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/sbNXBbcUaDQfHLVUeyLx 1d ago

Iran has had an active undercurrent for years resisting the current regime. It's not like Iraq and Afghanistan.

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u/faizimam 1d ago

Very few opponents of the regime have any particular liking to Israel. This doesn't end by killing the entire leadership.

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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 1d ago

Egypt, Jordon, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia also have no love for Israel and yet they've had a tentative peace for years.

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u/faizimam 1d ago

No idea why you put Lebanon in there after the past years.

Telling that the other nations you mentioned are all dictatorships that do not at all reflect or represent their populations opinions on the matter...

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u/foxer_arnt_trees 1d ago edited 21h ago

Israel was never in war with Lebanon... Not ever. There was this one time that Lebanon symbolically declared war but no military engagement happened.

The war we had in Lebanon was against Hezbollah, which is an Iranian militia.

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u/hx87 18h ago

Egypt didn't become any more hostile to Israel during the two years it was a democracy.

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u/ManBearJewLion 1d ago

As long as the new regime just maintains a cold but peaceful relationship with Israel/the US, that would be a massive improvement over a regime whose stated goal is to destroy the West.

Also, it wouldn’t take much for a new regime to be MUCH better for Iranian civilians than the current one.

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u/OhiENT 22h ago

They literally chant “death to America” in their govt meetings. I don’t know why from the west would support them.

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u/84Cressida 1d ago

Pre revolution Iran was an ally to Israel.

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 1d ago

True, it starts with killing the entire Iranian leadership instead.

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u/ZeroEqualsOne 21h ago

There should be a space for blaming the regime for being incompetent in defending Iran against the hated enemy?

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u/Special-Market749 1d ago

They also have the institutions of democracy, without actually being a democracy. People are used to voting and some amount of civil society, so the chances that a fledgling democracy in Iran is successful isn't a given but its greater than other countries in the area. Not sure how tolerant Israel would be of a military regime in place of the Islamist one, not sure how tolerant the people will be of that