This is from last year
2025 Israel - Iranian conflict
- Thread starter Maikeru
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Iran is a country and Hezbollah is at most a political entity. The comparison with Hezbollah was in the sense of dismantling the entire organization, which simply did not happen. Hezbollah still exists even with the elimination of its top leadership. Killing Khamenei would literally solve nothing. Israel preaches this doctrine of eliminating leadership, believing that it will change something, but it does not change much in strategic terms, because someone else always takes over and they cannot always count on a leadership that is more convenient for those who want a change of leadership.
Furthermore, even non-state organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and others, with the elimination of their leaders, the organization still continues. What makes you think that if Khamenei were dead, Iran would fall? Someone else would take over Khamenei's power and continue the chain of command. There is nothing to suggest that Iran would be defeated if the top leadership were eliminated, the Russians don't even believe that, because they know that someone else takes their place, while Ukraine kills the Russian military leadership and someone else always takes their place and yet Ukraine continues to be defeated on the battlefield.
The plan was 9 months in the making, Even Biden admin knew but passed it off to trump admin to decide, the 60 days, the attacks starting on 61 days. Its too linked not to be intentional.
Iran has repeatedly said they dont want nukes, US own intelligence in march concluded the same thing that they arent working toward it,
The 'Iran is X close to nuclear' is a mantra being repeated since the 80/90s.
But trump kept changing terms and began going for 'no enrichment at all not even for your own nuclear plants/ other needs'.
They did this before fighing and losing to Houthis just a few month ago
This is an old video from March 2022. Has nothing to do with current events
I guess tracking people via backdoor in phones is a bit easier than tracking missile capabilities
Like against Houthis just 2 month ago?
People really memory holed that defeat real quick huh.
FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Iran is Persian, neither Arab nor Turkic.
Ali Khamenei is ethnic Azeri, just fyi as is a large segment of Iran's population.
Persians have ancestry in Central Asia and are the biggest cultural influence in South Asia and western half of Central Asia. Half of Afghanistan speaks Dari and Tajik is basically Cyrillized Farsi.