FBI Warns That Iran Plots an "Army of Drones" Launched from a Stealth Vessel Against the West Coast

I suppose it's possible that Iran sneaked a drone-carrier out of the Persian Gulf in the weeks before the war, plotting a spoilsport retaliation attack. And I guess it would have taken that ship a couple of months to get into position.

Anyway, let's hope not.

Not sure why they'd attack anti-America California, but then they did attack their own allies in Qatar.

The FBI issued an urgent warning to cops across California of a potential Iranian drone strike on the Golden State.
Tehran was looking at deploying unmanned aircraft on the region as the country reels after the US wiped out its Supreme Leader last month, the alert said.
The Bureau said in early February agents had intelligence that drones could be sent from an unidentified vessel off the American coastline.

California has the highest concentration of Iranian dissidents in the US -- up to 500,000 -- but it is not clear if that was why the state could be targeted.
The FBI alert said: "We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran."
The alert was sent to police departments across the region, but it does not make it clear where specifically could be targeted. The FBI declined to comment when approached by The Post. Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
It added: "We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack."
The alert was sent to police departments across the region, but it does not make it clear where specifically could be targeted. The FBI declined to comment when approached by The Post.

It is very plausible that the psychopathic murderers of the old regime would want to kill the Iranians who fled it, just out of spite and a sense of anger at the slaves who got away.

Indeed, Tehran's chief of police is warning people that he will murder them just for singing songs.

National police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan says that demonstrating against the regime now makes protesters enemies of the state. "If anyone comes forward in line with the wishes of the enemy, we will no longer see them as merely a protester; we will see them as an enemy," Radan said in remarks broadcast late Tuesday by state broadcaster IRIB.
"And we will do to them what we do to an enemy. We will deal with them in the same way we deal with enemies," he added.
The warning was explicit and obscene. "All our forces are also ready, with their fingers on the trigger, prepared to defend their revolution," said Radan.
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Gangs of Basij enforcers, often heavily armed, roam the streets, threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten or worse. There are checkpoints across every city. Known protesters are scrutinized even as they move through the streets to get basic necessities.

Tousi reported two hopeful claims:

1, with the money now run out, and belief that the regime is effectively dead, a lot of lower level IRGC and Basij thug enforcers are just abandoning their posts and melting away.

2, the IRGC and the Satanic Mullahs are supposedly in some kind of dispute. Not a hot war, but a contest for authority. When the Gulf States announced they would take military action in retribution for Iran's unprovoked strikes on them, the mullahs put out a statement that they did not mean to hit the Gulf States, and would refrain from doing so in the future. But the IRGC contradicted them and said oh yes we meant to hit you and we'll keep on doing it, and forced the clerics of Satan to walk back their apology.

I'm still very confused about how we actually topple the regime with no ground forces, but maybe the various ethnic enclaves will rise up and at least declare their own areas to be autonomous.

There are reports we used the "Mother of All Bombs" for the first time, to blow up underground missile storage and production facilities, but I think this is all unconfirmed.

BREAKING: Local Iranian journalists claim the U.S. Air Force has targeted underground sites in Qods, central Iran, using the GBU-43/B “Mother of All Bombs.” The strike reportedly hit what appears to be an underground missile storage facility. pic.twitter.com/KNIXSYYGsb
— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 11, 2026

It is important to understand why the MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) may have seen its second operational use in history:

Iran was planning to manufacture around 200 missiles per month, with ambitions to ramp up production to 500. Within three years, such a facility could have… pic.twitter.com/hrVQ435dga
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) March 11, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:50 PM

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1 if it's the fibbies I'm sure this intel is gold standard /s

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (MIIRH)

2 Hi

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (qFwJc)

3 Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (2UnvF)

4 A stealth vessel? What is it made from cardboard?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

5 Maybe. And maybe im a chinese jet pilot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

6 Container ships loaded with drones off the US coast.

Interesting

Posted by: the People's Liberation Army Navy at March 11, 2026 05:52 PM (Al4HM)

7 A stealth vessel? What is it made from cardboard?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

Very lightweight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

8 I doubt that Iranians know how anti-American California is and why would they care? If they are targeted, it's because it's the coast and they think they can get a ship near.

Posted by: huerfano at March 11, 2026 05:53 PM (98kQX)

9 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 11, 2026 05:54 PM (SRRAx)

10 their word is bond!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 05:54 PM (MIIRH)

11 Container ships loaded with drones off the US coast.

Interesting

Posted by: the People's Liberation Army Navy at March 11, 2026 05:52 PM

The only way that works is if china is 100% onboard with it and I doubt even they are that stupid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 05:54 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Californians would probably be the least equipped to defend themselves from a drone attack

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 11, 2026 05:54 PM (rjbvN)

13 I doubt that Iranians know how anti-American California is and why would they care? If they are targeted, it's because it's the coast and they think they can get a ship near.
Posted by: huerfano at March 11, 2026 05:53 PM (98kQX)
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Yep.

The Iranian strategic thinking at this point is to simply do damage--any damage--that they can inflict.

They don't care about collateral or strategic targeting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 05:55 PM (ESVrU)

14 Hi Teresa!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MIIRH)

15 How many drones could these assholes have left?

Posted by: NCKate at March 11, 2026 05:55 PM (uQzkA)

16 Californians can absorb the drone attack.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 11, 2026 05:56 PM (wyoRS)

17 Could be California has lighter security for such things than the East coast. Or maybe they have connections with cartels in the region. idk

Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vbXSk)

18 There's an Iranian cell living right down the street. If they try anything they'll be bbqd in less than 30 minutes. Everyone in the neighborhood knows who they are.

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (W+TLY)

19 Stealth vessel? Lol. They'll probably be launched from properties in counties that the cartels control in both NorCal and SoCal.

A couple of Jewish people in San Jose were attacked yesterday by three, what appear to be three ME type a-holes. Some Bay Area news has mentioned it and it's all over my IG feed. No arrests yet but people via social media have identified the three a-holes. They sure do smack of being a possible terror cell IMO.

Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (IlL6s)

20 Pahlavi is based in Southern California.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (+nEug)

21
I could imagine a Hamas-style armed gangster regime going on for years in Tehran, the mullahs have a lot of suicidal creeps hoping to take out civilians for the fun of it. These people are monsters.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (Y8DZL)

22 13 "They don't care about collateral or strategic targeting."

did they ever?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (MIIRH)

23 Oh no they are going to attack Horrywood.

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (vFG9F)

24 How many drones could these assholes have left?
Posted by: NCKate

There or here?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (wyoRS)

25 I did look up some videos on YouTube to see how these military drones work. It was pretty fascinating.

Definitely something not available at BestBuy.

You'd probably have to special order.

