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since the Military Thread seems to have shifted towards Iran, lets talk about them here, we'll start with some videos children
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Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 23rd 2025 at 7:56:55 PM
Israel destroys Iranian weapons shipment in alleged Syria airstrike
Wonder who it was destined for? Russian forces? Hezbollah? Asad?
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."AP: Saudi Arabia's Al-Ittihad FC refused to play its scheduled Asian Champions League match against Iran's Sepahan SC
after finding out that the venue, Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Stadium, had installed a pair of Soleimani busts for the teams to walk past as they enter. The Saudi team featured several high-profile international players, including Karim Benzema, N'Golo Kanté, and Fabinho.
Reuters: Jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Mohammadi, who is currently eight years into a twelve-year sentence in Evin Prison, managed to send an audio recording to CNN
addressing the systematic use of sexual assault by Iranian authorities in their crackdown on protesters.
Oh, and YouTuber Asianometry put together a video on Iran's water crisis, which he attributes to several key factors:
- Iran historically managed to develop large population centres far from major river basins, which partly came down to the qanat/karez system of underground irrigation. Exponential population growth in modern times, however, put more demand on existing water sources (mostly through the agricultural sector), and the transport systems struggle to keep up.
- The Shah's attempt in the '60s to redistribute rural land ownership (under the so-called "White Revolution") dispossessed many landowners (who would become a key element of the urban opposition against the monarchy) while failing to effectively allocate their lands to rural peasants. As it turned out, these landowners also bore customary responsibility for the upkeep of the qanat system, and the government agencies the Shah deployed in their stead failed to rise up to the task. Much of the underground networks fell into disrepair as a result, forcing rural farms to draw water from faraway sources or use electrical pumps to draw it from illegal wells.
- Despite all this, the Iranian government heavily subsidises water use by the agricultural sector (a choice driven by its desire for food self-sufficiency), which led to wasteful use of the cheap water. For one, most of the water going to agricultural areas is still channelled through surface canals, resulting in much loss to evaporation.
- The White Revolution was also marked by a flurry of large-scale water engineering works by the Shah's government, which were modelled after the irrigation of the Western US and which the Islamic Republic later doubled down on. The resulting dams and canals, while managing to deliver more water from existing sources, also drain them out over time, and introduces new problems like increases in soil salinity.
- Finally, jurisdiction over water management is split across several rival government agencies, which makes it difficult for them to coordinate on these issues.
Edited by eagleoftheninth on Oct 6th 2023 at 5:14:22 AM
One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.TIL that Iran has its own version of the Olivier salad.
So ? States generally do not being infiltrated by terrorists, but it happens nevertheless. Now, if this starts happening a lot then it would be mean there is something wrong with Iranian security, but for now I would not say that this is surprising or unusual.
Edited by Risa123 on Jan 4th 2024 at 10:58:28 AM
I suspect part of the problem is that the Iranian government and society might be living a bit in la-la land in regards to internal security, incorrectly assuming that Saudi-Arabia, Israel and "the West" are the only threats and forgetting about ISIL and pals. Tunnel vision is quite common.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynmanhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/world/middleeast/iran-terrorism-isis-israel.html
NY Times has an article that highlights growing criticism within Iran that Iranian security forces can't even ensure internal security due to its rhetoric towards its "enemies".
I've always said that Iran's foreign policies are too ambitious for its means. The country has enough internal problems without sinking a lot of resources in setting things on fire everywhere else.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIran conducted an Air Strike on Pakistan
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/middleeast/iran-missile-attack-pakistan-intl-hnk/index.html
Is this the beginning of a full-blown war between the two countries?
Edited by Forenperser on Jan 17th 2024 at 12:30:20 PM
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Qatar helped the US to mediate for the release of five Iranian-Americans. IIRC, Iranian assets in South Korea are transfered to Qatari banks. Doha assured DC that they'll monitor them as they're suppose to be used for humanitarian purposes only.