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So what's the Iranian win condition then?
>destroy the Israeli economy
That's really not helpful as a long term strategic goal when the entire economy of Iran is dependent on selling oil. Oil infrastructure is known for being many things but inexpensive, easy to replace, and hardened against explosives aren't any of them. It's also, by the nature of scale, extremely centralized in highly complex stationary structures. Iran can try and play that game but since Israel can simply decide that they don't want them to have any shipping terminals or pipelines anymore and can actually make that reality inside a few days that goal is off the table.
>well there's 10x as many people as Israel and more factories!
Again, when the party bombing you can do so with impunity and destroy anything it wants pretty much at will, not much of a valid objective.
>well even if they do they'll be just as bad off!
Except the west isn't going to pour money into rebuilding Iran, especially if Iran is still belligerent. Maybe a Chinese debt trap, I'm sure the PRC would love a puppet gas station. Trouble is the PRC only cares about the gas station part of that transaction, no MIC needed.
>well countries like russia and Iran are tough and used to hardship!
Which is why countries like Iran and Russia are shit holes and always will be. The Israeli population views Iran as an existential threat. They're not going to overthrow the government and demand the bombing stop, especially since Iran keeps bragging about killing civilians and trying to blow up power plants.
>well quantity has a quality all its own!
Until an entire grid square gets deleted from a hundred miles away.
>well Israel can't win without US intervention!
Bad news buddy, the US is going to get involved, and they're going to drop whatever bombs Israel tells them to drop on whatever targets they're told to drop them on.
>The US is an Israeli puppet!
Yes and? It's not going to stop the bombing.
