Iran Is Going Offline To Prevent Purported Israeli Cyberattacks 138
In response to escalating tensions with Israel, Iran has begun throttling internet access, with plans to disconnect from the global internet entirely to prevent Israeli cyberattacks. The Iranian government also urges citizens to delete WhatsApp -- one of the country's most popular messaging platforms -- claiming without evidence that the Meta-owned app has been weaponed by Israel to spy on its users. (WhatsApp vehemently denied those claims in a statement to the Associated Press.) Telegram is also said to be blocked as well. The Verge reports: The announcements come amidst the escalating war between Iran and Israel, which broke out after Israel attacked the country on June 12th, and a rise in reported internet outages. Civilians have claimed that they've been unable to access basic but critical telecommunications services, such as messaging apps, maps, and sometimes the internet itself. Cloudflare reported that two major Iranian cellular carriers effectively went offline on Tuesday, and The New York Times reports that even VPNs, which Iranians frequently use to access banned sites like Facebook and Instagram, have become increasingly harder to access. [...]
Israel's role in the cyber outages has not been officially confirmed, but independent analysts at NetBlocks noticed a significant reduction of internet traffic originating from Iran on Tuesday, starting at 5:30 PM local time. According to Tasnim, a news network affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iranians will still have access to the country's state-operated national internet service, though two Iranian officials told the Times that the internal bandwidth could be reduced by up to 80 percent.
Israel's role in the cyber outages has not been officially confirmed, but independent analysts at NetBlocks noticed a significant reduction of internet traffic originating from Iran on Tuesday, starting at 5:30 PM local time. According to Tasnim, a news network affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iranians will still have access to the country's state-operated national internet service, though two Iranian officials told the Times that the internal bandwidth could be reduced by up to 80 percent.
LOL (Score:3, Insightful)
The Iranian government also urges citizens to delete WhatsApp
The regime just doesn't want the people organizing and rising up to overthrow them.
Re:LOL (Score:5, Interesting)
Probably exactly this! It's not like the Mossad relies exclusively on local to Iran Internet access to communicate. Hey didn't I hear the Elon restored Starlink access to Iran lately or have I dreamt it? Might he have restored for Mossad? Anyway, all kinds of possibilities.
Re: LOL (Score:3)
The Nazis aren't so blindly hateful that they will not use Jews to harm others, and never were. You are nowhere near a point.
Re:LOL (Score:4, Interesting)
The regime just doesn't want the people organizing and rising up to overthrow them.
Well, even before that they don't want people to get external news and hear just how badly the regime is having its ass handed to it right now.
The IRGC has started putting out Baghdad Bob style statements about how they've achieve control of Israeli air-space and stuff.
Side effects (Score:3)
Side effects may include silencing of Iranian dissidents.
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
Well if the beatings don't do the job...
Re:Side effects (Score:4)
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Yeah, they were fine when they were fighting through the proxy they called Hamas, where all the collateral damage is in another country.
Now they're surprised the other side took the opportunity to step in when they continued to stall the nuclear anti-proliferation talks.
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Did you see that Netanyahu admitted funding the various criminal and militia groups on Gaza? Did you know that he funded Hamas too? Don't forget all the state sponsored terrorism in the West Bank.
It's always been a proxy war, for both sides.
The bottom line is that Israel will always be a threat to Iran, because Israel is expansionist and well armed. Because it's an ethnostate that offers citizenship to Zionists who want to join that expansion, every other country in the region is threatened by them. The onl
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It's not a proxy war. Iran has lost all its proxies. Israel is attacking it directly.
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Israel is the only one which is really trying to be internationally "legitimate", and it seems to be losing allies on a regular basis.
I wouldn't say that Israel has been legitimate in their war tactics against Hamas. The civilian casualties have been incredible, and the number of times that they've blown up aid convoys and hospitals to kill a handful of Hamas people, and other similar war crimes, is staggering. The latest was just hours ago [aljazeera.com].
I suspect the only reason they seem to be trying to be legitimate in their attacks on Iran (at least so far) is because they have gotten so much blowback from their war on Gaza.
