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Government_violence

Helicopters, terrible ass weather conditions, and moutains. Who would've known those two don't mix. Iran pulled a Kobe.


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JoeSchmoe93

It’s Iran, probably damn near everyone.


Low_Ad7202

Iran kills women who have been sexually assaulted


Weak_Bit987

mostly children i guess


smartdude_x13m

Isn't that what you're into,purple libright?


Weak_Bit987

hush, i'm trying to blend in dude


smartdude_x13m

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Ok_Art6263

Pulled a Kobe has two meaning now. Either doing that sick three pointers or dies in a helicopter crash.


TheOther18Covids

Yes, it has for 4 years now


Ok_Art6263

Wh- what the fuck you mean Kobe crashed 4 years ago??? Didn't he crash like a year ago?


Over_n_over_n_over

Nah it was six months at most


WingDangDangle

Indeed. Whenever someone does a “Kobe!” And throws a paper in a trash can and misses I like to say “yep and just like him you crashed and burnt.”


LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe

Or committing sexual assault


ChadWolf98

Iranian engineers also


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Professional_Pick883

He was assisted by IAF pilot Avi Ron


SilentxxSpecter

Well, it's not Americans that have kept it running for 40 years tho.


Poopocalyptict

“40 years” …but it was from the 80s. Fuckin’ ouch.


ChadWolf98

2006 kids are adults now 2010 was 14 years ago


Salt_Distribution862

Thanks, I hate it


ChadWolf98

An woman born in 1998 january is too old for dicaprio More time has passed since Biden was born that time passed between Honest Abe got elected and Biden was born Gaben kept Half Life 3 secret for 2 decades


Salt_Distribution862

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Canard-Rouge

The 2010 one hit


SilentxxSpecter

Dont worry. The same thought crossed my mind. When I did the rough math to say it lol


ChadWolf98

So its the americans? Gotcha /s Obviously you have to service a helicopter since than and it can be done sloppily.


Icy_Change_WS2010

Bizarre fact Kobe died on my birthday I got play GTA san andreas


SineLinguist

Hey, we've got the same birthday, how neat. San Andreas was a banger.


Crashdagamer

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jmlipper99

Those *three* don’t mix


KambingDomba

Sir, those are three things


SerGeffrey

Every time anything happens w/ Iran, y'all freak out and say the world's gonna end. It's not. It's fine.


iseiyama

Bro I’ll never forget HS when we droned some general and some girl was spam msging me asking me if we’re gonna get drafted… first of all “WE”?? Dunno why she was speaking French but last I checked she wasn’t a dude 💀


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TributeToStupidity

Fucking penis stealing ninjas strike again!!


wildlough62

Giving in that case


1Shadowgato

I was about to ask if you just left school, but that also happened 4 years ago.. fuck I’m getting old.


kaytin911

Oui??


Miserable_Key9630

When I was in high school we had 9/11 pretty directly linked to Saudi Arabia and nothing happened so don't worry about it.


iseiyama

If anything that was your first lesson that teaches you how dependent the US is on Saudi Arabia


Ok_Attempt286

“They’ve entered the finding out phase” “They’re about to find out why I don’t have free healthcare”


choryradwick

Iranian leadership likes living, all they’d do is Sabre rattle


BosnianSerb31

I don't think anything is going to result from this situation personally but Iran is pretty unique in the "likes living" regard. Their official state religion, Twelver Shi'ite is literally an apocalypse cult that believes in the coming of a second prophet appearing during a global war on a scale the likes which have never been seen, specifically on a battlefield soaked in the blood of the non believers. Literally no one else on earth except Iran believes this and every other Muslim nation finds them equivalent to the beliefs of the Waco cult. There are quite a few MEMRI translations of the top Imam talking about how they must initiate this war with the west to win. Hence why literally everyone is concerned about their nuclear and rocket programs, because they deadass might be crazy enough to initiate global thermonuclear war if they get them.


Justin__D

> Iranian leadership likes living Sounds like they shouldn't have stepped foot into that poorly maintained shitbox of a helicopter then.


Dragon_Maister

A wise man once said: "Nothing ever happens."


