Tehran “is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declare G7 leaders in a joint statement.

The leaders of the G7 countries on Monday issued a joint statement saying Iran should not have nuclear weapons and affirming Israel’s right to defend itself.

“Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror. We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon,” declared the statement, issued by the leaders of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, along with the EU.

They pledged to “remain vigilant to the implications for international energy markets and stand ready to coordinate, including with like-minded partners, to safeguard market stability.”

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    Israel is the principal source of regional instability and terror and everyone and his dog knows this.

    The kowtowing to Trump and his Zionist sponsors by the client states of the US Empire is an insult to objective reality.

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      Seriously. We’re supposed to regard Iran as an existential threat that is worth any price to neutralize. Okay, boomers.

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        Sounds like something a tankie would say about Ukraine and Russia

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    I believe ALL of the following;

    • Iran should not have nuclear weapons
    • Israel should not have nuclear weapons
    • Iran should not weaponize Palestinian suffering or coax them into attacking Israel while Iran itself sees little repercussions
    • Israel should not genocide
    • Israel has committed genocide and should pay a hefty price
    • Neither Iran nor Israel will really answer for their fuckery
    • Palestinians will remain fucked…if they survive.

    My heart breaks for the Palestinian people who suffer and die for others’ greed, ambition, and political squabbles.

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      Exactly. This is not a competition, we don’t have to cheer for either side. Horrible things are happening

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      This is the nature of modern day proxy conflicts. Both actors can continue easily but the “battlefield” like Gaza and South Lebanon are the ones that lose.

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      I agree with all of your past tense takes. The future remains to be determined. We might all be flattened at this rate.

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      I’d add:

      • Hamas needs to deleted from the face of earth

      And all that basically describes the opinion of 90% of the population just that vocal minorities are very vocal.

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        90 percent of the western population. The rest of the world is more sympathetic to the militant struggle against imperial genocide.

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      Well that’s a nice enough list in a vacuum, but what does that actually mean she the real world? Israel already has nukes, Iran won’t survive without them, Palestinians are going to fight back against the fascists trying to exterminate them - with or without Irans prompting - and sympathetic countries like Iran are going to try and aid that struggle.

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    “We will do anything to maintain the status quo, up to and including genocidal ethnosupremacy”!

    I am honestly so revolted.

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      Well, that’s been the litemotiv of the last century on the area, support a slightly less evil genocidal asshole against another genocidal asshole.

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      I’m curious to see what Iran would have become in the next 5 years had this shit not occurred. It had the potential of becoming another regime or possibly a democracy again. Hard to say where it was going.

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    China, India, and Pakistan once again proving that having nukes does actually matter because you can’t be arbitrarily shoved around around by the only other nuclear powers.

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    “Iran is two weeks away from nuclear capability” - Netanyahu: 2012, 2015, 2018, 2023, 2025

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    Ukraine gave up their nukes, look what happened to them. Libya gave their nuclear weapons program up, and look at them today. North Korea didn’t, and they’re still standing, for better or for worse. Iraq was accused of having nukes, but didn’t have them, and got destroyed. Seems that if you want any semblance of sovereignty outside of NATO, you better have some nukes.

    So for any nations reading along I’ll summarize the basic conclusions:

    1. Get nukes
    2. If you have nukes, do not give them up
    3. If you’re accused of having nukes, drop everything and get nukes asap

    Do you think Israel would be bombing Iran if they had nukes?

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    Iran will have nukes. They don’t have a choice. Not anymore. It’s existentialism at this point. Israel has been trying to engineer a war against Iran for more than 30 years. All the while Iran has played along. IAEA inspectors and all that good shit. And it was all for nothing. Iran knows that now. So does everyone else.

    If you’re an adversary to the US and its Imperial interests then its a matter of when, not if. Doesn’t matter if or how closely you follow their rules. They will come for you in time.

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      They’re out of time. US B52s and B2s will obliterate what’s left of their nuclear facilities. F35s and drones will do the rest. For all the Zionist propaganda, there’s absolutely no evidence Iran wanted to weaponise Uranium and every evidence that they wanted to cooperate with the West in return for sanctions relief, as they did in 2015 with the JCPOA.

      The question is can Iran make it painful enough for the US by causing chaos in the straits of Hormuz and damaging oil and gas infrastructure that Trump loses interest and declares victory before he imposes regime change, which is what Netanyahu really wants.

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      Yeah but until countries like the US, Russia, China and the rest give them up, they are the only true guarantee of sovereignty.

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    Well Pakistan will give them one if needed so they kind of already have one. Maybe stop pushing them to use it on Israel.

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    Whatever.

    Don’t care if yanks go get blown up in the Middle East. It’s all in service of enriching Halliburton and the military industrial complex. Yawn. It is 2003 again?

    Whatever happened to: “tRuMp iS tHe PeAcE pReSIdEnT”.

    I thought the US was trillions in debt. There’s always money for war.

    Can’t wait to laugh at this smoothbrained crew of assclowns as they try to fight a foreign war. Good luck maintaining those supply chains for US war mongering when the whole world fucking hates you.

    FFS. Anyway. Next.

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      Don’t care if yanks go get blown up in the Middle East. It’s all in service of enriching Halliburton and the military industrial complex. Yawn. It is 2003 again?

      The last time they did this, a million Iraqis died.

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        I know. Fuck the US. They can’t even come up with different propaganda.

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    How else can the most advanced first-world nations keep exploiting the Middleeast?

    With Netynyahu, we can change the government of any nation in the middleast. We just tell him to make a presentation that they’re bad and have big weapons!

    Guys please understand we, the US, UK, Germany, and rest of G7 first-world nations, reaally need to assassinate forign leaders and destory and kill the people of any nation that opposes the existance of a genocidal ethnostate aparthied … because, the few Zionists who pay our salaries will not have a country where they can kill, evict, colonize, assassinate anyone who is not from their chosen race. Then we will have to give these brown people democracy, and their own governments?!!

    If we did not make the middleast into dictatorships that work with our genocidal ethostate only, then they will not sell us cheap oil and will not have to couple all their trades, currencies and inflations against US dollar. Omg. imagine if they were then allowed to manufacture their own weapons and not buy trillions worth of military equipments and defense contracts from us? omg… our 9999 military bases there? who will pay for them?

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    Why not? The claims made by G7 members as to why are admissions - heck, one of the members has used nuclear weapons on civilians, and they’re still allowed to have them.

    If anyone can, everyone can.