Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran?
CactusEcho@piefed.social 3 days ago
The only answers i can give you without conspiracy theories:
But why now? Why at all?
The top of the Iran administration (khamenei and top military generals) decided the meet in person. Israel found out and bombed the shit out of the building. That’s why khamenei and top military generals all died in the beginning of the war.
The negotiations where progressing in a good rhythm and it caught the US (Israel informed US right before the bombing, but there was nothing US could do) and Iran of guard.
Is Israel gaining something that I’m not seeing?
Iran is the only close country that still keeps an aggressive stand against Israel (mainly by using hezbollah as a proxy). By doing this Israel wants a more friendly government.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Israel knows there will never be a friendly government to them in Iran, Israel knows that hatred for Israel is broad and will survive a regime change, especially one triggered by a war of aggression from Israel. They’re hoping to turn Iran into the next Syria, keep them fighting amongst themselves so they can’t turn their ire towards them.
CactusEcho@piefed.social 2 days ago
I dunno. Lots of iranians don’t like their government.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yes, and a lot of Iranians support their government, or want a theocracy that’s even more paternalistic. If the regime falls now you’ll most likely see either a military dictatorship take over to suppress the various conflicts and contradictions in the country, or those conflicts flare up into a civil war between theocrats and Democrats similar to Syria. Israel wants the civil war because a military dictator is still probably going to shoot missiles at them, arm Hezbollah and Hamas etc. while a civil war all the missiles are fired within the country.
CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 day ago
I think you are wrong.
I think it’s better for israel to put someone with whom they can cooperate than to let it go to a civil war.
IMHO, this isn’t true. Israel was able to pinpoint the location of top political figures extremely easy. That means that the civil society hates more the government than israel. If they hated israel more then, they wouldn’t be able to pull the moves they did (like killing a hamas top operative in a safe house)
Anyway, this is just a guessing exercise. Nobody knows the future. Let’s hope for the best for the iranian people.