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U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities
- yuppiepuppie 5mo agoSuprises no one. I remember reading that the IRGC is quite a distributed organization, and has planned for the exact situation they find themselves in today. Im guessing they have lots of stuff stashed away only known to each IRGC "section"
- stock_toaster 5mo ago> Suprises no one. Well, it is maybe a surprise to at least _one_ person! /s
- pseudohadamard 5mo agoIt's not just that, the entire Iranian government setup is designed to make it as difficult as possible to get rid of them. Their government isn't built around checks and balances or the other usual things, it's a group that came to power through revolution and have done everything possible to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen to them. The result is a baroque interlocking system of councils and bodies and roles without any single point of failure. Which any career diplomat and analyst in the USG would have known, but clearly came as a complete surprise to a motley collection of reality TV stars, religious nutcases, and former Fox news pundits.
- jacknews 5mo ago... so we need to hit them again...
- johng 5mo agoIf their regular missiles are bad enough, just imagine them with nukes.
- jacknews 5mo agoDid they fire their missiles before they were surprise-attacked by Trump? IMHO they should have nukes as a deterrent and to balance Israel.
- bigyabai 5mo agoThat sounds like Israel's problem. Iran doesn't possess a large enough missile to credibly nuke the US.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoThey could have had nukes long ago. They exercised restraint. We didn't. Just imagine the regret they are experiencing now. Basically, Trump has taught some terrible people that they should have been even worse. The lesson will not be lost on their descendants.
- JohnMakin 5mo agoAnd what's truly ironic and moronic, is that the deal the talks are seeking a graceful exit for now would basically be a version of the JCPOA that was withdrawn for pretty much no reason in 2018. Which, if you are Iran, there is zero chance you're going to agree to anything like that anymore now they have all the leverage. Working hard, thank you!
- delecti 5mo agoI don't think they should be experiencing regret. The power in nukes is not in using them, it's in the threat of using them. The threat of using them keeps you from being attacked, but once you actually use them, so will the other guys. This war has pulled the tarp off of their control over the Strait of Hormuz though. That's a strategic weapon they can use without getting nuked back. Iran is much stronger than they were before the war; this was their Trinity test.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoThe power of nukes is that you don't get attacked by the US or Israel or Russia or anyone else. None of this would have happened if they had developed (or otherwise acquired) nuclear weapons. End of story.
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- bayarearefugee 5mo agoYou really think the President of the United States would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
- pseudohadamard 5mo agoIt depends. Does it count as a lie if you don't know you're lying?
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- lo_zamoyski 5mo agoThe amount of buffoonery on the US side is staggering. 1. Iran is always 2 weeks away from having nuclear missiles. 2. Iran's military capability is destroyed. 3. If Iran had nuclear warheads, it could successfully deploy them against the US. 4. If Iran had nuclear warheads and could deliver them, their leadership is so suicidal/stupid that it would trigger MAD. Truly staggering buffoonery.
- tejohnso 5mo agoAlso, the USRAEL regime keeps feigning diplomacy after committing multiple egregious acts of perfidy. On more than one occasion they started bombing during or at beginning of negotiations.
- josefritzishere 5mo agoBonus points for the correct use of the word perfidy. Great word.
- nostrademons 5mo agoThe enemy is both strong and weak.
- pseudohadamard 5mo ago"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink".
- gsibble 5mo agoArticle from the NYT with a vested interest in making the admin look bad = doubt
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoThis administration doesn't need any help to look bad.
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- iamnothere 5mo agoI don’t know if this article was a good fit for HN or not, but you people are just as bad as the Biden-era info suppressors (Jankowitz etc). Stop trying to control the flow of accurate information when it doesn’t benefit you. Let the crowd decide what’s relevant.
- pengaru 5mo ago"intelligence"
- pentaphobe 5mo agoWait, so you're saying there are "WMDs" in the Middle East? Fun and totally not sarcastic fact fact: the opposite of "Deja vu" is "jamais vu"
- akagusu 5mo agoWhy this was flagged? Censorship?