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Hamas Political Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Iran, Organization Confirms
Hamas claims he died in a 'raid'. Pretty hilarious that after 10 months of puttering around the gulf states he goes to iran and instantly gets dropped. Iran really needs to worry about internal security rather than nukes.
Whatever you think of their politics, you do really have to hand it to Israel. With a population of 10 million (many of them Arabs and useless Talmud scholars) they seem to have a state capacity greater than all the other Middle East states combined.
And while this is amplified by US support, Israeli's military is much more effective than the U.S. per dollar. And of course diplomacy is a skill too. Sucking up to the US is a useful strategy. Iran should try it.
What's Iran going to do now? Lob another 300 slow-moving drones into Israel so that Israel can shoot down 299 of them? One of these countries matters. The other is a joke.
It's as if someone asked Netanyahu if he planned to just fight every country that challenges Israel, and he just replied with that Mediterranean Chad gif.
Iran can start attacking every vessel in the strait of Hormuz and cause a global recession.
We don't know what kind of outcome Iran was aiming for last time, it might have just been a token retaliation, and thus not an accurate demonstration of their actual ability to strike Israel. If they were actually trying to strike Israel, they would first overwhelm missile defenses with rockets from Lebanon, where they have the capacity to do so. Iran's failed strike against Israel was symbolic. A real strike would start with waves of rockets from Lebanon.
This is a dumb take because Iran launched 300+ drones and missiles in what became the first large scale test of Israel’s Iron Dome.
They did not expect 99% of those to be shot out of the sky.
That’s not a “token” or “symbolic” response just because it turns out to have been militarily ineffective. They did not use Hezbollah because when Hezbollah does decide to go all out then Israel will invade. It’s kind of a one time option.
In contrast, Israel’s response to the first overt attack from Iran was to destroy a key air defense system.
Now that Iranians know the ineffectiveness of their first try, yes, they will have to up their game to try to overwhelm the missile defenses, including coordination with a major launch from Hezbollah.
If Iran starts attacking commercial shipping then the US Navy will make the Iranian navy disappear pretty rapidly.
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