Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could lead to a popular uprising having been driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence.

Iran has survived nearly two weeks of bombing raids and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Trump is publicly contemplating ending the increasingly costly war.

If Iran’s new leadership keeps its grip on power, the long-term measure of the success of the conflict may hang on the fate of 440kg of enriched uranium which was buried under a mountain by US strikes last June, former and serving Israeli defence and intelligence sources said. Enough for more than 10 nuclear warheads, Iran could use it to hasten the construction of a weapon if the material remains in the country.

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    An air campaign alone, removing the current leadership with airstrikes and blocking Iranian sea-trade will not win the war. The Russians and Chinese are fucking delighted, because they can evaluate and examine the US weapon systems capabilities. Regime change, it ain’t gonna happen until Israel and US military forces can physically occupy Iran.

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    The regime change is happening on US soil. The ultimate conservative wet dream: The American government is being privatized.

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    The plan has always been to destroy Iran and its infrastructure. Just like what was done to Iraq and others. They don’t care about it having a different government. They want Iran and its people destroyed.

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    No need for regime change if you just kill all the public there. Seems to be Israrl’s plan for Gaza.

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    Oh yes, the highly enriched uranium that they only started stockpiling after Trump threw away the deal Obama made with them. The same uranium they offered to give back during the talks, Kushner and Wickoff didn’t bring a nuclear specialist in for . And now because of these rich assholes thinking they can do whatever they hell they want a ton of innocent people are gonna die.

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      Until the poorly behaving wealthy see real consequences in real life for their actions, they will never stop.

      Shame and ridicule is useless. They are immune.

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      a ton of innocent people are gonna die have already died and thousands more will follow

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    Or… Maybe failure was the goal. If you would claim to preemptively attack a country to prevent future attacks, which then leads to future attacks, why wouldn’t you also preemptively use threats of terrorism to go ahead and crack down on civil liberty?

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      if you still think the rapist pedophile in chief can plan, you may be in his intelligence percentile

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    Yeah I remember how immediately after that strike hit that facility the reptiles in the media started hissing that "ohhh thisss is not over! ssssssss but the uranium issssss technically sssstill in Iran so war musssst go on! sssssss! haha humans are ssssso sssstupid"

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    The Israel/US plan was to kill the Ayatollah and Iran state would collapse without a supreme leader.

    Iran’s plan to martyr the Ayatollah and fight asymmetrically with decentralized leadership.

    Iran’s plan is better than the Israel/US plan.

    Maybe they should have learned from Lt Gen Van Riper instead of giving each other celebratory blowjobs of winning a rigged war game.

    https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/that-time-a-marine-general-led-a-fictional-iran-against-the-us-military-and-won/

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    Because they don’t want to “win”…

    Bibi and trump both, they don’t want a victory, they want a forever war they can use as justification to cancel elections.

    Look at the people responsible for stopping terror attacks, they’re trying to make one happen thru sheer incompetence if nothing else. trump is desperate for some type of “attack on America” because he expects a 9/11 style bump in approval, when it’s likely to be the opposite reaction if it happens.