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    1 year ago

    I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won’t have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

    I wonder whether most everyday Iranians would support a war with Israel.

    Granted, it’s not likely Iran gets directly involved - they’ll just drive their Hezbollah prop.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder whether Iran can actually spare an outright war. There is clearly a lot of anti-government energy flowing in Iran, and that won’t have been stamped out by their crackdown on it.

      I guess it depends on how much the “helping our fellow Muslims” stuff works. I know it would in Egypt at least.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Iran wouldn’t need to radically shift their budget… the revolutionary guard gets buckets of oil money and maintains a constant high state of readiness.