Tehran launched fresh missiles strikes against Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed further strikes on Iran in a military operation that has targeted the nuclear and military facilities of his country’s arch enemy.
Shortly after midnight on June 14, Israel said its military had intercepted a new round of Iranian surface-to-surface missiles in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem on the second consecutive day of Iranian air strikes that followed a damaging Israeli air assault on sites linked to Tehran’s nuclear program.
Iran has proven to the world that it is a paper tiger. It is horrendously weak, incompetent, corrupt, and unstable. Israel over the last few years has humiliated them time and time again, and Iran hasn’t been able to respond in kind. The theocracy regime is now feeling the squeeze both internally and externally.
Can you give some examples? I think I keep up with world news and am genuinely at a loss for what you’re talking about
The Iranian theocracy over the past few years has been feeling real pressure because of how badly Israel has exposed them. Consider what Israel has done to them:
Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran
Hezbollah got neutered
The Iranian embassy in Syria got bombed
They completely lost their proxies in Syria
They lost the Al Assad regime
They had their proxy groups in Palestine, Hamas and the PIJ, get bombed into oblivion
Their oil infrastructure keeps getting bombed and damaged
They had military bases inside country get attacked
Their nuclear facilities keep getting attacked and damaged
They had a bunch of their military leaders assassinated
They keep losing their top nuclear scientists
Mossad has repeatedly shown that it’s so balls deep in Iran’s affairs that they’re borderline running the country
Keep in mind this is just Israel, they’re also facing pressure from the US, UAE, KSA, and EU. The Iranian regime has shown time and time again that they won’t do anything substantial no matter what. It’s a sign that Iran hasn’t done anything because they can’t, which means they’re a paper tiger.
This is just external pressure. Internally, they’re also feeling the squeeze because the people DESPISE them:
There are massive protests in Iran every other year since the late 2000s. Here are some recent examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Iranian_protests
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Iranian_protests
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Iranian_general_strikes_and_protests
The mullahs and their regime have completely lost their legitimacy to the people of Iran and they’re only still in power because they still have the military on their side which they use to oppress the people. The regime’s only way to stay in power is to rule through fear and violence.
On top of this, Iran also has major separatist movements like Kurdistan, Balochistan, Iranian Azerbaijan, and the Arabs in Khuzestan. These groups and regions comprises half the country, and they all want out. The theocracy has to spend an insane amount of effort keeping them down.
So between power moves by foreign powers, the separatists, and the general population, the theocrats are getting squeezed from all sides. This means that the regime is very fragile and they could get ousted from power easily if they show too much weakness.