> Good grief enough already
What's the solution? How to stop the murder of civilians by Iran?
November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff .
April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.
March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.
September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.
December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.
June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.
July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.
August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.
February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.
March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.
May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.
June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.
August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens.
August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.
January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.
October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.
Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”
August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.
August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.
January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.
March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.
July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.
October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.
December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.
January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.
September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.
July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.
September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.
March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.
October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.
December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.
January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.
Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.
November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.
June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.
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stoicthinking9 hr ago
+12
Easy - Stop interference in other countries; Stop attacking neighbours; Stop stealing land and assets. Generally if you stop these activities you'll find people stop fighting back.
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Xeonphire10 hr ago
+35
Cool, now do one for Israels attacks on civilians in Gaza, Lebanon and all the other countries they've attacked.
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BendicantMias10 hr ago
+10
Or the US lol - https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
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Elegant_Tech10 hr ago
+6
The solution was long before any of us were born to not wreck the peaceful government and install religious theocracy because oil companies were butt hurt. Unless you are willing to invade and take control of the country you don't have a good short term answer. Doesn't help that mi6, CIA, and mossad have spent more time than we are alive sowing chaos inside Iran this whole time just making the resentment even greater towards diplomacy. It's not like Iran's shitty leader have existed in a vacuum.
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BendicantMias10 hr ago
+5
I see your list, and raise you more than 4.5 MILLION more dead cos of your side, in just the last couple decades - https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
So you're way WAY worse...
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Orixil10 hr ago
+5
Israel should learn to live peacefully within its own borders. That would solve most of the problems in the Middle East.
And if the US could reign back its imperialistic posturing, then that would solve many of the remaining problems.
What's left could likely be resolved if Europe learned to grow a spine and adopted an actual shared foreign policy within the EU, stopped being lapdogs to the US, dropped NATO, and made peace alongside Ukraine with Russia.
There. That's all that needs to happen.
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dumcow20039 hr ago
+1
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Extension-Toe-70279 hr ago
+1
They did. It was called the year of 1948.
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No-Opposite-662010 hr ago
This war still isn't helping local revolutionaries wanting to overthrow the Iranian regime. And I doubt very much the leadership of America or Israel's intentions regarding said revolutionaries or even merely everyday Iranian people not connected to the regime.
Trump has claimed to overthrow regimes and then hasn't, and I'd say further Netanyahu seems to rather see Iran in ruins, or just doesn't care because whilst he is more ideological, he's a lot like Trump.
If they offered quieter logistical support as with some other revolutions and did so in a smart way as to obscure that was what they were doing to help local people gain legitimacy then that would be fine. A war though isn't doing a damn thing other than helping Netanyahu ruin a geopolitical foe whilst they're already weakened.
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Appropriate-Lion949010 hr ago
-4
Not half assing the war and just do boots on the ground
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Superest2210 hr ago
+5
You want or reckon deploying a million odd troops and the natural influx of body bags going the other way is how to do it?…
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Appropriate-Lion949010 hr ago
+1
Or this war shouldnt have happened
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Superest2210 hr ago
+1
Obviously.
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BendicantMias10 hr ago
-1
Trump is too chicken for that. He hasn't even built up for it, cos he really didn't want to get caught up in the absolute mess that would turn into. Now all he wants is to get some sort of concession that he can call a "win" and get the hell out of there.
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Whatdosheepdreamof10 hr ago
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F*** it, I'm in the mood. You've got me curious. What is your proposal, because honestly, the only way to properly resolve this situation... The US can't walk away, because then Iranians control the straight. Israel can't let the US leave, because then they don't have the unilateral support that the ACs are currently providing.
So, the only solution here is actually troops on the ground.
Conflict is needed when neither side can effectively deduce how much power the other has, the conflict is the resolution of said uncertainty.
Forget about morality for the moment. What do you want? Because the only way that I see this resolving, is a ground engagement. I'm telling you, it's not because I think the US will win. It's because I think it will resolve the question of power.
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just_a_guy_named168110 hr ago
+7
Just f*** already
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whatproblems10 hr ago
+5
gotta get it in before mondays peace deal announcement?
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TellMotor380910 hr ago
-5
Iran is 2 weeks away from having a nuc weapon still
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HuChemistry10 hr ago
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir toured southern Lebanon on Wednesday with senior Northern Command officers and held a situational assessment with commanders in the field.
During the visit, Zamir revealed that the IDF had approved plans for continued fighting both on the Lebanese front and against Iran. "We are at a very high level of readiness. Israeli Air Force planes are armed and ready, and the targets are loaded into the systems. We know how to launch them for a powerful strike immediately," he said.
According to Zamir, in coordination with the US military, Israel struck the Iranian regime "hard" and weakened its defensive capabilities. "We must not allow them to score gains now on the nuclear issue, in Hormuz and on the other matters on the agenda," he said.
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Over_Road_776810 hr ago
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see iran? thats how you murder civilians :D
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BendicantMias10 hr ago
Nah, the US has them both beat, by FAR - https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
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