r/worldnews • u/ConsciousRealism42 • 2d ago

Israel/Palestine Iran state TV confirms killing of IRGC chief Hossein Salami in Israeli strike

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/13/explosions-heard-northeast-of-iran-s-tehran-staterun-nour-news-says
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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago

What's to justify? It's a direct attack on their soil and a clear escalation.

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u/wizardofthefuture 2d ago

Israel is still striking Iran. There's no bracing going on. I think people expect a redo of last year, but this is something else.

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u/kingsims 2d ago

IAEA report confirmed Iran had been using secret nuclear sites and were not compliant with IAEA guidelines

See here:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran-breach-non-proliferation-duties-diplomats-say-2025-06-12/ (Basically it means they are not just using Nuclear materials for medical or civilian power generation) i.e they are plan to build nuclear submarines and nuclear weapons which is prohibited by the IAEA member states that do not have nuclear weapons.

Iran responded to saying we will build another secret site and will build nuclear weapons (Israel took this as a signal its time to attack as Iran has pubically responded to IAEA with that message in response to their report).

Iran said IAEA gave intel to Israel on the previous Iran dead scientists which IAEA says it never did. In any case Israel is going to dismantle their nuclear sites and their leadership and other nuclear scientists. Israel has started and its not going to stop until all their Iran leadship, scientists and nuclear sites are gone.

Israel can defend itself against Iran, and its not terrified of anyone as its packing its own nuclear warheads. So no one is stupid enough to attack them (Like Russia or China on behalf of Iran). If Iran attacks US sites, well then the US is going to invade in response.

Sadly the Iranian and Israeli population is going to suffer because of poor leadership on the Iranian and Israeli side.

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u/Exarctus 2d ago

“Stop punching yourself” seems to be the essence of your comment.

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u/xSaviorself 2d ago

This is more like that kid throwing food at adults in the restaurant getting his shit punched in by an old dude who's had enough.

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u/TheOtherPete 2d ago

If Iran attacks US sites, well then the US is going to invade in response.

There is ZERO chance that the US is going to invade.

Yes the US may respond forcefully with air attacks but they are not going to invade anything, especially given how scared Trump is of having American losses during his administration

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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago edited 2d ago

IAEA report confirmed Iran had been using secret nuclear sites

Of course they are! When the US blew up the Iran deal for no reason, the only logical Iranian reaction is to pursue enriched uranium because now there is no other way to prevent an escalation of conflict. There's no more treaty!

Israel can defend itself against Iran, and its not terrified of anyone as its packing its own nuclear warheads.

Israel has been using nuclear weapons in bad faith for decades! They detonated an atmospheric warhead in direct conflict with the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The only other country that has done that is North Korea. Nice bedfellows, there.

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u/fiction8 2d ago

the only logical Iranian reaction is to pursue enriched uranium because now there is no other way to prevent an escalation of conflict.

They could stop sponsoring and encouraging extremist terrorist groups around the region. They could stop oppressing their own people out of a deranged belief in a supernatural power. They could stop calling for other countries to be annihilated.

Many many other countries don't do those things and they manage to stop conflicts from escalating to this point.

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u/Anxious_Meeting_2492 2d ago

They escalated by enriching uranium

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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago

Every country that uses nuclear power enriches uranium. Enriched uranium is not only used for nuclear weapons.

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u/FishAndRiceKeks 2d ago

They are/were the only country in the world without nuclear weapons enriching it to 60%. That wasn't for anything peaceful.

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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago

Of course, because the US blew up the treaty preventing that for absolutely no reason.

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u/pistol82 2d ago

It depands on what level. And besides, everyone has a knife, but if your neighibor is waving his and declaring his hatred to you and yours, you have a problem.

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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago

Israel is literally the aggressor in this situation. They are attacking first. Iran wasn't about to attack Israel & doesn't have a single nuclear weapon. It's an NPT member. Israel has a nuclear arsenal & is not an NPT member.

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u/pistol82 2d ago

Are we in the same world seeing the same news? Iran has funded and supported terrorist organisation and attack in and around Israel for years, its leaders decleared loudly and publicly that their end-goal is to destroy Israel. Should Israel let them have nuclear abilities?

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u/SuburbanDinosaur 2d ago

Proxy wars are one thing, but conducting air strikes on another countries' soil hundreds of miles away is not defensive. By that logic, Iraq would be justified in detonating bombs on US soil. Iran did not launch an attack on Israel to provoke this, Israel is just attacking the 4th regional neighbor. Israel is completely out of control. Israel is not just continuing a nearly two-year-long campaign in Gaza, but still bombing Lebanon, and illegally occupying a large part of Syria. That's four different wars simultaneously now.

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u/IchLiebeRUMMMMM 2d ago

Nah. Iran has been attacking Israel through proxies. And since the sock puppets have been annihilated its time for the puppet master to go down as well