Posted on 03/23/2025 6:30:52 PM PDT by hardspunned
Amid tensions with the US, Iran on Saturday flexed its military muscle by installing its missile systems on the three disputed islands near the Strait of Hormuz. As per reports, the weapons were deployed on Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa near the Strait of Hormuz, a globally vital shipping lane.
Iran's claim that fortifying the islands can help "target enemy bases and vessels" is seen as an answer to the US and its allies in the region. But, through the move, Tehran also seeks to reassert its ownership over the three islands. The islands located along a globally vital shipping lane have been a bone of contention between the UAE and Iran for decades. Tehran controlled the islands since 1971 at the end of British imperial rule over them.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) minced no words when it stressed how the new system can destroy any target within 600 kilometres (370 miles). "We have a tactic that we must arm the island group and make it operative", said Alireza Tangsiri, naval commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological branch of Iran’s military. "We are capable of attacking enemy bases, vessels, and assets in the region," he told state television.
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Or maybe I’m just whistling past the graveyard.
Iran is playing to their home crowd. They won’t do anything directly.
Nice targets.....................
Maybe they’ll put too many systems on the islands causing them to cap-size.
“ installing its missile systems on the three disputed islands near the Strait of Hormuz. “
Isn’t that special.
If push comes to shove, never doubt the Iranian ability to block the straight.
Is that you Hank?
"Nuke Iran."
I don't know why that came into my head.
“If push comes to shove, never doubt the Iranian ability to block the straight.”
The word is “strait”. And the last time Iran tried that they lost 2/3 of their navy in less than an afternoon.
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Nice missile batteries ya got there, Iran….be a shame if something happened to them.
Drill Baby Drill.
Make Whore Moose irrelevant.
That would kill millions of Iranian civilians and result in retaliatory strikes that would kill tens of thousands of American troops and destroy Israel. This, times 20+ would happen to Tel Aviv and Dimona. The U.S. can’t stop those missiles in Ukraine. The Israelis couldn’t stop them when Iran was pummeling Nevatim.
“ The moment Iranian missiles fell on the Nevatim air base in the Negev.”
https://x.com/vanessabeeley/status/1841164807061311919?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
Another classic Tee shirt slogan from that time period...
Iran Wants Nukes!
Let’s Give Them Some!
FA FO???
It wouldn’t matter if the entire Iranian navy was sunk. I’ll remind you that it wasn’t the Yemeni Navy that shut down the Red Sea. I’ll also remind you of the aborted Israeli attack on Iran after Russian S400s locked onto Israel’s attacking stealth assets. That failed Israeli attack was supposed to be in retaliation for the massive Iranian attack on Israel’s second most protected site at Nevatim (see below).
Israel hasn’t sent its air force to Iran since. Please, buy the facts, not the narrative.
https://x.com/vanessabeeley/status/1841164807061311919?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
I remember back then very crude t-shirts “f*ck Iran” with Uncle Sam double middle fingers. America was pissed. Iran is more powerful and obnoxious as ever but America today isn’t the same.
They could block it Temporarily at the cost of regime annihilation.
Pres. Trump uses hyperbole often, but I don’t think this is one of those times.
Houthis and Iranians should take care.
I do believe the Strait of Hormuz is 33 miles wide. The Yemen one is 14. We could mine Irans harbors. Should the entire navy be taken out? I’d give them a choice(vote). What would Irans’ navy think?
The entire navy in one day would keep them busy wondering why they wanted to fight so bad.
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