How many times has #Netanyahu claimed #Iran is close to a #nuclear weapon, and needs to be dealt with immediately?

I think we’re up to 6 times since 1990’s, plus we add one for Saddam Hussein in #Iraq, too.

Not saying he’s wrong this time, but for sure it is a pattern and definitely a go-to for this man, and has been proven to bullshit us before.

Unfortunately Iran is not Iraq. Even though I would love for the regime there to fall, I doubt a ground invasion is possible due to it’s geography.

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@benda @dragonfrog I’m aware there is a pot calling the kettle black situation here.

However, there is a genuine humanist case to be made that brutal theocracies incarcerating a sizeable portion of their population to prisons, murdering protesters, etcetera, aren’t the best possible government these Persian people could find themselves governed by.

Israel itself wears of course only the robes of a liberator, as it is a coloniser & brutaliser itself.

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@dragonfrog The IR exists as a response to western imperialism. If it is brought down, the iranian people will oppose the western world with twice the fury they had in 1979. Anyone who thinks this war has anything to do with IR doesn't understand the history outside of a western perspective. This is the west against the people of Iran, the people of Palestine, the people of Yemen. None of those people live under theocracies that are worse than anything the west has done to them.
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@benda @dragonfrog Indeed. The reason Iranian people have to suffer the brutal regime in control of their state right now can squarely be placed on western interests.

In their fear of "communism", which was just cover for keeping ownership of their oil & gas fields, they enacted regime change and placed in the Shah.

The great irony is Netanyahu is likely calling a repetition of that exact scheme by "Rising Lion", as the Shah's flag was indeed a lion.

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@benda @dragonfrog But. The current theocratic regime, it also took power by betrayal.

The Islamists were merely a part of the revolution that ousted the Shah, and they made promises to bring democratic values to country.

But after the Shah was ousted, the Islamists murdered key figures in the revolution not on their side, took power, and did everything they could to erase that fact of history.

Two evil turns do not a good make.

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