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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at this from the Iranian prospective. The US and Israel are crazy war mongers who want to total destruction of Iran.

There is nothing the Iranians can do but defend themselves against the US and Israel. Enter in to negotiations, you get attacked regardless of how the negotiations are proceeding. Sign a treaty, you get attacked. What are the options for Iran?

Listen to the rhetoric used in the US and Israel. Iran has not attacked a single country in 47 years and was more than capable of making a nuclear bomb if they had the desire. Yet it is a constant drum beat to destroy Iran.

The US and even crazier Israelis are rogue nations.[/quote]

Virtually everything you just said is misleading, leaving out important context, or is outright false.

The claim that Iran has 'not attacked a single country in 47 years' omits a large amount of well documented activity. While Iran has not launched a conventional full scale invasion since the end of the Iran Iraq War in 1988, it has repeatedly supported and directed armed groups that carry out attacks across the Middle East. Iran's government, primarily through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, has provided funding, weapons, training, and operational guidance to groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. Hezbollah alone has carried out attacks against Israeli civilians and military targets for decades and was responsible for the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 American service members. Support for proxy warfare is widely understood in international relations as a form of state sponsored violence, even if the sponsoring state does not send its own army across a border.

Iran has also been directly linked to attacks on international shipping and regional targets in recent years. The United States, European governments, and independent investigators have attributed several tanker attacks in the Gulf region in 2019 to Iranian forces or Iranian backed actors. Iran has also supplied missiles and drones to the Houthi movement in Yemen, which has used them to strike Saudi Arabia and international shipping routes in the Red Sea. In 2024, Iran launched a large scale missile and drone attack directly at Israel following a strike on Iranian personnel in Syria. Even though most of those projectiles were intercepted, the event itself demonstrates that Iran is willing to carry out direct military attacks beyond its borders when it chooses.

The claim that Iran simply wants peaceful negotiations but is attacked regardless is also incomplete. Iran did sign the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with the United States, the European Union, Russia, and China in 2015. That agreement significantly limited Iran's uranium enrichment and nuclear stockpile in exchange for sanctions relief. The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018 under Donald Trump, which was widely criticized by many international observers and allies. However, since that withdrawal Iran has progressively exceeded the enrichment limits set by the deal, enriching uranium to levels far closer to weapons grade and restricting some international inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. These actions contribute to ongoing international concern about Iran's nuclear intentions, even among countries that supported the original agreement.

It is also inaccurate to portray Israel and the United States as uniquely hostile without acknowledging the explicit positions taken by Iran's leadership toward Israel. Senior Iranian officials, including former Supreme Leader allies and members of the Revolutionary Guard, have repeatedly called for the elimination of the Israeli state. Iran does not recognize Israel's legitimacy and has consistently supported armed groups that seek Israel's destruction. From Israel's perspective, a government that funds and arms organizations dedicated to its destruction while pursuing advanced nuclear capabilities represents a serious security threat. That context is critical to understanding why tensions remain high.

Finally, the idea that Iran has always been capable of building a nuclear weapon but simply chooses not to ignores the extensive international monitoring and sanctions that have shaped Iran's nuclear program for decades. Intelligence agencies and the IAEA have concluded that Iran conducted organized weapons related nuclear research in the early 2000s before suspending parts of that work. Since then the international community has attempted to constrain the program through diplomacy and inspections rather than war. The situation is therefore not a simple story of two aggressive nations targeting an innocent state. It is a complex geopolitical conflict involving proxy warfare, ideological hostility, regional power competition, and disputed nuclear ambitions.[/quote]

Israeli troll not worth reading that wall of words.

Israel has not signed onto the NNPT.

Israel is not a party to the ICC. It's the reason why the US is also not part of the ICC.

Israel has committed 10,000s of war crimes during its existence.

Israel has no standing to make any claim against any other person or country.[/quote]

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