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
Absolutely. Tha shahed drones are pretty basic low technolgy stuff. In some ways the WWII german v-1 was more advanced (propulsion). Setting up a line to assemble a bunch of relatively standard/low-tech off-the-shelf components should be straightforward and repeatable.
The Ukrainians are way ahead of everyone else in terms of taking these things out. And not just one technique, but multiple. But they will still use the expensive hi-tech stuff (AAMs from F-16s) if that's what's needed.
It's also where Israel has pretty good tech as well. I would guess Iron Dome could tackle drones, but that is still quite expensive. Iron Beam would be the best of all, if they have it working and it has sufficient energy to destroy a Shahed (which I'm guessing it would). Iran hasn't bothered sending any drones against Israel this time out, probably due to how successfully the drone threat was eliminated in the 12-day conflict.
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How do you think they can achieve this? Drive across Iraq and Syria?
Yet they dont have Tomahawk cruise missiles?
Wow. Copying the Israeli propaganda hymn sheet. After a while the IDF heroes just stopped making excuses because everyone knew they were doing it out of malice to weaken morale (killing children, bombing hospitals, bombing refugee camps, burying ambulances etc).
interesting didn’t know
The notion of joint enterprise doesn't extend to war crimes, apparently /s 😉
This operation is a joint USA/ Israel affair with the US seemingly following an Israeli long cherished policy to decimate Iran. It is not possible to point out which of the two did what as they are acting in unison - equally culpable and equally deranged.
Yes.
The consequences of American idiocy in supporting Israel in a war of aggression continue to ripple outwards.
The transfer of THAAD & Patriot missiles from South Korea to the Middle East is now well underway. Make no mistake.
This isn't just a tactical redeployment of missiles to reinforce ME defences. It is a complete abandonment of a carefully calibrated deployment that was designed to ensure North Korea knew it didn't have an immediate nuclear advantage via offsetting theIr nukes by effective BMD.
The withdrawal of THAAD & Patriot missiles from South Korea is almost guaranteed to accelerate the acquisition of Nuclear Weapons in the South.
The dream of a denuclearised Korean peninsula is dead.
As is Non-Proliferation, the world isn't just racing towards multi-polarity. It is racing towards an explosion in nuclear armed States as, as has been proven by the difference in how Russia & North Korea are dealt with, versus Venezuela & Iran… Freedom of action will be seen by middle powers to require a doomsday defence.
Are there CNN reporters on the ground in Iran?
Are the CNN reporters in Iran journalists?
Since Israel doesn’t control Iran, what’s their excuse for not allowing in journalists and NGOs? What are they afraid of
So far all the responses by Peoples Front of Judea [Iran branch] been along the lines of “this deplorable regime over there does X so it’s justifies our favourite deplorable regime doing X*10” whataboutery
Which is childish grade nonsense one would expect to hear at a primary school yard
Pete Hesgeth stating that Iranians are firing missiles from schools and hospitals. He must of been getting lessons off the IDF, next it will be tunnels and command centres under mosques, historical sites and bakeries.
He was installed by Trump last year when he sacked the previous Biden appointee, so he's a true believer.
Similar to how cheap middle isle components were utilized by Ukraine to take out million dollar Russian tanks.
I've seen one Wall Street Journal piece stating that in the UAE while Iranian missiles have decline the rate of drone attacks has remained consistent at about 100 a day. If it takes one million dollar missile to down a $50K drone then that's still a very impressive one twentieth cost return for Iran.
But 50K is considered the upper end of cost, much cheaper Iranian drones made of plywood and styrofoam are also costing the same amount to shoot down.
I can imagine on the lower end such drone making can be is a cottege industry in Iran, not unlike in Ukraine.
Interesting revelations about a new release of Epstein files over last weekend. The link below is to another Boards thread.
Just like Israeli controlled Gaza.
When will you accept that there is no Israel/USA about it? It was an American strike. Not Israeli. American.
The obsession with needing to blame Israel really is bizarre.
Anyone with a basic knowledge of geography and the weapons involved would have guessed that that was always the overwhelming likelihood from the start.
False dichotomy. Not believing your figure, repeated in every second post for weeks, does not mean believing the Iranian government figure. You do understand that?
It's more accurate to say the Iranians are surviving, whereas the US are led by Israel deeper into an unnecessary expensive war that actually internally weakens each regime they prop up in the Gulf.
Added to that ships are moving again through the strait but only if bound for India and China.
Definitely a whiff of that low tech ingenuity Vs high tech expensive industry about.
Oh they are not winning, and neither is the US, the US have opened a Pandora’s box imo, and they are taking out defence from Korea, not good at all, appear to be running tight on missiles. Now if something else was to happen…
Yep, the Iranians are winning, we heard it here first.
Anyway just reading about the billion dollar early warning radar system that was taken out by a $50K drone put the value of the strike at 20,000/1 for the Iranians.
Iran has no shortage of on the ground intel so even media blackouts by the US and Israel are useless.
Attacking Iran by air is already an extremely expensive affair that depletes their defenses at an unsustainable rate, and a boots on the ground invasion of Iran would be into a territory far greater and geographically much more challenging than Iraq.
Added to that will be a population far better prepared for invasion, especially considering the lessons learnt from the Iraq invasion.
This current conflagration is entirely a trap of Trump's own construction.
Maybe you would list for me all the times in the last decade when the Americans have targetted schools.
I don’t know nor do I care much for the far right either, they with far left are two arse cheeks around the same black hole
I’m only going by what was posted on this thread, glee and gloating over fellow citizens being stuck in middle of this being attacked by Iran in what are neutral countries, apparently they deserve it for being “westerners”
More absolute nosense.
The attempt by Israeli / USA shills was to state that Iran double tapped the girls school. The response form me since that attack was that it was clearly a missile from the Israel / USA attackers and if it was the USA then Trump and his admin learned well from Israel in terms of the target, the double tap and the subsequent deflection / cover up.
I'm not sure whether peaceful coexistence is going to be possible, there's just too much bad blood between the two countries for this to comer about in the near term, but I imagine there'll be some sort of cold acceptance of each other. Lebanon's problems go further than just the presence of Hezbollah and other terror/paramilitary organisations on its soil. There's a strong three-, or four-way ethnic divide present in that country, that'll make it tough to find some sort of stable political state in the long term. It's not impossible, but it'll take some serious work.
Having said that, Israel is not going to be able to hold Southern Lebanon for any extended period of time in any case. Regardless of the political issues, they simply don't have enough soldiers to secure the area. The IDF has a total strength of around 170k troops, with 120k of those in the army. Those numbers already include conscripts. Mind you, a large percentage of the numbers I've just posted will be in support units, not combat units, so the number of actual front-line troops is considerably lower still, and part of those available troops are already tied down in ongoing operations. And even if there are 463k reservists that Israel can draw on if need be, that'll still put a strain on the economy that won't be sustainable in the long term. Eventually, Israel will have to withdraw.
