US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Can you point at this US military base on a map of Oman and offer proof that they gave US permission to use their land during the attacks which started this war?

I'm looking at it from the point of view of the regime's survival (which I don't want of course but you have to do devil's advocate)

Millions want to see the end of the regime in Iran and a more moderate leadership take its place. But this regime exists because of US interference in the first place. Change has to come about from within Iran itself, from the Iranian people. It won't work if it's imposed by outside factors, especially when those outsiders are only interested in their own aims and couldn't give a toss about the people in the country concerned. And many Iranians remember the last time America had a say in their internal political affairs.

There's many in Iran who'd like to see a democracy flourish there. The problem is that neither Israel or the US are interested in a democratic Iran. They want to install another dictator puppet like the Shah, that they can control.

Their only hope was that the Gulf states would panic and pressurise Trump into calling it off after a few days with some sort of face-saving deal.

Perhaps.

But, as I said already, what Iran is doing here is telling the US that their assets in other countries are not safe and that we're not as weak as Netanyahu led you to believe.

Whether that's a bluff or not is debatable. What isn't a debate, however, is that Iran's capability to strike back has come as a shock to both the US and Israel and they don't really know how to proceed.

All of this is to the benefit of Israel, who is only concerned with increasing and projecting her power in the region. This is something that Iran has acted as a dam against, for better or for worse and that is why the likes of Netanyahu wants them gone. Him and his type are working toward their greater Israel project which is first and foremost in their minds.

But there must be people in the corridors of power in America, including the current administration, who are asking themselves what the fuck are we doing?

Duqm port was attacked by a drone. It hit a fuel tank.

https://news.sky.com/video/explosion-after-drone-appears-to-strike-fuel-tank-in-omans-duqm-port-13514587

The US has an agreement with Oman to use this facility. That's why it was attacked.

Funny how there's certain types on here that are up in arms because a fuel tank got hit by a drone with no casualties, but are completely fine making excuses for a school with a load of kids in it being blown to pieces.

Did Oman give permission for their facilities to be used for these attacks that started this war

Whatabout Turkey, Azerbaijan, UK and France

There is an awful lot of hand waving an excusing of the strategic stupidity of the Iranian regime in trying to drag everyone into their little war, including neutrals who went out of their way to distance themselves from Trump and Israel in the run up to this war

Exactly! 30,000+ Iranians killed by their own government and not even a peep of condemnation from certain quarters

Dubai hotels are now US bases?

Qatar oil refineries are also US bases?

Its ok, you just rent your gaf, you don't officially live there. Any moron knows that, or do they…..

Eh, the Iranians bombed the Kurds a few days ago, they have also spent 40 years oppressing them, the decades worth of war has already been suffered by the Kurds.

The Kurds were loved by the Irish until they sided with the Israelis.

https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MDE130882008ENGLISH.pdf

Here is an Amnesty International Report from 2008 outlining the systematic oppression of the Kurds by Iran. The question to be asked of US and Israel is why they didn't help the Kurds before now.

Oman is an interesting one to be hit. Does the US have access to bases there, yes. Were they used to hit Iran, no.

Oman have been one of the key facilitators in peace talks, so unless they felt "setup" by them as a result, that would be one plausible reason.

The other likely reason (hinted at by the Iranian FM) is that military units are currently working unilaterally with a pre-defined target list, until they are told to stop. Oman, just happens to be on that list.

US troops were moved into these hotels off the bases before the war commenced. Qatar is a US ally who provides the US with energy and probably intel. They're quite tight with Trump so why wouldn't they be a target. If you illegally attack a country for no reason other than you don't like the way its run or want someone else to run it, don't expect that country to go out of their way to avoid hitting any target they deem a threat. The US and Israelis have killed far more civilians so far than Iran. I don't see you complaining about that.

I remember watching live as a plane flew into a Twin Tower 25 years ago.

Similarly, the Iraq war in 2003 received similar coverage to this conflict.

You may be too young to remember those.

Hang on, are you saying that the US and Israel knowing exactly what Iran is capable of, and their military campaign being tailored to same, is deluded?

I mean….the evidence is literally right there.

Iran has lost its air force, navy, air defences, senior leadership and a huge amount of launch capability in a few days while inflicting effectively zero damage thus far from a military POV on either the US or Israel.

Saying the US and Israel are "shocked" makes it sound like Iran has pulled something out of the bag no-one knew existed, or achieved some surprising operational successes…..and they haven't on either count, at least not yet.

Ah yes the world’s most famous seven star US military base /S

You couldn't make it up.

You have claimed that it is different to ten years ago. Well, twenty-five years ago, it was the same.

I am not saying that it is a good thing, but I am pointing out that you are wrong in claiming it is new.