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News & Current Events Mar 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM

Iranian attacks across Gulf continue as major industrial sites hit

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Iranian attacks across Gulf continue as major industrial sites hit
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Iranian attacks across Gulf continue as major industrial sites hit
A number of people are said to have been injured after attacks on aluminium sites in the UAE and Bahrain.
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Drak_is_Right Mar 29, 2026 +325
This was expected. Huge chunk of the world's aluminum comes from the gulf as shipping natural gas is expensive and the cheapest way to profit is local power generation and power hungry industry.
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ForceItDeeper Mar 29, 2026 +241
cant wait for 90% of coverage to continue acting like Iran is just attacking everyone indiscriminately because they are crazy
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beachdogs Mar 29, 2026 +92
just look at the reply you got below. relativizing everyone and calling them all "terrorists." The world sees through the farce that is U.S. and Israeli empire and the narratives they employ to further justify their acts of aggression.
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ShoutOfDawn Mar 29, 2026 -69
yeah,no. saying that iran is justifid in attacking their neighbors because of attacks by the US and israel is crazy, all three are terrorist states that are targeting civilians and infrastructure, bombing hotels is terrorism, bombing internationl airports is terroism. we did this song and dance with israel bombing gaza, being attacked does give carte blanch to do anyrthing you want. bombing ships at sea and in the ports of iraq is terrorism, bombing kurdish powerplants because maybe the kurds join the war is terrorism. iranians will be killed if the 600 or arab jets enter the picture and actually become proactive in stopping the iranian regime, it will be messy for everyone.
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Normal_Level6373 Mar 29, 2026 +83
Laws of war state that if you allow your airspace or land to be used to attack, you are party to the attack. Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar allowed their airspace and bases on their land to be used to attack Iran. They are party to the war, they are complicit. Does that make Iran a less hostile state? No, does it justify why Kuwait and Bahrain along side the rest are getting slapped? Yes.
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jhalh Mar 30, 2026 +1
Just want to go ahead and interject here for a moment. I am a Kuwaiti living in kuwait, several family members are higher ranks in the military, and I also work closely with the military and security forces for work. We are not allowing the US to use Kuwait or its airspace for attacks against Iran, as we have made clear from the very beginning. The reason we shot down three US fighter jets was because they entered our airspace from outside of it without any communication/coordination while we were already shooting down drones and missiles from Iran. We, reasonably, assumed those to be Iranian jets as we are not allowing the US to use our country for actions against Iran and there was no communication/coordination. We have always said we didnt want this from the start, and want nothing to do with it. We spend a shit load of money buying our weapons and training from the US, OPEC agrees to sell our oil in US dollars, and we invest a ton in US markets. These are huge benefits to the US, and they are also mutually beneficial, but we aren’t just going to go along with whatever - we don’t want this war, and we have said before this began that all of this shit would happen.
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ShoutOfDawn Mar 29, 2026 -50
iran calims that the US is using the air space to attack, yet americn lawmakers like lindsay graham are asking to remove us bases from arab sates because their jets cant fly there. and bombing civilan ships in the strait of hormuz and in iraqi ports is a warcrime, attacking hotels is a warcrime, attacking powerplants is a warcrime, just because the us and israel attacked iranian infrastrucure first that doesnt give iran the right to bomb kurdish powerplants, all three are terror sates and deserve each other
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Saurian42 Mar 30, 2026 +35
Never trust a thing Lindsey Graham says. He's a foreign asset to Isreal. Look at how much he's taken from AIPAC.
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Krewtan Mar 30, 2026 +14
Why is Iran attacking hotels? Just for fun? Seems like there should be plenty of military infrastructure for them to attack. It's not like our military is hiding out in hotels right?  Israel bombs hospitals and claims there are Hamas tunnels or command centers in them and that's just fine. Iran attacks hotels holding soldiers and that's just a bridge too far? 
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +9
Nominally, US soldiers are using those hotels, and as per the US and Israel, that shpuld make them legitimate targets in their eyes at least.
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Drak_is_Right Mar 30, 2026 +1
Thats the same logic Israel uses when they bomb a hospital because one Hamas fighter is there because his cousin had their arm blown off...
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +7
Yes, that is what I am saying.
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Im_with_stooopid Mar 30, 2026 +27
Attacking a Iranian girls School. A war crime by Trump and his Synchophants.
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ConflictExtreme1540 Mar 30, 2026 -23
Accidently bombing a school is an accidental war crime. Intentionally shutting down the strait of hormuz, murdering 40k civilian protestors, bombing no aggressive neighbors, and drafting child soldiers is an INTENTIONAL war crime. That's the side you're on, buddy. You hate Trump so much you're siding with the ultra conservative, fascist, theocratic dictatorship using child soldiers and murdering their own citizens in the street. That's how far gone you are right now. God help your broken brain. Edit: lmaaooooo keep the downvoted coming. Literally no one is able to defend Iran for all their terroristic atrocities they've committed yet yall still are rooting for them. I don't support the war having happened, but we're in it now and it is soooo embarrassing that there's actual people out there defending f****** IRAN of all places 😂😂. The same people who think gay marriage is a right, support a literal ultraconservative borderline Nazi theocratic distatorship 😂😂 y'all are an unserious bunch of clowns.
