We should have little sympathy for them, but ill thought out war will do nothing to improve things for those citizens. Far more likely the opposite.

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leereeves 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This seems to be a fairly well thought out war that's already killed many Iranian leaders, including:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Supreme Leader

Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi – Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces

Major General Mohammad Pakpour – Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC

Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh – Minister of Defense

Mohammad Shirazi – Head of Supreme Leader’s military office

Ali Larijani – Senior national security chief

Esmaeil Khatib – Minister of Intelligence

Gholamreza Rezaian – Iranian police intelligence commander

Gholamreza Soleimani – Basij paramilitary commander

Saleh Asadi – Head of military intelligence at Khatam‑al Anbiya

Has there been any other war in which one side so quickly killed the leadership of the other side?

	▲	TheAlchemist an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The way this war is shown to us (West) is very loopsided - Iran was never going to be able to stop the bombing and they knew it. But they still retain most of their ability to blow up anything they want around their country, which is most of oil and gas fields in the Middle East, and this time they actually proved it. We like to think we're winning, but are we ? Iran leadership is supposedly decimated, missile capabilities destroyed etc. And yet, when Israel attacked their gas field, they immediately wiped out 17% of Qatari gas productions capacities which will take 5 years to rebuild and they could have wiped out everything. Seems their leadership structure is doing just fine. As for all the killed - what did we actually achieve ? Replace Khamenei with his son - a guy who had all of his family blown up to pieces by US / Israeli ? That should do wonders to Iran's future relationship with those countries.
	▲	greggoB 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Listing a kill count doesn't amount to evidence that the war has been well thought out, it only tells us the US and Israel are good at assassinations. It is clear the initial aim was to decapitate the leadership and expect capitulation of some form or another to follow. This obviously hasn't happened, and so the fallout grows by the day.
	▲	cardanome 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Many of these leaders decided to not hide underground but to become martyrs. It is really not an accomplishment to murder someone in their own house when they have not been hiding. Khamenei was already very old. His security begged him to evacuate but he asked them if they can evacuate all Iranians. If they can't why should he get special treatment? He knew he could serve his country best by becoming a martyr. Meanwhile Israeli leader Netanyahu is so afraid to come out of his hole that people are wondering if he is still alive.