Last night. No indication if air attacks - sabotage?

Explosions heard near the Isfahan Nuclear Facility in Iran. Something is also on fire.

Which came down to one guy. W Paul Bremer. The next 17 years of sorrow are on his shoulders. he was given sound guidance by multiple agencies, and disregarded the lot.

There does seem to be an assumption that if you get rid of the current regime, something warmer and cuddlier will replace them. Have there been any recent examples?

According to Wiki Bremer became a ski instructor later on?

And he slunk away like a thief in the night.

With that said, the original campaign plan that General Eric Shinseki et al came up with called for about 240-260,000 troops including a substantial support for Phase 4 and Phase 5 (the "day after bits") and that got him fired.
Rumsfeld and the rest of the head shed scrapped it.


Whomever want to invade Iran is welcome to build an Op Plan that can do that, but how many Arab nations (neighbors who have issues with Iran) are willing to expend their blood and treasure in such an endeavor?
If they won't cross the LD, why should anyone else?

I see the current form of conflict sustaining itself for the mid term at the least.

Video. When asked whether he would support Israel striking the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facilities, Canadian opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, responds:

“It would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”

Looks like someone (Pierre Poilievre) wanted to stir the pot, doesn't it, ORAC? :}

'Threads'

"One of the most terrifying programmes ever shown on British television, Threads is the nuclear apocalypse drama-documentary that continues to haunt people’s nightmares 40 years on. Ahead of a rare new showing on the BBC, here’s a look at how the drama still has the potential to terrify people.
First broadcast on 23 September 1984, anyone who tuned in to BBC Two on that Sunday evening would experience a bleak and unforgettable depiction of a massive nuclear bomb attack on a British city and its aftermath.

It was a nightmare scenario that was all too plausible in an era of heightened tension between the West and the then Soviet Union. Rarely seen on television since its first broadcast, it's being shown again on BBC Four and iPlayer on 9 October. Sheffield was chosen as the fictional nuclear target because its writer, Kes author Barry Hines, lived there.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kgkkg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/articles/crl8nj3xxp7o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

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I bought the DVD of Threads 14 years ago. Still available, but about 3 times the price I paid!

Quite disturbing.....

I'm watching Threads now. Scene outside a news agent. Headline... Iran crisis deepens!

Plus ca change! 😔

Did he instruct Sonny Bono?

That's funny fdr. Sick, but funny :E

Watched it when it first went on air back in the early 1980's in the same year the US produced and broadcast a similar series 'The Day After'.
Threads, for me at least, is by far the more harrowing depicting the lead up to and immediate aftermath. It loses its way somewhat in the last third though and verges on surrealism at times.
As a child starting school mid 1960's and then a teen in the 1970's, the weekly test of the 4-minute warning siren (mounted on the local police station), sunk into the background becoming noise blended with traffic along with the local church bells on Sunday morning or our town clock tower bell chiming every hour. Secretly though, everyone welcomed the scheduled test as somewhat comforting opposed to the siren wailing at any other time. The public information films 'Protect and Survive', regularly broadcast on national TV at peak viewing times, are in hindsight almost laughable if they were not so chilling. Duck and cover under school desks was a bit of fun - the gravity of which was completely lost on all of us in 'juniors'.

Another programme well worth hunting down and aired in 1986, is based on Raymond Briggs book 'When the wind Blows'. Sublime to ridiculous, Briggs also wrote the childhood classic 'The Snowman'.

Politicians are quite happy to justify the cost of the war with rhetoric, and other children's blood. When it comes to paying for the peace (pieces) they don't see the same value in votes and that results in the next disaster unfolding.

You break it, you own it.

The show or the price? 🤔

Interesting related tidbit here: And the French did not let the USAF fly over France to bomb Lybia in 1986.

Iran's proxy the Houthis launched attacks on Saudi oil facilities a few years ago. You might say that they have previous form.

Paranoia….

They still might have done it. For some reason France could use USAF C-5s to transport material to Tchad soon after.

No. From first hand testimony of those involved. From the UK they had to fly down through the `Bay of Bidcay and past Portugal and then make a hard left through the `straits of Gibraltar. Same on the return leg.