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...blown up aid convoys and hospitals to kill a handful of Hamas people, and other similar war crimes
Per the Law of Armed Conflict, using protected sites, e.g. convoys and hospitals, to stage military operations removes the protected status of the site and makes it a legitimate military target. Hamas is well known for hiding among civilians and using protected sites to run operations in order to show civilian bodies after an attack. Perhaps unsurprisingly, people swallow this propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
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...blown up aid convoys and hospitals to kill a handful of Hamas people, and other similar war crimes
Per the Law of Armed Conflict, using protected sites, e.g. convoys and hospitals, to stage military operations removes the protected status of the site and makes it a legitimate military target.
Where is the evidence that this was the case, though? When the U.S. has something like that happen, there's a formal inquiry, there's a public documentation trail showing why the actions were taken, and the consensus is that they made the right call more often than not. We're not seeing that from Israel, or if we are, it isn't being reported, and that's disconcerting, particularly given the rate of these incidents.
Hamas is well known for hiding among civilians and using protected sites to run operations in order to show civilian bodies after an attack. Perhaps unsurprisingly, people swallow this propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
Hiding among civilians is not the same thing as using protected sites to run operations. On
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Blowing up schools with children inside is never okay. Blowing up hospitals with patients still inside is never okay. Giving them enough warning to get innocent people out is an absolute minimum standard of human decency, and failing to do that means that you're deliberately targeting civilians, hence a war crime.
A lovely sentiment and one I share. However this ignores decades of international law and precedent. Hamas and other terrorist organizations have historically embedded themselves within the civilian population specifically to deter attacks. Remember that these strikes aren't made in a vacuum. Teams of lawyers are involved in targeting decisions along with public affairs. Ultimately the leadership decides that taking out a target is worth the cost and if Hamas decides that the lives of several dozen children
Re:Side effects (Score:5, Insightful)
The bottom line is that Israel will always be a threat to Iran, because Israel is expansionist and well armed. Because it's an ethnostate that offers citizenship to Zionists who want to join that expansion, every other country in the region is threatened by them. ...
I'm not a fan of the whole "settlement movement" Israel is allowing in the West Bank and wish they'd stop, but the thought that Israel would somehow expand to take over its neighbors (even a little) is numerically impossible.
There aren't even 15M Jews in the whole world (most of them in the US, apparently) and only like 7M in Israel and only a relatively small fraction of those have any interest in expansion. In fact since they want to be "a Jewish state" AND they're a democracy they have enough problems with the existing non Jewish Israelis and they don't want any more.
Jordan, with whom they are at peace anyway, has 11M people. Syria 25M, Iraq 45M. Lebanon 5M. Iran 85M , Egypt 110M
There are barely more Jews in Israel (7M) than the population of Lebanon. they couldn't expand even if they wanted to... unless they're all secretly (evil) Batman or something.
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The "settlement movement" is a terrorist organization, state sponsored by Israel. The IDF and police provide security for them, as they steal land and illegally settle it, often murdering the occupants in the process.
Several high ranking members of the Israeli government and the IDF are known to support the idea of a Greater Israel, which includes parts of several neighbouring countries, including Iran. We know because they told us. They aren't even shy about it.
The very concept of a Jewish state, or any et
Re:Side effects (Score:4, Insightful)
Dude, regarding Israel expanding into Iran... it's 1000 miles and a couple of countries away.
geographically it's like New Jersey expanding to take over Minnesota.
Or like Belgium "expanding" into Ukraine.
Some screwballs want that, but most have zero interest and it's not going to happen any century soon, so don't let their delusions become yours.
(And again, there are only 7M jews in all of Israel, they're not going to magically subjugate the 300M people around them)
Re:Side effects (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's a map of the historic Greater Israel claim: https://commons.wikimedia.org/... [wikimedia.org]
Notice how it goes right up to Iran's border, and slightly into it. So Israel would at a minimum become Iran's direct neighbour, which is obviously a huge security threat. For both sides.
Here's Netanyahu showing off a map showing what he claims are Israel's historic territorial rights: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middl... [aa.com.tr]
Just so you can't claim it's fringe, that's the current leader of Israel endorsing the Greater Israel concept.
Note also that a large chunk of it is what is currently Saudi Arabia, a nuclear armed country, and Egypt.
The number of Jews in Israel is irrelevant. There are millions of Palestinians in Palestine, estimated to be around 5.1 million. They apparently can't be neighbours.
