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2024-04-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Tehran signals no retaliation against Israel after drones attack Iran

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Posted by Fred 2024-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [491 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Taquia

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-20 02:03|| 2024-04-20 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 " A wise decision."

Yes. And from Iran, of all places. Perhaps there is hope.

Posted by Tom 2024-04-20 06:21|| 2024-04-20 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Israel’s attack on Iran: what we know so far

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-04-20 12:22|| 2024-04-20 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The Truth about Israel's attempted attack on Iran according to Pepe Escobar.
An excerpt from his Xeet:

THE REAL STORY OF THE ISRAELI COUNTER RESPONSE:
...
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force.
An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan.

The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran's electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices.

An EMP attack.

However...

... As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force...

Posted by Moskovy Duck 2024-04-20 14:53|| 2024-04-20 14:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Peepee Escobar! Say no more, sir.

Say. No. More.

Bwahahahahahaaaaa...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-20 14:57|| 2024-04-20 14:57|| Front Page Top

#6 However...

... As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force...

Oh my goodness — was it shrooms or acid this time, dude? Because that goes well beyond the hallucinations caused by today’s really good weed.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-20 15:13|| 2024-04-20 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 That's our resident idiot ACA JOE, under another nym

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-20 17:43|| 2024-04-20 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 every site needs such a resident!

Posted by Spats+B.+Hayes8168 2024-04-20 19:28|| 2024-04-20 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 I think it is a great story as long as you don't think about it too hard.

I've never set off a nuclear bomb in anger, but a bit of googling suggests that for a high-altitude EMP blast (HEMP), you want it to detonate at about 18-50 miles up, let's call it 20. Twenty miles is twice the advertised F-35 ceiling of 50,000 ft which is roughly 10 miles. So HEMP is a better job for a ballistic missile.

An F-35 has a combat range of around 600 miles which will get you to the Iranian border, but Tehran is around 900 miles, so you need a tanker along the way. If you are going to put all your (nuclear) eggs in one basket, you best watch that basket very carefully, so you want to take some friends for protection against enemy fighters and SAMs.

As much as I like the idea of nuking Tehran, if this were my script, I'd have Mossad deliver the bomb to a self-storage, set a timer for those dramatic shots of an red LED display ticking down, and make their getaway in a rusty old mini-van - one with an old-fashioned ignition system, so it still runs after the bomb goes off.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-20 19:58|| 2024-04-20 19:58|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ I SAW dat movie!

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-20 20:02|| 2024-04-20 20:02|| Front Page Top

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