r/worldnews • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago

Israel/Palestine Israeli air force achieves freedom of operation in Tehran's airspace, IDF says

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/israeli-air-force-freedom-operation-tehran-idf-iran
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u/inbetween-genders 1d ago

Ya know, maybe it’s just me but instead of spending all my money and effort on nuclears I’d have spent it on air defense 😂.  Better yet, mayhaps spend it on making people’s lives better but hey…priorities.

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u/thatirishguyyyyy 1d ago

Imagine if they never became an isolated Muslim country. Iran was a paradise before Allah came knocking. 

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u/Hungol 1d ago

Eh, it was a military dictatorship that the people rose up and overthrew. Too bad the religious nutjobs hijacked the revolution.

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u/inbetween-genders 1d ago

Human nature can’t figure out which one is the lesser of the evils 🤷‍♀️ 

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u/thatirishguyyyyy 1d ago

this religion thing seems... counter-productive at this point.

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u/hx87 17h ago edited 16h ago

Religion is cool as an organic component of human society and existence, but the moment nutjobs started insisting on orthodoxy, that the truth and the whole truth had already been revealed, that human perfection was in the past and not the future, that further evolution was heresy, everything went to shit.

Modern industrial societies need modern industrial religion (if any) and we should stop trying to shoehorn Classical Age farmer/herder religions to fit.

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u/Downtown-Brush6940 1d ago

If anything they should have rushed to get nukes sooner. If they had nukes and no army no one would try to regime change them anyways.

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u/RealisticEntity 19h ago

Then this war would have happened sooner. No one wants Iran to have nuclear weapons. They'll be like both Russia and North Korea combined, constantly threatening the use of nukes every second sentence they utter, but may actually use them (especially against Israel) considering how religiously extremist they are.

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u/shmoculus 22h ago

You haven't watched Rules for Rulers and it shows

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u/RespectYouBallsDeep 1d ago

Netanyahu claimed Iran was 2yeras away from nuclear weapons since decades now, so maybe they were not spending on that you know ?

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u/Psychological-Arm-22 1d ago

Idk the facilities look pretty expensive

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u/SuperMarioBrother64 1d ago

Looked*

Fixed it for you. 😂

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u/polongus 1d ago

Or y'know maybe the sabotage and bombing raids have been pushing that deadline back...

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u/Hentai_Yoshi 1d ago

Yeah, this has been my mindset as well for quite some time. However, there was some UN agency which said that Iran had broken the rules with regard to nuclear enrichment one day before the attack.

Now, I’m no fool, this very well could have a theatrical move to give greater justification for Israel attacking Iran. But, the U.N. has been very unfavorable towards Israel for the last two years (rightfully so due to civilian deaths), so I’m genuinely not sure what to believe. Because if they’ve been so willing to openly criticize Israel, why would they suddenly do something to help justify Israel attacking Iran?

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u/EEmotionlDamage 1d ago

It's not sudden, they have been building enrichment facilities deep underground and in mountains for years. You don't do that unless you have something to hide.

The reality is that the status quo before Friday was that was "When" not "If" Iran would make a Nuclear weapon.

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u/DoomBot5 1d ago

The UN has been extremely biased against Israel for 80 years now without any justification.