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Israeli strikes on Iran (2024, 2025, etc.)
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I saw video of a couple ballistic missiles impacting in Tel Aviv. Inevitably some will slip through.
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Ynet: 21 injured overall, 2 in serious condition, 2 in moderate condition.
Sounds like they're gearing up to hit Iranian oil infrastructure, as promised.
Netanyahu is also urging Iranians to overthrow the regime.
Sounds like they're gearing up to hit Iranian oil infrastructure, as promised.
Netanyahu is also urging Iranians to overthrow the regime.
I meant to mention this earlier, but a thought that occurred to me- put a few bunker busters into a Uranium enrichment site like Natanz, basically the site’s eating a dirty bomb. There could be some massive decontamination and remediation to be done before it’s ever safe to work in again. If at all.
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Yep; time to mass air drop the "Moolah for Mullahs" fliers.
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Somewhere John Bolton might be exulting.
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I heard he volunteered to ride the first missile down Dr. Strangelove-style.
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There are exceptions (eg. Kurds) but ethnically Iran seems to be coherently Persian, for the most part. That and the highly educated (and not so long ago very "cosmopolitan") populace is exactly the reason fears of warlordism should be highly muted.
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True but let’s also look at Afghanistan and the fact that a similar point of time existed between the rise of Taliban there and back when it was a hippy paradise and had rock and roll dances at the Kings and Queens Palaces in Kabul.
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Sort of my point. Referring to the single point of somewhat-liberal Kabul emphasize the fractious nature of the rest of the country, in the same vein as referring to Karzai as "mayor of Kabul". The reason I fake-quoted "cosmopolitan" is because it's the highly overused adjective favoured by writers waxing nostalgic about pre-revolutionary Iran; in that case, it was somewhat true.
I just wish he didn’t have the visible erection. It’s weird.
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Failure = orphan, success = 1000 fathers...
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
Donald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.
The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme.
“Today is day 61,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn’t get there.”
Trump’s framing presents a good cop-bad cop dynamic of his approach with Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled Israeli leader with whom he has a notoriously combative relationship. The US president has scrambled to now present the Israeli strikes, which he publicly claimed he did not want on Thursday, as a means of continuing his efforts to convince Iran to negotiate.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tary-support-given-for-israels-attack-on-iran
“They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late,” he said.
www.theguardian.com
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
Donald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.
The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme.
“Today is day 61,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn’t get there.”
Trump’s framing presents a good cop-bad cop dynamic of his approach with Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled Israeli leader with whom he has a notoriously combative relationship. The US president has scrambled to now present the Israeli strikes, which he publicly claimed he did not want on Thursday, as a means of continuing his efforts to convince Iran to negotiate.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tary-support-given-for-israels-attack-on-iran
“They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late,” he said.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
www.theguardian.com
KevinB
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So when does TACO support Ukraine against Russia and end yet another another another 2 weeks.Failure = orphan, success = 1000 fathers...
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
Donald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.
The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme.
“Today is day 61,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn’t get there.”
Trump’s framing presents a good cop-bad cop dynamic of his approach with Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled Israeli leader with whom he has a notoriously combative relationship. The US president has scrambled to now present the Israeli strikes, which he publicly claimed he did not want on Thursday, as a means of continuing his efforts to convince Iran to negotiate.
UK government says it gave no military support for Israel’s attack on Iran
“They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late,” he said.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
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oops... update... he's apparently not safe and sound
Iran's Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani killed by Israel, NYT reports
Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as commander after the latter was killed in a targeted operation by the United States in 2020.
Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, was killed during an Israeli strike in Iran, The New York Times reported on Friday evening, citing an Iranian source.
Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as commander after the latter was killed in a targeted operation by the United States in 2020.
Iran's Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani killed by Israeli strikes | The Jerusalem Post
Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as commander after the latter was killed in a targeted operation by the United States in 2020.
www.jpost.com
If he actually means it, Diego Garcia will be busy so that Fordow goes away. It could even be coordinated with other Israeli night raids so as to be deniable. Otherwise, he’s just trying to claim credit after botching deterrence.Failure = orphan, success = 1000 fathers...
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
Donald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.
The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme.
“Today is day 61,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn’t get there.”
Trump’s framing presents a good cop-bad cop dynamic of his approach with Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled Israeli leader with whom he has a notoriously combative relationship. The US president has scrambled to now present the Israeli strikes, which he publicly claimed he did not want on Thursday, as a means of continuing his efforts to convince Iran to negotiate.
UK government says it gave no military support for Israel’s attack on Iran
“They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late,” he said.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