Posted by: Stateless at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (Sco7b)

26 Oh no. Please don't attack California, or Seattle, or Portland. That would be just horrible.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 11, 2026 05:59 PM (OfCjF)

27 I think Trump's comment about the Iranian mine-laying boats in the Red Sea was that he was using the same tactics he used to blow up fast-boat smugglers in the Gulf of America, so there is that to consider as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

28 That MOAB set off a few car alarms, heh.

I think that drone report is really just a way to put pressure to get DHS funded.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 05:59 PM (n5tGW)

29 How many drones could these assholes have left?
Posted by: NCKate

There or here?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (wyoRS)

California is lousy with drones.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 11, 2026 06:00 PM (OfCjF)

30 1, with the money now run out, and belief that the regime is effectively dead, a lot of lower level IRGC and Basij thug enforcers are just abandoning their posts and melting away.
______________________

Give it a couple of weeks, and they will all be living in Canada and Minnesota while exploiting wellfare.

(that was meant to be a snarky joke...but after reading it I realized that I'm merely telling the future)

Posted by: Orson (Expert Historian) at March 11, 2026 06:00 PM (dIske)

31 Not sure why they'd attack anti-America California, but then they did attack their own allies in Qatar.
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Isn't the real question: why should we stop them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)

32 Why use a ship? Stuff a shipping container(s) full of whatever you want, drive them out to the desert, or real estate conveniently near an installation, and have at it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (w/O5Q)

33 If they're going to strike the US with drones directly, the best bet is coastal areas. The further they go, the more of them will be destroyed.

Unfortunately for them, that's where the only non-Iranians who love the the ayatollahs live.

I don't care if Californians die. Terrorist attacks in America are the actual concern.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (BI5O2)

34 After 47 years, they are no longer defending the 'revolution'. They're defending the ruling party and their paychecks at that point.

Same as in Venezuela and Cuba.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)

35 Interesting. I'm in California. My workplace is filled with Iranian ex pats. We call them the Persian Mafia. They are actually really nice people.

Posted by: Max Power at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (1wJ0C)

36 Kinda hard to imagine Iran still has the ability to do mass production of anything military. Surely we track all their movements, including shipments and people. And there are no free zones for them to produce.

But they could have sent out containers (of drones) on ships a year ago or so, that might be available to release their flying monkeys. Or maybe China would covertly help them with that.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (vbXSk)

37 "Army of Drones" Launched from a Stealth Vessel Against the West Coast
......

That could put a damper on our lidsmokes.
Should I be wearing my Picklehaube helmet?

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (UjdFS)

38 Dems in CA will probably try to register the drones to vote. Not much difference from their current base.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (lFtT9)

39

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower energy costs during the Iran war.

“We’ll do that, and then we’ll fill it up,” Trump said in an interview with Cincinnati broadcaster WKRC.

“I filled it up once, and I’ll fill it up again, but right now, we’ll reduce it a little bit, and that brings the prices down,” the president said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (Cqx++)

40 Yeah. Attacks against our naked infrastructure has been my worry for a while. Oil, gas, electric, all vulnerable if you just want to watch the world burn.

Those big transformers near your house? The lead time for them is three years. Three years for something you can take out with a large caliber hunting rifle. Those giant high-voltage towers? A gas or electric concrete saw can have them down in minutes. We harden our nuke plants but our many and sprawling refineries are firestorms waiting to happen.

I am actually surprised that we haven't had a shitsorm already.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (4NO2D)

41 13 "They don't care about collateral or strategic targeting."

did they ever?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 05:57 PM (MIIRH)
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Nope.

Honorable rules of warfare are completely foreign to their ideology.

They'll slit the throats of women and children and blame it on the Joos just because they feel like it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (ESVrU)

42 Head scratching here ... If off-shore drones WERE the issue, wouldn't that be for the Navy/Coast Guard to address? Wouldn't we be seeing some activity from them? Do we?

If it were "revenge squads," I'd expect police/FBI involvement. And if they were "preparing" there'd be evidence and leaks all over the place.

Posted by: YellowBird at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (MEbkQ)

43 Could be California has lighter security for such things than the East coast. Or maybe they have connections with cartels in the region. idk
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vbXSk)

Hitting the California refineries could take out 90% of the fueling capacity on the West coast. This would probably ground any air assets on the West coast since the airfields mostly get their fuel out of the local refineries.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

44 If Iran were to drone swarm CA and PDT sent in troops and gear to defend CA, I bet you californians would throw tomatos at the US troops.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 11, 2026 06:03 PM (i0Hi3)

45 I doubt they will get anywhere near San Diego, Long Beach, or Alameda.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 11, 2026 06:04 PM (qFwJc)

46 23 Oh no they are going to attack Horrywood.
Posted by: fd

OMG! WHAT ABOUT THE OSCARS?

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 06:05 PM (Y8DZL)

47 Attack California?
Why, oh why do the Iranians hate homeless people and Mexicans?

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2026 06:05 PM (UjdFS)

48 Californians would probably be the least equipped to defend themselves from a drone attack
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 11, 2026 05:54 PM (rjbvN)

They are illegal here because of fire risk in most places so this plan is foiled.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:05 PM (8avO+)

49 Awaiting the supreme leader's orders!

- Antifa, Seattle Chapter

Posted by: Rex B at March 11, 2026 06:06 PM (yP7Ef)

50 *waves arms*

I have a target list!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 06:06 PM (RIvkX)

51 Interesting. I'm in California. My workplace is filled with Iranian ex pats. We call them the Persian Mafia. They are actually really nice people.
Posted by: Max Power at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (1wJ0C)

I have heard they are generally pretty Meh on Pahlavi and the Peacock throne. Is that correct?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:06 PM (rbvCR)

52 A drone launching stealth vessel could be very small, even a fishing boat could work.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 11, 2026 06:06 PM (GPa4z)

53 Iran Mullahs couldn't care if California was on their side

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)

54 Could be California has lighter security for such things than the East coast. Or maybe they have connections with cartels in the region. idk
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vbXSk)

Hitting the California refineries could take out 90% of the fueling capacity on the West coast. This would probably ground any air assets on the West coast since the airfields mostly get their fuel out of the local refineries.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

In WWII the allies spent huge efforts to take out German refineries using massed bombers repeatedly. There was not a lot of success. Refineries are surprisingly hard targets to destroy in real life.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:07 PM (8avO+)

55 I hope those drones have given their Prop. 65 warnings and paid their Health Care Accountability fees. Hoo-boy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 06:07 PM (RIvkX)

56 Awaiting the supreme leader's orders!

- Antifa, Seattle Chapter
Posted by: Rex B at March 11, 2026 06:06 PM (yP7Ef)

"Die in place, infidel."

- Ayatollah Cardboardani

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 06:07 PM (hj9tb)

57 @43 Kindltot-It was just announced that two more refineries Marathon and Chevron are looking to close down their refineries. I heard about Chevron closing while at a safety meeting working at Chevron, so reliable source. The Iranians don't need to do anything. Democrats and Newsom will take care of the refineries for them.

Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (IlL6s)

58 Would it be wrong to hope the Iranians drone Pelosi's house? Newsom? Bass? Wiener?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (qBBPl)

59 eh, my bet is that this prediction came from the same ham&eggers who brought us russian collusion & pee tapes

i.e. I think it's a load of cheap baloney left out in the sun too long.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (MIIRH)

60 I'm still very confused about how we actually topple the regime with no ground forces, but maybe the various ethnic enclaves will rise up and at least declare their own areas to be autonomous. - Ace

Netanyahu sent out a message yesterday to the Iranian people to prepare themselves:

Prime Minister of Israel
@IsraeliPM

People of Iran,

We are waging a historic war for liberty.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to remove the Ayatollah regime and gain your freedom.

Together with the United States, we are hitting the Tyrants of Teheran harder than ever.
3:27 PM · Mar 10, 2026

Similar to Trump's message early on.
I guess that when we stop the offensive our attacks will slow down and it'll be a wait&see for weeks to find out how things play out, with assists from air attacks in specific areas where the IRGC shows itself to put down the revolts.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

61 Iranians and Los Angeles were made for each other. A perfect match.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (RIvkX)

62 I'm not really optimistic about Iran in terms of how the country governs itself. And this is why I'm against nation building.

The population are clearly cowards, the US wipes out their leadership and basically destroys their military, and they still havent overthrown their current overlords. Even before we got involved, the regime was deeply unpopular and had caused economic collapse.

I'm in the camp we just leave the place burning. I could care less if some democracy springs forth (it wont).

Posted by: Leupold at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (eIzlH)

63 At least they are threatening California, and not the USA

Posted by: Erik L at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (xofyr)

64 We should be air dropping arms to the Iranian people we think we can trust.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (X6EDD)

65 Iran Mullahs couldn't care if California was on their side
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
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After 9/11 lefties were whining that too many of them got killed and that AQ should have hit Texas. They are not actual humans anymore. Demons wearing skin suits.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)

66 Kinda hard to imagine Iran still has the ability to do mass production of anything military. Surely we track all their movements, including shipments and people. And there are no free zones for them to produce.

But they could have sent out containers (of drones) on ships a year ago or so, that might be available to release their flying monkeys. Or maybe China would covertly help them with that.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM (vbXSk)

Container ships stack the containers like cordwood with no ability to access until the units are pulled off with cranes that I know of.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (8avO+)

67 I heard that JROD, and there is a rumor going around that Trump will push the Defense Production act to step on CARB and the state of CA to keep them open because they produce jet fuel for the military.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

68 Saw a report that the IDF is targeting the checkpoints in Tehran.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 06:10 PM (n5tGW)

69
My workplace is filled with Iranian ex pats. We call them the Persian Mafia. They are actually really nice people.
Posted by: Max Power

==============

Not a secret to anyone who knows Arabs or Persians, but they are hospitable, to the point of being party animals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2026 06:10 PM (zk5UJ)

70 If they agree to hit the WA State Legislature first....I mean...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

71 Don't worry. Gav Newsom will protect us.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2026 06:11 PM (UjdFS)

72 I'll worry about California after they pay us back all the Medicare money they stole

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 11, 2026 06:11 PM (wBaIH)

73 @54 Oldcat-Hard to take out refineries? Don't know how hard that'd be here in the Bay Area. The refineries are all on the water. If terrorists wanted to the could pull up on a boat and mortar or launch drones. I work at these refineries and many of us that do have discussed how easy it'd be to take out a refinery.

Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 06:11 PM (IlL6s)

74
Refineries are surprisingly hard targets to destroy in real life.

with 1944 technology

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2026 06:12 PM (Cqx++)

75 Why use a ship? Stuff a shipping container(s) full of whatever you want, drive them out to the desert, or real estate conveniently near an installation, and have at it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 11, 2026 06:01 PM (w/O5Q)

A lot of that space in California is used up by....US Marine army and naval bases and installations.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:12 PM (8avO+)

76 Refineries are surprisingly hard targets to destroy in real life.

with 1944 technology
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2026 06:12 PM (Cqx++)

And in 2026 in Ukraine vs Russia.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)

77 Similar to Trump's message early on.
I guess that when we stop the offensive our attacks will slow down and it'll be a wait&see for weeks to find out how things play out, with assists from air attacks in specific areas where the IRGC shows itself to put down the revolts.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)
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Iran will be under a blockade even if we stop bombing tomorrow. No oil money. That won't change until their regime does, and it only takes one guy who decided to be the smart one and bring his guys over to create a domino effect.

Popular uprisings are difficult, and Trump's team know this. They are playing to the various generals who would like to move up in the world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

78 My guess is that this air war is going to be run the way Operation ALLIED FORCE was. After the primary targets were hit the Coalition switched to bombing police stations and Milosevic's cronies' business interests. Milosevic capitulated at that point.

Wes Clark enthusiastically decided the threat of a ground invasion that no one talked about was what caused the capitulation, but that was mostly to bolster a notion that people wanted to "Draft" him to run for prez later on.

It's likely to become a series of bad days for the IRGC personnel soon.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at March 11, 2026 06:14 PM (FDHJL)

79 62 I'm not really optimistic about Iran in terms of how the country governs itself. And this is why I'm against nation building.

The population are clearly cowards, the US wipes out their leadership and basically destroys their military, and they still havent overthrown their current overlords. Even before we got involved, the regime was deeply unpopular and had caused economic collapse.

I'm in the camp we just leave the place burning. I could care less if some democracy springs forth (it wont).
Posted by: Leupold at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (eIzlH)

You're right - a democracy won't spring forth. For a functioning western society, you have to have an undercurrent of Judeo-Christian faith with "love your neighbor as yourself", so you don't just have folks getting theirs while screwing everyone else.

Why is everyone a coward so far? The answer is - what's in it for them in this life. They've had 50 years of living under a Muslim fist. So, they'll turn likely to every man for himself and survival of the fittest and get mine before you get yours...aka, a low trust, highly corrupt, and weak society.

Or maybe they won't.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 06:14 PM (tOcjL)

80 Netanyahu sent out a message yesterday to the Iranian people to prepare themselves:

Well, that's great if any of them have sufficient Internet to see it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (a+4eV)

81 There's a vid on YouTube that talks about the B-2 using 2000 lb bombs to attack the so called missile cities in Iran. They're bombing the entrances and closing off the tunnels. Interesting vid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (qBBPl)

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (a+4eV)

83 >>> FBI Warns That Iran Plots...

Stop right there at "FBI",
Both not credible as it is not a domestic issue and FBI has long had credibility issues. Maybe if it were NSA or NRO or any of the military Intel units, maybe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (/lPRQ)

84 Come to me.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (4NO2D)

85 SPinRH, are you doing any flying in this?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (+nEug)

86 Would it be wrong to hope the Iranians drone Pelosi's house? Newsom? Bass? Wiener?
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......

