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‘False flag attack’: Iran denies claims it fired missiles at Diego Garcia

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/iran-denies-targeting-us-uk-diego-garcia-airbase-claims-false-flag-attack
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Greis73 Mar 23, 2026 +291
Same island that Trump was ripping on UK for giving up it's rights to back in January. Seems very fishy to me given supposed range capability that exceeds known intelligence coupled with making it a means to make the UK enter the war.
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Fywq Mar 23, 2026 +88
Yeah this definitely gives an interesting perspective to it. Trump has seemed desperate to get European NATO allies involved as the US has mostly ignored mine sweeping capabilities in recent time and expected European allies to do that part if needed in a war. Now they are on their own and lack the ability. I could definitely see this being an attempt to drag the UK into the war.
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Stoic_cave Mar 23, 2026 +49
The uk ignored bibi Israel’s bs story about Iran hitting London, makes me think that the whole shit show is based on false premise flag to reap inhumane revenge
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Sgt_carbonero Mar 23, 2026 +17
My take is the us simply did t want any damage to its own ships and wanted the EU to take the damage for them.
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WulfwoodsSins Mar 23, 2026 +9
Hasn't that been Dozy Donnie's complaint? "They don't chip in enough, ever ..." "....so I'll MAKE them chip in!".
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wswordsmen Mar 23, 2026 +10
In defense of the US policy makers, they didn't expect a POTUS to willingly blow up the US alliance system, which was previously quite robust, or start a war where allies were needed without making a case for it. It is like not having a lawnmower when you only need to cut the grass on rare occasions and you had good relations with the neighbors who did. Then you went on a drunken bender threatened to kill the neighbors and then purposely made the grass grow. Ducking dumb, not something you should have needed to plan for. Ducking is an autocorrect I am leaving.
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wobble_bot Mar 23, 2026 +1
Unfortunately, both the U.S and Israel are probably more of a threat to the UK than both Russia and China, and I don’t see that changing even if the administration changes. The US has shown a perverse and persistent want and need for authoritarian rule. That suddenly won’t disappear. This is the end of the ‘special relationship’, both sides realise and the UK will quietly wind down its dependence on the US over the next ten to fifteen years and become more European facing once again.
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141_1337 Mar 23, 2026 +4
The UK has satellite data that would clear up the origin of the missile no, the hell you people talking about?
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downtofinance Mar 23, 2026 +31
I believe the Iranian regime over the lying American Nazi Dictatorship
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Cheshire_Khajiit Mar 23, 2026 +17
I don’t think there’s any reason to believe either short of more evidence, tbh. They both lie constantly.
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pragmojo Mar 23, 2026 +6
When the incident was reported, I immediately thought it was fishy. The missiles landed in the ocean, and all the reporting was “this puts Europe in the range of Iran”. Perfectly structured narrative to try to bring Europe into the war with no actual benefit to Iran.
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Cheshire_Khajiit Mar 23, 2026 +2
It’s certainly plausible. If it were revealed to be a US false flag attack, I wouldn’t be shocked. Then again, Iran doesn’t always make rational decisions. An explanation being plausible doesn’t make it “likely.”
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CptHA86 Mar 24, 2026 +1
The Azerbaijan strikes are definitely irrational. Dafuq they do?
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JagmeetSingh2 Mar 23, 2026 +1
Yep seems too obvious
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DesecratedPeanut Mar 23, 2026 +2
Yea and we all know the UK PM would not be able to say publicly that they knew it was a US or Israeli false flag. Think a lot of people forget this, they have to basically pretend to be dumb while making the decisions they are doing to ensure we don't get involved. It's very possible it is and possibly not even the first. I imagine our intelligence is still decent enough to sniff that shit out.
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Panda331988 Mar 23, 2026 +127
Well this got interesting
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wrldruler21 Mar 23, 2026 +45
Probably because the two missiles were a failure, and got nowhere close to hitting their target.
