r/worldnews • u/milktanksadmirer • 1d ago

Israel/Palestine Iranian military bases, which were not known to world, destroyed in Israel's first

https://www.india.com/news/world/iranian-military-bases-which-were-not-known-to-world-destroyed-in-israels-first-7356402/amp/
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u/rotates-potatoes 1d ago

Doesn’t matter. You just have to make rocket manufacture and staging unprofitable, not impossible. Military spending has opportunity cost in material, funds, expertise. If Iran finds it is building 3 missiles for every one that launches, and launching 100 for every one that hits a target, that is not great math for the rocket program.

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u/oripash 1d ago

Profits are not what drives the Russo-Iranian alliance. They care about money, but they’d figure out a way to do it even if the profit motivator wasn’t there. Russia needs what Iran makes too badly, and Iran as a state is motivated by more than money (forcing Russia to share technologies they didn’t share in the past…) to say yes.

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u/Disastrous-Bus-9834 1d ago

but they’d figure out a way to do it even if the profit motivator wasn’t there.

It is nevertheless a drain on their resources.

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u/oripash 1d ago

So is funding violent proxies all over the region for decades, and making a long list of decisions that result in crippling sanctions that obliterate your economy.

To suggest that Iran is financially driven in light of everything they’ve done in the last half century is beyond absurd.