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  1. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Possibly because of this:
  2. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Not everything is "glowies". It's not farfetched that Iranians don't like living under an iron fist dictatorship. Iranians are a very different people from Arabs, who are mich more tolerant and supportive of dictatorships.
  3. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Woman walks around without a hijab. Woman is arrested by morality police and beaten up so badly that she dies. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62930425
  4. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    This Japan thing is becoming a massive derail.
  5. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Hahahahaha what a bunch of bullshit.
  6. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    It was a literal stone's throw away. Like, close enough to recognize faces of sailors on deck with the naked eye. I'm pretty sure they got within the minimum envelope of engagement for CIWS as it is.
  7. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    This is bad precedent though. Next time there could be a sneak attack, if Iran does it enough times to make the Navy complacent about such actions. It also puts the US in a ridiculous light worldwide. China is watching.
  8. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Iranian helo freely flies right next to and over the USS Essex, filming its deck up close, with no repercussions.
  9. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    The technical difference is that genocide is about killing and ethnic cleansing is about expelling.
  10. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    It looks like it really happened (there are new videos of the event, with ridiculous action movie music edited in to boot), but the US seemingly had nothing to do with that tanker.
  11. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-state-tv-says-iran-thwarts-us-attempt-steal-oil-sea-oman-2021-11-03/ Looks like there was a near clash between the US and Iran in the Persian gulf, although details are still scarce. Iran claims it thwarted an attempt by the US to "hijack" one...
  12. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    https://m.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/yemen-ballistic-missile-fired-by-houthi-rebels-kills-11-civilians-including-children.html 11 Yemen civilians, mostly women and children, are dead by an Iranian-supplied Houthi rocket. I'll await the world's resounding condemnation...
  13. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Iran is in the process of weakening or eliminating most of them. Other than Pakistan and Turkey there aren't many that will stand to it, and if Iran manages to gobble up its neighbours then they might be in a position to overcome those two in a few decades. I wouldn't make light of a country...
  14. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    There's also another concern in play. After Iran takes the middle east and China takes east asia, who's to say that after a few decades of consolidation and build up their appetites won't extend all the way to Europe? Despotic expansionist regimes should be nipped in the bud, before they start...
  15. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Actually, India and Israel are very friendly, bordering on allied.
  16. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Easy. If they're Muslims, then if a given piece of land ever was under Muslim rule even for the briefest of times, then it's Muslim for eternity. If it's Jews then never, Jews aren't allowed to own land. /s
  17. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/meanwhile-in-america-oct-6-intl/index.html Facebook is used by China and Iran to spy on people.
  18. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    There is not really such a thing as "declared war". There were barely any declarations of war since the end of WWII. The US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, were both undeclared. Declarations are irrelevant and don't matter, Israel and Iran are in a de facto state of hostilities, with...
  19. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Scientists running a military nuclear program are indeed valid targets, as are any assets attached to such a program.
  20. GoldRanger

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Nations in the modern age don't declare war at all. Iran and Israel have been in a defacto state of war for many years now. Yes, that's how the international laws of war work, businessmen are out of bounds, military targets are not.
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