Why did Iran almost become the Super Power of the 21st century? Iran is no longer a Third World country.- Israel embassador


Iran is the most lethal combination that modern history has known: the production capacity of an industrial-technological powerhouse with the ideology of a murderous cult.
This is exactly what turned Nazi Germany into the monster that devastated Europe and destroyed half the world: not just fanaticism, but the ability of hardworking engineers and scientists to harness technology to the Reich’s endless appetite for death.
These are the numbers:
#1 Iran ranks in the top ten in the world in the number of engineering, science, technology and mathematics (STEM) graduates each year. It surpasses powers like Japan and South Korea (World Economic Forum).
#2 Almost 35% of students in Iran study technological subjects. It’s not for nothing that they managed to produce centrifuges and ballistic missiles (CSET report).
#3 Over 2,700 Iranian researchers are ranked in the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world (Stanford/Elsevier database).
#4 Iran has reached a production capacity of about 100 to 300 ballistic missiles per month. This means that if Sinuwar, head of Hamas hadn’t attacked Israel on October 7, they would have produced thousands of missiles per year. Every year.
#5 The Iranian regime is now massacring more than 30,000 of its own citizens without batting an eyelid.
#6 This is a regime that has been trying to harm, exhaust, eliminate, destroy, and murder Israeli and American citizens for 47 years. Since 1979, the Iranian regime and its sympathizers have killed at least 3,000 Israelis in Israel and abroad, and over 1,000 Americans over the years.
#7 This is a regime whose annual budget for building and strengthening proxies around the Middle East is $2 billion (before the war). Hezbollah alone receives about $700 million a year.
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This is a regime that starves its citizens to feed the monsters that surround us.
This is a regime that is the main reason for instability in the Middle East.
And I haven’t even started talking about the nuclear program.
The times are different, but in my opinion: there is a very big similarity between the Iranian regime and the Nazi regime:
Both were a very deadly combination of an educated and hardworking population (one that produces engineers and scientists in large quantities), and a fanatical murderous ideology. In short, the wet dream of any bloodthirsty dictator who wants to spread his ideology.
But when dictators imbued with fanatical ideology come to power in countries with fine human capital, advanced industry, and superior engineering capability – like Germany or Iran – it allows them to destroy half the world.
If Sinwar had not attacked, and Iran had continued on the same vector, Iran would have been able to

#1 Develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching 10,000 km – a direct threat to the East Coast of the United States. By 2035 (Source: US Congress, 2025).
#2 Possess dozens of nuclear warheads mounted on precision missiles aimed directly at Tel Aviv, Haifa, Riyadh, and Dubai.
The nuclear umbrella would have allowed Iran almost unlimited military freedom of action, in addition to the ability to harass and strike Israel and the Gulf.
#3 Iran would have become the largest exporter of cheap and smart weapons of the modern axis of evil. Today, the bombers destroying the infrastructure in Ukraine are Iranian. Tomorrow? Any terrorist organization in Africa or South America.
As the Russians turned the Kalashnikov The standard in the world of terrorism – the Iranians would make the “Shahed” their air standard.
And I haven’t even talked about control of the Straits of Hormuz, which allows the Iranians to increase the price of fuel in the world by 200% with the push of a button.
Hitler with German production capacity was the nightmare of the 20th century.
Khamenei with the wonderful Iranian human capital, would have become the nightmare of the 21st century.

Iran in 2035 could transform from a state supporting terrorism, into a technological-fanatic-cruel terrorist empire that could destroy entire countries, hit American cities, paralyze the global oil pipeline, and bring down the stock market with the push of a button.
And all this with nuclear immunity.
Imagine waking up one morning to a barrage of 5,000 ballistic missiles landing on us from Iran: Blitz. A madman who would have crippled the air defense systems, and killed tens of thousands of Israelis in the same period of time that Hamas terrorists massacred in the surrounding communities.
This is a threat that Israel cannot tolerate. This is a threat that the free world can under no circumstances tolerate.
Israel and the United States are eliminating one of the greatest threats to world peace.
If you had the opportunity to bomb Nazi Germany in 1936, with a reasonable risk to human life – wouldn’t you do it? I would.