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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    While such a characterization may well be accurate, it should be noted that ultimately, to take power, an organized movement, with political and probably also military aspects, is a necessity.
    Good balanced post Harry. Agree to this bit. In particular the military aspect. The current gov will not roll over without a fight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Good balanced post Harry. Agree to this bit. In particular the military aspect. The current gov will not roll over without a fight.
    Precisely. As long as the army are 100% behind the mad mullahs, there will be no revolution.

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    its still going on....

    Iranian footballer sentenced to execution for 'campaigning for women's rights'

    Amir Nasr-Azadani is facing execution amid anti-government protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Masha Amini in September

    FifPro, the international players union, said it was "shocked and sickened" at the reports and called for the punishment to be revoked.


    There have been widespread anti-government protests in Iran sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody in September having been detained for allegedly failing to follow the country's Islamic dress code.


    A message posted by the official Twitter account of FifPro on Monday said:


    FIFPRO is shocked and sickened by reports that professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani faces execution in Iran after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country.


    We stand in solidarity with Amir and call for the immediate removal of his punishment. pic.twitter.com/vPuylCS2ph


    — FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) December 12, 2022
    At the World Cup in Qatar, the Iran team stood silent when the national anthem was played prior to the 6-2 defeat to England on Nov 21, something that was interpreted as a show of support for the anti-government protests in their country.


    Nasr-Azadani played for Persian Gulf Pro League side Tractor between 2016 and 2018, after a short season-long spell with Rah Ahan in 2015-16. The 26-year-old defender has not played professionally since his last appearance in November 2017.


    The Mizan news agency reported on Monday that a second man had been publicly executed in the last week.


    Majid Reza Rahnavard, who according to state media had been sentenced to execution after being convicted of killing two members of the Iranian security forces, was hanged in the city of Mashhad. The report added that “he was sentenced to death for 'waging war against God' after stabbing to death two members of the security forces”.


    The United States State Department condemned Iran for Rahnavard’s execution.


    State department spokesperson Ned Price said on Monday: “We denounce this draconian treatment in the strongest terms. These harsh sentences and now the first public execution... are meant to intimidate Iran's people. They're meant to suppress dissent.”


    Amnesty International has said Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 21 people in what it called “sham trials designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran”.


    Rahnavard’s execution came days after Mohsen Shekari, a man who had been sentenced to death for injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, was also hanged in public.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/12/13/iranian-footballer-amir-nasr-azadani-sentenced-execution-campaigning/

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    Turning Iran into Iraq or Syria unable to supply Russia or feed its people will benefit some more than others.
    An odd allaince of most neighbours, Kuweit, Israel KSA Iraq Pakistan and Bahrain will all welcome a weaker Iran plus of course USA

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    Excellent video update of what is going on in Iran...


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    Taraneh Alidoosti, Iranian star of Oscar-winning The Salesman

    Taraneh Alidoosti, Iranian star of Oscar-winning The Salesman, arrested for pro-protester post
    Iran state media say other celebrities detained for 'publishing provocative content'
    The Associated Press · Posted: Dec 17

    Iranian authorities arrested one of the country's most famous actors on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said Saturday.

    The report by IRNA said Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie The Salesman, was detained a week after she made a post on Instagram expressing solidarity with the first man recently executed for crimes allegedly committed during the nationwide protests.

    IRNA also said several other Iranian celebrities had "been summoned by the judiciary body over publishing provocative content." It did not say how many or provide further details.

    In her post, the 38-year-old actor said: "His name was Mohsen Shekari. Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity."

    Alidoosti has made at least three posts on her Instagram account expressing solidarity with protesters since the demonstrations broke out in September. Her account, which had some eight million followers, has been suspended.

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    Iran protests: 'No going back' as unrest hits 100 days

    A hundred days after they began, the longest running anti-government protests in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution have shaken the regime, but at a heavy cost to the people.


    More than 500 protesters, including 69 children, have been killed, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). Two protesters have been executed and at least 26 others face the same fate, after what Amnesty International calls "sham trials".


    Although nationwide demonstrations have swept Iran before - once in 2017 lasting until early 2018, and another in November 2019 - the current protests are unique, as they involve people from across society and women are taking a lead role under the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom".


    Some Iranian celebrities have taken irrevocable steps to support protests, leading to their arrest or exile.


