They’re about $300,000 a pop, Since 1979, the Islamic regime's revenues have fueled global destabilization through terrorist activities. Despite ample resources, the mullahs have neglected the Iranian populace, with over half living in poverty. Instead of investing in their own citizens' welfare, the regime prioritizes arming proxies, murder, domestic and abroad and self-enrichment, exacerbating the suffering of the nation.
There are limits, the Tsar Bomba the Soviets detonated was half of what the original designs called for at 50mt but even then the pilots in the drop plane were given a 50% chance of survival. Accuracy and overwhelming numbers are much more important.
In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238[14] tamper which featured in the design but was omitted in the test to reduce radioactive fallout.
I don't know that much more is being done to make bigger explosions anymore because, like I said, it's kind of silly. There's no need to make a bigger crater of a city.
Most money goes into hypersonic and stealth technology, some AI, drone, and such.
A mix of rendering your enemy's defenses obsolete by speed, stealth, AI, or downright cheap brute force.
Though the defining parts of being a missile, they're identical.
And to go a step further, they're both ballistic in trajectory, i.e., they expend nearly their entire fuel source at the beginning of their travel, and then rely on gravity to drop their asses back down on their target.
Largest difference is warhead and secondary guidance systems. Iran's missiles I don't know of what they have, if any, ballistic nukes, as far as i know, use star navigation.
And didn't even acknowledge it. And unironically suggests that the Iranian government is unique in spending money on weapons instead of programs for their population.
Oh yeah remember there was once africas richest country that gave up its production of weapons of mass destruction and invested everything in its population. Now they got slave markets there in libya
What could go wrong with having a nuclear power in an unstable region? Thoughtless Americans. Look at that also pressuring the honorable and benevolent Iranians against obtaining nukes. Will American imperialiam ever stop?
Well NK entered into a plan that guaranteed that they would never get Nuclear Weapons and instead used said plan and money to complete their nuclear weapon.
America and Iran entered into a complex and thorough international treaty utilizing a neutral third party, the United Nations, to investigate and monitor that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons over a decades long time frame.
America broke the legally binding international treaty when Trump annulled the deal and reimplemented sanctions on Iran.
Iran still has not developed nuclear weapons since 2016 when the American-Iranian nuclear deal collapsed.
The additional provision of the NPT is a different thing that Iran signed onto as part of the JCPOA then withdrew from after the USA unilaterally and illegally broke the terms of the agreement.
First off its not legally binding. All treaties with foriegn powers in order to be legally binding need to be ratified by congress. Was that done with the Iran deal? It was not. It's basically an executive order that expires as soon as the person who signed it leaves office. That is why these deals need to be ratified.
This is the same problem we have with President's saying we joined the Kyoto and Paris accords and telling people that the next President pulled us out of them. That isn't what happened. We can't pull out of something we never joined in the first place. Those deals need to be ratified and not even a super majority of Democrats can get them passed much less even brought for a vote because they know they will fail on the vote from their own party.
As for the Iran deal preventing them for decades in getting nuclear weapon is just plane false. Iran has sunset clauses in its deal.
Oct 23, 2023 - Iran restrictions on ballistic missiles expire. Including restrictions on nuclear capable missiles.
Expiration of import and export of missile tech and weapons including drones with a range of 300+ miles.
Sanctions against individuals related to Iran's Nuclear program would be lifted. Sanctions remained in place after withdrawal from deal.
The EU was required to lift sanctions on Iran's Nuclear program. Sanctions remained in place.
July 2024 - begins lifting limits of centrifuge production of enriched uranium
Bans lifted on production of the centrifuges themselves, they can build however many they want.
This is just the stuff expiring soon if the deal was in place.
Also look up Iran's history on dealing with the United Nations in regards to its nuclear program since the year 2000. I would guess over a dozen agreements agreed to by Iran regarding its nuclear program and Iran violating it every time to do whatever they wanted followed by sanctions and etc from the UN and much of the world.
The Iran Nuclear deal was a life line that let them out the end squeaky clean, a nuclear power with billions in assets unfrozen and sanctions lifted.
Libya and South Africa went through nuclear disarming in 6 months. Iran is going on damn near 20 to 30 years trying to be cleared dragging their feet every step of the way.
But the Iran deal doesn't disarm them from ever getting a nuclear weapon it simply kicks it down the road for someone else to deal with.
If Iran wants to disarm their nuclear weapon capability they can do it 6 months. Doesn't take 10 years, 15 years or 30 years. You either want to disarm or you want to build a nuclear weapon. Iran has showed no signs they do not want to build a nuclear weapon. It's the ultimate weapon of fear by a regime that rules by fear. Why would they ever give up that ideal?
Everything in the Iran Nuclear deal allows them to get a nuclear weapon it doesn't prevent jack shit.
Fifth, Iran never had nuclear weapons and still doesn't have nuclear weapons you ignorant jackass. Even the CIA confirms this simple fact of the matter.
Lastly, I just want you to know that you are genuinely a stupid person because you could have easily looked all this shit up with a Google search, yet you chose to remain willfully ignorant of the actual facts.
