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US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

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    #9692
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,714 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318213#Comment_124318213

    They are gravely concerned but do sweet fa to the aggressor… Israel



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    #9693
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2026/03/16/iran-war-united-states-israel-live-updates-donald-trump-lebanon/

    so…eh… is this an admission that Israel has nukes?

    (of course we know they do, just that they never acknowledged it)



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    #9694
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318286#Comment_124318286

    Appears to be and there's also the rule that if they say it, they'll do the opposite, which is concerning.



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    #9695
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124317902#Comment_124317902

    They are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Their leader is wanted by the ICC

    they have a secret nuclear program. They are evil c3nts..


    they have started several wars with their neighbours


    That time country has a population of twice Irelands. Mostly made up of Americana and Europeans



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    #9696
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318286#Comment_124318286

    If this is an official acknowledgment that Israel is a rogue nuclear power. It makes US military funding and weapons sales to Israel illegal under the Symington Amendment.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #9697
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,714 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    The moron speaks

    https://twitter.com/PamphletsY/status/2033594600859046034


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    #9698
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,004 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124317911#Comment_124317911

    Ok fair enough although I didn't mention anything about Egypt or Saudi Arabia. For me a Greater Israel is about constant enlargement. I see them taking Gaza immediately, West Bank over time and Southern Lebanon if they can get away with it. Golan Heights and other parts of Southern Syria will never be given back. Who knows what happens after that when all those territories are secured. I cannot see them stopping if it's this easy.

    Re Sinai. It was captured in 1967. Influence over Egypt was crucial and the US pushed them to accept the permanent peace treaty and gradual withdrawal in return for significant financial incentives and recognition from Egypt. Different times for a fledgling state. Sinai is mainly desert. I went scuba diving there twice as it happens.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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    #9699
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,004 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124317902#Comment_124317902

    Israel very quickly demonised Ireland for legitimately calling out war crimes. Thoughts?

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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    #9700
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,004 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318286#Comment_124318286

    I think it was Shimon Peres that summed it up.

    "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, but we won't be the second, either."

    That said, Israel will not nuke Iran. That would be self defeating and make no strategic sense.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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    #9701
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,056 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    The US have been trying to claim that Witkoff has being having secret talks with FM Araghchi, but Araghchi says on Twitter that this is lies and seems to be more about the regime trying to mislead oil traders.



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    #9702
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,025 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318417#Comment_124318417

    The most antisemitic nation in the world, apparently.

    Says Israel…a nation that has slaughtered Semitic people in their droves.

    Hmmmm 🤔



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    #9703
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,009 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318386#Comment_124318386

    Breathtaking.......the "leader" of the "free world" ladies and gentlemen …

    Is there any way we could flatter his ego into being placed on a remote Pacific Island with a box of limited supplies and no way off.



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    #9704
    Jeff2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Anyone know how a copy of this engine can perform as well as it does in drones it doent add up to me.

    It would need slot of fuel as a 4 cyl6two stroke.



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    #9705
    Ardillaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,343 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Now he’s back to talking about taking over Cuba because, apparently, he can do what he wants with it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil


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    #9706
    Ardillaun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,343 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Regarding passage through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran looks like a more reliable negotiating partner at this point.



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    #9707
    sock.rocker*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    I am 100% on the conspiracy theory train about these videos of Netanyahu. Choo Choo.

    This new one must surely be AI. Look at his his wedding ring disappear at 28 seconds. Like it's there and then it's just not.

    image.png image.png

    https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2033515975379911114

    This is his official Twitter account. Anyone can click the link watch it. You can even slow it down to 0.25x but it's not needed. Is it even considered a conspiracy theory if you watch a video and can clearly see a glitch in the matrix.

    If it isn't doctored / AI, then we need some video platform that does not have any artifacting / compression causing these weird things.



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    #9708
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    I saw similar stuff yesterday, but wasn't convinced... This is definitely fake.

