Protests Erupt across Iran

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2:48p, 1/18/26
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Iranians ain't giving up.
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3:31p, 1/18/26
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appreciate the updates, nortex!
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 3:38p, 1/18/26
flown-the-coop said:
Queso1 said:
I know it's naive, and maybe I'm just too much of a liberal (classical, not a blue haired freak), but I cannot understand why one group of people believe they have the right to massacre others. Maybe it's the way the coffee is hitting this morning, but this seems like such an alien, insane and corrupt position to take.

I don't know what Trump can do. If it's nothing, he should have kept his mouth shut because now he looks weaker and as if he let those people down.

Did you miss what Cuomo and others did to elderly in the early days of COVID? That was one group believing they had to the right to massacre others.

Cuomo has nothing to do with Iran
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In reply to txwxman • 3:48p, 1/18/26
txwxman said:
flown-the-coop said:
Queso1 said:
I know it's naive, and maybe I'm just too much of a liberal (classical, not a blue haired freak), but I cannot understand why one group of people believe they have the right to massacre others. Maybe it's the way the coffee is hitting this morning, but this seems like such an alien, insane and corrupt position to take.

I don't know what Trump can do. If it's nothing, he should have kept his mouth shut because now he looks weaker and as if he let those people down.

Did you miss what Cuomo and others did to elderly in the early days of COVID? That was one group believing they had to the right to massacre others.

Cuomo has nothing to do with Iran


But it was a demo-communist style massacre of the elderly in New York that the mullahs in Iran would be proud to call their own.
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In reply to txwxman • 3:48p, 1/18/26
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txwxman said:
flown-the-coop said:
Queso1 said:
I know it's naive, and maybe I'm just too much of a liberal (classical, not a blue haired freak), but I cannot understand why one group of people believe they have the right to massacre others. Maybe it's the way the coffee is hitting this morning, but this seems like such an alien, insane and corrupt position to take.

I don't know what Trump can do. If it's nothing, he should have kept his mouth shut because now he looks weaker and as if he let those people down.

Did you miss what Cuomo and others did to elderly in the early days of COVID? That was one group believing they had to the right to massacre others.

Cuomo has nothing to do with Iran

Perhaps you misunderstood. One group believing that have the right to kill others. Libs thought it was okay to kill the elderly hoping no one would notice. Ayatollahs kill dissidents hoping no one will notice.

Let me know if that's still not clear for you.

Tl;dr libs are just as evil as the ayatollahs and the IRGC.
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In reply to nortex97 • 4:59p, 1/18/26
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Iranians ain't giving up.

Yes, always appreciate the updates.
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In reply to nortex97 • 5:10p, 1/18/26
the Islamic Republic shut down the entire economy, all the banks, and I have seen no real aircraft landing in Iran the past week.

the only thing actually working was the murder machine killing women- and the state television stations

now someone was able to hack the state TV that the regime forced everyone to watch and all the population for the first time saw the Shah Pahlavi speaking for several minutes!

and the internet back up in Iran right now!
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5:57p, 1/18/26
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An account to follow. More recorded footage leaking out (via starlinks generally, but I didn't see yet per LMcane that internet otherwise restored for now, contra regime statements. Great if true!)


More F-15E's sent from UK to Jordan.

I've read the Lincoln CVBG is still 5 days away, sailing at 20 knots (roughly). This is (apparently) not 'maximum' speed but reflects a lack of available fast tankers/resupply vessels. Lot's of stuff (including C-17's) to Diego Garcia. As frustrating as it may be, and I didn't think this was the case, I think it may have to wait until at least Thursday for strikes to happen. (Of course, I've been wrong about this before so take it with a grain of salt).
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In reply to txwxman • 8:03p, 1/18/26
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txwxman said:
flown-the-coop said:
Queso1 said:
I know it's naive, and maybe I'm just too much of a liberal (classical, not a blue haired freak), but I cannot understand why one group of people believe they have the right to massacre others. Maybe it's the way the coffee is hitting this morning, but this seems like such an alien, insane and corrupt position to take.

I don't know what Trump can do. If it's nothing, he should have kept his mouth shut because now he looks weaker and as if he let those people down.

