Time to *itch-slap Iran?

[T.Lex]

Can't wait for the movie.
Sean Connery would have been great in The Schwind And The Zion as the Twelfth Iman.

He never really did accents very well.

 

[Thor]

Well, his Scottish accent was pretty good.

 

[T.Lex]

Well, his Scottish accent was pretty good.

You got me there.

(With an embedded Red v. Blue reference.)

 

[NKBJ]

Scottish, Persian, who's to know the difference!

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748151674/iran-reportedly-seizes-iraqi-tanker-in-persian-gulf

Iran claims to have seized another tanker.

 

[BugI02]

I don't get what their end game is in this, to have the other nations who so far have been resisting escorting their shipping through the PG join in the US effort so as to protect their own shipping? Seems counter-productive and a good way to end up with a shooting war. How many British warships would it take to sink their whole navy? I'd say no more than 2 or 3. Did people forget The Falklands already?

 

[ghuns]

If only we had some big ships with guns on them in the area.

 

[Thor]

This latest claim is an odd one. They have not released the name or nationality of the ship and no one claims to be missing one.

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, I kinda wonder if this claim was more for internal consumption.

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49355591

Gibraltar was going to release the tanker. We've now intervened to stop it, and Gibraltar will hold a hearing on whether our claims are valid enough to continue the hold.

 

[Leadeye]

I don't think the government type people or the imams themselves are calling the shots here. I think this whole operation of tanker piracy has gotten away from them and now it's just running on it's own. They will go along because they perceive it's popular while they try to re-establish control.

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49362182

That didn't take long. Gibraltar to release the tanker.

So, in a country that respects the rule of law and due process (well, mostly) the private property will be released.

I wonder if the tankers held by Iran will be released promptly.

 

[T.Lex]

This is actually kinda cool.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-marines-sailed-strait-hormuz-134655765.html

A Marine LAV got strapped to the flight deck of the Wasp to take out Iranian drones.

 

[Dead Duck]

This is actually kinda cool.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-marines-sailed-strait-hormuz-134655765.html

A Marine LAV got strapped to the flight deck of the Wasp to take out Iranian drones.

Oh that's so sad.... It's walking the Plank.

 

[actaeon277]

Its also good against small boats.

 

[T.Lex]

So, got this link from Drudge:
https://freebeacon.com/national-sec...ames-unveils-homemade-russian-missile-system/
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It is a fascinating article. A couple of the more interestinger things:
- Iran appears to be combining training drills with operations. That is, there are terrorists hiding out there that they are looking for (that's actually true, for them - they had a military unit attacked recently), but they are also going to be doing traditional "war game" type stuff. That seems risky from a logistical perspective, but hey - from the youtube vids, I can tell they their special operations forces are uber-awesome l33t operators that can do cartwheels.

- They've "indigenized" the Russian S-300. I guess that's a euphemism for reverse-engineered.

 

[JettaKnight]

NPR's Steve Inskeep is in Iran right now. I didn't hear much of the reporting, but just a handful of interviews from common folks complaining about their own leader.

 

[T.Lex]

Steve was a couple years ahead of me in high school. I've listened to him at NPR, and while he's probably drifted left in his politics, I think he does a good job of reporting and commenting - and distinguishing between the 2.

He always did seem like a guy who could get people to open up.

 

[ghuns]

Steve was a couple years ahead of me in high school. I've listened to him at NPR, and while he's probably drifted left in his politics, I think he does a good job of reporting and commenting - and distinguishing between the 2.

He always did seem like a guy who could get people to open up.

I've been listening to his pieces from Iran. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but the general tone of everything I've heard seems to be; Iran good, USA(Trump) bad.

 

[JettaKnight]

I've been listening to his pieces from Iran. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but the general tone of everything I've heard seems to be; Iran good, USA(Trump) bad.

At least this morning it wasn't that way.


Maybe the tone is, "Iran isn't as bad as you think, and not everyone is shouting 'Death to America'."