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Cinematry Mar 23, 2026 +88
Which should make one consider why it would’ve made any sense for Iran to lob 2 missiles at a basically impenetrable target over 4000 km away in the first place. Who actually benefits?
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Accurate_Neat_355 Mar 23, 2026 +90
>Who actually benefits? The U.S. and Israel by trying to scare regional allies into helping the U.S. and Israel Iran gains nothing from a failed symbolic shot at a base that doesn't even hurt the US war effort meaningfully. The US/Israel side gains a lot from the world believing they just tried. Edit to add since theres a debate now under my comment: Israel/U.S. says it was Iran. Iran says its a false flag. The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the other hand has notably refused to confirm the missiles were Iranian. The technical leap required to go from a 2,000 km range to 4,000 km overnight is massive. This isn't a software update. Its a fundamental change in chemistry, engineering, and physics. In the world of ballistics, its not an upgrade it’s a completely different class of missile (transitioning from an MRBM to an IRBM). To do this without a single intelligence agency raising the alarm, no "hey by the way Iran has IRBM's now" from any country's intelligence agency is.. absurd. The timing is perfect to convince European allies (specifically the UK) that they are no longer safe. If Iran can hit Diego Garcia they can technically hit London, Paris, or Berlin. By "proving" this range, the U.S. and Israel can dismantle the European argument for "restraint" and push for a full-scale coalition strike against Iranian missile infrastructure.
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Visible_Device7187 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Regional allies are already getting hit by Iran why would they need a missile to scare them
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mmavcanuck Mar 23, 2026 +21
Because every article about this attack talked up how European cities are now within striking distance of Iranian missiles.
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alienbringer Mar 23, 2026 +7
Difference between middle eastern regional allies and European Union/NATO regional allies.
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Accurate_Neat_355 Mar 23, 2026
Yes thats right, i meant in the new region of 4,000 km around Iran
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Appropriate_Mixer Mar 23, 2026
It can hit their homeland. Although the US military can’t always show proof that they don’t show the public if it really gets down to it
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Monkfich Mar 23, 2026 +1
Why do you think they can’t show the public? Showing captured crappy or good foreign missiles is something that often happens.
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Appropriate_Mixer Mar 23, 2026
They can show flight trajectory and other classified interception info the wouldn’t release to the public
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TriNovan Mar 23, 2026 -1
You realize that IRBMs can have their point of origin tracked right? They follow simple ballistic trajectories that are super easy to trace back to where they were launched from. You’re essentially alleging that the US or Israel somehow snuck two massive missiles (too large for any aircraft to launch) and associated launch equipment into central Iran and fired it whilst going totally unnoticed by Iranian ground forces. The false flag hypothesis doesn’t make any kind of sense on a technical level. Far more likely is that Iran is just straight up lying.
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prof_the_doom Mar 23, 2026 +9
Who’s tracking, with whose equipment? It wouldn’t be too hard to fake some data if you control the hardware and/or the software.
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ArachnidNecessary557 Mar 23, 2026 +3
And who controls the software? 🇮🇱
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Odd-Transition1527 Mar 23, 2026 +14
You’re treating ‘trackable’ as ‘exact and undeniable.’ In reality, it means ‘we can estimate where it came from,’ which is a different level of certainty. Sorry, but your word salad is a weak argument.
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Worried_Okra33 Mar 23, 2026 +6
He's also putting a lot of faith in information provided by this administration and Israel being factual when it's been proven over and over that all they do is lie.
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Odd-Transition1527 Mar 23, 2026 +6
I agree. But, I don’t want to use names. I want to discredit the information with facts. Most of the peeps are wolves in sheep’s body.
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ImSorryImTrying- Mar 23, 2026 +1
It’s not word salad. It was cogent, regardless of whether you personally find it believable or not.
