Comments on: A National Inferiority Complex on Display

by: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Report: Iran planning nuclear ’surprise’ | Jerusalem Post

Thu, 24 Aug 2025 12:08:53 +0000

[…] yet in reality they had only made a small step forward in uranium enrichment. At the time I opined that Iran was suffering from a national inferiority complex and noted: Most countries have less pomp […]

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by: Pros and Cons » The end of the world? I feel fine.

Sun, 16 Apr 2025 16:40:39 +0000

[…] er: Iran

Maybe for some Persians and those in their various satrapies. So argue Poliblogger and the Politechnical Institute., though neither is terribly alarmist about the whole thing. I st […]

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by: All Things Beautiful

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 21:40:26 +0000

What Does Iran Really Want

In order for this debate to be genuine, it must be predicated upon a proper understanding of what threat we are facing. We must somehow achieve consensus on the answer to the question of all questions, “What Do The Iranian Leaders Really Want”.

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by: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 19:54:48 +0000

Iran Could Have Nuke in 16 Days

While most experts have said it would be months, if not years, before Iran could build a nuclear weapon, the State Department thinks it could be 16 days away:
Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonprol…

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by: Dr. Steven Taylor

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 16:56:10 +0000

The flaw in that analogy is that one bullet can slay a rabid dog. There is no on bullet solution to Iran. Further, you have to filter what these types of regimes say. That isn’t to say that their utterances oughtn’t be taken seriously, but that you can necessarily take them literally.

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by: bindare4u

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 16:40:24 +0000

I don’t know who the Iranian government’s announcements are aimed at but if we don’t take them at their word as to their intentions and capabilities we are fools. They are dangerous and should be treated the same way we would treat a rabid dog, shoot first and examine later.

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by: Honza Prchal

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 14:06:35 +0000

The Germans had one of those before the First and Second World Wars too. Were I a person of imporatance in Israel, and with even Prince Turki bin Faisal of Saudi Arabia now publicly praising the Osirak strike, I wouldn’t give the Persians a chance to get that far. If I really thought Tehran had a reasonably survivable nuke, I’d be where NPR insists Rumsfeld is, reviewing my nuclear options.

Can you tell I’m a tad excitable?

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by: LaurenceB

Wed, 12 Apr 2025 14:02:00 +0000

I know this has been said a million times before, but I can’t help but point out that Saddam Hussein (for all his many awful failings) generally played by the nuclear rules as dictated by the UN. And look where that got him. In that light, the behavior of Iran makes a lot of sense - they want to be a North Korea (too dangerous to invade), not an Iraq (weak).

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to blame all of Iran’s insanity on the neocons. But I think they do deserve some (dis)credit.

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