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Threats from Iran are expanding beyond Middle East, defense official says
Washington Examiner ^ | 1-14-23

Posted on 01/14/2023 4:51:03 AM PST by nuconvert

While the Department of Defense has outlined China as its "pacing challenge" and Russia as an "acute threat," the threat from Iran is "increasing" as well, according to one DOD official.

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Stroul described four aspects of the threats from Iran... "continuing support, arming, training, equipping, and funding terrorists and proxy groups across the region," their aggression at sea, cyberattacks, and the proliferation of their UAVs not only to regional proxies, but to Russian forces as well.

A day before the round table, U.S. Central Command announced that, days earlier, it "intercepted a stateless dhow in the Gulf of Oman smuggling more than 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles while transiting international waters from Iran to Yemen.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; waronterror; wot

1 posted on 01/14/2023 4:51:03 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
We sure as hell ain't gonna do nothin’ about Iran with a Rat in the White House...so I guess it's up to the Israeli Air Force. My question is: are they up to the task,both politically and operationally?
2 posted on 01/14/2023 5:01:36 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: nuconvert

The government is so good at making enemies.


3 posted on 01/14/2023 5:01:36 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: nuconvert

A few years back, we declared that we could no longer fight a two-front war. If Europe and the Pacific both exploded, we would have to pick one (and we have pivoted to Asia).

Now we have built a world with three major trouble spots. We can’t fight a three-front war.

How about a no-front war? Pull back from everywhere and put America First.


4 posted on 01/14/2023 5:02:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Government always tries to steal freedom; People should always try to stop Government.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Pulling back from everywhere is not putting America first


5 posted on 01/14/2023 5:06:27 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: NorseViking

This corrupt, illegitimate, Biden “government” would lie, cheat, and kill to turn attention away from their evil deeds.

This regime is the primary source of problems everywhere in the entire world. The establishment hack media does their bidding.

Now that Puppet Quisling Biden has been caught with “Top Secret” documents, watch how fast another terrible event happens somewhere in the world, perfectly in time for the news cycle to bury the Biden crimes.


6 posted on 01/14/2023 5:20:15 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: nuconvert

Isn’t it great how Obama “accidentally” let cutting edge drone technology fall into the hands of the Iranians.


7 posted on 01/14/2023 5:26:07 AM PST by Obadiah (The business of America is no longer business, it is war and arms sales.)
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To: bert; ClearCase_guy

“Pulling back from everywhere is not putting America first”

Exactly


8 posted on 01/14/2023 5:46:16 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Obadiah

It just goes to show you what a traitor Barack Hussein Obama really was.


9 posted on 01/14/2023 6:04:52 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: No name given

It just goes to show you what a traitor Barack Hussein Obama really was.

Slight correction, still is.


10 posted on 01/14/2023 6:29:06 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: NorseViking
The government is so good at making enemies

uh, they're attacking US first, you Russian idiot


11 posted on 01/14/2023 6:38:58 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative
We sure as hell ain't gonna do nothin’ about Iran with a Rat in the White House

Yep, Obama/Biden actually HELPED Iran until Trump stopped it. Then Biden tried to reinstate help for them but to my knowledge, that has not been successful.

12 posted on 01/14/2023 8:12:01 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: nuconvert

GW Bush made the right decision to invade a four letter middle east country starting with the letter I in 2003. Unfortunately his spelling was off after the I.


13 posted on 01/14/2023 8:50:52 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

I would say he shouldn’t have stopped. The Iranian people were really hoping he’d attack Iran & bring down the regime and the regime was afraid. The timing was right. Unfortunately, though Bush was in favor of it, he took advice from others not to do it.


14 posted on 01/14/2023 11:33:16 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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