u/ayatoilet

Honestly, the vast majority don't support the regime. I feel like shipping some serious guns and ammo into Iran is the best way to overthrow this regime.

The rumor is - there will be a huge invasion - it won’t be pretty. Brits are sending troops, French are there, US has close to 50000 in the region including a full Marine brigade with amphibious training. It’s been revealed Israeli already have a base in Iraq and a base in Azerbaijan. Netanyahu was in UAE to get them on board. So a big multilateral invasion in all directions. Trump is basically in China trying to avoid a world war if he invades. Ie here are a bunch deals if you play nice Mr. Xi (we’ll build factories, open our markets etc). Suddenly RP is everywhere on msm … again (after a lull). There is every evidence of a huge escalation. But mullahs aren’t puppies. Some analysts are predicting a protracted war. But pentagon is thinking short, hard and decisive. The operation is being named “operation sledgehammer” - says everything Iranians need to know. I personally think it will be horrific - short of a nuclear war - BUT - not decisive. If it drags on Trump will lose - body bags to Dover, massive economic consequences etc. If it is short and decisive he’ll come out on top. Crunch time!

I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how the war with Iran will end. Clearly, Trump can’t figure out how to end it or he would have done so quite a while ago. How does the U.S. end this in a better place on the Strait of Hormuz or on the nuclear materials? He can’t start bombing civilians. Iran became aware of the American midterms before Trump’s team, evidently, and they’re going to inflict as much political and economic pain as possible for as long as possible.

I really can’t think of how this ends.

I’m not the least bit concerned if Iran develops a nuclear program, gets a reactor, or even a nuclear weapon. As an American, I don’t feel my safety is at risk if they do.

For starters, I don’t believe Iran can launch a missile from there to America. And even if they could, they’d destroy one or two cities at most. Meanwhile, America’s nuclear arsenal could wipe their entire country off the face of the earth.

So I’m not really concerned about them getting a weapon. Despite how crazy people like to make them out to be, I believe they’re rational enough to know that launching a nuclear weapon would mean destroying themselves.

Now, I know the concern isn’t necessarily about them harming America — it’s about them harming our allies in the Middle East. Again, I’m not really concerned about that.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, the worst that can happen is that our allies lose the option to indiscriminately wipe out Iran’s cities or infrastructure. If Israel wants to bomb Iran or destroy them — they’ll do so at their own risk. If they try to turn Iran into Gaza, Iran could just nuke Israel. Honestly, that’s kind of fair play if the alternative is turning Iran into Gaza.

I’m under no illusion about how good or cruel Iran’s government is. At this point, the whole Middle East is a wash for me. That region has been hemorrhaging blood on all sides for so many years i see it as more a feature of the region.

I’m struggling to understand what we, as Americans, get out of the current deal. I want peace over there as much as anyone. I want them to stop fighting. And if Iran getting a nuclear weapon helps toward that peace — even if just for deterrence — then I’m kind of okay with that.

What threat does Iran's nuclear program pose to America? I know they have crazy religious extremists running their government but please name 1 country in the middle east where that isnt the case.

Please change my view and convince me to give a rip about whether Iran has a nuclear program or not.

12 May 2026 (intro visible then pay-walled, can sign in for trial access) Eight years ago, President Donald Trump took the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known more commonly as the Iran nuclear deal. In the years since, half of Washington has continued to argue that the JCPOA was “the best possible deal,” with the other half maintaining that “there was a better deal.” It has been the background music to every twist and turn in U.S. Iran policy since 2018 but has come to the fore again since Trump launched Operation Epic Fury.