re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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How is it that drones are so stealthy? Wouldn’t Iran have a decent air defense system?

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Israel carried out a drone strike targeting a defense compound in Iran, as the U.S. and Israel look for new ways to contain Tehran’s nuclear and military ambitions, according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the operation.

Iranian officials said that the country’s air defenses had fended off an attempted attack by three small quadcopters targeting a munitions factory in the city of Isfahan, right next to a site belonging to the Iran Space Research Center, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. for its work on Iran’s ballistic-missile program.

Iran said its air defenses brought down one of the drones while the two others exploded above the warehouse, causing minor damage to the roof.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called the blast a cowardly strike.

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No, that's just silly Iranian spin.

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Yet Azeris vacated their Iranian embassy contents and all. This happened the day before.

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An armed individual shot and killed the security chief of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran and injured two guards on January 27. The gunman penetrated the embassy building and opened fire on personnel with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Iranian officials have since arrested the attacker and identified him as 53-year-old Yasin Hossein Zadeh.[1] Iranian media described the event as an “armed attack” and reported that Hossein Zadeh was motivated by “personal and family problems,” citing a dispute between embassy personnel and Hossein Zadeh’s wife in March or April 2022.[2] Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called the incident a “terrorist attack” and accused Iranian officials of failing to take action against prior threats made against Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran.[3] The Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Minister Jeyhun Bayramov announced the evacuation of the embassy on January 27.[4] President Ebrahim Raisi called for a comprehensive investigation into the attack, and Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani warned Iranian media outlets against circulating speculative reports of the attack.[5] Supreme National Security Council-affiliated Nour News separately published a tweet stating that the attack should not damage ties between Baku and Tehran.[6]

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I went to a museum in St. Petersburg where there was a children’s exhibit that allowed children to practice assembling and disassembling Kalashnikov rifles

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Explosions are now being reported along with the sound of Combat Aircraft near the Town of Al-Qaim in the Iraqi Region of Anbar which is directly on the Border with Syria.

According to Sources in the Region, Unknown Airstrikes have targeted a number of Iranian Militia Bases including a Headquarters Facility on the Iraqi-Syrian Border.

The Aircraft are also said to have targeted an Iranian Militia Convoy of around 25 Trucks which crossed from Iraq into Syria.

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There are a lot of unconfirmed reports of explosion(s) in Mahabad, Iran. No hit on reverse image search. If you search "??????" on twitter you will see a lot of reports. Hard to know how accurate they are. Will update

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Sirens sound in the Kurdish city of Baneh in western Iran — Al Arabiya

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