should the West invade and/or bomb the fuck out of Iran?

How's your Farsi?

getting a job w/ in the intelligence community would require moving to some godawful place

Virginia?

farsi is fluent but i am illiterate

I'd rather see better translations in the news media. In the intelligence community your work will likely be ignored if you don't provide the politically approved translation.

is this a good time for a patriotic, non-islamic iranian-american to apply for a job with the us intelligence community? would that be a power move?

oh hell yeah. how are you with battery cables?

battery cables??

ABC News was particularly disgusting yesterday: Martha Raddatz on a warship in the Strait of Hormuz aiming for that warmonger verite.

CNN drumbeat by Pentagon 'reporter' Chris Lawrence:

"Iran already has a missile that could reach the U.S. if it could put it on a ship and move it to within 600 miles of the American coastline."

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/16/cnn_on_the_iran_threat/

and move it to within 600 miles of the American coastline.

Still more afraid of a suitcase bomb than this scenario.

It's amazing how the range of Iran's missiles adjusts according to how badly we want to attack them.

THE MISSILES ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

Oh wait I didn't even read that link, shit is pretty lol

i'm in the UK & i have a rock that could burrow a metre deep down into antarctic snow so long as someone rows me to the edge of antarctic water so i can throw it

Anyone know what Bulgaria is? A friend of mine is there and was close to being blown to shreds in a tour bus. Netanyahu blames Iran. Is this serious or just SOP for the area?

Bulgaria is a country in central europe iirc

Yes, yes. It appears to be near Albania, ffs. It sounds so old-timey.

it seems like a pretty random place to stage a terrorist attack, I'm not sure what to make of it. Netty blames Iran for everything fwiw.

This kind of thing is completely unheard of in Bulgaria, as far as i know. The Black Sea resorts are super-popular with Israeli tourists.

suspect sure doesn't look Iranian to me but what do I know

http://img2.wpdigital.net/rf/image_358w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/07/19/Foreign/Images/APTOPIX_Bulgaria_Israelis_Attacked-04fad.jpg

YES

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386809/Eye-eye-Woman-blinded-scorned-lover-given-permission-throw-acid-eyes-Iran-court.html

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit by Iran's fledgling space program, Iranian media reported.

The launch added to Western concerns about Iran's space program because the same rocket technology could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. "I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists," Ahmadinejad said on Monday, on the sidelines of an exhibition of space achievements in Tehran, according to the Mehr news agency. "Sending living things into space is the result of Iranian efforts and the dedication of thousands of Iranian scientists."

I think we should encourage this.

rocket manejad

Statement from Iranian commies on the current situation:

http://www.solidnet.org/iran-tudeh-party-of-iran/tudeh-party-of-iran-statement-of-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-on-the-popular-protest-movement-in-the-country-29-december-2017-en

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/02/women-are-leading-in-iran-where-is-their-voice-support-from-left.html

^^ lol

israel to iran, today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3Vfme-2qg

look at all that secret shit

https://i.imgur.com/nP4j1m8.jpg

bibi's presentation style is ... interesting

red black and green binders a nice touch

actually should have been red white and green now that i think about it

my brain is off today

https://i.imgur.com/XkEeFfV.png

thought this thread might be useful for non-UK politics takes on this, apologies if i've missed another revive

Most talk has been over here.

ah thank you