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2024-08-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
To keep Iran in line, it needs the occasional 'slap in the face'
[YNet] The West has got to revise its thinking. It needs to begin threatening Iran militarily and even to take active measures in that direction, if it wants to change the course of Iran’s modus operandi - its progress toward nuclear capability and its sponsoring of terrorism worldwide.

Ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been transformed. From a friend of Israel, cooperating in a variety of fields and aligned with the United States, Iran has set its sights on exporting its Islamic Revolution and on opening a front against the West. One example of this, is the establishing of the Revolutionary Guards, whose mission is to export the revolution to various countries and its well-known slogan: "The United States is the Great Satan and Israel is the Little Satan."

Concurrent with its support for terrorism, Iran also built a military nuclear program on the foundations of the civilian nuclear program that had been started during the pre-revolution years. While Iran’s first revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was in charge, the military nuclear program remained mothballed since he believed it was inconsistent with Islam. However, after he died in 1989, the plan was revived despite Iran’s claims that it was not working to achieve nuclear military capability. They insisted their program was purely focused on energy production.

...The Swords of Iron War has put Iran’s support of the various terrorist organizations in the Middle East (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Shiite militias in Iraq) under the spotlight and on its intention to destroy Israel and eliminate the perceived threat it poses. This goal of theirs was actively pursued in the Iranian attack against Israel on April 13, 2024, in which Iran launched hundreds of UAVs, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles toward Israel. At the same time Iran is continuing with its nuclear program, and the "snapback" deadline (the possibility of reinstating the sanctions against Iran, in the event it is decided that it was violating its part in the deal) approaching.

...For the Iranian regime, the paramount principle is to ensure its own survival. This is the basis for all other matters. The Iranian moves are all played out under a rationale of long-term regime continuity. All its moves are measured against this yardstick. For this reason, the West’s modus operandi should have one aim - to undermine the Iranian regime’s resiliency in such a way as to force it to alter its behavior, withdraw from its nuclear program and discontinue its funding of the Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, which are sowing chaos and evil indiscriminately. The West has got to turn the equation on its head and create an inverse relationship, rather than a direct relationship, between the nuclear program and the regime’s survival.

...For this to happen, the West must realize that the wars of the present day must be fought now and not sometime in the future. Iran and the Shiite Axis must be dealt with firmly, using all force necessary. In the absence of this, the Western powers will be faced with a very different reality - a nuclear Iran, terrorist organizations capable of doing Iran’s bidding, bereft of allies in the Middle East and threatened with Islamic extremism at home.
The "western powers" are too busy replacing their native populations - the ones who made them "powers" by 3rd world baboons hopeful. And promoting sexual aberrations.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 More stupid “calibrated response “ garbage. If you’re close enough to slap the face, you’re close enough to chop off the head.
Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-08-08 04:21||   2024-08-08 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll go with head removals for $600. Alex.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-08 07:39||   2024-08-08 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 For a strategy that had remarkable success in altering behavor....
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-08 08:07||   2024-08-08 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 With barbarous people, a better deterrent might be
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-08-08 14:45||   2024-08-08 14:45|| Front Page Top

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