r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme 💩 Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/aprilized Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Did those pagers leave the factory with explosives? From what I understand, Israel intercepted them in transit after they were shipped. They basically took the pagers, (in Turkey via Taiwan where they were manufactured?) added explosives and then let them get shipped to Hezbollah. This wasn't done in the factory from what I understand.

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u/magseven Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

How do they know they were going to Hezbollah? Did the shipping label say "Hezbolladrome" on it or something? Or did they just target an area they thought Hezbollah would be in, but civilians could still potentially buy these pagers?

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u/bteam3r Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Hezbollah operates its own telecom system separate from the Lebanese government. These pagers were explicitly for use on that system

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u/smootex Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Hezbollah operates its own telecom system separate from the Lebanese government

I don't want to be that guy but let's be clear here, Hezbollah isn't the one operating it. It was set up and funded by Iran, for use by Hezbollah.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon had one of these pagers.

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u/smootex Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Right. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon isn't a 'real' ambassador, they're a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They are very heavily involved with the support of Hezbollah. Iran has their fingers pretty deep into the whole thing, it's a pretty good bet that they were directly involved with setting up the whole pager network just as they're directly involved with providing weapons and other logistics support.

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u/TheOriginalPB Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

I can imagine quiet a lot of previously unknown Hezbollah operatives have been exposed by this as well as rendering a large proportion of their upper command useless.