Iran's theocracy which began 50 years ago has done a lot to antagonize the USA and Israel. Iran took our embassy hostage for a year. Iran has armed and financed Hezbollah, Ansar Allah and Hamas who then went and attacked Israel. Iran armed and funded an insurgency in Iraq that cost us hundreds(?), thousands(?) of soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars. They've also said very mean things about us in speeches across many decades. To be fair, we've also said very mean things about them in speeches so whatever.
Personally I don't think any of these actions rises to the level of an 'act of war,' but certainly it would be worthwhile to regime change Iran if it were cheap and easy, given how annoying they've been. So using this as a 'casus belli' would work from a utilitarian point of view.
The problem is Israel and the USA have decided to seize upon the one thing that does not legitimize attacking Iran as the reason we're attacking Iran -- a conspiracy theory that Iran has been trying to secretly build nuclear bombs and then use them against Israel the moment they succeed for the last 30 years, except they're so incredibly incompetent that all 30 years weren't sufficient to finish building a bomb, but now they're just weeks away from finally succeeding so we had to surprise attack them.
First off, there's no way in hell any country can 'attempt' to build a bomb for 30 years and still not have one. Second off, there's no way in hell we could precisely know they're 'weeks away' from finishing a project that's already been ongoing for 30 years. The argument defeats itself without any need for a counterargument. It's also obvious nonsense that Iran would actually use a nuke even if it got one, due to the deterrence of mutually assured destruction. Iranians don't want to die like everybody else, so even if they got a bomb it would obviously be used only in self-defense, not to randomly slaughter Jews. Pakistan has the bomb and they haven't nuked Israel, so why would Iran be any different? Why is Pakistan having a bomb acceptable but not Iran? The narrative makes no sense.
Getting into a war on false pretexts based around false WMD claims is something I can't condone, seeing how it went last time.
Another thing that really boils my blood about this stupid justification for attacking Iran is that Ukraine openly bragged, before the Special Military Operation, that it was going to build nuclear bombs and use them as a threat against Russia to get back Crimea and the Donbass. When Russia responded by invading Ukraine, saying 'Ukraine must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,' we described that as a 'brutal and unprovoked invasion by the new Hitler.' So why is it Israel is noble and just for stopping Iran from building a bomb, when it isn't even trying to build a bomb, but Russia is attacking Ukraine for no reason when it tried to stop Ukraine from building a bomb, when Zelensky openly proclaimed he was going to build one?
There is no universal principle at work here, no philosophical basis for action. Sometimes it's acceptable to openly become a nuclear power for the express purpose of conquering Russian territory, and other times it's unacceptable to enrich uranium to any level. It's based on the complete whimsy of the USA, who apparently gets to determine the nuclear status of every country on Earth, because apparently none of them are sovereign but are all actually provinces of the American Empire.
But I'm also angry at Iran. They could have easily avoided this war by not enriching uranium, which they did not to build nuclear weapons (if they were building weapons they would have them by now, but they obviously don't have them.), but just to spite Israel and the USA and say 'nyaa nyaa you can't stop me.' Why would you imperil your nation with an unnecessary war for children's theater? It didn't help Iran at all to have all this enriched uranium laying around doing nothing. All it did is alienate them from the world at large and get themselves killed. Why did the Iranian people have to endure all those sanctions for all those decades when they could have simply abandoned their nuclear program and rejoined the league of civilized nations at any time?
Childish pride/spite is the reasoning behind the Iranian regime, not the welfare of their people. An even more Machiavellian motive could go something like this -- Iran's government is not popular domestically and the Iranian state is artificial, full of many non-Persian ethnicities. The only way to keep the government in power is to create a siege mentality where the people of Iran are constantly under attack from abroad, thus feel the need to huddle together and support their government in solidarity and self-defense. So Iran's government deliberately went out and made enemies so that they could shore up domestic support. They did something, uranium enrichment, for the express purpose of pissing off the world and with no other goal in mind. In order to prop up their ultimately illegitimate rule that the people of Iran wouldn't abide otherwise.
