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Originally Posted by rubecube
I'm not saying they deserve to have nukes. I do think this whole "they want nukes so they can destroy the West and Israel" is Western propaganda. They want nukes because they're surrounded by countries who want to enact a regime change and nukes are their only deterrent.
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Iran’s regime obviously want nukes as a deterrent. But it’s not Western propaganda that they want to destroy Israel.
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Israel should be wiped off map, says Iran's president
Iran's new president created a sense of outrage in the west yesterday by describing Israel as a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the face of the earth".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...27/israel.iran
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This was 20 years ago. So nothing to do with events of the last 5 years.
It wasn’t the only time the threat has been issued.
When a regime run by religious fanatics has repeatedly threatened to wipe a country off the map and annihilate it, and that regime pursues a nuclear weapons program, it’s not propaganda to acknowledge that they may actually mean it.