Is Iran Still Holding Back From Vigorously Defending Itself, Or Are Its Weapons Not Accurate?

 It's a bit of a mystery to my why Iran, after scores of its top leaders have been murdered by Israel and its colony the U.S., and numerous atrocities committed- hospitals and homes targeted by Israel, a girls' elementary school hit with a double tap strike by the U.S. on the first day of the latest unprovoked surprise attack on Iran on February 28th, Israel blowing up an oil refinery site in Tehran, blanketing the city with toxic oil fallout which is going to cause a cancer epidemic in coming years- why Iran's response has been relatively feeble.

Why haven't the Iranians eliminated the genocidal maniac Binyamin Netanyahu? Why haven't they bombarded the Knesset, the prime minister's residences and offices, the secret police headquarters (Shin Bet, Mossad, and other various secretive military and other units), the airfields from which Israel launches its U.S.-supplied jets with their U.S.-supplied ordnance to devastate Iran? What about Dimona, Israel's nuclear weapons manufacturing plant and military reactor?

Israel has 5 or 6 desalinization plants that supply water. It would be fitting to destroy those plants, after Israel has eliminated potable water in Gaza, in order to spread disease and murder Palestinians en masse just as the Germans killed millions of Soviet prisoners of war and many of its victims in concentration camps.

Maybe the Iranian regime fears the reaction. Israel is like the Third Reich reborn. It has nuclear weapons. Good reason for restraint. And of course the U.S. is a mad dog empire under Trump.

This is the second surprise attack launched by Israel and its U.S. puppet while Trump and his accomplices pretended to be "negotiating" with Iran. First came June 2025, with death and destruction rained down on the Iranians by Israel and its U.S. colony. Then the February 28 war, which is ongoing. 

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been trying for 20 years or more to get the U.S. to attack Iran, thundering that Iran was about to get nuclear weapons. (Yes, the same lie for decades, now treated as fact by the accomplice U.S. media, including alleged opponents of Trump.) Now Netanyahu has realized his violent dream.

Every day, there is mindless chatter in U.S. media asking what the "goals" are of the U.S. and Israel, and are they the same? I don't know if the members of the bourgeois blatherariat are really that dumb or are just pretending to be. There is no mystery. Trump obviously wants to install a pliant regime in Iran. Israel wants to break Iran into several smaller, weaker countries, in pursuit of the goal it has had since its creation in 1948, regional hegemony. It needs to reduce Iran in size, geographically, economically, and in population, to achieve that goal. Besides Persians, Iran has significant populations of Kurds, Beluchis, and Aziris. Earlier this month there were stories in the U.S. media about provoking a Kurdish uprising. Israel claimed it could do this. But the Kurds, having been repeatedly used as a proxy army in various U.S. schemes and then double-crossed by the U.S., a history going back decades, apparently said No Thanks. (There is much easily accessible information online of what I'm talking about- just search "U.S. betrayal of the Kurds" or something like that to educate yourself.)

The people of Iran have suffered grievously ever since 1953. That is the year U.S. president Eisenhower ordered the CIA to destroy democracy in Iran and install a horrible dictator, Reva Pahlavi, the "Shah," (King). The CIA created one of the world's most vicious secret police forces for the Shah, SAVAK, which compiled a horrendous record of gruesome torture and murder. Amnesty International judged Iran under the Shah the world's worst violator of human rights. Until he was finally overthrown in a mass uprising in 1979, 250,000 Iranians were murdered by his regime.

Then after a too brief period of civilian rule, the Mullahs, led by their leader Khomeini, seized power and created the oppressive theocracy that controls Iran to this day. Having exterminated all possible organized opposition, the Shah left as his legacy the only organized force left in Iranian society, the Mullahs.

Today it is hard to discern a bright future for the people of that country. That makes especially cruel and callous and sick Trump's occasional throwaway lines about liberating or helping the people of Iran, about whom he couldn't give a fuck. Being a narcissist, he only cares about himself and those he considers extensions of himself.