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FarPoint

(14,717 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:08 PM Mar 1

My guess is that Iran will hit soft populated targets of rumpy and BB's allies...

It's a smart move....piss off their money backers...folks like that who feel way to safe....but are not.

Put it all onto rumpy and BB's doorstep....

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My guess is that Iran will hit soft populated targets of rumpy and BB's allies... (Original Post) FarPoint Mar 1 OP
Like a girls' school? Norrrm Mar 1 #1
Aren't they already? nitpicked Mar 1 #2
Looks like they are.... FarPoint Mar 1 #3
Inflicting maximum economic impact through asymmetric tactics. David__77 Mar 1 #4
Iranians are big on "An Eye for an Eye." Part of their culture. Look out Donnie. n/t SheilaAnn Mar 1 #5

nitpicked

(1,736 posts)
2. Aren't they already?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:34 PM
Mar 1
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t?page=2

(snip)

07:07

Frank Gardner
Security correspondent

Iran’s explosive drones and missiles have been expanding their target set well beyond military sites such as the (largely evacuated) US Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain.

Now luxury hotels and shopping malls, high-rise apartment blocks, state-of-the-art airport departure terminals are sporadically getting hit as gaps appear in the Arab Gulf states’ air defences.

These places were never built with the prospect in mind that they would one day come under attack from drones and ballistic missiles.
(snip)

FarPoint

(14,717 posts)
3. Looks like they are....
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:38 PM
Mar 1

It's having results... lets watch them, Iran defend themselves in a gorilla style covert fashion....

David__77

(24,594 posts)
4. Inflicting maximum economic impact through asymmetric tactics.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:51 PM
Mar 1

Time is, interestingly, not on the side of the authors of this aggression.

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