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by breppp 8mo ago
Yes, they both show the UK had an interest in not participating or reducing their participation. This is probably military strategy 101 not to push your enemies together when they are having a rift
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by breppp 8mo ago
I am talking about the Islamic Republic setting up local mercenary forces in order to extract resources from the local government in Iraq and Lebanon. That's called Imperialism and was common among european powers in the 19th century
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by breppp 8mo ago
What's your view on the Republic's imperial aggression against Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen?
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by breppp 8mo ago
It seems this was not the case, but this has all changed now for sure https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj98egkl7l1o https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/20/what-are-chago
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by breppp 8mo ago
Your link actually says they were contributing to the defense not the attack > The US-Israeli strikes were launched after negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear programme ended without a deal. The UK did not participate.
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by breppp 8mo ago
> The general strategy makes a lot of sense for a desperate regime The issue is that they are also attacking their closest friends in the region, as opposed to the other gulf nations which were merely pressuring the US not to attack due
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by breppp 8mo ago
I guess the US marines are also operating the Saudi oil facility and French base on their time off Their actual current explanation is that they can't control their armed forces https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/ir
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by breppp 8mo ago
How does Iran communication describe the attacking of Saudi ARAMCO oil facilities and hotels in Bahrain and Dubai?
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by breppp 8mo ago
That's not how the EU views it, https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/2028357886355570992
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by breppp 8mo ago
This comes after attacking US, French bases and civilian infrastructure in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE as well as their close friends and mediators in Qatar and Oman
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Iran attacks RAF base in Cyprus, an EU country(telegraph.co.uk)
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by breppp 8mo ago
I can only see the US insistence on many bad foreign decisions in the name of democracy done in the Middle East by multiple administrations, that without much knowledge of the situation in East Asia, I venture to guess it is not a coinciden
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by breppp 8mo ago
Two great examples of countries where US pressure had effectively transformed from dictatorships to democracies
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by breppp 8mo ago
Jordan political system is much older than Iran, as well as the Saudis and others. Iran theocracy is a new phenomena in the Middle East, ushering the implementation era of political Islam, later continued by ISIS, Hamas and the milder Qatar
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by breppp 8mo ago
sometimes you just have to try Islamism before you decide you don't like it
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by breppp 8mo ago
That's certainly how their own propaganda portrays them, however if you see the amount of corruption in that effective kleptostate, you'd understand they care much about life
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by breppp 8mo ago
it's quite common that autocratic states have periods of instability due to wars of succession. That's why many devolve into Monarchy like the Kim or Assad dynasties. That's why one of the possible successors was Khamenai&#x2
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by breppp 8mo ago
If you know the history of the Iraq War you would know a lot of the reasons it went bad was Iranian involvement
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by breppp 8mo ago
> If that was true, obviously they would have built one buy now. Being one year away from building would be non-urgency inducing. Reread your parent comment, the concept of a threshold nuclear state is that they are constantly a month aw
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by breppp 8mo ago
> Didn't we have one of those a few years ago? I wonder what happened to it /s Yes, although it had merit it was far worse than what can be signed now, especially the sunset clause was problematic > Seriously, though: how ca
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by breppp 8mo ago
The point is preventing another North Korea style nuclear blackmail state. Iran has negotiated like no one will ever attack it, and that was a correct assumption for decades However, due to Iran's overly aggressive use of questionably
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by breppp 8mo ago
as iran is a major player in crypto money laundering then it could price its fall https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602279443
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Russia sends migrants into Europe through secret tunnels(telegraph.co.uk)
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by breppp 8mo ago
am i missing something, or is the statistic that is used to pinpoint someone as poor, is the same statistic that is gamed here? Namely the amount of income that a person declares to the IRS?
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by breppp 8mo ago
Generally the IRGC has everything to do with the current state of Gaza, as it was involved in planning and training for the October 7th attack. This was a masterstroke of Iranian strategy, while it initially looked they have yet again encou
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by breppp 8mo ago
Why? a non-religious Iran would have difficulty maintaining alliances with islamist organizations such as PMF and Hezbollah that were used to slaughter Iranian protestors. Also, like Syria it would probably pivot to a US-led alliance
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by breppp 8mo ago
I think intelligence like historiography is extremely bad at detecting processes as they are happening, as it cannot understand behaviors of humans that are not part of large bureaucracies it usually researches. Therefore, intelligence in g
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by breppp 8mo ago
recent examples https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/manssor-arbabsiar-se... https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/member-irans-islamic...
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by breppp 8mo ago
there is quite a beef going on between America and Iran if you haven't noticed, such as taking an entire embassy as hostages or killing a whole lot of US troops in Iraq and Lebanon among other things
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by breppp 8mo ago
Amazing, however when I changed the number I expected an audio recording of some guy answering in the middle of the night over a modem negotiation sound

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