Do you support US involvement against Iran

[CNYJohn]

Not necessarily, depending on total amount of material that could be released from destroying the facility.

And probably no where near to the amount that has been released from
3 mile island
Chernobyl
Fukushima

You might actually be exposed to much more radiation going through your daily activities from natural exposure without realizing it

 

[JunkBoxFull]

Not necessarily, depending on total amount of material that could be released from destroying the facility.

And probably no where near to the amount that has been released from
3 mile island
Chernobyl
Fukushima

You might actually be exposed to much more radiation going through your daily activities from natural exposure without realizing it

We don`t know what they`ve been cooking underground. All of us are pretty much speculating at this point, but my opinion is, don`t fukk around and find out it was a mistake, which is exactly what our war machine politicians do every fukking day, make mistakes, and then lie to the people about it.

 

[Phazer]

Bombing Iranian nuclear facilities can lead to nuclear contamination in the region. War mongers ignore that aspect as if it's not a major concern.

As surgeons say, "The solution to pollution is dilution."

Not much U-235 compared to the relative volume of distribution (even if all of the Iranian radioactive material was aerosolized...which it would not).

 

[Mosinitis]

As surgeons say, "The solution to pollution is dilution."

Not much U-235 compared to the relative volume of distribution (even if all of the Iranian radioactive material was aerosolized...which it would not).

You can't have it both ways. If they are close to building a nuclear bomb, PLUS using nuclear energy for other peaceful uses, there is more there than what was leaked at Chernobyl from a single reactor. Your war mongering spin doesn't follow logic.

 

[Mosinitis]

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-06-19/explainer-what-are-the-nuclear-contamination-risks-from-israels-attacks-on-iran

 

[tirwin1]

Really????????

They had a democracy and a good secular leader. We and the British overthrew his democratically elected government.

A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it

Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States.

apnews.com

I stand corrected - somewhat. Ruled for centuries by shah's they had a somewhat democratic system while still retaining a monarchy. More details:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1d6a5j6/was_iran_a_democracy_prior_to_the_1953_coup/

 

[VietnamEraVet]

I voted other. Why?

I have heard enough from those camel jockeys through the years as the rallied the masses and repeatedly chanted "Death to America" and other likewise crap. They have killed plenty of Americans and countless others.

I say we smoke the assholes, and set them back 100 years. Destroy absolutely everything of any military value, or that financially props them up. No more navy, speedboats, rowboats, or barges, - nothing. No more oil facilities anywhere. I guess I am OK with them having bicycles, - maybe. No more electricity power generation.

Death to America? Fuck you. Let's make it Death to Iran instead.

 

[GOPerfect]

I do not care enough about either nation to want to assist them.

Israel decided to be the big boy, let them fight and fund their own adventures.

Iran has been asshole for decades, they need to do what they feel they need to do.

Again, I do not care enough of either place to think that our money needs to be given away

 

[Phazer]

You can't have it both ways. If they are close to building a nuclear bomb, PLUS using nuclear energy for other peaceful uses, there is more there than what was leaked at Chernobyl from a single reactor. Your war mongering spin doesn't follow logic.

Two different things:

Scattering 90 pounds of raw U-235 with a conventional explosive is not the same thing as a nuclear chain reaction from imploding the same amount of fissile material.

That said, I'm no nuclear physicist.

I'd just prefer not to be within range of Iranian medium range nuclear-capable missiles launched from a simple freighter in the Atlantic.

We now know that their ballistic missiles are quite effective. So, when they threaten "Death to America," I believe them.

 

[SonOfSun]

Hell no.

Let the middle east sort out their own problems.

 

[dsdmmat]

Hell no.

Let the middle east sort out their own problems.

Problem is Middle East problems don’t stay there. 93 trade center bombing 9/11/2001 ring a bell?

 

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[Mosinitis]

Problem is Middle East problems don’t stay there. 93 trade center bombing 9/11/2001 ring a bell?

Neither attack had anything to do with Iran. CIA's old friends made it happen.

 

[Jsmegs77]

I’m an aggressive isolationist. Let’s stay in our corner. BUT, the moment they kill an American citizen, send any ordnance into any American territory, or attack any American asset anywhere, military or civilian, run over them with the full unmitigated might of our military, chuck in in reverse, and back up.

Allies? They can sit this one out. All they do is cost us money while providing little or nothing in return.

 

[dsdmmat]

Neither attack had anything to do with Iran. CIA's old friends made it happen.