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Hawkstar569 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Gay marriage isn't allowed in Israel either fool. Or interfaith marriage for that matter.
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Normal_Level6373 Mar 30, 2026 +8
“Accidents” only if your last 3 brain cells are committing suicide
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ConflictExtreme1540 Mar 30, 2026 -8
You think we intentionally bombed a school full of little girls? Why? For what reason would that ever make sense? Wtf
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protonpack Mar 30, 2026 +13
What good is it to call something an accidental war crime, except to justify why there will be zero consequences for the people who committed it? Grow a set of principles dude.
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Normal_Level6373 Mar 30, 2026 +7
The same reason why they attacked Tehran University today, or over a dozen hospitals in the country. Also, let’s not wash history clean of war crimes, they bombed the girls school twice, second time to kill parents and paramedics, than denied it.
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Ctofaname Mar 30, 2026 +2
Source on killing 40k protestors? I was under the impression Israel had hacked all traffic cameras so there should be video of the 40k people they killed in 2 days. Its quite a feat and a shooting gallery after all. Must be tons of evidence. People are defending the Iranian peoples right to sovereignty and not being blown the f*** up. Iran's problem government is Iran's problem to solve. If you know anything about Iranian history this conflict has only further cemented their government and made it that much harder for the populous to bring about revolution. Western influence is why they're here in the first place. Also we aren't bombing Russia because of their problematic government, Saudi Arabia.. heck we aren't bombing Israel. Why such harsh feelings on Iran.
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ConflictExtreme1540 Mar 30, 2026
Source -- At least 12k: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/ 30k: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/ Another 30k source: >The next day, everything abruptly changed. Protesters kept coming, but their injuries were close-range gunshots and severe stab wounds, typically to the chest, eyes and genitals. Many proved fatal. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead We shouldn't have had an international coalition agree to attack Iran. It is a terroristic, ultra conservative, theocratic fascist dictatorship that murders 1000s of civilians, allows 0 women's rights, threatens the global economy by closing the strait of hormuz, and is drafting child soldiers. Unfortunately no one else in the world seems to care enough. The region needs to rid itself of the cancerous state of Iran. They fund multiple terrorst cells and nuclear production while ignoring its own people
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farhanbiol201 Mar 30, 2026 +2
How about the gulf states tell The US Regime that they don’t want their troops there. And if Iran still attacks them then they are the same as those two.
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RepresentativeBee600 Mar 30, 2026 -30
Hi, u/ForceItDeeper. Playing devil's advocate: was the initial Israeli response to the Gaza attacks "crazy"? While their larger response has become infamous for the large-scale killing of civilians, they started off by responding to a 9/11-sized terror attack which saw footage of sexually assaulted corpses being driven around in pickup trucks. And this is far from the first time in their history this has happened to them. And Iran has been a huge funding source for this kind of surreal violence. As well as expounding on a "death to America" foreign policy, frequently. By contrast, US/Israeli strikes on Iran have been intentionally contained to military targets, and the breach with this at a girls' school (directly abutting a naval base) was a subject of international reproach. The US targeted the leadership of Iran, top-down, very intentionally. In the intervening period, Iran has stated "planks" for peace that involve consolidation of authority over a shipping lane over and above many sovereign neighbors in what is obviously a power grab. While it's true they are fighting an "underdog," asymmetrical war against a technologically and numerically superior foe... they also seem dead-set on trying to cash in on it. My summary take: for states like Iran that export violent hatred and target civilians in other countries, "the bar is on the floor" for them not to be considered "more crazy than usual." Now, devil's advocate hat off.  I hope the people of Iran get a representative government, free of interference from other states, that allows their people to prosper. This has all been madness anyway.
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Deathoftheages Mar 30, 2026 +32
> Playing devil's advocate: was the initial Israeli response to the Gaza attacks "crazy"? Yes, and Israel released the drone footage of a completely flattened Gaza to prove it.
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RepresentativeBee600 Mar 30, 2026 -23
Well, devil's advocate hat... back on... what makes it crazy?  Is the Iranian behavior - funding Hamas and Hezbollah and ginning up hatred - *not* crazy? Given that it led to a 9/11 scale terror attack on Israeli civilians? Seemingly these are being framed as complementary events for the sake of deciding which is and which isn't - since this conversation branched off of implications that Iran's response isn't crazy. Hat off for the evening - I think they're *both* crazy and I have no sympathy for the Iranian government and little for the leading Israeli coalition. I feel terrible for both countries' peoples, though.
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pgtl_10 Mar 30, 2026 +13
Judging from post history. Probably a think tank bot.