Schiff, Maxine, Padilla, Swallwell, Panetta, etc.
They're gonna need more drones.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (UjdFS)

87 Oldcat-Hard to take out refineries? Don't know how hard that'd be here in the Bay Area. The refineries are all on the water. If terrorists wanted to the could pull up on a boat and mortar or launch drones. I work at these refineries and many of us that do have discussed how easy it'd be to take out a refinery.
Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 06:11 PM (IlL6s)

A mortar shell is just gonna scratch the paint without something to focus the blast against the machinery and pipes. Tanks themselves are pretty thick, and oil burns with reluctance.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (8avO+)

88 @67 Kindltot-I hope Trump hurries up. I'm probably going to go to my hall tomorrow(local 342) and see about going over to Valero, Benicia(local343) and get in on shuttering of the plant that has already started. Lots of hours=big money. Hate to see it close. I know it supplies most of the jet fuel for McClellan AFB so we'll see how much of a strategic importance it is.

Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (IlL6s)

89
They'll slit the throats of women and children and blame it on the Joos just because they feel like it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

If they play that hand, i'm thinking they'll open up a wholesale can of islamophobia linked whip ass that will make the media's current fear mongering look like two tom cats yowling at each other.

Speaking for myself alone and no one else. That happens, Bif is gonna strike first, strike last, and double tap every ID'd raghead until there ain't none left.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (QVmho)

90 I doubt they will get anywhere near San Diego, Long Beach, or Alameda.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 11, 2026 06:04 PM (qFwJc)
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Not for long, in any case.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 06:16 PM (rj6Yv)

91 Tousi reported two hopeful claims:

1, with the money now run out, and belief that the regime is effectively dead, a lot of lower level IRGC and Basij thug enforcers are just abandoning their posts and melting away.
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Tousi LIVE in 45 on IRGC...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (/lPRQ)

92 Iranians have to do it themselves. Doesn't mean without help but it can't be a occupation

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)

93 Netanyahu sent out a message yesterday to the Iranian people to prepare themselves:

Well, that's great if any of them have sufficient Internet to see it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (a+4eV)

We re-established the internet with Starlink almost at once. Where these stations are is an interesting question.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (8avO+)

94 "Container ships stack the containers like cordwood with no ability to access until the units are pulled off with cranes that I know of." Posted by: Oldcat

Unless they are pulled off and stored somewhere, ... there has been talk of small or dirty nukes put in containers and stored around the country. They'd have to get by security, but there is question as to how easy it is to bypass or pay off security.

idk what capacity for shipping Iran has had, but they were shipping oil to China and other places, apparently. But I'm just pontificating. FBI seems to think the threat is real.

This morning I saw a report that Iran was letting China bound oil go through the strait, but not others.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (vbXSk)

95 Container ships stack the containers like cordwood with no ability to access until the units are pulled off with cranes that I know of.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:09 PM (8avO+)
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Yeah, I've seen some videos about how container ships work. It looks like they are just sitting on top of one another, but there's a locking mechanism that secures the containers to one another.

There are people on board whose job it is to check those mechanisms during transit to minimize losses (some do still fall overboard despite best efforts).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (ESVrU)

96 The population are clearly cowards, the US wipes out their leadership and basically destroys their military, and they still havent overthrown their current overlords. Even before we got involved, the regime was deeply unpopular and had caused economic collapse.

Posted by: Leupold

Dude. It hasn't even been Two Weeks.

The hell is with all of these instant gratification chuckleheads saying that all is lost since everything hasn't been perfectly fixed on the first day?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (a+4eV)

97 >>I am actually surprised that we haven't had a shitsorm already.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 06:02 PM

A few years ago, an idiot with a .22 took out all but one cell phone network in NW New Mexico and all internet service for a day by shooting into a phone hub somewhere north of Albuquerque.

Posted by: huerfano at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (98kQX)

98 Hell, I half expect Newsome to drone his own home with a firecracker and claim he is a war hero who deserves the MoH.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

99 I'm not going to call people cowards when they just had 30,000 of them gunned down in the street and when heavily armed men are roving about waiting to add to the tally.

How do you coordinate the rising? How do they get weapons? They are locked down for that very purpose.

They have to wait on events because the regime cannot last without any money to pay its goons, and blowing up the camps and barracks will wear down morale.

Either way, we've defanged them, taking their oil off the market and China is writhing in agony. So many wins.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

100 Iran planning to do blah, blah, blah... talk is cheap.

Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (Q+gd/)

101 MOAB is unlikely, as it is not really a penetrator. But we have other Big Bada Booms in our inventory that are penetrators.

Posted by: GWB at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (47RGM)

102 I'm not really optimistic about Iran in terms of how the country governs itself. And this is why I'm against nation building.

Iran does have a government. They collect taxes, do civil things, etc.

Its the Supreme Loser and the mullahs that are an expendable "government" layer. Sort of like how NGOs in the US are expendable "government" layers.

They contribute nothing but destruction and chaos to the extreme profit of a few.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (a4flb)

103 I believe Iran is hoping to attack the Oscars for maximum publicity and effect. That'd be kind of cool.

Posted by: Big Alfredo at March 11, 2026 06:19 PM (Vdukr)

104 Iran planning to do blah, blah, blah... talk is cheap.
Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM

The Houthis have threatened to do shit every day since the war began.

Narrator: They haven't done shit.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 06:19 PM (4NO2D)

105 Why is everyone a coward so far? The answer is - what's in it for them in this life. They've had 50 years of living under a Muslim fist. So, they'll turn likely to every man for himself and survival of the fittest and get mine before you get yours...aka, a low trust, highly corrupt, and weak society.

Or maybe they won't.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 06:14 PM

If you beat a dog long enough it just gives up and takes whatever happens to it and tries to survive. The people of iran have been beaten for 47 years straight. It is literally all they know.

They are most certainly not going to change overnight. Expecting them to rise up and take over their country is a pipe dream. Sure it could happen but it probably won't happen. That is why the muslim fanatics killed the protestors who came out in public, they were the dangerous ones and they are almost all dead now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (0N4FZ)

106 A stealth vessel? What is it made from cardboard?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

Very lightweight.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

Is it made from good cardboard or that Chinese crap?
What's the radar return from cardboard?

Posted by: GWB at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (47RGM)

107 Not sure why they'd attack anti-America California, but then they did attack their own allies in Qatar.
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Blow up shit where the cameras are, and the people the media will have sympathy for, in order to get the most favorable coverage.

Their "attack everyone" strategy in the Middle East was about putting political pressure on Trump from other nations who were already disinterested, so motivating normies and Congress similarly would be their goal here (if real).

