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Iran says missile attack matched number of US bombs, signaling likely desire to de-escalate
AP News ^ | Updated 12:28 PM CDT, June 23, 2025 | DAVID RISING, JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN

Posted on 06/23/2025 10:33:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 06/23/2025 10:33:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 06/23/2025 10:34:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Wonder how the AP came to THAT assumption? OK...you hurled 10 bombs at us, now we send back 10 at you...let’s call the whole thing off? Seems stupid...but again...it’s AP.


3 posted on 06/23/2025 10:35:17 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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you mean the 6 dropped on Fordow?


4 posted on 06/23/2025 10:35:25 AM PDT by God luvs America
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“you mean the 6 dropped on Fordow?”

Twelve


5 posted on 06/23/2025 10:36:45 AM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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Thats what happened in 2020


6 posted on 06/23/2025 10:37:54 AM PDT by clutzyfuzzy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So we blew up some empty nuclear sites in Iran and they retaliated by lobbing some missiles at our evacuated military bases. Seems more like theatrics than actual military moves that accomplish anything of military significance.


7 posted on 06/23/2025 10:37:57 AM PDT by jimwatx
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“Iran said its missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar matched the number of bombs dropped by the United States on Iranian nuclear sites this weekend,”

Percent of U.S. bombs on target: 100%

Number of Iranian missiles on target: 0%


8 posted on 06/23/2025 10:39:01 AM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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If this is truly a face saving measure, and their missiles didn’t cause any real harm (their press can say what they want for internal consumption), maybe we hold up and see if the conflict reverts back to Iran/Israel and Trump can again see about trying to negotiate an end.

My first thought would be to whack them hard, but again if this is a limited reprisal that militarily doesn’t do anything more than blow up some sand, maybe we keep our powder dry.

Iran doesn’t have much of any air defense capability left, so they couldn’t stop anything if we wanted to hit them again.


9 posted on 06/23/2025 10:39:54 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Nope, those weren’t empty. Iran is trying to go small.


10 posted on 06/23/2025 10:40:11 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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“So we blew up some empty nuclear sites in Iran”

They weren’t empty. Your head is, though.


11 posted on 06/23/2025 10:40:31 AM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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But they likely hit some civilian sites... Like they typically do.


12 posted on 06/23/2025 10:40:58 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I have no doubt that Iran desires to de-escalate. They have been severely degraded. Now, the people need to seize their destiny, and replace their regime in their crippled state.


13 posted on 06/23/2025 10:41:30 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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What a year 2025 headline. IOW Iran’s missile attack was “mostly peaceful”


14 posted on 06/23/2025 10:42:00 AM PDT by SiGeek
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“But they likely hit some civilian sites... Like they typically do.”

No hits reported


15 posted on 06/23/2025 10:42:11 AM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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Total BS . They sent a lot more that 6 missiles and all but a few were shot down.


16 posted on 06/23/2025 10:43:44 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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So where’s the enriched uranium at? There’s also no evidence that any centrifuges were destroyed. So we’re back at square one with Iran with nothing accomplished.


17 posted on 06/23/2025 10:45:16 AM PDT by jimwatx
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The sites hit in Iran were not “empty. Facilities with thousands of enrichment centrifuges and so on are definitely not empty.


18 posted on 06/23/2025 10:45:26 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: SiGeek

The IDF strike right now on Tehran is not mostly peaceful.


19 posted on 06/23/2025 10:45:39 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s my question.

Isn’t the Israeli AF flying sorties over Iran when these missiles are launched? If so, they should be able to extinguish those launchers soon after missile launch.


20 posted on 06/23/2025 10:47:32 AM PDT by shotgun
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