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We know where you stand in terms of anti-semitism. Remember this thread where you ducked and dived and tried to avoid admitting that you supported bigoted politicians like Jeremy Corbyn: https://news.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org]
Why won't you people apportion any blame to the Gaza situation on Iran and terrorist organisations like Hamas? Admit it: you're just an anti-Jew, anti-Israel bigot.
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Anti-Semitism has been weaponized to destroy people like Jeremy Corbyn, which ironically is actually one of the most anti-Semitic things imaginable.
You know that Netanyahu funded Hamas, and currently funds terrorist groups inside Gaza who are making sure that the IDF have a reason to open fire on civilians trying to get food aid, right?
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Bullshit. That's a conspiracy theory by anti-semites. The EHRC found the Labour Party to be anti-semitic. Corbyn did nothing but let it fester, even as his Jewish MPs left the party either because he was too weak, or more likely, because he's also anti-semitic himself.
You're cut from the same cloth, as you've repeatedly demonstrated in your words on this site. I won't be distracted by your whataboutisms, which is the only thing you ha
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
You are ignoring Netanyahu's own statements. How very anti-Semitic of you to assume the Jew is lying.
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I don't trust a word that Netanyahu says. He's very likely complicit in war crimes.
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
If you're so smart, why can't you read?
I'm not so sure about that (Score:1)
Before this week I would have said you right it's impossible but Israel has complete air superiority even during the day. It's insane. What it looks like is Iran did the same thing Russia did where the entire government is hopelessly corrupt and money that should
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Result is Iran is incapable of defending itself against a opponent willing to just drop bombs until there isn't anyone left.
The casualties in Iran are probably under 1000 people so far between soldiers and civilians. Even as claimed by Iran. This has been a pretty darned targeted set of strikes so far. There's no mass casualties
On the other hand I doubt Israel will try to take Iran. They have plenty of land to take from Palestine for years to come. But I do think we are going to see a return to large scale wars where people steal land from each other.
There is no way in heck that Israel can take over Iran on the ground. There aren't enough soldiers or tanks, or money, or transport planes or ships by some massive factor, like 10x or more
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
The US has been fighting through proxies for decades. It sounds like you are saying that it would be fair for any of a number of countries to bring the fight to the US. Just making sure you realise the implications of what you are saying.
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I'm saying it would be stupid for the US to fight through proxies, if it's unable to defend itself against those it is fighting.
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"The only way to [accomplish x] is to follow my advice."
I agree with a lot of what you said. But that's dictator talk. Anyone who says there is only one way to do something is misguided. There is always more than one way.
Re: Side effects (Score:4, Informative)
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Half of /. are ignorant cunts. The other half? Less ignorant cunts. Iran has supported terror worldwide. Everywhere but Antarctica, last I checked.
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
The world has sponsored terror in Iran... Mostly the USA though.
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Just read Amimojo's posts. They're literally raving about how the evil jews want to colonize the entire middle east and kill all the Arabs... completely ignoring that Persians aren't Arabs, the Persians are literally spraypainting "thanks bibi" in farsi all over the place in Tehran and chanting "Death to Khamenei" while waving Israeli flags, and Israel's given up several times its own size in land for peace with surrounding Arab countries.
They're also completely ignoring that Jews used to live in Judea righ
Re: Side effects (Score:1)
"Israel's given up several times its own size in land for peace with surrounding Arab countries."
The illegally expansionist colonist settler main of Israel has GIVEN UP land when they have been illegally expanding since the sixties?
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Re: Side effects (Score:2)
Wars they didn't start, except with terrorism?
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They're only going to be any dissidents right now.
Coherent grammar is the first casualty of war.
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Nothing of value has been lost. Whatever dissidents Iran has aren't worth much: they've had half a century to deal with their atavist strongmen with nothing to show for it. Obama tried buying off Iran: they just funded their proxies and bred another generation of fanatics. So were giving war a chance, before they have nukes. Our decades of patience has expired. No more rockets and parasails for pallys. No more Houthis firing missiles at everything. No more Hamas. No more Syrian civil war. No more c
Re: Side effects (Score:2)
"Our decades of patience has expired."
Iran was rapidly secularizing before we interfered. Now we're allegedly patient? That's clown shit.
