• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Monitoring the situation in Iran

sorry if this is a stupid question. trump said this is to stop them having a nuclear bomb. could they launch one even if it's not fully developed? or do they simply not have that ability?

There is no nuke.

This is GWB part 2, so you know where it's heading for American politics.

These guys just want to hand over power to the Democrats and then complain about more wokeness in 10 years.
 
Don't get this. What's the point of sheltering during missile strikes? If anything it worsens your chances I think. Buildings just get turned into rubble. The blast AND the concrete will hit you. (unless you have access to some mega building and you are in the bottom floor I guess.)

Many countries enacted building codes that require reinforced staircases that act as CD shelters after seeing what happened during the Iraq war. The logic is that the building would be fucked but you could stand a chance at being rescued. Every home in Singapore has a closet that is a bomb shelter for example.
 
Conceptually the rumor is that they wanted to use the remaining enriched uranium to create dirty bombs. They are not truly explosive bombs but they cause huge contamination. And technically if you give them to various terrorist groups, it can be quite dangerous.
The most plausible scenarios is exactly this, it's been a threat for decades. If it ends in the hands of a terrorist group it would be catastrophic
 
The European leaders are walking on eggshells trying to avoid triggering their new Islamic populations.
I fear the aftermath this will cause in various European countries with some of the possible radical immigrants.

In the end it probably had to be done though.
 
That quote is going to be so dope in those AI anime videos.

ftLbgGDhh36bZRKA.jpeg




 
The most plausible scenarios is exactly this, it's been a threat for decades. If it ends in the hands of a terrorist group it would be catastrophic
The difference now though is due to destruction of enrichment facilities, rebuilding them would take time and Iran has no ability (any time soon) to enrich it further so they probably decided to aim at plain dirty bombs.
 
An Islamist country attacking its Islam neighbors because they were attacked by the Yanks and the Jews.
Godspeed to the Israeli and US forces, go get em boys. Enjoy the show while you sit on your ass Europe, there will be more of those refugees that yall love to take in.
 
An Islamist country attacking its Islam neighbors because they were attacked by the Yanks and the Jews.
Godspeed to the Israeli and US forces, go get em boys. Enjoy the show while you sit on your ass Europe, there will be more of those refugees that yall love to take in.

And that's why nobody ever trusts places like Iran. It's bad enough with all the rebels and terrorists. Never mind being able to build 100s or 1000s of nuke missiles. Even if they built only one. Just imagine what they'd do.
 
An Islamist country attacking its Islam neighbors because they were attacked by the Yanks and the Jews.
Godspeed to the Israeli and US forces, go get em boys. Enjoy the show while you sit on your ass Europe, there will be more of those refugees that yall love to take in.
The rational Arab countries in the region didn't stand with Iran and are on board with regime change behind closed doors--they want to prosper and be part of the modern world, not engage in perpetual self-defeating fundamentalist jihad--so it's a petty grasp at revenge to strike civilian targets in Dubai, Bahrain, etc. Easier targets at this point, as senseless as it is.
 
"Dirty bombs" with a group that suicides it's people strapped with them are of a major concern as well.

Shiite Muslims aren't suicide bombers, those are always Sunnis. Chances of Iranian terrorists blowing themselves up are close to zero. That's not to say the Iranians won't try "dirty bombs. This will be a war of survival for the Iranian regime.
 
Shiite Muslims aren't suicide bombers, those are always Sunnis. Chances of Iranian terrorists blowing themselves up are close to zero. That's not to say the Iranians won't try "dirty bombs. This will be a war of survival for the Iranian regime.
They fund and arm it all in the region.
 
The European leaders are walking on eggshells trying to avoid triggering their new Islamic populations.

Probably not going to happen. Arab Sunni muslims don't feel much of a connection with Persian Shiite muslims. This is not going to be the hot button topic that the war in Gaza was.
 
Just some curious info about bomb shelters.

Earlier today on TV they showed people in Tel Aviv walking to a bomb shelter, and it looked like a big parking lot with a pay station gate entrance under a building. So I assumed it was a just an underground parking lot with a bomb shelter section down there too.

So I was curious what bomb shelters look like googling it (including google maps). It looks like most are more like small huts that have a staircase down. And many seem pretty discrete and no signs I saw??? So unless there are signs not in view, not sure how anyone would know where to go. Although I'm sure there's apps or info given out in some way.
 
Shiite Muslims aren't suicide bombers, those are always Sunnis. Chances of Iranian terrorists blowing themselves up are close to zero. That's not to say the Iranians won't try "dirty bombs. This will be a war of survival for the Iranian regime.
IRGC does not need to blow themselves. Just arm houthis and others.
 
I'm not an expert on this stuff, but my hunch is if they take out all or a large chunk of Iranian leadership it wouldn't necessarily mean a free Iran. At least not right away. I think what probably would happen is it creates short term internal maneuvering for power with the military taking over and installing a general or the highest ranking government official alive as leader or something until they figure out what to do next.
 
I got some close friends with their baby being in Dubai. So naturally, i told them to be cautious.

What a lovely year it is been so far for the World.
 
Top Bottom