I usually perceive these ultimatums as PR stunts to the general public, so as to not appear too strict, or to appear merciful, reasonable etc. I don't expect people to actually turn themselves over.
I wonder if Iran is simply lying (adding an extra headache to mossad: figuring out if their agents are compromised) or if the collaborators realized Iran's intelligence services are good enough to catch them. And of course some may have regretted their involvement.
Don't want to doom too much but it certainly feels like this. Iran could get coopted or fall back to its previous diplomatic tactics of trying to play both sides (and not aligning further with China). Meanwhile the US could stop aiding Ukraine in exchange with Russia not aligning further with China/NK. And of course if Iran fails then no one will be able to stop the genocide in Palestine.
One big beautiful missile
I can't tell if this is satire or not
That makes sense if they intend to fire them as retaliatiory strikes. I thought they would use them regardless
Eh, reservists don't matter when one side is bombing with aircraft and the other with missiles. But more population can equal more production which could be definitive if the war drags out
I'm no military expert but announcing your move beforehand does not seem smart.
no phones in sight, just people living in the moment.
Even if you can intercept the bulk (or even more), it makes sense to minimize your losses from whatever comes through, whether that's 90%, 50% or 10% of the original attack.
The american urge to unleash nuclear armageddon
There's no inherent difference. It's people mistakenly generalizing after hating on current image and text generation AI models. And there's obviously a discussion to be made about how these models were trained unethically by stealing data, but a) that is irrelevant to their usefulness as a technology b) it was recently shown that you can train them with purely public domain data with good results (yogthos posted an article from Stanford the other day).
GenAI is not (inherently) a grift, unless you believe the following applications are nothing but grifts:
Most of the region is neutralized. Who else openly opposes the US and Israel besides Iran, Anshar Allah, Hezbollah and Hamas?