U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities (opens in new tab)

(nytimes.com)

33 pointshebelehubele12d ago19 comments

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Suprises no one. I remember reading that the IRGC is quite a distributed organization, and has planned for the exact situation they find themselves in today.

Im guessing they have lots of stuff stashed away only known to each IRGC "section"

bayarearefugee12d ago

You really think the President of the United States would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

lo_zamoyski12d ago

The amount of buffoonery on the US side is staggering.

1. Iran is always 2 weeks away from having nuclear missiles.

2. Iran's military capability is destroyed.

3. If Iran had nuclear warheads, it could successfully deploy them against the US.

4. If Iran had nuclear warheads and could deliver them, their leadership is so suicidal/stupid that it would trigger MAD.

Truly staggering buffoonery.

tejohnso12d ago

Also, the USRAEL regime keeps feigning diplomacy after committing multiple egregious acts of perfidy. On more than one occasion they started bombing during or at beginning of negotiations.

nostrademons12d ago

The enemy is both strong and weak.

jacknews12d ago

... so we need to hit them again...

johng12d ago

If their regular missiles are bad enough, just imagine them with nukes.

megous12d ago

US will kill more people through secondary effects of their aggression against Iran, than Iran's nuke ever would directly. True barbarians, except I understand English, so they sound to me less like bar bar bar, and more like a*holes. My gf tries to convince me US americans just don't care and are more like a bear in a porcelain shop. But dunno, I look at Cuba, Iran, Israel and lot of other places americans are very aggressive in/against and it's more like a*holes at this point to me. Whole porcelain shop is suffering.

jalapenoj12d ago

A few to Israel would solve a lot of problems.

tejohnso12d ago

I imagine with nukes they'd be much like Russia, or Pakistan, or India, or China. In other words, showing restraint and intelligence, and having a deterrent against wars of aggression from the world's highest-funded army.

bigyabai12d ago

That sounds like Israel's problem. Iran doesn't possess a large enough missile to credibly nuke the US.

CamperBob212d ago

They could have had nukes long ago. They exercised restraint. We didn't. Just imagine the regret they are experiencing now.

Basically, Trump has taught some terrible people that they should have been even worse. The lesson will not be lost on their descendants.

JohnMakin12d ago

And what's truly ironic and moronic, is that the deal the talks are seeking a graceful exit for now would basically be a version of the JCPOA that was withdrawn for pretty much no reason in 2018. Which, if you are Iran, there is zero chance you're going to agree to anything like that anymore now they have all the leverage.

Working hard, thank you!

delecti12d ago

I don't think they should be experiencing regret. The power in nukes is not in using them, it's in the threat of using them. The threat of using them keeps you from being attacked, but once you actually use them, so will the other guys.

This war has pulled the tarp off of their control over the Strait of Hormuz though. That's a strategic weapon they can use without getting nuked back. Iran is much stronger than they were before the war; this was their Trinity test.

jacknews12d ago

Did they fire their missiles before they were surprise-attacked by Trump?

IMHO they should have nukes as a deterrent and to balance Israel.

pengaru12d ago

"intelligence"

gsibble12d ago

Removed from the front page as it should be as this violates YC submission rules.

iamnothere12d ago

I don’t know if this article was a good fit for HN or not, but you people are just as bad as the Biden-era info suppressors (Jankowitz etc).

Stop trying to control the flow of accurate information when it doesn’t benefit you. Let the crowd decide what’s relevant.

gsibble12d ago

Article from the NYT with a vested interest in making the admin look bad = doubt

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19 comments

yuppiepuppie12d ago

Suprises no one. I remember reading that the IRGC is quite a distributed organization, and has planned for the exact situation they find themselves in today.

Im guessing they have lots of stuff stashed away only known to each IRGC "section"

bayarearefugee12d ago

You really think the President of the United States would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

lo_zamoyski12d ago

The amount of buffoonery on the US side is staggering.

1. Iran is always 2 weeks away from having nuclear missiles.

2. Iran's military capability is destroyed.

3. If Iran had nuclear warheads, it could successfully deploy them against the US.

4. If Iran had nuclear warheads and could deliver them, their leadership is so suicidal/stupid that it would trigger MAD.

Truly staggering buffoonery.

tejohnso12d ago

Also, the USRAEL regime keeps feigning diplomacy after committing multiple egregious acts of perfidy. On more than one occasion they started bombing during or at beginning of negotiations.

nostrademons12d ago

The enemy is both strong and weak.

jacknews12d ago

... so we need to hit them again...

johng12d ago

If their regular missiles are bad enough, just imagine them with nukes.

megous12d ago

jalapenoj12d ago

A few to Israel would solve a lot of problems.

tejohnso12d ago

bigyabai12d ago

That sounds like Israel's problem. Iran doesn't possess a large enough missile to credibly nuke the US.

CamperBob212d ago

They could have had nukes long ago. They exercised restraint. We didn't. Just imagine the regret they are experiencing now.

Basically, Trump has taught some terrible people that they should have been even worse. The lesson will not be lost on their descendants.

JohnMakin12d ago

Working hard, thank you!

delecti12d ago

jacknews12d ago

Did they fire their missiles before they were surprise-attacked by Trump?

IMHO they should have nukes as a deterrent and to balance Israel.

pengaru12d ago

"intelligence"

gsibble12d ago

Removed from the front page as it should be as this violates YC submission rules.

iamnothere12d ago

I don’t know if this article was a good fit for HN or not, but you people are just as bad as the Biden-era info suppressors (Jankowitz etc).

Stop trying to control the flow of accurate information when it doesn’t benefit you. Let the crowd decide what’s relevant.

gsibble12d ago

Article from the NYT with a vested interest in making the admin look bad = doubt

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