What’s happening in Iran?

[CQB]

Now another one at Ahvaz.

Fires flare at Iranian power plant, latest in series of incidents

 

[Blizzard]

Now another one at Ahvaz.

Fires flare at Iranian power plant, latest in series of incidents

 

[AWP]

Anyone placing bets on whether a certain scrappy country founded in 1948 is behind this?

 

[CQB]

There’s a school of thought that leans towards a local group.
Mysterious Explosion and Fire Damage Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Facility

 

[ShamgarTheJudge]

U.S. killing of Iran's Gen. Soleimani “was unlawful,” U.N. expert says — NPR

What a gem

 

[CQB]

Tut tut, naughty America.

 

[ShamgarTheJudge]

 

[AWP]

The UN can eat a bag of dicks.

 

[Kaldak]

Don't we pay a vastly larger portion of the UN budget? Money clearly doesn't buy the access/influence it used to buy.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

The UN can eat a bag of dicks.

Gotta address for that?

Dicks By Mail - Anonymously Mail a Bag of Dicks

 

[Kaldak]

Is it really anonymous? If so, I have a few targets...

 

[Salt USMC]

Goddamn. Either Iran is having some insanely bad luck recently, or some country is burning about a decade-worth of sabotage injects in just a month.

Explosion in Iran's Kermanshah province, no casualties reported: Mizan

I actually have no idea where this particular area is. It's hard to find any English-language references to a "Dowlatabad" area in Kermanshah province, although Isfahan has one.

 

[SaintKP]

Goddamn. Either Iran is having some insanely bad luck recently, or some country is burning about a decade-worth of sabotage injects in just a month.

Explosion in Iran's Kermanshah province, no casualties reported: Mizan

I actually have no idea where this particular area is. It's hard to find any English-language references to a "Dowlatabad" area in Kermanshah province, although Isfahan has one.

Chalk it up to 40+ years of karma starting to catch up with Iran.

 

[Gordus]

some insanely bad luck

 

[DA SWO]

Very few casualties.
Kurds, Internal Strife or Israel.
We cant keep a secret, so I rule us out.

 

[AWP]

This made for a fun day.

Al Dhafra, Al-Udeid go on temporary alert during Iranian ‘attack’ on mock Nimitz-class carrier

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched missiles Tuesday targeting a mock aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a drill that included such a barrage of fire the U.S. military temporarily put two regional bases in the Mideast on alert amid tensions between the two countries.

 

[DA SWO]

This made for a fun day.

Al Dhafra, Al-Udeid go on temporary alert during Iranian ‘attack’ on mock Nimitz-class carrier

Was wondering if you got rolled up in that.
Sleepy hollow folks now have a "no shit" war story.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Well this is annoying. Stay safe @AWP

Iran vows 'hit' on all involved in US killing of top general

 

[AWP]

You'd like to think that Iran won't do anything before the election. It would be happy to see Biden in office and Iran has to know that any aggression plays into Trump's hands.

 

[Cookie_]

You'd like to think that Iran won't do anything before the election. It would be happy to see Biden in office and Iran has to know that any aggression plays into Trump's hands.

I don't think aggression plays to Trump's base better than it does the anti-Trump crowd at this point; if Iran were to actually attack us is one thing, but if they manage to poke Trump into taking preemptive action?

The WW3 panic that started after Soleimani would hit a fever pitch just before the election.
There's already a lot of people fearful of Trump's haphazardish foreign policy and/or another Middle East quagmire, so that might push people to Biden for a sense of "stability".