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Iran's Nuclear Installations Exploding
Gene363 Offline
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Iran's Nuclear Installations Exploding.

Attack on Iran’s nuclear program: long-planned and bigger than first thought.

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By DAVID E. SANGER, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman

The New York Times

As Iran’s center for advanced nuclear centrifuges lies in charred ruins after an explosion, apparently engineered by Israel, the long-simmering conflict between the United States and Tehran appears to be escalating into a potentially dangerous phase likely to play out during the U.S. presidential election campaign.

New satellite photographs over the stricken facility at Natanz show far more extensive damage than was clear last week. Two intelligence officials, updated with the damage assessment for the Natanz site recently compiled by the United States and Israel, said it could take the Iranians up to two years to return their nuclear program to the place it was just before the explosion. An authoritative public study estimates it will be a year or more until Iran’s centrifuge production capacity recovers.

Another major explosion hit the country early Friday, lighting up the sky in a wealthy area of Tehran. It was still unexplained — but appeared to come from the direction of a missile base. If it proves to have been another attack, it will further shake the Iranians by demonstrating, yet again, that even their best-guarded nuclear and missile facilities have been infiltrated.

Although Iran has said little of substance about the explosions, Western officials anticipate some type of retaliation, perhaps against U.S. or allied forces in Iraq, perhaps a renewal of cyberattacks. In the past, those have been directed against U.S. financial institutions, a major Las Vegas casino and a dam in the New York suburbs or, more recently, the water supply system in Israel, which its government considers “critical infrastructure.”

Officials familiar with the explosion at Natanz compared its complexity to the sophisticated Stuxnet cyberattack on Iranian nuclear facilities a decade ago, which had been planned for more than a year. In the case of last week’s episode, the primary theory is that an explosive device was planted in the heavily guarded facility, perhaps near a gas line. But some experts have also floated the possibility that a cyberattack was used to trigger the gas supply.

Some officials said that a joint U.S.-Israeli strategy was evolving — some might argue regressing — to a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes, aimed at taking out the most prominent generals of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and setting back Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Dg west deptford Offline
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Isreal is AWESOME! I doubt we had much to do with these beautifully executed strikes
Thanks for the post Gene
BuckyB93 Offline
#3 Posted:
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Cool. I'm all for testing out new cyber attack methods on places like Iran.
rfenst Offline
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Very cool!
Speyside Offline
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This should happen regularly with nuclear threats from our enemy's.
HockeyDad Offline
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We’re going to go with Israel did it? No US involvement? OK, at least we won’t get anti-Trump protests that way.
Buckwheat Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
We’re going to go with Israel did it? No US involvement? OK, at least we won’t get anti-Trump protests that way.



"RRRRRRRIIIIIIGHT"?
frankj1 Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
We’re going to go with Israel did it? No US involvement? OK, at least we won’t get anti-Trump protests that way.

the drums had quieted for several years...
tonygraz Offline
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Looks like a good time for fatty fat to act up again.
HockeyDad Offline
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Well there was that Iranian general who recently got blown up and the Democrats were all upset about it. Trump did move the US embassy to Jerusalem. If I recall he also pulled the US out of some Iranian nuke deal.

Yeah, sounds like the Israelis were going it alone on this one.
Stogie1020 Offline
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Can anyone say "orbital directed energy weapon?"

X-37B spent a long time in space.... I don't think they were growing spinach experiments.
HockeyDad Offline
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The X-37B was looking for CROS.
Stogie1020 Offline
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I am new, CROS was before my time.
Mr. Jones Offline
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The

SHABAK

DOES
NOT
F**K-A-ROUND...

When it comes to IRAN
frankj1 Offline
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they would be gone if they ever slacked.
hard to understand for most of us.
tonygraz Offline
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Not if they know history.
frankj1 Offline
#17 Posted:
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I can't help but wonder if this would have happened had the US stayed in the deal with everyone else
HockeyDad Offline
#18 Posted:
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Yeah, it still would have happened. Glad I could help with that.
ZRX1200 Offline
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https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/pres-trump-nukes-china
frankj1 Offline
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bastid
Mr. Jones Offline
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SOB is an Israeli operative...
frankj1 Offline
#22 Posted:
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Mr. Jones wrote:
SOB is an Israeli operative...

why him?
ZRX1200 Offline
#23 Posted:
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Frank I’m never gonna let you down
frankj1 Offline
#24 Posted:
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Frank I’m never gonna let you down

It's not possible to not love you!
ZRX1200 Offline
#25 Posted:
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You know what’s funny, my daughter texted me the story.
frankj1 Offline
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I knew we shoulda killed the breed when rickamaven was recruiting snipers
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