Posted on 01/28/2023 7:36:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Multiple blasts were reported in Iran Saturday night, as drones of an unknown origin carried out attacks on critical Iranian defense production facilities. At the time of this writing, there are no confirmed details on the number of attacks and the targets other than the major ammunition plant at Isfahan. Isfahan is Iran’s third largest city and located about 270 miles south of Tehran.
UPDATE: Explosion at Military Plant in Isfahan #Iran, local media saying it’s by drone targeting munitions manufacturing centers. Video: pic.twitter.com/t7sLXENoZK
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 29, 2023
The below map shows the unofficial tally of strikes.
Tehran’s Mehrabad airport is closed, and some are reporting military aircraft over Tehran. Presumably these are Iranian, but who knows.
Iran has been in the grip of “mostly peaceful” demonstrations for several months (see the story at Iran’s World Cup Team Refuses to Sing Their National Anthem as Deadly Riots and Repressions Sweep the Country). The confusion caused by the drone strikes has triggered unrest again.
Citizens in Tehran shouting:
“Death to Khamenei and damn Khomeini.”#Tehran #Iran
pic.twitter.com/91BOUF23h1— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) January 29, 2023
Iran. Machine guns are heard in Tehran pic.twitter.com/3qLLlLzGwH
— 🌻A n n a (@tweet4anna) January 29, 2023
A couple of other points. On Friday, the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran was attacked.
Surveillance video from the attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran reveals an act of great heroism | pic.twitter.com/Uu6quNsliu
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 27, 2023
The Azerbaijan government reacted by evacuating their entire embassy.
🇮🇷🇦🇿 Azerbaijan is evacuating its embassy in Tehran.
Judging by the personnel, the employees of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry intend to completely evacuate their embassy in Tehran. For this, a cargo plane went to Tehran pic.twitter.com/0f0qUFfnPb
— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) January 28, 2023
Two of the attacks were very close to the Azerbaijan border.
Wednesday, Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, urged NATO to take a more confrontational stance against Iran. On the same day, former commander of the Israeli Navy, Admiral Eliezer Marum made this statement in an interview on Israel’s i24NEWS television program.
“In my understanding, I think Israel has to attack, because the situation right now is that Iran is a threshold country – 100 percent,” he said.
“When does Israel need to attack? Currently? Or to wait for something to happen?” anchor Yoav Limor asked. “Because Iran stops from going to the 90 percent of enrichment in order to prevent other countries from attacking.”
“We know parts of the intelligence in Iran… they have disconnected the cameras and they are still enriching uranium in a very high percentage and besides that, we don’t have a clear understanding of what is going on with their weaponry group,” Marum said. “And when those two will be close one to the other, the moment to jump from threshold to holding nuclear weapons will be very, very short… and therefore I think the time to attack… the clock is ticking and we will have to do it sooner rather than later, sooner it means in the upcoming year.”
“We have to stop this program sooner is sooner is better than later,” he added.
As this is a breaking story, RedState will provide further updates as they become available.
It’s either Mexico or Ireland.... Or both...
SHALOM
Israel and/or Ukraine would be the most to gain. Israel for the normal reasons, Ukraine because of the drones and wanting to widen the war.
Attacking Iran because she is supporting Russia who invaded Ukraine close to a year ago. But not because Iran is directly involved in the killing of US soldiers, but for reasons that involve a labyrinth of Western corruption.
totally
The labyrinth is much deeper in RuSSia.
Attacking Iran because she is supporting Russia who invaded Ukraine close to a year ago. But not because Iran is directly involved in the killing of US soldiers, but for reasons that involve a labyrinth of Western corruption.
You get it. FRegards
I’m reading also Iran’s biggest oil field was also attacked.
Ukraine’s drones do not have that range.
It’s gotta be Israel.
Ukraine’s drones do not have that range.
It’s gotta be Israel.
Yeah…it’s called a big bomb dropped on a nuclear testing facility. Or, a big nuclear test. Followed by a big bomb.
They do if they were launched from Azerbaijan. Or from SOF on the ground in Eastern Iran.
Begun the Drone Wars has.
Iran’s narrative is looking pretty shaky at this hour. So many claims have been revealed to be false.
Must be "Jewish Space Lasers"
Unless the Ukes got some hardware from us or the Brits. About anything is possible these days.
Iran is known for exaggerating wildly about the capabilities of its weapons and military forces. At times, Iran has invented false stories about having invincible, extremely powerful weapons and posting photos of silly fiberglass fakes. ...much like Russia.
The whole situation in the region is a mell of a hess. You have Christian (but dubiously so in some of its past actions) Armenia allied with Iran, but under pressure from a hostile Azerbaijan. Israel and “the West” would likely be in league with Azerbaijan, as would Saudi Arabia. Azerbaijan does also have strong support from Turkey. The Russians nominally support Armenia, but likely wish the whole headache would just go away.
It’s hard for me to imagine Azerbaijan would attack much larger Iran. But if the Azerbaijanis believe the protests in Iran are ripe to boil over again... Who knows.
USA? CIA? Biden? Ukraine? The list is long/ The war in Ukraine is growing.
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