Iran likes to talk a lot but will end up doing nothing as usual
KeyLog256 on
Best get our shiniest plate out and give it a good polishing. We’ll need it to hand Iran their arse on it.
Trump would love an excuse to simply give the order to wipe out the Iranian regime so he can spend the next few years taking all the credit for it, or rather giving himself the credit for it.
Was it in the late 70s or early 80s when Iran decided to attack a US ship, so the Americans destroyed their *entire* navy in under an hour?
EmotionalDirt798 on
Love being allied with Israel. Love it when we have to get dragged into their mess.
Numerous_Ticket_7628 on
If the regime is about to fall then they might just start targeting anything, although if they did this it would hasten that because the US would get directly involved.
Advanced_Apartment_1 on
Iran need everything they have for the conflict with Isreal which they are currently loosing. Threatening people that arn’t attacking them is rather silly.
Krabsandwich on
Realistically what could they use they may have a ballistic missile that could hit a British base but currently they are getting rolled by the Israeli Airforce who appear to have total air supremacy over Iran. Excessive sabre rattling brought them to this point I am not sure they really want to continue down that same path by dragging in Western Militaries as well.
Apprehensive_Home963 on
Bloody bring it on and see how how well that turns out for, would just be hastening that shitty regimes down fall
syylvo on
If the brits, French and the US keep supporting Israel with intelligence services and weapons, they are already directly involved. Doesn’t matter how bad it gets, these three countries are always involved when it comes to messing up with the world and in the middle East specifically. Israel is on the wrong side, always been since the ’50s
aleopardstail on
withing 45 minutes?
sorry otherwise I can’t take it seriously
Longjumping_Stand889 on
This is classic ‘I could take the lot of yous’ talk from someone who is beat and wants to back off while convincing themself that they aren’t. I never thought I’d see a similarity between Iran and a drunk Glaswegian but there you go.
swordoftruth1963 on
Given we are supplying Israel with weapons and training their troops it’s not altogether surprising we are getting dragged into this. Iran may not respond with conventional attacks but their ability to harm us through terrorist attacks should not be underestimated
Jaded_Strain_3753 on
Probably an empty threat, but we shouldn’t be offering much support to Isreal at this point for moral reasons anyway
terrordactyl1971 on
So, they want to attack NATO? Well, that’s only going to end one way for them.
Top_Khat on
It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for them
Diligent_Craft_1165 on
>if the uk interferes
Zero reason for us to get involved. Leave it to the yanks. We do not want to get involved in another Iraq or Afghanistan situation. We can barely afford to give our own people disability benefits. Fighting wars for the Americans who impose tariffs on us would be utterly humiliating from Starmer
ChaplainOfTheXVII on
I think what we should be doing is getting together with our allies in Europe, stop giving Israel a free pass to do what they like, and get Netanyahu to stop randomly bombing his neighbours
Stumblingwanderer on
This proves the leadership structure in Iran clearly doesn’t listen to any game theory, to me.
I could be wrong but I can’t see any benefit to such a statement. I guess you could argue that Britain and France would never go against Israel, but that feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. I know these bases must be helping Israel, but I don’t think the route to stopping that is threats to those very same bases.
00DEADBEEF on
That would be bad timing for them with CSG25 in the area
Cute-Cat-2351 on
That would be the worst thing they could do for their own story.
Informal_Drawing on
It would be so nice if we could just close the door on the whole of the middle east and leave them to fight it out amongst themselves where we can’t see them.
Completely unrealistic unfortunately.
aregularky on
If this does end up over here, I’m not paying my bills.
TalosAnthena on
They won’t do this because they would get absolutely destroyed. I mean even Israel could destroy them. Britain would pulverise them. But why are they even threatening us?
AllRedLine on
Sounds like a great idea – attack positions in places like Saudi, purely to provoke the responses of the World’s most powerful military and the two most powerful European militaries on top of already having engaged with what is unquestionably the most powerful military in the Middle East…
I can’t see how any of that would end badly for them.
TheCarnivorishCook on
Iran is throwing everything it has at Israel and barely anything is getting through, do people think its going to start lobbing missiles at Cyprus as well?
nurological on
Well there are ALOT of American bases surrounding Iran so take your pick
Happy_Balance5760 on
“Iran formally requests to be bombarded into the dark ages. Again.”
