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Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by sofixa »

anvuong wrote: post #23
cardanome wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iran is fighting for survival, Israel and the US are fighting by choice. They attacked Iran not the other way round. US bases, even if also used by UK which aides US it their war, are legitimate targets. US imperialism is the greatest threat to the world.

The IRGC is fighting for survival, most Iranian want them gone, and Iran will be better as a whole if the IRGC is all dead. Don't try to conflate the government with the country, they don't always align.

> Iran will be better as a whole if the IRGC is all dead

Which is an impossibility. We're talking about a military force of more than a million religiously fervent men that have martyrdom as a core tenet of their religion. They are not going anywhere, and assasinating their leaders and bombing their bases will not make them easier to enforce anything on.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by spaghetdefects »

nozzlegear wrote: post #66
spaghetdefects wrote: post #19

Iran repeatedly stated that they will not attack any country's assets if they do not assist the US/Israel. Most European countries have refused to take part, the UK decided to help so this seems like a very easy situation to have avoided.

From TFA: > It is understood the attempted air strike occurred before the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to hit Iranian sites targeting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

That's incorrect:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/middleeast/us-b2-bombers-dieg...

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by bdangubic »

breppp wrote: post #63
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This seems to reveal previously-unknown range of Iranian ballistic missiles and, if true, could touch basically all of Europe True but they have also literally launched multiple orbital satellites from iran on iranian rockets. Eg. The Noor 2 spy satellite and before that the Noor 1 series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_2_(satellite) These are in orbit to this day. They regularly post images it takes of US milit…

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that would be stupid and their regime is not stupid

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by mda »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #12
mikeyouse wrote: post #5

Unfortunately this is more interesting than a failed Diego Garcia attack — the late Ayatollah had a self-imposed range limit on the strikes or tests they would carry out. By using IRBMs in this fashion, it’s clear the new regime no longer feels bound by that restriction.. Which is notable since it’s about the same distance from Southern Iran to Diego Garcia (3,800km) as it is from Northern Iran to London.

Iran has always said a lot of things (mostly BS). This is worthless without evidence and I don't think anyone had evidence that their missiles were restricted to 2,000km. Certainly, I don't think anyone took their word for it. In fact this attack proves that there was no such limitation (although it is unclear to me if the missiles fired could actually jave reached Diego Garcia). Now this may be a demonstration and v…

Like they flattened Afghanistan? It is funny people thinks land war in an huge mountainous country with 90 million people is easy.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by verdverm »

nozzlegear wrote: post #27
verdverm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Large surface and mini subs, yes. They still have many small boats for laying mines. These are indistinguishable from a typical motor boat. Look at how Ukraine has denied Russia access to most of the Black Sea. It's going to be real hard to stop Iran from creating enough uncertainty to ease the worries of the shipping world. Iran will have to say they are done threatening the straight.

We're losing the plot here. What use are small motor boats for launching ballistic missiles?

Comments and threads typically digress into related topics, so I don't see the plot lost, rather the context expanded in a subthread.

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Post by picture »

roughly wrote: post #32
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes getting shot down is the goal or at least a test to see what kind of response you’ll get

Iran did the same before the conflict in response to prior Israeli attacks - the two drone waves they sent that were intercepted were both demonstrations of capability, not actual attacks. Unfortunately I’m not sure their current audience is gonna pick up the implied threat.

How do you know their intentions?

It's also a bit unreasonable to launch live munitions that have some 90% probability of being intercepted by a given system on a good day, while intending for "just a warning"

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by chatmasta »

zabzonk wrote: post #57
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This seems to reveal previously-unknown range of Iranian ballistic missiles and, if true, could touch basically all of Europe True but they have also literally launched multiple orbital satellites from iran on iranian rockets. Eg. The Noor 2 spy satellite and before that the Noor 1 series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_2_(satellite) These are in orbit to this day. They regularly post images it takes of US milit…

> a non manoeuvrable warhead (would just be intercepted) Intercepted? In the UK, by what? London has no missile defence system that I am aware of.

A missile would need to fly all the way over Europe before reaching London. It would be noticed, jets would be scrambled and it would be shot. Just like what happened here.
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