What's happening now
• Iran launches counterstrikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes earlier Friday. CNN heard explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
• Israel’s attack on Iran: Israel had targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders. High-ranking military figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists were killed in the attack.
• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “more is on the way,” after previously saying Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.
• US role: The US military is helping to intercept Iranian missiles and drones as they are launched against Israel, a US official said. President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intllel
Israeli attacks could push Iran to pursue nuclear weapon
Jim Walsh, a US-based nuclear expert, says he expects back-and-forth firings between Israel and Iran over the next few days.
But the most important thing, he explained, will be if the Iranian authorities decide to pursue a nuclear weapon in response to Israel’s attacks on the country. “For 20 years, they’ve refused to cross that line,” Walsh told Al Jazeera.
“I think there’s strong scholarly evidence – and certainly, if you look at the politics of the moment – to believe that in this attack, Israel will get the exact opposite of what it wanted, which is Iran is going to decide to go for the bomb.”
Walsh said that would spell disaster not just for the Middle East, but for the world.
“What is it that Iran can do? It doesn’t have an air force. It doesn’t have Hezbollah and Syria to launch missiles. It cannot invade … and so all it really has is missiles, and a decision to be able to pursue nuclear weapons – having been forced into this position by the [Israeli] attack,” he said.
Reboasting:
>It's hard to say exactly. My impression is that this attack served a number of purposes
<1. Extending the ongoing war
>2. Shoring up support for Netanyahu's government
<3. Serving the foreign policy goals of certain sections of the us government
>4. Attacking Iran while conditions are most favorable, with the intention of drawing the us further into direct conflict with it
>The war on Gaza is dragging on without a clear end in sight, and Israel's occupation has been extended to southern Lebanon and Syria. This has been causing growing discontent among the military, with officers and conscripts beginning to officially protest. Netanyahu's government is also in danger for multiple reasons and was in jeopardy before the conflict even began. Before it launched this mostv recent attack, the government was facing a no confidence vote on the part of the ultra orthodox, who want to avoid military service, and now compose 14% of Israel's population. Apparently this no confidence vote was delayed only because the leader of the party was told the attack would happen and not to rock the boat. None of the problems have been resolved though.
>So Israel is in an extremely tenuous situation where its military is being extended in unsustainable and unpopular ways without a clear resolution. The thinking seems to be that the only way to reach such a resolution is to take down Iran, which Israel doesn't have the capability to do on its own. So attacking Iran in this case might have been intended to provoke a response not only against Israel but also the American bases in the region, like the fifth fleet headquarters in Bahrain, in order to precipitate direct action from them. The US wants Iran brought to heel, but the reality is that any direct confrontation is likely to be extremely costly even for the yankee military, as evidenced by wargames such as the Millennium Challenge fiasco 20 odd years ago, and the fact that Iranian capabilities have greatly advanced since then.
>There's also the fact that America's other foreign policy goals like subjugating Russia and China are also likely to sap the greater part of its military strength and attention when they come to pass, and more importantly their own military capabilities degrade virtually year by year for a number of reasons. The bulk of their equipment is cold war era for example, and their efforts to replace and update them have been stymied by their own internal contradictions. For example, their latest supercarriers have been struggling to remain operational, with the Gerald R Ford nearly taken offline because 6 of its 8 ovens broke and ip laws prevented its sailors from fixing them, and its sister ship's new launch system is also defective and projections for repair are one to two years out at least. So for Israel, it's very much a "now or never" moment.
>>2320437>ChinaIs the main the course. I think people ZOG posting are ignoring how getting rid of Iran makes the Chinese much more susceptible to future USN blockades.
Even if Pezeshkian agreed to full de-nuclearization, ending all enrichment, dismantling all nuclear infrastructure, and Iran's parliament would unanimously vote in favor of this, including recognizing Israel, ending all support for resistance groups (in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq). The inability to control and therefore - in the future - cut off Iranian energy exports to China means the country will continue to be a target of regime change.
>>2320494Repeating this again: Iran is thought to have over 3,000 ballistic missiles in its stockpile, the largest in the middle east.
If they only had to fire 100 missiles to paralyze Tel Aviv for a whole day then these barrages could continue for over a month and totally destroy Israel's economy.
>>2320550khomenei killed the communist movement sadly
only reason to cheer here is that Israel is potentially getting acked
>>2320560im uglier than him
I hope you never see me
Israel ‘bombing Iranian moderation’
Israel has been dictating, manipulating, deceiving its population about various threats, especially the “Iranian threat”, for as long as I can remember.