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rapidly secularizing
If blowing up chunks of their Potemkin military is all it takes to make them revert to non-secularism, then their supposed enlightenment has the same value as their dissidents, and it's not worth our worry.
Now we're allegedly patient?
Half a century worth of patience has been squandered on Iran, and there is nothing to show for it. No more pallets of cash. No more Hezbollah missile complexes. None of it. The jig is up.
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I saw a video [x.com] from Tehran purportedly of people chanting "Death to Khamenei! Death to the Dictator!"
I think you greatly underestimate how much hatred their is in Iran against the Islamic Republic regime.
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On Sunday, June 25? Maybe that was a typo and it was supposed to be the 15th. Alternatively, the last time June 25 fell on a Sunday was in 2023, which tells you when the AI was released that wrote the post, and the only question remaining is which AI created the video.
I don't put a lot of faith in anything posted on X these days.
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I guess it was a typo and they meant the 15th.
Maybe it was fake, but I know a few Iranians and they all tell me there's widespread hatred of the Islamic Republic regime back in Iran. There have been reports on iranintl.com of Iranians cheering on Netanyahu.
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I guess it was a typo and they meant the 15th.
Maybe it was fake, but I know a few Iranians and they all tell me there's widespread hatred of the Islamic Republic regime back in Iran. There have been reports on iranintl.com of Iranians cheering on Netanyahu.
Oh, I'm sure the sentiment is real. Popularity of the current government officially hovers around 50%, with a significant minority very much in favor of setting the whole government on fire (but also a not-small minority that wants to keep the status quo, and they have the guns and soldiers).
What I'm questioning is whether they're angry enough to do something about it and powerful enough to take on the entrenched power structure. After all, those sorts of mass protests in authoritarian countries tend to p
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They would have to be idiots to support regime change at this time. Israel is not going to allow a truly democratic leader to come into power. Just look at how well it worked out in Iraq. In fact they already prepped the Shah's son for ascension to the Iranian throne. You know, the son of the guy they overthrew in the 1979 revolution. The one that had a secret police force going around torturing dissidents. Oh and he gave Iranian oil rights to the US (very important).
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The Iranians are cowards. They won't do shit.
Musk activated Starlink in Iran ... (Score:2)
Side effects may include silencing of Iranian dissidents.
Side effects easily overcome.
"Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, confirmed Saturday he turned on Starlink for Iranians after the Islamic regime limited its online services following the launch of Israeli attacks targeting Iranian nuclear facilities. Starlink, a satellite-based constellation made by SpaceX that gives people internet, especially in places where regular internet is hard to get. The satellites fly close to Earth and help provide fast internet with little delay."
https://www.jpost.com/middle-e... [jpost.com]
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turned on Starlink for Iranians
Nice, now they just need the receptors and pay the service.
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And hide them from view.
Hide what, an everyday smart phone? (Score:1)
And hide them from view.
Hide what, their everyday smartphone that can connect to the more recent Starlink satellites?
"Direct to Cell"
https://www.starlink.com/us/bu... [starlink.com]
A cellphone tower in space ... (Score:1)
turned on Starlink for Iranians
Nice, now they just need the receptors and pay the service.
"A CELLPHONE TOWER IN SPACE
Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capability have an advanced eNodeB modem onboard that acts like a cellphone tower in space, allowing network integration similar to a standard roaming partner."
https://www.starlink.com/us/bu... [starlink.com]
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AFAIK, Starlink data services are not active yet at this moment, only text messaging, and I suspect it's still a paid service, and it works on only a few cellphone models.
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AFAIK, Starlink data services are not active yet at this moment, only text messaging, and I suspect it's still a paid service, and it works on only a few cellphone models.
Text messages would be a lot. As we've seen in our own natural disasters.
. "[October 9, 2024] SpaceX said in an Oct. 8 social media post that it has enabled basic texting services on T-Mobile phones in areas affected by Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene, following similar regulatory approval granted after Helene caused cellular outages in North Carolina weeks earlier. The company said it has also activated the more than 100 direct-to-smartphone satellites launched so far to deliver emergency alerts t
Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score:2, Insightful)
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Yeah, i made the same message and got modded down. I guess Iran controls /.
