War with...Iran?

[Shavano]

This is a serious distortion of the specific poll, to the point of being outright lies.
The poll didn't ask where on the political spectrum the responders were, either.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...26-of-arabs-majority-support-toppling-regime/

"Destroying" a country as large and populous as Iran isn't something anyone wants, clearly irrelevant, and something no poll asked.
And Lapid only talked about the destruction of missile and attack UAV production, not the economy in general.

UAV production can't be shut down for more than a few months no matter how may facilities are destroyed.

 

[Matisaro]

I don't think terrorists is the right word for a military force responding to attacks on its ally.

Agree, more aptly applied to the IDF than those mentioned here.

 

[cakqe]

The poll didn't ask where on the political spectrum the responders were, either.

It did ask:
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/63617

A breakdown by political orientation (Jews) shows a majority of supporters in all three, although this majority is smaller in the Left than in the Center and the Right (Left 76%, Center 93%, Right 97%).

UAV production can't be shut down for more than a few months no matter how may facilities are destroyed.

UAVs aren't the main concern. They're slow, and carry relatively small amounts of explosives.

 

[Camacan]

While walking the dog today I listened to a Cautionary Tales podcast which discussed the four bombing of apartment buildings in Russia that was blamed on the Chechens, even though there was a lot of evidence that the FSB did it as a false flag. Putin launch the Second Chechen War Putin as a ‘response” and that cemented his hold on power.

Trump isn’t half as smart as Putin, but it did put the fear into me that it could be something he or a minion might try, or possibly let a jihadi do. I’m probably being too paranoid.

Trump isn't as half as smart as half of Putin. BTW Putin condemned the killing of the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as being “committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.” So new hypocrisy levels attained but to the extent the war continues to violate those norms, this kind of attack on the west's standing will have teeth.

Edit: (Though in this case Putin's "norms of human morality" might translate to 'I don't like the idea that a bloody handed authoritarian can force worship at home but someone outside doesn't understand they are sacred.')

 

[Wheels Of Confusion]

From a trusted source that he just put out:

It like they are hoping a terrorist attack happens herex.

Wouldn't put a false flag operation past this regime.

I would. And it's not even required. Because...

Well, they reportedly fired most of the FBI's counterintelligence team days before launching the war on Iran.



https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/patel-fbi-national-security-division-firings-iran

They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

As a result, Patel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign spies operating on US soil.

Just like America's pandemic response team being shit-canned mere months before the Covid pandemic broke out. Incompetence and petty hostility to "the deep state/wasteful spending" is doing the work of making us vulnerable to predictable consequences.

Actively planning a false flag isn't the Trump style. Reacting like foreseeable bad things that happen are part of a plot against him/America, though, that's perfectly inline with his MO.

 

[Made in Hurry]

While I understand your feelings, this is just a dumb take. There's plenty of people who didn't chose to drive a giant truck and will still be enormously affected, especially in a country like the US where public transportation is... Not good and everything is designed around the idea that everybody has a car.

Ultimately, the people who will feel this the most are as usual the poorest.

I live 50 minutes from Oslo central, there are 4 buses daily here, and they do not connect to other services in terms of timing to larger towns, it seems its just a random thing honestly. There are no buses on weekends. The small municipality i live in has tried to fix it for years, but it seems impossible, and we have countless places where this is the case, unless you live very close to one of the larger towns here. (I consider Oslo to be the worlds largest village, but thats another thread).
If i do drive 12 km to the trainstation in the next town over and go to Oslo, thats still a $45 ticket going both ways.
Norway is a hair larger than Japan, but we have 5,5 million people only ,and yet closing in on 10 usd a gallon does not make people revolt just yet.
I had an appointment at a hospital 25 km from where i live a few months ago, and i checked if it was possible to use public transportation. Yes was the answer, but it would take me 3 hours one way, and 4 hours back. Thats a huge nope in my eyes.
I am just saying, not every place in Europe is a public transport utopia and lots and lots, including myself need a car, and yet, we do manage while gas is close to 10 usd a gallon.

