Kosh's Shadow 6/18/2025 5:17:15 PM

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In #3 JCM said: Israel must have pretty solid intel that Iran is too close for comfort. Israel has had very good intelligence operations inside Iran and has for a long time. The last IAEA report was the final straw.

Key Advance in Iran’s Nuclear Program Led Israel to Attack

Israel recently learned from its agents inside Iran — presumably native informants working with Mossad — that Iran’s nuclear scientists had successfully completed tests of their design of a nuclear weapon. This meant that Iran was potentially only weeks away from being able to produce such a weapon, and that intolerable threat had to be dealt with without delay.

vxbush 6/19/2025 6:54:45 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

First story in my news feed today: 

Iran Launches 2,000 km-Range Sejil Missiles at Israel for the First Time in History

3 were launched—but the article doesn’t state what happened to them, if they were intercepted by Iron Dome or not. Kind of a useless article, Jim. 

JCM 6/19/2025 7:01:51 AM

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vxbush 6/19/2025 7:04:45 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

Jerusalem Post (yeah, I know) has listed one missile hitting the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

vxbush 6/19/2025 7:07:04 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4: 

They must think everyone puts key military assets under hospitals. 

vxbush 6/19/2025 7:09:38 AM

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Democrats have no clue how delusional they look:

Rogue agents and prosecutors in Joe Biden’s Department of Justice were apparently so desperate to bury Donald Trump under new criminal charges that they zeroed in on — wait for it — his involvement with the J6 prisoner choir. Yes, you read that right: the choir. The effort was based on a single, laughably partisan Forbes article. 

“Rogue agents.” Riiiiiiiight. 

vxbush 6/19/2025 7:32:36 AM

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An interesting memory from Stephen Kruiser about what happened in Iran in 2009 and how Twitter played a part in a revolt: 

The biggest, most promising one occurred after the presidential election in 2009, when the thoroughly unpopular Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "won" with about a kajillion percent of the vote. People took to the streets in numbers not seen since the mullahs took over in 1979. It was an interesting time in the early days of social media. The protesters were communicating via Twitter, and the government was trying to track them via the location they had tagged on their profiles. Once that was discovered, people all over the world changed their Twitter location to Tehran. 

It was the last time that everyone on social media worked in harmony.

vxbush 6/19/2025 7:35:50 AM

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vxbush 6/19/2025 7:37:09 AM

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And just as many US students are doing the same, if not more: Thousands of UK University Students Caught Using AI to Cheat

Most education institutions aren’t doing much more than sticking their heads in the sand when it comes to AI. They learned nothing from the calculator revolution, the computer revolution, or the internet revolution. 

Occasional Reader 6/19/2025 8:06:17 AM

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JCM 6/19/2025 8:16:16 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

I doubt it was targeted. The Iranian weapons don't have that kind of accuracy. Their weapons are area weapons they can hit a in the general vicinity.

The IAF especially in Tehran is using the Small Diameter Bomb, GBU-39. It is extremely accurate. IAF release photos of planes loaded with them before launching. Also the damage photos are consistent with the use of them. Localized damage on buildings.

Israel is working very hard on minimizing collateral damage, while the Mad Mullahs use essential terror weapons lobbed at population centers.

buzzsawmonkey 6/19/2025 8:58:01 AM

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JCM 6/19/2025 1:37:15 PM

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This is not good, but not really unexpected.

IDF confirms: Iran launched cluster munition at Israel