Iran-Israeli Conflict Thread

I think markets will do well this week and then it seems a quagmire will become the main issue, and then we have political and economic problems as a result ...
 
The UAE reports three deaths and hundreds of intercepted drones and missiles. Later today an important GCC meeting will take place, MBS has already indicated that if attacks on Saudi and Gulf soil don't stop Saudi Arabia will consider joining the air campaign. The Iranian explanation is that their forces are merely targeting foreign bases - this is an obvious lie and the real play is undermining trust in Washington's regional security architecture and thereby moving the Gulf States away from DC. According to CNN MBS has just authorized Saudi forces to retaliate against Iran.





 
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If the U.S. can kill Khamenai and Ahmadinejad with precision bombing, they can kill anyone in Iran, including the new supreme leader. It makes me wonder if their plan is simply to eliminate as much of the Iranian leadership class as possible, to throw the political hierarchy into total disarray and thereby encourage a coup or outright civil war.
 
Caduceus said:
They seem to get most of their footage from people posting stuff on the internet as well. I don't know if this is due to budget cutbacks or or just the modern way of reporting things...but it's a very strange way of covering these events.
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While what you're saying is true, the same is the case with Ukraine and Russia. Given the threat of drone strikes, I don't see how any journalist would even want to walk around anywhere near the warzones.
 
Droughtmeat said:
While what you're saying is true, the same is the case with Ukraine and Russia. Given the threat of drone strikes, I don't see how any journalist would even want to walk around anywhere near the warzones.
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Its cheaper this way. Ever see the movie NIGHT CRAWLER? A friend of mine did that for a decade plus before that film came out - not the psychotic stuff, just the freelance videography. He made a decent living off chasing police scanners and selling footage to local news stations. Now, television outlets just solicit videos from the general public with their smartphones and don't even have to pay.
 
Droughtmeat said:
While what you're saying is true, the same is the case with Ukraine and Russia. Given the threat of drone strikes, I don't see how any journalist would even want to walk around anywhere near the warzones.
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It's their job...and they used to do it all the time until a few years ago.
Also, once a specific place has been hit, it's usually safe to go there a few hours later (or at the most the next day) to show the damage from outside.
But none of mainstream media outlets are doing that....either due to extreme budget cutbacks, or other unknown reasons.

Right now if you turn on any of the mainstream media outlets (even Al Jazeera) 90% of it is boring discussions with people sitting in a comfy broadcasting studio, or speaking via an internet link with someone bogus "expert" sitting safely at home in front of a laptop or smartphone.

That's not reporting.
 
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scorpion said:
If the U.S. can kill Khamenai and Ahmadinejad with precision bombing, they can kill anyone in Iran, including the new supreme leader. It makes me wonder if their plan is simply to eliminate as much of the Iranian leadership class as possible, to throw the political hierarchy into total disarray and thereby encourage a coup or outright civil war.
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Hasn't this been a very clear mission statement from the start?
 
The IDF has started releasing footage and numbers of their operations, the US Army communication channels are less talkative. The IDF announced that in the first attack wave the IAF launched 500 strikes using around 200 jets. In the first 24 hours of the resumption of the war the IAF used around 1200 munitions, the US 1050. The US-Israel tandem has total control over Iranian airspace, not a sign of Iranian AD activity. Below is some footage released by the IDF













 
Aldebaran said:
Hasn't this been a very clear mission statement from the start?
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Killing Khamenai and the active leadership of the IRGC was an obvious play, but the choice to target Ahmadinejad is a bit of a surprise. It suggests that the U.S. and Israel may have settled on the approach Israel took with Hezbollah: killing anyone remotely capable of holding any sort of leadership role until the organization/state implodes.
 
Iran is going to tell Trump to F Off.




Are you listening Trump? No talking.




A warning from Thomas Massie:




Bahrain and Dubai are still be hit.



 
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scorpion said:
Killing Khamenai and the active leadership of the IRGC was an obvious play, but the choice to target Ahmadinejad is a bit of a surprise. It suggests that the U.S. and Israel may have settled on the approach Israel took with Hezbollah: killing anyone remotely capable of holding any sort of leadership role until the organization/state implodes.
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Ahmadinejad was known as a religiously motivated hardliner. And maybe that's the key - take out the fundamentalists and create conditions for the secular elements to take over.
 
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