Since Netanyahu became deputy foreign minister in the early 1990s, he has been putting Iran on the top of the agenda, sometimes as a deflecting mechanism, but mostly as an existential threat against Israel.
So that has planted a seed of hatred and fear, and disgust among Israelis against the Iranian regime. And hence, when such a [military] campaign is launched, it certainly will have popular appeal in Israel.
The problem with all of this is that there had been – there was and still is – a diplomatic alternative to all of that. There was a nuclear deal.
Just in the last couple of years, the Iranians elected a leader who is so pragmatic, he wanted to sit down with the Americans to cut a deal and lift the sanctions and normalise relations with various countries in the region.
What Israel is doing now is not just simply bombing the Iranian nuclear programme, it’s bombing Iranian moderation.
Iran's UN envoy says US complicit in Israel’s military strikes on Iran
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Iran's United Nations envoy says the US is complicit in Israel’s military strikes on Iran, Reuters reported on Friday.
“By aiding and enabling these crimes, they share full responsibility for the consequences,” the Iranian envoy said.
Israel launched unprovoked military air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in the early hours of Friday morning. Iran retaliated and launched ballistic missiles at Israel later on the same day.
IAEA says that Iran's above-ground Natanz enrichment plant destroyed
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The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, told the Security Council on Friday that the above-ground enrichment plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear site has been destroyed, Reuters reported on Friday.
"At present, the Iranian authorities are informing us of attacks on two other facilities, namely the Fordow fuel enrichment plant and at Isfahan," Grossi told the 15-member council.
"At this moment, we do not have enough information beyond indicating that military activity has been taken place around these facilities as well."
Israel military denies Iranian reports of captured pilot
After reports from some Iranian media that an Israeli pilot has been captured, Israel's military has said that it's not true.
A report by Iran’s Tasnim news agency says the country’s air defence has shot down two Israeli fighter jets, and “the pilot of one of these fighter jets, who is a woman, has been captured”.
Avichay Adraee, a spokesman in Arabic for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), says: “Fake Iranian media. This news being spread by Iranian media is completely baseless.”
The BBC has been unable to independently verify either claims.
Iran crossed 'red lines' targeting civilian areas - Israel's defence minister
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said that Iran crossed "red lines" on Friday when its missiles targeted civilian areas in response to Israel's recent wave of attacks.
"Iran has crossed red lines by daring to fire missiles at civilian population centres in Israel," he said in a statement.
"We will continue to defend the citizens of Israel and ensure that the Ayatollah regime pays a very heavy price for its heinous actions," he added, referring to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Earlier, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said that it was carrying out attacks against "dozens of targets, military centres and airbases" in Israel.
>>2320575MOSSADegh
coincidence? I think not
>>2320585I found it on twitter from a random person
I have no info on the song or the singer
Or why the sweaty dudes are throwing their arms
maybe it was gay sex
idk
>>2320510I think they've already stated that if economic targets are hit, Iran will retaliate in kind; Which means attacks on Israel's energy infrastructure, desalination plants, ports, airports and high tech factories.
This might cause up to one million dual citizens to leave Israel in the short term. Destroying it's economy, and undermining the demographic balance in favor of arab Israelis.
One barrage is all it takes to make Israel unlivable for the majority of people. No electricity, no running water. People start leaving in droves (see Ukraine), and the state will never recover from this.
That's on top of $130-200 a barrel oil which will completely wreck the global economy. Especially NATO economies. That a windfall for Moscow, will probably guarantee outright capitulation of Ukraine within a year or two, as well as the election of anti-NATO and anti-EU governments across Europe.
>>2320604they haven't retaliated in kind yet.
no attacks on military/political leaders, no attacks on nuclear infra.
>>2320615True, if big.
Forget the strat bombing, this might be a legit happening.
>>2320615they parked yo momma's ass in the strait
so fat it blocked it
huehuehuehuehue
>>2320618Because Iranian leaders care about the survival of the state, its citizens, and their families.
>what is america going to doHelp destroy Iran to cut them off from China, if Iran cannot be regime changed.
This all makes a lot more sense in the context of the grand showdown between the burger reich and the CPC.
It's not quiet 1939 yet, but we're getting there.
