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General News    H3'ed 10/9/19

Trump and Tehran Shake Up the Middle East; Iran's airstrike on Saudi oil sites exposed vulnerabilities around the region

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"The word “precision” really matters. Wreckage shows that the Iranians are making&operating advance drones with jet engines & significant stealth capabilities. 17 targets incurred a direct hit in this concentrated bombardment, an 85-percent success rate-- high capability & reliability of the technology . Photos show the precision was one meter, & each one of the spherical gas tankers in the picture was hit in the center, showing  that they can hit specific targets with great precision & from a distance of hundreds of kilometers.   "The Saudis & the UAE got a double shock! It simultaneously exposed Iran’s precision & Trump’s isolationism. Iran is now trying to semi-encircle Israel with proxy militias like Hezbollah, in Lebanon, Syria & Western Iraq, armed with precision-guided missiles." In light of all this, Israel has been signaling two things..."

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