Didn’t say it did, but it had to do with the Middle East which is what I was replying to.

 

[SonOfSun]

Problem is Middle East problems don’t stay there. 93 trade center bombing 9/11/2001 ring a bell?

This goes back to the soviets and Afghanistan. If we would have stayed out then as well, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Nothing good comes from injecting the USA into the middle east.

 

[holdover]

You should brush up on your history. 241 Marines were killed in the 1983 attack (as well as about 70 French soldiers).

My history is fine. So what? you want to use that as an excuse 45 years after the fact?

And tens of thousands of US servicemen were killed or crippled by Iranian IEDs in Iraq and Iran.

Thats a ridiculous argument, guess what? Thousands of US troops were killed by Russian made weapons too, think We should have bombed Russia?

Ukraine is useing US weapons to Kill Russians think the Russians should launch Nuclear weapons at the US ?

Iran has killed a handfull of US troops mostly by proxy , weapons dont count

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

Let’s hope that there is minimal release of radiation from the weapon enrichment facility, and especially that it does not spread to the surrounding countries of which Russia is not adjacent but nearby

 

[Beerman]

Occupied, or just too fukkin stupid.

We continue to ignore and do nothing with the fukkers who are starting wars right here on our own god damn soil. Half the people in our own god damn country should be removed, and flown ONE WAY to a commie country of their choice.

The fukk happened to AMERICA FIRST, where did THAT go all of a sudden?!?!?!?!?! Nevermind, i already know.

It’s money first. Always was, always will be.

 

[C3D]

My history is fine. So what? you want to use that as an excuse 45 years after the fact?


Thats a ridiculous argument, guess what? Thousands of US troops were killed by Russian made weapons too, think We should have bombed Russia?

Ukraine is useing US weapons to Kill Russians think the Russians should launch Nuclear weapons at the US ?

Iran has killed a handfull of US troops mostly by proxy , weapons dont count

I find it interesting that you view the events of 45 years ago as isolated events when the Iranian campaign directly against US interests has continued unabated. The current Ayatollah has been in charge of Iran for 36 of those years. In case you need to recognize him, he's one of the guys saying "Death to America" at every turn.

Also I'm not sure what you referred to as a "ridiculous argument", but the Pentagon's own data directly blames Iran for 603 KIA in Iraq or approximately 17% of all combat deaths in Iraq. That's a Biden number by the way, the real number is likely higher.

And also, it's not about weapons sales. It's organizing, training, financing and equipping the proxy force to directly combat Americans.

 

[Dr. Evil]

One can either be proactive in life or reactive. Do I think in time Iran will follow through on their Death to America montra? I do believe they will give it a college try. Take care of the nukes and let the Iranians take care of regime change.

This should be Israels theme song...

 

[GOPerfect]

One can either be proactive in life or reactive. Do I think in time Iran will follow through on their Death to America motra? I do believe they will give it a college try. Take care of the nukes and let the Iranians take care of regime change.

This should be Israels theme song...

I do not think so. I think a nation like Iran will continue to do little things against the US, but a real and full attack? I do not think so.

 

[GOPerfect]

I find it interesting that you view the events of 45 years ago as isolated events when the Iranian campaign directly against US interests has continued unabated. The current Ayatollah has been in charge of Iran for 36 of those years. In case you need to recognize him, he's one of the guys saying "Death to America" at every turn.

Also I'm not sure what you referred to as a "ridiculous argument", but the Pentagon's own data directly blames Iran for 603 KIA in Iraq or approximately 17% of all combat deaths in Iraq. That's a Biden number by the way, the real number is likely higher.

And also, it's not about weapons sales. It's organizing, training, financing and equipping the proxy force to directly combat Americans.

I am not doubting or arguing the truth or accuracy of any of this....

These are real numbers, I have to ask, why did the US do nothing when all of these incidents occurred?

 

[C3D]

I am not doubting or arguing the truth or accuracy of any of this....

These are real numbers, I have to ask, why did the US do nothing when all of these incidents occurred?

 

[GOPerfect]

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I get this.... Other leaders did nothing during their time as well. Always wonder why not?

 

[FP1201]

Problem is Middle East problems don’t stay there. 93 trade center bombing 9/11/2001 ring a bell?

