re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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.@SECWAR "As a direct gift from the United States to the world, we have established a powerful “Red, White, and Blue Dome” over the Strait.

American destroyers are on station, supported by hundreds of fighter jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft providing 24/7 overwatch for peaceful commercial vessel—except Irans, of course.

Which is why our ironclad BLOCKADE remains in full effect—as well."

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@SECWAR "To what remains of Iran’s forces:

If you attack American troops or innocent commercial shipping, you will face overwhelming and devastating American firepower...

We prefer this to be a peaceful operation, but we are locked and loaded to defend our people, our ships, our aircraft—and this mission—without hesitation.

To Iran—let innocent ships pass freely. These international waters belong to all nations—not to Iran to tax, toll, or control."

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Hope so, however, it’s probably just all an act.

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Ismail Baghaei, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, said Tehran is negotiating in an atmosphere of deep distrust and suspicion toward the United States, adding that we cannot forget America's unjust aggressions against the Islamic Republic.

He added: "Based on past experience, we decided not to waste time on issues that have previously proven so complex that we could not reach an agreement."

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Dumb as hell. What is the threshold to start bombing them again? 20 attacks on American forces? 50?

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I'm guessing that there is not a whole lot left to bomb that is very effective. I think there is reluctance to take out the grid and water resources because that would harm the uprising and the regime's thugs would be more or less exempt from the consequences while burrowed like rats in their hiding holes.

We, the Israelis and their Arab neighbors need to get the protestors armed particularly with the kind of drones that Ukraine has so effectively used. Drone operators in urban environments would be very effective at killing IRGC's thugs without exposing themselves.

Ukraine is manufacturing thousands of deadly suicide drones daily using 3D printings and a garage industry. The controllers are from Play Stations and XBoxes. The thugs of the Islamic Republic would have no where to hide.

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The Euronews investigation last week documented the architecture behind it: Larijani restructured the IRGC into autonomous regional commands that answer to Vahidi, not to Pezeshkian, not to Araghchi.

Today Araghchi was telling Washington that Iran is reviewing the U.S. counter-proposal.

Today Vahidi ordered attacks on the UAE without telling Araghchi or Pezeshkian.

Both happened simultaneously. In the same country. On the same Monday.

Washington is negotiating with the civilian track.

The military track is running its own war.

The deal that Araghchi signs and the war that Vahidi runs are not the same document.

That is a command-and-control problem.
And it means that even a signed agreement cannot guarantee that Vahidi stops.

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What the "civilian" track needs to do is reach out to Trump and invite our military in to take on the IRGC directly, side-by-side with their own army.