> Iran is rebuilding it's rocket stockpile with help from china
Has this been confirmed?
> From a foreign policy point of view they are weaker then ever. Security wise i don't know how they are doing
Iran's borders encompass a bit of a shitshow. Its dominant ethnicity is less than three fifths the population [1]. Its next three-largest ethnicities, Azeris (14%), Kurds (9%) and Gilaki (5%) meanwhile, have bordering extant or aspiring nation-states.
(To the extent there is a hilarious if bastardly alliance in the region, it would be between Israel and Azerbaijan. Israel provides firepower. Azerbaijan gains the Azeri (and maybe Gilaki) majority north of Iran, cutting off Armenia's southern border and giving it a land border with Turkey for more pipelines.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran
>Its dominant ethnicity is less than three fifths the population
Is that being framed as a problem? The US is the same, and I expect a few others too?
> The US is the same, and I expect a few others too?
It makes ethnic revanchism a challenge. Not an issue if you embrace being a melting plot. Existential if national identity is grounded in ethnicity.
during war with Israel they made adjustment. Internal messaging switched to "ancient great iran" and "we are all iranians" (as in citizens of iran) or something like this.
>helping the latter seize Iran's northern and Azeri/Gilaki-majority territories
Wont't ever happen because Aliev is the OG of multipolarity/mnogovektornost and this would prevent him from scamming all of his neighbors at the same time.
i hope only the best for the people of iran because they seem to be completely fantastic people and iran is an absolutely majestically beautiful place. and, selfishly, i would love to be able to visit one day. ugh, the whole situation is just so sad.
>They are probably hoping to hit more then 1 hospital and 3 residential blocks next time
Are they planning to bomb more buildings in Gaza?
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I don't know. It's possible that one of their hundreds of indiscriminately fired missiles might land there. Iirc the sole casualty of one of their major attacks was a gazan in the West Bank.
How many hospitals has Israel blown up? Last I checked, it was every single one in Gaza.
none, but there may have been one or two military bases disguised as hospitals that sustained some damage
That’s a funny joke. Have fun laughing in hell, funny guy.
You’re right. IRAN is the security threat in the area. Not the one committing a genocide and bombing Lebanon and Qatar (a US ally nonetheless) in addition to a continued illegal expansion in the West Bank.
They're all the "security threat" in the area. If you can call it that. There is no security, the entire area is one giant mess of insecurity!
Is it your position that, since the Islamist government of Iran is the enemy of Israel, we can be certain it is good in both its foreign and domestic policies?
My position is that the US shouldn’t be involved in the region in any capacity.
Yes.
Iran inflicted hezbolla on Lebanon, Assad on syria, persecutes their own ethnic minorities and has attacked saudi arabia, qatar and Israel. If they haven't outright stolen land that's only because they are 70 times the size of Israel.
All that off the top of my head.