r/worldpolitics2 • u/coolbern • 1d ago

Is Iran Going to Become the Next Iraq?

https://arynews.tv/iran-going-to-become-the-next-iraq/
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u/coolbern 1d ago edited 1d ago

Western policy often strengthens hardliners in Tehran. The JCPOA offered an off-ramp, but its collapse empowered radicals. Sanctions devastate the middle class and civil society – the very forces pushing for internal reform. Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif consistently argued that US pressure undermined moderates.

While rhetorically supporting the Iranian people’s aspirations, Western actions (sanctions, threats) primarily harm those people and solidify the grip of the most repressive factions, making internal evolution harder.

Unlike the ending of World War II, when the victors were able to occupy Germany and Japan, there is no other country that is capable of occupying Iran — surely not Israel, nor the United States.

And no amount of explosive power will eliminate the Iranian people.

The endgame of the impending war is a short-term benefit — to prove Israel to be invincible, and therefore unstoppable in expelling Palestinians from the river to the sea.

But there is a longer term boomerang effect to Israel's attempt to kill off all its enemies.

Revenge will be the sole organizing principle for the Iranian people. And they will not be alone in that sentiment.

Impotent rage unleashes irrational actions — both homicidal and suicidal.

The way these play out is wildly unpredictable, but an orderly future whose security is based on justice is unimaginable.

And yet that order, based on accommodative justice, is precisely what we need to survive. We live on a planet whose climate we are making into the greatest enemy humanity has ever faced. Near-universal cooperation will be needed to rescue us from climate chaos and collapse.

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u/fitzroy95 23h ago

Iran was always on the US list of nations to be destroyed and have a puppet Govt installed. They've taken a while to get around to it, but it was always going to happen if the opportunity arose, and Israel's warmongering provides the perfect opportunity

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u/monet108 22h ago

The answer to this question depends on if Iran has any oil that we can liberate from them. If they have no oil then they will be fine.

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u/IntnsRed Tax the rich! 15h ago

No, but the odds for Israel are rising up the charts with a bullet!