IDF tells Knesset panel new Iranian regime even more extreme

That's what's driving me nuts. It could be literally any one of us. OooOooOoo

Bare butt balls and back 

It all started 4,7.00 years ago.

😂😂😂 irony is a b****. Good one ☝️

I know at least 2 people who obviously didn’t see this coming. “I’m going to bomb the shit out of you, so be nice about it ok?”

I'm pretty sure Israel wanted this to happen. Peace in the region is a big obstacle to their expansionist policy.

Woah don’t insult urkel like that

He could shit his pants and find someone else to blame for it. There is zero chance he’s as self aware as Urkel.

Well, if he’s in fact in a coma he’s pretty calm.

He’s definitely calmed down. So calmed down that he’s either dead or in a coma. That’s why he hasn’t been seen or heard a single time since this war started.

Those people we've been bombing -- VERY UNFRIENDLY BUNCH!!

If my 8 year old daughter was bombed while in her school I would be a fanatic, even as an atheist.

No. These people were already radicalized. It was well reported for YEARS that the leader of Iran was a moderate when compared to everyone else waiting in the wings. It was very very well known by every single intelligence agency on earth that killing that one guy would result in an way worse and more extreme Iranian regime I'd b**** about having to play baby's first time paying attention to Iran on social media but the leaders of the US and Israel are playing a way worse game - pretending that this is a shock and not completely predictable, while having literally no plan on how to make the situation better

They and their proxies launched over 10 000 missiles and suicide drones at israel over the past 3 years, so...

The masses aren’t radicalized. It is the hardliners that put gays in prison and murdered women for wanting to show their hair.

Sounds like the Republican party after Bush.

I think it's more that pragmatists, rather than extremists, tend to rise to positions of power in times of peace. I would categorize Ali Khamenei as a pragmatist, who knew how to *use* extremists, rather than an extremist himself. Extremists, on the other hand, especially if they are already *near* the center of power (because pragmatic leaders are using them), tend to be ready to jump into sudden power vacuums in times of chaos and crisis. I'm reminded of the 2 Chechen wars in the 90s. In the first one, a fairly reasonable secular Chechen government tried to declare independence from Russia. Then the Russians killed them all, and patted themselves on the back for a job well done. But once the reasonable leaders of the independence movement were dead, the only ones left were Islamist extremists. So Russia had to fight a whole second war, against *much* crazier enemies.

So what do you recommend? We should just accept extremism and get used to it?

It *is* a new regime. There is no Ayatollah regime anymore. The previous regime was built around the Ayatollah's theocratic governance. Now it seems the Ayatollahs have lost their power, and we are now probably looking at the IRGC-based military dictatorship.

They also killed the worse guys father wife and son so I’m sure he’s gonna be chill

Realistically, the “worse guy” is also dead or incapacitated. He hasn’t been seen or heard a single time since the strike that blew him and his family up, but we’re all just pretending he’s alive because the Islamic Republic hasn’t admitted he’s dead.

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One is a totalitarian regime that doesn't pretend otherwise. The other two consider themselves democracies, and one even goes as far as to consider itself the "moral leader of the world".

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They had to have known killing the previous ayatollah would result in this so I can only assume so

Distinguishing between phases of the conflict for the 45+ years that Iran has been trying to destroy two countries is a tribulation. The conflict ends when Iran gives up that mission, which likely requires deposing the RG, not one person.

JD Vance looked like a f****** clown on his way to Disney World. We are so fucked.

This regime murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians in 2 days, but you’re still pretending they give a shit about 170. Why?

The shitty IRGC that has been brutally murdering its own people for half a century and turned the Dec-January protests into a bloodbath. That's who.

Agreed. At this point getting nukes seems like the only way to be safe as a country not in league with trump