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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say

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US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say

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The strikes in Syria and Iraq will take place over a number of days, American officials tell CBS News.
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    There was a time when all this would have been hush hush and we’d find out about it in the following day or so newspaper. Now we and they get a heads up before the event. Are they selling tickets?

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      When was that time? Talk to anyone alive during the Flatlands thingy and they will tell you how the news was showing nightly where the fleet was. I remember protesting the Iraq war and had like 6 months of heads up.

      • MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
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        70s 80s

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          Oh that was the time period the US illegally bombed Cambodia

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    Hex codes of many B-1Bs noted transiting to the middle east.

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      Things are about to get very proportional

    • BNE
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      First I’ve ever heard that term - what do you mean by hex code? Is this a logistics thing?

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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        https://www.aerotransport.org/php/go.php?action=definition_hex#:~:text=All modern aircraft are assigned,transponders can be wrongly programmed.

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    The article suggests Iran is losing its influence on its proxies. That’s an interesting take, but I wouldn’t hold my breath that it would help simmer things down.

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      Wishful thinking.

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    Genocide Joe really wants to get WW3 going before he hits the grave.

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    Reminder, US illegally occupying a third of Syria. https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/04/29/us-in-syria-the-forgotten-illegal-occupation

    And ofcourse, this gem to boot… https://youtu.be/U10p3Tn9V5Y?t=19

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

    That group, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, is believed to contain multiple militias that have been armed, funded and trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force.

    President Joe Biden has been under mounting pressure from Republican lawmakers, including some of Washington’s most hawkish voices on Iran, to strike targets on Iranian soil.

    But while the US has repeatedly pledged to respond to the drone attack, Mr Biden and other defence officials have said Washington is not seeking a wider war with Iran or an escalation of tensions in the region.

    Citing unnamed sources, Reuters on Thursday reported that Iran had withdrawn senior officials from Syria following a series of Israeli airstrikes in a bid to avoid being directly drawn into a wider conflict in the region.

    US officials told CNN this week that there were signs that the Iranian government was becoming increasingly concerned about the actions of its proxy groups in the region, who have launched over 160 attacks on US forces since October.


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