Attempt to ‘decapitate’ state may harden resistance instead of destabilising regime
Israel’s decision to authorise its military to kill any senior Iranian official on its assassination list has raised significant new questions about its so-called decapitation strategy and what it is intended to achieve.
Privately, Israeli officials have briefed their US counterparts that in the event of an uprising, Iran’s opposition would be “slaughtered”. That appears to be at odds with Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy to pursue regime change by targeting senior figures in Iran’s political and security apparatus.
Even before the outbreak of full-scale war, however, Iran experts and analysts – and some former Israeli officials – were sceptical that Iran’s clerical regime could be toppled by such strikes.
No shit
Counterproductive seems like underselling it a tad.
No shit, and they are now normalizing assassination of world leaders…
Assassinating world leaders has always been normal if you’re doing it for Western capital.
When you put it that way, them fucking around doesn’t sound quite as bad.
We’ve been messing around the middle east for centuries.
I’m not surprised the US didnt know that 87-year-old sick supreme leader was not the full center of power…but israel not knowing either and nevertheless killing him for lulz…there is nobody at the wheel.
I feel like Israel wanted this at least in part.
Netanyahu certainly did. As soon as Israel isn’t at war he might have to answer for his many crimes.
What better solution than a catastrophic war?
This is a replay of eliminating the Ba’athist in Iraq. Turns out when you remove the only thing keeping a factionalized sectarian country together it destabilizes the country. We learned this lesson already. Now we’re repeating it because we have an administration that refuses to learn anything from history…
We’re repeating it because we have a regime that wants to create chaos on purpose.
An Iranian civil war would be Netanyahu’s preferred outcome.
it gets replaced by a more crazier leader than the next. the current one always tries to keep the balance. its how the system lord goes in sg1, they realized it turned out worst the more they kill.
Well, that just depends on what your goals are. Generating more people who want to fight you, to fuel the military-industrial complex? It’s very productive for that.
They want them to kill each other over internal conflicts to save Israel time and effort on their ethnic cleansing goal.