 

[LTParis]

There have been certainly advisories published, by DHS and other agencies:
https://www.cfr.org/articles/iran-a...-u-s-strikes-could-mean-for-homeland-security

The advisories are basic. The dissemination of specific knowledge is apparently being withheld.

 

[cfenton]

While I understand your feelings, this is just a dumb take. There's plenty of people who didn't chose to drive a giant truck and will still be enormously affected, especially in a country like the US where public transportation is... Not good and everything is designed around the idea that everybody has a car.

Ultimately, the people who will feel this the most are as usual the poorest.

Even those people will be paying less than most of the rest of the world, which was my original point. However much gas goes up in the US as a result of this war, it's very likely going to go up even more for almost everyone else. It's just another example of the US making bad decisions and then foisting the cost off on everyone else.

I didn't say otherwise, and this thread is not about how high petroleum taxes should be. The increased cost of the raw stock (crude oil) is going to be passed through. There might or might not be additional increases up the value chain if the war results in an actual shortage.

Fair enough. I guess I'm used to people arguing in favor of something rather than just adding context.

 

[AbidingArs]

It did ask:
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/63617

Thanks for the link. It was interesting info; the polling was done from March 2-3, "based on a representative sample of the entire population in Israel aged 18 and over, and included 500 respondents in Hebrew and 99 respondents in Arabic". It had a 4% error at the 95% confidence level.

More surprising to me is that 74% of Jewish respondents "quite or very much trust Netanyahu to manage the operation well", with that breaking down to Left 40%, Center 62%, and Right 85%. I would have thought that would be lower for Left and Center but I haven't followed Israel's politics for the past year.

I also was curious about the "how long should the operation continue" question:

We presented respondents with two possible responses: the operation should continue until its military objectives are achieved (eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic capability) or the operation should continue the military objectives are achieved as well as the political objective of overthrowing the Ayatollah regime.

57% of Jewish respondents wanted the operation to continue until both political and military objectives were achieved while 36% thought that the operation should stop after achieving only the military objectives. 36% of the Left, 49% of the Center, and 64% of the Right supported completing both the military and political goals, but 43%, 44%, and 32% respectively wanted it to end once the military objectives were achieved. 52% of Arab respondents answered that they did not know.

 

[wco81]

How is that in any way responsive to the post you’re replying to. Iran and Ukraine are not remotely the same and Russia and the US are not remotely the same. One of the clearest indications of that is the there are US and Israeli planes running sorties over the heart of Iran after one week - something Russia couldn’t achieve in 4 years.

Ukraine is an utterly useless comparison point for what’s going on in Iran.

That's the point, US is just bombing, not putting real forces in the ground.

Unless you think that is what is meant by "large-scale" campaign, just air strikes, no ground forces.

Do you think you're going to disarm the IRGC and militia forces supporting the regime only with airstrikes?

Presumably the intel report doesn't even believe putting ground forces will easily eliminate the thousands or even over a million armed soldiers who support the regime as well as kill the opposition.

At least Russia tried not just decapitation but actually taking over and holding territory.

 

[concernUrsus]

That's the point, US is just bombing, not putting real forces in the ground.

Unless you think that is what is meant by "large-scale" campaign, just air strikes, no ground forces.

Do you think you're going to disarm the IRGC and militia forces supporting the regime only with airstrikes?

Presumably the intel report doesn't even believe putting ground forces will easily eliminate the thousands or even over a million armed soldiers who support the regime as well as kill the opposition.

At least Russia tried not just decapitation but actually taking over and holding territory.

In Trump's mind, the IRGC is probably scared of the bombing and will accept whatever demand that Trump has. He did sort of get what he want from Venezuela. While the possibility is very low, it is still possible for IRGC to back down.

USA did just flush all our international good wills credit down the toilet in last 12 months though. Not that Trump and his administration value such.

