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Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
« on: August 18, 2024, 10:10:48 am »
Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
by Saeed Ghasseminejad and Richard Goldberg, opinion contributors - 08/14/24 1:30 PM ET
  Islamic Republic of Iran is weak and vulnerable, far more than the regime would have us believe.

That’s the biggest takeaway from last week’s suspected Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran — and it delivers important messages to the ayatollah, his terror proxies, the Iranian people and Washington policymakers.


Haniyeh’s killing while under maximum protection by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tells Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, that Israel has deeply infiltrated the ayatollah’s intelligence and security establishment. Furthermore, unlike in previous years, Israel is now prepared to use its power to strike the Islamic Republic at the highest levels within Iran.

In recent years, Israel has conducted several covert operations in Iran, the most significant being the 2020 elimination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the godfather of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4825990-iran-vulnerability-hamas-assassination/
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Re: Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2024, 10:13:25 am »
Even IF true, they won't worry about international opinion and will use anything they have which makes them extremely dangerous.
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2024, 10:34:33 am »
https://www.westernjournal.com/amazing-jesus-revolution-reported-iran-mosques-close-muslims-turn-christianity/

Now I know this "weaker than we think" is disinformation, probably for Harris/Walz.
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Re: Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2024, 04:59:18 pm »
The time to strike at Iran was in 2008, in the last year of G.W. Bush's term.

That ship has sailed.
Perhaps even for the Israelis...
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Re: Iran is weaker than we think. It’s time to take advantage.
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2024, 11:30:50 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on August 18, 2024, 04:59:18 pm
The time to strike at Iran was in 2008, in the last year of G.W. Bush's term.

That ship has sailed.
Perhaps even for the Israelis...
More like 1979...
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