Will Iran regime fall, or just another umpteenth fail of protesters? (rerun hobbies)

[Magical Realist]

Just because it has been ongoing for decades doesn't mean we are retaliating for decades-old deaths.

That's what you said liar. That we are bombing them for killing Americans for decades. Something not even Trump claimed. So you lied out your ass and got called on it. Slither back under your rock scum..

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[Syne]

Just because it has been ongoing for decades doesn't mean we are retaliating for decades-old deaths.

That's what you said liar. That we are bombing them for killing Americans for decades. Something not even Trump claimed. So you lied out your ass and got called on it. Slither back under your rock scum..

You're either lying, delusional, or completely illiterate.

I'll say it again. There's no precedent for bombing a country because they might be a threat in the future. It's simply not done and lacks all moral justification. Trump is using the war as an attempt to boost his ratings for the midterm. He is only concerned with boosting his legacy and doesn't care if he has to kill innocent civilians to do it. Everyone, except flag-waving MAGAs, all see it. It's utterly disgusting.

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Iran has been killing Americans for decades. I guess you're fine with that.

I never said "we are bombing them for killing Americans for decades." You made up that bullshit yourself. See, you can't even distinguish between what's actually written and whatever you imagine in your little fevered and hate-filled mind.

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Rubio predicting the outcome of the Iran nuclear deal while he was in congress:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Qg1Iy8Fo11E

[Yazata]

The leadership of the Iraqi Kurds is now denying that their military forces have crossed into Iran. Which may or may not be true. The Iraqi Kurds are officially part of Iraq even though they are effectively independent with their own army and foreign relations. So the central Iraqi government in Baghdad might be pressuring them to stay out of Iran. Whether the Kurds are listening or whether they are just pretending to be will become clear in coming days.

A US nuclear submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian navy corvette in the Indian ocean, the first time a US sub torpedoed an enemy warship since World War II. (A British nuclear sub torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano in the Falklands War in the early 1980's.) Most of the larger ships in the Iranian navy and in the administratively separate IRGC navy have already been sunk by air strikes.

In the nerd-notes category...

For those who haven't heard of them, 'numbers stations' are short-wave radio stations that feature only a voice reciting random numbers. The random numbers can be decrypted into a message using the One Time Pad encryption system. (The OTP system was invented in the 1800's, first used in World War I, and remains the only form of encryption that has been mathematically proven to be unbreakable even in principle, even by hypothetical future quantum supercomputers.) The most famous numbers station was the Lincolnshire Poacher, operated from the mid 1970's to July 2008 by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6, James Bond's employer). Amateur radio direction finding enthusiasts traced it to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Not to be outdone, the Soviet Union and other Soviet bloc countries made great use of numbers stations.

Well, short wave listeners in Israel have detected the appearance of a new numbers station reciting numbers in Farsi. It's reasonably clear that these are messages to secret agents, but it's unclear whether they are Iranian messages to Iranian agents abroad, or Israeli (or American?) messages to their agents inside Iran.

A recording is here

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2029388617257283643

[Magical Realist]

I never said "we are bombing them for killing Americans for decades."

Liar again. The only reason to mention such thing is to justify our bombing of Iran. That's why you said it. One lie after another. Don't you ever get tired of it?

[Syne]

I never said "we are bombing them for killing Americans for decades."

Liar again. The only reason to mention such thing is to justify our bombing of Iran. That's why you said it. One lie after another. Don't you ever get tired of it?

Again, if you could read or weren't completely delusional, you'd see what I actually wrote. The reason to mention it is to illustrate the long-term problem of Iran and the present, ongoing threat to US servicemen. Can you guess which one is an "immediate threat" worthy of military strikes? Go ahead. Give it a try, fatass loser.

[Magical Realist]

The reason to mention it is to illustrate the long-term problem of Iran and the present, ongoing threat to US servicemen.

Liar again. Killing Americans for decades isn't a threat. It's an actual atrocity which you would only mention to justify the current killing of Iranians. Moral of the story: don't lie to try to cover up your previous lies. It only makes you a jackass. And if you're really so worried about their threat to US servicemen, you should really be worried now. Trump just gave them a reason to kill them by the thousands.

[Syne]

The reason to mention it is to illustrate the long-term problem of Iran and the present, ongoing threat to US servicemen. Can you guess which one is an "immediate threat" worthy of military strikes?

Liar again. Killing Americans for decades isn't a threat. It's an actual atrocity which you would only mention to justify the current killing of Iranians. Moral of the story: don't lie to try to cover up your previous lies. It only makes you a jackass. And if you're really so worried about their threat to US servicemen, you should really be worried now. Trump just gave them a reason to kill them by the thousands.

Learn to read.

You actually had the gall to say, "Killing Americans for decades isn't a threat." Limpdick moron.

[Yazata]

If you live in an apartment building in Beirut and you find out that a Hezbollah bigshot lives in the next door apartment, you might want to move somewhere else. Fast.

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There's talk on the internet (as yet totally unconfirmed) that a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter was shot down over southwest Iran today. Both the pilot and the weapons officer ejected over Iran. US Combat Search and Rescue elements activated immediately (I believe they ride Osprey tiltrotors and probably had fighter jets riding shotgun) and located the two downed Americans about an hour later, recovered them and left Iranian air space without incident, returning to Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia. The two are said to have only suffered minor injuries and have been returned to Muwaffaq in Jordan.

At least that's the story. Again, it's just internet talk at this point and totally unconfirmed. If it's true, then Iranian air defenses still have some life left in them, at least in a few locations.

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Update The Washington Post says that US defense officials tell them that the F-15 shootdown story above isn't true.

[Syne]

At least that's the story. Again, it's just internet talk at this point and totally unconfirmed. If it's true, then Iranian air defenses still have some life left in them, at least in a few locations.

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Update The Washington Post says that US defense officials tell them that the F-15 shootdown story above isn't true.

So many people hoping America fails and Iranian oppression continues.

[C C]

At least that's the story. Again, it's just internet talk at this point and totally unconfirmed. If it's true, then Iranian air defenses still have some life left in them, at least in a few locations.

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Update The Washington Post says that US defense officials tell them that the F-15 shootdown story above isn't true.

So many people hoping America fails and Iranian oppression continues.

It's amazing how much mileage Trump continues to get out of that, after a decade. Get Democrats to hate him so much that they substitute reasoning with the automatic simplicity of "just support anything Trump is against" and "be against anything that Trump is for or behind". Triggering the Party to choose (appearance-wise) unauthorized migrants over citizens, to become pro-Hamas, pro-Maduro, pro-Iranian, goading New Yorkers to vote in a socialist, etc.

Essentially, reflexively "shoot first" due to Trump and later invent and select justifications that make it look like there was a more complicated process behind the decision. Rather than the initially motivated, emotionally-driven kernel that the structure was built around.

Any independent voter who still retains a self-conscious concern about how "crazily" patriotic or unpatriotic slash pro-Western or anti-Western, they can overtly appear to others has got to have been considering over the years that it's just as negative to be associated with Democrats (if not more so) as MAGA. (Although it actually depends on where they live in terms of the reactions they receive about espousing or agreeing with _X_.) Consequently swinging POTUS elections Trump's way, at least twice out of three.