Iran is kicking off...

Iranian chess player warned not to return after competing without hijab

Iran executes two protesters. https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/07/iran-hangs-two-more-men-amid-anti-government-protests

Iranian woman spends over a month in prison, refuses to wear her hijab when released.

https://twitter.com/alinejadmasih/status/1613593723752808448?s=46&t=-PQJMr4T3rLE5sYEnYwuRA

https://twitter.com/shayan86/status/1614674946810122241?s=46&t=DX5-5GNXkVu_UQ-ySojJqg

Unconfirmed but it looks like an ammo dump in Isfahan and a refinery in Azarshahr have gone ‘splody.

Fighters are scrambled over Tehran.

Hearing that it is a munitions factory not storage facility.

Not sure if it is where the drones being supplied to Russia are produced.

Hmmm...wonder if the Israelis (who have been publicly neutral in that conflict) might have seen a chance to shove one up the collective asses of the Russians and Iranians under the cover of the current unrest in Iran? Anyway...it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.

Iran won't confirm, though I've heard some intelligence analysts saying that it was. An Iranian drone was used in an attack in Jerusalem nine days prior.

And it has been confirmed that the attack in Isfahaeen against the drone facility was conducted by a drone as well. Three of them were launched, laden with bombs, two were shot down.

So my guess would be the Israelis.

But tensions are also high with Azerbaijan, Iran's neighbor to the north, after an Iranian gunman stormed the embassy and killed a member of its staff. The Iranian security forces did not interfere in the attack despite being on site. Azerbaijan has closed it's embassy.

Someone's been busy. Reports coming in, jets said to be seen overflying Iran, some indicating they are Mirage F1s.

Explosions in #Iran: 1. Isfahan, #Isfahan Province 2. #Khoy, W. Azerbaijan Province 3. Azarshahr, E. Azerbaijan Province 4. Tabriz, E, Azerbaijan Province 5. #Karaj, Alborz Province 6. Narmak, #Tehran Province 7. Hamadan, Hamadan Province #iranunderattack #IranDroneAttack

https://twitter.com/AfPakAffairs/status/1619594661794033669

F1s seem like they're museum pieces.

If Wiki is to be believed, less than 800 were built, and Iraq would be the closest country that operated them.

Probably misidentifications, hence 'reports.' Pretty strong evidence that a bunker bomb was used in one of the incidents, and that UAV/drones are involved.

Of course, this all from twitter. So take it with a grain of salt until it can be investigated.

Iraq used to operate them. Saddam flew his Air Force to Iran during the Gulf War to try and keep them from being destroyed and Iran never gave it back.

I agree it seems unlikely they were F-1's, but what fighter/bomber looks enough like it to be mistaken for an F-1?

WSJ:

Israel carried out a clandestine drone strike targeting a defense compound in Iran, according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the operation

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1619715753531285506

I think Iran scrambled pretty much everything they had (both to shoot down anything they could and to prevent them from being hit on the ground) and it was Iranian F1s people saw.

Makes sense. Drones must be awfully hard to see at night, so whatever can be seen is what gets identified. As far as F-1's being museum pieces, well the specs on them are pretty impressive, especially if your enemies don't have any kind of air force at all. In that scenario air supremacy would be a cinch with a couple of Piper Cubs and Beech Bonanzas. Of course that would last until somebody comes along with greater numbers of more modern planes.

Looks like a second night of strikes.

https://twitter.com/tendar/status/1619797756327133186

Interesting. Zelenskyy’s complained that Israel hasn’t done enough to help Ukraine.

Oh, I'm fairly sure if Israel has done anything to help Ukraine then they also benefit. They pushed for Ukraine to accept Putin's demands to surrender in the early days - largely worried that Russian forces in Syria would withdraw their approval of Israeli access to flyovers of Syria in order to hit Iran. And blocked the sale of Iron Dome to Ukraine. As well as weapons it has already been perfectly willing to sell to dictatorships.

Hold up. Might be old footage.

10 years in prison for dancing.

https://twitter.com/ashwinisahaya/status/1621385340161503232?s=46&t=X4fK_3TiEIAozwcLRkPzEA

Sounds like Iran needs a concurrent Dance Dance Revolution to help the needed systemic change.

Incidentally, if that were to happen in any moderate degree, if Bollywood did a documentary it would be phenomenal.

Things are picking up again. For some reason the regime thinks gassing schools is a good idea.

https://twitter.com/alinejadmasih/status/1630940207276064769

I heard the mayor of Portland was gassed as well.

He was, and keep the meme alive, but it's not funny in this context.

Two of my partner’s cousins got poisoned just for going to school.

Interesting article about a South American Muslim recruited to attend seminary in Iran - and how they attempted to brainwash him. Highlights - they seized his passport. The secret recipe for Iran's Shi'a religion is hatred, especially of Sunnis. Constant gaslighting about basic facts. Demonization of homosexuals. And how the clerics have to hide themselves if they go into the cities as everyone hates them. All the civilians he met while there were opposed to the regime.

https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/how-two-months-at-an-iranian-seminary-changed-my-life/

Khamenei says if the poisonings are proven to be deliberate (as if 700 school girls getting sick in 25/31 provinces could be just random) those responsible should be killed.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...rls-iran-is-an-unforgivable-crime-2023-03-06/

The regime is worried.

They’re still at it.

https://twitter.com/alinejadmasih/status/1646866322305712128?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