US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

I know it is, but only just.

I am guessing there's going to be a unilateral declaration of ceasefire this weekend

Why do you feel the need to bring the Russian war consisistently into this thread?

From your response it looks like you're attempting at downplaying the casualties inflicted for some strange reason.

Except there was something to support it, in your original reply you stated Iran was behind the protests- without any qualifer- that was a misleading statement. The protests, at least initially, were home based not orchestrated by Iran . That as mentioned previously has been corroborated by an independant investigation. It was the Bahraini regime that characterised it as being wholly orchestrated by outside actors.

Saudi Arabia were instrumental in suppressing the protest movement. I was pointing out the double standard that because Bahrain was a western ally what happened was ignored. You subsequently seemed to agree with that.

they weren’t arrested under terrorism legislation. It is being treated as a hate crime.
The article you posted is related to something completely different and it is being investigated by anti terror police, not as an act of terror.

No I didn't.

The Bahrain protests were by opposition parties supported Iran and Hezbollah, trying to take advantage of the momentum of the Arab Spring, and wasn't only a Saudi response. There was Kuwait, UAE, UK and others, at the request of Bahrain…

So the people calling for intervention in Iran, were at that time, probably calling for intervention in Iran.

Somehow you took all of the above as some sort of Iranian dig.

They weren't, odd that isnt it?
That given the crime, where it was commited and who was targeted, that the people arrested were detained under a charge of arson with intent to endanger life.
Yet we had an entire news cycle devoted to the Anti-Semitic terrorist attack on those ambulances.
The 2nd article linked isn't something completely different, it is wholly germane to the Golders Green arrests.
It is 2 men arrested for undertaking surveillance of the Jewish community, that resulted in no direct action, no arson, no attacks.
Yet they are held under legislation allowing detention and indeed have been remanded into continuing custody.
Yet?
2 men arrested in relation to an attack that was claimed as Anti-Semitic terrorism, that the Israeli embassy and others linked directly to Iranian proxies.
Are released after a short detention period.

what’s odd about it? Sounds like you are dreaming up a conspiracy theory.

Well in that same fairness, Tomahawks are naval missiles launched from ships or submarines.

Nobody is saying all missiles.

But I can't see why the general population of Iran wouldn't be aware that the bombs come in part from US bases in the GCC.

Wait for his 6pm Truth Social bluster.

Suspect it will be something along the lines of 'we'll bomb them into submission and move onto cuba cos we da greatest'

Friday WTI to 102

Monday - peace talks are going swimmingly - Iran can have one small nuke.

Monday pm WTI 93

So utter bullshit yet again.

Given that Trump was stupid enough to join Israel in attacking Iran I actually can believe the Americans will try to capture an island the in strait of Hormuz. No fear he sends Barron to join the troops. Those troops will be sitting ducks for the Iranians.

Israelis are dismayed at the level of destruction caused by Hezbollah particularly in northern Israel. After the death of Hassan Nasrallah and the pager attack they thought Hezbollah were greatly diminished. Well there back and as big as ever. They are annihilating tanks at an impressive rate.

Talk on X that there are cracks in the Israeli military. Israel has never faced such unrelenting attack on its military and associated infrastructure.

Experts are saying that their is a gradual reduction in the level of US Israeli bombings as the war has gone on.

Iran are having to fire less missiles as Israeli air defences have been near neutralised. The damage in Tel Aviv is so widespread that censorship is now seen as pointless.

Tomorrow marks four weeks since the war started. Iran appears to hold the aces.

I didn't perceive your comment as a dig. I was rightly or wrongly challenging what i interpreted as a misleading statement and perhaps a double standard

You are right some of the protests did start around the Arab spring. Many of the protestors in the initial protest had no affiliation to parties supported by Iran, there was no clear evidence that those leading the protests were supported by Iran back in 2011. A comisssion of enquiry established this. This was also backed by the assessment of US officials at the time . So to say the protests were by opposition parties supported by Iran was a broad and misleading statement not backed up by solid evidence.

With this in mind:

Let me ask you, if in response to a poster talking about the January protests in Iran, i characterised the protests as being by opposition groups supported by America. Do you think it would be reasonable for people to construe that as a somewhat misleading statement. I would imagine some people might also perceive it as delegitimising the genuine grievances of those people protesting by collectively describing them as puppets of outside actors rather than protesting of their own volition due to unhappiness at how the state they live in is being run.

According to Jonathan Powell and the Omani negotiator Iran were receptive to making a deal before the war started. So this could well have all been avoided.