Note: the "like" button is the default button and is the one most often pressed. The other "reactions" require you to hold the button down to select them. I think this picture is meant to highlight that while other countries have shocked faces and tearful faces, KSA have laughing faces and heart icons.
It can even be the 700 km Ya Ali missile. The distance between Iran's border and Raqqa is about 560 km, and the Ya Ali as with most Iranian missiles can be mounted on a vehicle so it can launch from anywhere.
I'm mentioning this purely because I'm a plane enthusiast but even the IRIAF does have the refuelling capability to hit Raqqa, with F-4s carrying external fuel tanks and getting refuelled by that huge KC-747 and the KC-707(s?
@eagle2007 its been so long since I've had access to IMF's detailed picture gallery and serial numbers. Is there more than one KC-707 flying?).
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-worlds-only-kc-747-tanker-is-flown-by-the-iranian-a-1581314071
But realistically I see none of these happening. Iran's leadership is in my view, with the really serious stuff, very cool headed and risk averse. They will probably just intensify armament support to Assad, increase the number of advisers/fighters.
I think Iran will make the right move as it alwa...... ugh....
Look brother, this is not something that a military campaign or counter terrorist operations or some sort of "win" situation in Syria and Iraq can solve. I know this Iran VS Saudia Arabia (Israel and co.) is about money, resources, power and influence but it can no longer be avoided and we must call a spade a spade. Sunni Islam is out of control and the most susceptible to radicalization whether it be Wahhabi Saudi style or any other form of no tolerance Islam.
Iran's enemies literally want EVERY Iranian dead. That is something that requires a special type of countering that cruise missiles and small counter-terrorist operations just don't cut it. They somehow have a foot hold in Iran. And thats frightening (I wish for quick detection and liquidation of all terrorist cells in Iran immediately).
It is now an Gulf Arab culture problem that is being nurtured by the USA and Israel for the sole purpose of keeping this region destabilized and hindering Iran's influence and the Shia's (whether having Shia rule is necessarily better or worse is up for debate, I would like to see more secular governments but to each their own). Not to mention the massive amount of money that can be made from the pipelines that Saudi Arabia wanted to build.
I know the IRGC is meeting with Russian officials possibly Turkish officials about this recent attack and will see if they can get some extra help but IRGC needs to honestly start looking into making Iran's military and defense apparatus into something much more potent and air-tight than what it is now. Secondly, Iran and the clerics should really start to criticize harder and more deeply on the version of Islam that the Saudis are peddling to young muslims around the world (hint, its the demonic version) and their own Shia Islam. I've seen many videos of supposed moderation sunni's in Western mosques giving rather disturbing sermons that often resemble ISIS/radical sermons. I will admit i've never practiced Islam (although I guess technically I'm Shia muslim or whatever) so my knowledge of whats actually in the Quran is very limited but the facts support that Shia Islam is the more peaceful version compared to the Sunni Wahhabi version. And again I'm not trying to give a overall critique of Islam, these are just some of my concerns.
You see for us Americans, many of us including military personal (I have some friends who were in the military who have that the US has no business being the middle east) hate the Saudis and to a certain extent the Israeli's with a burning passion and know that the US has supported and colluded with known terrorist organizations and countries that actually support terrorism namely Saudi Arabia and the other chicken shit gulf monarchs, Israeli parasites included. Oil, non-stop fighting, coups, terrorism, natural gas, petro-dollar, Greater Israel, (it all fuxking suks).
I hate to say but it must be sad. Iran will have to fight for its very existence sooner or later and a winner must be named. This cold-war must end, it can't continue like this as it has engulfed an entire region into turmoil. Saudi will fold but can Iran honestly last a prolonged war?
Hitting their oil fields is cool and all but thats just the resource part of the war. The ideological side of Sunni VS Shia will have to settled as well once and for all. The Divide is palpable...
Don't let the Israelis get the best of you...
