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My point wasn't that they haven't practiced some level of diplomacy. I was commenting on the level with with the earlier comment spoke of their diplomacy, and the seeming implication that they couldn't have been more diplomatic.

Calling for death to America, speaking of desires for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth, funding non-state militant actors in the region, etc are all acts that inflame and go counter to the diplomacy they were otherwise taking part in.






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Do you like it when people quote you out of context? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44342393


You're just making my point. Calling for the death of the US or Israeli governments goes against the comment I replied to which attempted to make a case that Iran has been as diplomatic as possible.

I wasn’t implying they were diplomatic as possible. I was simply suggesting that diplomacy will only get you so far. there is a threshold after which you simply need to have the power and resources to defend your nation from foreign adversaries with whatever means possible, one of which is nukes - presumably a relatively cheap option if u already have the R&D.



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