Israel are going to start WWIII

not selectively, just highlighting the constant ripple effects of interference in countries where oil etc was involved.

Constant interference even before oil was discovered. Vast history of wars and invasions pre the discovery of oil.

Iran strength is in numbers and it's sheer manufacturing capacity. They have a massive technical deficit though.

As you say I can't see It being a land war.

But even their enemies have admitted all their top leaders and commanders have been killed.

So the Israelis have good intel to find these guys, or else they are getting info fed to them by informers.

thats history innit , funnily enough I was watching a documentary on the origins of the Vietnam war (before my time) but as per Hollywood it generally came across as America standing up to commies but seeing the build up as being the French trying to hold on to an empire post WW2 lol , in black and white watching it it come across as ridiculous where you could say the French were the "bad guys" and the American were dupes at best

Plus Israel is getting the reputation for being a criminal bolthole.

There was hope in the region of a two state solution until Bibi's zionists assassinated Rabin.

Not all of them.

It's like how the US kept saying that every wedding party they blow up from the air in Afghanistan was a training camp until they had to admit that their intel was manipulated by local sources.

If Israel states an innocent was a Hamas mastermind they'll still be mourned as a martyr. Israel has made every Palestinian a combatant by treating them as a target.

The Yanks have been orchestrating slaughter in Iran for generations.

If the hate is visceral anywhere there is usually reasons for that.

Bizarre that some people in this thread are so anti-Israel that they'll pull on all sorts of threads rather than just admit the well known fact that Iran is militarily inferior to Israel in long range war.

It's OK to state impartial facts. They can't hurt you and they don't make you pro-Israel. Facts are just facts, they don't take sides.

You don't launch 180 ballistic missiles at another country in anger after your proxy terrorist group gets crippled and expect no retaliation, and Iran knows this and is content to play the dangerous game.

The consequences of the Iraq war is also increased distrust of politicians and a strong suspicion of the motivations for involvement in foreign wars. Four and a half thousand dead US service members based on a lie, on intel provided by a country now intent on involving America in a war with Iran.
The US military is experiencing a huge recruitment crisis because most Americans are unwilling to serve and those that are, are unfit to do so due to obesity, mental illness or other conditions.
This is one reason given for the need for large numbers of young, healthy migrants. Uncle Sam needs them.

So Israel should have responded by a year of constant attacks by Hezbollah with … a sternly worded letter?

Maybe the "dead and maimed children" you refer to should take up their complaints with Hamas and Hezbollah.

I'm not sure what Iran "is". It has it's own internal bloodshed and history of human rights abuses. At the same time it's huge economy and producer.

It is odd that on another thread you'll have posters saying Iran is crucial to keeping Russia going, and then in this thread it's that Iran can't take on Israel, simultaneously weak and powerful.

Both of those things can be completely true, they are not a contradiction.

Iran probably supplies Russia with certain things important to its war in Ukraine.

Iran is militarily inferior to Israel particularly in long range war.

Where is the contradiction there? Can you point it out?

It's the same way that the line is trotted out that Israel is facing a continuous existential risk, but then gloating that it is calling Iran/Yemen/Lebanon/etc's obviously weak bluff when it unilaterally attacks them.

Seems to be quite a few who are saying "attack Iran and you'll suffer the consequences ". Are they militarily a strong nation?
I suspect people are over estimating their ability.
If anything it's the opposite. They have been preparing for war with "the Great Satan" since the end of the Iran-Iraq war, building up their industrial base and their military capability ever since.
Do you remember a few years ago the case of involuntary US technology transfer to Iran, via Iran taking control of a US drone flying over their territory? Iran had the capacity to do that, took the drone apart, copied and then improved it - and now Iran builds its own drones.

I agree that you're unlikely to see Israeli soldiers come home from Iran in body bags, Israel doesn't have the ability to fight a land war with Iran, or with any organised state for that matter - it's not 1967/1972 any more and other countries have learned from the past.
As you say, any contact will be from the air, and Iran has just shown its teeth. I wonder how much more they have? It would be typical if they didn't demonstrate their full range of weapons and capabilities.

Israel will have an unlimited supply of bombs to drop from the US, UK and the west. They have the tech and knowledge to win a war from those kind of attacks, based on what we have seen in the last few weeks, where they have taken out all the top men in Hezbollah without much problem.
While Israel might have a good supply chain at the moment, it cannot be sure this will continue. If Iran were to destroy Israel's airfields and airports, those bombs will go nowhere as they won't get into the air, and in fact they may not even arrive in time if they have to be brought in by ship due to runways being plowed up..
As for Israel fighting a war - the only experience they have is in fighting against militias like Hamas and Hezbollah, not against well-equipped armies.
Regarding the top men in Hezbollah being taken out, I wonder whether any of it is smoke and mirrors to give Israel the impression that they have been more effective than they really are. In any case, Iran is a lot further away and intervening countries will not allow Israel to overfly. While Israel will likely ignore any prohibitions, you can be sure that if any aircraft can still get into the air they will be tracked from takeoff, and Iran will have fair warning.

It reminds me of the Iraq war when we were told quite often that the US would make a massive mistake by invading and they'd be hammered by the elite Iraqi troops. But they walked all over them with next to no resistance.
The elite Iraqi troops were also a bit of a joke, after a decade's sanctions by the US and its allies. Nevertheless, the invasion was a major mistake, as was the US invasion of Afghanistan. The US military didn't come very well out of either adventure, as resistance continued until they left with their tail between their legs. Although the MIC did very nicely out of it thank you very much.

I suspect people are hyping up Irans capabilities.
The Paper Dome® didn't seem too effective last night if the videos doing the rounds are anything to go by.

The blinkers may be a virtual reality headset. That poster may think it's all a game of Call of Duty.

Iran's attack actually achieved something on the economic front. Things are getting expensive for Israel.

no one is going to jail him,

He will live out a nice cushy retirement surrounded by bodyguards

That's sounds like a neat retrospective, wasn't the whole thing because Kuwait was sideways drilling into Iraq oil fields (think "I drink your milkshake" from There Will Be Blood).

All he did was pivot the US military supplies from Iran towards the thief. In the post Soviet collapse the international consensus that was that if Saddam got away with redrawing international boundaries then others would try their luck.

Being surrounded by bodyguards is not ''cushy'' at all. It shows fear and fear is an emotion nobody wants or needs. He does deserve it though. Plus he'll hear the screams of all those little babies be blew apart every time he closes his eyes.

They said the same thing about the guy Bibi replaced.

Iran is in the stone age when it comes to military technology.

Iron dome isn't used for intercepting ballistic missiles.

What Iran has is numbers, it can swamp a defence. What they've done in this case is hugely escalated the conflict. Usually ends well.

No, Paper Dome® is a generic term for their anti-missile systems, now that they are trying to distance themselves from their original term.

Maybe you can find photos of the various airfields as well as the Mossad headquarters that was attacked that show them unscathed?

Yeah I remember the same nonsense rhetoric before he got in last time. Then NK was the big bad wolf and nothing happened.