Looks like Iran are now lashing out at everybody. You wonder about how safe it now is for the ones who moved to the likes of Dubai because they thought it was safe there.
The U.S. and Israel attack Iran | Peace deal finally on?
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Looks like Iran are now lashing out at everybody. You wonder about how safe it now is for the ones who moved to the likes of Dubai because they thought it was safe there.
How come no mainstream media is reporting this? If you read through the articles you would believe each and every Iranian is up in arms with the US and Israel bombing their country
CNN actually reported on it.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-...26-hnk-intl?post-id=cmm7anivv003z3b6p5dxm4z6b
Fair enough.
Statement from Putin:
Got to feel a bit for Starmer here. This is a horrific time to be trying to peddle liberal democratic values on the global stage. That era is looking increasingly over.
Britain is going to be a target for Iranian retaliation irregardless of their active involvement, or lack of, in recent days.
Britain is going to be a target for Iranian retaliation irregardless of their active involvement, or lack of, in recent days.
No word yet on Esmail Qaani (high ranking IRGC figure) as far as I can tell. Dude survived last June and may even survive this round too. Either he's lucky with his locations or...
Putin taking the moral high ground!
As a Dubai resident, I can only respond to that that it was very safe over here and for now not much has changed. While of course you see all the images on BBC / X, it is reasonably ok over here (for now of course). It is not clear what Iran is trying to achieve with these random attacks. They are certainly building support for US/Israel with these.
That's good to hear. You don't want even more states/countries getting involved with this. Stay safe.
Obviously not his account but at some point the whole Iranian leadership probably only consists of Mossad agents.
I suppose that's not what trump wanted, when he asked people to hit the streets
I doubt this will last long. Iran doesnt have many advanced missiles left, little capability to build more, and every time they fire one they expose the launcher.
what is Iran's gameplan here with now bombing civilian areas around the region and the attempted attack on the UK base?
i get that they "have" to retaliate so as to not seem weak/show they are extracting revenge; but is there any probable end-game/off ramp for them?
i get that they "have" to retaliate so as to not seem weak/show they are extracting revenge; but is there any probable end-game/off ramp for them?
The UK base on Cyprus is used by US forces as well, isn't it?
Pretty much
Its still a UK base. Its reckless
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Oil tanker earlier hit by Iranian drone
BBC quotes the UK Def Secy as saying British troops were within 100 yards of the missile attack.
So seems intentional to rope in UK also.
Bahrein confirms the Crowne Plaza hotel also suffered damage (though limited).
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From memory the UK said that they wouldn't allow the US airforce to use their base earlier this week. Iran are targetting everyone that has helped Israel and the US at some point in the recent past which is understandable even if it's not currently "fair". My conflict is that most of these countries are enablers, not literally because the US don't care about their approval but they have all helped the US and Israel in some capacities.
I understand people criticizing Iran but at the same time Iran and everyone else knows what has been going on for decades.
Indeed. Negotiating in bad faith. Mafiosi.
Precisely, we can't wag the finger at them when the current Government has been enabling Israel. To not be involved means completely disassociating ourselves with the aggressors in the region. We haven't done that.
I dislike Putin as much as the next person and his delusional re-engineering of geo-politics but........... I believe we look like massive hypocrits when we condemn him attacking Ukraine under the pretext of considering them a threat due to possible NATO membership and possibly becoming a nuclear state yet here we are.....attacking a non-neighbouring country and demanding regime change.
Yup. My only surprise at the moment is that it seems that no french assets have been targeted even though our assholes of leaders allegedly stated that they would support militarily the countries targeted by Iran.
They are attacking civilian areas, so no it’s not understandable actually
It is understandable, understandable doesn't mean that it's right or morally justified. It just mean that you can understand why someone would act in such a way, from their POV this is an existential crisis.
Neither was the school being attacked understandable. The one where 108 kids died and 90 more were injured. Or the headquarters of the Red Crescent being struck.
THe worst part of it all sadly is the whole thing IS understandable. A disgusting war criminals nearing 80 got strong armed in to starting a war against a country that was ready to sign a deal by two other war criminals. In truth, none of this should have even happened at all.
I wouldn't say neither, these things aren't equivalent. The targets that Israel have had in the past 12 months aren't understandable outside of gratuitous violence toward civilians and civil infrastructures(hospitals). The retaliation is understandable in that context, even if it's still immoral because the civilians on the other side are for the most part innocents caught in a conflict they don't want.
One of the issue that I mentioned before is that this isn't a balanced conflict, that's why a nuclear deterrent has always made sense for Iran. Iran can't conventionally defend themselves or retaliate in a way that would harm western and gulf nations armies. Their only options are give up without doing any harm or lash out at everything and anything they can, including civilians and the global economy, until they get bombed back into stone age.
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I agree, I think we were saying the same thing. Maybe just worded differently or misunderstood.
Oil prices are going to go through the decking roof.
Stay safe up in Dubai. We’re in Abu Dhabi so living the same situation right now.
Mina Zayed seems to have been hit with something that caused an explosion about an hour ago.
In the words of Kamala: "Do not come!"
UAE reports debris damage resulted in 3 deaths with Pakistani, Nepalese and Bangladeshi nationalities.
About that oil tanker being hit, Bloomberg energy journalist Blas says it's actually an Iranian tanker and wasn't in the Strait of Hormuz.
What would be the point of a false flag operation like this? Everyone relevant would know who's ship it was
I don't know but I wouldn't rule out mistakes or accidents in this volatile environment with equipment (drones/missile) malfunctioning or going astray.