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Missiles can reach UK say Iran

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Spinningnewbie · 26/03/2026 08:48

Just heard this in live interview with Defence Secretary.
Apparently they can reach us in 4 hours.
Are they lying??

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RedTagAlan · 27/03/2026 17:43

Gloriia · 27/03/2026 17:35

'The IDF is very quick to report this. But you are saying if they found smuggled rockets in Gaza, then that would somehow be secret ? Nah. You are practically making stuff up for them really. They would report it like a shot if they found smuggled arms from Iran in Gaza.'

No hun, I'm saying they'll report what they find but they'll be plenty they don't find. It's the nature of illegal arms smuggling, they don't have stickers on the containers telling everyone what the contents are.

So you are saying they are smuggling arms into Gaza, but they are so good at it that nobody can find them ?

Erm...

CrocusesFlowering · 27/03/2026 17:46

The Iranians have have hacked Kash Patel’s private accounts. He is the director of the FBI. America is fucked.

RedTagAlan · 27/03/2026 18:00

CrocusesFlowering · 27/03/2026 17:46

The Iranians have have hacked Kash Patel’s private accounts. He is the director of the FBI. America is fucked.

The FBI say its historical stuff.

The missing Epstein files perhaps ? With Patel's notes on how to hide them ?

CrocusesFlowering · 27/03/2026 18:06

It may be historical but they were still able to hack them.

MissConductUS · 27/03/2026 21:12

It was his personal Gmail account, not his DOJ account.

balabusta · 29/03/2026 11:25

textcurrent · 27/03/2026 14:32

Israel can care all they want, people in the UK don't. And it's only one country that keeps insisting that the UK and Europe are under threat from Iran. Fuck off and spend your own money and endanger your own people on your own fucking wars.

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Iran has already conducted attacks on British soil
Why dont you ask Craig and Lindsay Foreman what the IRGC feel about Brits?
And its not "one country" insisting, its intelligence and you can do with that as you please.
Neville Chamberlain also thought he'd done a deal with the Nazis.

balabusta · 29/03/2026 11:31

RedTagAlan · 27/03/2026 15:31

Here you go Gloriia. This just now on the sky news feed.

"IDF claims hundreds of Hezbollah weapons found in school
Hundreds of weapons held by Hezbollah have been found at a school in southern Lebanon, the Israeli Defence Forces has claimed.
The stockpile was found after Israeli troops conducted a focused riad in the village of Al-Khiyam, the IDF said.
It shared footage on social media showing what it said were rockets, mortar shells, firearms and explosives found at the school.
"Hezbollah systematically embeds terrorist infrastructure in civilian spaces, thereby continuing to endanger the residents of Lebanon," the IDF said in a report of the raid."

The IDF is very quick to report this. But you are saying if they found smuggled rockets in Gaza, then that would somehow be secret ?

Nah. You are practically making stuff up for them really. They would report it like a shot if they found smuggled arms from Iran in Gaza.

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You really have a simplistic understanding of a very complex situation.
The relationship betweeb Hezbollah and Iran and Hamas and Iran are not the same.
Hezbollah is a direct proxy of Iran, it's a shia group and literally you have IRGC commanders directing them, funding and arming them
Hamas is more complicated. It's sunni for a start. Iran has funded them and supported them and certainly encouraged 7/10 but they are not a direct proxy like Hezbollah and the Houthis.

You really need to educate yourself a bit more, itd really help. This is all easily available material.

balabusta · 29/03/2026 11:32

notimagain · 27/03/2026 16:27

why believe the missiles can hit London claim when that also has no evidence presented. .

I think with regard to that claim people need to look at the big picture and not just make a knee jerk reaction either way based on "cos the IDF says..." they need to look at what's in the public domain..

The Iranians have a mature ballistics missile industry but fortunately as far as we know none of their military types of missiles has the range to reach western europe..

However the Iranians have demonstrated the capability to launch satellites using their own indigenous launchers, which like it or not, objectively, according to the science and engineering, means if they wanted to they in theory might be able to reach western europe with something....

Problem they'd have in the current conflict would be erecting and fuelling a launcher without it being detected and attacked, also we don't know what weight of payload could be carried, and we don't know if the Iranians have solved the problems with re-entry heating at high velocities...

To cut to the chase I suspect if you asked intelligence specialist/analyst if the Iranians, if so minded, could launch something that could reach the UK they'd say something like .."highly highly unlikely, but I can't say the probability is absolutely zero".

I'd agree. Easier for iran to carry out terror attacks than long range missiles against london. Closer and easier missile targets are all available.

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