Iran's ambassador to Lebanon injured by pager explosion
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon injured by pager explosion
www.reuters.com
reuters.com
Another source with more info: https://nationalpost.com/news/iranian-ambassador-to-lebanon-lost-eye-pager-blast-hezbollah
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon lost one eye and suffered serious injury to the other when a pager he was carrying exploded on Tuesday
Now why would Iran's ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? 🤔
(we all know why)
Why are you pretending that is some sort of gotcha?
Diplomats communicating with their nation’s allies does not make them legitimate military targets.
Communication with terrorist organizations by government officers is frowned upon though.
Hezbollah is a political organisation in Lebanon. Lebanon is the country the Iranian ambassador is in.
This is not the gocha you think it is.
To speak with Hezbollah... The fuck you think ambassadors do?
Why does anyone in Lebanon have a pager at this point?
It’s because they don’t use the same wireless networks as phones and have like a 96h battery life. That’s why hospitals give them to doctors. And plenty of people still use walkie-talkies because they work (within a certain range) even when nothing else does.
Also, the pager companies are still in business mostly because of the pucks you get at a restaurant that buzz when your table or food is ready. “Obsolete” tech that’s dirt cheap can sometimes hang around for niche use cases.
I have to guess it has something to do with being harder to eavesdrop on
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-crackdown-on-mobile-phones-in-schools
I suppose if enough countries do that sort of thing, pagers might start doing a comeback.
EDIT: Though looking at the wording, I'm not actually sure if this is a "we're banning cell phones" or a "we're talking about policies that make it look like we're banning cell phones to keep the anti-cell-phone crowd happy".
Because military aged men with cell phones catch rq9s, or try real hard to.
Who cares, it is an act of terrorism
Who says he had one? If he did, he would be dead. He was in proximity of one at the time it exploded, that's all we know.
Where is your proof that he did? You seem quick to leap to conclusions.
(we all know why)
It's literally in the article.