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2025-06-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

A Bomb for the Ayatollah: Will Iran Really Have Nuclear Weapons?

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-19 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [283 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Not anymore.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-19 01:16|| 2025-06-19 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The only Bomb the Ayatollah will get is one droped on his bunker.

Posted by Elder of Zion 2025-06-19 02:06|| 2025-06-19 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Russian president tells media executives the strategic partnership agreement between Russia and Iran did not envisage military cooperation

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-19 04:04|| 2025-06-19 04:04|| Front Page Top

#4 So lets chat regime change. The media is spinning on it, seems no one really wants it. I think we need to define what regime change looks like. I think we can all agree that defeating Iran and installing a democracy has a high chance of failure. We dont do very well at installing democracies around the world. So what I believe we should do is erase Iran from the map. We should divide the nation up amongst their neighbors, thus removing the last remnants of the Persian empire from the face of the earth. Give the northern area to Turkey, they are fairly western. Give central area to Saudi, they can make it the model for the new western agenda, the southern area, oil fields and ports can go to the UAE, another very western state. It would buffer the arab states from Pakistan and the rest of the stans and enrich the US friendly and somewhat western friendly arab states.

Posted by 49 Pan 2025-06-19 10:29|| 2025-06-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I hold a grudge against Erdogan’s Turkey, 49 Pan - he is an active troublemaker seeking to create a neo-Ottoman empire that would dominate Western Europe and erase Israel.

I would not see Recep Tayip Erdogan rewarded or enabled in any way.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-19 12:11|| 2025-06-19 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan to the north. Kazakhstan and Russia are the direct neighbours to the north. Iran borders Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, Iraq to the west, Turkey to the northwest and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the south.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-19 12:16|| 2025-06-19 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Fair enough TW.

Posted by 49 Pan 2025-06-19 14:05|| 2025-06-19 14:05|| Front Page Top

#8 If they win it, Israel gets it. Remember, not stolen land, conquered land.

Posted by Regular joe 2025-06-19 14:25|| 2025-06-19 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately, Israel does not have the troops to hold it. We do but my vote is no, not worth it. Stone age it, conventionally and they'll spend the next 100 years rebuilding.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-06-19 15:18|| 2025-06-19 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Another reminder - Iran is 3 times the size of Ukraine. It's a B*I*G chunk of territory for any adversary to secure.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-06-19 19:13|| 2025-06-19 19:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I rather doubt Israel will want to occupy an arab state, surrendered or not.

Posted by 49 Pan 2025-06-19 19:39|| 2025-06-19 19:39|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Amen. Iranian people unbound and unsubjugated should do well. The problem is they are unarmed and unused to self-governance outside the Mosques

Posted by Frank G 2025-06-19 20:00|| 2025-06-19 20:00|| Front Page Top

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