Iran wanted to thread the needle where they would do just enough to make the Iranian public feel under siege without actually getting bombed, that was the perfect equilibrium to keep them in power, but they miscalculated and now find themselves in a war they didn't expect or intend. This would explain their weak-ass response to Israel and their continued begging for a mutual ceasefire even though the war has already begun.
Whatever reason there was for Iran to enrich uranium, it was stupid. They were ludicrously stupid if they did it for 30 years while earnestly trying to build a bomb but just couldn't get it to work. They were childishly stupid if they did it just to prove that they could and no one would bully them about matters of domestic sovereignty. They were sinisterly stupid if they underestimated the warmongering natures of Trump and Netanyahu. Down any scenario they're stupid.
I don't think Iran's governmental overthrow will be cheap and easy. Nor am I certain that the theocracy's replacement would be an improvement. What happened to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya is not encouraging. Which makes Israel starting this war even on a genuine pretext, instead of the insane one they decided upon, still a bad idea, and American joining in also a bad idea. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong, maybe Iran really is that weak. In that case, if Israel simply hadn't said nonsense about nonexistent wmd this war could have been a great success. But no war based on a lie is acceptable.
What I hope is that this war blows up in Israel's face, and the USA's face if we choose to join the war. This is because Israel is way over the top, acting with complete impunity, and the USA by assisting them is complicit. The way Israel has treated the Gaza Strip is unconscionable. In addition, Israel has been bombing, with complete impunity, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, for decades. They've invaded and conquered a portion of Syria that everyone agrees is part of Syria with complete impunity. Look at how everyone howls when Russia invades and conquers a part of Ukraine, how it's so unacceptable, how we'll do anything to stop them. And when Israel does the exact same thing -- crickets.
I want Iran's government to fall, but I also want Israel's government to fall. So I want Iran to destroy Israel, make them pay for the decades of sins they've accumulated without ever getting punished for any of them. Heck, I want revenge for what Israel did to the USS Liberty, another thing they never paid for. Ideally they'll take each other out. With enough missiles maybe both countries will fall into ruin and disrepair.
Israel has been the cause of so much needless chaos and suffering for so long and they've never paid any price for it. Since their founding, they've done nothing but genocide, terrorism, war crimes, you name it. They're a sore upon the Earth. If Iran happens to be the Earth's avenging angel, then more power to them.
Just like I hate how Bill and Hillary have done so many crimes and gotten away with them all unpunished, even their reputations left intact, I hate how long Israel has been doing bad things and getting away with it, still popular in the public mindset. All I want is justice. Iran destroyed itself for no reason with this war, but maybe it can have a sort of cosmic reason, as the avatars of justice in the world, for antagonizing Israel, so that they could destroy it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
As an American, I would like for America to not be supporting a genocidal warmongering insane nation like Israel, but I won't play favorites -- so long as we are supporting evil entities like Ukraine and Israel, I equally wish divine justice to rain down upon the USA. We are the Satanic States of America and we deserve to die by the millions, just like how we've killed millions abroad. If Iran can visit horrendous punishment upon the USA for our evil support of other evildoers, that too would be a plus. I want Hillary, Bill, Israel and the USA to face justice. It sucks that I actually live here and might get caught up in the mayhem, but justice is bigger than my own comfort so oh well.
The point is I hope Iran wins this war not because I support anything about Iran, but because it's a convenient tool to strike down my enemies with. The Jews and their neocon supporters need some long awaited karma and apparently no one else is willing to deliver it to them.
Hopes and expectations aren't the same. I expect Israel will win, like they always do, and the Muslims will lose, like they always do. And maybe some good will come of that outcome, too, though not the good I consider paramount. But I hope Iran will pull a rabbit out of their hats and teach the whole world a lesson about Jewish aggression. There's still a chance this could all go horribly wrong for the Zionist entity.
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