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TriNovan Mar 23, 2026 -1
Hardly. It’s not word salad, it’s calling out the obvious flaws with the false flags hypothesis. Because there’s no reality where an Israeli or US launched IRBM looks like it came from anywhere other than Israel or the US. Israel’s ballistic missiles are silo and truck based. It has submarine launched cruise missiles, but those don’t have a ballistic missile attack profile and so are ruled out. The US doesn’t even have stocks of IRBMs, it demolished them after the INF treaty during the Cold War. So is your premise that Israel snuck two massive semi-trailer sized missiles into central Iran somehow, alongside their associated launch equipment, totally undetected, and launched them at Diego Garcia? Did the US somehow do it with a non-existent stockpile of Pershings retired and demolished 40 years ago?
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RevolutionaryGur4419 Mar 23, 2026 +7
Da jooz amirite? Space lasers, reverse genocide and all.. If anyone can remote spawn a ballistic missile and launch equipment from 1000s of miles away, its definitely them
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Odd-Transition1527 Mar 23, 2026 +2
The weakest part of your argument is the confidence you have. You can’t actually verify what the US does or doesn’t have today—especially after the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty collapsed. All in 2019. So ‘they don’t have IRBMs’ isn’t a fact—it’s an assumption, and seeing what’s going on, a pretty BOLD assumption.
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TriNovan Mar 23, 2026 +1
I have this confidence because I have a modicum of knowledge about what the f*** I’m talking about. There’s no way to launch a ground-based ballistic missile from Israel and not have it look like it came from Israel. Israel certainly doesn’t have silos and trucks in Iran, and it’s not close enough to Iran to make the ballistic trajectory look like it came from Iran. Likewise, the US has not once shown any interest in reviving IRBM construction because it’s never had a need. It has ICBMs and SLBMs to cover its nuclear deterrence, and cruise missiles like the Tomahawk for conventional strikes. So there’s no niche for the IRBM in the US arsenal. That’s part of the reason why the US was scaling back on them even pre-INF. They’re also unattractive to the US because it’s separated from its geopolitical rivals by two massive oceans that put them out of range of IRBM systems. And all that leaves aside that it takes more than 6 years to go from development to production for something of the complexity of an IRBM. China and Russia went all in on IRBMs because they have US-friendly powers within close striking distance and IRBMs provide a degree of ballistic missile resiliency that silo based systems don’t have with their shifting positions. The US doesn’t have that concern. Literally the entire premise for thinking it was a false flag is because of vibes based idiocy on your part. Nevermind that it doesn’t make any sense given the arsenals of those involved and what ballistic missile attacks look like.
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exoriparian Mar 23, 2026 +2
What you're saying makes sense to a degree, but it seems like you are assuming the source of this claim is impartial. Is there some kind of third party that has the ability to track these launches that has confirmed one way or another? It's not conspiracy theory to take information coming from the (constantly lying) war machine with a grain of salt.
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kryptycleon Mar 23, 2026 +4
Not going one way or the other, but it would it not be easy enough to launch an IRBM from a country such as Qatar and have its trajectory look pretty much the same as if it was from Iran? Im pretty sure that both countries lie through their teeth when it comes to gaining the upper hand, but I can also see that this attack would play into the hands of the US and Isreal...in the end it might just be a f*** you and see what happens from Iran...who knows
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Odd-Transition1527 Mar 23, 2026 -1
You’re arguing from ‘very unlikely’ to ‘physically impossible’- Not at all the same thing. Missile attribution is massively classified data— not something anyone can independently verify to that level of certainty as you claim. I will not use the names of other countries since that’s irrelevant to this argument. Also, the INF Treaty ended in 2019, and the US has already tested ground-launched intermediate-range systems since then, so saying there’s been ‘no interest’ is, guess what? Inaccurate! The geography point is fair—but as the attacks on Iran were from other countries, someone else using another base is 100% not out of question. You base on your entire argument “ ‘most likely’ is the same as ‘no other scenario can exist’. Hence, I said what I said in the first comment - “word salad”
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ZehGentleman Mar 23, 2026
You have no argument. It's just "I think it could happen even though its utterly inconceivable that it could" . You're doing the same thing republicans do. Just hand wave all the evidence grounded in science (ballistic trajectory back calculations) because you want some narrative to fit. Israel and the US didn't sneak missiles into Iran and shoot them. It's absurd. There is literally no evidence of this. Iran has been lying about literally everything for years. Even if the trump admin is compromised the Iranians are literally denying they killed any protestors right now. You don't have to fall for propaganda just because the US sucks.
