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2024-11-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran claims it can build nukes, threatens Israel and US with 'tooth-breaking'' retaliation

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Posted by Fred 2024-11-02 11:49|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Do it.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-11-02 16:24|| 2024-11-02 16:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Those turbans can double as diapers

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-02 16:34|| 2024-11-02 16:34|| Front Page Top

#3 For the 2nd time in 80 years, will nuclear bombs save my family?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-11-02 16:39|| 2024-11-02 16:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Iran's capacity to put another 300 missiles in the air toward Israel is in doubt.

Iran's capacity to launch an effective attack on Israel with their old F-14s is pretty close to zero.

Yes they could put a nuke on a truck and drive it to Israel but that would likely be detected and might even go off in Iraq or Jordan.

Iran could demand Hezbollah to launch all their remaining missiles at once but Hezbollah would likely not be able to do that. Furthermore once they didn't have anything else to lauch Hezbollah is much less of a threat.

Iran could try launching a thousand drones but I'm not sure they have anywhere near that capacity.

Wonder who is going to tell the Ayatollah.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-11-02 19:19|| 2024-11-02 19:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Iran's capacity to put another 300 missiles in the air toward Israel is in doubt.

How do you figure that, Lord Garth?

Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-02 19:43|| 2024-11-02 19:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Fault lines in Iran

Posted by 3dc 2024-11-02 19:49|| 2024-11-02 19:49|| Front Page Top

#7 ^5
A lot of the stations and hardware that were used to fuel the ballistic missiles were destroyed in the 26 October attack. Iran may have more that weren't hit but that is unknown.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-11-02 19:53|| 2024-11-02 19:53|| Front Page Top

#8 What about the Halliburton Earthquake machine?

Posted by 3dc 2024-11-02 19:53|| 2024-11-02 19:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank you for explaining, Lord Garth.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-02 21:22|| 2024-11-02 21:22|| Front Page Top

#10 A lot of the stations and hardware that were used to fuel the ballistic missiles were destroyed in the 26 October attack.

When the perfidious Juice launched their utterly unprovoked attack on Iran, everyone was going on about nuke labs and oil facilities, none of which were struck. The stuff that did get blowed up were the Iranian air defenses because that is always the first thing in any good air strike, and lots of missile production facilities, including the machines used to mix up solid rocket propellant. It was not as sexy as blowing up Kharg Island, but it keeps Iran from rebuilding the arsenal they recently set off which will be a disadvantage in the next round. Israel seems to be playing the long game.

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-02 21:48|| 2024-11-02 21:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I’m clearly still a very junior analyst-in-training — but I’m very proud to have gotten this far. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-02 23:04|| 2024-11-02 23:04|| Front Page Top

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