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Steghorn21's avatar

Maybe should have done the world a favour and carried on for those two extra weeks.

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Robin Jones's avatar

Regarding: "The big mistake that Iran made was not equipping itself with missile defense systems."

Alastair Crooke has explained in surprising detail that Israel did NOT penetrate Iranian air space; the deaths and damage Israel delivered were by stealth, with pre-placed assets like Ukraine's Spiderweb attack on Russia; and from cross-border missiles & drones.

It's not implausible that Israel's flubbed attack several months earlier was an exercise in identifying Iranian defenses. So if Iran had had more Russian-supplied defenses, they might well have been targets.

As it turned out, Iran recovered fairly quickly.

I don't know how Iran could have prevented the sneak assassinations of its military and scientists, and their families: assassination is how Israel does things.

Iran seems to have a conscience, a moral compass, and religious principles that govern behavior even in battle, in contrast to Israel whose religious principles are "Arise and kill first" and "war by way of deception."

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