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Wtf are you doing Iran
It’s just the perpetual struggle between the government and the IRGC, two bodies of a country that want to go down separate routes.
I believe the IRGC controls the oil economy though which makes them a very powerful force but the reformist government is wrestling for control as well. Maybe someone who knows better about Iranian politics can elaborate better or correct my statement.
The government are fucking idiots then.
But also I don't have faith in the IRGC either given how many of their officers got capped right out in the open by pissrael.
Something is going very wrong.
hopefully* putting up a front while they race to slap together a nuke worth the name
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I seriously think these people are just fucking idiots.
it is a worrying possibility
No, more likely is that they leak/sabotage the nuke to appease the west and do more "diplomacy"
Tbf removing pissraels nukes will be better for iran (and for everyone else) than iran having nukes. It is not gonna happen but still. At least this shows they are open for alternatives
That's literally never ever happening though and no amount of calling for it will ever save them from being destroyed. They'll be morally in the right as they slowly get encircled and eliminated.
This spiel was done for decades and america still bombed their cities and israhell still kills iranian scientists. Its like running to embrace a violent axe murder.
Reformist libs inside iran have basically paralysed the country and made it unable to fight back even when attacked by the us. They are also the ones that see the axis of resistance as a nuisance and would gladly sell out palestinians, lebanese and yemeni resistance fighters.