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paganbreed Mar 30, 2026 +1
I preface the following with two acknowledgements. A: The Iranian regime is not a good guy. B: Neither is Hamas. C: My comments here are about instigators who make those terrible factions look decent, in this specific conflict, by comparison. ——— You know, if I wanted peace on my border I wouldn't steal and occupy my neighbour's lands, ignore videotaped torture, murder, and SA allegations against my soldiers, bomb/shoot multiple families so the children grow up polarised, give diplomatic immunity to rescue govt officials from pedophilia charges overseas, etc, etc, etc. I also would not commit genocide when my victims inevitably turn to terrorists (that I originally funded to destabilise their govt!) for surcease out of desperation. I would not loudly and proudly tell the world I am a sociopath with no disregard for people not my own. I would not gleefully talk about children dying in the thousands and building beachfront properties in their wake. I would not dehumanise the victims every chance I get. ——— The Iranian regime is despicable, but they're not why this war is happening. Unlike a certain other nation, they've a track record of targeting military and economic infrastructure in a tit-for-tat exchange, not hospitals and refugee camps. To be frank, they've been more restrained or careful than the other side. How many schoolchildren did they negligently turn to ash on the first day? All their casualties are actually low enough to be plausible as accidents. The other side can't say the same.
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Xatsman Mar 30, 2026 +10
Israel was already at war with Gaza when that attack occured. You cannot legally blockade a foreign nation, and Israel has long maintained an illegal blockade of Palestine.
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bakochba Mar 30, 2026 -14
These countries aren't attacking Iran so.yeah
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +26
They are litteraly hosting the radars used to intercept Iranian missiles, and host significant hostile forces that could be used to invaded or attack at any time. If they agreed to turn of the US's access to the radars, and not intercept missiles targeting US or Israeli forces / bases, then they would be nuetral. Like, this is pretty fucked, but it is not like they are innocent  in theawar, and several will be used as staging grounds if a land invasion occurs.
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bakochba Mar 30, 2026 -7
They're hosting a radar to shoot down rockets being shot at them and the American base isn't at the desalination plant. Complete war crimes by Iran
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +16
Yea, these are war crimes.  But this was the clear escalation that Iran said would happen if the same war crimes were committed against them.  So the blame rests firmly with the party's escalating the conflict.
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bakochba Mar 30, 2026 -9
It's a clear escalation so far the US has held back from major civilian infrastructure if that changes it would be a catastrophe for Iran. The IRGC is betting that the US will be bound by these rules
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +12
I am not sure if you have been following, but these attacks came after the US and Israel hit significant major civilian infrastructure. Aluminium plant hits were a response to a steel works being bombed.  Power / desalination infrastructure was hit after the US and Israel hit the same infrastructure in Iran.  Hell, Israel has lobbed multiple missiles at a nuclear power plant, and that has the potential to be a regional catastrophe. They have even hit and blown up Universites, schools and other civilian places. Iran has been pretty consistent in only hitting Civilian infrastructure in kind, and only after Israel or the US had hit theirs.
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bakochba Mar 30, 2026 -5
Iranian electrical grid has not been hit not water desalination plants. Iran has attacked those facilities. So can the US and Israel can do the same by your logic
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AnAttemptReason Mar 30, 2026 +14
On march 7th the US hit Iran's desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The first time in the war desalination plants had been targeted. Last friday Israel confirmed they bombed the f*** out of a nuclear power plant in Iran, untill that point Iran had not targeted power infrastructure. Given your last comment, does this mean you agree with Iran's response? Use the same logic as Israel and the US? 
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fulses Mar 30, 2026 -2
They are crazy, it’s a country led by clerics and religious zealots. Like most clueless people I suggest you learn more about Twelver Shia with active Mehdism before commenting further, especially if you know nothing about the Middle East.
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Malaix Mar 29, 2026 +31
"Aluminum? who needs it! Don't be a panickan or a crazy Democrat! Wrap your burritos in gold like me."
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tulaero23 Mar 30, 2026 +6
Time to invest on Canadian Aluminum stocks I guess
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Drak_is_Right Mar 30, 2026 +2
The correct time probably was when the buildup started.
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tulaero23 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Hopefully my Canadian ETF has it on it.
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GrayRoberts Mar 29, 2026 +1
You listen to Zeihan too?
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Drak_is_Right Mar 30, 2026 +1
No idea who that is. Anyone that has a bit of knowledge of the major industries in the region would be able to guess there would be disruption.
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PutinsRustedPistol Mar 29, 2026 +387
On a positive note, the attacks on the industrial sites should slow down here pretty soon because they’ll have other things to shoot at when the troops land! What a pointless load of shit.
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Reyna_girlie Mar 29, 2026 +149
Id imagine if the US actually tries to occupy Iranian land, that thatd coincide with attacks on energy infrastructure. At that point, Iran will most likely yeet a bunch of drones at those troops as they would be close enough for short distance kamikaze drones whilst also going scorched earth on any important facilities in the Gulf and in Israel with their missiles TLDR: Theyd do both and f*** up millions of lives and the global economy
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Raspberries-Are-Evil Mar 29, 2026 +68
They want this. When everything comes crashing down were fucked, but the top .5% will buy all the stocks, real estate, etc for pennies on the dollar and ride it all the way back up.
