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Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by Horus(m): 10:10pm On Apr 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWni9wxDjdQ?si=s5dXho-i4JXQ1Ntb

Iran Has TAUGHT Israel A POWERFUL Lesson
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by misreal(m): 10:28pm On Apr 15
FoolishBoy419:


How is it hogwash? The cost of each David Sling and Iron Dome payload is well-known, and the 2 billion dollars estimate was made by an IDF general. Western weapons are super expensive and even their leaders complain about that a lot.

It is nearly impossible for Iran to give any meaningful assistance to Hamas but Hezbollah is still formidable and hundreds of times more powerful than Hamas.

So in other words,Iran is not the sponsor of Hamas and Hezbollah?
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by FoolishBoy419: 10:30pm On Apr 15
@misreal I suggest you make a Google search. Even pro-Israel media are saying the same thing. Israel, along with its allies spent almost 30x more than what Iran spent 😂😂😂
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by FoolishBoy419: 10:32pm On Apr 15
misreal:

So in other words,Iran is not the sponsor of Hamas and Hezbollah?

Iran sponsors Hezbollah and provides extremely limited assistance Hamas. The entirety of Gaza is under constant surveillance from the IDF, making it difficult to sponsor Hamas. I can't believe I'm having this conversation.
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by misreal(m): 10:42pm On Apr 15
FoolishBoy419:
@misreal I suggest you make a Google search. Even pro-Israel media are saying the same thing. Israel, along with its allies spent almost 30x more than what Iran spent 😂😂😂
So?
How much will it cost Iran to defend itself against three hundred ballistic misiles?..
You guys are just using the cost of Israel defending itself to ignore the failure of Iran to exact revenge.
Israel killed 9 Iranian generals in one strike,
How many israeli died in 300 Iranian strikes?
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by misreal(m): 10:49pm On Apr 15
FoolishBoy419:


Iran sponsors Hezbollah and provides extremely limited assistance Hamas. The entirety of Gaza is under constant surveillance from the IDF, making it difficult to sponsor Hamas. I can't believe I'm having this conversation.
Listen now!!
I believe every life matters.
I don't mind spending billions of dollars to defend my people against any form of aggression.
As long as no life was lost,I am good.
So the argument of Israel and the west spending billions to defend Israel is absolutely nonsensical to me.its only a way to evade the fact that Iran failed woefully in their attempt to exact revenge.
Is it that,Iran does not value the lives of their people,that all they will do to Israel is to shoot misiles that can easily be intercepted
Or is it that they actually gave it their best shot,but it didn't work out,so they are just trying to save face by telling us that they didn't mean any harm?
Please,make me understand why after losing 9 top officials,all they did was to shoot misiles that did almost no damage to Israel.
Now Israel is saying they will pay them back,but this time no lives will be lost in Israel.
Do you get my point now?
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by FoolishBoy419: 11:18pm On Apr 15
misreal:

Listen now!!
I believe every life matters.
I don't mind spending billions of dollars to defend my people against any form of aggression.
As long as no life was lost,I am good.
So the argument of Israel and the west spending billions to defend Israel is absolutely nonsensical to me.its only a way to evade the fact that Iran failed woefully in their attempt to exact revenge.
Is it that,Iran does not value the lives of their people,that all they will do to Israel is to shoot misiles that can easily be intercepted
Or is it that they actually gave it their best shot,but it didn't work out,so they are just trying to save face by telling us that they didn't mean any harm?
Please,make me understand why after losing 9 top officials,all they did was to shoot misiles that did almost no damage to Israel.
Now Israel is saying they will pay them back,but this time no lives will be lost in Israel.
Do you get my point now?

This is not a complex analysis to make.

First off, there's no proof that Iran had any plans to hurt civilians, given that all of their successful hits landed on military bases. In fact, the missiles flew over Israel's parliament and several residential areas.

Secondly, you and I know that there is no way Iran would alert Turkey and let them know exactly when their attack would commence without expecting their NATO allies to know and prepare for it. There's no way they didn't expect those cheap drones to be intercepted and like I have said earlier, Iran had a lot of options.

What Iran did is what is known as "symbolic military attack." It is a way of showing your capabilities to the enemy and testing his weaknesses without leading to an escalation. At least Iran now knows what kind of missiles can penetrate the David Sling and they know that Israel cannot afford to sustain a missile exchange with them. That 2 billion USD was Israel's cost only. If you factor in what their allies spent, we'd be talking about 5 billion USD (again, according to estimates from multiple sources) to stop a 50-80 million dollar attack.
And They could have easily used their proxies to strike Israeli consulates in the Middle East without prior warning if all they wanted was blood and I can assure you that should Israel make the mistake of attacking Iran, you are going to see a completely different outcome. Quote me when it happens

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Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by timesuploaded: 11:34pm On Apr 15
misreal:

Do you even know who you are talking to?
But then,just because you are old doesn't make your information right.
Who did the counting?
You,the idf or Hezbollah?
Abi you just want me to swallow what you are saying because you are old enough to be my father?
If that is how you treat your children,then you are just a bully.
You will soon be free from your brainwashing cell. Anything that goes out from Iran will hit their targets. !srael with a land mass of less than 20,000 sq km can even be ended with artillery being fired indiscriminately. I just dey laugh all of una.
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by Xiaohei(m): 1:41am On Apr 16
jazzman7711:


But to depend on allies for basic defence is weakness.

The US just told Israel that they would NOT be involved in any retaliation for the Iranian attack, and Israel has gone quiet.

Netanyahu has gone totally quiet. Even the media has been asking where he is and why he has said nothing in the last 3 days.

Now they are humble.

Meanwhile Iran issued another threat yesterday, that if Israel DARED to retaliate, they would strike much harder, with more deadly weapons and missiles.

Iran is stronger than Israel.

Even the US doesn’t want Iran’s trouble.


Too many pseudo-war analysts on Nairaland. Are you inferring that Iran would be a hard battle for the United States? Please! Netanyahu, in my opinion, deserves to be tried as a war criminal for his crimes in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine where over 33k people including children, women and the elderly have died from Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Palestine. Without that out of the way, make no mistake about Israel’s military capabilities. Remember how a rag-tagged Israel military defeated several Arab nations in the six-day war? Israel’s military might has increased unprecedentedly since then making it one of the top militaries in the world. Perhaps we’ve not read that Israel has never admitted nor denied it has nuclear weapons. Read wide, my friend. So, it’d be naive for anyone to think Israel would not strike Iran if it strikes any Israeli city. May peace reign!
Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by iykbethany(m): 9:57pm On Apr 16
I've been researching about this current Iran/Israel crisis and found the following

1. Financial war: Irans $60m attack was defended with $1B, burning a hole in the Israeli economy.


2. Iran did not use its latest technology or hypersonic missiles to attack, whilst Israel showcased their latest self defence missile technology, causing iran to improve for their next attack.

3. Failure of the Iron dome: even with the help of US and Jordanian air defences, 7-15 missiles hit vital military infrastructures (like runways) causing direct loses to the zionists army.

4. Irans might: a clear message was sent to the entire world that the equation has changed now, Iran has the ability to attack wherever and whenever they want.

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Re: If Israel Is So Powerful, Why Do They Need USA, UK, EU To Stop Iranian Missiles? by D1official: 10:54pm On Apr 16
0m0luabi:
you must be a clown to think that putin give a Bleep about religion when it comes to international politics if them born Israel papa well let them attack Iran directly like Iran did and see if you no go start shouting pray for Israel
Mumu, same Russia that has been an all time ally can never fight ISREAL because of IRAN.

You should look for your Islamic brothers FIR such nonsense.

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