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The nuclear scientists were killed using a special weapon whose details were barred from publication, Channel 12 says.

The 10th nuclear scientist was killed shortly after the other nine, as part of the overnight Thursday-Friday Israeli operation, which included strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Natanz nuclear site, along with the elimination of top members of the Islamic Republic’s military leadership, the network says.

The nuclear scientists were all killed while they were sleeping in their beds, with Israel deciding to carry out the assassinations simultaneously so that there wouldn’t be time to tip off those being targeted.

The scientists apparently believed they were safe from such targeting in their homes, a senior Israeli official tells Channel 12, noting that previously assassinated nuclear scientists were killed while heading to their cars after work.

Israel had been tracking Iranian nuclear scientists for years and the ten killed last week were marked for assassination in November of last year, Channel 12 says.

Just when I feel like dystopian news can't really disturb me anymore...

Leaving this totally unrelated article about Palantir and Israel here for absolutely no reason at all...

How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of Warfare:

 A program known as “The Gospel” generates suggestions for buildings and structures militants may be operating in. “Lavender” is programmed to identify suspected members of Hamas and other armed groups for assassination, from commanders all the way down to foot soldiers. “Where’s Daddy?” reportedly follows their movements by tracking their phones in order to target them—often to their homes, where their presence is regarded as confirmation of their identity. The air strike that follows might kill everyone in the target's family, if not everyone in the apartment building.

Abraham, whose report relies on conversations with six Israeli intelligence officers with first-hand experience in Gaza operations after Oct. 7, quoted targeting officers as saying they found themselves deferring to the Lavender program, despite knowing that it produces incorrect targeting suggestions in roughly 10% of cases.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Few things say "you need a nuke, you need it right now" like foreign states killing your scientists, in their beds in the dead of night

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One of those things is a genocidal theocratic ethnostate killing your military leaders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The other is the world's biggest bully and largest exporter of "freedom", as seen in Lybia, Iraq and even Iran back in the 1950s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Lol, that sounds fake.

i'm sure everything will be fine.

Don't check the news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't agree with Israel at all. But Iran is a theocratic ethnostate as well. One that has pretty loudly proclaimed that the day they have nuclear weapons is the day before they use one on Israel. There's nobody out there who's in a morally high position.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No Iran definitely has the moral high ground, by a fair margin. Israel has been committing a genocide, as well as running a full on apartheid ethnostate, if you didn't know. But even if we ignore that, the IAEA as wel as the American intelligence community (think NSA, CIA and so on) have both assessed, as recently as a week ago, that Iran has not attempted to build nuclear weapons since 2003. Iran is being bombed, illegally, based on a lie. That's high ground enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, Iran is definitely not on any sort of moral high ground. They and Israel are so deep underground they're communicating with the mole people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think you stronly underestimate how bad genocide is. Are you a history buff? In the 20th century there was this guy called Hitler. He became the personification of evil because he committed genocide. That's where Israel is at. Iran, as far as I know, is not committing a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

I don't think you give a shit about genocide, personally, you've just picked the Palestinian Genocide as your particular favourite issue to bang your drum about.

Tell me, what are your opinions on:

  • The Ukrainian Genocide (by Russia)
  • The Masalit Genocide (by Sudan)
  • The Rohingya Genocide (by Myanmar)
  • The Uyghur Genocide (by China) ?

And those are the other genocides happening literally right now!

Let's go a little further back:

  • The Tigray Genocide (by Ethiopia in 2022)
  • The Yazidi Genocide (by ISIS in 2014)
  • The Darfur Genocide (By the RSF in 2005)
  • The Bosnian Genocide (by Serbia in 1995)
  • The Death Commissions (by Iran from 1981-1988. Ebrahim Raisi, President of Iran until 2024 was literally on the panels that executed people for being non-Muslim!)
  • The Kurdish Genocide (by Iraq in 1988 and arguably by Turkey and Iran now, given that pro-Iran protestors set fire to the Kurdish party offices in Iraq)

So no, I don't think you care. If you did, you wouldn't be supporting Iran who gives drones to Russia to commit genocide and have themselves committed genocide. You would be calling for Iran's government to be deposed for the religious nutjobs that they are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Theocracy maybe, but I definitely wouldn't consider Iran an ethnostate

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Theocracy yes, almost as badly as the zionists. Ethnostate no. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about, hazbarite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When was the last time Iran invaded land to settle it with its own people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I think their last offensive war was tge 1700s? Since then it appears they have been mostly playing the soft power war by proxy game. While their main antagonists actively invade, infiltrate and kill them.

I can't personnally get over the facts that invaders overthrew their democracy because of fucking oil.

The perpetrators should nuke themselves out of shane. Their intelligence agents should auto-trotsky themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, because iran is as bad in one single way as the zionists, they're also as bad in all the other ways.

Like how im a really shitty painter, so therefore im exactly as bad as hitler in everything.

Im glad you understood precisely what i was saying there. Really helps my faith in humanity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like how im a really shitty painter, so therefore im exactly as bad as hitler in everything.

If you say so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I do. It really sucks. The farts just won't stop. Basically actively shitting myself at all times, like a river. Exactly like Hitler. All because I can't paint.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

If I learned anything from the 2024 election it’s that we must unequivocally support the lesser evil. Since Israel attacked first (and is actively committing genocide), that means Iran is the lesser evil and therefore they are perfect and not supporting them means you support genocide. /s