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Odd-Transition1527 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Take the dumb lies of your western media propaganda somewhere else. Literally I never claimed that they sneaked missiles into Iran. It’s literally written in the thread, in as many words. But, the usual dim wit person wants to vomit the hate they have because of being absolutely uninformed and uneducated.
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PoliticsLeftist Mar 23, 2026 +1
"We didn't fire the missile because we tracked the trajectory and it definitely wasn't us."
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TriNovan Mar 23, 2026
You’re right, I’m sure teleporting Israeli missiles and the non-existent US IRBM arsenal are much more logical than Iran just straight up blatantly lying. EDIT: Coward below replied and blocked.
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PoliticsLeftist Mar 23, 2026
I dunno, they haven't exactly been shy about what they've been targeting so far. Meanwhile, the US lies about bombing a school full of children and Israel continues to lie about literally every brutality they've been committing for ~80 years.
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ZehGentleman Mar 23, 2026 +1
Yeah you'd have to know nothing to eat this up. It makes no sense lol. I don't blame the average person for not knowing how missiles work tho
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RelevantOldOnion Mar 23, 2026 +43
"we have this secret missile technology that we haven't been using and we've been hiding it from the world. Including Israeli intelligence who are all over the IRGC.  Now let's reveal this tech by firing them at a random island 4000km away. And make sure it's a British island too."
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Secret-Sky5031 Mar 23, 2026 +2
It does seem a bit sus, like I'm in the conspiracy subreddit but mostly because I'm partial to stories about Aliens, or why something like the price is cheese is used to secretly change the weather, but 100% this seems a bit weird that a country's been carpet bombed for fun suddenly has 2 spare missiles that have been undetected for years?
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coolstory Mar 23, 2026 -1
I mean yeah, Iran have been attempting to strike US bases in tonnes of various countries. It would make sense for them to try to hit the US base on Diego Garcia to demonstrate their ability to hit targets far beyond what they thought they were capable of, as an implicit threat to other countries within range (ie. Western Europe) to stay out of the conflict. Of course now that those attacks failed it would seem prudent to pretend they weren’t their missiles anyway. A false flag seems fairly risky given an investigation could just reveal that the missile was Israeli/American, and that would be a far larger diplomatic problem for either of those countries than whatever hypothetical benefit there would be in lying that Iran was targeting a British island.
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RelevantOldOnion Mar 23, 2026 +3
"Demonstrating that ability" is directly counter to Irans interests.  And in what universe will this be investigated? Lmao. Is the US gonna go down in check? Or is Iran gonna get on one of their military jet skis and swim to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve the missiles?
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coolstory Mar 23, 2026 +3
How is demonstrating an ability to hit targets 4000km away counter to Irans interests? As I said, it’s a tacit threat to other countries within range to stay out. And yeah, if the Americans were false flagging their own base, they perhaps wouldn’t investigate, although there is always a risk the coverup leaks. Plus it’s the UKs island for now, so they’d also have to be brought on board or kept in the dark. Seems like major risk for nearly zero benefit for a false flag attack.
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Accurate_Neat_355 Mar 23, 2026 +2
>How is demonstrating an ability to hit targets 4000km away counter to Irans interests? Coincidentally the UK is debating whether Iran is enough of a threat to them to get involved, and coincidentally within 4000km of Iran.
