Iran & Pakistan

[Puddenchucker]

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

[sherbertdip]

Puddenchucker said:

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

Who knows, watch and wait. I don't think they've ever been mates.

[Vanden Saab]

Puddenchucker said:

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

Iran says 3 women and 4 children were killed. Why are there never any men at these terroist hideouts...

[Ian Geary]

Maybe they use the same targeting system Israel use...

...or maybe the same reporting method Hamas use?

[heisthegaffer]

What a bloody mess that region is.

[s1962a]

heisthegaffer said:

What a bloody mess that region is.

it's a good job we didn't have a hand in any of it.

[GroundEffect]

s1962a said:

heisthegaffer said:

What a bloody mess that region is.

it's a good job we didn't have a hand in any of it.

[Electro1980]

Vanden Saab said:

Puddenchucker said:

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

Iran says 3 women and 4 children were killed. Why are there never any men at these terroist hideouts...

“ Three women, two men and four children were killed, Iran state TV said.”

But then men are never allowed to be civilians…

[mac96]

Puddenchucker said:

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

It's hard to believe that Iran would want a full scale war with a nuclear armed Pakistan. But, who knows? And there is always the danger of unintended escalation.

[Four Litre]

What a mess. This could easily end up being a Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Pakistan) showdown.

My sky fairy is better than yours etc.

[Rivenink]

mac96 said:

Puddenchucker said:

Yesterday Iran fired missiles at targets in Pakistan,
Today Pakistan fires missiles at targets in Iran.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68014882

Is it about to kick-off between these two into a more prolonged conflict or tit-for-tat exchanges?

It's hard to believe that Iran would want a full scale war with a nuclear armed Pakistan. But, who knows? And there is always the danger of unintended escalation.

Iran *probabaly* has a nuke now itself.

It's a weird one.

They both claim there is terrorist groups hiding in the others border regions.

But niether is making any effort to deal with the problem on their own side.

Both have bigger fish to fry when it comes to their armed forces.

[Rivenink]

Four Litre said:

What a mess. This could easily end up being a Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Pakistan) showdown.

My sky fairy is better than yours etc.

Except in this case, the Sky Fairy is the same, the Prophet is the same, it's centuries old fallout of a political power play. When the Prophet Muhammed died, there was political power plays. Some thought leadership of Muslims should be passed by election to a new leader. They became Sunni's. Some believed it should be inherited, like a Crown, to the Prophet's heir, and they're the Shia's.

They've diverged a little more since then, but that's the start of it.

[Countdown]

This particular tiff will blow over. It's Iran flexing its muscles after the recent terrorist bombing which killed 94 Iranians. Both Iran and Pakistan have bigger problems elsewhere.

[Murph7355]

Countdown said:

This particular tiff will blow over. It's Iran flexing its muscles after the recent terrorist bombing which killed 94 Iranians. Both Iran and Pakistan have bigger problems elsewhere.

That latter point often seems like a good reason for countries to do st like this. Squirrels.

[voyds9]

Four Litre said:

What a mess. This could easily end up being a Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Pakistan) showdown.

My sky fairy is better than yours etc.

[Best Harry Hill voice]
In the red corner we have Allah and in the blue corner we have Allah

There's only one way to settle this

Fight, fight, fight

[coetzeeh]

going to run out of virgins at this rate.

[FourWheelDrift]

Yep, Shia vs Sunni Muslim is what it's all about.

[Four Litre]

Rivenink said:

Four Litre said:

What a mess. This could easily end up being a Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Pakistan) showdown.

My sky fairy is better than yours etc.

Except in this case, the Sky Fairy is the same, the Prophet is the same, it's centuries old fallout of a political power play. When the Prophet Muhammed died, there was political power plays. Some thought leadership of Muslims should be passed by election to a new leader. They became Sunni's. Some believed it should be inherited, like a Crown, to the Prophet's heir, and they're the Shia's.

They've diverged a little more since then, but that's the start of it.

All sounds very medieval !

[Yertis]

FourWheelDrift said:

Yep, Shia vs Sunni Muslim is what it's all about.

Just to confuse things a little more, Hezbollah are Shia, and Hamas are Sunni.

People's Popular Front, etc...

[leef44]

voyds9 said:

Four Litre said:

What a mess. This could easily end up being a Shia (Iran) vs Sunni (Pakistan) showdown.

My sky fairy is better than yours etc.

[Best Harry Hill voice]
In the red corner we have Allah and in the blue corner we have Allah

There's only one way to settle this

Fight, fight, fight

It does sound like that. So they're not conflicted over religion or land but are just very aggressive people so they will fight each other anyway. Did someone spill the other's beer?