 

[wco81]

This is a serious distortion of the specific poll, to the point of being outright lies.
The poll didn't ask where on the political spectrum the responders were, either.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...26-of-arabs-majority-support-toppling-regime/

"Destroying" a country as large and populous as Iran isn't something anyone wants, clearly irrelevant, and something no poll asked.
And Lapid only talked about the destruction of missile and attack UAV production, not the economy in general.

And how do you take down the regime which has been entrenched there for half a century without destroying large parts of the infrastructure and probably killing or disarming thousands or over a million regime loyalists?

Oh do you think Gaza operations have been surgical or you just handwave hundreds of thousands killed by the IDF there as well?

What's left of Gaza? Is it destroyed? Oh it's not all rubble, just huge parts of it are, just so you can take it over and develop resorts or some such travesty after you've killed or driven out all of the Palestinians.

Here is the reporting on Lapid saying that they should destroy the oil infrastructure:

Opposition leader Yair Lapid addressed the attack on oil facilities in Iran, saying that "Israel must destroy all the oil fields and energy industry of Iran on Kharg Island." According to him, "This is what will crush Iran's economy and bring down the regime. This war must end with the regime in Iran fallen, the nuclear facilities destroyed, the entire ballistic missile industry destroyed and Hezbollah destroyed in Lebanon."

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/14b4v73tb

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ceqvwrydzpqt


So what happens to the Iranians and their country once they have no means of producing and selling oil? Israel wanted it destroyed to topple the regime but hey, the vast majority of the people who don't support the regime will suffer devastation when their economy is destroyed just to quench Israeli blood lust.

 

[schnackenpfefferhausen]

Per CNN: Iran’s president apologizes to gulf neighbours for attacking then.. says attacks will cease if no retaliation.

Gee.. who’d a thought that attacking literally everyone around you would be a bad idea?

Well, that didn’t last..

CNN:
“Fresh blasts shook parts of Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE, including in Dubai’s busy Marina district.”

 

[educated_foo]

Un-fun fact: the term World War II was coined by TIME Magazine as a way to describe it as a sequel to what was previously called the Great War.

Along similar lines, we should re-retcon them back to "Great War" and "Greater War," so Trump can have the "Greatest War [perhaps the world has ever seen]."

 

[theevilsharpie]

It sounds like the whole of Israel is supporting destroying pretty much all of Iran, which has 10 times the population of Israel so Israel isn't sending any soldiers there, it wants Americans to do the dirty work.

Yair Lapid is supposedly a centrist and he wants to destroy the old production capacity of Iran. Never mind what it would do to the global oil market and the economy, just as long as Israel destroys another country.

As with Gaza, it's not just the Israeli right-wing which supports Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza and now attempted destruction of Iran -- 90 million people.

It's all of Israel, the country has become drunk with power, mostly provided by American money and weapons.

Times of Israel poll allegedly show 97% support by the right-wing, 93% support by centrists and 76% support by the left for Operation Roaring Lion.

An explicitly foreign policy goal of Iran is the complete destruction of Israel. Combine that with Iran having directly attacked Israel, Iran funding, arming, and training proxy militants that have directly attacked Israel countless times, and Iran very obviously working to build nuclear weapons, which they would undoubtedly use to threaten Israel if not outright attack it.

Does it really come as a surprise that the Israeli public would support their own attack on a nation that has repeatedly threatened and attacked it over the course of Israel's existence as a country?

I'm sure if you polled the Ukrainian population on what they'd think of wide scale attacks on Russia, you'd see support with similar overwhelming majorities.

 

[educated_foo]

But can't? Nobody should be saying can't and large scale war in the same sentence unless it's can't bring about world peace or can't be done without killing a fuckload of noncombatants.

Bibi: ahem You take a look at Gaza recently? Hold my beer...

Likud has shown no limit to its appetite for murder.