Posted by: Methos at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (vSvIl)

108 WSMV4,
$5K reward offered after four military drones stolen from Fort Campbell
U.S. Army Fort Campbell said between November 21 and 24, two unknown people unlawfully gained access to building 6955 and took them.
Published Mar. 9, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (NFX2v)

109 How do you coordinate the rising? How do they get weapons? They are locked down for that very purpose.

We aren't too far away from that position here. The Islam invasion is happening here faster than we can react to it.

The Left wants their gun grabbing while doing all that they can to put demonic forces into civil power.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (a4flb)

110 And Hezbollah has been getting their shit pushed in every day in Lebanon. They are weakened to where the Lebanese government is talking about taking them on rather than cowering before them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (4NO2D)

111 I'm still very confused about how we actually topple the regime with no ground forces, but maybe the various ethnic enclaves will rise up and at least declare their own areas to be autonomous.
__________

Weren't the Kurds supposed to be invading from Iraq?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (XvL8K)

112
Tousi LIVE in 45 on IRGC...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:17 PM (/lPRQ)

The teaser says IRGC is destroyed... I hope he is right

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (K3KEI)

113
When "One Battle After Another" wins Best Picture I expect the audience to erupt in Allah Akbar! chants.

...but we've secretly replaced the L.A. cocaine supply with baking soda, so let's see how the after parties react!

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (Y8DZL)

114 @87 Oldcat-the LNG globes at these refineries would make tasty targets and take out plenty of equipment. I worked the burn at PBF Refinery and got a reminder of just how fragile all the equipment can be just from a flange that had pyrophoric material behind it and ignited as soon as it hit atmosphere.

Posted by: JROD at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (IlL6s)

115 believe Iran is hoping to attack the Oscars for maximum publicity and effect. That'd be kind of cool.
Posted by: Big Alfredo

They're replaceable.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (wyoRS)

116 @101 probably a MOP, Massive Ordinance Penetrator

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (qBBPl)

117 105 Why is everyone a coward so far? The answer is - what's in it for them in this life. They've had 50 years of living under a Muslim fist. So, they'll turn likely to every man for himself and survival of the fittest and get mine before you get yours...aka, a low trust, highly corrupt, and weak society.

Or maybe they won't.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 06:14 PM

If they emerge they will be shot..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (K3KEI)

118 Either way, we've defanged them, taking their oil off the market and China is writhing in agony. So many wins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)
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I've read that the Mullahs are filling up the tankers that are heading to the PRC.

How that squares with the Mullahs mining the Strait is a mystery wrapped in a penumbra.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (rj6Yv)

119 Gangs of Basij enforcers, often heavily armed, roam the streets, threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten or worse. There are checkpoints across every city. Known protesters are scrutinized even as they move through the streets to get basic necessities.
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Essentially, they're antifa.

Posted by: Methos at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (vSvIl)

120 I thought Newscum already destroyed 90% of California's refinerycapacity.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (sl73Y)

121 This is very probably a wishful sci-fi/fantasy scenario drawn up by Iran. During the Gulf War I'm told Hussein had similar magical Steiner Will Come plans.

Iran hasn't shown a capability of launching shipborne UAS like that. There are some real engineering challenges involved.

Posted by: Taylor at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (9+Beg)

122 115 believe Iran is hoping to attack the Oscars for maximum publicity and effect. That'd be kind of cool.
Posted by: Big Alfredo

Oh no.... Well anyway....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (K3KEI)

123 Weren't the Kurds supposed to be invading from Iraq?

No way!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (Kt19C)

124 And to present the Oscar for Best Gay Movie.. boom!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (qBBPl)

125 Look ma! I'm on top of the world.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (qFwJc)

126 100 Iran planning to do blah, blah, blah... talk is cheap.
Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (Q+gd
Listen to what the regime says, they will not hesitate at any atrocity. They worship death.

Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (jeWq0)

127 Weren't the Kurds supposed to be invading from Iraq?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 06:21 PM (XvL8K)

The Kurds seem reluctant to believe the promises of support from the US in the aftermath of any participation, and may have been heard to mutter darkly about "footballs" and "Lucy"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (rbvCR)

128 How that squares with the Mullahs mining the Strait is a mystery wrapped in a penumbra.
Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (rj6Yv)
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I suppose they could give them maps for the minefields they are laying, but if it's just dudes throwing them out of power boats, they're not going to be very accurate.

Plus that assumes we let them continue on. Probably have to board and search them. I don't think *any* ship leaving Iran right now can be allowed to proceed without a thorough search.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

129 Army of Drones was slated to open for Simply Red in '82 at the St Lucia Jazz Festival, but they were a no-show. Shame. I had tickets.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (hyS0X)

130 A stealth vessel? What is it made from cardboard?

Did you miss "Tomorrow Never Dies" where the ship was inspired by the Sea Shadow (IX-529) developed by DARPA and Lockheed in the 1980s?

Its real! True Area-51 Tech!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (a4flb)

131 This is very probably a wishful sci-fi/fantasy scenario drawn up by Iran. During the Gulf War I'm told Hussein had similar magical Steiner Will Come plans.

Iran hasn't shown a capability of launching shipborne UAS like that. There are some real engineering challenges involved.
Posted by: Taylor at March 11, 2026 06:23 PM (9+Beg)
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Good point. Iran has never hesitated over making terror attacks. If they could, they would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

132 I have been amused by how our administration and military statements have sounded so ... Arabic. We threaten big and vague like a tinpot middle easterner.

Maybe they know their audience.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 06:26 PM (4NO2D)

133 I suppose they could give them maps for the minefields they are laying, but if it's just dudes throwing them out of power boats, they're not going to be very accurate.

Plus that assumes we let them continue on. Probably have to board and search them. I don't think *any* ship leaving Iran right now can be allowed to proceed without a thorough search.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

The ships of interest in getting out are from the other gulf states and are sitting there waiting, presumably cleared earlier. I thought I saw a blurb saying some are moving out already.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:26 PM (8avO+)

134 If they emerge they will be shot..
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (K3KEI)
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I've heard that IRGC-Basij gunmen are shooting wounded protestors in their hospital beds.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 06:26 PM (rj6Yv)

135 Well, that's great if any of them have sufficient Internet to see it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:15 PM (a+4eV)

Who knows how they get info.
I assume some Starlink units are still functioning for some people who have them.

The CIA managed to break into the Iran TV signal and broadcast Trump's message last week.

I think a lot of the people have a general idea of what's expected of them and that it's going to be up to them to finish off the regime with or without Bibi's encouragement, but that message at least shows the plan is still for the Iranians to do the deed themselves.

Whether or not they're willing or capable is another question entirely.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:26 PM (6ydKt)

136 The Kurds seem reluctant to believe the promises of support from the US in the aftermath of any participation, and may have been heard to mutter darkly about "footballs" and "Lucy"
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 06:24 PM (rbvCR)
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They've got a liberated zone in northern Iraq and we have helped them to keep it, particularly against ISIS. The issue is that the various factions don't get along.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)

137 Iran hasn't shown a capability of launching shipborne UAS like that. There are some real engineering challenges involved.

