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Laxtonto

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  1. You only let the enemy save face if you want them to retain the support of their own populace. I don't think the US is willing to help them in that regard at all. If you think this current regimes "Death to America" stance is going to change if you let them save face, I got a bridge to sell you... All this does is help provide a wedge for more of the population to believe that the current regime is not respected globally and what they report is a lie. The more interesting set of quotes will be what Israel says about Qatar, Iran, and the US when this is all said and done.
  2. Sounds like the deal was brokered w Trump locking in Israel and Qatar talking directly to Tehran. This also makes the comments of the Qatari defense minister blaming Israel for the recent Iranian reprisals on the US bases in Qatar make more sense. I am guessing that the Emir told Tehran that this is their last chance and if they refuse the ceasefire the rest of the ME will support a regime change. Right now, it is only a smoldering issue in the populace, if the other ME countries wanters to fan the flames, it would become inevitable.
  3. These are the same Iranian officials who told the media that: They were destroying Israel Destroying the US bases in the ME Overwhelming the Israeli air defenses Struck the Israeli defense HQ Would strike America if the US entered their airspace etc.... Come back in 6 hours and see Khomeini's declaration that Israel has given in to their might and agreed to a ceasefire while they negotiate the end of the failed Jewish state.
  4. Because Israel already has planes currently doing air strikes before this was announced. Once started, you have to set window for it to stop. I don't like it because more bombs = more death, but once Israel has entered Iranian airspace for another round, you can't expect either side to just stop. I would have hoped that this was something that would have been worked out before they left, but once committed to Iranian airspace, it is a disaster waiting to happen to try to call them back or to expect Iran not to target them while they are in the air. It is better to let things play out one last time than to try to wave them off mid mission and have someone on either side not get the message and have it break down all over again.
  5. My guess is that every truck for the last month or more has been tracked via satellite (and knowing Mossad via on the ground GPS locators as well), and they already have a solid idea of where it may be stored as a backup. The real problem is that we are talking about is at most a few hundred kilograms of enriched material, so tracking it is more problematic than just burying it under the rubble. The only way to get Iran to try to transport out of Fordow was to make it so that getting hit was imminent. Now what is interesting is was the timing of the Guam flight was done on purpose, knowing the Iranian evacuation plan for an impending US strike? Is it better to bury the current enriched uranium deep under Fordow and hope no one can recover it, collapse it near the surface (and therefore need boots on the ground to recover it) or get them to transport it and capture it either in route or at another location. I think Israel and the US were hoping the very visible head-fake of the B2 flight heading to Guam got Iran to stage whatever they had left in the facilities in the transport tunnels waiting to depart in the morning, which instead got struck at 2 am local time. That puts it reachable with some work, but easily policed by air to make sure it "stays put" by not allowing any re-excavation until the time that either there is a regime change, a deal in place that requires that material to be recovered and turned over under US/Israeli supervision, or Israeli boots on the ground.
  6. First team All-American C.... That fills a huge hole both behind the plate and in the lineup
  7. BOOM!!!
  8. UAE aint going to remotely go for that.... It is already pretty obvious that the rest of the ME oil states are OK with Israel and the US making sure Iran does not get nuclear weapons. There is no way that they have OK'd flyovers by US and Israel, and then decide to close the Strait of Hormuz because the Iranian nuclear enrichment sites got hammered by the US a week later. If this was going to happen, it would have happened day one, when it could be used as a real threat and a bargaining chip. The only people who gets really hurt now are the ME states that can't use the EW Petroline pipeline Suadi reopened that runs from Jeddah to Qatar. Could it slow exports of crude, yeah. Any military action in the Persian Gulf alwaysx slows both production and transport. Would the rest of the region stand by and let it happen, knowing that it doesn't stop exports from the entire Persian Gulf states, but only a few? Especially when SA takes the smallest hit while the other gulf states take the brunt of the disruption? I would be very surprised if this happens (and in truth, if the Iranian leadership follows through) and if it does Iran is a "accident" away from other ME states kicking them while they are down as well.
  9. Map info nerds unite!
  10. Anyone try to fill out a lineup card with what we have right now? I don't know enough about the portal adds to do it...
  11. Add this to the steadily growing pile of "Mossad is scary"... The level of penetration Mossad has into the Iranian day-to-day operational intelligence is insane.
  12. Reza Pahlavi, the shah’s heir, releases statement to the people of Iran
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