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Maybe. But unfortunately the foaming at the mouth delusional anti isreal leftists who infest the west and seem to be overrepresented on this site are enough. They pretend to have empathy but oddly they don't care about human rights abuse in china, tibet, russia, the middle east, myanmar, nigeria, kenya etc, but the second isreal does something these anti semites crawl out from under their stinking rocks and start making a noise.
Re: Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score:2)
You cannot both support human rights and Israel, the nation on the planet which kills the most journalists yearly (having taken the crown from Saudi Arabia recently, mostly by sniper rifle but also by bomb) and whose leader is an internationally wanted criminal for war crimes.
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You go into the middle of a highly active war zone and getting shot is an occupational hazard for a journalist. They know exactly what the risks are. Meanwhile in Russia journalists just have "accidents" and Putin is also wanted for war crimes. Where are all the protestors against him? Oh thats right, he's not jewish.
Re: Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score:2)
"They know exactly what the risks are."
That in no way excuses Israel deliberately sniping journalists and your whataboutism is also irrelevant.
Re: Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score:2)
Ah yes, inconvenient comparisons are a whatabout. What a cliche. Israel is always singled out while dictatorships around the world get away without a squeak from the fair weather activists. Anyone can see its just anti semitism in disguise.
Re: Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score:2)
What you said didn't contradict what I said in any way, so it was purely worthless whataboutism.
I learned to recognize that kind of shit in grade school.
Wise up.
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Heads up: Calling a valid comparison a "whataboutism" whenever you can't think of a decent riposte is not the drop the mic sign off you seem to think it is. HTH.
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Nobody said it was an invalid comparison. That is not what defines whataboutism.
It's whataboutism because the comparison is not relevant to the conversation.
You don't get to decide what is or is not a mic drop when you don't understand the words being used.
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Not relevant? Seriously? It couldn't be MORE relevant. But hey, try and move the goalposts if it helps your non argument. Feel free to have the last word, you're not worth the effort any more.
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Your argument doesn't represent "effort" anyway. We have protestors against Israel because we are funding Israel. We aren't funding Putin yet. When we are, we can have protests about that, too.
Your whataboutism is whataboutism because you're ignoring obvious facts in order to support your argument. What about this? The answer is obvious. But you're sure that there's some other answer.
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That in no way excuses Israel deliberately sniping journalists and your whataboutism is also irrelevant.
If you're in an active combat zone, you're liable to get deliberately hit by many things. Friendly fire is far more common than you think. Even with high-powered optics, all they're going to see most of the time is nothing but a silhouette. Contrary to what you believe, Call of Duty isn't a sniper simulator, and it isn't anywhere close to the real thing (though I encourage you to go on believing that, because your "rebellion" will be hilarious.) Besides, you almost certainly don't even know how to hold a ri
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A person who isn't interested in checking the facts is orders of magnitude better controlled than a person who can't.
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Given Gen Z apparently get most of their news and "facts" from shills on tiktok and other social media we shouldn't be so smug in the west about being clued up.
Let's take a moment and ponder (Score:2)
What the middle east would be like today had we not over thrown the shah back in 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Your link doesn't describe what you think it does.
That coup strengthened the shah's authority rather than overthrowing him.
It was the 1979 revolution that overthrew the shah.
Re: Let's take a moment and ponder (Score:1)
Let's take the other counterfactual by consulting present reality. Let's say Mosadegh got into power and cozied up to the Soviets in the 50s. Okay cool. What would it have looked like if Iran were aligned against the West and with the Russians? Well...that's the facts on the ground now and it doesn't seem to be working out for them given that their leadership is being bombed out of existence and the Russians can't do anything for them.
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Well, if we'd left Mosadegh alone it's unknown whether he'd really have gone with Russia or not, but even if he did the whole arc of the middle east would possibly have been different.
Especially Iran wouldn't be so hung up on Israel's existence and destruction so Hezbollah likely would never have existed, and just the whole "Axis of Resistance" thing. So this whole event would be unlikely to be happening both because Israel would have no reason to do it and because probably Iran itself would've been more p
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the 1953 coup had nothing to do with the Russians. It was all about preventing the elected government from nationalising the oil. (Which belonged to western oil companies.)
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It's got the third most petroleum reserves in the world so a much richer Jordan.
Iran goes off line to control its people (Score:2, Insightful)
Iran doesn't give one fuck if the people of Iran get hacked. The Iranian tyrants realize that the internet will allow people to organize, kill their tyrants, and liberate themselves. The ayatollahs are evil cowards. I can't wait for Israel to give them their just desserts, but I'd prefer the Iranian people do the job for themselves.
