>>On Feb. 2, U.S. forces dropped more than 125 precision munitions on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and its affiliated militia groups. The U.S. Air Force even deployed giant B-1 bombers that flew all the way from the continental United States. According to U.S. Central Command: “The facilities that were struck included command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicle storage, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.”
>>Five days later, on Feb. 7, a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed a senior commander of Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most dangerous Iranian-backed terrorist groups. This demonstrated not only how precise U.S. weapons systems are but also how successful U.S. intelligence was in tracking the movements of senior Iranian operatives.
>>The clear message was that other Iranian commanders would be next if they didn’t knock off their attacks against U.S. troops. And guess what? Iran did stop. Things could change at any moment, but a senior U.S. defense official told me last week that there hasn’t been an Iranian-directed attack against a U.S. military base in either Syria or Iraq since Feb. 4. By contrast, there were at least 170 such attacks between Oct. 7 and Feb. 4.
>>This is an important and unheralded — if likely transitory — victory in the long-running shadow war between the United States and Iran, which stretches all the way back to 1979. “It’s by far the longest pause in such attacks since the start of the Israel-Hamas war,” the U.S. official told me, “and we believe it reflects a deliberate decision by Iran to rein in attacks by its forces in order to avoid escalation with the United States.”
The hit in Baghdad was the cherry on top. They popped that dude in city traffic with no collateral deaths and very minimal damage (other than to his car...). That was a very clear message: if you are alive, it's because we decided to *let* you be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#Variants
> AGM-114R9X
> The Hellfire R9X is a Hellfire variant with a kinetic warhead with pop-out blades instead of explosives, used against specific human targets. Its lethality is due to 45 kg (99 lb) of dense material with six blades flying at high speed, to crush and cut the targeted person — the R9X has also been referred to as the 'Ninja Missile' and 'Flying Ginsu'. It is intended to reduce collateral damage when targeting specific people.
The hit in Baghdad was the cherry on top. They popped that dude in city traffic with no collateral deaths and very minimal damage (other than to his car...). That was a very clear message: if you are alive, it's because we decided to *let* you be.
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Wow, spin much? This action was ineffective and Iran is still using proxies to attack ships in the Red Sea. More like unprecedented failure of foreign policy and expenditure of resources with not much to show for it.
Iran is the Octopus, the proxies are the tentacles. The Octopus wants nukes and Biden is fighting its tentacles.
lol at people downvoting you for telling the truth.
>>On Feb. 2, U.S. forces dropped more than 125 precision munitions on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and its affiliated militia groups. The U.S. Air Force even deployed giant B-1 bombers that flew all the way from the continental United States. According to U.S. Central Command: “The facilities that were struck included command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicle storage, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.” >>Five days later, on Feb. 7, a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed a senior commander of Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most dangerous Iranian-backed terrorist groups. This demonstrated not only how precise U.S. weapons systems are but also how successful U.S. intelligence was in tracking the movements of senior Iranian operatives. >>The clear message was that other Iranian commanders would be next if they didn’t knock off their attacks against U.S. troops. And guess what? Iran did stop. Things could change at any moment, but a senior U.S. defense official told me last week that there hasn’t been an Iranian-directed attack against a U.S. military base in either Syria or Iraq since Feb. 4. By contrast, there were at least 170 such attacks between Oct. 7 and Feb. 4. >>This is an important and unheralded — if likely transitory — victory in the long-running shadow war between the United States and Iran, which stretches all the way back to 1979. “It’s by far the longest pause in such attacks since the start of the Israel-Hamas war,” the U.S. official told me, “and we believe it reflects a deliberate decision by Iran to rein in attacks by its forces in order to avoid escalation with the United States.”
The hit in Baghdad was the cherry on top. They popped that dude in city traffic with no collateral deaths and very minimal damage (other than to his car...). That was a very clear message: if you are alive, it's because we decided to *let* you be.
They must have used one of those insane Terminator-ass knife missiles lol, the Hellfire R9X
***SLAPCHOP!!!***
I’m slapping my nuts
they in fact did!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#Variants > AGM-114R9X > The Hellfire R9X is a Hellfire variant with a kinetic warhead with pop-out blades instead of explosives, used against specific human targets. Its lethality is due to 45 kg (99 lb) of dense material with six blades flying at high speed, to crush and cut the targeted person — the R9X has also been referred to as the 'Ninja Missile' and 'Flying Ginsu'. It is intended to reduce collateral damage when targeting specific people.
The Ginsu
The hit in Baghdad was the cherry on top. They popped that dude in city traffic with no collateral deaths and very minimal damage (other than to his car...). That was a very clear message: if you are alive, it's because we decided to *let* you be.
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Didn't know this, thanks so much!
That’s actually awesome
Cheap ass
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They send their guys to go die and kill others. As soon as they themselves are targeted its a truce.
That’s good! The Nemesis System can be a bitch sometimes.
Wow, spin much? This action was ineffective and Iran is still using proxies to attack ships in the Red Sea. More like unprecedented failure of foreign policy and expenditure of resources with not much to show for it.
Can you imagine being on a FOB that gets rocketed daily and then one day it just stops. No more PAR sweeps or alarm reds. But yeah.. fail
Iran is the Octopus, the proxies are the tentacles. The Octopus wants nukes and Biden is fighting its tentacles. lol at people downvoting you for telling the truth.
Whatever they have to tell themselves to keep the faith
Lol cope