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Summary: as it could be expected, Iran retaliated. Some of the missiles were shot down, but some appear to have landed in central Tel Aviv.

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Opinion:

Politically, the ayatollah can't be toppled by foreseeable events, except if an Israeli strike should kill him. His successor in that case is unlikely to be milder. Netanyahu is also firmly in power due to special circumstances, and probably pretty safe from any Iranian attempts.

Militarily, Iran has taken bigger losses, and has probably lost expensive and important parts of its nuclear programme - but not its stocks of highly enriched uranium, or its ability to launch ballistic missiles. From that perspective, if the Israeli strikes were meant to disarm Iran - they didn't.

Prognosis: they will trade more strikes and neither will achieve breakthrough success. Iran will lose more in the process.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hum... I only disagree on that it looks like the entire reason Israel is attacking is that Netanyahu isn't firmly in power.

If Israel starts getting seriously hit, I'd expect him to fall. But the consequences of that can go both ways.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The majority of Israelis support the genocide and want Gaza cleared out

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago

Lot of them are the most cowards too

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

remember netanyahu, fell ill just days before the israels unprovoked attack. yea he needs a distraction from the gaza issue.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium to potentially create multiple nuclear weapons, with estimates suggesting it could have enough for up to nine atomic bombs. What's the chance that there is a possibility of Iran using this material in various forms of warfare, including dirty bombs?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Iran will not give Israel a pretext to nuke the place. Dirty bombs are not an effective mean of warfare, just a mean of terror. So far Iran has aimed its missiles at military targets, like the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. Iran wants to weaken the Israeli military, and more importantly the support of the Israeli population and Israels allies. A dirty bomb would cause the opposite for all of that.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

It shall be intersting to see if Israel underestimated Iran.
I wonder if the Israelly population find this interesting too?

It sure is the time of the lawless states. 😬