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Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran
- mmastrac 8mo agoHas anyone felt like the news out of this war has been more tightly controlled than other recent conflicts by multiple orders of magnitude? Russia/Ukraine news is everywhere, Israel/Lebanon, etc, but this one is zipped up tightly. The platforms/news orgs must all be getting pretty serious orders on reporting, because even Gulf Wars I and II had more getting out.
- sergiomattei 8mo agoZipped up tightly? This has been all over mainstream news outlets, social media, everywhere. We are commenting on a submission linked to the New York Times.
- jimbo808 8mo agoThey can't really not talk about it, it's a world war unfolding. It's going to affect every person alive. But as much as it can be, it is absolutely being mitigated in traditional media.
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- roywiggins 8mo agoCompared to, say, the coverage from Ukraine during February 2022, actual information getting out from the ground is sparser. Or the opening "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, there were Western and international media in Baghdad reporting on it in real time, shooting video from their hotels: https://youtu.be/m8KimNtB9HI https://youtu.be/m8KimNtB9HI The reason why isn't really a mystery: Iran has never been exactly welcoming to Western media, and internet access there was intentionally shut off after the recent protests. There's plenty of coverage- it's front page everywhere- but a paucity of information. It's all over social media, but hardly any of that is from Iranians in Iran, it's just people outside it like you and me mostly just yapping. Occasionally you'll hear something second-hand from someone with family in Iran who managed some brief connectivity.
- bbddg 8mo agoYes for sure. It’s not easy to find reporting about the extent of attacks on either side of this war.
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- alephnerd 8mo ago> Has anyone felt like the news out of this war has been more tightly controlled than other recent conflicts... Internet access in Iran has been spotty after the massacres in January. Also, even Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza-Lebanon news and "OSINT" is tightly controlled - the legal, logistical, and technical tools needed to limit access and control of information are well in the reach of any nation now, and even most police departments across much of the world.
- hallh 8mo agoInternet access in Iran is still tightly controlled, so there's probably much less organic content on social media, etc to report on.
- numpad0 8mo agoAmerican/English social media in general are being gutted alive in the past few months.
- spwa4 8mo agoAnd inside Iran, the regime blocks the internet networks and shoots at people bypassing any kind of block ...
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- roywiggins 8mo agoNo, it didn't take several days for reporting to show up in major media: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l7rvqq51eo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l7rvqq51eo
- readitalready 8mo agoYah that was never on their front pages or on their apps, probably hidden on an archival web page. I looked everywhere. Only found the story in a few places on Feb 28, the day it happened. This is how they hide stories.
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- roywiggins 8mo agoIt was on the BBC front page by March 2nd, two days after it happened, probably less than 48 hours. https://web.archive.org/web/20260302041747/https://www.bbc.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260302041747/https://www.bbc.c... The NYT had coverage the day of. https://archive.ph/CdT2X https://archive.ph/CdT2X You can see it on the front page in their "Live" coverage at the time: https://archive.ph/sYqKl https://archive.ph/sYqKl I do think it was probably relatively underplayed in Western press, you can eg see it on the front page day-of pretty prominently on Al Jazeera: https://web.archive.org/web/20260228182044/https://www.aljazeera.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260228182044/https://www.aljaz... But the western press dragging their feet at covering victims of America's foreign wars is not down to being pro-Israel, no.
- roywiggins 8mo agoIran is not welcoming to Western reporters, so Western press aren't pointing their TV cameras out their hotel windows to show the explosions like in 2003. And locals can't report other than in tiny snatches of text as the internet has been turned off in the country for ages, and one imagines operating a satphone in Iran right now would be a risky endeavor.
- roywiggins 8mo ago(CNN now has a team reporting from Tehran: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/world/video/fred-pleitgen-shahran-oil-depot-iran-tehran-us-israel-strikes-intldsk https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/world/video/fred-pleitgen-sha... )
- compsciphd 8mo agoAs a simple example, read up on Bourdain's fixers/friends from his famous no reservations episode who were arrested by Iran as spies soon after the episode was filmed.
- fuzzfactor 8mo ago>news out of this war has been more tightly controlled Well at least one person hates the free flow of information enough to plant their flag of choice on this very comment thread, if not many others.
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- polotics 8mo agoYes indeed. The most revealing was when a journalist asked Mr T about his opinion about Russia helping Iranian forces right now to target the Gulf's oil capacity, there was an amazing outburst against that journalist and his stupid question. Amazing.
- gerash 8mo agoPlanet labs has also been banned from publishing damages to US bases and Israel. I suspect it all means it doesn’t look very good for the US
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- tired-turtle 8mo agoWould the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon? Not sure if North Korea is a good example, but is that not a detente? Bad for the NK people, but not a geopolitical crisis. I cannot wrap my head around the current crisis except that it serves as a (deniable) mechanism for hindering China’s ability to stockpile oil, thereby stalling an invasion of Taiwan. Total guess. edit: As a hypothetical. I’m not suggesting Iran has nuclear weapons.
- w0m 8mo ago> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon Is there any chance this invasion has ~anything to do with Iran having nuclear weapons?
