Rest in Peace, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, you died working on the defence of your nation against imperialism
Western intelligence alleged he was the man in charge of Iran's nuclear programme, Project 111. Western powers claim Project 111 is or was an attempt to create a nuclear bomb for Iran, though Iran has proved on usual occasions via IAEA observers that its program is solely for civilian purposes and that the information provided by Western intelligence agencies is fake or forged
more like he died trying to provide civilian nuclear energy for his country lol
The reddit thread on this is so cringe, people saying that Iran definitely have a weapons program and that anyone who points out there's no evidence for that is an Iranian shill, because, you know, the US UK and Israel definitely don't have the most sophisticated social media propaganda programs
There are some decent takes in there at least:
This is good, Iran can never be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Especially after they used those two to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/k22rnd/iranian_nuclear_scientist_fakhrizadeh_dies_in/
Even the CIA says Iran has no nuclear weapons program. But the media and politicians are so hawkish they have people convinced there is one.
Biden admin is going to start a war in Iran. This is my 2021 hellworld prediction.
Isn't China getting quite a bit of its oil from Iran? Makes sense then to eat away at China's resource base one proxy war at a time. Renewed attacks on Venezuela would fit this strategy as well.
worst case we get an open war in Iran
best case we get "targeted" sanctions that make it harder for civilians to access basic necessities, but we don't actually start a war so Biden doesnt need to pay any domestic costs for his actions
Start it year 1, spend 4 years manufacturing consent, by the time it's reelection time we've always been at war with iran
if hillary was president instead of trump i genuinely believe there would've been a war with iran, especially since she's been on record talking about obliterating iran
There would have very likely been wars with the DPRK and Syria and at the very least a resurgence of terrorist activity in Russia.
DPRK has nukes. Hillary is a semi-competent Imperialist, not a Possadist.
How many? How far can they fly? What percentage would survive a US pre-emptive strike and subsequent anti ballistic missile shield? How did the situation look 4 years ago?
Maybe before making cocky defiant statements one should look at the reality on the ground and not automatically assume "nuclear warhead = immediate invincibility"...
Dozens, by most estimates.
To Tokyo, at least. Also Alaska, but not to anything there worth hitting.
More than 0%.
Exactly the same.
You're just pulling shit out of your ass. No one's been seriously considering a direct attack on North Korea since they obtained nuclear weapons.
"seriously considering" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. There was also no direct attack in 1991, 1992, 1993... all the way up to 2010 when their first nuclear capable missiles were deployed. So as anyone can see the DPRK getting directly attacked or not has nothing to do with having or not having nuclear tipped missiles of dubious reliability. Moreover seeing how they first tested (notice tested, not deployed) their first missiles that are able to hit the US beyond bumfuck nowhere Alaska only late 2017 looks like you're just a cheap liar and there is quite a bit of a difference between 2016 and now.
Fact of the matter is actually existing hardware and capabilities take precedence over your magical thinking. But I guess I should cut you some slack since it's understandable how being only familiar with the latter you might confuse the two.
I love how libs get scandalized when russians kill double agents i. e. traitors (I don't like Putin, but double agents per definition are dangerous traitors), but they routinely shrug when it comes to Palestine or Mossad assassinations or the US propping up fascist death squads
Not that any intelligence service wouldn't kill double agents/enemy state agents, but I personally don't trust any Western media narrative about "Russians assassinated X person" because A) they're liars and give no proof beyond "intelligence says so", and B) it's eminently useful to do false flag assassinations of some useless nobody and then use your friendly stenographer media to trumpet about the evil enemy government.
Russia, by the way, doesn't really play this game. When its people get assassinated, the media/state narrative essentially leaves it a mystery (little discussion beyond vaguely blaming the West) and downplays it. It doesn't have the same strong media arm that can convince half the world and it doesn't want to show weakness by admitting too loudly that it can't prevent assassinations. (I'm sure Iran has to play this carefully too - warn its nuclear scientists to be careful, but don't scare them shitless so they're demoralized.) The world's superpower and its allies are the ones that bay for blood whenever they're (supposedly) attacked.
I personally don’t trust any Western media narrative about “Russians assassinated X person”
Yeah it's always very strange that liberals are all about rule of law and checks and balances, and here we are talking about [attempted] murder, and there's barely any police investigation, nothing's transparent, and most importantly there's no trial... but MSM says "the FSB did it for sure" really? Let's hold a trial then and present the evidence! Oh you won't do that because intelligence work is more covert than that? Yeah alright, I guess we must believe what the MI6 spokesperson says then...
I remember reading a lot of fishy stuff about that UK poisoning, whatever happened with that?
Every country under the bootheel of imperialism should acquire nuclear weapons as long as the imperialists have not unilaterally disarmed themselves of them, no exceptions
Gotta get those WMDs (Weapons of 'Murican Deterrence)
Iran needs to start defending itself and killing military heads/scientists in Israel. Fuck this bullshit
Okay, i'll be the one to explain on DS9 terms
a bajorian scientist who worked for the resistance 20 years ago was just assassinated the Obsidian Order. But also real, so a real person with probably a family was killed by IRL imperialist fascists.
also, better article https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/27/top-iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-iran-armed-forces
looks like we started the year off with an Iran war scare and will end it with one as well