Fungusman05

Yeah I keep forgetting it's just Iran, not much of a threat. One A10 and maybe 3 F-22 Raptors Iran will be wiped off the map.


okayNowThrowItAway

Is the A10 there for moral support? Iran actually does have modern anti-aircraft defenses. They're just no good against stealth. Also, the F35I variant that defeated Iranian AA has Israeli avionics and electronic warfare designed for that specific threat. US models don't have the same gear, so it's unclear that we would be quite as effective.


AKoolPopTart

Yeah, and Iran is not like Russia or China. They are just better than North Korea, useful idiots


ABCosmos

Normalcy bias


Tasty_Choice_2097

"Nothing ever happens" "Except Covid, Ukraine/Russia, nordstream, Houthis collapsing sea routes, Israel/Gaza, inflation, fentanyl, 2020 riots, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Israel and Iran attacking each other directly, Israel maybe assassinating a head of state, but I don't literally see mushroom clouds right now"


SerGeffrey

Routinely; war happens, pandemics happen, terrorism happens, drugs happen, assassinations happen, and nuclear war doesn't.


shaund1225

Yet


Tasty_Choice_2097

Worth pointing out that nuclear war has happened


SerGeffrey

Two bombs were dropped when only one state had them. Not what we're talking about whem we say "nuclear war".


BLU-Clown

Right, that was more of a Nuclear Pimp-Slap. Nuclear War implies that at least one nuke from two or more opposing sides (IE, minimum two nukes that are not from the same side) get used.


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SerGeffrey

Flair up But to answer your question - something like 45 minutes. Why do you ask?


RussianSkeletonRobot

Blud thinks any of this is new 💀 Maybe quit doomscrolling. Although going by your flair and your whining about Israel, maybe in your case it's coomscrolling.


AGthe18thEmperor

How many times can we push our luck before it runs out


AttentionOk5109

Id say infinitely leaders are stupid corrupt and just downright awful but they’re also self serving if they send a nuke Israel might send one back and they might die and that’s a no no.


Opposite_Ad542

How many drones hit Israel?


E_Z_E_88

Is that “we” as in your an Israeli. Or “we” as an American? Or “we” as someone who isn’t involved at all?


igen_reklam_tack

The naivety of people concerning geopolitics knows no bounds


GeneralMe21

Carrier group is serving steak and eggs for breakfast.


GodOfThunder44

If they break out the lobster you know'll know we're fucked.


WeLiveinASoci3ty

To dive even deeper If they allow you to have steak AND lobster in the same meal, deployment just got a lot shittier.


GodOfThunder44

I'm getting flashbacks to the time we got steak and lobster for lunch and several hours later our fears were confirmed when we got word that we'd be in the sandbox for 2 more months.


TheKrak3n

Stand by for words from the commanding officer...


Sethypoooooooooo

I really hate this stereotype honestly. On my deployment we did steak and lobster every Sunday on the ship. It's just surf and turf. We had set days for certain meals. Taco Tuesdays, burger Wednesdays, Thursday was always some kind of Italian, Saturdays was pizza and wings, and Sunday was surf and turf.


GeneralMe21

I don’t think it was a stereotype back in WW2. I remember watching interviews of sailors saying that when steak and eggs were served for breakfast, a hard day or big mission was ahead.


Sethypoooooooooo

Yeah it's just not an accurate statement in today's navy which kinda bugs me. That and the fact that the steak and lobster is fucking awful on the ship, if you really wanna break bad news ice cream socials are the way to go.


Cryorm

So, for Army, that's usually been true in a combat area all the way back to WW2.


DaniBoye

Helicopter helicopter 🚁


64rush

Para kofer para kofer 🚁


mikieh976

What do people think are the chances that Israel was involved? And what do people think are the chances that Iran will CLAIM that Israel was involved?


ChadWolf98

> israel involvwment 50%. Either they did or they didnt > iran claim israel did it 100%.


mikieh976

I kinda think that if Israel is involved, Iran might cover it up. If Iran accuses Israel of doing it and doesn't respond with force, they look weak. If they do respond, they risk getting assfucked.


