Absolutely no possibility of the USA or the UK hit by missiles from ANYTHING in the Middle East
Nothing new has happened - just a reminder for everyone that a world war is impossible. Because we keep being ask to fact check this impossible thing. There have been numerous wars in the Middle East including the Iraq war and the Gulf War and the wars between Israel and its neighbouring countries, and they NEVER lead to a world war and this graphic explains why it never happens and never CAN happen.
When the sensationalist press talk about a world war from the Middle East it is just sensationalist click bait. They don’t even care that it is nonsense just want you to click on the headline. When people say it on social media it is mostly people who just don’t know much about history or geography or the capabilities of Iran.
TEXT ON GRAPHIC: Why there is absolutely no possibility of the US being hit as a result of ANYTHING that goes on in the Middle East.
Israel has invaded Lebanon several times including in 2006. The US is not likely to get involved except shooting incoming missiles.i
Nobody in the Middle East opposed to the US or Israel is even able to fire weapons to another continent. The longest range of the Iranian missiles is 2000 km. They need most of that range just to reach Israel from Iran.
An intercontinental missile is 5,500 km. The shortest distance from Iran to the US is far more even than that.
Why there is NO RISK EVER of a world war from yet one more conflict in the Middle East of many (basic geography few seem to know on social media).
Shortest distance from Iran to USA 8,400+ km.
Maximum range for Iran's missiles:2000 km.
Iran is NOT able to attack the US.
The US has been involved in many conflicts in the Middle East including its invasion of Iraq and the Gulf war.
These do NOT lead to world wars and CAN’T.
Russia: neutral to Israel and Hezbollah / Hamas
China: no interest in Israel just oil from Middle East
Israel: neutral to Russia and Ukraine.
This time the US is NOT involved except to protect Israel from incoming missiles.
Israel and Iran do NOT want to fight each other either - both trying to give an appearance of strength without provoking an increase in conflict.
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Why there can NEVER be a world war from ANYTHING in the Middle East.
Iran is ONLY INTERESTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Nobody here can fight a world war even if it wanted to so THERE WAS NEVER ANY POSSIBILITY OF A WORLD WAR
Range of Iran’s Shahab 3
range 2000 km
can fly into space but
NOT intercontinental (5,500 km+)
can’t reach UK
can’t reach US
Russia is neutral to Israel and Iran
Israel is neutral to Russia and UkraineIsrael is neutral to Russia and Ukraien
China has no interest in Israel
Iran’s only interest is to be able to hit Israel and US bases in the Middle East.
Iran is in no condition to fight a war with Israel
Its longest range missiles are 2,000 km and they only have that length to hit Israel because Iran is such a big country. The closest point is a bit less than 1000 km from Israel, the furthest point is over 2000 km from Israel.
This shows the distance that Iran's longest distance rocket can fly - as you can see it can only reach Israel from about two thirds of the land area of Iran
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Why Iran, with by far the most powerful missiles of any Arab countyr i the Middle East, is unable to fight a world war EVEN IF TI WANTED TO which it doesn't.
Even with a 2,000 km missile this is the only prt of Iran that can fire as far as Tel Aviv in Israel.
Iran CAN'T fire anyhting as far as the US or UK or France etc and isn't even interested.
And Iran does NOT have nukes..
Uses this drawing of a 2000 km radius circle centered on Tel Aviv.
ALSO NO WAY FOR IRAN TO ATTACK THE UK OR US OR ANY DISTANT COUNTRY BY SEA OR BY LAND - ONLY 3 SMALL FRIGATES IN THEIR NAVY AND NO LAND ROUTE
They also don't have nuclear subs, their diesel subs would need to be refueled many times to get to e.g. the UK <and are not silent. They only have patrol boats and frigates not destroyers. Their biggest ships are three frigates with a range of 9000 km at 28 km / h and can reach a speed of up to 72 km/h if using gas turbines
They used to have four until the US sunk one of them. It could surely sink the rest if it wanted to.
. Alvand-class frigate - Wikipedia
The sea distance is : 6858 nautical miles or around 12,000 km from London to Bandar Abbas on the strait of Hormuz.