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coolstory Mar 23, 2026 +1
Yes, exactly my point. I don’t think the UK wants to provoke a country that can lob missiles onto it unless it absolutely has to.
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Accurate_Neat_355 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I don't think that country can lob missiles onto it.
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mountainyoo Mar 23, 2026 +4
Why do you keep calling it a random island? It has a US military base. It isn’t some “random island”
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coolstory Mar 23, 2026 +2
That’s clearly not why the UK is reluctant to join this boondoggle. And why is it in Irans interests to pretend they have no long range missiles… clearly the threat is what is useful. Shooting a “random” missile is what demonstrates their ability to strike distant targets. Although now it’s failed, they seem to think it more prudent to pretend it’s a false flag. Random island… again, we’re talking about them targeting US bases. You know there’s a US base in Diego Garcia right? Hence why it’s been in the news so much this year.
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eorlingas_riders Mar 23, 2026 +4
Trump also said that he’s had productive talks with Iran today, and they havnt. He timed his 48 hours threat after US markets closed, and timed his “productive talks” response shortly before markets opened. It’s all manipulation, pure and simple. It would not be far fetched to believe at this point, those rockets were fired by regional allies to the US to drum up support from NATO or others because, prior to those rocket launches all of them had stated they would not help.
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Secret-Sky5031 Mar 23, 2026 +6
I don't know where you're based globally, but in the UK we've had stories of, "The UK can't defend itself if one of these missiles was launched by Iran". It's designed to drive fear into people, make them reevaluate their position based on mistruths and ultimately support the outcome you want. Realistically the UK doesn't need an Iron Dome type system, we've got the Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean to the West, and mainland Europe to the east - realistically we don't need missile defences when we've been allies with our neighbours for 60+ years
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magicsonar Mar 23, 2026 +3
The head of NATO Mark Rutte actually stated they were looking into it and started they "cannot confirm" Israel's claim that missiles allegedly targeting the UK-US base on Diego Garcia last week were fired by Iran. They of course know exactly who fired the missile. That's one of the things the US military invests a lot of resources in - tracking every ballistic missile launch. So if Rutte is saying they "cannot confirm" it was Iran, that's effectively an admission it was likely Israel.
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Visible_Device7187 Mar 23, 2026 -1
Made Europe scared of Iran which benefits Iran a lot. Easy for Europe to ignore everything when they believe they are safe from Iran.
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AyDylo Mar 23, 2026 +1
It could easily be some rogue Iranian missiles. Or it could be an attempt and now they're covering up. Who knows? I wouldn't trust anything coming from Iran, Lebanon, the US, or Israel. The only way to get confirmation is to wait for the EU and others.
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plightro Mar 23, 2026 +8
That's certainly a take
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sheps Mar 23, 2026 +3
The reporting I saw was that only one failed, and the other was intercepted.
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EpicProdigy Mar 23, 2026 +2
Then why did America apparently shoot one of them down? They know the trajectory so why waste a missile on it?
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5-MethylCytosine Mar 23, 2026 +1
Do we know where they were intercepted? Their trajectory?
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larrylevan Mar 23, 2026 +1
Or, more accurately, Israel lied. 
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dozure Mar 23, 2026 +97
Had a brain fart and read that as Kilmar Garcia and was incredibly confused.
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doctordoctorpuss Mar 23, 2026 +25
Might be the only thing to get the Trump admin to leave that man alone
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Bambamfrancs Mar 23, 2026 +1
Ditto
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IronyElSupremo Mar 23, 2026 +9
Watching the UK security meeting live a few hours ago, .. the cats out of the bag with even Labour wondering about getting their own version of Golden Dome. If they are kicking the tires, you can guess what the conservatives want.
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r4inbowgravity Mar 23, 2026 +19
legitimately not difficult to believe.
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Stoic_cave Mar 23, 2026 +49
Israel will false flag a tactical nuke and blame Iran.
