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Iran has shown itself a rational actor time and time again by not escalating against continued provocation by Israel and the US, knowing that to do so would be
by all_factz 1y ago
Iran has shown itself a rational actor time and time again by not escalating against continued provocation by Israel and the US, knowing that to do so would be to enter a conflict it can’t win. That’s not the behavior of an irrational actor who’s willing to fight whatever the cost, even total annihilation (which would be what happened if Iran nuked the US/Israel).
They may be religious fanatics, but they’re not idiots.
- margalabargala 1y agoIran funded Hamas who did October 7th. That is the original escalation that kicked all this off. The region was (relatively) quiet until then.
- all_factz 1y agoOctober 7th was a reaction to Trump’s “Abraham Accords” which benefitted Sunni countries at the expense of Iran.
- margalabargala 1y agoAnd also a gigantic, gigantic escalation. "You made a deal that disadvantages us so we're going to rape and murder a bunch of teenagers and kidnap people."
- all_factz 1y agoIt’s not a justification, obviously. But it is a (partial) explanation. Israel wanted to keep sweeping the Palestinian issue under the rug, and Hamas and its sponsors were not going to allow that.
- margalabargala 1y agoYou claimed that Iran "time and again does not escalate against provocations by the US and Israel". Sure, it's an explanation. Everything shitty Israel or Hamas has done since 1950 has an "explanation" of "that other group did something to me".
- FergusArgyll 1y agoIran FM saying no to negotiations on Friday was insane https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-says-no-104937990.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-says-no-10...