And if you feel like this is an incredibly serious situation right now, you're not wrong, because there are very few examples - if any - of the US involving itself in the Middle East or surrounding areas and making things better. For the most part, it just ends up backfiring or ending badly.
I mean, there are some really obvious ways with regards to Iran that this could go badly.
First of all - if Iran wasn't making a nuclear weapon, and I have my doubts about that, but if they really weren't, then this may convince them that they really need to get on and make that nuclear weapon because there is only one way to ensure that you don't get bombed by the US, and that is to have a nuclear weapon.
This could also incentivize other countries like Russia to give them a nuclear weapon, which has been a threat from Russia in the last few days.
This could spiral into some sort of instability in the country if there's a regime change in Iran that is worse than the current one, and that's always possible and often is the case.
This could create instability in other parts of the world. If the US gets involved more deeply in Iran and ties itself up there, other countries will have a look at it, see the US is distracted and take their chances in another part of the world. All of that is absolutely fair to be worried about.
However, I would like to caution us all against thinking that Iran is some sort of an innocent victim here, which I think is something that we tend to do in this country.
We don't like the US meddling. We can see from a distance how bad that is. So we see the US as an aggressor, meddling in another country, and then we feel sorry for that country, for the US coming and bullying them.
Do not feel sorry for Iran. Iran are not good guys here. I personally think you'd have to be naïve to believe that they weren't working on a nuke. They've got their facilities underground, for God's sake. What do you think that's for?
And they are motivated to have a nuke, as I said before, to avoid exactly this happening with the US bombing them.
So they've got the motivation, circumstantially it looks like they were up to something, right?
And they are by the way, remember, the ones who supported and funded Hamas, who started this war with Israel in the first place on October 7, 2023. So they are not good guys at all.
Now, they probably had this coming actually. The only thing that we can hope for right now is that it ends with this and to be honest, it's probably a long shot.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
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quote ' Iran are not good guys here. I personally think you'd have to be naïve to believe that they weren't working on a nuke. They've got their facilities underground, for God's sake. What do you think that's for?'
A yarpie opines.
israel has (apparently.....) nukes with the help of white controlled south africa ('allegedly' of course) in the day.
Why would Iran do their development in secure facilities heather? Gee, let me ponder that, she also seems to forget to mention Iran has been under IAEA watch/audits over the years, like the recent surmise by Tulsi Gabbard in march this year saying 'current U.S intelligence says nothing to see here', which gump chose to ignore. Gumps bosses (e.g the zionist woman that gave him $100 million 'gift'-no strings....) gave him 'intelligence' and bombs flew-'the most amazing best greatest etc etc'.
Exactly, Heather.
Iran are NOT the good guys !!
Look at their track record. It was Iran who previously mined the Straits of Hurmuz.
It was Iran who funded and supported Hamas.
And lots more..
Every Iran Nuke story should mention that the yearly intelligence assessments that the president gets has stated for years that Iran doesn’t not have a military nuclear program at all.
The only people who think Iran doesn’t have a nuke program are the only people with undeclared nukes in the region. Israel has claimed Iran is “weeks or months” away from a bomb since ….
Take a guess …
1986 ! Iran sure is taking its time
On June 13th, the Zionist entity carried out an unprovoked, criminal military strike Iran. While its impact was limited, with Tehran’s counterattack far more devastating, Israel’s targeted assassination of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists indicates Tel Aviv knew their identities and locations. Coincidentally, a day prior to the entity’s broadside, Press TV published documents indicating the International Atomic Energy Agency previously provided Israeli intelligence the names of several Iranian nuclear scientists, who were subsequently killed. Other documents indicate IAEA chief Rafael Grossi enjoys a close, clandestine relationship with Israeli officials, and has frequently acted upon their orders. The files are part of a wider trove obtained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, containing unprecedented insights into Tel Aviv’s secret, illegal nuclear weapons capability, and its relationships with Europe, the US and other countries, among other bombshell material. The tranche could well shed further light on the IAEA’s brazen, murderous collusion with the entity.
Further reinforcing interpretations, the IAEA assisted Israel’s June 13th strike on Iran, a day prior, the Association’s Board of Governors declared Tehran “in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.” The basis for this finding, which provided Tel Aviv with a propaganda pretext for its illegal attack, was an IAEA report published two weeks prior. The document provided no new information - its dubious charges related “to activities dating back decades” at three sites where allegedly, until the early 2000s, “undeclared nuclear material” was handled.
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