Is this the new McGuffin for kicking Iran around?

For crying out loud, Pakistan, India and North Korea have nukes, and Iran has been screwing around for decades and have nothing to show for it? What are they doing? Using California's High Speed Rail Engineering and Management staff?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 06:27 PM (a4flb)

138 pyrophoric, ouch.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 06:27 PM (MIIRH)

139 Rise up and take back their nations?

Reason for US Temporary Protected Status programs operating for several decades for multiple nations - usually the same nations. Any rise up & try to take back their countries? Oh, hell no.

Why do the Ukrainians still have Humanitarian Parole in this country - as do Afghans - and many of the latter's draftable men never returned to fight for full of crap Zelenskyy?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2026 06:28 PM (NFX2v)

140 Drones off the coast? Pfft. They're everywhere. Hollywood is simply overwhelmed with them. I gather well more than half the population of the state of CA are drones.

Non story.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2026 06:30 PM (gLikB)

141 “Bring it on.” - US Pacific Fleet.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at March 11, 2026 06:31 PM (SQmE5)

142 For crying out loud, Pakistan, India and North Korea have nukes, and Iran has been screwing around for decades and have nothing to show for it? What are they doing? Using California's High Speed Rail Engineering and Management staff?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 06:27 PM (a4flb)
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They've had many setbacks due to sabotage, key scientists dying mysteriously, etc. Remember under Obama, their centerfuges were hacked and destroyed themselves and it was a big mystery until Obama's idiots bragged about it, blowing the op.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

143 ***It is very plausible that the psychopathic murderers of the old regime would want to kill the Iranians who fled it, just out of spite and a sense of anger at the slaves who got away.
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Speaking of slaves; every man should own two or three slave women. They bring contentment to the home and keep him from straying.

https://youtu.be/BoBcFWUTze0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 06:31 PM (N15rr)

144 RE: MOAB

That looked like a pretty big hit. If not MOAB, it was at least Big Brother Of All Bombs.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (gLikB)

145 Speaking of slaves; every man should own two or three slave women. They bring contentment to the home and keep him from straying.

Everybody ought to have a maid?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (a+4eV)

146 101 MOAB is unlikely, as it is not really a penetrator. But we have other Big Bada Booms in our inventory that are penetrators.

Posted by: GWB at March 11, 2026 06:18 PM (47RGM)

I agree. The GBU-43/B is officially named the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. A surface blast-effects weapon, not a penetrator. Also it can officially only be delivered by a C-130 with special modifications. Is DoW willing to risk a C-130 over Iran yet?

Posted by: Gref at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (5rh/l)

147 David Muir's lead in story on (ABC) World News Tonight.

He seems almost orgasmic at the reporting.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (NFX2v)

148 >>MOAB is unlikely, as it is not really a penetrator.

Maybe they mean The Paolo?

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 06:35 PM (erF49)

149 Speaking of mines, I'm reminded of the time when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and doing tour/inspection of the Home Fleet and they had a halt and sweep for mines.

Churchill turns to one of the officers and says:

"Mines in the fairway. Warn all craft and detain."

The officer replies:

"Send up Claribel, Unity, Assyrian and Golden Gain."

Guys could just randomly quote from Kipling. We've lost so much. Now I guess we'd use movie lines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:35 PM (ZOv7s)

150 Oh no, Iran...please don't attack the west coast, America will surely fall...especially if you attack LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle...those are the most important cities to our union...oh noooooooooo

Posted by: Cray Cray at March 11, 2026 06:35 PM (EES2L)

151 Iran does have a government. They collect taxes, do civil things, etc.

Its the Supreme Loser and the mullahs that are an expendable "government" layer. Sort of like how NGOs in the US are expendable "government" layers.

They contribute nothing but destruction and chaos to the extreme profit of a few.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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One of the errors in the second gulf war was sending all the Iraqi civil servants home.
Usually occupying armies tell the locals to keep working - and don't try anything.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:35 PM (/lPRQ)

152 SpeakingOf: "After 47 years, they are no longer defending the 'revolution'. They're defending the ruling party and their paychecks at that point..."

Pretty sure that was the goal from the very beginning. Revolution had nothing to do with it. Power leading to control and profit was ALWAYS the motive. "Revolution" is the patina on a crime syndicate.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2026 06:37 PM (gLikB)

153 ***threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten
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One amendment, Two amendment, Three and Four
Good morning America, good morning 8th century,
Helloooo, middle-East.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 06:37 PM (N15rr)

154 One of the errors in the second gulf war was sending all the Iraqi civil servants home.
Usually occupying armies tell the locals to keep working - and don't try anything.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:35 PM (/lPRQ)
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Trump already set the terms - submit to him and he'll appoint you his viceroy. As the money runs out, and more commanders are killed, there will be some takers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:37 PM (ZOv7s)

155 Pahlavi has already said there would not be a de-Baathification as there was in Iraq

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:38 PM (+nEug)

156 Gangs of Basij enforcers, often heavily armed, roam the streets, threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten or worse. There are checkpoints across every city. Known protesters are scrutinized even as they move through the streets to get basic necessities.
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Essentially, they're antifa.
Posted by: Methos
==
Or Mexican drug cartels.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:38 PM (/lPRQ)

157 149, literacy + common culture FTW!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 06:39 PM (MIIRH)

158 >>Gangs of Basij enforcers, often heavily armed, roam the streets, threatening civilians and forcing them indoors. Anyone who looks like they might be thinking of protesting is threatened or beaten or worse. There are checkpoints across every city. Known protesters are scrutinized even as they move through the streets to get basic necessities.

Air Drop in some .22 LR rifles and ammo. They won't last long.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 06:40 PM (erF49)

159 The IAF is now starting to take out the Basij checkpoints.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:40 PM (+nEug)

160 This just in --

The new Supreme Leader just folded.

Reinforcement tape to be applied, stat.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 11, 2026 06:41 PM (948bW)

161 robably a MOP, Massive Ordinance Penetrator
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:22 PM (qBBPl)

The Paolo must be, how you say, jealous.

Posted by: Boswell at March 11, 2026 06:42 PM (j10i6)

162 Yahoo headline is Trump killing all those little girls in their "school " in Iran

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:42 PM (VE6XX)

163 California, eh......anyway how is spring training going?

Posted by: Megthered at March 11, 2026 06:43 PM (cLoou)

164 Off to watch real reporting from Tousi.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:43 PM (+nEug)

165 Everybody ought to have a maid?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (a+4eV)

I could sure use one. This place is sort of a dump currently. lol

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:44 PM (I40wl)

166 The FBI huh?

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 11, 2026 06:44 PM (cS1cw)

167 164 Off to watch real reporting from Tousi.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:43 PM (+nEug)

Me too

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 06:44 PM (VE6XX)

168 160 This just in --

The new Supreme Leader just folded.

