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(The Drive)   The next theater of WW III has opened up in *spins wheel* Iran   (thedrive.com) divider line
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WegianWarrior
2023-01-29 4:10:34 AM  
Ivan the chain smoker is taking his vacation early this year, I guess?
 
bobbifleckman [OhFark]
2023-01-29 4:10:36 AM  
Duke Ellington - Isfahan
Youtube m2U1MGX8SLU
 
Zenith
2023-01-29 4:14:50 AM  
Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.
 
Jiggatron69
2023-01-29 4:18:56 AM  
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Tomahawk513 [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:19:49 AM  
Or it could have been an ammo dump exploding. I'm just saying Iran isn't exactly a reliable source.
 
Mr.Insightful
2023-01-29 4:23:02 AM  
Gee, who woulda thunk that murdering a bunch of young college students for protesting a different outright murder of a girl for wearing her hijab too loose (while at the same time backing a genocide in Ukraine), might cause a careless cigarette to be thrown?

Not me, let me tell you!
 
ace in your face [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:24:04 AM  
"Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" would have been a better headline.
 
Aussie_As
2023-01-29 4:25:19 AM  

Tomahawk513: Or it could have been an ammo dump exploding. I'm just saying Iran isn't exactly a reliable source.


Apparently there were multiple explosions which is why people started recording footage, ammo dumps don't usually go up in multiple relatively small bursts. But yeah it's very early to be drawing much by way of conclusion and you're right, if the only source is the Iranian government, I'm not buying that either.
 
Don't Lag Me Bro
2023-01-29 4:30:44 AM  
Does Iran have any allies, anywhere? Russia might have helped them out, if they weren't busy with a three day war started almost a year ago. Russia is trying to get material from Iran, I doubt Russia will provide much the other way.
 
Alien Robot
2023-01-29 4:33:54 AM  

ace in your face: "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" would have been a better headline.


McCain Sings "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
Youtube U7s5pT3Rris

Been done.
 
LordBeavis [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:37:52 AM  
Or, hear me out, Iran is trying to wag the dog.  There's nothing like an external attack to get people rallying around the flagpole and forgetting how oppressive the regime is.
 
Alphax
2023-01-29 4:39:33 AM  

Don't Lag Me Bro: Does Iran have any allies, anywhere? Russia might have helped them out, if they weren't busy with a three day war started almost a year ago. Russia is trying to get material from Iran, I doubt Russia will provide much the other way.


Religious differences keep them isolated from most of their neighbors.  Except Iraq has a lot of shiite Muslims, too, but they still have that big war between them in the 80's.

(filters are going to mess up that word)
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:53:47 AM  

Alien Robot: ace in your face: "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" would have been a better headline.

[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/U7s5pT3Rris?start=30]
Been done.


for fsm that clip is so cringe.  if i believed in afterlives, i'd suggest that he'd be eternally mocked for it.
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 4:54:41 AM  

Alphax: Don't Lag Me Bro: Does Iran have any allies, anywhere? Russia might have helped them out, if they weren't busy with a three day war started almost a year ago. Russia is trying to get material from Iran, I doubt Russia will provide much the other way.

Religious differences keep them isolated from most of their neighbors.  Except Iraq has a lot of shiite Muslims, too, but they still have that big war between them in the 80's.

(filters are going to mess up that word)


the filter let it slide.  sometimes that filter is a biatchippy.
 
NobleHam
2023-01-29 4:56:51 AM  

LordBeavis: Or, hear me out, Iran is trying to wag the dog.  There's nothing like an external attack to get people rallying around the flagpole and forgetting how oppressive the regime is.


That's certainly possible, but I'd still bet on Israel. They've been willing to step over the line with Iran more than anyone in the past, and if the regime looks weak, they might think an attack would push it over the edge. But Israeli foreign policy has rarely been very smart.
 
DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:03:06 AM  

tembaarmswide: biatchippy.


Biatchippy is how my grandmother used to order deli ham from giant iggle.
 