Did you miss what Cuomo and others did to elderly in the early days of COVID? That was one group believing they had to the right to massacre others.

Cuomo has nothing to do with Iran

They both helped kill a bunch of people they didn't consider useful?
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9:28p, 1/19/26
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I hope the protests in Iran keep going. We know they're supporting the Leftist rent-a-riots in America.

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4:26a, 1/20/26
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Just CNN being themselves, which is to say they are an enemy of the republic and people (including the people of Iran) and should be treated as such, even if Don Lemon no longer works there.

Regime also is using sexual violence/rape as a tool of oppression for women who are arrested. Too disgusting to me to link to this reporting, but matches what their proxies such as Hamas have done as well.
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In reply to nortex97 • 9:24a, 1/20/26
bruh-

USS Abraham Lincoln is able to cruise flank speed nearly 30 knots and has nuclear reactors.
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In reply to LMCane • 9:55a, 1/20/26
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LMCane said:
bruh-

USS Abraham Lincoln is able to cruise flank speed nearly 30 knots and has nuclear reactors.

Yes, but it doesn't cruise alone.
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10:07a, 1/20/26
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I know we have naval assets on the way to the area, what is the latest about when they will get there?
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In reply to Tailgate88 • 10:40a, 1/20/26
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Thursday or Friday.
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In reply to nortex97 • 11:27a, 1/20/26
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Tanker logistics could be an issue or it could simply reflect that over a span of time that long they need to conduct flight ops and can't just blaze ahead at 30+ knots regardless of the wind. They still need to train and maintain currency so at times they need to turn into the wind to launch and recover aircraft, and at other times they're making best speed.
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12:03p, 1/20/26
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Quick side note… watching the AppleTV series Tehran is sort of fascinating as these events play out. Not for it being fact based on what is happening now but it does provide some pretty solid entertainment with some insight into how things sort if work there.

Watching Argo should also be a must for this thread. Iran is a fascinating place. It would be awesome if this results in them rejoining the civilized world.
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1:29p, 1/20/26
supposedly transponder for Abraham Lincoln just went dark

Gerald Ford has it's transponder off the last few weeks.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 1:31p, 1/20/26
flown-the-coop said:
Quick side note… watching the AppleTV series Tehran is sort of fascinating as these events play out. Not for it being fact based on what is happening now but it does provide some pretty solid entertainment with some insight into how things sort if work there.

Watching Argo should also be a must for this thread. Iran is a fascinating place. It would be awesome if this results in them rejoining the civilized world.

I was never able to really watch Homeland or Teheran

because Hollywood was better at fighting the Islamic Republic than Obama and Biden.

now that we actually did bomb the @#$ out of them - I may check it out.
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In reply to LMCane • 1:43p, 1/20/26
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Tehran is a fun show, I would recommend it and they just came out with a 3rd season.

I remember watching homeland with my parents back in the day and it started good but I never finished it.

Can confirm that both are fun to watch.
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6:40a, 1/21/26
Any info? I'm afraid Iranians may lose heart the more this drags out. Hope they can do it without our help, but am thinking they sure want some help, and will give up if the killing continues.
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In reply to flown-the-coop • 6:49a, 1/21/26
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flown-the-coop said:
Quick side note… watching the AppleTV series Tehran is sort of fascinating as these events play out. Not for it being fact based on what is happening now but it does provide some pretty solid entertainment with some insight into how things sort if work there.

Watching Argo should also be a must for this thread. Iran is a fascinating place. It would be awesome if this results in them rejoining the civilized world.

Americanized Persian Women are awesome. In my experience, amazing cooks, very smart, self-assured, and drop-dead beautiful.

I'm not so big on immigration from where we are now, but I would be all about letting a bunch of Iranian women into the US under asylum, as long as they are all single and all relocated to Houston.
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In reply to Owlagdad • 7:17a, 1/21/26
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We've been not-so-quietly amassing firepower and moving a CVNSG to the area to get there by the weekend, and the Iranians know this stuff, so the protests have paused. Not much news in the interim, and no reason for them to go out and get slaughtered pending the next 'steps' in support.
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In reply to nortex97 • 7:53a, 1/21/26
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nortex97 said:
We've been not-so-quietly amassing firepower and moving a CVNSG to the area to get there by the weekend, and the Iranians know this stuff, so the protests have paused. Not much news in the interim, and no reason for them to go out and get slaughtered pending the next 'steps' in support.


