Mark DennehyMar 21

So, four weeks into being bombed flat with the old heads of state assassinated, Iran fires at Diego Garcia, with a weapon that's got twice the range anyone thought they had before the war started and which is capable of hitting everywhere from the largest US air base on that side of the planet to anywhere in western Europe? And they have nuclear material to make into dirty bomb warheads so even shooting them down doesn't help?

Well, this is seeming like a better idea every day, isn't it?
#uspol

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@markdennehy From Ankit Panda on bsky:
“This also marks the unambiguous end of Khamenei's (the elder's) self-imposed 2,000 km missile range limitation—a message that'll also be received in Europe.”
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@bernardlyons The same day a very obviously Iranian chap tries to stroll onto a nuclear base in Scotland.

Heck of a message, that.

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@markdennehy Hopefully he was told to get to the gates and make a big fuss. Getting more than a few metres past the fence on that site is a short road to martyrdom.
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@markdennehy Report in the NYT that the Iranian man and Romanian woman approached the gate and asked to be let in. Thank $deity for that.
Remind me to tell you a story about Faslane some day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/world/europe/iran-scotland-naval-base-clyde.html

Iranian Man Arrested After Trying to Enter U.K. Naval Base, Police Say

The man and a Romanian woman walked up to the gate of the base in Scotland, where nuclear-armed submarines are docked, and asked to be let in, an official said.

The New York Times