Iran: Moving Toward a Final Solution

[exploited]

[exploited]

There was alot of other stuff we were discussing, guys, but I wanted to bring this debate back around to the important questions: is Iran rational, and will aggression make Iran more or less likely to develop nuclear weapons?

If there was anything in specific you'd like me to respond to, please point it out and I'll do my best.

[Boris Johnson]

Well colour me impressed. Thats going to take time to digest and respond to.

[exploited]

Thank you sir. I'm eager for your response.

We could publish a book called "Boris, Sandman and Exploited Solve The Middle East."

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[exploited]

[dontworrybehappy]

Those reasons make no sense.

Israel will not nuke unprovoked, so slash reason 1.

The US will not invade Iran, so slash reason 2.

The number of US military bases is irrelevant to anything having to do with nuclear weapons. Slash reason 3.

Got any better ideas?

[exploited]

[Breakage]

I would add that there's also a sharp contrast between the latitude given to Israel and the limits of "deemed tolerable" behaviour from Iran. On the one hand, a comment like "wipe Israel off the map" has the west and Israel hand ringing and generally pooping in their shorts and is completely intolerable... and they more than likely do not even have a functioning nuclear warhead as yet. On the other hand, we have a nuclear armed Israel not only making very real threats of aggression towards Iran (and a history aggression in the region), but also attempting to get the west to join in said aggression... this is apparently fine and barely worthy of criticism in most quarters and even in the few instances it does receive criticism, the idea that Israel should be subject to similar sanctions to encourage them to back away from an aggressive course would be received with derision, even laughter. Yet if one is to be objective, Israel are the more threatening and potentially far more destructive of the two adversaries.

Just my 2p

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