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US says strikes hit Iran coastal missile facility, Hormuz threat reduced​


US says strikes hit Iran coastal missile facility, Hormuz threat reduced

The head of US Central Command said American forces struck an underground missile facility along Iran’s coast this week, targeting assets used to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
“Earlier this week, we dropped multiple 5,000-pound bombs on an underground facility located along Iran’s coastline,” Adm. Brad Cooper said, adding the site stored anti-ship missiles and launch systems and that the strikes also destroyed intelligence and radar systems used to track vessels.
 
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"When the war has been won, very strongly, but your vassals refuse to send troops to your aid, which you didn't need, as you have prevailed—that is when one opens new fronts, and makes war upon one's vassals, to prevail all the stronger, which you have already acccomplished."

-Don Tzu, The War of Deal
 
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CobbVol said:
Imagine Iran being successful in their efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon. Then they with input from China and Russia could then determine how much oil goes through the Strait and to who.
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They are doing a pretty good job of determining how much oil goes through the straight without nuclear weapons.
 
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FortSanders said:
Iran shot missiles at Diego Garcia, which is 4,000 km away, or 2,485 miles.
Iran has missiles that can reach London, which is 2,173 miles. That is an imminent threat.

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So the "imminent threat" to America that necessitated we go to war is that Iran possessed a missle that could (but never did) hit Europe? And this while the administration has been telling Europe that it needs to be responsible for its own defense?
 
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"DUBAI—Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that entrenches Tehran’s dominance of Middle East energy resources for decades to come.

This attitude may prove to be a dangerous misreading of President Trump’s determination, or of Israel’s capacity to inflict strategic blows on the Islamic Republic’s surviving leadership and military capabilities.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have given mixed signals on how long the war would go on, as they try to talk markets down and keep Tehran guessing. Netanyahu said Thursday that the war would end “a lot faster than people think.” Trump said this week the U.S. would wrap up the conflict in the “near future” even as the Pentagon dispatched thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East.

The problem is, Iran also has a say in when the guns fall silent—and, for now, it seems to think time works to its benefit.

Despite optimistic U.S. and Israeli pronouncements about destroying launchers and missile stocks, Iran has retained the ability to fire dozens of ballistic missiles, and many more drones, every day across the Middle East.

Instead of declining, the rate of fire actually picked up in recent days compared with 10 days ago. Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage this week on key energy installations in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates—while Iran’s own oil exports kept booming.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf’s chokepoint, remains only possible with Iranian permission. Surging oil and gas prices, meanwhile, are exacting growing pain on economies worldwide—and putting pressure on Trump to end the war that he began in expectation of swift victory on Feb. 28."
 
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