There. Fixed your title
Clamps55555 on
Thant would be a big fucking mistake. Won’t happen.
let_me_atom on
Iran is all talk and no trousers. They’ve had a crap beat out of them for years and can’t actually retaliate with anything apart from prickly words.
sober_disposition on
There’s always a chance that our capability to assist Israel to deal with Iran might give us the leverage we need to get them to deal fairly with the Palestinians.
I dare say the Saudis would be 110% on board with this as well.
Correct-Junket-1346 on
Iran is like that kid who threatens to do nasty stuff but realises the consequences are far beyond what they can handle.
LatelyPode on
We should **not** help Israel here. Israel did not explicitly warn the UK of this. We should not be dragged into this mess just because Netanyahu wants to stay in power and avoid prison for a bit longer. We should stay neutral and not even give weapons.
This is not Israel defending themselves. This is Israel starting a war with Iran.
QueenConcept on
Headline is missing out the big caveat that Iran is threatening to target American, British and French based *if those nations intercede militarily on Israels side*. Pretty major thing to miss out.
Come on Guardian, you’re one of only two remaining halfway sane papers in the country. Be better.
Sensitive_Echo5058 on
Good luck with that, Iran’s weaknesses have now been exposed.
Syria is no longer an option to launch attacks from since the fall of Assad, Hezbollah in Lebanon are no more, Hamas has been neutered, and Houthis have been rendered insignificant.
This is the weakest Iran has ever been, they’ve lost all their ‘allies’, and exhibit worries about an internal uprising from citizens tired of Islamic oppression, whilst Isreal works on gaining air superiority.
Then you have Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and other middle Eastern countries, etc, who are implict allies of Isreal.
I envisage a situation where this the beginning of the end for the Islamic regime. Let’s just hope that an even worse dictatorship does not emerge from a power vacuum.
Sudden-Gas-7080 on
UK seemingly at war with everyone agsin. Brings an imperial tear to the eye!
Captain-Mainwaring on
This is Iran who is currently getting pummelled by Israel? This is Iran which if their Oil facilities are hit and wiped out will plummet the economy? The same Iran who totally 100% didn’t know about those Iranians plotting a terrorist attack in the UK. Or the Iranians who took a British flagged ship hostage a few years back?
I feel for the people of Iran having these clowns in charge. I hope the path to the more liberal and open Iran is a reality. Israel are gonna do what Israel do right or wrong. There’s realistically only 2 nations that have any real sway on them. It’s the US, and Germany. And both seem not majorly bothered by what’s happening.
PrinceOfAntioch01 on
Iran just got continuously bombed for around 12 hours. I don’t think they’re in a position to threaten anyone
wilf89 on
This thread is unbelievable, people supporting Iran’s regime, one of the biggest sponsors of global terrorism. Christ what a time to be alive
Sqweech on
Iran is begging to find out as hard as possible!? Weird strategy.
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Iran likes to talk a lot but will end up doing nothing as usual
Best get our shiniest plate out and give it a good polishing. We’ll need it to hand Iran their arse on it.
Trump would love an excuse to simply give the order to wipe out the Iranian regime so he can spend the next few years taking all the credit for it, or rather giving himself the credit for it.
Was it in the late 70s or early 80s when Iran decided to attack a US ship, so the Americans destroyed their *entire* navy in under an hour?
Love being allied with Israel. Love it when we have to get dragged into their mess.
If the regime is about to fall then they might just start targeting anything, although if they did this it would hasten that because the US would get directly involved.
Iran need everything they have for the conflict with Isreal which they are currently loosing. Threatening people that arn’t attacking them is rather silly.
Realistically what could they use they may have a ballistic missile that could hit a British base but currently they are getting rolled by the Israeli Airforce who appear to have total air supremacy over Iran. Excessive sabre rattling brought them to this point I am not sure they really want to continue down that same path by dragging in Western Militaries as well.
Bloody bring it on and see how how well that turns out for, would just be hastening that shitty regimes down fall
If the brits, French and the US keep supporting Israel with intelligence services and weapons, they are already directly involved. Doesn’t matter how bad it gets, these three countries are always involved when it comes to messing up with the world and in the middle East specifically. Israel is on the wrong side, always been since the ’50s
withing 45 minutes?
sorry otherwise I can’t take it seriously
This is classic ‘I could take the lot of yous’ talk from someone who is beat and wants to back off while convincing themself that they aren’t. I never thought I’d see a similarity between Iran and a drunk Glaswegian but there you go.