    26388.png

    lol



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    #9709
    sock.rocker*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    I think it is still more likely that it is just filters causing artifacts, but until he actually appears with other known figures properly, the conspiracy theories will continue.



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    #9710
    dePeatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318693#Comment_124318693

    Not the first time he has disappeared, he went to ground before, I’d imagine a deep underground bunker if in the country at all. I don’t believe it would make much difference if he was dead as there are more like him eager to take on the role.

    It would be a huge psychological blow to Israel if he was dead.



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    #9711
    dePeatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    https://youtu.be/Bx3XW6sCRDk?si=5HcK8ORjED_AG1Ak

    First CNN now sky news has entered Iran.



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    #9712
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,622 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    98 drones in a day, a lot heading for the oil infrastructure, and yet Iran are saying its not them :):)

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    So at what point is KSA justified in firing back?



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    #9713
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318740#Comment_124318740

    The Gulf Arab monarchies are not firing back because (a) the infrastructure on which their wealth is based is vulnerable, (b) the political infrastructure on which their power is based is vulnerable.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #9714
    brickster69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭brickster69


    USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier has moved to Jeddah port in Saudi after a fire broke out in a laundry room. IRGC warns that it is a legitimate target as well as the logistic facilities.

    ford.jpg

    Looks quite certain given confirmed satellite imagery that Iran's main plan for the first couple of weeks has been radars and communications. Another one gone in Saudi from latest images just released. Given the value of these targets destroyed you would imagine the casualties of US servicemen released up to now is much higher than officially announced.

    https://twitter.com/MenchOsint/status/2033701865892790665

    Niccolò Machiavelli :

    "To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbour is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenceless against the angry neighbour, and you are destroyed." - Niccolò Machiavelli



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    #9715
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,522 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318719#Comment_124318719

    A much larger psychological blow to Israel will be a ruling by the ICJ that Israel committed Genocide. A Genocide led by an alleged War Criminal wanted by the ICC and still at large.

    He is also clinging to the hope Herzog will pardon him for his domestic crimes of corruption and bribery.

    Many Israelis and countless others would prefer that he lives to face Justice for his crimes.



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    #9716
    Ozymandius2011
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Rumours Mojtaba is in Russia getting treatment for his wounds. Kremlin says it has no comment.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2182701/putin-iran-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-russia-surgery


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    #9717
    brickster69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Tanker hit for the first time east of Hormuz while anchored and waiting to pick up oil from the Fujairah pipeline. Looks like that has gone offline also, all UAE oil is now locked in. Just the Saudi one on the Red sea left and what is being allowed out.

    Unless the Gulf states are in bed with the US, want this to continue and now in too deep, they should just announce force majeure, cancel contracts and halt all production in the Gulf for the foreseeable future, they will have to anyway in a fortnight so may as well get it over with now. Things will go very chaotic for a short while but it would end it, or should do.

    Trump saying now they did it out of habit and is not a good thing to do. You can say that again !

    https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/2033608365939859792

    Niccolò Machiavelli :

    "To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbour is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenceless against the angry neighbour, and you are destroyed." - Niccolò Machiavelli



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    #9718
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 14,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    OT, but a look back at the war in the gulf 1984, between Iran and Iraq

    https://youtu.be/9SwrGQ_CF8g?si=5soNvsLkjWGkJyuq


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    #9719
    Ozymandius2011
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318767#Comment_124318767

    Also probably afraid of how their publics would react, especially those with large Shia minorities (17% in Saudi Arabia), the majority of the population in Bahrain.



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    #9720
    Ozymandius2011
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 4,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124318637#Comment_124318637

    While I support the end of the Cuban regime, I also support Cuban sovereignty. During the US protectorate in Cuba before 1959, the US practiced mercantilism, especially over Cuban sugar.

    SFs Marxist allies in Latin America like Maduro and the Cuban regime gone or going it seems.



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    #9721
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,622 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    @brickster69 ”USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier has moved to Jeddah port ”……. Where did you get this idea from? Following proves you wrong.

    IMG_0029.jpeg


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