SurelyShirley
2023-01-29 5:04:36 AM  
Who's doin' the shootin'?

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Ketchuponsteak
2023-01-29 5:14:23 AM  
Oh noes, someone from Yemen launched some drones, WW3, good call submitter.
 
Ketchuponsteak
2023-01-29 5:18:00 AM  

Don't Lag Me Bro: Does Iran have any allies, anywhere? Russia might have helped them out, if they weren't busy with a three day war started almost a year ago. Russia is trying to get material from Iran, I doubt Russia will provide much the other way.


Iraq, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Palestinians, are their close allies. So, yes, they do.

Theres probably more, but those are the most obvious.
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-29 5:26:54 AM  
Still can't find my damn Pipboy....
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:31:21 AM  

Capo Del Bandito: Still can't find my damn Pipboy....


TIL what is a pipboy.
 
Stud Gerbil
2023-01-29 5:39:05 AM  
were they SCUD drones?  that might help narrow it down.
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-29 5:39:59 AM  

tembaarmswide: Capo Del Bandito: Still can't find my damn Pipboy....

TIL what is a pipboy.


If you're going to traverse an irradiated wasteland, you need one.
 
LL316
2023-01-29 5:41:49 AM  

Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.


Glass half full guess is protesters are done farking around.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:42:22 AM  

Capo Del Bandito: tembaarmswide: Capo Del Bandito: Still can't find my damn Pipboy....

TIL what is a pipboy.

If you're going to traverse an irradiated wasteland, you need one.


I'd think RAD-X and RAD-AWAY would be a far better commodity to have in such a situation.
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-29 5:43:08 AM  

Stud Gerbil: were they SCUD drones?  that might help narrow it down.


They hired this dude?

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I dont want to be on this planet anymore
2023-01-29 5:43:18 AM  

Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.


Surely couldn't be Iranians, because they are absolutely unified as a people without any internal divisions whatsoever.
 
trerro [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 5:44:34 AM  
They may well be looking at the opening volleys of a revolution. It would make sense for the rebels to want to take away ammo from the military, so they can fight them with equal weapons and massively superior numbers, and that's exactly what just blew up. "Drone attack" doesn't necessarily mean military stuff, anyone can grab the sort of drone you'd shoot a YouTube video with, equip it with thermite or any number of easy to make explosives that are about the weight of said camera, and well, it's ammo, If you blow up a tiny piece of an ammo dump, you're cratering the whole thing.
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-29 5:45:11 AM  

Smoking GNU: I'd think RAD-X and RAD-AWAY would be a far better commodity to have in such a situation.


Fark that, I'd rather have fast travel.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:01:48 AM  
Oof, I bet the US military in the Gulf is on edge
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 6:11:13 AM  

Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.


Iran is the whole reason that Saudi and Israel are pretending to be friends to begin with.  It's probably both.
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:12:14 AM  

Marcus Aurelius: Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.

Iran is the whole reason that Saudi and Israel are pretending to be friends to begin with.  It's probably both.


Iran is the whole reason that the US pretends to be friends with the Saudis too.  That and oil.  Lots and lots of OIL!
 
untoldforce
2023-01-29 6:26:47 AM  
I think genital herpes beat (post-revolution) Iran in a recent popularity quiz.

Pre-revolutionary Iran was a much better place for nearly everyone, except religious fanatics.
 
Eunice's Social Calendar [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:55:26 AM  

Capo Del Bandito: Stud Gerbil: were they SCUD drones?  that might help narrow it down.

They hired this dude?

[Fark user image 600x917]


lol...that looks like one of the spy vs. spy bros at first glance to old mush head here...must check out.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-01-29 7:16:26 AM  
Flamesfan posted a Twitter link in the daily Ukraine thread that seems to suggest it was more than one place: https://fark.com/12733148/158870498



At night, factories producing UAVs, missiles and ammunition were attacked in Iran.
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buravirgil
2023-01-29 7:25:15 AM  

Capo Del Bandito: Stud Gerbil: were they SCUD drones?  that might help narrow it down.