Reinforcement tape to be applied, stat.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 11, 2026 06:41 PM (948bW)

We knew the dude was a bit.... flaccid.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (I40wl)

169 Yahoo headline is Trump killing all those little girls in their "school " in Iran
Posted by: It's me donna

The night school?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

170 Revolution is like a wildfire - certain conditions must be met. You can do color revolutions only because the Globalists infiltrated the government and neutered the security forces in advance. Brute force is off the menu.

That's not the case in Iran, and so it's a more gradual process, and the continuing targeting of key leaders is going to lead to a sense that the only way to survive is for THEM to rise up. That's why the targeting is going on.

It's like a plague, they keep dropping people. Where can you go? If you go into hiding, your unit is now leaderless.

That in turn allows a small rising to take hold, and then any units moving to crush it get nuked from orbit. But it takes time to set that up, and the Iranian people have already been bloodied. They're going to be more cautious now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

171 Murk is against the SAVE Act. Surprise, surprise, surprise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (qBBPl)

172 Everybody ought to have a maid?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:33 PM (a+4eV)

A pregnant, barefoot, maid who can cook and do massages, sure.

I’ll probably have to wait on Elon to put out the Optimus Waifu, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (6ydKt)

173 8 I doubt that Iranians know how anti-American California is and why would they care? If they are targeted, it's because it's the coast and they think they can get a ship near.
Posted by: huerfano
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They don't care what we think or Californians think.
Bombing the west coast would be much easier than the east coast.
Chinese complicity vessel disguised as a trader loaded with missiles could easily fire them off before being decimated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (N15rr)

174 Pahlavi has already said there would not be a de-Baathification as there was in Iraq
Posted by: Ben Had

That's... probably a good thing.

Guys who aren't going to face certain death for having worked for the oppressive government are more likely to surrender, I think.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (a+4eV)

175 Bad news for me I live about 1/2 mile from the Shah of Iran's daughter's ridge line palace here in Santa Barbara.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (xvV+O)

176 Pretty sure that was the goal from the very beginning. Revolution had nothing to do with it. Power leading to control and profit was ALWAYS the motive. "Revolution" is the patina on a crime syndicate.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2026 06:37 PM (gLikB)

That seems to be how the story goes since 1917 in Russia.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (6ydKt)

177 171 Murk is against the SAVE Act. Surprise, surprise, surprise
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 06:45 PM (qBBPl)

I don't know who she thinks will be unable to get an ID. You need one up here to apply for the Permanent Fund Dividend, and I can't imagine anyone up here would pass that up.

She's just anti-Trump, and kinda ugly, too. Last photo I saw with her resting bitch face looked like a spawned-out Humpy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (I40wl)

178 That's... probably a good thing.

Guys who aren't going to face certain death for having worked for the oppressive government are more likely to surrender, I think.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (a+4eV)
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He has promised amnesty for those who defect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

179 If they-a needed a massive, how you say, penetrator, then they should have a-called The Paolo!

Posted by: The Paolo at March 11, 2026 06:47 PM (TbWk/)

180 175 Bad news for me I live about 1/2 mile from the Shah of Iran's daughter's ridge line palace here in Santa Barbara.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 11, 2026 06:46 PM (xvV+O)

How is that bad news? Walk on over there and introduce yourself. She's smokin' hot and single....

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:48 PM (I40wl)

181 155 Pahlavi has already said there would not be a de-Baathification as there was in Iraq
Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 06:38 PM (+nEug)

what they need is a de-muslimization.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 06:48 PM (/QdgR)

182 Iran is still shipping oil to China as much as before. Why is this being allowed?

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (26cNE)

183 Air Drop in some .22 LR rifles and ammo. They won't last long.
Posted by: garrett
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Some of those magnum mini derringers too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (N15rr)

184 How is that bad news? Walk on over there and introduce yourself. She's smokin' hot and single....

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:48 PM (I40wl)
==

It's not and if there is some fire that hits here, gives me some cover to go after the hard leftists here.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (xvV+O)

185 Iran is still shipping oil to China as much as before. Why is this being allowed?
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (26cNE)

the straits are closed.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (8avO+)

186 what they need is a de-muslimization.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 06:48 PM (/QdgR)
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It has already happened. The mullahs have crushed faith. Only about a third of the country is Muslim, the rest are secular/minority faiths. Rumors of lots of crypto-Zoroastrians.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

187
Bill pushes Hillary into oncoming traffic today:

instagram.com/reel/DVueSEeEU5y/

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 06:50 PM (Y8DZL)

188 He has promised amnesty for those who defect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Even better. Looks like everyone involved (except for the IRGC and the mullahs) are trying minimize future bloodshed and resentments.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 06:51 PM (a+4eV)

189 #28 "I think that drone report is really just a way to put pressure to get DHS funded."

Sounds right to me.

Also, I thought we were mostly to focus on illegal immigration and our borders. Now we've helped to start a war in the Middle East. wth? Ecuador was where I personally drew the line on foreign involvement.

Posted by: Statman at March 11, 2026 06:51 PM (qK45p)

190 182 Iran is still shipping oil to China as much as before. Why is this being allowed?
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 11, 2026 06:49 PM (26cNE)

It keeps the global market price for oil down for one thing.

It’s not like the yuan they receive will do them any good at the moment.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 06:51 PM (6ydKt)

191 They are most certainly not going to change overnight. Expecting them to rise up and take over their country is a pipe dream. Sure it could happen but it probably won't happen. That is why the muslim fanatics killed the protestors who came out in public, they were the dangerous ones and they are almost all dead now.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2026 06:20 PM (0N4FZ)

whenever a people allow a government to take all their weapons away, they become cattle, not men.
Cattle don't revolt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 06:51 PM (/QdgR)

192 >>How is that bad news? Walk on over there and introduce yourself.

Bake her some cookies.

Or, ask for a cup of sugar and then come back with cookies. That ploy works best, imo.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 06:52 PM (erF49)

193 186 what they need is a de-muslimization.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 06:48 PM (/QdgR)
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It has already happened. The mullahs have crushed faith. Only about a third of the country is Muslim, the rest are secular/minority faiths. Rumors of lots of crypto-Zoroastrians.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

Iran was never a muslim country until the mullahs took over. It was always Persian culture, which was mostly Zoroastrian, some Christians, and a few muzzies. Carter fixed that, but good.

I would guess now there are a lot of muzzies who really aren't.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:52 PM (I40wl)

194
Tiffany Henyard has moved from her Chicago-adjacent mayoral Grand Theft hood to Georgia to run for office there.

As a Republican.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 06:53 PM (Y8DZL)

195 187
Bill pushes Hillary into oncoming traffic today:

instagram.com/reel/DVueSEeEU5y/
Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 06:50 PM (Y8DZL)

Good heavens, who dresses that bitch? She looks like a Mao reject.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:54 PM (I40wl)

196 Iran was never a muslim country until the mullahs took over. It was always Persian culture, which was mostly Zoroastrian, some Christians, and a few muzzies. Carter fixed that, but good.

