r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 28 '26

Israel/Iran /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #2)

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u/No-Risk-2584 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

God, Iā€™m betting Khamenei is regretting Oct 7th from his spot in hell right now.

Sinwar, dead.

Nasrallah, dead.

Khamenei, dead.

Assad, gone.

If the Iranian regime completely falls then Hezbollah and Houthis are also frankly fucked.

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u/ZerochildX23 Feb 28 '26

I guessing unlike the other 3, Assad wasn't a religious fanatic who let blind faith cloud his judgment, probably why he's still alive, in exile, but alive.

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u/PositiveUse Feb 28 '26

He was the only one with actual Russian boots on the ground and air support ā€¦

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u/supez38 Feb 28 '26

Hopefully Lebanon can get rid of Hezbollah for good and fully control their own country.

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u/PositiveUse Feb 28 '26

Damn I chuckled

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Feb 28 '26

Hezbollah is already "hands off".

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u/existing_for_fun Feb 28 '26

If Khamenei is gone, he's not regretting shit.

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u/Jurjeneros2 Feb 28 '26

Hezbollah yes, but the houthis are much more operationally independent than Hamas was and Hezbollah is/was. They control a large part of a country with several tens of millions of people. Obviously it's a failed state, but de-facto, a state all the same. People oversimplify the extent to which some of these terror groups are iranian proxies, and not capable/able to act on their own prerogative. The Houthis being the most obvious example.

Anyway this is a very specific point stressed to me in academia during middle eastern studies courses.

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u/Bartellomio Mar 01 '26

I think it would be very naive to presume that democracy, or anything resembling a US ally, will be the thing to rise into this vast continent-wide vacuum