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claims of changes of positions
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claims of changes of positions
Iran is such an infiltrated country that even if they tried to hide him, someone would've known where he was hiding, it'd have just been a matter of time. He did survive plenty of previous attacks on his life. This time, though, the odds were just too against him with how much resources and assets were deployed.
In the age of precision strikes, militaries with total air superiority can conduct decapitation strikes with high degrees of success, as long as they have some degree of intelligence on the ground. It's not the 90s or even 00s any more when taking out Saddam or even Bin Laden required a full scale land campaign. Breakthroughs in satellite surveillance, drones, stronger intelligence networks, social media, and AI have changed the game.
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The UK is far too invested into Ukraine.
Iran does not have the means to do so.
^This
Although the death of a leader will have an impact but, to say it's the end of an adversary like Iran is a bit premature. We're not dealing with a monarchy.
The UK is far too invested into Ukraine.
Iran does not have the means to do so.
^This
Although the death of a leader will have an impact but, to say it's the end of an adversary like Iran is a bit premature. We're not dealing with a monarchy.
Iran is a country which manages to keep together:
-massed heroism and stoicism, from junior personnel to highest officials. I.e. genuine patriotism(to Islamic Republic)
-systemic betrayal. Often by genuinely patriotic (to Iran) personnel, from junior to highest officials. They don't do it for money.
-systemic corruption. Points/2/ doesn't exclude massed theft and massed small scale betrayal for money from junior to medium ranked officials and personnel. People are surviving, and police, for all brutality, is clearly weak.
What does it mean? It means deeply divided country, and everyone sitting on a powder keg, which is held together by two factors:
-mediation(represented in highest form by the leader)
-Existential threat of making things even worse (bad as things are, they aren't neeeearly as bad as in Syria or Afghanistan, and you guess who's bringing the freedom to Iran).
One of these just got taken out. And mediator is not a position you can just appoint someone into.
No one here have the answer to that question. There could be multiple reasons ranging from bad luck to incompetence.
I think its kinda accepted at this point Iran has massive security flaws and poor controls. Its actually impressive in a sense, it still running normally.
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This is not surprising, unless the US-Israeli ground forces enter Iran.
Within Iran, there will not be an immediate replacement of the current regime by another power.
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Funny how everyone was like "OMG! China helped with the Iran-Saudi reproachment. Its so successful! Diplomacy is so sexy! They are joining BRICS and opposing the US haha GG!" I'll still blame Iran for being so naive with their nuclear program. Now they are stuck having to keep their friends happy with oil prices and no real way to defend themselves without setting the world economy on fire, and even that might still checkmate them and turn even their partners against them.
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