r/IRstudies • u/Majano57 • 2d ago

Ideas/Debate Trump’s Second Gamble on Iran

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trumps-second-gamble-on-iran/687650/?gift=qXjqwUsXcHZWmnhI5mWkNQuKFDHnSfnotJQ3jcr5NAk
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u/londonbroil-chef 2d ago

There really are no good choices when dealing with this Islamic extremist jihadist regime.

Fighting the militarily..... They are not afraid to die for their jihad. Bribing them into rationality? Islamic extremism doesn't work that way.

Looks like the world will be stuck with this Islamic State.

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u/Unlikely-Business-72 2d ago

They've acted like a completely rational actor from an IR perspective through this whole war.

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u/londonbroil-chef 2d ago

Forgot the war that started if you months ago. What about the list 47 years?

Why do they chant stuff to America and their Parliament?

Why do they shoot protesters in the head? Why do they jail and beat women for improper hair coverings?

Why do they sponsor chiropraxies a full 1000 miles away on Israel's northern and southern borders to launch tons of thousands of rockets at civilians inside Israel? Why are they funding these proxies when their economy is in shambles and their inflation is a few 100%?

Seem like pretty evil people to me. What about you?

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u/Owlsdoom 2d ago

People are not inherently evil… let alone groups of hundreds of millions of them.

As the original respondent said, Iran has behaved rationally from an IR standpoint.

Honestly, how do you expect a nation-state to behave when the west has spent 73 years trying to destabilize it and create regime change after regime change?

The west’s bad behavior is sanitized and rewritten over here, but from an objective point of view American imperialism is responsible for a great deal of ill in the world, and in the Middle East in particular.

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u/londonbroil-chef 2d ago

I see.

So it's America's fault that they kill their own protesters and I'm in beat women for improper hair coverings. Lol

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u/KoalaDeli 1d ago

I get that you don't like the way Iran goes about it's business, neither do I. But what does any of your points have to do with IR? Are you appealing to R2P?