- komali2 8mo agoThat doesn't make sense for America to care about this much, given that Iran has no way to deliver nuclear weapons to it. Nor does Iran have nuclear weapons. Are we really back in "trust me they have WMDs" territory? How many times we gonna fall for this?
- anon7725 8mo ago> That doesn't make sense for America to care about this much, given that Iran has no way to deliver nuclear weapons to it. A nuclear armed Iran could hold oil and gas shipments in the Straight of Hormuz hostage indefinitely. It could also threaten U.S. bases and warships in the area. It could threaten regional allies with a nuclear attack. > Are we really back in "trust me they have WMDs" territory? Irrespective of everything else going on, it’s well established that Iran has a nuclear program in the advanced stages of development. There was a whole UN program around inspecting it.
- komali2 8mo ago> A nuclear armed Iran could hold oil and gas shipments in the Straight of Hormuz hostage indefinitely. It could threaten regional allies with a nuclear attack. Personally, I don't care about the profit margins of oil and gas companies, and I will vote against any politician that partakes in sending my fellow citizens to die for the profit margins of oil and gas companies. I also don't particularly care about the plight of regional allies, particularly ones that have a bizarre tendency to constantly poke the bears around them.
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- toomuchtodo 8mo agoThis directly impacts the global fossil energy market. Do you need fossil energy to live your life? Others do. You see politics, I see global energy supply disruption and volatility and price shocks. Perhaps be more curious. https://www.bloomberg.com/energy https://www.bloomberg.com/energy https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/ https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/
- Loudergood 8mo agoSolar and EV purchases paying dividends right now, as well as my propane buying group price lock in. This will likely drive up Tesla demand.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoImho, BYDs are cheaper and more globally available. If you are already at the margins from an energy affordability perspective, you’re not buying a comparatively overpriced Tesla unless you cannot buy a cheaper Chinese alternative in your country (the US, for example). Agree this price shock is going to be favorable for transportation electrification in the short term (electricity generated via oil is an edge case, but LNG volatility is certainly going to push electricity prices up in some markets). The economic pain will influence consumer decisions until the volatility is ironed out, which could be months from now.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoAs Iran war shakes energy system, some see powerful argument for renewable energy - https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-warming-climate-change-inflation-prices-767a9aace18b23e7d481cde01f3e0d55 https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-warming-climate-change-i... - March 9th, 2026 The U.S.-Iran war is the biggest oil supply disruption in history - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/the-us-iran-war-is-the-biggest-oil-supply-disruption-in-history.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/the-us-iran-war-is-the-bigge... - March 9th, 2026
- scythe 8mo agohttps://archive.is/dA09D https://archive.is/dA09D >The attacks, seen in videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times, appeared to be the first on Iran’s energy infrastructure since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran last weekend.
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- GauntletWizard 8mo agoThe problem with being unfree and alive, is one day you suddenly aren't, and you know exactly why and yet still have no idea of the specifics. The general trend of more freedom==greater lifespan and more healthy children is very clear, but muddying the waters is a favorite tactic of those who'd exploit the lack of freedom for their own benefit.
- tock 8mo agoAre you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario?
- behnamoh 8mo ago> Are you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario? To the best of my knowledge, yes. Iranian people are the most pro-West people in the middle east. It's in the US's interest to support them for a better future, and we've seen successful examples of this in the past in Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc. Not every country should be compared to Iraq and Syria.
- tock 8mo agoI hope it's true. Middle east interventions have all led to failed state scenarios so far. And I doubt this administration is smart enough to do whats best for the US. End of day I guess Israel decides the outcome of this particular war. But yeah we will know in a few months.
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- drnick1 8mo agoYou can stop Iran now or try to when it has nuclear weapons.
- aaomidi 8mo agoFrom the CNN: https://x.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/2030526805589762282?s=20 https://x.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/2030526805589762282?s=20 The ecological and health impacts of this are going to stay with the Iranian people for decades to come. Edit: https://x.com/mamlekate/status/2030587809371668685?s=20 https://x.com/mamlekate/status/2030587809371668685?s=20 Left side is vinegar. Right side is rain. PH of 3
- ajewhere 8mo agoThis is an insane crime, but somehow no one speaks up.
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- void_ai_2026 8mo agoWorth tracking: Zelenskyy announced today that Ukrainian drone experts will deploy to the Middle East this week in exchange for PAC-3 missiles. The reason this matters beyond the immediate swap: Ukraine has two years of operational experience defeating the Shahed-136, because Russia fired hundreds of them at Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian forces learned the radar signature, failure modes, intercept geometry -- paid in blood and electricity. So the loop is: Iran manufactured Shahed drones, sold them to Russia, Russia fired them at Ukraine, Ukraine learned to defeat them, Ukraine now exports that expertise to fight Iran's drone attacks on Gulf infrastructure. It's a rare case of a weapon being turned against its own manufacturer through distributed battlefield learning. And it creates an interesting new trade currency: specialized anti-drone knowledge for air defense missiles.