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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    You are probably right. The market is highly unstable and anything that can be used to spike oil prices can and will be used. On the other hand the Saudi Royals sure as hell deserve this.
    Maybe, just maybe if we got the hell out of the way the Iranians we hate and the saudis we should hate would just kick the $#@! out of each other?
    I didagree the saudis dont deserve it. Thats like saying we deserved 911

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    You are probably right. The market is highly unstable and anything that can be used to spike oil prices can and will be used. On the other hand the Saudi Royals sure as hell deserve this.
    Maybe, just maybe if we got the hell out of the way the Iranians we hate and the saudis we should hate would just kick the $#@! out of each other?
    Yes, the Saudi's should surrender.
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    Turn the Israeli's loose. They want to take Iranian nuke sites out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    You are probably right. The market is highly unstable and anything that can be used to spike oil prices can and will be used. On the other hand the Saudi Royals sure as hell deserve this.
    Maybe, just maybe if we got the hell out of the way the Iranians we hate and the saudis we should hate would just kick the $#@! out of each other?
    When we made our arraignment with the Saudis we did so because they had the oil. The Iranian Revolution killed a good relationship with Iran.

    Now we don't need Saudi oil. The rest of the world does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bulletbob View Post
    Nuke site yes that also but before the change they will have to a economic collaspe that will encourage a uprising from the people destruction of their nuke sites wont achine that .
    They have now disrupted the worlds oil supply wich will take s9me time to repair .
    I don't see a general uprising in Iran coming.
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    It looks like it wasn't the Houthies after all. They are not known to have the capacity to reach that far with what we know of their equipment. Red State pieced together data provided by SecState and some news sources and offers that an Iranian backed militia in Iraq used precision-guided missiles to hit the targets in Saudi Arabia. (And I had another thread about this threat today.)

    Some things in the story, however, never made sense. For instance, the range was well over 500 miles from Houthi territory (here I’m just measuring from the Yemeni border) which is extreme for the drones they have, particularly if they are carrying enough ordnance to cause the damage we see in the video. The Houthi use the Iranian Qasef-1 drone which has a range of about less than 300 miles on a suicide mission and can carry a payload of about 60-lbs. Blame me for the bad graphic:



    It didn’t take long, however, for imagery to be produced that indicated something different:

    [See image at link]

    What you’re looking at there appears to be a cruise missile that pancaked enroute. This makes much more sense than an drone because the we know the Houthi have deployed cruise missiles before and the range and payload make the attack and the damage from the attack plausible.

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    A direct attack of this scale on Saudi Arabia by Iranian proxy forces in Iraq definitely is a different situation than Yemeni rebels shooting cruise missiles. Rather than the low grade war that Saudi Arabia is involved in with the Houthi, this now threatens to be come a much more significant and broader conflict that could suck in the United States and Israel.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    When we made our arraignment with the Saudis we did so because they had the oil. The Iranian Revolution killed a good relationship with Iran. .
    The regime change to install the Shah as a puppet leader is what killed a good relationship with Iran. All the current problems , including in Yemen , are by-products of this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I don't see a general uprising in Iran coming.
    If the JCPOA wasn't abandoned by Trump , there would be no tension in the Persian Gulf today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    If the JCPOA wasn't abandoned by Trump , there would be no tension in the Persian Gulf today.
    That isn't true because of ISIL.

    But to focus on Iran, had Trump not dumped Obama's deal, not a US deal, Iran would be still on the path to nuclear weapons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    The regime change to install the Shah as a puppet leader is what killed a good relationship with Iran. All the current problems , including in Yemen , are by-products of this.
    The government chose to ally with the Soviets during the Cold War with the US. They lost.
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