    Taraneh Alidoosti, a well-known Iranian actress, is being held in the notorious Evin prison after she condemned the execution of a young protester. Previously, she published a photo of herself without a mandatory headscarf, holding a sign with the protesters' slogan.


    "I have worked with Taraneh on four films and now she is in prison for her rightful support of her fellow countrymen and her opposition to the unjust sentences being issued," Asghar Farhadi, who directed Alidoosti in his Oscar-winning film The Salesman, wrote on Instagram.


    "If showing such support is a crime, then tens of millions of people of this land are criminals," Mr Farhadi added.


    'Death threats'
    Another prominent Iranian actress who has left the country, Pegah Ahangarani, told BBC Persian: "Both sides have been radicalised, the regime in its crackdown and people in film industry in their response.


    "Iran cannot go back to pre-Mahsa Amini era," referring to the Kurdish Iranian woman whose death in the custody of Iran's morality police on 16 September sparked the protests.


    Hamid Farrokhnezhad, another well-known Iranian actor, moved to the US earlier this month and immediately called Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a "dictator", comparing him to Franco, Stalin and Mussolini.

    more - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64062900

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    "Iran cannot go back to pre-Mahsa Amini era," referring to the Kurdish Iranian woman whose death in the custody of Iran's morality police on 16 September sparked the protests.
    Well yeah, it can, as long as the mad mullahs are in charge and have the backing of the military.

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    ^ and the police

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    ^ and the police

    Yes, and the "unofficial police".

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    sadly i have a feeling things could get a lot worse for her

    Iran protests: Jailed activist Sepideh Qolian describes brutality in letter

    One of Iran's most prominent female activists has described how confessions are forced out of prisoners, in a letter written inside a notorious jail.

    Sepideh Qolian has been serving a five-year sentence since 2018 after being convicted of acting "against national security" for supporting a strike.

    Writing from Evin prison, she describes the brutal treatment of her and other detainees by interrogators.

    Their forced confessions are later broadcast on state-run television.

    Alluding to the current anti-government protests sweeping the country, Ms Qolian writes: "In the fourth year of my imprisonment I can finally hear the footsteps of liberation from all across Iran.

    "The echoes of 'Woman, Life, Freedom' can be heard even through the thick walls of Evin prison."

    Ms Qolian is currently studying law in prison. In her letter she describes how Evin's "cultural" wing - where she takes her exams - has been turned into a "torture and interrogation" building, and says she has witnessed young detainees being interrogated there.

    "The exam room is filled with young boys and girls and the shouts of torturers can be heard," she writes.

    Ms Qolian describes a scene she witnessed on 28 December 2022 as she was taken to the wing for her exam.

    "It's freezing cold and snowing, near the exit door of the building, a young boy blindfolded and wearing nothing but a thin grey T-shirt is sat in front of an interrogator.

    "He's shaking and pleading: 'I swear to God I didn't beat anyone.' They want him to confess. As I am passing I shout: 'DO NOT confess,' and 'Death to you tyrants.'"

    So far, at least 519 protesters - including 69 children - have been killed and 19,300 arrested, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). Thousands have been imprisoned.

    Many of those arrested face the death penalty and so far four protesters have been hanged after their confessions were shown on TV.

    Human rights activists and lawyers say their trials were held without legal representation, and after the defendants were tortured. Authorities deny these claims.

    Since the start of the mass protests in September last year, dozens of forced confessions of detained protesters have been broadcast.

    In her letter, Sepideh Qolian recalls her own interrogation and forced confession in 2018, after she was arrested for supporting the workers' strike and protest at a sugar factory in Iran's Khuzestan province.

    Ms Qolian describes being interrogated by a woman who she hoped might be softer on her than her male interrogators and "at least she won't sexually assault me".

    But she writes that her hopes were short lived - the female interrogator "kicked the leg of the desk and shouted 'you communist whore, who did you sleep with?'"

    In December last year, Nargess Mohammadi, a female human rights activist who is serving a 34-year prison sentence, gave a detailed account of how women arrested in recent protests are being sexually abused in prison.

    more: Iran protests: Jailed activist Sepideh Qolian describes brutality in letter - BBC News

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    Iranian-Backed Murder-for-Hire Group Behind Brooklyn Assassination Attempt


    The stunning details into the attempted murder of Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City represent an ‘alarming’ rise in nation state-backed threats to Americans, officials say.


