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Comment by maweki | Hacker News Reader

Though you don't see Iran going around killing the people responsible for Israel's nuclear arsenal.

I can't imagine it's for lack of trying.

I rather not discuss the whole conflict. The fact is though, that modern Iran has little to no history of military intervention* and at least no history to suggest that any (if any really exists) ambition towards acquiring nuclear weapons is anything more than sabre-rattling.

* Wikipedia comes up with the odd missile-strike against the islamic state.

Edit: There's a difference between financing terrorism/freedom fighters, which about every country in the region (and basically everybody else) does, and preparing a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

You can't be serious. Iran is one of the most militarily active players in the Middle East. They usually don't do this through the Iranian military itself (other than wanting to send a message like the attack on Saudi Abaqiq facilities with cruise missiles in 2019 [0]). They use proxies, which receive funding, weapons, training and orders from Iran. Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, various Iraqi and Syrian militas are all extensions of Iran itself and perform daily attacks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack

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Trying to assassinate non-existing nuclear scientists? Yeah that's hard to imagine. Israel already has access to pretty advanced nuclear technology it is not actively trying to develop one like Iran is.

You think Israel has zero nuclear scientists? An arsenal requires maintenance, even if you aren’t actively making new warheads.

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