Posted on 07/17/2026 7:56:28 AM PDT by McGruff
Iranian strikes on Friday hit a power and water desalination plant in Kuwait, damaging one of the key sources of drinking water in the small desert nation.
It’s the latest attack on essential infrastructure across the Middle East that have exposed extreme vulnerabilities in one of the world’s driest regions, which relies almost exclusively on technology to produce freshwater that sustains cities, hotels, industry and some agriculture.
In Kuwait, about 90% of drinking water comes from desalination, along with roughly 86% in Oman and about 70% in Saudi Arabia. The process removes salt from seawater, most commonly by pushing it through ultrafine membranes in a process known as reverse osmosis.
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Where’s the coalition of the middle-east countries to take out Iran? U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Oman and Israel have been attacked by Iran.
So which countries have retaliated against Iran? The United States, Israel and I believe U.A.E., the rest just sit by and allow the Iranian attacks to go unchallenged and in most cases, they condemn The United States and Israel.
I say screw ‘em, turn their sand into glass . . .
In retaliation, bomb a railroad station or marketplace.
OK, time to take out Iranian infrastructure. Bomb them back to about 1850.
We need to knock out every desalinization plant in friggin’ IRAN. Make them slobs thirsty.
$4 a gallon gas is back in Florida. Are we tired of losing yet?
Where is the capability for these attacks coming from? The IRGC is supposed to have had their supply of missiles decimated weeks ago... unless someone else is supplying the ordinance.
Iran has the same vulnerabilities, even more!
—Desert: water desalination plants, pipelines, canals
—Mountainous: bridges, tunnels
—Oil and gas dependent economy: refineries, wells, pipelines, storage tanks.
Once we decide to TRULY go after them, we can bomb them back into the stone age, and I do not mean that figuratively.
Iran isn’t Germany in WWII where they could build themselves back as we’re bombing them. The Germans had the industry from A-Z and the tech know how to basically rebuild as we bomb, and we still were able to reduce their war machine by about 40% through strategic bombing (but it required continual bombing).
Iran does not have this ability. You blow certain things up, and they stay broke, because Iran doesn’t have the native industry and technical expertise to rebuild this this capacity once destroyed (they have to import the tooling / machines etc).
Iran: Everything which makes this place a nightmare if we were to invade with a ground force, will make bombing the S$&% out of them easy: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/iran-3d-render-topographic-map-600w-2358502279.jpg
Asymmetric wars are a biotch. You can’t just nuke one city.
You have to nuke all 640,000 square miles.
The world has been dealing with a hostile Iran for decades. Gulf States need to step up put this rabid dog down.
The world has been dealing with a hostile Iran for decades. Gulf States need to step up put this rabid dog down.
Either the Persians better get busy killing or eliminating the IRGC or they are going to get the war upon themselves.
Cool, now we can start on Iranian desalination plants.
Nonsense.
They try to rebuild of course.
You have the Chinese and Russian likely supplying them with certain key technologies. Iran isn’t known for its manufacture of: integrated circuits, focal plane arrays, transmit / receive modules...
That is why we need to take out their oil, i.e. money.
You have to hurt them really bad. A slap in the face isn’t going to do it.
The southeastern part of Iran by the border of Pakistan is relatively unpopulated.
I say we seize enough of it to build an air base there.
How many subterranean mountain bases does IRGC have in Iran?
https://x.com/i/grok/share/72c6d70319874b5abe668aa30f4bc38b
There is no precise, publicly confirmed number, as Iran classifies these facilities and reveals limited details for deterrence while keeping most locations secret. IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) officials describe a large, dispersed network of underground "missile cities" (shahr-hā-ye moshaki) carved into mountains, primarily in the Zagros and Alborz ranges, at depths up to ~500 meters in granite/rock for protection against airstrikes and bunker-busters.
Key Statements from IRGC OfficialsExact counts are unverifiable due to secrecy, ongoing construction, and strikes/damage in recent conflicts (e.g., entrances or launch infrastructure hit, but deep facilities often resilient). Intelligence assessments note dozens of major ones but emphasize the network's scale makes full neutralization difficult.
In short, credible open-source estimates center on roughly 30 main subterranean mountain/missile bases, with officials implying far more (dozens to hundreds including smaller sites). For the most current details, refer to defense analyses from sources like Alma Research, Iran International, or satellite imagery reports.If the Strait is an international waterway where is the UN ?
The mistake is thinking the IRGC and Iranian “politicians” are two separate entities. The IRGC will not allow someone with a different mindset to even survive politician boot camp.
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