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US says Iranian drones breach sanctions
BBC News.com ^ | October 17, 2022 | BBC News Staff Reporter

Posted on 10/18/2022 4:19:26 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

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To: bert

Meanwhile Saudi is flirting with brics. I see the same incoherent, short sighted slight of hand I’ve come to expect. There won’t be any epiphany in this administration unless they go to prison. The day after Biden gets what he wants Israel is back to red headed step child status.


41 posted on 10/18/2022 5:25:18 AM PDT by enduserindy
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To: KobraKai
Our bombs are Holy Bombs, because our wars are always meant with Good Intentions.


42 posted on 10/18/2022 5:27:56 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KobraKai

So then Nazi Germany invading the USSR was no big deal, right?

who are we to criticize them, right?

Nazi Germany felt threatened by the USSR, so it was “provoked” in invading, it “had no choice” ... no big deal, right?


43 posted on 10/18/2022 5:28:57 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Travis McGee

Ah, you’re back to posting your anti-American propaganda

get lost hater


44 posted on 10/18/2022 5:30:14 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

I know, our bombs are always Holy Bombs.

Because we only have Pure Intentions.

At least Russia is fighting in a long-disputed territory (Russian Donbass) right against Russia, in a nation that never existed before 1991, after the breakup of the USSR.

How do you excuse those 200,000 dead Iraqi civilians, 5,000 miles from America?


45 posted on 10/18/2022 5:39:33 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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46 posted on 10/18/2022 5:40:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Timber Rattler

Two thoughts...
1. Well, now Iran will certainly apologize to the world (/sarc)
2. What is a “kamikaze” drone? Without a Japanese suicide pilot, it would seem misnamed.


47 posted on 10/18/2022 5:42:13 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Timber Rattler

>>Cruise missiles are pre-programmed and autonomous after launch, whereas drones are human operator controlled

The Shahed-136 can operate autonomously and use Glonass.

Its maximum range is 2500 km, and I doubt they have an operator control link for that distance.


48 posted on 10/18/2022 5:44:36 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: A strike
lemme see I got this right: war violates sanctions ?

Yeah, this must be the first time sanctions were ever violated!

LOL

49 posted on 10/18/2022 5:47:04 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: iontheball
Let’s see if I’ve got this right = the U.S. supplies drones (Switchblades) to Ukraine but Iran supplying drones to Russia violates some sort of NATO edict.

You do not have it right. There is no NATO edict. The allegation is that Iran is violating a UN weapons export sanction. The particular conflict isn't relevant.

50 posted on 10/18/2022 5:51:50 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: KobraKai
Illegally invaded according to who? Is the United States the sole arbiter of what is a just war? On!y the USA is allowed to invade other countries and perform war? Everything else is illegal unless we approve?

Well strictly speaking the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal according to Russia, which signed a treaty with the US, Britain, and Ukraine guaranteeing the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine handing over all of their Soviet nukes.

51 posted on 10/18/2022 5:54:53 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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Keep up the good work Matt. You’ve got them whining.


52 posted on 10/18/2022 6:01:46 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Timber Rattler

Also true of the US supporting ukraine.

The war grows larger and involves more countries.

Should have negotiated at the beginning and even now.


53 posted on 10/18/2022 6:06:08 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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“ We going to sanction Turkey? ”

Does Turkey have a history of exporting global terror?


54 posted on 10/18/2022 6:12:08 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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To: McGruff

“ The US agrees with the French and British assessment that the drones violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the US State Department said.

That resolution, linked to Iran’s nuclear accord, bars Iranian transfers of certain military technologies.”

Does Turkey have a comparable agreement with the UN?


55 posted on 10/18/2022 6:13:25 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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To: Timber Rattler
“ The US says it agrees with Western allies that Iran's supply of explosive drones to Russia violates UN sanctions.”

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56 posted on 10/18/2022 6:34:11 AM PDT by The Louiswu (If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese you have failed as a parent. )
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To: SeeSharp

Interesting. Good thing the United States never broke any treaties.


57 posted on 10/18/2022 6:53:00 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: canuck_conservative

Nazi Germany actually declared war on the USA, hours after Pearl Harbor.


58 posted on 10/18/2022 6:54:51 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: AppyPappy

I’m wondering why Russia has to import weapons
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Cheap very cheap and plentiful. Most intelligence agencies acknowledge Russia’s core ( good stuff) is not being touched should NATO decide to attack.
That explains everything from their manpower usages, deployments and numbers.
Meanwhile, video keeps surfacing of the huge, astonishing amounts of Russian ammo trains that enter Ukraine. Vlad has consistently supplied an average of 70,000 artillery rounds a DAY- western Sat intel photos confirm the kilometers long ammo trains , quite alarming to the West.

All eyes now are on the Russian drone swarm attacks shutting down anything energy related in Ukraine. The West has NO defense against these cheap and numerous drones. Plenty of footage showing the poor Ukies trying to use rifles to destroy them.

That said, the 200,000 purchased and delivered puzzles the West as the Russian Kalishnakov Geranium is identical to the much cheaper Iranian ones.

Given the shear number of drones being released, it is only a matter of time some are recovered and examined. Very, very cheap and highly effective- the dummy ( decoy) ones are even cheaper and sent to draw fire allowing the armed ones easy passage.

…..start monitoring the Ukie populace- social media accounts are now asking questions why Zelensky did not honor his election promises- named specifically the discarded Minsk agreement they violated. Finally. The Ukies are waking up, up to now they have been relatively untouched…water, heat, sewage,internet….


59 posted on 10/18/2022 6:55:24 AM PDT by delta7
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To: Timber Rattler

Makes perfect sense, and given that sound logic bomb you just dropped, now we know the exact reason why Zelenskyyidiot is incessantly begging, groveling, and pleading the West/EU/US/UK/NATO/and anyone else for more tanks, planes, artillery assets, other military hardware, munitions, etc is because Ukraine needs to replace its own tanks, planes, artillery assets, other military hardware, munitions that have been destroyed and can’t be replaced internally.

GG


60 posted on 10/18/2022 7:09:12 AM PDT by cranked
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