https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live
Reports stating that Israel have launched an attack against Iran
None of those jets were used by the USA when they attacked Iran
As of today, yes
Moneypoint is still active in a backup capacity to 2029, and there are talks of gas plant thereafter
IIRC the ALCM has more swept wings as well. Thanks for all the info.
Used by US and Israeli forces to attack Iran. It's a valid target. Can't be feigning neutrality here.
Thanks, That’s not great form self sufficiency and energy emergency point of view as we don’t have
moneypoint used to have coal loading facilities right next to the plant where ships could pull in
You have any evidence Germany gave permission for their base in Jordan to be used for this war?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muwaffaq_Salti_Air_Base
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-887388
Do a bit of googling.
I genuinely believe that the attack plan is largely based on Israeli intelligence. For all its bravado, the CIA is actually pretty poor when it comes to its core job as an intelligence agency. They can’t “develop” sources anywhere near as good as other countries, are prone to flights of fancy, and have missed every single major global event over the last sixty years. CIA agents tend to lack basic field craft skills. I remember a few years ago, a CIA team operating in Dubai was unmasked because they had their personal phones with them and called home every night from the same hotel, which is s huge no-go when operating under cover. I recommend reading Anthony Weiner’s book “A Legacy of Ashes” if you want to find out just how bad they are.
This is the reason why the US is so big into reconnaissance satellites, tapping internet nodes or mobile phone networks. They can do that from back home in Langley, VA, and make no mistake, their capabilities in the satellite, ELINT and SIGINT fields are impressive from a technical point of view. But that’s not the core purpose of an intelligence agency. That purpose is to have agents in the field and develop human sources that will tell you the kind of information you can’t get from a satellite image, or glean from a coded radio or radar transmission picked up by a recon aircraft. And in that regard, the CIA is easily the worst of the major foreign intelligence agencies.
Hard to see an off ramp to end the war. Trump's ramblings are incoherent, childish and deluded. Israel is working overtime to conceal the carnage the country is suffering. Iran is taking a hammering. The remaining ace us the Israel/US sleeve is nuclear. Even then their is no guarantee Iran can be defeated. The use of nukes likely brings other countries into war. It looks like the ending of the war is in Iran's hands.
Do you have any evidence they used the German section
Who cares? If your granny was staying at the base it's still an enemy base if skeletor and his goons are there.
Do you have any evidence that the base hit wasn't used by the US and Israelis? And the margin of error on those cruise missiles I imagine is pretty big.
Oil based backup though.
Heavy fuel oil to be precise.
Dirty, rotten stuff.
But sure once it's not coal don't we look like great environmentalists.
We should really have coal on quaysides, oil in tanks beside power stations and LNG in storage facilities.
Enough to absorb a lot of supply shock.
Not quite accurate, there was a similar missile to Tomahawkk, the ALCM that was used to arm B52s & B1-Bs. It was a nuclear armed weapon, never fitted with conventional warheads and it was only in limited service before being withdrawn as a result of START 1 arms reduction treaty in 1991. As an aside there was also a "tactical strike" air launched tomahawk designed for fighter deployment, that ended development in the mid 80a and never reached service.
So, technically at least there is an extant version of an Air Launched Tomahawk that has been mothballed for 35yrs. However, even if the Iranians had Tomahawks? They have nothing that can lift and launch them. Even if they did? The US alliance in the gulf had complete Air control and radar surveillance. If the Iranians launched it? We would have been regaled with radar track and more confirming it was their own missile.
B-2's were used in the first lot of strikes. They have also ran multiple missions from the US since.
B-1's have ran multiple missions also, and there is currently 7 in the UK forward based for Iran missions, along with a load of B-52's.
Thomil can always be relied upon for great weapons system and military infi. A great asset to boards military sub in particular.
The world has to move towards renewables. The consequences for climate if we don’t are too serious to contemplate. America has let China dominate the industry.
Hegseth talked about missiles in his main war aims. The Shaheds will be a lot harder to eliminate. And nobody can say now that Iran will never get nuclear weapons. It’s a silly thing to claim.
People who live in a neutral country without any military to speak off to defend us care
I am sure there's enough threads for this already....
Apparently not.
Lucky we aren't hosting bombers directly targeting other countries then. Unless you've bought into the whole arm up ireland to defend itself right wing nonsense and are therefore a bit thick.
It would be a very cynical move if Israel provided the coordinates of a school to the Americans on purpose to deflect from the deliberate targeting of schools and hospitals by Israel in previous conflicts.
I’m not saying that is what happened but in a world where large sections of right wing X were claiming the Iranian school girls had been killed by Iran before the war and had then been kept in freezers simply to make atrocity propaganda by the Iranian regime, anything is possible.
We do have plenty of US companies and their planes use our ports
I brought it up because Iran continue to attack countries who want nothing to do with this war
At this rate I would not be surprised if there are attacks against Ireland or our peacekeepers in Middle East and you would have every self hating leftie claiming we deserve it, we already seen in this thread people gleefully give out at about their fellow citizens who got stuck in middle of this war
If you don’t think neutrality is not important that’s your choice in your pursuit to defend the indefensible
I don’t see good evidence that anybody but the Americans did this. They should admit the truth and move on. Trump has enough to lie about already.
We need a nuclear power plant.
The fact you said self hating leftie tells me all I need to know about you.
I wasn’t the one giving out about “westerners” earlier in thread
As a westerner I take offence at this self loathing criticism that he taken root on the far left, especially since we are neutral and still endup being lumped together with Trumpists whom everyone in western Europe hates, and in case of Germany, France, UK, Cyprus attacked directly by “easterners” from Iranian regime whom absolutely despise our way of life and our freedoms and democracy and went as far as murdering 36,000 of their own protestors just this year whom wanted nothing more than live in a normal country not a theocratic dictatorship
It's just as liable, if not more so to be either a stupid failure of intelligence or a really stupid use of AI.
We saw a lot in Gaza how Israel used AI. Just enter a load of data and targets come out. But a lot of the targets were just barely related to actual military targets.
IF israel supplied the targets using AI, or the US was using their own AI, then these sorts of lethal mistake will happen.
What country has killed the most Irish peacekeepers?
