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Accusing Iran of "lashing out" and being "reckless" by attacking US bases while the US and Israel literally murder school children, bomb hospitals and assassinate state leaders is rich.
It didn't have to be this way but they decided this to turn into a fight of survival for Iran and destroy any option for a peaceful resolution. Now they are going to pay the price.
I can’t be an apologist for what’s going on but the Iranians seemed capable of killing tens of thousands of their own citizens in order to quash an uprising against the regime only weeks before the current events.
We should have little sympathy for them, but ill thought out war will do nothing to improve things for those citizens. Far more likely the opposite.
This seems to be a fairly well thought out war that's already killed many Iranian leaders, including:
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Supreme Leader
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi – Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces
Major General Mohammad Pakpour – Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh – Minister of Defense
Mohammad Shirazi – Head of Supreme Leader’s military office
Ali Larijani – Senior national security chief
Esmaeil Khatib – Minister of Intelligence
Gholamreza Rezaian – Iranian police intelligence commander
Gholamreza Soleimani – Basij paramilitary commander
Saleh Asadi – Head of military intelligence at Khatam‑al Anbiya
Has there been any other war in which one side so quickly killed the leadership of the other side?
Listing a kill count doesn't amount to evidence that the war has been well thought out, it only tells us the US and Israel are good at assassinations.
It is clear the initial aim was to decapitate the leadership and expect capitulation of some form or another to follow. This obviously hasn't happened, and so the fallout grows by the day.