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araed Mar 30, 2026 +34
Remember, kids, they can only buy it if theres someone left to buy it. Study the history of revolutions.
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Monkfich Mar 29, 2026 +29
I can imagine them torching all of Kharg island if it goes sufficiently bad.
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R4ndyd4ndy Mar 29, 2026 +25
Hitting the desalination facilities in the region would be worse, that's kind of the big risk if you decide to build your country in the desert
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Monkfich Mar 29, 2026 +24
I mean, I think Iran would destroy Kharg if the US takes it over, but maybe only also if there is sufficient threat to the regime that it is threatened to topple and if Trump suggests that Iran will never get Kharg back anyway. Dangerous times. To be fair though, we indeed also should be worried about Trump blowing everything up on a whim.
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janethefish Mar 30, 2026 +6
Naw. It is a terminal for Iranian oil. They can just stop sending stuff to the island.
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stablogger Mar 29, 2026 -4
I fear so, too, they'd probably rather destroy everything than let the US have it. Never underestimate extremists, for them it's like the last "crusade" against Israel and the US, a holy war. They'd sacrifice all their population and fight to the last drone. As unfortunate as it is, but there is no way for the US to win this. The longer this war lasts, the more US soldiers die, the more it costs, the less support the war will have. It's not different from Vietnam. Iran knew a war would be asymmetrical for decades and they can keep it going indefinitely, c**** drones, c**** missiles, c**** boats. Boots on the ground won't change anything, just increase losses of lives and this way make the war even more unpopular than it already is. It was lost from the very beginning and whoever told Trump it would be like Venezuela is a complete fool.
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RibsNGibs Mar 30, 2026 +19
It's not really an "extremist" thing. It seems totally rational in a Mutually Assured Destruction game theory kind of way. If I believe you will destroy X if I take X then it makes it not worth taking X. Same with their current actions to absolutely wreck the global economy - it's not madness - it's the only way for them to win, or at least not lose. They happen to also be extremists, but it's rational. The real terrifying thing IMO is that the US is acting as the irrational extremists, and it's hard to say with any confidence that it will take steps to avoid total global destruction if that means losing face.
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bullmarket2023 Mar 30, 2026 -4
You said it, the few extremists would put the 90 million out to die just to go down with the ship. This is why we need to clean house.
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hoowins Mar 30, 2026 +9
There are 300 million in the US.
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bullmarket2023 Mar 30, 2026 -2
Your point? We are religious extremists in this country.
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FirefighterLeft5425 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Yes we are.
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Jacinto2702 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Sadly, I don't think it is a matter of **if** but rather **when**.
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SomeBaldDude2013 Mar 30, 2026 +1
If they f*** up the global economy, they’re going to f*** up BILLIONS of lives. 
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GetsBetterAfterAFew Mar 29, 2026 +82
They can walk and chew gum tho, people seem not to understand that Iran has planned for this for 40 years and it seems like everything is going according to their plan. I sure hope no troops of any country get deployed because its going to be horrible for them. Mosaic Warfare is what Iran is deploying meaning many little sections of resistance all doing their own thing, its not a tip of the spear warfare any more its a 1000 little cuts my friend.
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MonochromaticPrism Mar 29, 2026 +26
>Iran has planned for this for 40 years and it seems like everything is going according to their plan Better, honestly. They planned around a competent and focused attack by US forces aiming to take clear targets within their nation in order to rapidly cripple them. Instead they are facing a foe that doesn't seem to understand what it even wants to do beyond a vague desire to "win".
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tb30k Mar 30, 2026 +7
THIS!!! Getting to face the most incompetent administration in history helps lol.
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xIllustrious_Passion Mar 29, 2026 +4
Thankfully the US Military is extremely efficient at fighting disorganized wars. /s
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Raa03842 Mar 29, 2026 +18
And by a people who have been fighting for thousands of years. They will not stop until every single American on their soil is dead. It’s unfortunate that the US looks at the world from their distorted 250 year lenses. The middle east has held grudges for a thousand years and having Infidels occupy their land is not going to bode well for America. Russia figured that out in Afghanistan. The US figured that out as well in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s gonna be a long war. It will out live any of us who are alive today.
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ForceItDeeper Mar 29, 2026 +9
probably a typo, but i think the term is “bode well”
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Key_Entertainer2883 Mar 29, 2026 +4
And soil and lenses.
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zekoslav90 Mar 29, 2026 +31
Contrary to popular belief missiles are not really good at fighting troops! Iran has a significant and well equiped army for that. What this means is that the attacks on gcc will continue until US can completely disable Irans internal logistics... which might not be a realistic proposal. This is such a supid war. Incredibly stupid. The stupides war ever. Nobody does stupid wars quite like Demento Don.
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aipac_hemoroid Mar 30, 2026 +9
Missiles aren't. Drones are. Artillery are. Humans who know the ins and outs of their own terrain and have prepared death traps for this exact scenario are.
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New_Home_4519 Mar 30, 2026 +4
What are we literally going to do?? Like honestly boots on the ground and all that. wtf are we going to do just pull up on shore like d day? Thousands of troops paratrooping in? Like holy f*** did they open all the things. There's no win here because we won't let it go.