 

[wco81]

An explicitly foreign policy goal of Iran is the complete destruction of Israel. Combine that with Iran having directly attacked Israel, Iran funding, arming, and training proxy militants that have directly attacked Israel countless times, and Iran very obviously working to build nuclear weapons, which they would undoubtedly use to threaten Israel if not outright attack it.

Does it really come as a surprise that the Israeli public would support their own attack on a nation that has repeatedly threatened and attacked it over the course of Israel's existence as a country?

I'm sure if you polled the Ukrainian population on what they'd think of wide scale attacks on Russia, you'd see support with similar overwhelming majorities.

Well Israel is going for the destruction of Iran right now.

Besides oil depots, they've hit a desalination plant. That is necessary to overthrow the regime right?

But you make an interesting equivalence, Lebanese militias with light arms and some piddly missiles against IDF's high-tech fighters and missiles and US joining in with a couple of aircraft carriers.

Netanyahu wasn't popular before he started attacking Gaza on a mass scale. But he gained domestic support over time and now, they're really primed with this attempt to dismantle Iran.

Notice there's little or no talk of nuclear weapons which Iran was allegedly close to developing now? No it's all about taking down the regime.

So destroy their economy and civil infrastructure like desalination plants. Or was it really a uranium enrichment facility or making missiles or drones?

 

[Wheels Of Confusion]

m sure if you polled the Ukrainian population on what they'd think of wide scale attacks on Russia, you'd see support with similar overwhelming majorities.

I'm not convinced of that. The vast majority of Ukrainians just seem to want their country and kidnapped children back.

 

[concernUrsus]

An explicitly foreign policy goal of Iran is the complete destruction of Israel. Combine that with Iran having directly attacked Israel, Iran funding, arming, and training proxy militants that have directly attacked Israel countless times, and Iran very obviously working to build nuclear weapons, which they would undoubtedly use to threaten Israel if not outright attack it.

Does it really come as a surprise that the Israeli public would support their own attack on a nation that has repeatedly threatened and attacked it over the course of Israel's existence as a country?

I'm sure if you polled the Ukrainian population on what they'd think of wide scale attacks on Russia, you'd see support with similar overwhelming majorities.

Fair number of countries have we must destroy so and so in their policies though. North Korea is probably still talking about destroying South Korea. Hungary has said some questionable things about Ukraine and other countries. Pakistan and India have a difficult relationship for a long period of their existence. Israel and Iran do not even share a border.

Generally, such threats can be managed.

 

[Alexander]

Iran claims that the US bombed a desalinization plant:

On Saturday, Iranian state media reported the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted US forces at Bahrain’s Jufair airbase in retaliation for an attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island.​

​

Araghchi called the US attack on the plant a “dangerous move with grave consequences”, accusing the US of committing a “blatant and desperate crime”, which affected the water supply to 30 villages.​

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...-to-confront-threats-as-iran-attacks-continue


If it's true this would be an incredibly reckless, potentially catastrophic escalation by the US. If Iran retaliated and everyone starts destroying each other's desalinization plants, large swathes of the Middle East very quickly become uninhabitable, and a lot of people die and a lot of people flood into other countries as refugees.

 

[LTParis]

Iran claims that the US bombed a desalinization plant:

On Saturday, Iranian state media reported the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted US forces at Bahrain’s Jufair airbase in retaliation for an attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island.​

​

Araghchi called the US attack on the plant a “dangerous move with grave consequences”, accusing the US of committing a “blatant and desperate crime”, which affected the water supply to 30 villages.​

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...-to-confront-threats-as-iran-attacks-continue


If it's true this would be an incredibly reckless, potentially catastrophic escalation by the US. If Iran retaliated and everyone starts destroying each other's desalinization plants, large swathes of the Middle East very quickly become uninhabitable, and a lot of people die and a lot of people flood into other countries as refugees.

We are absolutely reckless and created a catastrophic situation supporting Bibi on this. So this fits our exact MO.

 

[theevilsharpie]

I'm not convinced of that. The vast majority of Ukrainians just seem to want their country and kidnapped children back.