    The Department of Justice on Friday unveiled stunning details into an Iran-backed attempt to assassinate an American journalist at her Brooklyn home last year – the latest in what officials warn is an “alarming” rise in plots orchestrated by nation states targeting people inside the U.S.

    Three men who belong to an “Eastern European Organized Crime Group” are now in custody and have been indicted in the Southern District of New York, the department announced Friday morning, for the plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an American citizen, author and human rights activist who has emerged as one of the most prominent expatriate voices in support of ongoing women’s rights protests against the regime in Tehran.

    The brazen scheme involved at least three men with personal ties to Iran and the violent Eastern European gang – including one, Khalid Mehdiyev, who repeatedly stalked the victim’s house and returned on several occasions in an attempt to carry out the assassination with an assault-style rifle. After his most recent attempt, in July, he was stopped for a traffic violation and arrested after officers found the weapon, dozens of rounds of ammunition, cash and a black ski mask in his car. Two other men involved in the operation were arrested this month, one of them on Thursday.


    Dramatic in itself, the case also demonstrates what the department described in an accompanying statement as “an alarming rise in plots emanating from Iran, China, Russia, and elsewhere, targeting people in the United States, often using criminal proxies and cutouts.” And it shows the extent to which the government in Tehran feels threatened by the months-long domestic protests and needs to silence international support for it.


    “I’m thankful to the FBI and the law enforcement for protecting me, but this is the time that we have to pay attention to innocent people in Iran who don’t have any protection,” Alinejad said in a video she posted on Twitter moments after news of the scheme became public.

    She said she had just returned from an FBI field office, where agents briefed her on the details of the cases facing the three men now in detention – two in the U.S. and one in the Czech Republic, from which the U.S. will request his extradition.


    “I’m going to continue giving my voice” to those fighting for justice in Iran, she added, and called on the U.S. to do more to support them. “If we don’t take strong action now, we will face these terrorists on U.S. soil more and more.”


    Top officials who briefed reporters on the details of the case on Friday morning agreed with at least part of that assessment.

    “Increasingly, we see the blending of national security and criminal threats as rogue nations and criminal organizations make common cause and share capabilities,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, speaking alongside Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and other law enforcement officials associated with the case. “All too often they seek rogue countries they believe will protect and empower them – in this case, Iran.”

    “We’ve seen the Iranian regime become aggressive and more brazen across vectors,” Wray said.


    He noted a recent ransomware attack against Boston Children’s Hospital last year and the 2021 attempt by a member of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton, likely in retaliation for the Trump administration’s decision to kill former IRGC leader Qassem Soleimani earlier the year before.


    “If that doesn’t show how serious the threat from Iran is to Americans right here in America, I don’t know what is,” the FBI director added.


    Mehdiyev, a resident of Yonkers, New York, was supported in the assassination plot by two other members of the gang, which the department says has ties to Iran “and is violent, engaging in murders, kidnappings, assaults, and extortions, and members typically identify themselves with tattoos and other displays of eight-pointed stars.” Law enforcement officials said Rafat Amirov, a leader of the gang who lives in Iran, and Polad Omarov relayed targeting information to the would-be shooter, furnished him with more than $30,000 in cash payments to purchase weapons and other equipment he would need for surveillance, and communicated with him as he prepared the operation.


    Chilling details included in the indictments facing the three men include their attempt to lure their target out of her residence in Brooklyn by asking her for flowers from her garden. During one of these attempts, on July 28, Alinejad sensed suspicious activity outside her home and fled, causing Mehdiyev to drive away, when he was arrested.

    Omarov was arrested six months later in the Czech Republic on Jan. 4. Amirov, of Iran, was taken into custody on Thursday.


    Protests continue to roil in city centers in Iran as a part of growing women-led movement to demand more civil and human rights of the ruling regime. Hundreds have been killed in the protests and tens of thousands have been arrested and detained, including at the notoriously brutal Evin Prison in Tehran, which houses political dissidents.


    The demonstrations began in late summer and accelerated sharply after Sept. 16, when security forces in Tehran arrested 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for not wearing her hijab in accordance with government standards. Security forces beat her, reportedly causing her to have a heart attack while detained at a police station. The young woman, whose family described her as shy, reserved and reluctant to get involved in politics, fell into a coma and died.

