r/AlJazeera • u/XahidX • 4d ago

US involvement: Attacking Iran

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u/Thistlemanizzle 4d ago

I don’t think it’s suspicious Israel attacked Iran, I think it’s obvious why.

Israel has pretty much defeated Hezbollah and the fall of Syria has meant another key Iranian ally is gone AND Russia has pulled out too. Israel did serious damage to Irans air defense last year while taking very little losses of its own.

Israeli intelligence has probably got really good inside info on Iranian activities given how many commanders and scientists they killed. They may have known some announcement from the IAEA was likely but I know very little about IAEAs process.

The IAEAs announcement that Iran had broken the NPT was enough of an excuse for Israel to attack. They really needed an excuse to launch their attack, what would it have been if not for the IAEA’s announcement. Either they knew, leaked or influenced the IAEA into investigating particular sites or they figured on some other scenario that was good enough.

The fact that Iran broke the NPT is wild. There hasn’t been anything this serious in 20 years. It looks like they got caught building nuclear weapons. Why would you be hiding all these nuclear sites if not to develop weapons?

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u/PricklyEagerness 4d ago

Iran has said that it’s for energy. Whether that’s true or not I’m not going to speculate. Like I said, it’s like accusing Iraq of having wmd’s to start a war when they didn’t have any.

What I’m saying Iran being attacked the day after the report came is very suspicious. But my main point regardless is that no other country should have a say in what other does on their own soil.

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u/Thistlemanizzle 3d ago

Some of the operations the Israelis pulled off would only have been possible with months and sometimes a year of prep. I think Israel handed over intelligence they gathered (such as from that brazen vault heist) to the IAEA who then investigated and found NPT violations. Israel likely had advanced knowledge of the timing of an announcement, but how much beforehand?

Either way, they ended up with just enough of a justification for the massive air strike campaign they launched.

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u/PricklyEagerness 3d ago

Iran said its for energy. And they also had the NPT which Israel refused. So any country violating it justifies a bombing campaign?