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@fsanchez1983@mattyglesias Israel hasn't threatened to wipe Iran off the face of the earth for 50 years. I don't think you understand what existential means.
@GreenHornFarms@mattyglesias No, Iran promising to wipe Israel off the map makes it existential, and Israel having enough people old enough to know they mean it. You don't get a second chance at this. Trying to survive is not evil.
@JoeySchmittPhD@Dane_Giraud@mattyglesias According to the Germans, the French, and the Israeli's, during the term of the JCPOA, the Iranians cheated at purchasing materials, enrichment, and acquiring technology.
@richmintz As anyone can see, Iran's capabilities are far degraded from where they were a year ago. But that's not the point. The point is, this is not about politics; it's about survival.
@614lawstuff@mattyglesias And sadly, you won't understand that there is nothing LOL about an extremist regime threatening for fifty years to exterminate your country and a people having the mentality to take that seriously. LOL. Moron.
If you paid any attention, you would know that, aside from giving Iran 150 billion dollars to arm Hezbollah, the Syrians, and Hamas, they made it easy to cheat. Germany documented this during Merkel's term "Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual report that Iran has a “clandestine” effort to seek illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.” The findings by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, were issued in a 317-page report last week."
No, this is where you are absolutely wrong. The Rand Corporation studied the circumstances and said it would take 20 nuclear weapons to destroy Iran. One will kill 85% of the population of Israel. And for a people who lived through that once, it won't happen again. That's where "analysts" are wrong because this black swan kills everyone.