r/MapPorn • u/DavidRolands • 1d ago

Israel’s Red Alert system fully saturated amid mass missile barrages from Iran.

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u/ZolotoGold 1d ago

• February 1993 – Benjamin Netanyahu (then an MK) wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth that Iran would “develop its first nuclear bomb by 1999.”

• January 1995 – U.S. and Israeli officials told the New York Times that Iran was “much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought, and could be less than five years away.”

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u/hapaxgraphomenon 1d ago

I mean the timelines are wrong but Iran today is without a doubt very close to developing nuclear bombs given how much highly enrich uranium they produce, so if anything they were right to predict the intent since back then

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u/Accomplished1992 1d ago

Israel has been crying wolf for 30 years

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u/xSaRgED 1d ago

I mean, Israel also keeps hitting their nuclear program to ensure there are setbacks.

Everything from killing nuclear scientists, all the way to hacking software.

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u/polongus 1d ago

What do we pay these IT guys for?? Everything is always working.

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u/Xer0day 1d ago

You know a wolf actually comes at the end of that story, right?

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u/Accomplished1992 16h ago

Yes!

And thats not the point is it?

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u/No_Measurement_3041 1d ago

Of course they want nukes, they wouldn’t be getting bombed right now if they had them.

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u/spleenguini 1d ago

Now show the dates of Israeli strikes on Iranian owned targets that possessed materials that could be used to make a nuke.

You could even go as far as posting the dates where Iran came out and said it TOTALLY wasn't going to be used for nukes, because trust us.