Given we are supplying Israel with weapons and training their troops it’s not altogether surprising we are getting dragged into this. Iran may not respond with conventional attacks but their ability to harm us through terrorist attacks should not be underestimated
Probably an empty threat, but we shouldn’t be offering much support to Isreal at this point for moral reasons anyway
So, they want to attack NATO? Well, that’s only going to end one way for them.
It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for them
>if the uk interferes
Zero reason for us to get involved. Leave it to the yanks. We do not want to get involved in another Iraq or Afghanistan situation. We can barely afford to give our own people disability benefits. Fighting wars for the Americans who impose tariffs on us would be utterly humiliating from Starmer
I think what we should be doing is getting together with our allies in Europe, stop giving Israel a free pass to do what they like, and get Netanyahu to stop randomly bombing his neighbours
This proves the leadership structure in Iran clearly doesn’t listen to any game theory, to me.
I could be wrong but I can’t see any benefit to such a statement. I guess you could argue that Britain and France would never go against Israel, but that feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. I know these bases must be helping Israel, but I don’t think the route to stopping that is threats to those very same bases.
That would be bad timing for them with CSG25 in the area
That would be the worst thing they could do for their own story.
It would be so nice if we could just close the door on the whole of the middle east and leave them to fight it out amongst themselves where we can’t see them.
Completely unrealistic unfortunately.
If this does end up over here, I’m not paying my bills.
They won’t do this because they would get absolutely destroyed. I mean even Israel could destroy them. Britain would pulverise them. But why are they even threatening us?
Sounds like a great idea – attack positions in places like Saudi, purely to provoke the responses of the World’s most powerful military and the two most powerful European militaries on top of already having engaged with what is unquestionably the most powerful military in the Middle East…
I can’t see how any of that would end badly for them.
Iran is throwing everything it has at Israel and barely anything is getting through, do people think its going to start lobbing missiles at Cyprus as well?
Well there are ALOT of American bases surrounding Iran so take your pick
“Iran formally requests to be bombarded into the dark ages. Again.”
There. Fixed your title
Thant would be a big fucking mistake. Won’t happen.
Iran is all talk and no trousers. They’ve had a crap beat out of them for years and can’t actually retaliate with anything apart from prickly words.
There’s always a chance that our capability to assist Israel to deal with Iran might give us the leverage we need to get them to deal fairly with the Palestinians.
I dare say the Saudis would be 110% on board with this as well.
Iran is like that kid who threatens to do nasty stuff but realises the consequences are far beyond what they can handle.
We should **not** help Israel here. Israel did not explicitly warn the UK of this. We should not be dragged into this mess just because Netanyahu wants to stay in power and avoid prison for a bit longer. We should stay neutral and not even give weapons.
This is not Israel defending themselves. This is Israel starting a war with Iran.
Headline is missing out the big caveat that Iran is threatening to target American, British and French based *if those nations intercede militarily on Israels side*. Pretty major thing to miss out.
Come on Guardian, you’re one of only two remaining halfway sane papers in the country. Be better.
Good luck with that, Iran’s weaknesses have now been exposed.
Syria is no longer an option to launch attacks from since the fall of Assad, Hezbollah in Lebanon are no more, Hamas has been neutered, and Houthis have been rendered insignificant.
This is the weakest Iran has ever been, they’ve lost all their ‘allies’, and exhibit worries about an internal uprising from citizens tired of Islamic oppression, whilst Isreal works on gaining air superiority.
Then you have Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and other middle Eastern countries, etc, who are implict allies of Isreal.
I envisage a situation where this the beginning of the end for the Islamic regime. Let’s just hope that an even worse dictatorship does not emerge from a power vacuum.
UK seemingly at war with everyone agsin. Brings an imperial tear to the eye!
This is Iran who is currently getting pummelled by Israel? This is Iran which if their Oil facilities are hit and wiped out will plummet the economy? The same Iran who totally 100% didn’t know about those Iranians plotting a terrorist attack in the UK. Or the Iranians who took a British flagged ship hostage a few years back?
I feel for the people of Iran having these clowns in charge. I hope the path to the more liberal and open Iran is a reality. Israel are gonna do what Israel do right or wrong. There’s realistically only 2 nations that have any real sway on them. It’s the US, and Germany. And both seem not majorly bothered by what’s happening.
Iran just got continuously bombed for around 12 hours. I don’t think they’re in a position to threaten anyone
This thread is unbelievable, people supporting Iran’s regime, one of the biggest sponsors of global terrorism. Christ what a time to be alive
Iran is begging to find out as hard as possible!? Weird strategy.