 2:33:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: nickcarraway

I have said much the same thing about Democrats.


14 posted on 04/15/2024 2:33:51 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: PGR88

Meh, reporters report whatever story that comes their way. It doesn’t matter because the news media anymore is just another arm of the entertainment industry.


15 posted on 04/15/2024 2:34:30 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

Sherelle, you and your leftist band of brothers and sisters can enlist and fund it. Keep the rest of us the hell out of it.


16 posted on 04/15/2024 2:41:41 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

So you are pro-Iran?


17 posted on 04/15/2024 2:42:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: PGR88

Kinda not guilty if you are into crazy eyes.


18 posted on 04/15/2024 2:46:55 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m anti-WWIII


19 posted on 04/15/2024 2:51:55 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: wildcard_redneck

Are you sure she/he is not trans? hard to tell these days.


20 posted on 04/15/2024 2:54:15 PM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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