Originally Posted by
SASless
Solemani turned out well.
That's not a decapitation strike run inside of Iran, that was a very well planned and orchestrated assassination of a high value target outside of his home country. (And I personally appaluded the decision to take him out given his body of work, despite the Iraqi government making a lot of public complaints about it happening in their airspace).
Originally Posted by
Sobelena
'Help is on its way', Trump says
Removed, noise
T28B
Do you have any insider information as to what this "help" is?
As we are in the Military Aviation forum, I'll take the hard to refute position that any help will involve air assets, and probably space based assets.
Which may not be the kind of help that the people in Iran are looking for.
Originally Posted by Hangarless
...act quite decisively soon to help the protestors and stop the killing..
I seriously doubt that. (The bolded part).
Originally Posted by WaPo
Iran’s government disconnected its 90 million people from the internet on Thursday, in a drastic effort to quell massive nationwide protests against the regime. The internet blackout extended to a partial jamming of the Starlink satellite service, which people in Iran have been using to circumvent official internet censorship, organize protests and communicate with the outside world.
Of course they did. That's information age warfare 101. The EM spectrum is a part of the battlefield.
Originally Posted by WaPo same article, further down
The issue was escalated internally to Musk at SpaceX over the weekend, with Musk saying he is fully on board with efforts to restore connectivity in Iran and green-lit his engineers to work on a solution, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door discussions.
“Starlink is pretty much the only way to connect, to send news out of the country,” said Mehdi Yahyanejad, co-founder of NetFreedom Pioneers, of the technology’s role for protesters in Iran. “It’s been very critical. All these videos and pictures that have come out in the past few days have been sent out through Starlink.”
And thus made themselves a target of the regime's counter measures.