Worrying reports of Iran attacks on Kuwait and wider regional tensions

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Iran is firing at various countries tonight, Saudi and Kuwait.

Kuwait confirms its main border crossing with Iraq has come under repeated attack.

Seems Iran wants to drag in other countries. Hitting a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait isn't US targets.

It doesn't feel like the situation is improving at all. I feel for the people in the middle of this.

Google AI tells me (re Shia suicide bombers):

In the early 1980s groups within the Lebanese Shia community utilized suicide bombings as a tactical weapon against foreign military forces during the Lebanese Civil War and Israeli occupation. These historical operations primarily targeted military barracks, outposts, and convoys (such as the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks and French paratrooper bombings, or attacks against Israeli forces in Lebanon), rather than civilian sectarian gatherings. Over subsequent decades, mainstream Shia political and militant organizations largely moved away from suicide bombing as a tactic, and contemporary suicide bombings in the Middle East and South Asia are overwhelmingly perpetrated by Sunni extremist groups (such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda) targeting Shia civilians in mosques and public spaces.

Thanks @GentleSheep

So that confirms what I was saying. That Suicide is not a usual tactic of Shia.

Was your search for worldwide events, or just Mid East ?

I remember there was a suicide attack against Iran fairly recently. Baluch separatists. They also attack Pakistan, because their claimed area straddles the 2 countries. I mention that because terror attacks seem to be remembered and later attributed whoever is in the current news, if you see what I mean. The Baluch are Sunni. They do a suicide attack, and people remember it as Iranian.

Worldwide. I guess the Shia figured it was better to live another day so they could carry out more attacks.

Where are these attacks ? World wide I mean ?

Salman Rushdie is in the news just now because his attacker is on Trial. And we can put that down to Shia and the Iranian Fatwa that was issued in the 80's.

What else ? Hamas and Hezbollah ? Yes, Iran is involved, but the root cause is something different than "advancing the Shia Ideology, or "Shia world domination"

In fact, an argument I often see put forward to defend what is happening in Palestine, is that there is no genocide because if there was there would be loads more dead. Therefore, there is no genocide, or else Israel are really bad at it. If I apply that logic to Iran, and by extension Shia, there either is no world wide Iranian terror campaign, or if there is, they are really bad at it.

You may not know this but Irans constitution explicitly obliges the Iranian state to spread the revolution abroad. They have never hid it. Hezbollah is an explicit part of that strategy, so yes the root cause of Hezbollah is Iran. This is why so many lebanese find them objectionable. They are a milita group that is answerable to Iran, Lebanon has an armed forces and it has a government, yet they can be overruled by a group of nutters with guns. This is clearly not democratic, to have a militia loyal to a foreign government. Everything they do is because Iran wanted them to do it.

https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Timeline-of-Terror_Membership-version_low-res.pdf

You may not like the source but from page 9 downwards you can see all the worldwide terror incidents Hezbollah has launched on behalf of Iran.

Iraqi militias launched missiles at Kuwait during this conflict, that was on the orders of Iran.

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-10413/CBP-10413.pdf

British report on iranian operations in the UK, 20 terror attacks averted since 2024. Countries that plan terror attacks in your country are not friends, they are actually full blown enemies.

Red may not be able to open that link where he lives so I will be helpful and copy and post the salient parts from page 9 downwards:

1982 Hezbollah was formed

1893 (April) Suicide truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, supplied by Iran Casualties: 49 Embassy staff were killed and 34 were injured, the Embassy relocated to Awkar, north of the capital
Other accounts: 63 people, including 17 Americans

1983 (October) Bombing of U.S. and French Marine Barracks in Beirut Casualties: 299 dead
Other accounts 240 Marines died, 58 French Soldiers

1984 (April) Bombing of a restaurant near the U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain
Casualties: 18 U.S. servicemen killed, 83 injured

1984 (September) Car bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut
Casualties: killed 11, 58 injured

1984 (October) Hijacking of Kuwait Airlines plane
Casualties: killed 4

1985 (June) Hijacking of TWA Flight 847
To be able to land in Beirut, they killed 1 Marine U.S. officer.

1988 Murder of three Saudi diplomats

1989 Suspected of murdering the third Secretary of Saudi Arabia in Bangkok who was shot in his residence

1990Suspected of the murder of two Saudi diplomats and a telex operator at the Saudi embassy in Bangkok who were shot dead

Suspected of kidnapping Saudi businessman who vanished without a trace, declared dead, but body was never found

1992 (March) Murder of Ehud Sadan, Security Chief at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, Turkey Casualties: Ehud Sadan dead, 2 Turks (passersby) injured: One 9 yearold child and a taxi driver

1992 (March) Suicide bombing at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Casualties: 29 killed, more than 240 injured.

1993 Attempted murder of Jak Kamhi, head of Turkish Jewish Community, the operation failed Casualties: 4 gunmen shot at Kamhi’s car

1994 (March) Attempted to explode a car bomb at Israeli Embassy in Thailand, the operation failed

1994 (July) Suicide bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires Casualties: 85 killed, approximately 300 injured.

