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Why Iran is so hard to defeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joAhvj7dfsc ^ | 8/25/2024 | CaspianReport

Posted on 08/25/2024 12:04:46 PM PDT by Chode

#Iran has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to withstand invasions, making it almost impossible to subjugate. But why is that? What makes Iran so tough?


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To: drypowder

Exactly. Quit giving them money...quit giving them OUR money.

Bet they fold then.


41 posted on 08/25/2024 2:44:57 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: sauropod

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42 posted on 08/25/2024 2:50:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: lurk

pallet loads...


43 posted on 08/25/2024 2:50:57 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode
They are easy to defeat. Just take out Kharg Island. Economy collapses overnight.
44 posted on 08/25/2024 2:53:50 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Agree!

Seizing it in a coup de main is an interesting thought.
It could easily be isolated since Iran has no naval assets that couldn’t be easily dealt with.


45 posted on 08/25/2024 2:57:02 PM PDT by Reily
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To: montag813

I don’t think you understand the shipping that takes place in the Caspian, where product can be intermixed with other product from non sanctioned countries.


46 posted on 08/25/2024 3:00:18 PM PDT by Owen
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To: montag813

or, Just take it... 8^)


47 posted on 08/25/2024 3:03:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Flag_This
Had Jimmy Carter been any part of a president, a single B-52 strike would have wrapped up their revolution and removed any need to invade them now.

Or he could have just not betrayed the Shah, and the people of Iran.

48 posted on 08/25/2024 3:05:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Owen
I don’t think you understand the shipping that takes place in the Caspian, where product can be intermixed with other product from non sanctioned countries.

That's nice, but it can't replace the 96-96% of oil that Iran exports via the 16 terminals at Kharg, a massive vulnerability. An attack there, coupled with targeted assassinations of Khamenei and his entire general staff, followed by MOAB strikes on the nuclear facilities, would silence them for a decade as we focus on fomenting a massive civil war.

49 posted on 08/25/2024 3:15:44 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Chode

“Persians aren’t Arabs...”

You nailed it.
Smart people.


50 posted on 08/25/2024 3:16:26 PM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Lowell1775

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51 posted on 08/25/2024 3:38:34 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

😉


52 posted on 08/25/2024 3:47:11 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Dartoid

I think there is a real shortage of “Alexanders” around lately.


53 posted on 08/25/2024 4:03:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: montag813

But they already had a civil war. They threw out the Shah. The people in charge are who the people want.

And no about Kharg. The sanctions would stop that were those numbers real. They ship on the Caspian, and their maximum power is that they have the #2 natgas reserves in the world, deep under the Persian Gulf and they share them with Qatar.

Could bomb that, but I don’t think a bomb that big would leave the Persian Gulf intact, which would end exports from rather more other places.

It’s pretty hard to regime change a place that their population wants in place.


54 posted on 08/25/2024 5:04:19 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Chode

Only because the right people haven’t tried. Yet.


55 posted on 08/25/2024 5:49:51 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

yup, that too...


56 posted on 08/25/2024 5:58:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

because they liked their freedom and democracy, until we took it away.


57 posted on 08/25/2024 6:22:15 PM PDT by algore
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To: Chode

Already defeated by islam, so the great satan can hardly polute it worse with homosexuality, child slaughter, and materialism. The sin of slavery and terror keeps those “freedoms” at bay.


58 posted on 08/26/2024 9:06:07 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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