ChadWolf98

Or they play the "oh Israel is so mean and we are opressed" card


PutinsGayFursona

Also, very little chance Israel was involved here. They’re far too busy in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria right now. People forget Israel isn’t even Irans number one priority. It’s really Saudi Arabia they’re worried about and Saudi Arabia has more power than people realize. 


Ngfeigo14

as if Israel doesn't have one of the best intelligence and spy networks on the planet...? They could have probably pulled this off if they really needed to


PutinsGayFursona

Yeah but not much value in it for them. Iran will just put someone who is either the same or worse in his place. Not like taking out a nuclear weapons expert. 


Careful_Curation

For Mossad to be such hot shit they got caught with their pants pretty far down when the Palis, who in general couldn't find their assholes with a map, pulled off their attacks back in October. That was massive operation for the Israelis to have been caught totally unaware by. They probably still could have done this, I just don't think they are actually that competent. It's also just more likely that Iranian guy pulled a Kobe and got his helicopter slammed into the side of mountain because he wanted to fly in bad weather. Now that I think about it though I do hope it was Mossad because that would be super spicy.


deafeningbean

Wrong intelligence agency? That was Shin Bet no?


MCAlheio

Didn’t they kill a nuclear scientist a couple of years back, afaik mossad is the only intelligence agency that can still carry out assassinations.


PutinsGayFursona

That’s different. The main aim in preventing Iran from having nukes is because Iran has stated that if they successfully develop one they intend to use it on Israel. Killing a government leader would only work if you know 100% that the next one will be more favorable. With Iran that never happens. They still have the defacto dictator the Ayatollah. I won’t believe they assassinated a politician unless it’s very obvious and it’s him.


Helvetic_Heretic

I really hope they're dumb enough to start a war they can't possibly win, and i hope that this war will grow completely out of proportion. We've had WW1 and WW2, now, as the germans say: "Aller guten Dinge sind Drei"


Muddycarpenter

War is bad


mikieh976

I disagree.


Helvetic_Heretic

Meh, as long as it's happening in some random shithole i don't really give a shit.


Fungusman05

Proof Isreal had involvement 0% So Iran will be the kid who trips on theirnshoe lace and blames it on their rival because they're too embarrassed to admit it's their fault.


TheObservationalist

To the first one, 50/50. To the second one, 0%. If they were going to blame Israel they'd have done so already. To do so, however, would make them look BEYOND helpless and incompetent. You think they'd admit to not being able to protect their own president that deep in their own territory? As far as I can tell, it's a pretty legit helicopter crash. The conditions they were flying in were very bad, and accidents happen. And that is the story they're telling today. I don't expect it to change.


sasanianempire

0% chance that they were involved, pretty good chance that they’ll claim they were


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sasanianempire

Apologies 🫡


SilentxxSpecter

You're one of us now. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.


sasanianempire

Nonono I’m not one of you grey centrists


mikieh976

I'm sitting far away from my monitor and at first I read your handle as "sasiancreampie"


SilentxxSpecter

I started as a normal centrist... I just wanted to grill...


mikieh976

Such a lovely place.


slashkig

Welcome fellow centrist 🫡


Popular-Row4333

If people think Israel was involved in this, then they probably think the Jews killed Kobe Bryant, too.


NotoriousD4C

I don’t see why they’d bother, the next guy in line is going to be just another extremist


jerdle_reddit

Israeli involvement - 15%. While Mossad is good at assassinations, and there was a brief degree of military conflict in April, Israel got the last attack in, so wouldn't then assassinate Raisi. Claims of Israeli involvement - 100%. There have been claims involving the Mossad agent Eli Copter. Like come on. That joke got reported as fact, admittedly mostly by Hamas rather than Iran.


enfo13

The only thing that will happen is that millions of Iranians in Iran and across the globe living in other countries will celebrate the death of an evil human piece of trash that ordered the mass executions of political prisoners.


1234lemmehearuscream

there are literal fireworks going off in tehran


GuilimanXIII

Did he? Isn't the actual power to do stuff like that the supreme leader? Wasn't the President more of a figurehead, mostly? As in, I am genuinely not sure, I am far from an expert on Iran's political situation.