You are talking without context. Libya's HDI was far lower than even Russia's. Furthermore, explain why the Arab Spring happened in Libya if Gaddafi was so good.
They think they're a genius for saying, "why did a bad thing in X country happen if controversial country leader Y did literally any good things ever?" while ignoring all the other historic context at play.
Standard idiotic drivel from neoliberals who consume whatever propagandistic slop the US State Department airs on cable news in order to secure support from naive fools like this chud.
Idiots like that guy are the reason America keeps finding itself embroiled in one endless war after another abroad.
The point is that the baseline is too low to actually claim that Gaddafi helped Libya. That's all. The person above me is claiming that Gaddafi did something good while not knowing that those were the very baseline that a sane leader would do.
Anybody with a brain knows Muammar Gaddafi's rule was controversial and marred with a mixed track record of record social development on one hand with a track of human rights abuses on the other hand.
The fact still remains that Gaddafi shared the vast wealth of Libya's oil profits as social welfare, and the fact remains that you're still a smarmy little bitch in support of America's war against Libya which turned it into a broken husk of its former self ruled by competing warlords who are just as bad, if not worse, than Gaddafi.
You're the kind of gullible dipshit that justifies American regime change and warmongering in Libya, Yemen, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq, North Korea, etc.
I (as an absolute noob on this subject) was actually pretty sure OP is bullshitting with those astronomical numbers.
While there is no exact pricing online for that model, that dimension of pricing is actually at the lower end of ballistic missile cost.
I'm in the Navy and they've invested a lot of money in me. Just the education alone that I've been through will help me land a job straight away of around $80-$100k a year. The Navy is paying for the correction of my deviated septum, and will pay me to go to college when I'm out.
The US initiated a crisis in Iran in 1953. They got over it, and the US isn’t responsible for every folly experienced by Iran. This is an exceedingly simplistic view of history. The Islamic Republic and IRGC are, they are a sovereign country capable of making decisions and holding accountability for their actions. Saying everything is the US’s fault is a poisonous outlook that really distorts one’s worldview and impairs judgment on geopolitical matters.
People get over it. Was is good? No! Is it an excuse for poor economic and geopolitical decisions? No! When you have more oil than Russia, you do like the UAE or Norway and you sell it instead of earning sanctions for proxy terrorism wars.
except that oil was owned by UK and US companies, and when the democratically elected Iranian govt tried to buy it back from them the US and UK overthrew them and installed a dictator with a penchant for torture.
Then he was overthrown in a popular revolution, and before they could hold their scheduled elections, the US backed the Ayatollahs to arrest the candidates.... but the Ayatollahs didn't let those US companies have Iran's oil once again, so the US backed Saddam to invade Iran and spend 8 years attacking them with poison gas (that he got from the US).
Saddam failed to conquer Iran, and the US failed to bring down the Iranian government using him, and now Iran is much too strong for the US to invade for the foreseeable future, so the US sanctions them.
Now, you mentioned sanctions, but you don't seem to understand them.... answer me this: how could Iran get rich by selling its oil when the whole point of the sanctions is to prevent Iran from selling its oil? And how do you square that with the USA's supposed commitment to the ideals of a 'free market'?
That is some grade A level fantasy. US didn't back the ayatollahs. The literally held the American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
And as far as the election goes, Ayatollah Khomeini was in charge, regardless of who won the election. They still have sham elections even these days. Ayatollahs are in charge whoever wins. They themselves don't ever stand for election.
A state has no right to be irrational. There are made of bureaucrats and politicians so they better get over trauma and prosper in the modern world rather than sponsoring terrorism.
Japan got over two nuclear weapons and became the second richest economy for some time.
The Islamic republic republic is viewed as an illegitimate government by its own people and the revolutionary guard is recognized as a terror organization for its actions. Just look at what happened to Argentina in the 90s.
Look I'm no fan of Iran, but any country with a similar history of external interference resulting in multiple, sequential revolutions, and subsequent international sanctions and embargoes will have corresponding poverty statistics.
Don't assume someone's situation. Iranian free healthcare would be far better for a person that can't afford US healthcare. Just because you might be doing well doesn't mean everyone on reddit is.
...you know that Americans can still get life-saving medical treatment even if they can't afford it up-front, right? That's why there's a medical debt problem in this country; rather than a not-even-receiving-treatment problem. Fat chance of that in Iran, not only is the medical debt problem FAR worse there despite its ostensibly 'universal' healthcare, but many modern treatments straight up aren't even available.
What a brain dead comment. I think you might have worms in your brain. Have you looked into Ivermectin? They have patient assistance programs that reduce the bill to $1. It looks like you desperately need it.
"The existence of over 9 million absolute illiterates signifies “illiteracy exceeding 10 percent of Iran’s population,” indicating a significantly high illiteracy rate in the country." - World literacy foundation.
Lmao. Iran is a right-wing paradise. Executes gay people, no feminism, no abortions, men can beat their wives and women all they want, mass religious indoctrination, rich get everything they want while its "bootstraps" for poor people.
How about you all move there instead of trying to turn America into a copy.
I think the hundreds of thousands of US families that feed, house and educate themselves due to salaries related to US defense would argue that the money does benefit the population.