I would guess now there are a lot of muzzies who really aren't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 06:52 PM (I40wl)
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It was conquered by Islam and has been nominally Islamic ever since, though to varying degrees.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

197 The failure of the mullahs to bring prosperity back to Iran has caused a backlash against Islam itself, leading Iranians to regard it as an alien belief system, incompatible with their culture.

That's why there's talk of Zoroastrian revival.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

198 Speaking of slaves; every man should own two or three slave women. They bring contentment to the home and keep him from straying.

Kuwait. Of course.
What's the Islamic ruling on catgirls and hijabs? Do they have to cut the fabric so the ears poke out? As long as we're catering to the worst male fantasies

Posted by: gKWVE at March 11, 2026 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

199 the straits are closed.
Posted by: Oldcat

U.S.S. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2026 06:58 PM (VHUov)

200 This is total bullshit.

Posted by: pawn at March 11, 2026 06:59 PM (iQdLI)

201 attacking the West Coast, isn't that the Plot of 1941?? where the Japs want to attach Hollywood, If Iran does people would Cheer.

I remember a book where Aliens threatened a Rural Folks over Maple Syrup (it was like a Drug) and if they didn't hand it over they would bomb the Cities, and the Rural Folks were like GO Ahead we hate those assholes.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2026 07:00 PM (FCrpy)

202 Crazy is as crazy does. Iran is muzzie crazy, the worst kind...like the kind of woman that would go to your apartment and kill the kitten there...even though you don't own any kittens...because she brought some just in case.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 11, 2026 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

203 It was conquered by Islam and has been nominally Islamic ever since, though to varying degrees.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

When I went to college mumblemumblemumble years ago, the mullahs had just taken over. We had lots of Iranian students in attendance, and every one of them tried to extend their tour of the US in order to NOT go back. There were a few fraudulent marriages to accomplish that. None of the students were muslims.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 11, 2026 07:00 PM (I40wl)

204 Does anyone with a functioning brain believe anything the FBI says?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 11, 2026 07:01 PM (abIsI)

205 IIRC, you have to fly a cargo plane to deliver the MOAB and only after establishing air dominance. Why it would be used as anything like a penetrator doesn't really make any sense, unless their had already been damage, and you want to shock an area, because moab is clears ground, doesn't penetrate it.

UNLESS, it's a shallow and expansive structure and seismic effect is enough to destroy a WHOLE LOT of tunnels.

But who knows. as long as we don't kill the hot chicks, I quite frankly don't care.

Posted by: wickedpinto at March 11, 2026 07:01 PM (dJrj2)

206 Refineries are surprisingly hard targets to destroy in real life.
Posted by: Oldcat

Especially if they're off line. Like in California.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 11, 2026 07:01 PM (diia5)

207 RELEASE THE FU-GO'S!!!

Posted by: Japanese WWII Recluse at March 11, 2026 07:02 PM (abIsI)

208 If the Gov. mansion was hit, would it really change anything here in Kalifornia?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 11, 2026 07:03 PM (ynpvh)

209 What is there left to be destroyed in CA that the Democrats have not already destroyed?

Posted by: Thatch at March 11, 2026 07:03 PM (i0077)

210 208 If the Gov. mansion was hit, would it really change anything here in Kalifornia?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 11, 2026 07:03 PM (ynpvh)

Of course the MSM will blame God-fearing fundamentalists for the attack...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 11, 2026 07:04 PM (ynpvh)

211 Every US Senator along the West Coast has voted to defund the Coast Guard. If something happens, they will either blame President Trump or say it was un preventable, or both.

Posted by: wferrin at March 11, 2026 07:04 PM (lCdHU)

212 I would bet Disneyland is a prime target.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 11, 2026 07:04 PM (abIsI)

213 209 What is there left to be destroyed in CA that the Democrats have not already destroyed?

Posted by: Thatch at March 11, 2026 07:03 PM (i0077)

The bullet train, but only because it doesn't exist.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 11, 2026 07:04 PM (ynpvh)

214 204, exactly

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 07:05 PM (MIIRH)

215 It has already happened. The mullahs have crushed faith. Only about a third of the country is Muslim, the rest are secular/minority faiths. Rumors of lots of crypto-Zoroastrians.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

You mean . . . They secretly light a candle on what used to be important religious days?

(This was one of the claims against New Christians in Renaissance Spain who were brought up on charges of being "secret Jews -- And it is funny because Zoroastrians are accused of being fire worshipers, BEN)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR)

216 UNLESS, it's a shallow and expansive structure and seismic effect is enough to destroy a WHOLE LOT of tunnels.

But who knows. as long as we don't kill the hot chicks, I quite frankly don't care.
Posted by: wickedpinto at March 11, 2026 07:01 PM (dJrj2)
Pinto speaks word.

Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2026 07:05 PM (PaOYH)

217 213, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 11, 2026 07:05 PM (MIIRH)

218 redstate is reporting that Hezbollah shot 100 or more rockets at Israel and overwhelmed Iron Dome.

It only intercepted half of them.

Why we're not carpet bombing these savages I'll never understand.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 11, 2026 07:06 PM (WYStd)

219 Critical Drinker likes "Project Hail Mary"
youtu.be/rWUOAfFzgpY
I read the book and found it silly, but maybe the director improved it. "The Expanse" was better than the book

Posted by: gKWVE at March 11, 2026 07:07 PM (gKWVE)

220 "Not sure why they'd attack anti-America California"

Vandenberg.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at March 11, 2026 07:08 PM (MV++E)

221 Nude Drones

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2026 07:09 PM (/lPRQ)

222 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 11, 2026 07:09 PM (LdBR/)

223 SpeakingOf: "That seems to be how the story goes since 1917 in Russia."

For certain. No leadership ever seems to suffer the fates of their public enunciations. There's public policy and then there's the real policy. The real policy is, of course and by design, religiously exclusionary and self rewarding.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2026 07:09 PM (gLikB)

224 Mexican cartels are helping Iran, I betcha. And they have that poor Guthrie women (or had).

Therefore, in my best guess, the drones will arrive from Mexico who are helping. I hope not for anyone.

I napped, which is unusual in the best of times and assume it's the last sleep I will have until I am well from this murder cold.

The roids will strike at midnight and I will try to keep the noise down.

One part of this cold is you lose track of time. Entire days til you look at the calendar. Maybe this is what Biden had for 4yrs.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 11, 2026 07:10 PM (WONhk)

225 Iran Rockets have enough range that from a certain point could hit ports in CA and WA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 07:12 PM (N15rr)

226 > 85 Ben Had

Hi! No, I'm not involved in the current brouhaha, and I'm rather irritated about that.

I hope all is well for you!

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at March 11, 2026 07:37 PM (FDHJL)

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