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That point about Armenia doesn't support the argument, as that was not a case of ability but of will.

That's whataboutism. Just as Syria was proxy warfare, Iran will be the same.

This kind of refutes my point about this being a more restrained response, doesn't it? At the time we thought maybe there was 30 hits; now it seems there was much more. True they didn't kill anyone (except for that one unfortunate guy), but Israel also didn't bombard Iranian soil, so it's kind...

Gürcan bey is a beast, I'm certain he'll achieve whatever he puts his mind to in this private endeavour.

I remember reading somewhere on this thread about "Western values" and stuff; wanted to remind people of the video below (as what Western values in their actual application, not their propagandized abuse, look like) and also remind of the opinions and rulings of Western organizations like...

Naftali Bennett calling for hitting Iran's nuclear facilities, tells me, he as the main opposition figure now, is posturing as the toughest of guys that would do this, because Netanyahu doesn't plan to or will not be able to do this due to American pressure. Otherwise it'd be an own goal.

I'm not saying we will not, I'm just saying that was Iran's intention; U.S. establishment and the Jewish lobby can twist it to fit their narrative if they want, even if the assessment is that they don't have the public opinion locked. From following Americans, it seems they haven't readied...

If you can hit outskirts of Tel Aviv near military bases, you can hit the center of it and kill 500 people as well; Iran clearly doesn't want to give justification for a casus belli and risk an American involvement; in this regard, this is a reserved move and a step backwards in terms of the...

Yeah, Kidnap Kim and make him president of Ukraine.

I've said that Trump will continue the current admin's policy vis-a-vis Ukraine, despite the rhetoric for domestic use, but the recent development in Zelensky's visit to Pennsylvania and tacit and maybe unintentional support for Harris, and his subsequent very cold reception by Trump might be...

You can't read your own language?

Back in the old days, religion and which gods you believed in was a matter of practicality and utility, in that whichever seemed more powerful and victorious had the higher claim to legitimacy. The main forces behind the proselytisation of the two dominant religions of the world (Christianity...

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/09/29/israeli-military-says-it-killed-senior-hezbollah-figure-nabil-kaouk https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/09/29/hezbollah-confirms-ali-karaki-killed-in-israeli-strike- Hezbollah leadership network is getting decimated...

Yeah. And we like it to stay that way: doctrinaire, parochial and incompetent. Relevant:

Nope, if anything it's been the U.S. which has emphasized for decades that Iran needs to come to the negotiating table regarding their proxies, their missile program, their blocking of the golden crescent opium trade (well ok they don't say that part out loud), their black market weapons trade...

Iran, unlike North Korea and also Russia since the Minsk accords were trashed, has been in constant negotiations with the Western powers from the time of Khatami in the late 90s when they bricked their centrifuges willingly as they thought correctly they are prime target post-9/11 (not to...

Mohammad Ali Al-Husseini, an old friend of Nasrallah and old Hezbollah insider, later turned critic and a Saudi mouthpiece, here warns Nasrallah on 25th of September to write his will as the Islamic Republic has sold him as a deal, for they know if they don't they will be a direct target...

I sense amongst us the existence of people who haven't read this book. It's mandatory reading: Ağca wrote a letter to Milliyet, days after "escaping" from prison for killing Abdi Ipekçi (this was long before Pope's assassination). In it he says: He was a CIA operative. Most things are as...

They might not retaliate but I don't think it will be because the president has any say in the general direction of the country. JCPOA will expire in January 2026 and Iranians' whole strategy has been to drag the negotiations until it expires and the snapback mechanism (an automatic mechanism...