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BadahBingBadahBoom Mar 23, 2026 +23
Nukes leave signature radiation contamination and no one credibly believes Iran has a nuclear weapon. Not putting it past Israel to consider along those lines but this is not what they would do if they were seriously considering it.
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AvEptoPlerIe Mar 23, 2026 +4
Iran obviously not having nuclear weapons hasn’t stopped all the insane shit that’s happened so far, to be fair. 
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BadahBingBadahBoom Mar 23, 2026 +8
True, but a successful false operation has to be believable to convince those moderates that a military response to such an attack is necessary. That's kind of the purpose of going down the false flag route when the current threat isn't deemed great enough to convince enough of your population that a response is needed. And for that to work you actually have to ensure it comes off as a false flag attack. You just can't do that with nuclear weapons. The fingerprints are too incriminating and easily obtained by numerous organisations you can't control. Generally don't go down the conspiracy rabbit hole but an Israeli operation to fund and accommodate an Iranian fighter to Europe in a suicide bomb style attack without even the bomber themselves knowing it is Mossad organising it would be my guess for any false flag operation. Genuine Iranian, genuine links to IRGC, genuine Iran tactics, just the wheels greased by Mossad online and untraceable to ensure they know how to make the homemade bomb to ensure the operation goes off as planned. But anyway that's enough wild speculation for today lol.
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AvEptoPlerIe Mar 23, 2026 +4
I largely agree with you and your analysis. In the past I would’ve 100% agreed, but things have gotten so unbelievably stupid that I can’t write off something this insane anymore 🙃 such a fun world. 
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MrBigChest Mar 23, 2026 +1
A significant amount of Americans believed that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets in Ohio a couple years ago. Even more believed that Iraq had WMDs just over two decades ago. Anti-science rhetoric is at an all-time high after the Covid pandemic killed over a million Americans. The truth hasn’t mattered in a long time.
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LucyLilium92 Mar 23, 2026
They're only two weeks away from nuclear weapons!!
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ArCovino Mar 23, 2026 +7
Y’all are so weird deciding whatever happens it’s Israel’s fault ahead of time.
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oreoisoreo2 Mar 23, 2026 +4
It’s almost like they started the war! And have a vested interest in continuing it. Like Netanyahu has said hundred times in the last decade rlly
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ArCovino Mar 23, 2026 +1
Who “started the war” is pretty debatable considering they’ve been in an active Cold War for a couple decades.
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Little-Barnacle422 Mar 23, 2026 -5
Isn’t it more weird that after everything we’re seeing out of Israel, it’s a believable scenario? Bibi needs to chill.
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ArCovino Mar 23, 2026 -1
No, it’s not “reasonable”. No country has used a nuclear weapon in since the first ones. Israel has had them for half a century and never used it. “After everything we’ve seen”…what have you seen that makes you think a false flag nuclear weapon deployment is “reasonable”. It’s not! Y’all are propaganda fried.
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KingMario05 Mar 23, 2026 -4
Don't give then ideas...
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Stoic_cave Mar 23, 2026 -5
I think the idea is existent right now..
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wynnduffyisking Mar 23, 2026 +7
I don’t trust either side on this.
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KillDozer321 Mar 23, 2026 +2
I don't trust our current administration, but I trust Iran even less.
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Toon_face Mar 23, 2026 -2
legit why at this point?
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MrBoneman1337 Mar 23, 2026 +8
So. When does the US retaliate against Israel for attacking U.S. bases?
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Own-Secret2028 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Never. I remember in the first week when the UK claimed they confirmed the attack on Cyprus did not originate in Iran, then declined to say where it came from.
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steveosaurus Mar 23, 2026 +13
which country has done the most false flags and would benefit most from dragging UK in? we all know the answer
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Appropriate_Mixer Mar 23, 2026 +2
How is this dragging anyone into the conflict. A false flag has to succeed no just easily countered
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botspiderlau Mar 23, 2026 +2
I want to see the poll numbers on Americans who believe the Iranian version of the truth vs the American version of the truth at this moment.