You are kidding yourself if you think Ukrainians wouldn't overwhelming support the toppling of the Russian government and the destruction of its military facilities and related industries, given the Ukrainian government had credible means to do so.

 

[cakqe]

do you think Gaza operations have been surgical

There's very little similarity between Gaza and Iran. No institutionalized military activities intermixed with civilians, far larger areas, a majority of the population that opposes the rulers, no close proximity to Israel.

So what happens to the Iranians and their country once they have no means of producing and selling oil?

Not necessarily the best idea but maybe it is an option. Short-term harm for a longer-term larger upside.

Besides oil depots, they've hit a desalination plant.

You're building a house of cards on an uncorroborated Iranian claim.
(Some reporting also claims it was hit by the US.)

or you just handwave hundreds of thousands killed by the IDF

Even Hamas doesn't claim these numbers.

Fair number of countries have we must destroy so and so in their policies though.

Your example countries aren't theocracies, and none of them are nuke-threshold.
And Iran's not only talking but also attacking, and has been doing so for decades, even if indirectly up until recently.

Generally, such threats can be managed.

And indeed, it is being managed.

 

[Macam]

I guess I missed some news, but we already won the non-war war?



Link

We’re now hitting oil depots (seeing reports of Israel bombing around 30) for some reason, because this will definitely help the affordability crisis and I guess double-tapping girls’ schools is boring?



Link

And worth noting the deflection and blatant lying about war crimes here:



Link

I’d ask what the fuck are we even doing, but that’s basically a daily mantra at this point. If the WTI wasn’t already rocketing up before, it’ll be launching into outer space at this rate.

Somehow these idiots are not only murdering everyone for funsies with zero plan, but we’re going to drive the cost up of oil through the roof, which will be a nice lifeline for Russia I suppose, but will also invite attacks on everyone else’s oil infrastructure in the region.

 

[Made in Hurry]

Explosion at the US embassy in Oslo now after midnight. Minor damages to one entrance.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gkEglJ/...36755&utm_medium=dre-69acc3ad8724efe40afa4af9 (Norwegian link)

Yeah, this will escalate and will this turn into a religious war?

 

[FinallyAnAccount]

Remember that trump repeatedly claimed that Obama would start a war with Iran to interfere with the upcoming election? I guess we shouldn’t at all be surprised it was yet more projection. Just like pizzagate was projection for Epstein files.

 

[Macam]

Explosion at the US embassy in Oslo now after midnight. Minor damages to one entrance.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gkEglJ/smell-og-roeyk-ved-den-amerikanske-ambassaden-i-oslo?utm_source=vgfront&utm_content=hovedlopet_row1_pos1&utm_term=dre-vg-gkEglJ-1772936755:dre-vg-gkEglJ-1772936755&utm_medium=dre-69acc3ad8724efe40afa4af9 (Norwegian link)

Yeah, this will escalate and will this turn into a religious war?

tbh, I get a little thrown off when people say things like a “religious war” when the country being attacked are Muslim or Muslim adjacent and there’s some perceived response, but we somehow ignore the far right Judeo extremists in Netanyahu’s coalition or the far right Christian extremists in US’ own. There’s no shortage of extremists on all sides here, which is certainly part of the problem.

But minor damage to a US embassy in Oslo is the least concerning real or potential outcome that will come out of this terrible war of choice.

 

[Bardon]

This is a serious distortion of the specific poll, to the point of being outright lies.
The poll didn't ask where on the political spectrum the responders were, either.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...26-of-arabs-majority-support-toppling-regime/

"Destroying" a country as large and populous as Iran isn't something anyone wants, clearly irrelevant, and something no poll asked.
And Lapid only talked about the destruction of missile and attack UAV production, not the economy in general.

Mate, it's been proven multiple times here that they did indeed ask where the responders fit on the political spectrum. Maybe time for an apology for that "outright lies" statement?

 

[VividVerism]

Your example countries aren't theocracies, and none of them are nuke-threshold.

