Israel says Iranian Intelligence Minister Khatib killed overnight

Definitely They don’t know who to trust, having communications electronically is too risky due to hacking and sabotage, and in person is even riskier because that makes for an easy target from the air Sabotage and communication are such a critical part of this kind of warfare

His brother died in that too. I really don’t think there is any grand conspiracy except that he was incredibly lucky and unfortunately turned out to be a terrible person.

Yikes, and he’s on the Epstein list if I remember correctly

And bragged about how rich he was gonna get from insurance

Do you think he was tipped off? Assuming you believe the US government caused 9/11, or that the universe is just blindly indifferent to literally everything, and luck chose him that day. Either option sucks lol.

Wikipedia claims a wide range of 7000 - 36000 in [the page about the recent protests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Iranian_protests). It provides citations there (didn't go into them but they are there) that you can check if you want to see what number makes sense to you. Anyway these sorts of situations always have unclear numbers because there's no reliable source that can actually keep track.

The 30,000+ number is almost certainly a lie: https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-toll-concocted-monarchist-doctors/amp/ The wikipedia source for that number links to the Guardian article talked about in the link I shared, as well as other unreliable sources that claim the same number without verification or evidence.

It's coming from propaganda central..Right Wing 'reporters'. I tend to block those who write that kind of dribble, as they prove immediately that they are part of the cult, can't think for themselves and don't do research beyond he said, she said on the array of social websites.

News in Iran will say that Americans are dancing in the streets

It’ll be worse for Americans too. The tribute songs alone will set us back a century. What rhymes with Trump or Netanyahu?

How about getting rid of Theocracy, Jihadism and religious based terrorism? I bet that slipped your mind while analyzing the situation, right?

Honestly had no idea. Like, literally, if there’s no government to sue for peace, how can you peace? That means you have to full conquer or just dip out, which is completely instable and would likely lead to Taliban-esque parties taking over like they did in Afghanistan. Thanks for your support, too

That's what you interpret but it's not what he meant. It just means that if there is no institution that enforces those laws that people can do whatever they want. Law in and of itself has no real existence other than the threat of punishment. But if that threat doesn't exist people will do the stuff they aren't supposed to. They don't care if what they do is legal or not.

Can you cite what specific war crime is being committed?

Who is going to rule over the case? To judge and prosecute, one needs to have supreme power on the subjects. Who has that kind of power over Israel? Only America and they are in this together. The entire world's govts would have to come together (and I have doubt even after that), and make a ruling against them and that is not happening sorry. So no prosecution, no crime. All that's left of war crime is war.

No, he didn't pass grade 3.

Yeah and what stops countries from doing that is they can't even assassinate the first leader, so killing them one after the other isn't really a thing that can happen.

Ah, yes, jail, much worse than the death of you and everyone you love.

Civil law =/= int'l law In civil law, if your neighbor threatens to kill you, the cops will take them away. There are no cops in international law. There is no government with a monopoly on the use of force, so nations have to do it themselves. If your neighbor was threatening to kill you, and paying thugs who launch rockets at your house, and he was enriching uranium to weapons grade, and you knew there were no cops coming to save you, would you wait for the nuke to go off in your living room or would you kill him before he kills you?

Well, seeing as Iran has been arming groups that have actually shot missiles into Israel and killed thousands of Israelis, I think it's more than verbal threats.

You're assuming that there are no people who just want to kill you for their own reasons. That there's always a cyclical reason for someone's violence. Violence is not cyclical. This is a misconception. Many cases of violence throughout history ended with agreements, see Germany and the rest of europe. See the UK. You're talking about Israel, so here's a more relevant example - years of peace with Jordan and Egypt. Now the Lebanese talk about peace, and without hizbollah they'll have it too. People are sick of violence. It doesn't mean that we need to keep our eyes shut and wait for violence to come to us. Its irresponsible and naive. If you think someone is going to punch you in the face, and they say they are coming to punch you in the face, and you're not able to deescalate them from punching you in the face, I suggest strongly to not let them within punching range of your face. You can either run, or attack before they are in range. In Israel's case there's no where to run. Not very long ago Israel was under threat of thousands of rockets from Iran, hundreds of thousands of rockets and tens of thousands of invaders from Lebanon and tens of thousands of rockets from Gaza. The only reason the attack on Israel was not coordinated was luck. The amount of ammunition, rockets and invasion equipment and southern lebanon was 10x the equipment of the Gaza invasion on Oct 7th, every 5KM of border. All Iranian funded, organized, planned, trained. Israel did not strike and let the Iranians get in range and we paid for it, almost paid much much more. I sincerely hope you do not need to be in a situation where luck stands between you and a brutal death, but I assure you, you will not be concerned with the cyclical nature of violence when violence is already coming to you. TLDR; There are no "elections" for Hizbollah. There are no elections for Hamas, there are no elections for IRGC. The situation is already violent, you can avoid it until it hits you or you can react in time.

It's just much less effective if they want to inflict significant pain with their attacks, especially on Israel, with their distance and capable defenses. So far, almost 20 days in, Iran has not managed to cause any serious damage with strategic implications to Israel.