Utopia Talk / Politics / Iran has huge missile arsenal,

williamthebastard rank	Thu May 28 17:20:17 Iran is regaining access to vast quantities of missiles stored in underground facilities, new satellite imagery analyzed by CNN shows, casting doubt on US President Donald Trump’s claims of having all but obliterated Tehran’s arsenal. During the war, Israeli-US strikes put many of these complexes out of commission by blocking their entry points, trapping a large portion of Iran’s launchers and crippling its ability to fire missiles. Now, using just bulldozers and dump trucks, Iran is undoing the effects of a strategy that involved an enormous amount of Israeli-US firepower. The Pentagon stands by the success of its campaign. CNN’s Tamara Qiblawi reports, with analysis from Thomas Bordeaux. http://edi...nearths-missile-arsenal-digvid
williamthebastard rank	Sun May 31 12:57:32 Iran is poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals – an effort that highlights the limits to US bombing strategy, experts said. But satellite images reviewed by CNN show how Iran has used simple equipment such as bulldozers and dump trucks to counter those costly campaigns — suggesting that Tehran’s missile capabilities can’t be destroyed just by targeting tunnel entrances, experts said. CNN found that Iran has now unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrances struck by the US and Israel at 18 underground missile facilities. Iran has repaired other parts of the bases as well, including roads that the US and Israel bombed to prevent missile launchers from using them. Satellite images show almost all these craters have now been filled, and at two sites, even repaved. As Iran recovers its missiles, and restores functionality to its missile bases, analysts are concerned that the continued threat posed by this arsenal is being underestimated, especially given the dwindling supply of US missile interceptors. “You have to use very sophisticated, very expensive weapons to do this kind of damage, and the recovery is very low tech – it’s just bulldozers.” http://edi...pened-us-strategy-bombing-invs
Hrothgar rank	Sun May 31 18:37:17 It's almost like this "war" was thought up over lunch amongst people with such a high level of ignorance and arrogance that they could not conceive of plan A failing. (killing a tyrant that immediately leads to government collapse and empowerment of more friendly forces) With WMD use out of the question, everything that came after was just grasping at straws with the limited power that air only dominance allows - which is a very short lived type of control. As soon as the airpower is withdrawn, the opposing forces on the ground can go about their business unhindered. This is an obvious scenario, and one the leaders of Israel and the US were utterly foolish to ignore. Once again, Trump's admin proves itself buffoons in the most egregious ways. The most complete and immediate US strategic loss of any conflict it's engaged in during it's history. IF somehow Iran gives up it's nuclear program and doesn't project direct control of the Strait in the coming months, I'll change my opinion. But right now, there are no signs of such, and we're 99.999% more likely to just end up with some shitty Trumpian agreement that's far worse than what Obama worked to put in place a decade ago.
murder rank	Sun May 31 19:52:32 I imagine that there will be no agreement, and Trump will just keep bombing the nuclear sites on a regular basis. -
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