I hope this is true. Something like 330,000 people have been injured and 16,000 killed,so far.
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In reply to jt2hunt • 7:57a, 1/21/26
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jt2hunt said:
nortex97 said:
We've been not-so-quietly amassing firepower and moving a CVNSG to the area to get there by the weekend, and the Iranians know this stuff, so the protests have paused. Not much news in the interim, and no reason for them to go out and get slaughtered pending the next 'steps' in support.


I hope this is true. Something like 330,000 people have been injured in 16,000.


Day drinking at such an early hour?
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1:41p, 1/21/26
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Massive ongoing surge of US military assets into the Middle East. Something's about to go down.

IRAN?
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In reply to LMCane • 3:41p, 1/21/26
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LMCane said:
bruh-

USS Abraham Lincoln is able to cruise flank speed nearly 30 knots and has nuclear reactors.


It's slightly faster than that.
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4:09p, 1/21/26
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The speed limit is the fuel efficiency of the turbine/diesel powered escort vessels and support ships. Possibly also the unseen attack submarine that is likely lurking around the carrier group as well, as it will want to travel without making too much noise, though I suppose they can hand off to another SSN already near the operations area. Just a bit on conjecture there but my understanding is there's usually an attack boat in the vicinity of a carrier group on station.

The guided missile destroyers, frigates, maybe a cruiser have a long range but not at near flank speed. Same with any support ships or attached amphibious elements.
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 4:50p, 1/21/26
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MouthBQ98 said:
The speed limit is the fuel efficiency of the turbine/diesel powered escort vessels and support ships. Possibly also the unseen attack submarine that is likely lurking around the carrier group as well, as it will want to travel without making too much noise, though I suppose they can hand off to another SSN already near the operations area. Just a bit on conjecture there but my understanding is there's usually an attack boat in the vicinity of a carrier group on station.

The guided missile destroyers, frigates, maybe a cruiser have a long range but not at near flank speed. Same with any support ships or attached amphibious elements

Seaspeed would be the best resource here, but the fleet tankers top speed is around 20kts. Without them, you have limitations on the fuel for both the attached surface ships and the aircraft on board the carriers. You probably don't want a carrier running away from its defensive support ships!

Looks like we only have 15 of these fleet tankers. I would assume the same principal of availability applies to them as it does to other fleet ships.
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In reply to JB!98 • 6:10p, 1/21/26
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I read earlier this week that the Arleigh Burke (DDG) destroyers are essentially at 'best efficiency' around 20 knots, but don't know enough about this crap to even remember the source. I believe the 3 of USS Spruance, Peterson, and Murphy are the present escorts in said class.

Apparently, CSG-3 is presently north-west of the straight of Malacca (numbered '1' on the embedded map).

She went through this body of water back in August 2024, as well. And no, none of this is 'secret', and the Iranians even, as inept as they are seem to be keeping an eye on it.
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8:30p, 1/21/26
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Welp. If it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Iranian people enjoy your ayatollahs and the occasional Israeli ass whooping.
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In reply to Burnsey • 8:43p, 1/21/26
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Burnsey said:
Welp. If it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Iranian people enjoy your ayatollahs and the occasional Israeli ass whooping.

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In reply to Burnsey • 8:43p, 1/21/26
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The post right above explains all the American equipment being moved over. Seems like we may still be loading the cannons.
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In reply to Burnsey • 8:44p, 1/21/26
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Burnsey said:
Welp. If it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Iranian people enjoy your ayatollahs and the occasional Israeli ass whooping.


Genuinely asking. Do you think we are moving all these assets into the Middle East to not do anything? I've been under the assumption it was just biding time to get us fully set up before we drop the hammer. Why else waste the resources to get the assets over there?
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In reply to T dizl televizl • 9:01p, 1/21/26
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Why else waste the resources to get the assets over there?

We are very very good at wasting our resources, but I agree with you. We are spending a ton of money moving all of these assets around so something is going to happen, or else we're just making all of the Iranian leaders **** themselves and this is all leverage to make them leave.
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