{"id":46827,"date":"2019-06-22T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46827"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:29","slug":"who-survives-the-iran-counter-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46827","title":{"rendered":"Who Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Iran has had enough. I think it\u2019s fair to say that after 60+ years of U.S. aggression towards Iran that the decision to shoot down a U.S. drone represents an inflection point in world politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first few hours after the incident the fog of war was thick. But a day later much of it has cleared thanks to Iran\u2019s purposeful poke at U.S. leadership by coming clean with their intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran chose to shoot down this drone<\/a>\u00a0versus hitting the manned P-8 aircraft and then chose not to lie about it in public, but rather come forward removing any deniability they could have had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#Iran<\/a>\u2019s purpose by shooting down the drone was to warn the “#US<\/a> terrorist forces”” as it could also target an #American<\/a> P-8 military aircraft that was flying next to MQ-4C drone, but it didn\u2019t: Brigadier General Hajizadeh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did this after President Trump\u2019s comments yesterday during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau where Trump described the attack as \u201ca big mistake\u201d and \u201cnot intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was intentional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the reason for this was that despite Trump\u2019s assurances yesterday there is considerable debate as to where the drone actually was.  According to a report from the NY Times <\/a>(and buried deep in a very long article):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, there remained doubt inside the United States government over whether the drone, or another American surveillance aircraft, this one flown by a military aircrew, did violate Iranian airspace at some point, according to a senior administration official. The official said the doubt was one of the reasons Mr. Trump called off the strike \u2014 which could under international norms be viewed as an act of war.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive? Iran has had enough. I think it\u2019s fair to say that after 60+ years of U.S. aggression towards Iran that the decision to shoot down a U.S. drone represents an inflection point in world politics. In the first few hours after the incident the fog of war was thick. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1009,21273,441,16963,827],"class_list":["post-46827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-drone","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-iran","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46828,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions\/46828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}