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2026-03-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran fortifying Kharg Island in preparation for potential US attack - report

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-26 10:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1824 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

1 I gotta think this is a distraction over destruction of the delivery system to the island.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-26 10:50|| 2026-03-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

2 Lose/Lose for Iran. If they do nothing, we can probably take Kharg Island fairly easily. If they continue do what they are doing now, we have new targets to attack and maybe find out these additional troops and equipment came from.
The other question is these IRGC troops and equipment or regular army units. The regular army doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic and based what I have read, we have not gone out of our way to inflict heavy casualties on the regular army.
Could we see fighting breakout between the IRGC and the regular army?

Posted by Chantry 2026-03-26 11:22|| 2026-03-26 11:22|| Front Page Top

3 Could we see

No.

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-26 13:07|| 2026-03-26 13:07|| Front Page Top

4 The Island is at the end of a very long pipeline(s) that cannot be fortified along their entirety and are easily vulnerable to air-supremacy kinetic interdiction. Messy to repeatedly cut the line with kabooms but the net effect would be the same as turning off the spigot, no oil to sell!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-03-26 14:23|| 2026-03-26 14:23|| Front Page Top

5 It sounds like we’re watching in real time as they place their traps, which seems an unfair advantage for the invaders…

Posted by trailing wife 2026-03-26 15:22|| 2026-03-26 15:22|| Front Page Top

6 No Iran oil leaving the strait anyway so why take Kharg.

Bandar Abbas on the other hand is crucial.

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-03-26 15:27|| 2026-03-26 15:27|| Front Page Top

7 Iran claims ONE MILLION fighters are primed for US invasion as new hardline government demands chilling nuclear escalation

Yawn.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-26 16:54|| 2026-03-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

8 ^ Dr. Evil: "One Meelion!"

Posted by Frank G 2026-03-26 19:57|| 2026-03-26 19:57|| Front Page Top

Posted by Gleng Whaick2262 2026-03-26 21:21|| 2026-03-26 21:21|| Front Page Top

10 ^^^ you're a goddamn idiot.

Posted by chris 2026-03-26 21:27|| 2026-03-26 21:27|| Front Page Top

11 The regular army doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic and based what I have read, we have not gone out of our way to inflict heavy casualties on the regular army.
Could we see fighting breakout between the IRGC and the regular army?

An interesting point. The top leadership is getting ground down. That leaves the various factions - the Army, the IRGC, the Basenjis, and misc militias. Trump is trying to make a deal. The question is, with who? The Iranian "Mosaic Defense" creates independent factions with nobody in charge.

This creates a Prisoner's Dilemma - first faction to take the deal gets to run Iran. There is an equilibrium point where the factions stand together against the Great Satan, but too much of that ends in ashes and ruin. Besides, can you *really* trust the other factions? Are they as power mad as you? And remember Venezuela? Aside from Maduro and the dead Cubans, that wasn't such a bad outcome. So who wants the deal?

Posted by SteveS 2026-03-26 21:52|| 2026-03-26 21:52|| Front Page Top

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