. Port of London, United Kingdom to Bandar Abbas, Iran sea route and distance
This means they couldn't get to the UK without refueling and at a sea distance of about 12,000 km it would take them. (12,000/78)/24 or over 6 days to get from Iran to UK at their fastest speed with frequent refueling.
It is very obvious that Iran can't invade anywhere in Europe. And it can't invade overland either. And it can't send missiles to the US or UK.
Russia is neutral on Iran / Israel. Israel is neutral on Russia / Ukraine - it just supplies the missiles for financial reasons, it is a miltiary trade partner not an ally.
IRAN DON’T DO TERRORIST ACTS LIKE 9/11 AND WERE SURPRISED BY THE HAMAS ATTACK THEMSELVES - THEY ARE MORE A SPONSOR OF MILITANTS AND CLASSIFIED AS TERRORIST MAINLY BECAUSE OF USE OF CAR BOMBS TO KILL MILITARY OPPONENTS OVERSEAS
Iran wouldn't do anything like 9/11 and its proxies are militant organizations - they are only loosely connected with Hamas which they did support with military supplies but Hamas are sunni and Iran is Shia.
They only focus on Israel. Iran joined the coalition fighting against ISIS in Syria.
Hezbollah don't deliberately target civilians or take hostages or use torture either - they are more of a militant group but are classified as a terrorist group mainly because of a couple of high profile car bombings.
Iran and its proxies are accused of bomb plots to assassinate opponents in many other countries but not of anything like 9/11. Iran itself sees its militant groups as liberation groups to liberate from Israeli oppression.
. Iran and state-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia
So, Iran is very different from ISIS, or Al Qaeda which deliberately sponsored international terror.
IRAN WAS SURPRISED BY OCT 06 AND CALLED FOR AN IMMEDIATE HUMANITARIAN PAUSE AND CEASEFIRE EARLY ON THOUGH THEY DIDN’T GO AS FAR AS TO CONDEMN HAMAS FOR WHAT IT DID
Hamas' attacks on civilians in Israel were done without Iranian approval or knowledge. Iranian leaders were surprised by them.
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The U.S. has intelligence indicating senior Iranian officials were surprised by the Hamas-led terror attack on Israel, according to multiple American officials familiar with the matter, preliminarily suggesting Tehran was not directly involved the launch of the deadly Oct. 7 assault.
While analysis and collection are continuing and additional information may arise to contradict the . initial assessments, officials briefed on the intelligence say key Iranian officials who would normally be aware of operations in the region appeared to be unaware the attacks were taking place.
. U.S. intelligence indicates Iranian officials surprised by Hamas attack on Israel
Iran called for a ceasefire early on. Iran was one of the countries in the UN voting on 27th October 2023 for an immediate humanitarian pause leading to a ceasefire.
They continue to call for a ceasefire today. They support Hezbollah but Hezbollah has constantly also called for a ceasefire in Gaza strip. Their attacks on Israel were to respond to show themselves as strong after Israel assassinated many leaders of Iranian sponsored militant groups but Iran doesn't want a war with Israel and is still continuously calling for a ceasefire in Gaza Strip and with Hezbollah.
A NEW 9/11 IS IMPOSSIBLE TODAY BECAUSE OF AIRLINE SECURITY - AND IT COULDN’T START A WORLD WAR EITHER - NATO IS DEFENSIVE AND ARTICLE 5 IS ABOUT DEFENSE NOT RETALIATION AND DOES NOT MENTION NUKES
And anyway it is impossible to have something like 9/11 again because of heightened air security.
Also 9/11 didn't start a world war, it couldn't. It did lead to the US invoking NATO article 5 but that is very much misunderstood. It is purely defensive, NATO does whatever it needs to do to defend itself. It does NOT mention nukes and it does not commit NATO to any particular type of response.
In this case it led to the NATO countries joining together to protect NATO from terrrosim and to hunt down the originators of 9/11.
I have a section about how article 5 is defensive only in my blog post here:
Iran and its proxies can't start a world war even if they wanted to which they don't, as their missiles have only a bit more range than is needed to get from Iran to Israel indeed their longest distance missile can't even reach Israel from the far side of Iran from Israel.
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