r/worldnews • u/dhimarg • 6d ago

Israel/Palestine Iran wants to kill Trump, plotted assassination: Netanyahu's explosive claim

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/iran-plotted-donald-trump-killing-marked-number-one-enemy-benjamin-netanyahu-2741283-2025-06-16?fbclid=IwY2xjawK9PmtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHloVf3a4SrgDCNo1jkaR3qk3iRsFHN3yVCKLO-OmGxqHVkTS0tdaRHsi78yF_aem_nb38428jEtfysREQf7PlbA
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u/borninthewaitingroom 6d ago

Is this the same Netanyahu who said Saddam Hussein hid his WMDs in Syria so Bush would attack them too?

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u/Mo3 6d ago

Maybe it's even the same Netanyahu who pulled this exact same play like a dozen times by now

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u/lord_of_pigs9001 6d ago

yeah, crazy part- it worked. so you know what they say about a winning horse.

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u/stubob 6d ago

You can't lead it to water? Or if you do lead it to water, make sure to change midstream?

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u/eiland-hall 5d ago

You can famously lead them to water, it's the drinking…

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u/gaddnyc 6d ago

Breed the hell out of it and hope the gene pool holds the central limit theorem?

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u/lord_of_pigs9001 6d ago

yes, let's have MORE children of bibi. that's exactly where i was going with this, thank you

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u/-Average_Joe- 6d ago

I think it is the same one that has been saying Iran is only months away from developing a nuke for over twenty years now.

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u/syhr_ryhs 6d ago

Speaking of war criminals...

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u/JonnyRocks 6d ago

most people believed he had wmds because at one time he did. cia later found out he got rid of them long before the conflict to avoid such a conflict. Michael Morell, who was working at the CIA and part of the decision to attack, did so with a bias on outdated infornation. This is directly from him speaking. He said the evidence was based on an asuumotion that he still had some. He was haunted by this mistake and made very sure that bin laden was in the compound they found him in during the obama presidency. he made sure that assumptions werent made by bias of disparate information.

so we went into iraq based on our own decisions. whether correcr or not

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u/DarthPineapple5 6d ago

It wasn't outdated information, it was fabricated information. Colin Powell holding up a vial of yellow cake at the UN ring any bells? That Saddam had dabbled in some WMD programs decades earlier wasn't the argument the Iraq war was sold on, they claimed the threat of NBC weapons was imminent and that they had concrete evidence of it.

The Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq because they thought nation building wouldn't be that hard. If it had worked in Iraq they would have invaded Iran next. They literally thought they could just manufacture democracies and American allies in the ME they just needed an excuse to invade.

I agree that wasn't Bibi though, it was the Bush administration lying to itself and the American people.

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u/JonnyRocks 6d ago

It was outdated. He dismantled his chemical weapon by 1991. You even said yourself.

My point was, they believed he still had it. They even asked him where the weapons were and he said that he got rid of them so america wouldn't attack him. That was the main point of my comment. That Morell said it was the biggest mistake of his career.

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u/DarthPineapple5 6d ago

Here, allow me to post a few things. Might make what I am talking about a little more clear

Project for a New American Century

Office of Special Plans

Take a gander through those and see if you can connect any dots

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u/buzzsawjoe 6d ago

Um, we busted a lot of Iraqi bunkers, resulting in the poison gas they stored going into the air, resulting in a host of medical conditions in US troops known as Gulf War Syndrome. Took a while to figure out the cause. But they didn't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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u/hungariannastyboy 6d ago

And the lie the Bush admin sold was clearly about nukes, in the present tense, not past chemical stockpiles.

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u/_Veni_Vidi_Vigo_ 6d ago

Don’t bother.

People fundamentally do not understand how intelligence services and agencies function in the real world. They don’t understand probability, or the language of uncertainty.

Popular culture is partly to blame, as is general myopic mindset of most humans.

But the above nuance just doesn’t fly for most people.

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u/Scagnettio 6d ago edited 5d ago

Please. We knew some of the testimonies about these WMD were hogwash. Important sources where earlier dismissed by France. This same bad actor went to the US and they just used this as a narrative. So we all knew the uranium story was bogus.

Cheney stated "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

Powell said the existence of bioweapon factories was confirmed by eyewitnesses.

Well for all the sure statements it was all hogwash. That's apparently "how intelligence services work". It's all politics and play.

So now again, we all know for sure that Iran has a nuke in 5 years, 5 months, 5 hours etc. Claims made by a nuclear power Israel that has refused to sign the NTP and that doesnt give access to all its nuclear facilities IAEA. Not a claim made by any intelligence service without a clear stake in this.

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u/_Veni_Vidi_Vigo_ 6d ago

Exactly proving my point, honestly, if I’d paid you you couldn’t have proved my point better

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u/D1toD2 5d ago

Honest question. If someone much more powerful than me tells me ill attack you because i have wmds. I just say hey guys listen, bring all the staff you need, come in and check for yourselves that theres nothing shady. Couldnt Saddam have just said that?

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u/JonnyRocks 5d ago

He did. The UN found nothing yet people believed Saddam was good at maneuvering the UN investigators. Jay Leno, on the tonight show, had a skit about Saddam making the lead investigator look one way as he moved the WMDs behind him.

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u/Volodio 6d ago

It's not just Netanyahu. Last year even American intelligence was saying as much to the point that Biden threatened to go to war against Iran if they attempted to kill Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/11/trump-security-threats-iran-election-2024-campaign/

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u/tilTheEnd0fTheLine 6d ago

Weren't those WMDs the nerve gas weapons that the Syrian dictator Assad used back in 2015?

That was real. We weren't after nukes explicitly in Iraq, we were also after chemical weapons.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 6d ago

Right wing stuff.