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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Tue Jan 7, 2020, 10:00 PM Jan 2020

FAA bans all commercial and pvt flights from flying over Persian Gulf / Gulf of Oman

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Yashar Ali 🐘 ✔ @yashar

In-Box: The FAA is banning US commercial and private flights (civil aviation) from flying over “Iraq, Iran, and the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.”

8:57 PM - Jan 7, 2020

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FAA bans all commercial and pvt flights from flying over Persian Gulf / Gulf of Oman (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP

China, Russia and Iran hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman GeorgeGist Jan 2020 #1

I fear there's something larger afoot Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #2

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)

1. China, Russia and Iran hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 7, 2020, 10:04 PM

Jan 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/asia/china-russia-iran-military-drills-intl-hnk/index.html

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

2. I fear there's something larger afoot

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 7, 2020, 10:09 PM

Jan 2020

Putin's in Damascus tonight, and then meets with Erdogan in Ankara tomorrow.

We might be getting fucked bigger than we realize. Hope I'm just being paranoid...

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