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Israeli officials are reportedly urging the U.S. to join them in their public urging of Iranians to stage an uprising against their government, even as the Israeli government internally assesses that protesters would be “slaughtered” if they did ...
The article presents a chillingly pragmatic, and potentially morally bankrupt, assessment of the Iranian situation, revealing a strategic calculus prioritizing Israeli interests over Iranian lives. The “steelman” version of the Israeli argument is that the Iranian government is a deeply entrenched, reactive force, and that inviting a mass uprising – as the U.S. has seemingly done – would be a catastrophic blunder leading to immense loss of life. This immediately triggers the ARC-0043 Motte-and-B...