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The language in this title is quite a piece of art eh?
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"Iran threatens"
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"War with Israel escalates"
Chef's kiss.
"Iran launches Nuclear and explosive words" - headlines, 2025
I hope they do manage to develop a nuke.
That's the only thing that's going to stop this war, the worry about mutually-assured destruction.
Honestly the Israelis actually seem crazy enough to keep escalating even in that case
I mean Israel is legitimately the state most likely to use a nuclear weapon.
They been comiting war crimes for 77 years with little accountability. Making them crazier
They don’t give a fuck about the people or the land it’s the control they want. They even have a protocol of they were to lose control of the area and are about to lose Israel called the Samson option, where they just nuke themselves, level the whole area and make it uninhabitable.
I strongly doubt that. The thought of a nuke being deployed on Jerusalem would give even the craziest Israeli pause.
I bet we will not find out where or how many broken arrows will/occur/red in Iran.
close the Strait of Hormuz
Do they want to lose half their navy in a day, again?
Again? Also Yemen carried out something resembling blockade without even having a navy, so I wouldn't bet on force working if they were to go through with this.
That's a totally different situation from a totally different time. Just dropping a wikipedia link on a singular, mostly unrelated action isn't a mic drop, especially when done multiple times.
Providing someone with a link to a reference they didn't get is a "mic drop" in your head? Ok buddy.
Yeah, in your head. Because it's rather insulting to assume people don't get the joke, when it's been a joke for a VERY long time and you were probably delivered that same wikilink 40-50 times by now. Yes, helpfulness can be insulting, sorry if that was what you were going for.
When I replied to the comment with the link it just read:
Again?
The rest was edited after that.
The article says that it's most-likely just rhetoric from Iran.
Strait Of Hormuz: High Stakes, Low Odds
Hard-line media and several officials have again raised the possibility of closing the Strait of Hormuz -- a move that would threaten nearly a fifth of the world’s oil supply. But Gregory Brew, a senior Iran and oil analyst at the New York-based Eurasia Group, says it’s a threat Tehran is unlikely to carry out.
“Closing the strait is Iran's last big card to play,” Brew told RFE/RL. “It has the means of essentially blockading the waterway…by deploying short-range ballistic missiles, naval vessels, and mines.”
But attempting to blockade the strategic strait would have major ramifications, such as “immediately” triggering a response from the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
“If war with Israel is proving very damaging, war with the US (and the GCC) would be much worse,” Brew said.
It is the dead-mans trigger. As Israel reaffirms it wants to force regime change and commit more atrocities against Iran's civilians, that threat becomes more realistic.
The GCC countries are certainly not going to be able to shift any balances around. What are they going to do? A ground invasion of Iran? Best they can do is help Israel bomb Civilians. And we saw how Saudi and UAE bombing Civilians in Yemen non-stop did fuck all except kill a lot of people.
The response would have to come from the US and other NATO countries, pulling their focus from Ukraine and containing China. Then it will be bye bye Ukraine and bye bye Taiwan and Israel will get what it wants, being the center of Western attention for all eternity.
I hope they do both.
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