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Offline Timber Rattler

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Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« on: January 18, 2024, 02:37:28 pm »
https://www.reuters.com/world/pakistan-has-conducted-strikes-inside-iran-afp-report-2024-01-18/

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Pakistan said it used rockets and drones to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.

Iranian media said several missiles hit a village in the Sistan-Baluchestan province that borders Pakistan, killing at least nine people, including four children.
The neighbours have had rocky ties in the past, but the strikes are the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and come amid growing worries about instability in the Middle East since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct. 7.

"A number of terrorists were killed during the intelligence-based operation," Pakistan's foreign ministry said, describing it as a "series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts".

"The sole objective of today's act was in pursuit of Pakistan's own security and national interest, which is paramount and cannot be compromised," the ministry added.

A senior Pakistani security official told Reuters the military was on "extremely" high alert and would meet any "misadventure" from the Iranian side forcefully.

Tehran strongly condemned the strikes, saying civilians were killed, and summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires, its most senior diplomat in Iran, to give an explanation.

"The information received indicates that four children, three women and two men, who were foreign nationals, have been killed in the explosion that occurred in a village," Iran's Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi told state TV.

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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2024, 04:50:42 pm »
@Timber Rattler


I think what is going on in the Middle East represents two things:


1. Lack of American Leadership right now
2. Lack of American Leadership if we continue down the isolationist path in the future.
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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2024, 04:54:20 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis007 on January 18, 2024, 04:50:42 pm
@Timber Rattler


I think what is going on in the Middle East represents two things:


1. Lack of American Leadership right now
2. Lack of American Leadership if we continue down the isolationist path in the future.

Definitely lack of American leadership; without any doubts.
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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2024, 06:44:33 pm »
Pakistan has, as does possibly Iran, nuclear weapons...

This could get interesting. 888mouth
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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2024, 06:54:21 pm »
Pakistan doing the jobs that America won't do.
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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2024, 09:57:58 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on January 18, 2024, 06:54:21 pm
Pakistan doing the jobs that America won't do.

Yeah, it all goes back to Biden's delusion that he could do business with Iran, undid Trump's sanctions, and refused to drop the hammer on the mullahs when they first tested American resolve following his inauguration.  Once they sized Biden up, the mullahs lost their fear of America, and so here we are.
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Re: Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2024, 10:06:46 pm »
Let Iran and Pakistan obliterate each other.
The world will become a better place without them.
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