1995 Hezbollah bombards towns in northern Israel with volleys of Katyusha rockets in one of the group’s numerous attacks on Israeli civilians
Casualties: cannot be found

1996 (March) Hezbollah fires 28 Katyusha rockets into northern Israeli towns. A week later, the group fires 16 rockets, injuring 36 Israelis.

1996 (June) Truck bombing at the U.S. portion of the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia Casualties: 19 American Air Force personnel killed, 372 injured.

1997 Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group’s numerous attacks on Israeli civilians
Casualties: cannot be found

2000 (May) Suspected of murder of an American officer and high ranking Turkish officer

2000 (October) Hezbollah operatives abduct an Israeli businessman and three Israeli soldiers patrolling Israel’s border with Lebanon

2002 Shooting attack against Israeli vehicles near the Israeli Lebanese border Casualties: six killed, seven injured.

2006 Hezbollah operatives kill 8 Israeli soldiers and kidnap two others stationed in Israeli sovereign territory

2008 Hezbollah’s military chief ‘Imad Mughniyah was killed by a vehicle bomb in Damascus, resulting in the following reported disruptions of cell activities:
2008 disruption of a cell in Baku, Azerbaijan, targeting the Israeli embassy there - Late-2008 disruption of a cell in Egypt targeting Israeli tourists and ships in transiting the Suez Canal. - 2009: operation disrupted in Turkey - Early 2011 Israel warned its citizens of several Hezbollah plots against Israeli interests in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Cyprus.

2011 (May) Attempted assassination of Israeli Consul Moshe Kimchi
Casualties: 8 Turks injured

2011 (July) Indicted for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq AlHariri in 2005

2012 Foiled attempt to explode Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) at Bangkok site frequently visited by Israelis

2012 (January) Planned to attack Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan and two Chabad emissaries

2012 (February) Suspected for conducting attacks on Israeli embassy staff and defence minister in Tbilisi, Georgia and in India India: Embassy car blew up near the Israeli embassy, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence was burnt. Casualties: 2 people injured
Georgia: Explosive device found in the embassy staff’s car, bomb was dismantled before it blew up. Casualties: none

2012 (February) Suspected of planning to attach IED to Israeli vehicle in Bangkok

2012 (March) suspected of attempting to attack U.S. and Israeli embassies as well as groups and companies with Western ties in Azerbaijan

2012 (July) Suspected of plotting terrorist attack to target Israeli residents or traveling to Bulgaria.

2012 (July) Suspected of attempting to attack Israeli tourists and blow up a plane or a tour bus

2012 (January) Suspected of carrying out a suicide bomber mission attacking Israeli vacationers in Bulgaria

https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Timeline-of-Terror_Membership-version_low-res.pdf

Often underestimated by some, many countries are not friends with them, for good reason.

Thanks for posting that list @Twiglets1 it’s important for people to see what they are and you are right some may just not open the link or want to open the link.

Yes precisely, kuwait is on that list, saudi is on that list. Yet people for some reason people expect the gulf countries to support Iran or accuse them of being puppets of the west when they have been on the receiving end of Iranian aggression before. Again middle eastern history flattened and ignored because fundamentally it must be the wests fault or Israels fault, no other answer can do.

The obvious answer is that Iran has imperialist ambitions and it weaponises antipathy towards rhe west and Israel to achieve that and convince fellow muslims that they are on the right side of history, no matter how many people they have killed or through how many proxies they have waged war and oppressed people in their own countries. Syria is probably the worst example of this, what Hezbollah helped to do in Syria should have been enough to have it denounced by everyone.

Or claim not to have any information but still question What extremism?

That’s the most bizarre idea of the Middle East politics on this board that I have ever read. And probably the most far fetched from the truth that is possible.

So you are accusing someone of lying? That’s nice.

The reason I post all my news articles is because I honestly believe some people do actually live in parts of the world that news is censored. It’s not that hard to believe if you have lived in other places. It’s not nice to post such snide comments.

No I’m not and I’m well aware news is censored in some places.

But if you live somewhere under heavy censorship, then perhaps accept that you will not be getting a full picture of extremism rather than question people saying Hezbollah operate abroad.

It’s not nice the pile ons that happen to me on a regular basis on this board but that doesn’t bother anyone. I get plenty of snide comments and you know it.

Suddenly you want us all to be “nice”.

Or you just want me to be nice?

What do you mean?

A mere 5 away from 2 thousand. And over a thousand. So yes, thousands. And quite frankly, if they hadn’t made the choice to cross the border and commit those atrocities - including putting babies in ovens, murdering children and raping and murdering young women in front of their families, then none of this escalation would have happened in the first place.

Babies in ovens???

So what - I miss read your figure. You must be feeling very pleased with yourself. I’ve had a long day and I’m tired. But yes, default to the usual ‘oh you must be thick’ leftist insult if you must. How very original.

And for what it’s worth, I’ve just searched for the number of deaths is actually 1250.

And by the way, what exactly did you think Israel should have done in response to the Hamas terror attack. Nothing?

I did read that. Hopefully it’s not true though nothing would surprise me.

It's been completely debunked as a hoax for a long time. Perhaps you should check your reading material