They hired this dude?

[Fark user image 600x917]


i.ytimg.comView Full Size

Scud Stud
 
August11 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 7:27:48 AM  

bobbifleckman: [YouTube video: Duke Ellington - Isfahan]


If that is not the summit of our civilization, it is one of the camps near the peak.

Thanks for that.
 
valenumr [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 7:28:05 AM  

trerro: They may well be looking at the opening volleys of a revolution. It would make sense for the rebels to want to take away ammo from the military, so they can fight them with equal weapons and massively superior numbers, and that's exactly what just blew up. "Drone attack" doesn't necessarily mean military stuff, anyone can grab the sort of drone you'd shoot a YouTube video with, equip it with thermite or any number of easy to make explosives that are about the weight of said camera, and well, it's ammo, If you blow up a tiny piece of an ammo dump, you're cratering the whole thing.


So far as I can see, while their protests are wide spread, they lack the type of coordination and leadership for something of this scale.

Best hope is this gives a boost to the unrest rather than redirecting it toward another enemy.
 
Veloram
2023-01-29 7:34:36 AM  
If the country that was bragging about providing drones to Russia is suddenly "under attack by drones", you can bet that it's less an "attack" and more "our shiat's blowing up, yo"
 
kmfjd
2023-01-29 7:37:06 AM  

Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.


Israel is to busy stoking a new intifada and committing genocide on Palestinians and the saudi's are way to incompetent to do something like this
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 7:39:21 AM  
Or.. and hear me out for a second... your own people are getting sick of your government's crap, and being accustomed to violent solutions used by their government and its support of global terrorism over the past few decades, think using the same tactics in rebellion is justified.

...also they might be getting help from the agitation division of the CIA and some pissed off Ukrainians over the whole "supplying Russia with drones to kill/terrorize Ukrainian civilians" crap.
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 7:52:48 AM  

LesserEvil: Or.. and hear me out for a second... your own people are getting sick of your government's crap, and being accustomed to violent solutions used by their government and its support of global terrorism over the past few decades, think using the same tactics in rebellion is justified.

...also they might be getting help from the agitation division of the CIA and some pissed off Ukrainians over the whole "supplying Russia with drones to kill/terrorize Ukrainian civilians" crap.


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Hinged
2023-01-29 7:55:00 AM  
That wasn't Israel.
 
justanotherfarkinfarker
2023-01-29 7:55:05 AM  
Maybe don't sell a bunch of drones to the Russians. I'm guessing that's the message.
 
phaseolus
2023-01-29 7:57:03 AM  

Alphax: (filters are going to mess up that word)


I'm not a scholar or anything, but it seems like "Shi'a" is the preferred version these days. Maybe the various style guides could confirm or deny that, but I'm too lazy to look right now.

In the late 70s it was always the filter-triggering version, so whenever I see it spelled that way I think to myself "hello, fellow old person"
 
buravirgil
2023-01-29 7:59:00 AM  

LesserEvil: ...also they might be getting help from the agitation division of the CIA


That's the division before the departments of coup d'etat and assassination, but after you pass the annex of burn bins.
 
Roastbeast Sammich
2023-01-29 8:02:18 AM  

Don't Lag Me Bro: Does Iran have any allies, anywhere? Russia might have helped them out, if they weren't busy with a three day war started almost a year ago. Russia is trying to get material from Iran, I doubt Russia will provide much the other way.


Hezbollah, mainly. Some militias in Iraq and Yemen.
 
buravirgil
2023-01-29 8:13:03 AM  

phaseolus: In the late 70s it was always the filter-triggering version,


Photoshop 1970s Fark.
 
Und Becks [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 8:18:21 AM  
Blowback isn't just for Americans.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 8:20:16 AM  

Zenith: Isreal is the logical culprit for these shenanigans but don't rule out the Saudis playing some part in this.


I duuno. Israel usually limits its strikes to Iran's nuclear programs, none of these seem to be related to that.
 
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