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2025-05-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian FM: West unable to carry out Military Strikes on Nuclear Sites

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-17 2025-05-17 04:43|| || Front Page|| [212 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Trump optimistic about nuclear deal, but Iranian official calls him a 'murderer'

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-17 05:09|| 2025-05-17 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I double-dog dare ya to destroy our nuke sites!

-- Mad Mullahs

Posted by Bobby 2025-05-17 06:40|| 2025-05-17 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Iran’s Foreign Minister stated that Western powers engage in talks because they lack the capability to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities militarily.

Yeah don't be so sure, bucko. We suppose you're just saying this to appease the local masses. There are a couple of western assets that I'm aware of that could do the job quite well, if we let them.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-05-17 07:15|| 2025-05-17 07:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Some regimes can not be coerced with threats of strategic bombing. Read Robert A. Pape's Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War(1996). One indicator is a regime that believes that they can not regain power if they ever show weakness and lose it to Opposition parties -- they will opt to 'go down fighting to the end'.

Posted by magpie 2025-05-17 09:52|| 2025-05-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ bad link Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War instead.

Posted by magpie 2025-05-17 09:55|| 2025-05-17 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 OK.

Posted by Cesare 2025-05-17 15:09|| 2025-05-17 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 OK.

Then let us dispense with the threats and proceed to the actual strategic bombing. Might want to give the IDF a heads up in case they want to tag along.

Posted by SteveS 2025-05-17 18:10|| 2025-05-17 18:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Because really, it’s not about driving them to the point of agreement, but about ensuring they don’t have their nasty little toys anymore. This is about quickly and thoroughly breaking all the things, and incidentally (or not so incidentally — not my call, thank goodness) killing a few people in the vicinity.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-17 19:52|| 2025-05-17 19:52|| Front Page Top

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