Iran's been carrying out low-intensity warfare against the West since 1979. This has included lethal attacks against civilians on Western soil. If you wish, I'll support this statement with references.
Since 2003, they've escalated, sending men and equipment into Iraq to directly fight against US troops in the region. This has resulted in numerous lethal attacks against US forces on allied soil. If you wish, I'll also support this statement with references.
Over the last year or two, we've begun fighting back with covert attacks on Iran, especially on the Iranian computer and nuclear capabilities. This has reached the point of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. This has happened recently enough that I trust you don't need references?
The official Iranian religious ideology tells them that the Hidden Imam will not rise until there is a global genocidal war against Muslims, followed by a global genocidal war of Muslims against everybody else. Hence, the Iranians have a unique purpose in obtaining nuclear weapons -- they are doing so not to deter an attack on Iran (which alone would be enough to stop them from getting it, given that Iran is currently engaged in low-level warfare against the West), but rather to induce such an attack -- because they believe that it will lead to Paradise on Earth.
In other words, they are trying to start exactly the sort of atomic war which will lead to the maximum suffering on the part of their own people -- because they believe that it will instead lead to the maximum JOY on the part of their own people.
You are trying to model them as the Soviets. They are not that sane.
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Date: 2012-03-09 05:33 pm (UTC)Since 2003, they've escalated, sending men and equipment into Iraq to directly fight against US troops in the region. This has resulted in numerous lethal attacks against US forces on allied soil. If you wish, I'll also support this statement with references.
Over the last year or two, we've begun fighting back with covert attacks on Iran, especially on the Iranian computer and nuclear capabilities. This has reached the point of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. This has happened recently enough that I trust you don't need references?
The official Iranian religious ideology tells them that the Hidden Imam will not rise until there is a global genocidal war against Muslims, followed by a global genocidal war of Muslims against everybody else. Hence, the Iranians have a unique purpose in obtaining nuclear weapons -- they are doing so not to deter an attack on Iran (which alone would be enough to stop them from getting it, given that Iran is currently engaged in low-level warfare against the West), but rather to induce such an attack -- because they believe that it will lead to Paradise on Earth.
In other words, they are trying to start exactly the sort of atomic war which will lead to the maximum suffering on the part of their own people -- because they believe that it will instead lead to the maximum JOY on the part of their own people.
You are trying to model them as the Soviets. They are not that sane.