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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 gambutin »

srean wrote: post #141
gambutin wrote: post #92

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Iranian kids have been chanting death to Israel and death to USA for 47 years now. They’ve been waiting for this.

Well, if US takes down their democracy and downs their domestic passenger jets, fight a proxy war with chemical weapons through Saddam Hussein that alone kills 20~30 thousand, no country is going to respond to that with flowers in their hair. In Iran's defence, in spite of being attacked repeatedly with chemical weapons, not once have they retaliated with chemical weapons. This is in line with their beliefs which was…

Have you ever been in Iran? Do you know any Iranians and have you talked to them recently?

Do you know what Khomeini did to his fellow leftist who toppled the Shah?

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

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Post by srean »

throwawayheui57 wrote: post #239
cardanome wrote: post #188

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> Hundreds of people died when security forces sought to crush the demonstrations, along with dozens of members of the police and Basij militia. Iranian intelligence operatives internally concluded that some of the violence was being encouraged and facilitated by Israeli operatives, according to the sources. “Foreign actors linked to Israeli intelligence services had, over time, established contact—through various so…

In a war where Israel and US are literally bombing the hell out of Iran, fewer people have been killed than those two days of massacre. All according to the numbers confirmed by Iranian government. God, the moral depravity of defending the IRGC and islamic regime is mind boggling. You can still be against Mossad and what they do in Iran while holding the islamic regime accountable for its own atrocities.

> fewer people have been killed than those two days of massacre.

So, how many have been killed in those two days of massacre exactly?

A credible source please, and "killed", not "accused of killing", "allegedly killed" etc.

I was following this news in real-time at that time. One thing I noticed was that media outlets started killing/withdrawing many of their stories.

That made me mighty suspicious.

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

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Post by lm28469 »

drnick1 wrote: post #160
mda wrote: post #117

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flatten with what?

Like what is happening now, completely decimating their army, navy, and air force. If that isn't enough, destroy their only source of revenue (oil fields), or go even further and destroy their electrical grid and send the country back to the stone age. Finally, if the regime does not surrender after all this, a nuke could still be used.

Lmao, from "we're here to bring democracy" to "let's destroy their civilian infrastructure" to "let's nuke them" real quick

If that's the US way, why are Russians the bad guy again?

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Post by chasd00 »

fidotron wrote: post #37
brabel wrote: post #16

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How convenient for Trump that now all Europe now has a pretext to send the help they were asked for.

The whole point of that noise is to put NATO + Japanese military in the Straits of Hormuz so that Israel and the US can continue to attack Iran with impunity. Any effort by Iran to shut the Straits in response to further attacks will hit some "innocent" party and drag them into the conflict. It's basically bait for WW3, and luckily so far the EU particularly are not biting.

When was the last time the NATO navy do anything anyway? They’d just be sitting ducks and probably not even know which directions to point what pointless weapons they have.

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Post by srean »

UltraSane wrote: post #311
cardanome wrote: post #95

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Thousands, not tens of thousands. Which is bad enough so it seems silly to lie about this but whoever can make up the biggest number seems to favored by the Western narrative. And let us not act like the decades of sanction were not designed to do exactly this. Sanctions mean you create as much hardships as possible for the people in hope they topple their government. They nearly never work but here we are. > Contrar…

"Mossads agents had been arming people and instructing them to riot. " This feels far too much like Iranian government propaganda to be plausible.

That would be right from the text book of any psyops and insurgency operation. This is as standard operating procedure as it gets.

It would be very surprising if they didn't. Heck FBI was doing it to citizens at one point, during war against terror.

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Post by lm28469 »

10xDev wrote: post #105
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #84

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The reason people leave North Korea alone is because they have nuclear weapon(s)

So we can only reach stalemate once a country has nukes and otherwise have to start blowing up their schools?

Why do you think Iran wanted to have nukes?

It's the only way to not get raped by the US whenever their supreme leader decides it's war time

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

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Post by chasd00 »

lm28469 wrote: post #367
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.

> it’s clear the new regime no longer feels bound by that restriction.. Wait a minute... Are you implying the dude who just got his dad, wife, brother, son and many other relatives killed by their arch enemies is not bending the knee? Who could have predicted that?

That guy is dead or dying. He’s not in control of anything. There’s been no audio or video of him since the opening strike.

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Post by Hikikomori »

magic_hamster wrote: post #282
GordonS wrote: post #260

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Be serious, look at what has been done to Gaza. Israel absolutely sets out to murder civilians, en-masse.

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All the children shot in the head as reported by western doctors working there?

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

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Post by DoctorOetker »

cardanome wrote: post #221
GordonS wrote: post #171

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> some civilians have been injured when Iran attacked the hotels where US agents were stationed Surely the US are using civilians as human shields?

Yes, they are absolutely using civilians as human shields. Just like Israel has been doing for ages. That is why they constantly lie about Hamas using human shields. Every accusation is a confession with these people.

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