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UrineArtist Mar 23, 2026 +2
So either, 1. Iran fired those missiles to demonstrate it has missiles that can hit most of Europe to make EU nations less likely to get involved. 2. Israel fired those missiles as a false flag to pretend Iran has missiles that can hit most of Europe to make EU nations more likely to get involved. 3. Iran fired those missiles, to pretend it was an Israeli false flag to pretend Iran has missiles that can hit most of Europe to make EU nations more likely to get involved, to make EU nations less likely to get involved. Hope this clear things up for anyone reading this.
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funcancer Mar 24, 2026 +1
1 & 2 are possible and reasonable. 3 makes no sense. I'd replace it with: 3. Iran fired those missiles to demonstrate it has missiles that can hit most of Europe to make EU nations less likely to get involved. However, since the missiles failed to hit anything, they changed their mind and are denying it was them.
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RevolutionaryBug7588 Mar 23, 2026 +2
I mean why would Iran lie about it? /s
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azurite-- Mar 24, 2026 +1
I get that Trump is a moron but are we really taking Iranian propaganda at face value now? 
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TrueLegateDamar Mar 23, 2026 +8
It was Elliot Carver in his stealth boat.
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WereJustDumbMonkeys Mar 23, 2026 +3
Delicious
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BadahBingBadahBoom Mar 23, 2026 +3
Elliot Carver: *Don't you realise how absurd your position is?* James Bond: *No more absurd than starting a war for ratings.*
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Billions13 Mar 23, 2026 +3
WMD 2.0 America is great at scaring people into joining their war crimes.
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Billions13 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Same thing
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Downtown-Rate-9404 Mar 23, 2026 +4
It would be stupid to provoke all the countries by showcasing how far their missiles can reach.
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BlueNight973 Mar 23, 2026 +2
As opposed to the countries Iran already provoked by indiscriminately firing into them? Yeah the U.S. and Israel started this shitshow but let’s not pretend that Iran hasn’t tried to burn down the neighborhood in retaliation
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idle-tea Mar 24, 2026 +1
Makes sense from Iran's perspective. Other countries with US bases are going to happily sit there and let the USA operate out of their bases. They weren't neutral countries turned away by Iran's actions, the didn't provoke new enemies. What they did do is establish their threats to hit key infrastructure are credible. They've proven they're willing and able to launch at those countries (and the USA is not capable of intercepting all of it). I can't say I'm rooting for Iran exactly, but I have more faith in their military strategists' intelligence than I do the leadership of the USA.
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RevolutionaryGur4419 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Just like it was stupid to sponsor terror groups to launch 10s of thousands of rockets at isrseli civilians but here we are
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Downtown-Rate-9404 Mar 23, 2026 +4
It was stupid to invade iraq and vietnam, and also stupid to strike iran, yet here we are!
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river_tree_nut Mar 23, 2026 +5
Let's game this out. What does Iran gain from denying it was them? It came as a surprise that they had missiles that could travel this far. Conversely, what does Israel gain from a false flag?
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BumblebeeEither930 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Israel gets NATO involved.
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spleeble Mar 23, 2026 +1
Better question: what does Iran gain from launching precious long range missiles at a target it probably can't hit and that is defended better than almost anywhere else on earth?  On the other hand, anything that inflames war fever in the US or Europe is good for Israel and for the White House. 
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adeze Mar 23, 2026 +3
Let’s believe the honest and trustworthy Islamic state
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nabzyk Mar 23, 2026 +2
No, let's believe the pedophiles that are clearly protecting each other's crimes and distracting the world just when everyone's eyes were focused on their atrocities.
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adeze Mar 23, 2026 -1
"pedophiles" .. such as?
