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> What should we expect the political fallout in Iran?

The Iranian regimes favorite enemy just played their part to perfection, so we should expect that to compel the majority of Iranians to rally behind their government in the face of a brutal foreign invasion by not one but BOTH of their standard-bearer arch-nemeses.

narrator
Propaganda isn't everything. Iran having a nuclear bomb or not having one does count for more than whether we played our part in the bad guy in their narrative.
jjk166
Well that pre-supposes that Iran was actively working on acquiring the bomb, that this course of action would stop them from getting the bomb, and that Iran having the bomb is actually a severe issue.
mensetmanusman
It’s impossible to know, all we do know is that they were orders of magnitude above the enrichment required for anything else except bombs.
Beefin
you willing to take that risk?
vkou
I'm not willing to take the risk of the world having tens of thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at eachother, but nobody asked my opinion on it.

What's another hundred?

PS. For every one of these adventures the US embarks on, it makes a strategy of nuclear proliferation more rational for those seeking it.

Beefin
in what universe is that happening? you think the world is safer with even a 10% likliehood of the world's largest terror network getting access to WMD? you're off your rocker.
vkou
The US over the past few decades and Russia over the past five years and Israel over the past year have inflicted quite a bit of terror, and they all have nuclear weapons.

None of them would have done it if their victims had them.

Iran's contribution to inflicting misery, death, and indiscriminate destruction on the world is a rounding error in comparison, and its bound by the same formula of MAD as anyone else is.

hotmeals
If it wasn't suicide and I was the big boss, I would get some nuclear subs for my irrelevant South American nation ASAP. The "rules based order" is just wet toilet paper, who's to say that in 50 years we or our neighbors aren't next?

Gringos have always been crazy, but now y'all are getting extra spicy. Qaddafi, Ukraine and now Iran. Get nukes or bust is the name of the game now.

Beefin
more like if we see you're getting nukes, go bust - that's a world i much prefer to live in.
einpoklum
Are you suggesting that states may bomb each other when they don't want to "take the risk" of the other state possibly carrying out a dangerous attack on them in the future?

Plus, the nuclear issue is the excuse, not the reason. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria (+ regime change, sorta), Iraq (+ regime change), Afghanistan and now Iran. All attacked repeatedly and extensively over the past two decades.

jimbob45
so we should expect that to compel the majority of Iranians to rally behind their government in the face of a brutal foreign invasion by not one but BOTH of their standard-bearer arch-nemeses.

Organized how? There’s no internet. I hope Kinko’s is still open because they’re going to need a lot of leaflets to organize anything meaningful.

LAC-Tech
I talked to my friend in Iran today online, shorly before the US bombing.
cbg0
There's still television and radio.

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