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> interception rate yet it's really at the mercy of Iran to not target their most vulnerable sites

And what this site and you don't account for, is Iranian rather low missile accuracy.

If Israel was at the mercy of Iranian attacks, Iran could have simply struck Israeli airbases to the point they cannot be used, and then stop any Israeli attacks on its territory.

It's pretty obvious they don't have the capabilities of doing that

brepppon Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

I don't know if they are legal or not. But assuming you don't want to leave a company, there is minimal tact of what to say when.

You have a choice not to use said tact, but this entire "employee goes on moral crusade, gets fired, goes on moral crusade about firing", is a feature of a kind of employee that is even for other employees not amazing to be around

brepppon Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

Is it really surprising she was fired?

It's completely okay to say whatever you want and stand up for yourself, but you are not a child, own the consequences rather than whine

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.A2JQ2G3

I was mistaken, sinking it was a claim by IRGC influence networks, not official statement. However official Iranian statements have claimed to have hit the USS Lincoln with 4 ballistic missiles, which is also an amazing lie considering these missiles accuracy and the state of the Lincoln.

Other nonsense claims apart from the "captured" US soldiers by Iranian officials is the claim of 100 dead US troops (https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603051892)

My point still stands, the Iranian regime has a different standard of truth than most people. Its lies are wild and non-subtle, I wouldn't put a lot of faith on any of those.

Regarding radar data, these is the evidence countries have when approaching such a situation. You can safely assume that a country like Qatar or Turkey for example that finance Hamas, have no vested interest to believe Israel over Iran. The problem is even they have some limit to being spit on and calling it rain

brepppon Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

While I fully support this instance, I wonder what else Cloudflare has set to "Censored", apart for the obvious CSAM

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

their targeting of Jews worldwide or Israeli citizens wildly predates this war and into the 90s.

Examples being the AMIA bombing or their mercenaries in Hezbollah firing rockets at Kiryat Shmona well through the 90s

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Hence my point that Iran's "strategy" is very questionable

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

It should be noted that Iran has claimed to have sunk the USS Lincoln and to have captured several US soldiers, among other creative interpretations of reality

To take the claims at face value, local governments that has an interest to shift blame on Israel, do not believe Iran, due to their own radar data

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

I am talking about direct IRGC planning and training for the attack

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-stri... https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained...

The attack plan of October 7 is generally so similar to the attack plan prepared for Hezbollah by the IRGC, that it is not surprising it is one and the same.

That's why Israel in this current conflict early on made moves on Iran and why the end game is this war.

> More broadly, this is the Levant versus Persia, a power contest as old as civilization.

Wasn't it more, Egypt and Greece vs Persia while the Levant was rapidly conquered?

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

This one from the 12 day war did https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Iran-scientis...

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

I would see this war as the end of a string of wars initiated by Iran through Hamas in October 7.

This left Israel similar to the USA post 9/11 or Peal Harbor. On a streak to make it never happen again in a very decisive/brutal way. Hegemony wasn't the moving factor for Israel, at least until very late in the war, and due to the same reasons

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

> Iranians are white, the name "Iran" literally means "Land of the Aryans".

The Indians were also Aryan according to race theories. I wouldn't put much sense into racism

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Actually Iran has hit the Soroka hospital in Israel in the previous war and the Weizmann Institute, a research university

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Qatar and Oman were mutually hostile? that's a very unique interpretation of Middle Eastern politics

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

This is an attack on Turkish territory regardless if there's a US base, and Iranian missiles usually miss the bases anyway.

Turkey is led by a strongman leader and these are very sensitive to acts of public humiliation. So that's unwise when thinking about any negligible strategic advantage they may gain from these attacks

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

These were chemical weapons found in Iraq, the reason the new york times was interested in the story was the fact that ISIS has somehow developed chemical weapons using Iraq's existing infrastructure.

This means there were active facilities, materials and know how even after the war

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Hardly, after attacking all their friends in the region, which would leave them even more isolated after the war, I would not attribute careful strategic planning either

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

Those were mostly UAVs, you can see the abysmal aiming ability in Israel, where they have largely stopped aiming at facilities and moved to cluster warheads to maximize civilian hit ratio in large metropolis

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

the IAEA, presumably you trust UN agencies?

in any case, these are the mythical WMDs found in Iraq:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/03/world/middlee...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have...

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

After being caught developing nuclear weapons for real numerous times, now it is really for real?

brepppon Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

> On the other hand if Iran was to fire a missile at continental Europe I would hope that the consequence for them would be to be flattened

Iran have been attacking uninvolved NATO member Turkey for a while now and nothing happens. The USA is already fully engaged into this war while Europe can hardly deal together with Russia, it is doubtful they'd do anything even if it rained down on their territory

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

I have to admit that I am having difficulty tracking your logic.

However, in this somewhat unrelated post, it seems you are referring to the semantic shift that has occurred in the word "genocide", to mean "an act of war I do not support" rather than "an attempt at systematic extermination of an entire ethnicity".

In that new meaning echoed here you'd have a problem finding Israelis that are against a war fought against Hamas, a rape gang that brought disaster upon themselves and their palestinian electorate, even if relabeled with a misappropriated word.

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

I could discuss the issues with this poll which I cannot find anywhere, (Why are Arabs not polled? last time I checked they were people too, hacking a result much?)

But I will ask you this, how is that related in any way to what I said or the thread itself?

brepppon Show HN: The Lottery of Life

There was a game using this mechanic called RealLives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives_(video_game)

You had a random chance at being born anywhere in the world weighted by population. A big lesson from the game is if you are born in Africa and you survive childhood, your best bet is somehow immigrating to the West

brepppon Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

My point here is that saying it was "the plan from the start" like GPP does, ignores the fact the the zionist movement had became more militaristic as a defensive measure to palestinian ethnic cleansings, which is quite clear from the chronology of your own quotes

However, even if you wanted to show Ben Gurion wanted to "expel the palestinians", quoting a single personal letter that is almost unintelligible, that has your quote disputed between "we must expel" and "we must not expel", right after a British committee proposed solving the conflict by transferring Palestinians, is a weak argument

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

In a publication like Al Jazeera that is managed by an authoritarian state, nothing gets published by accident.

You also have to willfully ignore what's going on to not notice the relation to Iran attacking Qatar for two weeks

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

there are no people that think differently than me, only paid actors

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

I do, however forgive me as I am interested in the conflict as me and my extended family are currently being bombed.

That on contrast with many in this site that are obsessed with the conflict with little knowledge apart from a sports-like team cheering

Generally hacker news as a site due to moderation choices is quite the political site with disproportionate interest in Jews in the Middle East and their problems, with a few of the AI slop blog posts thrown in.

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

> Israel's primary defense benefactor until the 1990s was France

1960s, and that's the time imo the US became heavily involved in the region

brepppon The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

Poetic justice how Qatar's propaganda wire of Al Jazeera switches so easily from anti-Israel to pro-Israel.

All it took is two weeks of reality of what happens when you support the most extreme elements in the area, it all comes back hitting you in the face.