(05-19-2024, 02:59 PM)putnam6 Wrote:  

(05-19-2024, 03:15 PM)putnam6 Wrote: Really? So Iran is actively supporting Hezbollah Hamas and Yemen against Israel and Biden is offering assistance, that would be turned down why?

Public Relations?

Go look who else is offering assistance... 

https://twitter.com/search?q=terhan%20times&src=typed_query&f=live

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Agenda Free is saying reports of contact earlier were FALSE according to Press TV

(05-19-2024, 03:25 PM)Zaphod58 Wrote: Because this has the potential to become something bigger.  If the Ayatollah decides to claim this was Israel or the US, or if the IRGC is getting froggy and trying to seize control from someone, or whatever, Biden needs a briefing on what's going on, and the military needs to lay out options for responses or what Iran might do.  It's SOP to brief the President on things going on when something big happens.  Even through the President of Iran is largely a figurehead, this is still pretty big.

(05-19-2024, 03:25 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Yeah... cause we always know exactly what they are doing and saying to one another...

It seems to me that what I suggested would be a 'standard' diplomatic response to such a potential crisis.  It can't hurt, and it doesn't have to "mean" anything.

But given the amount of concentration such a letter requires to draft, and the "committee'" needed to squirm over it, perhaps it isn't. 

My post was a supposition, not information.  I'm not a journalist, so I have nothing to 'sell.'

(05-19-2024, 03:39 PM)putnam6 Wrote:  

(05-19-2024, 04:31 PM)Zaphod58 Wrote: Depends on where he is and what he's doing, as well as the information being briefed.  He was travelling today anyway, so it was a simple matter to reroute to DC from Atlanta instead of going to Detroit.  With it being a fluid situation, and information changing rapidly, it makes sense to use the situation room.

As for survival gear, of course it does, but flares don't work well in fog, rain and snow which they have now.  Radios don't work well in mountains unless you're practically right on top of them or high enough above them to detect the signal.  The odds are there are no survivors, but that terrain and weather means survival gear usefulness, other than keeping people warm and alive is significantly reduced.

(05-19-2024, 04:46 PM)putnam6 Wrote: [Image: https://i.ibb.co/BVPyMSS/Screenshot-2024-05-19-17-44-30-679.jpg]

(05-19-2024, 04:50 PM)Zaphod58 Wrote: Turkey is sending a UAV and have offered a helicopter with IR gear to assist in the search for the crash.

Satellite phones can work just about anywhere, as long as they have line of site to the satellite. But you need someone that knows how to work it, and alive.

(05-19-2024, 06:13 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Strictly-controlled government-driven news is a service to the government first, and only circumstantially to it's people.

I'm sure they want no "panic," and perhaps even more importantly, not to give the governments' adversaries something they can use against them.

The nations of this region are constantly in 'information warfare' mode,  "News" is not a privilege there, it's a doctrinal or ideological tool... its tactical.

(Not that such isn't often true even where people "think" it is a sacred, inviolable privilege.)