I still think 9-11 was an inside job to rally the American people into going BACK to Iraq and on to Afghanistan, and had we really been successful there, by now we'd be in/through Iran.
What the Western world doesn't understand is the brutality required to keep and maintain those Countries...it's what they understand and how they do things.
As for extended operations there: I spent a good fifteen years with additional duties involving Deploying/Redeploying Troops, Equipment, and Vehicles to the Sand Box, and frankly unless someone actually comes over here and fucks with us, we should never send another Soldier to fix another Countries failures. (See Thomas Jefferson's admonishments to avoid Foreign entanglements)

 

[Acer-m14]

cant we just loose a few bunker busters in Isreal like we did with all the equipment in afghanistan

 

[holdover]

I find it interesting that you view the events of 45 years ago as isolated events when the Iranian campaign directly against US interests has continued unabated.

What campaign are you referring to?

he's one of the guys saying "Death to America" at every turn.

Yeah I know who he is, I also know that Mideast leaders are loud mouth blowhards that talk a lot of shit till the fun starts ,They gain a lot of support from their base and look tough, But as you can see from present events thier military really doesnt amount to much, whatever aircraft they had left after the first strikes never even engauged the Isreali airforce. Shit talkers,

And also, it's not about weapons sales. It's organizing, training, financing and equipping the proxy force to directly combat Americans.

Now there you have a legitimate point .Although most of it goes to combat Isreal and Some goes to combat American forces in the region. thier success against Americans is minimal at best . The main threat is aimed at Isreal , thats where they are putting thier time and effort


The reason they dont like the US, Is the US support for Isreal. They hate us so much they come here by the busloads

Also I'm not sure what you referred to as a "ridiculous argument", but the Pentagon's own data directly blames Iran for 603 KIA in Iraq

603 in a war zone is pitifully miniscule broken down over the 20 years time we were there, amounts to nothing . Ukraine and Russia each lost more than that yesterday.


The reality is, the US and Isreal want regime change, thats pretty much it.


In 2007 Gen Wesley Clark famously recounted that a general in the Pentagon told him "on or about the 20th of September [9 days after 9/11] 'We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.' I said, 'We're going to war with Iraq? Why?' He said, 'I don't know.'" Gen Clark came back to see the Pentagon general a few weeks after his 20th September 2001 visit.

"And he said, 'I just got this down from upstairs today.' And he said, 'This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.'"

In recent interviews Professor Jeffrey Sachs (who is Jewish, by the way) has been telling us that the whole "War on Terror" since 2001 has been waged on behalf of Israel, and he has mentioned Benjamin Netanyahu’s 1995 book "Fighting Terrorism".

So I bought the book on Kindle. A 2001 edition of the 1995 book, its Foreword contains the entire text of an address which Netanyahu gave to the US Congress on 20th September 2001 - which happens to be the very same day that a Pentagon general told Wesley Clark “We're going to war with Iraq”. Netanyahu writes that the argument he made in 1995 "represents the principles and basic conceptions that must guide our actions in the great and crucial war that lies ahead", which are that it’s not enough to attack “terrorist” organisations, it’s necessary to deal with the states that harbour them.

On 9/11 itself, in his first address to the American people (and the world), President George W. Bush said: “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.”

If it’s true that the US “War on Terror” since 2001 has been waged on behalf of the Zionist plan for a “Greater Israel”, this plan did not originate in a 1995 book by Benjamin Netanyahu. As Israel Shahak and Michel Chossudovsky have written in a recent update on Global Research, “Greater Israel: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East” dates from the Infamous "Oded Yinon Plan" of 1982.


Some on the Israeli far right advocate for a “Greater Israel” that includes territories outside the historical Palestinian Mandate. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that Israel is destined to expand to include Jordan, and even beyond, to parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and even Iraq. On Sunday, March 19, 2023, Smotrich gave a speech in Paris while standing at a podium that featured a map of Israel including Jordan and the occupied West Bank. During the speech he claimed that Palestinian people were “an invention.”[27] In a documentary film by Arte in 2024, Smotrich said “it is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.”[28][29] This view has support in some parts of Israeli society. Israel’s incursions into Jordan and Syria has intensified international concerns that some actors in Israel are pursuing expansion into other countries.[30]

Greater Israel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[holdover]

cant we just loose a few bunker busters in Isreal like we did with all the equipment in afghanistan

They dont have the delivery mechanisms. they require large bomber aircraft like the B2. which can carry 2 3000 pound bombs

 

[spat]

Bombing Iranian nuclear facilities can lead to nuclear contamination in the region. War mongers ignore that aspect as if it's not a major concern.

It's not.

The nuclear facilities are hardened structures deep underground.

The contamination will stay right there.