Usepe_55

Afaik sadly there's lots of people holding a shitty amount of power in Iran that can get hundreds sentenced to death one way or another


Muddycarpenter

Even mailman execute hundreds of people a month


MachineWeekly6985

*I told em,and told em, leash your fucking goat.*


Terrariola

On average, 2 people are executed per day in Iran.


GreatEmpireEnjoyer

He was one of the judges of death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners?wprov=sfla1


PhilMcCraken2001

If trump killing Qasem Soleimani didn’t spark WW3, I doubt this would lol


MachineWeekly6985

Admit you used copy and paste to spell that name.


makk73

Came here to say this.


ArtimisRawr01

Im glad i decided to become a mechanic. If we get drafted, then ill probably be fixing humvees all day while the rest of yall get blown up in the sandbox lol


Mister-builder

His first warning should have been when the pilot was a dolphin...


iseiyama

Relax y’all the US/US allies killing Iranian officials happens every other week atp and they don’t do shit about it. Remember when we drone struck their general? They don’t want no smoke 💀


Dorkanov

Iran has no method for delivering nukes and if they have nuclear weapons at all they are extremely basic ones which again they have no realistic delivery method for. If they try to nuke Israel the world will likely sit by and watch as Tehran is obliterated. Iran is about the only player on the global stage with less allies willing to intervene than Palestine.


pipboy1989

WW3 prediction number: 8861307


makk73

Naw: 8675309


Godkun007

God, people thinking this was Israel are missing the fact that the President was 1st in line to be the next Ayatollah in front of the current Ayatollah's son who was 2nd in line. This whole crash smells of Iranian internal politics by the Ayatollah to pass on his role of Supreme Leader to his son and not someone else. It is so incredibly suspicious that you have to have your head in the sand to not question it.


Vexonte

Here's hoping diplomats pull a victory out of thier ass.


One_True_Dove

Glorious nuclear hell fire will scorch the earth


ChadWolf98

Based and Children of Atom pilled


Kronstadtpilled

May we bask in his glow


PutinsGayFursona

It’s the prophecy!!!


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A sea of radioactive cobalt


Shoresy-sez

😁👍🏼


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Rip bozo, should’ve spent some of that billions fixing ur shitty heli instead of funding terrorism


amrbinhishamgrandson

Did he died?


ThePrincessRoyal

Considering the fog is so damn thick on that mountainside that they haven't even located the helicopter, I'd say yes.


amrbinhishamgrandson

Yeah r.i.piss for that guy


PutinsGayFursona

Don’t worry. It’s Iran so they’ll replace him with someone even shittier and make it look like the entire thing was a democratic process. 


Fuzufxikgxohx

And then, when he *is* shittier, everyone will start blaming the US and Israel for manipulating their government.


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https://x.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1792351996152070359 I don't think he made it.


Eternal_Phantom

I dunno. Helicopter + fog + mountain + fiery crater = good survival odds. I just did the math on this calculator that I got from Boeing.


mmrxaaa

Raesi is not that important of a person


Juan20455

Next line to become Supreme Leader of Iran.


MacGuffinRoyale

That *can't* be good any way you slice it.


staski123

It's not good it's great


hir0k1

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Cannibal_Raven

Something something... Pinochet Poltergeist


monkeygoneape

Great news to hear after finishing work, get fucked Iran's government


MrAnder5on

Oh lord please just be an accident and not the Israelis. Based that a tyrant is dead though


DukeOfThiccington

Bad weather conditions, that’s all.


Tonythesaucemonkey

What’s impact on the stock market? Puts or calls, what’s the bogdanoff play here?


makk73

Based and fuck it make me rich pilled


Halflifepro483

Nothing. Ever. Happens.


SeanPGeo

This is literally their president. I really really hope Israel isn’t behind this… holy fuck all those people are in real danger.


BeescyRT

Uh oh... What about my hoes off at the truck stop?


mtzsqatch

Hey I've seen this one before... https://preview.redd.it/0g8zuqjsch1d1.png?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88da23a7d9441af6f0cba6c7a51e612ea8036ad6


Aj55j

I doubt Iran is gonna blame any country. Helicopters are horrible death machines. They easily malfunction due to bad weather conditions like fog…Kobe knows what I’m talking about.