India, Pakistan, and North Korea were all mentioned. They all have nukes already right now.

 

[Made in Hurry]

tbh, I get a little thrown off when people say things like a “religious war” when the country being attacked are Muslim or Muslim adjacent and there’s some perceived response, but we somehow ignore the far right Judeo extremists in Netanyahu’s coalition or the far right Christian extremists in US’ own. There’s no shortage of extremists on all sides here, which is certainly part of the problem.

But minor damage to a US embassy in Oslo is the least concerning real or potential outcome that will come out of this terrible war of choice.

I think bringing up far-right Christians or Jews is a massive detour. This night, an explosive hit U.S. territory in the heart of my city. This wasn't an attack on Norway; it was an attack fueled by a specific, exported hatred for the U.S. and perhaps Israel—and the person behind it clearly felt their 'religious mission' or political grievance was more important than the safety of the Norwegians around them.

There’s a pattern here: when certain religious or political ideologies put their hatred for the 'Great Satan' or their religious cause above the laws of the country they are living in, it makes the world—and my home—less safe. I don't care about their excuses or 'what about' other extremists. I care about the fact that one specific group is currently using my neighborhood as a battlefield for their global religious war based on their opinions and belief. If you can't see the difference between a fundamentalist opinion and a bomb, you’re missing the point.

 

[Embattle]

I guess I missed some news, but we already won the non-war war?



Link

We’re now hitting oil depots (seeing reports of Israel bombing around 30) for some reason, because this will definitely help the affordability crisis and I guess double-tapping girls’ schools is boring?



Link

And worth noting the deflection and blatant lying about war crimes here:



Link

I’d ask what the fuck are we even doing, but that’s basically a daily mantra at this point. If the WTI wasn’t already rocketing up before, it’ll be launching into outer space at this rate.

Somehow these idiots are not only murdering everyone for funsies with zero plan, but we’re going to drive the cost up of oil through the roof, which will be a nice lifeline for Russia I suppose, but will also invite attacks on everyone else’s oil infrastructure in the region.

It is quite funny how he attacks Keir Stammer all the time because it actually helps him since Trump is so unpopular on this side of the Atlantic. Also it is factually wrong since we aren't joining the war, we aren't sending two carriers and are only get one ready in case we need it, also 3 more B1 lancers landed at RAF Fairford yesterday.

 

[Macam]

I think bringing up far-right Christians or Jews is a massive detour. This night, an explosive hit U.S. territory in the heart of my city. This wasn't an attack on Norway; it was an attack fueled by a specific, exported hatred for the U.S. and perhaps Israel—and the person behind it clearly felt their 'religious mission' or political grievance was more important than the safety of the Norwegians around them.

There’s a pattern here: when certain religious or political ideologies put their hatred for the 'Great Satan' or their religious cause above the laws of the country they are living in, it makes the world—and my home—less safe. I don't care about their excuses or 'what about' other extremists. I care about the fact that one specific group is currently using my neighborhood as a battlefield for their global religious war based on their opinions and belief. If you can't see the difference between a fundamentalist opinion and a bomb, you’re missing the point.

This basically amount to "because it happened to me where I live, nothing else matters". And I'm sure there about 170 families in Iran that feel the same way when their children died, pointlessly, because some shitty old men decided to start bombing their neighborhood to advance their political careers, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of other people currently being affected by this.

You have my sympathies, but if your empathy extends only a few blocks from your home, well, that's certainly concerning.

 

[Made in Hurry]

This basically amount to "because it happened to me where I live, nothing else matters". And I'm sure there about 170 families in Iran that feel the same way when their children died, pointlessly, because some shitty old men decided to start bombing their neighborhood to advance their political careers, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of other people currently being affected by this.

You have my sympathies, but if your empathy extends only a few blocks from your home, well, that's certainly concerning.

It's interesting that you call it 'concerning' to care about a bombing in my own neighborhood. I’d argue it’s actually the most honest form of empathy there is.