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Drak_is_Right Mar 29, 2026 -16
Iran is running low on ballistic missiles and launchers. 3500+ ballistic missiles have been launched between this and last years conflict which has depleted most of their stockpile when combined with attacks on missile storage and launch. Drones? very different story. They had a lot more drones than ballistic missiles and the facilities to produce these are a TON smaller and can be spread out and hidden easier. The drones themselves are a lot easier to hide and launch. They still have an enormous drone stockpile. Drones do carry far smaller warheads however, so damage from a single impact will be far less.
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Firefox72 Mar 29, 2026 +26
You are naive if you think they aren't holding back missiles in case the US actually tries landing. Kharg Island will be bombed into oblivion if US troops dare step on it and seize it.
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Drak_is_Right Mar 29, 2026 -6
They have more missiles than just ballistic, though range on others and supply is dubious. we haven't seen many of their cruise missiles this war. They also have thousands upon thousands of drones for Kharg. Ballistic missiles risk the oil infrastructure on the island given their accuracy isnt always the greatest. Iran will suffer a possible multiple trillion dollar loss if Kharg island oil infrastructure is destroyed. Regime might survive the economic doldrum, but its domestic income will be severely diminished
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--LordFlashheart-- Mar 29, 2026 +6
As opposed to a trillion dollar loss if the US simply seize it for their own profit? Not sure what you are talking about with regards to the accuracy of Iranian missiles. All evidence points to absolutely top end precision. If the missile gets through the defences it hits what it intended to hit. Christ, they sliced an AWACS plane in half just today. Right through the middle of it. Iranian missiles have proven to be astoundingly accurate
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ConflictExtreme1540 Mar 30, 2026 -4
Lol at you being downvoted for not being pro-Iranian. These clowns see a ultra-conservatice, fascist theocratic dictatoship country, who bombs their non aggressive neighbors, murders 40k of their own citizens, and vows to destroy all those who don't follow their religion, who is also drafting child soldiers... and they think that they are still worth supporting. Iran is struggling to keep up but so many people hate Trump so much that they are actually going to bat for Iran. It's so funny
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Drak_is_Right Mar 30, 2026 +4
People can focus on one thing at a time. Cant see "everyone bad".
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gerbal100 Mar 29, 2026 +478
Who could have predicted military escalation results in military escalation! How dare the iranians attack the US led world economic order! They're supposed to sit back and take it!
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jpric155 Mar 29, 2026 +167
It's sad we (the American public) have to rely on other countries' news sources for intel because the news reporting in the US is 100% compromised and shouldn't even be considered "news" in the first place. It's just a bunch of talking heads chirping the party line (after they receive their orders)
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McRibs2024 Mar 29, 2026 +51
It’s funny when something has happened and the marching orders haven’t arrived fast enough. You get confused reporting and occasionally a line resembling thought. Then the orders come out and the script is crystal clear.
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jpric155 Mar 29, 2026 +9
The ants go marching one by one hurrah hurrah.
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mulletstation Mar 29, 2026 -20
There's plenty of good news in the US reporting this NYT etc...
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Lard_Baron Mar 29, 2026 +14
F*** the NYT. Main WMD cheerleader for Iraq war. They apologised but nothings changed.
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mulletstation Mar 29, 2026 -18
Ah yes, stuff they did 23 years ago is relevant right now
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CronoDroid Mar 30, 2026 +7
Yes, actually. Everything that occurred in the wake of 9/11 led up to this situation the US finds itself in. The massive expansion of the US surveillance and security state that is now being turned against the civilian population, the fact that previous administrations lied to conjure up a casus belli against Iraq (and got away with it), the media coordinating with the government to launder the reputation of Israel and to celebrate militarism, etc. Do you remember the Plame affair? Select members of the Bush admin got away with exposing the identity of a CIA officer because he husband had the audacity to write an article stating that one of the justifications for the Iraq War (Saddam buying yellowcake uranium) was unfounded. Also, I remember how the narrative changed in real time from "Iraq has WMDs" to "uh we're bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq." The media even got Angelina Jolie to stand in front of a city turned to rubble and say "now the Iraqis are free" back in 2018 - Mosul was leveled by Coalition airstrikes to dislodge IS, which was largely spawned by the US war in Iraq and its fallout. The US government and media lied to you back then and got away with it and today they're doing the same thing because the majority of the US population just conveniently ignored what happened 25 years ago.
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rrfe Mar 29, 2026 +65
There was an headline in the WSJ describing a trade route between Russia and Iran on the Caspian Sea a “smuggling route”. I get the feeling that the US establishment struggles to ascribe agency to its enemies.
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UnexaminedLifeOfMine Mar 29, 2026 -29
You do realize that Iran has been funding proxy wars this whole time right?
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speakertothedamned Mar 29, 2026 +39
You do realize that America has been funding proxy wars this whole time right?
