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Posted on 04/08/2026 4:45:13 AM PDT by McGruff
An oil refinery on Iran's Lavan Island was targeted in an "enemy attack" on Wednesday without causing casualties, the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said, according to the Oil Ministry's news outlet, Shana. The company said the facility was hit at around 10 a.m. (0630 GMT), adding that safety and firefighting teams were working to contain the blaze and secure the site.
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Doesn’t sound like a cease fire to me.
How do we know iran didn’t stage the strike as an excuse to keep firing rockets?
Sounds just like something they would do if you ask me.
Dear Iran:
Cowabunga it is then.
Sincerely,
The Department Of War.
Then that just expedites matters, because Iran had no intention of honoring the ceasefire.
CC
I don’t think anyone is in charge there.
Last night, Ingraham interrupted her program to report that Israel was tracking incoming Iranian missiles.
I stayed to see what Watters was going to report. However, Watters went on for around 15 minutes about the ceasefire not mentioning the missiles until later in the program. Weird.
That seems to be the issue. Whether that is by our attrition, or is the first evidence of an internal power struggle is unknown. My money is on the latter. The politicians are pulling one way, the IRGC/Basiji are pulling another. They both have their own power bases and their own troops. If we hear evidence of regular army troops firing on the IRGC or vice versa, something has shifted. Plus we don’t know what shenanigans the CIA/Mossad are up to either. If we aren’t, the Israelis certainly are.
CC
I lived this for 4 years in Iraq. The only ones who ever wanted a ceasefire were aspiring bureaucrats wanting to be able to say they ‘did something’ and officers wanting an OER bullet.
Only victims, losers and fools abide by ceasefires with Muslims.
Now I’m thinking the ceasefire deal was ginned up to placate the oil and stock markets. Seems to have worked ... for now. So we’ve stopped, Iran hasn’t.
“Only victims, losers and fools abide by ceasefires with Muslims.”
Do you think Trump went into this not knowing that, or was this just kabuki theater for the mouth-breathers over at the DNC?
CC
We can restart in a heartbeat. And we probably will.
CC
After three postponements, Iran still did not agree to zero uranium enrichment. And they still do not agree to zero enrichment and missile reductions yet they get another extension....for two weeks. Doing the same thing and expecting different results...
Yes. I think Trump went in knowing IRN is bad faith negotiators. However, the PAKs approached him with the ceasefire ‘offer’ cuz IRN didn’t want to lose face asking. So he was obligated to oblige the offer from the 3rd party (diplomacy). Now that IRN and ISR have violated it Trump is released from the truce obligation to PAK imo.
As the MOABs are falling thru the air over their targets Truth Social can be used to announce the end of the ceasefire scam.
The KGB/IRN regime will die just like ISIS died.
Without oil exports IRN will lose partners and friends.
With the USN controlling access to Iranian ports only friendly GCC cargo will get out and no weapons or IRN refinery equipment gets in.
Lots of options left
Iranian state news outlets are blaming the U.S. and Israel for recent strikes on the oil refinery on Lavan Island.
I would say that your statement is most likely the reality. Iran has severely degraded capabilities, and regime changes are taking place on a daily basis.
No. Tell me it isn’t so. Manipulating the markets?
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