But if we’re talking about 'extending thoughts,' where was this energy for the tens of thousands of Iranians murdered by their own regime's 'shitty old men' just weeks before this war started? Or the half a million people in Somalia facing death right now? Those lives didn't seem to fit the 'politically correct' narrative for a protest, so they were ignored.

My point isn't that those 170 families in Iran don't matter—it’s that all of this is the result of the same elite power games. You’re trying to shame me for being angry that this global 'religious bullshit' has landed in Oslo, but you’re the one being selective. I’m tired of all of it—the bombs in Tehran, the starving in Somalia, the war in Ukraine, and the explosives in Norway. If you think one justifies the other, or that I’m the 'concerning' one for wanting a safe city, then you’re just another player in the kindergarten. Have at it.

 

[Deleted member 28951]

Isn't that something you'd expect any country at war to do when those military assets are being used against them? Cyprus might have been excepted more for geographic than other reasons.

None of those Arab countries have as yet launched any attack against Iran. And In all of them civilian residential buildings and airports were targeted (possibly except Jordan; not sure what the targets were there apart from that air-defense radar, but no assets in Jordan were used against the Iranian regime).

 

[Alexander]

Iran claims that the US bombed a desalinization plant:

On Saturday, Iranian state media reported the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted US forces at Bahrain’s Jufair airbase in retaliation for an attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island.​

​

Araghchi called the US attack on the plant a “dangerous move with grave consequences”, accusing the US of committing a “blatant and desperate crime”, which affected the water supply to 30 villages.​

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...-to-confront-threats-as-iran-attacks-continue


If it's true this would be an incredibly reckless, potentially catastrophic escalation by the US. If Iran retaliated and everyone starts destroying each other's desalinization plants, large swathes of the Middle East very quickly become uninhabitable, and a lot of people die and a lot of people flood into other countries as refugees.

Iran hits desalination plant in Bahrain:

Iranian aggression randomly bombs civilian targets and causes material damage to a water desalination plant following a drone attack.​

View: https://x.com/moi_bahrain/status/2030524621867393119?s=20


(Bahrain Ministry of Interior, using twitter’s built-in translation). Hopefully this is a measured response that tells the US to knock it off rather than the second step on an escalating spiral.

 

[GMBigKev]

Hopefully this is a measured response that tells the US to knock it off rather than the second step on an escalating spiral.

Insert BenderLaughing.gif

 

[Deleted member 28951]

It did ask:
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/63617

I stand corrected, but @wco81 did not cite the full original IDI poll, only the the ToI which had a very abbreviated version and added unsupported garbage. (I trust the IDI on actual data,
and they pretty consistently oppose our current illegal, fascist, racist theocratic and cleptocratic "government".)
As I've said before in this thread, I wasn't in support of this war, because it smells too much like an election ploy by Netanyahu. That said, once it started, I do support destroying all Iranian regime terrorist infrastructure.

UAVs aren't the main concern. They're slow, and carry relatively small amounts of explosives.

But there are a lot of them, they're more difficult to track, and since unlike the ballistic missiles they can change course significantly, you don't know what they're aiming for until they very nearly hit. A single one hitting a cafeteria on a military base killed 4 and wounded 60 in Oct. 2024.

 

[Deleted member 28951]

Well, that didn’t last..

CNN:
“Fresh blasts shook parts of Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE, including in Dubai’s busy Marina district.”

Attacks on civilian targets in Arab countries began not 2 hours after the announcement.

 

[Crolis]

I for one am shocked that there is not a cohesive message coming out of Iran after we killed many of their leaders.

Not even sure who you negotiate with at this point. Who the “unconditional surrender” would credibly come from.

 

[VividVerism]

As I've said before in this thread, I wasn't in support of this war, because it smells too much like an election ploy by Netanyahu. That said, once it started, I do support destroying all Iranian regime terrorist infrastructure.

Like civilian desalination plants in a country already facing a water crisis?