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Terrorists have attacked the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and Iranian parliament in two nearly simultaneous incidents:
There have been multiple attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to state media. A woman was arrested after a bomb attack and shooting spree wounded two people at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum south of the city Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The news agency reported that a second attacker is currently surrounded by security officers.
That attack occurred at the same time as a shooting in the Iranian parliament, in which at least three people were injured after an attacker stormed the building in central Tehran, according to state-run Press TV.
Also at Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Tehran Times.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by epitaxial on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:58PM (9 children)
What does this have to do with tech news?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:09PM
It is either human nature, divisive propaganda tactics, or a mix of both. Not gonna stop, just filter out political stories and ignore the shitstorm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:22PM (2 children)
Terrorists need technology to kill, and also to spread the news of their deeds. Without technology there would be no terrorism.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by epitaxial on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:13PM (1 child)
I dunno, the bible and koran did a decent job for two thousand years.
(Score: 1) by pr on Friday June 09 2017, @12:31AM
Books and writing were advanced technology once.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by n1 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:11PM
Soylent News... is people!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:12PM
It's a Big Deal™.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:14PM (1 child)
Its a hell of a stretch to extend all the way to domestic fracking natgas but not too far.
The whole thing with Iran and Qatar is too complicated to summarize into less than a couple books. None the less...
Iran and Qatar split 50:50 the biggest natgas deposit known on the planet. So they're economically joined at the hip.
NGOs in the sandbox are a confusing mess. Generally the Wahabbi (sorry for spelling) Saudi group kinda sorta competes with and/or hates and/or wants to genocide the Muslim Brotherhood and vice versa. The Wahabbi who land planes in American skyscrapers are allied super close with the Saudis. The Bros (would they be offended at being called "the bros?" I suppose I don't care) are not allied with but are kinda friendly with the Shi in Iran.
Now things get weird. The Bros used to be super moderate non-extremists kind of like the red cross or something. I mean, truly, a couple decades ago they were chill. And The Whabaibi freaking hate us and land planes in our skyscrapers and are basically buddies/cousins of ISIS. So naturally you'd think we'd ally with the Bros and nuke the Wababhai from orbit just to be sure. But the USA is a mere province controlled utterly and totally by Israel, so we have to love the Saudis and hate the Iranians because the Israelis say so.
Also the Bro-hood has, like the rest of the middle east, somewhat radicalized over time. So just because the bro's in 1990 were quite literally analogous to our FreeMasons in that they hang out and fund hospitals and are generally nice guys, today in 2017 honestly the Bro's are fractured enough I can't say for certain they're good buys or bad guys.
Its amazing really how much the First Gulf War pissed off the muslims, even the bro-hood went from cautious buddies with the west to "wtf you thinking, 'merica?"
But the Saudis hate the the brohood so we have to, too.
There's also an aspect of old money vs new money. SA is doomed, they pumped it and they got nuthin and the revolution will involve beheading the current king its gonna be a bad scene. They just signed a deal to get a buttload of western (OK, ... USA) weapons. Qatar rocks and is a nice westernized (ish) civilized (by middle east standards) country.
Naturally Israel tries to destroy any and all civilized high living standard countries for competitive advantage, maybe just because they're assholes, I donno. So Isreal, her client state the USA, SA all want to invade Qatar and take her half of the natgas for themselves. Meanwhile the Iranians want to help their ally.
In the long run if the SA/I/USA axis of evil takes over Qatar, first of all Iran might come in shooting and that might be messy. But assuming we avoid WW3 if we have the worlds biggest natgas deposit that has domestic implications WRT the rate of frac-ing and domestic natgas production. Or if the axis of evil (including us) were to lose, then Iran/Qatar (and frankly, Russia) can flood the market destroying our frac-ing industry.
I mean, either way you look at it, domestic frac-ing seems doomed in the medium term? In what outcome is it not doomed? I mean if the only possible way for domestic frac-ing to survive involves Israel nuking or getting nuked such that the whole M.E. is shut down, thats a mess.
Or what happens to the financial markets when the big spending S.A. regime falls as will happen within a decade unless they take over Qatar and essentially steal their natgas?
There are interesting tech aspects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:27PM
I am schizophrenic, no I'm not!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:32PM
Submit tech articles if you have them. I'd like to see more too, but there haven't been as many recently.
Washington DC delenda est.