[ Unconstitutional War] US joins Israel in declaring war on Iran

I work with over a dozen Iranian expats all under 40 and I've spent the last week informally asking how they were doing and if anyone they knew was hurt during the conflict (war?). The universal consensus was that they were sad the regime did not fall. Many had family in Tehran whose apartments were damaged in the Israeli attacks. About half of them expressed they were sad Israel did not do more. The other half were sad to see Iran be attacked regardless of the existing regime Now it's important to consider these people willingly left Iran over the last 15 years, they are educated and secular. Many of them hold strong anti-Arab and anti-Islam prejudices as they blame the Arabs for imposing Islam on them 1400 years ago, and they blame Islam for the state of Iran today.

Now this by definition is not generalizable to all Iranians in America, or even Iranians in Iran, but I can say the sentiment was consistent for the small group. I did a similar thing for my Jewish (not Israeli) coworkers after the October attacks, and ultimately everyone endorses wanting people to be able to get along.

 

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It will be interesting to see what the modern states of Iran and Israel look like in 50 years. Or even the United States as we know it for that matter.

 

Low Confidence Rumor: Israel is planning to carry out another large scale attack on Iran, soon.

 

I mentioned earlier that Russia and Iran were going to punish Azerbaijan for its involvement in the conflict.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-harsh-crackdown-azerbaijanis-sparks-130515794.html

Azerbaijan cancels Russian events over the killings of 2 citizens in Yekaterinburg
https://apnews.com/article/russia-a...ice-killings-e2965c422045f4f73f470ef151f9522e

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs confirmed a few days ago that the largest of their facilities was so far underground they didn't even bother dropping penetrating bombs on it, they just lobbed some Tomahawks at the above ground portion and called it a day. That's where they believe ~60% of Iran's enriched uranium is stored.

This is of course exactly the predicted outcome, which some people around here were talking about a week before the (Super Secret and Successful Says Hegseth) strikes.