    Iranian-Backed Murder-for-Hire Group Behind Brooklyn Assassination Attempt | National News | U.S. News

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    This behaviour is nothing new from the mad mullahs. While I lived in London there were two attacks on dissidents near my office: One in which they used a car bomb and the other when they torched a video shop owned by a prominent anti-mullah activist. They are an odious bunch.

    Ironically, when I was moving to the sandpit later that year, someone asked me why "I was moving to a war zone"
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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Ironically, when I was moving to the sandpit later that year, someone asked me why "I was moving to a war zone"
    Money and a tan

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Money and a tan
    Not far off, although the original plan was "just for a couple of years".


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    All three good reasons.

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    Iran says drones attacked military factory, in latest hint of shadow war with Israel

    Drones loaded with bombs targeted a military factory at the heart of the central Iranian city of Isfahan, authorities said Sunday, causing a large explosion and minor damage to the facility.

    The incident served as the latest flashpoint for rising tensions over the country's nuclear program and its supply of drones to Russia. The news drew a celebratory reaction from Kyiv that earned its own rebuke from Tehran on Monday.

    There was no immediate information on who might have carried out the attack, but focus quickly turned to Israel, which has been engaged in a shadow war with the Islamic Republic and is suspected of being behind a number of similar attacks in recent years.

    'Defensive traps'

    The Iranian defense ministry confirmed one of its workshop complexes had come under attack Saturday from a number of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), but said the complex’s air defenses had successfully repelled it.

    A loud blast was heard at the military plant in Isfahan, but a security official said there were no casualties, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said on its website Sunday.

    “The explosion took place in one of the munitions manufacturing centers of the Defence Ministry and according to an announcement by the political and security deputy head of Isfahan Governorate,” IRIB reported, without giving further details.

    Three quadcopters equipped with bombs were used in the attack, Iran’s defense ministry said in a statement shared with IRIB.

    “One of the MAVs was downed by the complex’s air defense fire, while the other two were caught in its defensive traps and exploded,” the statement said.

    The ministry noted that the unsuccessful attack did not cause any loss of life and only led to minor damage to the roof of a workshop. The complex, it added, continues its ordinary operations following the attack.

    Eyewitness video that has been verified by NBC News shows a small explosion and plumes of gray smoke rising as cars drive past a home furnishings store geolocated as off the Imam Khomeini Expressway in Isfahan.

    At a news conference on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian described the attack as “cowardly,” and assured the public that such attacks will have no effect on the country’s overall march toward progress, according to the Tasnim News Agency.

    Israel is widely believed to be behind a growing list of incidents like the drone attack that have hit Iranian military and nuclear targets in recent years. Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently returned as Israel’s prime minister, has long viewed Iran as a grave threat.

    A spokesperson for both the Israeli Defense Forces and the CIA declined to comment.

    Talks to revive Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers have collapsed amid the regime's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters, raising fears about the development of the country's nuclear program.

    The attack comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarks on a three-day visit to a Middle East already fraught with concerns over the potential for escalation after spiraling violence in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Washington and Israel also held a massive joint military exercise last week.

    In Ukraine — where Russia has been using Iranian-supplied drones to attack civilian targets across cities far from the front lines — news of the incident prompted an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to draw a link between the two.

    “War logic is inexorable & murderous. It bills the authors & accomplices strictly,” Zelenskyy adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted on Sunday. “Explosive night in Iran — drone & missile production, oil refineries. [Ukraine] did warn you.”

    Reacting to Podolyak’s comments, Iran on Monday summoned Ukraine’s charge d’affaires in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

    Russia’s foreign ministry on Monday condemned Sunday’s drone strike against its burgeoning ally and warned against “unpredictable consequences” that could escalate an already precarious situation.

    “Such destructive actions could have unpredictable consequences for peace and stability in the Middle East,” foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.

    Amirabdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, acknowledged in November that his country had supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...ions-rcna68114
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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Russia’s foreign ministry on Monday ... warned against ....
    Another day, another severe warning.

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    Iran summons Ukraine's envoy over drone attack comments

    Tehran, Iran – The Iranian foreign ministry has summoned the Ukrainian charge d’affaires in the country over comments made by a top presidential adviser, who appeared to link a recent drone attack in central Iran to the war in Ukraine.

