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submitted 7 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Israel carried out covert attacks on two major natural gas pipelines inside Iran this week, disrupting the flow of heat and cooking gas to provinces with millions of people, according to two Western officials and a military strategist affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The strikes represent a notable shift in the shadow war that Israel and Iran have been waging by air, land, sea and cyberattack for years.

Israel has long targeted military and nuclear sites inside Iran — and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and commanders, both inside and outside of the country. Israel has also waged cyberattacks to disable servers belonging to the oil ministry, causing turmoil at gas stations nationwide.

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What's the west gonna do? Support Iran? LoL

-Israel probably

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Israel probably did this at the US's instigation. The US is still getting payback for attacks on its assets in Iraq and Syria but does not want to escalate by striking Iran directly. Using Israel allows for deniability.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

At this point that would be pretty badass. Fuck the Israeli death machine.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

It's not like Iran isn't pulling the strings for Hamas and the Houthis, I'm just glad they're attacking someone responsible for the war rather than murdering the shit out of some Gazan civilians.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Okay I'm not a fan of Iran, but the one responsible for the war is 100% Israel. Hamas did some unexecusable things on October 7th, but the "cause" still remains Israel's colonialist occupation of Palestine. Iran's position in the Palestine conflict as a whole is light gray, not black.

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Following your logic, will you be glad when someone start attacking the usa too?

[-] conquer4@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago
[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Thats what you get when you invade another country. But im talking about when someone attacks in usa territory, like what happened to iran

[-] conquer4@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, so 22 years, 5 months ago?

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Idk what date you are talking about, not everyone cares about the usa holidays

[-] conquer4@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago

It's only September 11th, which resulted in a 20 year war ~300,000 deaths (~800,000 if you include Iraq).

Iran is welcome to screw around and find out. Operation Praying Mantis take two?

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder why that happened. Its a mystery that we will never know. Anyway, dont you have any intelligence agency who could have prevented that?

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -5 points 7 months ago

The US didn't invade Jordan FFS.

Jordan invited the US to send soldiers there.

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Are you blindly innocent or talking in bad faith?

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -5 points 7 months ago

Nah, I'm just someone living in the real world and not a fantasy world constructed to conform to social media narratives.

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

You give jordan as an example of a legitimate invasion. Are you really trying to be taken seriously?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Netanyahu trying to escalate with both Hezbollah and Iran themselves.

He really is trying to start WW3 and pull in Biden.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Biden has already launched attacks in the middle east.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world -1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


But blowing up part of the country’s energy infrastructure, relied on by industries, factories and millions of civilians, marked an escalation in the covert war and appeared to open a new frontier, officials and analysts said.

“The enemy’s plan was to completely disrupt the flow of gas in winter to several main cities and provinces in our country,” Iran’s oil minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian media on Friday.

But Iran supports and arms a network of proxy militia that have been actively fighting with Israel and United States, including the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and militants in Iraq and Syria.

“This shows that the covert networks operating in Iran have expanded their target list and advanced beyond just military and nuclear sites,” said Shahin Modarres, a Rome-based security analyst focused on the Middle East.

But his assessment was at odds with the comments of local governors and officials from Iran’s national gas company, who had described widespread outages of service in five provinces, forcing the closure of government buildings.

He noted that major pipelines in Iran, which carry gas across vast distances that include mountains, deserts and rural fields, are patrolled by guards in outposts along the length of the pipes.


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