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nabzyk Mar 23, 2026 +1
Living under a rock? Go do your research. The epstien files already reveal a lot with how much everything is redacted. If you're not sold on that yet, or after reading up on it, well then there isn't any convincing I can do.
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adeze Mar 23, 2026 -1
So a guy that died 10 years ago is responsible for this… go do your research, dead people are having a wild time in jannah
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nabzyk Mar 23, 2026 +1
Alright, let's agree to disagree. Everything will come out in the future and you'll find out. Isr**l and AIPAC have Trump and some of the most influential politics in their pockets. They also have on tape, many of the evil deeds that many of them did to children. Hope you've read up on them or listened to trustworthy independent journalists. Mainstream media isn't covering it the way it should be done unfortunately. Anyways, not going to extend this conversation which you probably believe is conspiracy. Hope the truth comes out someday and the ones who committed the worst imaginable crimes against children are brought to justice.
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BumblebeeEither930 Mar 23, 2026 +1
More trustworthy than tRump.
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sylbug Mar 23, 2026 +2
Damn. This is not something they should take four days to refute. This shit put a whole lot of continental Europeans on edge.
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LatterTarget7 Mar 23, 2026 +1
And people believe them?
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StandardMarketing-ca Mar 23, 2026 +1
Today, I watched Fox News. They were talking about how Iran can hit every European capital using this missile, and Trump was right from the start. I switched off the TV. Fox is hell-bent on making Trump's decisions right, and none of them look like people with morals.
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NoobToobinStinkMitt Mar 23, 2026 +1
USS Liberty called. Said Israel is back on its bullshit.
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Weak_Age6570 Mar 23, 2026 +1
Iran is currently fractured and splintered. There is no need for a false flag like this. The sources commenting are likely unaware of the attack taking place, as other elements of the military likely took it upon themselves to attempt the attack. For what gain though? That is where it might get interesting, seeing as they had no chance of penetrating it. When we were operating in Afganistan and Iraq, even before the fall of those respective OPFORs in full we had collaborators willing to conduct operations that aided our goals for money or immunity.
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Spamgrenade Mar 23, 2026 +1
Diego Garcia is a strange target for Iran to pick if they wanted to show off long range missiles.
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Street_Anon Mar 23, 2026 -1
They brag about even on their own media and denies it.
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timnphilly Mar 23, 2026 -1
At this point I believe Iran more than anything weekend-wetdiaper-warrior Trump says. Proof is in the market manipulation! [https://x.com/i/status/2036070980754239563](https://x.com/i/status/2036070980754239563)
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Turbulent_Bit8683 Mar 23, 2026 -2
What’s the distance from Israel to Diego Garcia - that’s definitely not an Iranian missile
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TriNovan Mar 23, 2026 +1
Further than from Iran, as Diego Garcia is basically straight south of Iran in the western Indian Ocean. Iran does have a functional space program that has put satellites in orbit. Keep in mind, the first ICBMs and first generation of space launch vehicles were derivatives of the same design. Iran absolutely has the capability to produce such if they can undertake functioning satellite launches, the technology is the same you’re just swapping out the package. However, my money would be on it being a Chinese DF-3 or similar Iranian-made derivative given their known exchange of missile technology.
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Own-Secret2028 Mar 23, 2026 -2
This. It flew in the face of *every* assessment of Iran's missile programs. It makes far more sense for it to not have been Iran. 
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Kristi_Noem_Fired Mar 23, 2026
I trust random people in Iran far more than I trust the Fed at this time.
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NEOK53 Mar 24, 2026 +1
It’s ridiculous that this world is forcing me to believe *IRAN* over the American government day after day. What a travesty this timeline is.
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mrlinkwii Mar 23, 2026 +8
i doubt trump is telling the truth either
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Downtown-Rate-9404 Mar 23, 2026 +3
It would be stupid to provoke all the countries by showcasing how far their missiles can reach.
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