LMCane said:

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the Iranian desert is larger than the Iraqi desert

hopefully will soon be some expeditionary Israeli airfields built between Bushehr and Teheran

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Big difference between doing that in Iraq who lacks much capacity to resist it even if they wanted to and Iran

🇦🇪 JUST IN—The UAE is done playing defense. Reports say Emirati strikes hit Iranian oil infrastructure as pressure mounts to remove the Ayatollah regime.

The E.U. continues to watch from the sidelines. while Iran continues to destabilize the region. 🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/OEwgul9jrr

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) May 13, 2026

UAE is probably their 'most pissed' neighbor, imho. They have also installed significant 'anti drone' fencing structures around a bunch of their oil storage facilities/tanks.

The UAE is now building anti-drone defenses around oil storage facilities.

Not cheap netting, but systems capable of stopping heavy UAVs. pic.twitter.com/6DP9eGJXRV

— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 13, 2026

Construction scaffold maybe, welded in place?

Iran 'frighteningly close' to a nuclear weapon, Energy secretary warns

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WASHINGTON Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned Wednesday that Iran is "frighteningly close" to developing weapons-grade enriched uranium.

Speaking to lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Wright stressed that Iran's enriched uranium, which President Trump is deadset on confiscating, puts the regime just weeks away from the threshold needed to get a nuke.

"They are a small number of weeks away to enrich that to weapons-grade uranium. There's still a weaponization process that happens after that, but they're quite close," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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MagnumLoad said:

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Iran will not change. Crush them now. All ports, all airports or airfields; all highway and rail bridges; all fuell supply to power plants, all power substations; all banks. It is the only way. Trumps needs to understand that soon. Don't let this drag out.

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Add the remaining military assets to the list along with current leaders.

Do all that while keeping the blockade in place.

Oh yeah open the strait

If you do all that there really in no reason to negotiate right away, especially if the strait is open to a degree. At that point you are in position to just mow the grass on the uranium and nuke facilities until you figure out a solution

Death wish indeed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-lawmaker-warns-tehran-could-enrich-uranium-to-weapons-grade-if-attacked-again/ar-AA231iR4?cvid=6a04d4977d7c4e968fc6bbf62135474d&ei=24