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UnexaminedLifeOfMine Mar 30, 2026 +1
No one said America is the good guys here but this regime has to go I don’t care who I piss off saying this. I’m an Iranian feminist and there’s nothing in the world you can tell me to make me side with the mullahs sorry not sorry
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UnexaminedLifeOfMine Mar 29, 2026 -17
May the biggest a****** win then I suppose
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speakertothedamned Mar 29, 2026 +24
The last time the US waged an illegal war of aggression based on lies in the middle east a million innocent civilians died as a result. About 2 million innocent civilians died in Vietnam and another 1.5 million innocent civilians died in Korea. If we're comparing how much actual harm the two countries have caused it's not even close. US military imperialism is responsible for millions of deaths world wide.
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moral_mortal Mar 29, 2026 +9
It was all for good reasons or for Iraq a faulty mistake /s
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Melancholic84 Mar 29, 2026 -133
Did the gulf countries attack Iran ? And why the gulf industrial infrastructure became legitimate targets ?
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not_having_fun Mar 29, 2026 +60
It's called being a co-belligerant and by definition, yes, yes they did. 
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gerbal100 Mar 29, 2026 +107
The Gulf nations are US client states. Attacking them is a tool to inflict costs on the US. Obviously Iran should just ignore US foreign policy and strategic weaknesses and just bend over and take it! Also, there are also rumors MBS was a principal actor, behind the scenes, in pursuading US leaders to attack Iran.
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PsychologicalHost371 Mar 29, 2026 +13
Yeah I guess when the straight if Hormouz is blocked MBS gets to still sell his oil and at a much higher price.
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GioRoggia Mar 29, 2026 +12
I suspect that if Cuba served as a platform for China to launch attacks on the United States you wouldn't be making such silly questions about America's right to punish Cuba and force it to stop.
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Igennem Mar 29, 2026 +67
Yes, they did. They allowed their airspace and US bases on their land to be used for strikes including on Iranian civilian infrastructure.
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SpiderSlitScrotums Mar 29, 2026 +49
It is interesting the double standard that people take. We acknowledge that Belarus was an aggressor in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but we like to pretend the Gulf allies are innocent when the US stages forces and attacks from their bases.
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Striper_Cape Mar 29, 2026 -23
Has Ukraine attacked Belarus's industrial base?
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temujin94 Mar 29, 2026 +17
No because it's not strategically wise to do so. If Ukraine thought attacking Belarus would improve their chances of winning/ending the war they'd do so. Iran feels this is strategically beneficial to attack nations are supporting US military bases so they do.
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loggy_sci Mar 29, 2026 -5
They aren’t attacking Belarus because it would draw them directly into the war, not because it wouldn’t be valuable to hit them
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temujin94 Mar 29, 2026 +9
That's exactly why it's not strategically wise to do so like I said.
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Striper_Cape Mar 30, 2026 -2
Why is it strategically wise for Iran to attack the industrial base of their neighbors?
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CronoDroid Mar 30, 2026 +5
Because they're trying to get the Gulf states to think about the cost of hosting the US military in the future. The US was supposed to protect these countries because they're too weak and incompetent to protect themselves (which is why they're not presenting any sort of actual military threat to Iran compared to the US and Israel). But almost all of the US bases got knocked out by Iran, Iran can hit O&G and industrial sites with impunity and the Strait of Hormuz has been locked up for the whole time so the US protection these states paid for has been fairly useless hasn't it.
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Striper_Cape Mar 30, 2026 -2
Which isn't going to happen. They are going to double down and attack Iran back
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CronoDroid Mar 30, 2026 +2
With what army? No they're not, they can't fight, they don't know how to fight, they're weak and stupid and entirely reliant on the US to fight for them. If they were going to they would have already, and they're not going to do anything because they know their "armies" staffed entirely by mega failsons would get comically mauled in a ground fight. Are they going to walk to Iran? Doing so would prompt a higher level of escalation from Iran, like blowing up all the desalination plants.
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Striper_Cape Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yeah it's going to continue to escalate.
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lnth1 Mar 29, 2026 -34
> the US attacks from their (Gulf “allies”) bases Then Iran can attack these bases. Not civilian infrastructures, and indiscriminately at that. Edit: So far it seems indiscriminate. Since they struck hotels too. What strategic values do hotels hold? Are they housing Israel troops? If so, Iran better prepared a big pile of evidence to convince the world on it. And if it’s just random then how do we know if their attacks today are not random too?
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regular-cake Mar 29, 2026 +40
So why is the US and Israel attacking and bombing girls schools, universities, steel making facilities, oil fields, and desalination plants? Are those military bases or military targets??
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Aporkalypse_Sow Mar 29, 2026 +22
Never in the history of ever has the weaker power in a conflict stuck to some sort of rules of war nonsense. I'd argue that no power ever has. The USA has been lying and massacring regular people since before it was even 13 colonies. Both world wars, Vietnam, gulf wars. You name the war, I'll give examples of military leaders indiscriminately killing civilians and destroying basic infrastructure.
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ruet_ahead Mar 29, 2026 +30
Have you been paying attention to any of this?
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srone Mar 29, 2026 +11
Did the gulf countries host the military bases that the US are using to attack Iran?