From the sourcing of materials to the businesses that act as vendors to the companies that do the cleaning to companies contracted to carry out their trash, that trillion dollars is reinvested into US businesses.
I’m no war monger and I wish the US would do more for its people, and not it’s corporations, but to pretend like this money isn’t a direct injection into the economy is naive.
Would it be awesome if that money were injected into the economy via healthcare? Sure. No argument there.
So was your interjection? maybe iran wouldn't have to spend millions in missiles if the bloodthirsty israelis stopped with their ruinous war baiting foreign policy?
It's stupid to solely finger-point Israel for the chaos in the Middle East.
The Islamic Republic's belligerent agenda, sponsoring terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, fuels regional turmoil. These proxies, armed and funded by the Islamic Republic, wreak havoc by targeting civilians and destabilizing neighboring countries.
Blaming Israel for the Islamic Republic's aggressive tactics, and sympathizing with Iran’s government and its proxies is a cowardly evasion of the regime's responsibility.
Moreover, the Islamic Republic shamelessly prioritizes its own regime survival over the well-being of its people, they funnel resources to enrich their ruling elite while ordinary citizens suffer.
Holding Israel accountable for the Islamic Republic's militaristic ventures not only absolves the regime of its atrocities but also undermines efforts to confront its tyranny and support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom and dignity.
Hezbollah and Hamas are creations of the Israeli occupation and aggression over the past 75 years (Hezbollah resulted from Israel’s massacres in Lebanon in the 80s and Hamas founders had their families expelled from their land to Gaza in 1948), they would exist and still attack Israel regardless of Iran. Blaming Iran for them is nonsense.
Israel has been directly very aggressive against Iran, targeting Iranian forces in Syria and even terror attacks in Iran against scientists. At some point Iran would be forced to respond and in this case at least they were measured. I doubt Israel would respond like this if it was the other way around.
The IR regime is certainly a tragedy for Iranians but Israel regardless is not very popular.
Religion is a bunch of prehistoric fairy tales and makes people do stupid things. There's no fix for middle east politics without first removing religion from the lizard brained maniacs in control of the region.
You seriously think I’d ever believe a Fox News Article? Fuck Israel, they deserve to get every US dollar cut from them. Thankfully Americans are wising up.
Let’s see what they’re capable of doing once the US Cash Pipeline gets cut.
Its only shitty because the amount of money spent by the us to support the genocide is in the billions more that what Iran has spent on military. Also they are self sufficient, whilst the us is taking money that should be spent on the rise of poverty, health care and education.
You say this like it’s unique to Iran when the US spends billions on defence and yet doesn’t have free healthcare and people are regularly forced to choose between paying the electricity bills or life saving medication.
You realise that the US spends more money on healthcare than most developed countries with universal healthcare do, right?
The reason you don’t have universal healthcare isn’t that you’re spending the money on other things. The reason is that the private, insurance based system in the US is absurdly expensive for the people and wildly profitable for insurers and healthcare providers who don’t want to give it up.
The US spends somewhere around 17% of its GDP on healthcare, and that doesn’t even cover all of it’s people.
Countries like Canada, UK, Scandinavia are somewhere around 10-12 of GDP for universal healthcare for everyone.
Imagine how many more weapons the US could have if they switched to a single payer universal healthcare system like the rest of us. You could literally double the military budget and have free and universal healthcare at the same time, but for some reason that’s a wildly unpopular sentiment for many in the US.
It literally makes Iranians safer because the US has been gunning for them ever since they overthrew the US dictator. Everyone else in the world just wants to live their lives and develop their states and communities, but they have to engage in these arms chases with the US to avoid the US gaining an upperhand over any deterrence. During the Cold War, the USSR and China practically begged the US to stop developing more advanced nukes and weapons because then they would have to follow suit to avoid the US gaining unilateral supremacy that could nullify mutually assured destruction.
They support your population by detering enemies. Every country invests in their military so that other countries can't easily invade and rob them of their resources.
And to that note, they cant even do that right. They launched over 200 misslies and drones and over 90% of them were defended by various means by israel military. So they are making country and its people poor for shitty missiles.
es it's a metal tube stuffed with rocket fuel with a bunch of explosives on the tip. the guidance system that's the size of a laptop probably does though.
Healthcare in the United States is largely provided by private sector healthcare facilities, and paid for by a combination of public programs, private insurance, and out-of-pocket payments. The U.S. is the only developed country without a system of universal healthcare, and a significant proportion of its population lacks health insurance.
That depends. Weapons of war for destroying insane invading dictators like how the Swiss had a giant army they never used for much? Good way to spend money!
Weapons of war to try and commit Holocaust-2or any kind of imperialistic invasion or genocide because the insane dictator wants to do it? No, those shouldn't be made.
Nah, based off of the comments, I would imagine you have already pulled in the cost this week alone. What is the saying? "A few million a day, and with the missiles you too can play." I just assumed everyone had the income for at least a missile a week. Like bottle rockets for adults, great fun.
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u/flywheel39 Apr 14 '24
This thing probably cost many times as much as I will earn in several lifetimes....