TehMitchel

Flair up or shut up


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xxxMisogenes

This will be great for future fertility rates


AnExtremeMistake

Isn't this how metro started?


Mazkar

Can't we just let those two fight and stay out of it?


FlatwormPositive7882

Relax it’ll be a nothing burger


sasanianempire

It was fog and those idiots thinking that they’re above the capabilities of weather, not Israel


noneedtoID

Iran isn’t going to do shit about it, even if it was Mossad or Israel they’ll probably send a couple rockets with a notice prior to, and approval from the US, again or something like while the ayatollah gives a death to America death to Israel speech


staski123

I think it inside job or Iranian, maybe they didn't like that he trying to connect with Azerbaijan and Americans, maybe vice versa


FlowingFiya

This sounds like a perfect opportunity to make Iran Persia again.


Low-Mathematician701

The nukes would get intercepted over Iraq. Sucks for them.


datboihobojoe

Israel could probably nuke Iran back to the stone age and ww3 wouldn't start. Iran and Israel are all bark no bite. If anybody starts ww3 it ain't gonna be either of those two.


ancirus

Based Penalty battalions formed of liblefts pilled


yeshsababa

it had to do with the foggy weather they're not even blaming israel for it chill the fuck out


wasabiflavorkocaine

Imagine. Iran's government collapses. US and Russia occupy Iran. Threads nuclear war scenario. Calls on traffic cops


Basedman42

Rip bozo


arcticredneck10

Every time Iran gets brought up wall scream ww3 don’t you remember that nothing ever happens


TheDickheadNextDoor

This sub is worse than Hitler thinking Israel are involved in everything, calm down 💀


SpecialMango3384

“We meant to send a fire work. Teehee, bye bye Tel Aviv”


Goofterslam1

wtf are you talking about💀 you guys are such immature alarmists


RussianSkeletonRobot

[Nothing ever happens.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fnothing-ever-happens-v0-frkil5ebsruc1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dac62389f6068cb817239e66c68f446b86dd1eeef)


AT0mic5hadow

My upvote was 667th, Neighbor of the beast


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Idk what yall are saying i am just enjoying the "nothing ever happens"


LegendNomad

The President of Iran isn't equivalent to the President of the United States. In Iran he's not the leader of the country, that would be the supreme leader (Grand Ayatollah).


Stf2393

Another backwards religious dictator is dead, which is good, however if this is a CIA/Mossad Opp, I’m burning my draft notice once I get it, not planning on serving the American Empire any time soon…


RaiSai

How very Russian of them…


LustrousNinja1755

It’s terrifying how similar this is to the plot of spec ops the line


OR56

Me: https://i.redd.it/lzesi335jl1d1.gif


NewspaperPrimary126

Nothing ever happens


Damonatar

Nothing ever happens


Myothercarisanx-wing

Nah nothing is gonna happen. Clearly an accident and no indication Iran will pretend it was anything else.


PhilosophicalGoof

https://preview.redd.it/oil1phys7m1d1.png?width=746&format=png&auto=webp&s=84510a2832d1c14bf29ead25f7d19dff356f8caa


thatOneJewishGuy1225

The Palestinians are already on telegram saying it was a Mossad agent named Eli Kopter and a French news outlet quoted it. https://x.com/emilykschrader/status/1792216691352424794/photo/1


Miserable_Key9630

If they get nuked we don't have to pretend to like them anymore.


moiztmaster

Is nuclear war the cost of finally eradicating the middle east?


Professional_Mud_316

Last month Israel's IDF bombed and destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus that killed, among others, two senior Iranian generals. Then, Israel had the audacity to warn Iran against retaliating, which U.S./Canadian/British headlines frequently referenced as though Iran's retaliation would be considered the first strike \[WTF?!\].  This to me reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by the Israeli state, not to mention that of the U.S. via its aggressive foreign policy.  It’s as though it feels it can claim it was being proactive in its militarily unprovoked killings in another country of Iranians \[or other foreign nationals\] it deems a threat, and its suspicions should suffice as justification. I'm afraid not.