I'm surprised (Score:2)
They haven't already blocked WhatsApp?
It's owned by the same Jewish CEO as Facebook and Instagram.
Regime flip (Score:2)
Cutting off people's internet is a good way to accelerate regime flip.
A question (Score:3)
If it is morally justifiable to assassinate Iran's leader, then is it equally morally justifiable to assassinate the leaders of other countries who may pose a threat to yours?
Morals? (Score:1)
Bitch, this is war. Morals are for losers, literally. Morals don't matter here at all. Israel is trying to ensure its safety. If that means bombing the ayatollah of rock n rolla, then they will bomb. If that means making a deal, they will make a deal. If that means parachuting 500 troops in then helicoptering them out along with all the fissile material, they'll do that. If that means nuking Tehran, they'll do that too, but with compete air superiority, doing so may be unnecessary.
Meanwhile, Iran has
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Bitch, this is war. Morals are for losers, literally. Morals don't matter here at all.
^ that's the sentiment that gave us the Holocaust, and Saddam Hussein and Assad gassing their own people.
Fortunately even the Netanyahu doesn't think this way. (well ok actually HE might think that way, but at least he's worried about his image and doesn't ACT that way)
Re: Morals? (Score:2)
He does act that way, but only after dipping his toe in to see if there will be any backlash.
afraid (Score:2, Informative)
The Iranian government also urges citizens to delete WhatsApp
Afraid that the Iranian people finally rise up against the Mullah regime? Control of communications is high on the dictatorship 101 list.
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Unfortunately this latest Israeli attack is having the opposite effect. The more hard line elements of the regime were losing power, due to a series of unpopular mistakes like the Morality Police brutalizing girls and women, and the women's rights movement in general, as well as the economic benefits of liberalization and better international relations.
Nothing like a war to consolidate power.
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Unfortunately this latest Israeli attack is having the opposite effect.
According to some sources. Other sources say the opposite. I guess we need to wait and see.
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For anyone wondering just how disconnected from reality AmiMoJo is by their rabid jewhate: Iranians are literally spraypainting "thanks bibi" in farsi in Tehran and filming themselves screaming "Death to Khamenei" and waving Iranian+Israeli flags.
AmiMoJo just hates Jews so much that they're siding with the regime's propaganda over the Iranian people because Israel is involved.
Re: afraid (Score:1)
Oh look, an AIPAC shill. I never would have thought they would spend money on this dying hobby site.
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At this rate he probably already has a free palestine vest ready to detonate at a random synagogue.
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It is laughable you would even mention a women's rights movement in Iran. What movement? There is no movement.
Uh... it even has its own Wikipedia page: women, life, freedom [wikipedia.org].
It was pretty much all over western media for a while. Before some B-stars affair, divorce or whatever became more important
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Re: afraid (Score:2)
WhatsApp (Score:5, Informative)
Of COURSE WhatsApp spies on its users. You think Facebook paid billions because they like the color?
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I feel like this is one of those cases where secret intelligence comes to light but in vague ways.
I think that bombs destroyed their internet (Score:1)
Re: I think that bombs destroyed their internet (Score:1)
It was announced in advance which wouldn't make sense for what you are suggesting.
Mission accomplished, I guess (Score:2)
Total war (Score:2)
Makes sense for Iran to control lines of communication as best as it can. They are the weaker force and need to fight as hard as they can to gain any kind of advantage.
We've all seen from action in Gaza, Lebanon and the past attacks on Iranians that the Israelis are absolutely brutal and take no hostages. For Iran as the weaker power against Israel with its superpower ally, it is an existential war against a genocidal regime. For all the faults and crimes of the Islamists in charge of the Iran, Israeli pres
WTF? (Score:2)
Iran, of all states, has bought into Clownflare? God help us all.
In other news... (Score:2)
In the rest of the world, the number of phishing emails just dropped by 20%
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Kind of true. Our taxes pay for Israel's munitions. For an administration that is supposedly all about cutting government waste and spending they sure do overlook the Israel tally. https://www.cfr.org/article/us... [cfr.org]
I'd rather Israel fund their genocide operation on their dime.