Posted on 06/20/2025 9:14:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What the author fails to grasp is, the idea is to install a leader who won’t pursue a nuclear weapon.
When you bomb someone, they usually get angry and want to find any and all means to defend themselves.
Then you must invade and take physical control of their government....
Was the Shah of Iran a terrorist? Was Iran a terror exporting country then.
Iran is ruled by people whose main weapon for foreign relations, is terrorism. A terror nation is one that would likely use nuclear weapons to get its way.
If North Korea & Pakistan can have nukes, anyone can have nukes.
The pursuit of military and cultural dominance has been in the history of many peoples at many times in the past. I don’t accept the author’s premise that that is what prompts the Islamic Republic to want a nuclear weapon now. Neither do I accept his premise that because the Islamicists want one the future Persians will also.
Iran is psychotic.
It is the responsibility of the Western Nations to see to it that Iran never gets a nuclear bomb , ever...unless delivered in a “Bomb Iran” context by those the Iranian government or Iranian Islamists are seeking to kill. Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of deception and domination.
Any government that shouts “Death to (fill in the blank)” should not have nuclear weapons.
The radical theocrats ruling Iran are not Persian poets
They are psychopaths with a consuming dedication toward expanding an empire whose moral imperative is killing every Jew on the planet….and the enslavement or death of any other humans that don’t accept their ideology
They execute homosexuals and subdue or criminalize half of their own population….women who refuse to accede to their severe morality code……even up to death.
Yeah, some national leaders lack the basic acceptable humanity to be trusted with nuclear weapons and an offensive strategy for using them in pursuit of a establishing a radical religious ideology on mankind.
regime change is not a conservative philosophy.
it is simply the opposite side of the same coin used by the central planners to make their dream economy become a reality
After being pushed, prodded and provoked maybe they will but what will stop Iran from doing a nuke is the protection of nuclear powers like China, Russia or even Pakistan.
President Trump met the military boss of Pakistan the man who really runs the country for lunch at the White House no media allowed.
Not if the normal Iranians (most of the population) take over the country.
No one worries that India has nukes, because India threatens no one. Iran under the Shah was west-oriented and our ally, so *that* Iran having a nuke would not have been the end of the world.
The ayatollahs with a nuke is a terrible idea.
Bad faith. Bad conduct. No nukes for you.
The dirty beardos who run Iran think an apocalypse will bring the Mahdi, Mohammed, or whatever out of his hole. You can’t have the understanding of MAD with those who are basically “mad”.
That’s not up to you. Get that through your thick skull
I think people are finally getting how big of a problem Iran is. Every administration, from Jimmy Carter on, has kicked this can down the road to avoid a potential WWIII event.
In the meantime, Iran has used it’s Russia backing (now China) to attack Americans, Westerners, and Israel as well as back groups doing genocide, and those who target Christians. Iran has been responsible directly for the most horrific acts in the middle east for decades. Iran has much blood on their hands, and the Oct Attack on Israel that started this conflict was sponsored by Iran.
Stopping the Nuclear program would be a nice thing for world safety. I trust Iran to comply with international law and checks at 0.0%. I trust Russia and China to remove their nuclear ambitions or capabilities at 0.0%. I believe that Iran will release Nuclear weapons, via proxies, that easily will be responsible for WWIII. That probability is close to 100% if the current ‘Mullahs’ stay in power.
If the US intervenes in the current conflict, there is a 30% chance (guess) other Islamic nations will join Iran. There is a 100% chance that China and Russia will supply weapons and support to Iran. In my opinion, the likelihood that Iran will continue with a nuclear weapons program after bombing is 100%. Bombing will delay them getting a full warhead, but it will likely increase the chances they will use it sooner.
Toughest situation that Trump has faced as POTUS internationally, IMHO.
All the cool kids have Nukes.
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