Specter Posted January 18 Posted January 18 (edited) After Iran admitted to air striking Pakistan: Quote Iran has admitted carrying out a missile and drone attack on western Pakistan on Tuesday. Officials in Islamabad said two children were killed and three others injured in the attack in Balochistan. Iran's foreign minister said the operation targeted the militant group Jaish al-Adli, which he described as an "Iranian terrorist group" in Pakistan. As a result the Pakistan's government recalled its ambassador to Iran and has blocked Tehran's envoy from returning. ... He added he had spoken to his Pakistani counterpart and "assured him that we do respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan and Iraq". ... Tuesday's strike in Pakistan hit a village in the vast south-western border province of Balochistan. Tehran said it was targeting Jaish al-Adl, or "army of justice", an ethnic Baloch Sunni Muslim group that has carried out attacks inside Iran as well as on Pakistani government forces. Last December Jaish al-Adl attacked a police station in Rask, a town close to the border with Pakistan. Two weeks ago Iran suffered its worst domestic attack since the Islamic Revolution, when two bombs killed 84 people at a ceremony in Kerman to commemorate the US assassination of Iran's notorious Revolutionary Guard general, Qasem Soleimani. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67999465 Pakistan is now carrying/carried out retaliatory strikes of its own: Quote Pakistan has carried out a series of military strikes on what it said were separatist militant hideouts inside Iran, its foreign ministry said Thursday, in the latest incident across their shared border that has sent tensions between the two neighbors soaring. The new strikes mean both Pakistan and Iran have now taken the extraordinary step of attacking militants on each other’s soil this week at a time of expanding conflict in the Middle East and wider region. Islamabad said its forces launched a “series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes” in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province as part of an operation called ‘Marg Bar Sarmachar’ — a phrase which loosely translates to “death to the guerrilla fighters.” Pakistan on Thursday said it had expressed concern to Iran in recent years about the “safe havens and sanctuaries” of Pakistan separatist fighters, referred to as Sarmachar, living inside Iran, and that they had shared evidence of the presence and activities of the militants. “However, because of lack of action on our serious concerns, these so-called Sarmachars continued to spill the blood of innocent Pakistanis with impunity. This morning’s action was taken in light of credible intelligence of impending large scale terrorist activities,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said. Pakistan said it “fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and that the “sole objective of today’s act was in pursuit of Pakistan’s own security and national interest which is paramount and cannot be compromised.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/18/middleeast/pakistan-targets-locations-iran-intl-hnk/index.html Pakistan is currently trending as a topic with like half a million tweets for this reason. Them striking each other and posting petty "dw we respect your sovereignty <3" jhfjhd; but Edited January 18 by Phantom
My Tears Ricochet Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Iran is getting way too brave. Did they forget that Pakistan is a nuclear state and they are not? 1 2
Raptus Posted January 18 Posted January 18 I know it's bad but after last 4 years I don't even care. Humanity as a whole is dumb as f*** and it's tiring.
IBeMe Posted January 18 Posted January 18 I don't think this will escalate too much. Iran's intentions were to scare the puppet government in Pakistan that overthrew Imran Khan and I actually think Pakistan won't escalate further and will get the message. Iran has become way too belligerent though...they need to tone it down real quick lest they risk triggering too many regional forces against them. They are excellent at proxy warefare but idk how they'd fare in a all out attack by a coalition of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel, UAE and US + European support....it would be deadly AF on both ends but it would absolutely obliterate Iran...so let's hope they tone things down. no one wants a regional conflict to escalate to that extent...the region is already in a taste of chaos because of Israel's horrific genocide on Palestinians and now the situation with the Houthis and the US + UK....
DuffStan Posted January 18 Posted January 18 We really don't need a regional war right now. We need the world to work towards peace in the ongoing Gaza war.
playwithme Posted January 18 Posted January 18 I hope that things will escalate with Iran, which will deter them from supplying more weapons to the russian terrorist state. 1 1 6
glitch Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Good lord enough already. Ordinary people just want to get on with their lives, no one needs any of this crap. Powerful men and their obsession with conflict 1
Komet Posted January 18 Posted January 18 So both sides are just bombing Baloch people? Iran especially has been discriminating against them for a while, I don't think they give af
Varrock Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Is the **** hole that is the Iranian government just trying to start a war with every country on this planet? WW3 will literally start purely because of them at this point. And they will be flattened.
ZIVERT Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Iran is an actual terrorist state, wbk. I feel terrible for the Iranian people. 1
Gui Blackout Posted January 18 Posted January 18 They also bombed Syria and Iraq this week, killing civilians along the way. Unsurprisingly it's been crickets from some people... Iran remains the biggest destabilizer of the middle east.
Bosque Posted January 18 Posted January 18 ATRL users take international missile strikes extremely seriously and always speak out against nations that kill citizens of other nations in the name of "defending against terror", so I'm sure this thread will be full of people criticizing Iran for these actions very soon. 4
Buffy Posted January 18 Posted January 18 So that’s what Iran has done with the billions of money the US has given them recently.
Aethereal Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Iran state is a mess, they were much better off with communism. I am not a fan of communism but I had to pick that would be my easy choice.
ithinkheknowsoutsold Posted January 22 Posted January 22 On 1/18/2024 at 7:18 PM, Aristotle said: Iran state is a mess, they were much better off with communism. I am not a fan of communism but I had to pick that would be my easy choice. When was Iran communist?
AMIT Posted January 23 Posted January 23 10 hours ago, ithinkheknowsoutsold said: When was Iran communist? Never. OT: This is terrible for civilians on both sides. But also par for the course in the world order we all live in. Arguing about which state (between literally all of them) is less terrorist is missing the point. No state has their ''citizens''' interests in mind when making any decisions and it's time we all learn that.
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