Iran and the Isra-lic Dahiya Doctrine

The real goal is to collapse the Iranian state, with the support from Western neo-colonialist powers

Text by @SizweLo

Israel has a military strategy called the Dahiya Doctrine. Named after the Dahiya district in Beirut that Israel destroyed in its 2006 invasion of Lebanon.

This ideology calls for the use of overwhelming, disproportionate force and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure to break the will of an adversary’s population.

This isn’t a theory. It’s Israeli military policy explicitly stated, defended, and repeatedly executed in Gaza with genocidal lethality. And now, we are watching its most dangerous version yet: applied to a powerful sovereign state, Iran.

The Dahiya Doctrine logic tells us that Israel will not limit its strikes to military installations. It will continue to target critical infrastructure, including electricity grids, oil facilities, water systems, and communications networks, not just to disable Iran’s military but to make ordinary life unbearable and pressure the population and political elite alike.

These are not military objectives. They are social engineering through airstrikes, designed to collapse not just Iran’s defences but its society.
This is a war on a nation’s viability.

Israel pretends to act alone, but its doctrine is always implemented within the limits of what the Americans will tolerate, and the US tolerates everything. Biden, Trump, it makes no difference.

Here’s the most important bit: Israel has now admitted it cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear program alone. As I said in another post, Israel lacks the heavy bunker-busting bombs and delivery aircraft needed to penetrate Iran’s mountain-shielded Fordow nuclear facility.

Furthermore, just as in Iraq in 2003, it’s not far-fetched to believe that the nuclear sites were merely bait. The real goal is to collapse the Iranian state by eliminating its military and intelligence leadership through assassinations, which they did on day 1, targeting the Ayatollah Khamenei and other top political figures and unleashing chaos via terrorism, car bombings, and ethnic destabilisation.

Like in Libya and Syria, this is not just regime change but state demolition. The endgame is a manufactured “civil war”.

Once again, everything is up to the United States: It can refuse to intervene directly, letting Israel slink away with its tail between its legs or join the war, risking global oil chaos, closure of the Straits of Hormuz, and a spiral into world war.

In the end, it all returns to the Dahiya Doctrine. What began as a strategy to punish Hezbollah by reducing Beirut’s Dahiya district to rubble has now morphed into a doctrine of societal annihilation. Applied to Gaza, it has left behind a trail of destruction.

Now, applied to Iran, it threatens to scale this doctrine to its most catastrophic potential: not just to destroy a city or resistance movement but to implode an entire nation of 92 million inhabitants.

This whole thing was never about nuclear deterrence. It’s always been about proving that any nation defying Israeli or American regional dominance will face the same fate as Dahiya, Gaza, Tripoli, or Damascus.

The choice now before America is not complicated: will it amplify the Dahiya Doctrine into a war with Iran, or finally admit that this doctrine risks the future of West Asia and perhaps the entire world?

I have a feeling they’re willing to risk everyone and everything.

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