Ryan Grimm, for his part, said that Naval Special Warfare units were given deployment orders today. My current bet is that Kharg is the distraction and they actually want to make a play for Iran’s uranium stockpile. Arguably even stupider than trying to take Kharg Island.

We’re going to see dead seal operators like frankly no one has seen outside of the vietnam war folks!

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    I also think it’s a bluff. His current strategy seems to be to say literally everything, and do everything except escalate. I don’t know how he ends up wrapping this up. My guess is pretend it never happened, but now Iran collects a tax an all shipments through the strait. Israel probably won’t even put up much fuss.

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    Based on reports as of March 2026, a significant portion of Iran’s uranium stockpile—including around 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium—is believed to be stored within a tunnel complex at the Isfahan nuclear site

    Oh cool they are going to fly and send troops to the MIDDLE OF IRAN, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? avgn-horror

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    a play for iran’s uranium stockpile.

    ken klippenstein’s stuff is usually good, but genuinely in what sense would this remotely be possible, in a logistical sense? isn’t “iran’s uranium stockpile” effectively literal tons of material to move that is also currently buried under bombed nuclear development facilities? last time i checked there’s no such thing as SEAL team Concrete so… does anyone know what i’m missing here?

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      didn’t trump say he was going to try something like this? obviously there are a lot of problems with that idea just on the face of it but yk. some people theorized it was their exit strategy. take a mysterious box from the coast, load it into a helicopter, declare victory in the middle east

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      The “going to get the uranium” strategy is something I’ve basically only seen floated on this website by MarmiteLover123 and he’s acknowledged this would require special equipment and days/weeks of work to complete, imo highly unlikely

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          Uranium. Right? We have the best uranium. We have so much of it, you wouldn’t believe it. People say, ‘Sir, what are you doing with all that uranium?’ I say, we’re making supersoldiers. The best supersoldiers.

          Now, the radical left - they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s dangerous, you can’t expose people to radiation.’ Wrong. I’ve seen the movie. You know the one? With the guy? He gets the radiation and then, bam! He’s unbeatable. He’s got the strength, the speed. The skin. Very tough skin. They say my skin is very tough, by the way.

          But the lying media, they hear ‘uranium’ and they panic. They say, ‘Trump wants to give our troops cancer.’ I’m not going to give them cancer. My uncle - a very smart man, very smart - he told me all about uranium. He told me about nuclear power. Beautiful big towers. I want to give them power. Tremendous power. We’re going to have soldiers who can lift a tank over their heads. I’ve seen the schematics. They’re beautiful schematics. I said to the generals, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ They said, ‘Sir, the Geneva Convention…’ I said, ‘Forget the Convention. We’re making a new one. The Trump Convention.’ It’s going to be much better, with much more winning.

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        cw suicide kind of

        DERANGED COUNTRY KILLS ITSELF

        Citizens in shock as a deranged nation state, reportedly from the loins of Mammon, shot itself in the head last night in the middle of a rugged mountain range in southern Iran. The exact details of the incident have not been revealed, but first-hand witnesses claim that the nation was making a point.

        “Can’t say I’m surprised,” Mohammad Marandi, professor at University of Tehran, who saw witnessed the incident live, commented. “It was extremely unstable and had threatened to kill itself before.”

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          CITY IN MOURNING: BURNED-OUT COUNTRY SHOOTS CHILDREN

          Yesterday in the city of Minab, a deranged “world law official” from the paramilitary outfit that calls itself the United States Air Force bombed and killed girls in a local school. Locals are in shock.

          “It was out of control,” said Mohammad Marandi, professor at University of Tehran. “I hope they put it away for good.”

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    This is plausible. There hasn’t really been enough of a buildup of ground forces for an invasion of Iran, which would take months.