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countervalent Mar 29, 2026 +24
The Gulf countries host American military bases. America is attacking Iran. Iran attacks the countries close to it that host American military bases. Whether actual attacks are being staged from those bases is irrelevant. Iran is applying maximum pressure to the countries enabling the American war machine. I'm sure if those countries expelled the American military, the attacks would instantly stop. This is how war works.
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loggy_sci Mar 29, 2026 -4
Iran wants regional dominance and there is absolutely zero reason to think that they would stop funding terrorist groups and fighting proxy wars when the U.S. leaves.
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countervalent Mar 29, 2026 +11
It sure seems like Iran just wants to be left the f*** alone.
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loggy_sci Mar 30, 2026
It only seems this way when you are unaware of Iranian foreign policy and their history. We don’t need to valorize the IRGC to oppose the U.S. actions and warmongering.
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moral_mortal Mar 29, 2026 +4
US wants to be world hegemon, i am sure, if they stop supporting dictators and sponsoring al Qaeda and terrorist and grnociy, things will improve.  Can you see the irony?
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SaveTheAles Mar 29, 2026 +101
Iran - if you bomb our industrial sites we will bomb you US - Ok we won't bomb you for 5 days. * Israel bombs industrial sites Iran - retaliates. US - shocked Pikachu face. I specifically asked not to be bombed back.
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Malaix Mar 29, 2026 +59
That remark where Trump basically said Iran fighting back and closing the strait was unfair and they had no right and it was cheating should be played back in US history classrooms for the rest of time to remind generations that we literally elected a 79 year old toddler to be president.
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FirefighterLeft5425 Mar 30, 2026 +4
What history classrooms?
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srone Mar 29, 2026 +147
Two aluminum sites hit, which is where the US buys most of its aluminum from after pissing of Canada, who now sells most of their aluminum to Europe and probably will not sell us aluminum if we beg them... How's that winning going MAGA?? I know you'll show up at your local Marine/Army recruit center and do your part to serve your fearless leader (you know, the one who dodged the draft when he was called to duty).
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fobbybobby323 Mar 29, 2026 +21
MAGA felt bad because they were winning so hard, so needed to take some loses to even things out.
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shizzy0 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I’d have thought them losing their minds would be enough but no.
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tulaero23 Mar 30, 2026
Americans will have to start to learn how to fight with Arrows. On a side note, imagine there will be a shortage on weapons, that the US government will finally crackdown on guns, so they can use them hahaha.
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fxkatt Mar 29, 2026 +95
>*Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted the sites with drones and missiles on Saturday in response to US and Israeli attacks on its own industrial plants.* Also, in response to the build up of US ground troops near its borders.
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kstargate-425 Mar 29, 2026 +63
Israel also targeted Iranian universities in which Iran and Iraq warned they and their militias would attack American universities in the region like the University of Beirut and ones in Iraq in Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah, and Dohuk. Israel keeps putting Americans and our assets in danger with their bullshit
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cyberpunk6066 Mar 30, 2026 +16
of course these are left out of headlines
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kstargate-425 Mar 30, 2026 +18
Yup, and even the Jerusalem Post which is one of their more progressive outlets [buries the fact Israel struck multiple Iranian universities and is why they "deem US/Israeli based universities legitimate targets"](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-891581) as if you onpy read the headline and first paragraph you'd think Iran was in the wrong for fighting back in the same way Israel is...
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Fragster2020 Mar 29, 2026 +15
But but but according to Trump "Oh..we've destroyed everything in Iran..all their bases has been bombed to ground....I wanna talk but all their leaders are dead so no one left to talk to me...I may as well, name it Strait of Trump at this point and start charging countries sea tarifs".
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bigredthesnorer Mar 30, 2026 +8
It’s almost like they had a plan for if they were attacked. Unlike Trump and Hegseth who had no plan of attack.
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 29, 2026 +37
**\`Israeli Attacks Across Gulf Continues As Major Industrial Sites Hit!\`**
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StonieTimelord Mar 29, 2026 +7
[/everyone is poor](https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-uUIFcDYRbvJTtxaFNa)
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mightybob4611 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Thought Trump said their military was wiped out?
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frank1934 Mar 29, 2026 +1
So what does the article actually say? Stupid paywall
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BakedPotatoDutton Mar 30, 2026 +1
Iran is the victim here. It's the Epstein Alliance responsible for the economic fallout of this invasion.
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FuegoHernandez Mar 30, 2026 -8
Iran is the one who started this shit going back to Oct 2023. Who do you think funded and supplied Hamas with weapons and training for the attacks on Israel? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/09/iran-support-hamas-training-weapons-israel/ They are evil. Not only have they massacred thousands of their own citizens over the past year, they have been funding terrorist groups for the past 40 years that have been responsible for killing thousands of American troops and other innocent civilians all over the Middle East. Women have no rights and are treated like property. The list goes on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres#:~:text=Since%20the%20beginning%20of%20the,the%20modern%20history%20of%20Iran. You could argue whether or not this is any of the United States business to get involved, but Iran is not the victim.
