The sabotage, which analysts said marked an escalation in the shadow war between Israel and Iran, caused sweeping disruption in several provinces.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      151·
      9 months ago

      I guess they want to provoke Iran into an open war here, presumably on the assumption that US would have to get involved at that point.

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    9 months ago

    I have some issues with Nasser but holy shit i would kill for someone with a fraction of his basedness to be in charge of one of the arab countries right now

    besides syria they are dealing with their own shit rn

  • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    This puts Iran in a bad position. If they respond, theres a risk burguersam will come to back israel and things escalate completely out of control; if they dont, this opens the gates for further, worse agressions against them

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      61·
      9 months ago

      I expect they will respond, but not in a symmetric way. For example, I think it’s very likely we’ll see attacks on Israel by one of the groups aligned with Iran. The worst case scenario for Iran would be an open war with US, and for that to happen Iran needs to be painted as the aggressor. I imagine Iranian leadership is smart enough not to take the bait here.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    But blowing up part of the country’s energy infrastructure, relied on by industries, factories and millions of civilians, marked an escalation in the covert war and appeared to open a new frontier, officials and analysts said.

    “The enemy’s plan was to completely disrupt the flow of gas in winter to several main cities and provinces in our country,” Iran’s oil minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian media on Friday.

    But Iran supports and arms a network of proxy militia that have been actively fighting with Israel and United States, including the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and militants in Iraq and Syria.

    “This shows that the covert networks operating in Iran have expanded their target list and advanced beyond just military and nuclear sites,” said Shahin Modarres, a Rome-based security analyst focused on the Middle East.

    But his assessment was at odds with the comments of local governors and officials from Iran’s national gas company, who had described widespread outages of service in five provinces, forcing the closure of government buildings.

    He noted that major pipelines in Iran, which carry gas across vast distances that include mountains, deserts and rural fields, are patrolled by guards in outposts along the length of the pipes.

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