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2024-04-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Several drones were shot down over Iranian Isfahan, media reports — IAF airstruck ‘em good
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Posted by badanov 2024-04-19 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11161 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 That said, officially, Israel will not accept responsibility for this attack for strategic reasons. Sources explain that the Iranians claim it was an “explosion at a factory” because they wish to avoid escalation. Israeli sources told the Post, that It's unclear why the Pentagon disclosed to the American media that Israel was involved; they could have remained silent, they say. That could of preserved Iran's dignity, and avoided escalating the situation on their own.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-19 02:08||   2024-04-19 02:08|| Front Page Top

#2 p.s. There's some poetry involving Isfahan that I feel I'm ought to remember.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-19 02:55||   2024-04-19 02:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Speculation:

Israel leaked information / told the US about a planned strike to expose the information channels between the Biden administration and the Mullahs.

The strike then was either called off or very limited, it's primary purpose being intelligence gathering.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-04-19 05:06||   2024-04-19 05:06|| Front Page Top

#4 From 1980
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-19 05:56||   2024-04-19 05:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Gracias Frank.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-19 06:20||   2024-04-19 06:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Was checking out Iran State TV which is showing what they claim are "live" images from Isfahan. A closer look shows they are lying. The video re-cycles about every 25 seconds.

Note: The same dark color clothed person on a moped shows up and rides the traffic circle.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-04-19 06:25||   2024-04-19 06:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Attack on Iran next to nuclear site sends message: We could have done worse here - analysis
The message was unmistakable, 'we chose not to hit your nuclear sites this time, but we could have done worse right here,' sources told the Post.
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-19 07:00||   2024-04-19 07:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Encyclopædia Iranica
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/hajji-baba-of...
HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN – Encyclopaedia Iranica
WEBMar 1, 2012 · A long, and at times tedious novel of eighty chapters, Hajji Baba of Ispahan recounts in the first person the extraordinary adventures of its hero, the son of a barber from Isfahan. ...w
Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-04-19 07:28||   2024-04-19 07:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Found: P.N. van Eyck

the gardener and death

A Persian nobleman:

This morning, white with fear, my gardener flees
Into my house: ‘Master, a moment please!’

Out in the rose-beds, pruning shoots with care,
I looked behind me. Death was standing there.

I gave a start, and sought my getaway,
But glimpsed his hand that made as if to slay.

Master, your horse, and at full tilt I’ll ride,
Ere evening comes, in Isfahan I’ll hide!’ –

This afternoon (long since he off had set)
Amongst the cedars Death I also met.

‘Why,’ I inquire, since he waits silently,
‘Did you my servant treat so threateningly?’

Smiling he said: ‘A threat caused in no wise
Your gardener to flee. I showed surprise

To find still here and busy just the man
This evening I must fetch in Isfahan.’
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-19 08:02||   2024-04-19 08:02|| Front Page Top

#10 There is a major radar station and coordinating infrastructure in Isfahan. This facility covers, among other things, the nuclear fabrication station at Natanz.
Good chance the Israel objective was to take out the radar station.
Posted by lord garth 2024-04-19 17:17||   2024-04-19 17:17|| Front Page Top

#11  video of attack results at Kalsu Base in the Babylon Governorate
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:33||   2024-04-19 18:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Jurf Sakhar, Iraq Video
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:35||   2024-04-19 18:35|| Front Page Top

#13  video of armory in Iraq
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:36||   2024-04-19 18:36|| Front Page Top

#14  video of almost entire PMF base on fire in Iraq
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:38||   2024-04-19 18:38|| Front Page Top

#15  Video panic in Iraq
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:39||   2024-04-19 18:39|| Front Page Top

#16 The Chief of Staff Headquarters of the “Babylon Movement” also know as the 50th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has suffered Significant Material Damage.
Posted by 3dc 2024-04-19 18:40||   2024-04-19 18:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Clearly just an "infiltration" by rebels

/sarc
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-19 19:48||   2024-04-19 19:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Someone else’s observation:

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-19 19:50||   2024-04-19 19:50|| Front Page Top

#19 And it must be said: a nice collection from Twitter, 3dc. Thank you for finding all that and bringing it to us.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-19 22:28||   2024-04-19 22:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Isfahan. "Well, the chase has been fun,
though I wonder," cried Death, "why you'd run."
"I was trying to save
you from this. Do be brave,
My dear Death, dead man walking. I'm done.
John Donne." [shots, familiar fanfare, lutenist plucks Dowland theme behind silhouetted belly dancers]
Posted by Thromoger Whusomp2178 2024-04-19 23:09||   2024-04-19 23:09|| Front Page Top

#21 *happy sigh*
Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-19 23:23||   2024-04-19 23:23|| Front Page Top

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