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Normal_Level6373 Mar 30, 2026 +6
Tell me your parents are siblings without telling me your parents are siblings^ Enjoy your $8 gas moron while you defend Epstein’s favourite client pedo
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mattmateohan Mar 29, 2026 +1
Excuse my ignorance (yes I really don’t know much), and moreso related to the threat Iran has given against desalination plants - why does it feel like a given that they will destroy them? Can’t these be on heavy guard with missile interceptors?
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Aazadan Mar 30, 2026 +3
Nope, the interceptor supply is running low. The US can manufacture 740 of them per year for themselves and everyone else. It takes an average of 6 to shoot down a drone at a cost of about $10 million/missile ($60 million per defense). 6000 Shaheed drones are produced per year, at a cost of $50k each. Want to take a guess at who has the advantage there? Attacker or defender?
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janethefish Mar 30, 2026 +2
They don't have unlimited resources. If they focused everything around the plants that might work, but that would leave other targets vulnerable. Also depending on where stuff is and how vulnerable the desalination is that might not even be feasible.
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RottenPingu1 Mar 30, 2026 +1
The middle east seeing that all the American bases can't protect them.
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croaker227 Mar 29, 2026 +16
I think there’s a couple things involved in this: 1) the Shia don’t give two cents about the Sunni and vice versa 2) Iran seems to be trying to make this “military operation” as unpopular and costly as possible for the US and its allies to help pressure Trump into backing down.
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Th3Ch3mist Mar 29, 2026 +9
F Trump.
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Arqium Mar 29, 2026 +48
they dont need that "goodwill". What "goodwill" is that? That allows an enemy to operate in it's soil to launch an war of agression, to attack and destroy your country and population without any valid reason? they only need to project strenght now, to serve as deterrence to further agression. "The lashing out like a wounded animal strategy" LOL, you are watching to much biased news. Every attack was extremely calculated. You just don't know the reason, and media doesn't want to talk about it because of Israel. They want to portrai Iran as barbaric and unpredictable enemy, like something dumb and less than human, when they say that they are lashing out. Seriously? Who would have spent millions on balistic missiles to hit aleatory buildings without any strategic value? Do you really believe this?
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_goblinette_ Mar 29, 2026 +13
What difference does it make to Iran if the other gulf states join in? The US is already using their bases to stage attacks and they have plenty of military strength to invade on the ground if they want to.  Iran doesn’t need to win, they just need to survive. They just need to make it not worth the effort of continuing the war for the US. And frankly, I think we’re already at that point.  
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pass_nthru Mar 29, 2026 +12
like all the sunni arab states ever gave two shits about shia persians…lol, if that was the case 1980-88 would have been a little different
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speakertothedamned Mar 29, 2026 +10
> Who cares what their motives were. I'm just throwing this out here, but probably the Iranians do? Like, no offense, but your entire argument comes across as glib, disingenuous, and poorly thought out.
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speakertothedamned Mar 29, 2026 +10
This reply is actually the perfect example of what I'm talking about. You could have provided some kind of additional information or context or evidence or argument to help support the point you were trying to make, instead you posted a childish ad hominem and called it good.
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speakertothedamned Mar 29, 2026 +2
> The Iranians in Iran are fairly neutral on the war, Oh yeah, I'm sure all those parents whose kids got murdered when we dropped a bomb on their school and lied about it are totally on the fence about this whole thing. Could you pretty please just put like two ounces of thought and empathy into what you're saying?
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pass_nthru Mar 29, 2026 +6
you get you ESL from Tel Aviv or just learned it locally in Crown Heights?
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marcaf55 Mar 29, 2026 -5
Sounds awfully antisemitic
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pass_nthru Mar 29, 2026 +6
just like its anti-semitic to be against dropping american made munitions from israeli jets on palestinian hospitals
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pass_nthru Mar 29, 2026 +6
if you back a man into a corner and he has a f****** knife, expect to get stabbed
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orgynel Mar 29, 2026 +4
You sound delusional... Get help
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tremble01 Mar 30, 2026 -1
I understand the this is all instigated by US and Israel. But even with that, at some point, countries who depend on these mid east infrastructures and pathways will need to take action to defend open access and make sure key economic infrastructures outside Iran are intact. At some point they cannot let Iran hit the ports in Oman and neighboring countries. Let's say, US and Israel stops attacking tomorrow. Do you think Iran will just stop choking the strait? I dont think so and from their POV, they absolutely should not. They will push for having a toll style system there and their leaders who are serving their interests should definitely push for it. Thats just basic game theory. It is up to those countries who depend on it to push back. Assuming that every thing will just go back to normal on it's own is wishful thinking. And btw. US not being able to build a coalition to at the very least, keep the strait open and to defend ports and infrastructures in neighboring countries is a massive slap in the face of what used to be the "leader of the free world". Before they dont even have to ask.
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asshat_deluxe Mar 30, 2026 -11
Houthis are scumbags anyway. The will get splattered Not a fan of war at all but Irans government hezbolla and the houthis are all bags of shit.
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