    The envoy was called on Monday to provide explanations over a Twitter post by Mykhailo Podolyak a day earlier, according to Nournews, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s National Security Council.

    Explosive night in Iran – drone & missile production, oil refineries,” Podolyak, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had written on Sunday, adding Ukraine “did warn you”.

    Other Ukrainian officials have yet to publicly expand on his comments.

    War logic is inexorable & murderous. It bills the authors & accomplices strictly.

    Panic in RF – endless mobilization, missile defense in Moscow, trenches 1000 km away, bomb shelters preparation.

    Explosive night in Iran – drone & missile production, oil refineries.

    🇺🇦 did warn you

    — Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) January 29, 2023

    The tweet came shortly after a military factory in Isfahan came under attack from what officials said were three quadcopters armed with explosives.

    The defence ministry running the site said the attack was thwarted, with the facility suffering only minor damage to its roof. State media carried footage that showed the remains of the drones, with one seemingly caught in a mesh net installed on top of the plant as a defence measure.

    The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited unnamed United States officials and people familiar with the strike as saying Israel was behind the drone attack. Israel has not officially commented.

    On the night of the drone attack, there were several other incidents in other regions of Iran, including a fire at a major industrial complex in the northwest of the country. Authorities have not officially linked the incidents.

    Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Sunday criticised the drone attack as “cowardly”, saying it was aimed at jeopardising the security of the country.

    Iran has so far not officially blamed Israel for the attack, but it has previously been a target of many suspected Israeli strikes amid a shadow war with its arch foe. Israel has threatened large-scale strikes as efforts to restore Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers remain deadlocked.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine and Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of supplying Russia with attack drones that have been used in the war in Ukraine, and they have imposed several rounds of sanctions on it. Iran has acknowledged supplying a “limited” number of drones to Russia but said this was before the start of the war in February last year.

    Iran summons Ukraine’s envoy over drone attack comments | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    Another day, another severe warning.
    As boring as Beijing's daily bitching and whining and threatening . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Not far off, although the original plan was "just for a couple of years".
    . . . well hello there . . . after how many years?


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    It turned into 35 and I never made it back.


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    35 . . . fark . . . that is a hell of a long time to be anywhere, especially the ME

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Tehran, Iran – The Iranian foreign ministry has summoned the Ukrainian charge d’affaires in the country over comments made by a top presidential adviser, who appeared to link a recent drone attack in central Iran to the war in Ukraine.

    The envoy was called on Monday to provide explanations over a Twitter post by Mykhailo Podolyak a day earlier, according to Nournews, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s National Security Council.

    Explosive night in Iran – drone & missile production, oil refineries,” Podolyak, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had written on Sunday, adding Ukraine “did warn you”.

    Other Ukrainian officials have yet to publicly expand on his comments.




    The tweet came shortly after a military factory in Isfahan came under attack from what officials said were three quadcopters armed with explosives.

    The defence ministry running the site said the attack was thwarted, with the facility suffering only minor damage to its roof. State media carried footage that showed the remains of the drones, with one seemingly caught in a mesh net installed on top of the plant as a defence measure.

    The Wall Street Journal on Sunday cited unnamed United States officials and people familiar with the strike as saying Israel was behind the drone attack. Israel has not officially commented.

    On the night of the drone attack, there were several other incidents in other regions of Iran, including a fire at a major industrial complex in the northwest of the country. Authorities have not officially linked the incidents.

    Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Sunday criticised the drone attack as “cowardly”, saying it was aimed at jeopardising the security of the country.

    Iran has so far not officially blamed Israel for the attack, but it has previously been a target of many suspected Israeli strikes amid a shadow war with its arch foe. Israel has threatened large-scale strikes as efforts to restore Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers remain deadlocked.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine and Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of supplying Russia with attack drones that have been used in the war in Ukraine, and they have imposed several rounds of sanctions on it. Iran has acknowledged supplying a “limited” number of drones to Russia but said this was before the start of the war in February last year.

    Iran summons Ukraine’s envoy over drone attack comments | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
    Frankly I'm outraged at this attack on Iran and the damage inflicted. Nowhere near enough. There is some sweet irony in Iran being attacked by Drones. Pity they missed the chief towel head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    35 . . . fark . . . that is a hell of a long time to be anywhere, especially the ME
    Not exactly a hardship posting.


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