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Iran Super Thread- Merged

Although, ironically, they probably know what a White Russian is ;)

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Just make sure to stir it properly.
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I think he had a plan, and his SecWar was all for it -- so they didn't listen to more informed opinions.

Apparently not even the CJCS' advice.

I refuse to give this guy the benefit of doubt ever since he dunked on John McCain and said he knew more than the Generals. This is the obvious destination of that kind of ignorance and contempt for the military.
 

With what he's just said, probably not. Unless he's about to contradict himself in the same speech.

It'll take Iran "months" to dig up the radioactive material.

EDIT: 19 minute circlejerk. Nothing of value said, no announcements. He basically read off the last week of his Truthsocial posts in chronological order.
 
With what he's just said, probably not. Unless he's about to contradict himself in the same speech.

It'll take Iran "months" to dig up the radioactive material.

EDIT: 19 minute circlejerk. Nothing of value said, no announcements. He basically read off his Truthsocial posts in chronological order.

Well that was a great big yawn of a speech.

Basically announced he has no plan for the Strait and then crapped out on NATO. This won't do anything to get the Regime to stop.
 
Perhaps he was planning on announcing his reprisal for something tragic that could have happened, but didn’t, this evening.
 
Only real change is that he didn't mention desalinization plants when he was talking about going after their power plants. Maybe someone finally got through to him that there was no way to sugarcoat it.
 
I found it interesting how much relative detail he went into about maintaining surveillance on the smashed nuclear sites, and being prepared to strike again if it looks like they're trying to recover the HEU. It was the only specific course of action he really outlined. He did make it clear a couple more weeks of ops remain.

There's been a fair bit of reporting today that he requested and was presented with a plan to launch a ground op to seize same. I wonder if the plan, presented to him, looks pretty grim; or alternatively if he wants to go for it and figured tonight's speech could insert a bit of deception til markets close tomorrow for the long weekend.

Meanwhile a bunch of A-10s still seem to be making their way east - 18 of them in the UK last I saw. That's incongruent with things immediately wrapping up.

Nothing he said tonight was particularly de-escalatory, nor did any of it really shine a light to a clear off ramp with objectives achieved.
 
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