>>2320663LA protests is deranged liberal-hooligan alliance
you are democrackka
Does anyone know anything about the Communist Party of Israel?
https://maki.org.il/en/?p=32749US Ambassador in Israel Makes Efforts to Avoid Far-Right Govt CollapseCPI / 2 days ago
>US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has reportedly been meeting with ultra-Orthodox coalition members, as part of efforts to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government from collapsing. Citing diplomatic and political sources, Channel 13 news reported Monday, June 9, that Huckabee told senior Haredi politicians that “early elections would be a mistake.”
>One of the meetings was held Thursday with Minister Meir Porush of the United Torah Judaism party. According to the network, Huckabee stressed to Porush “not to break up the government.” Huckabee also met with Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, with Channel 13 reporting he told the leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi that it would be difficult for the US to back Israel if elections are held now.
>Channel 12 news separately reported Monday that like Huckabee, Netanyahu has linked the current “opportunities and challenges” in Israel’s security situation with the intense political turmoil he is facing during meeting in recent days Haredi lawmakers. Netanyahu’s ruling coalition entered a crisis last week when United Torah Judaism and fellow Haredi party Shas announced they would leave the coalition and vote to dissolve the Knesset if the government does not pass a bill exempting yeshiva students from military service. According to Zo Haderekh weekly, “There is no doubt that Ambassador Huckabee is interfering in Israel’s internal politics and trying to help Netanyahu. Under the far-right government, Israel has become a protectorate of the US imperialism.”
>On Tuesday, Huckabee told Bloomberg newsthat a Palestinian state in the occupied territories, “is no longer a US policy goal,” but Israeli “Muslim neighbors” could give up their land to create one. “Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee, an appointee of US President Donald Trump and longtime advocate of Israeli occupation and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, agreed when asked about a Palestinian state. He added those steps probably won’t occur “in our lifetime”.
>“Where is it going to be? Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria?” Huckabee asked. “Does it need to be somewhere different?” Huckabee did not rule out taking land from Saudi Arabia to create a Palestinian state, saying “every option should be on the table” when pressed.”
>According to the Ambassador, a US prominent leader in the pro-Israel evangelical Christian movement who has repeatedly denied the Palestinian national identity, “Muslim controlled countries have six hundred and forty-four times the amount of land Israel does. When people say Israel needs to give up something you kind of scratch your head and say let me see if I get this right. Why should these people [Israelis] give way when these people [Muslim countries] have a lot of room that they could say ‘we’ll carve out something.'”
>Netanyahu stated in May that carrying out a plan Trump introduced earlier this year to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a “Middle East Riviera” was now a condition for ending Israel’s war on Gaza. “If the so-called Palestinians are so loved by the Muslim nations of the world, why won’t any of those nations at least offer to give temporary refuge to their brothers and sisters in Gaza?” he said in October 2023. And he told Politico in 2017, “There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they are neighbors, they are cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation,”
>In Australia, Sky News reported last week the US ambassador to Israel has stepped in after the Albanese government cancelled the travel visa of Israeli-American advocate Hillel Fuld who was due to visit in the coming weeks. In a decision statement, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke cited his “islamophobia rhetoric” which risked inciting discord against Australia’s Muslim population.>>2320648>>2320634I think you guys are misunderstanding. America and Israel are directly coordinating for this attack on Iran, but they have different priorities. The Israelis wanted to attack Iran because they want to wipe Islam off the face of the Earth and create Lebensraum for the Jewish people. The Americans wanted to attack Iran because Iran has been America's primary target for regime change in the Middle East since the Shah was deposed. Their interests aligned here, as they usually do, but that doesn't mean America is willing to sabotage its own domestic politics to help Israel. The Trump admin are dipshits but if they think ICE protests are bad they have no idea how bad things will get if they start sending Americans to die in Iran.
America has been very clear throughout all this telling Iran to only attack Israel and not American bases. Obviously the Americans are continuing to coordinate with Israel to help defend them, but for whatever reason Trump has positioned the line in the sand at "attacking American bases" and that doesn't include attacks on Israel proper. I don't know why everyone cynically assumes America will join in on a ground invasion of Iran out of some loyalty to Israel. They aren't even guaranteed to win that war, it would turn into a 20-30 year long occupation that America does not want to sustain.
>>2320690every day leftypoller stray away from materialism and into idealism smh
"great coalition to beat big bad satan lmao"
>>2320702His wife was a Russian who is a huge Russian government shill like rt tier state propaganda, she strongly supports putin. Back then when with her Richard Spencer was pro Russia to point he posted once denying le holodomor
Then when split up he became pro Ukraine now.
>>2320709I'm just memeing. No one likes Richard Spencer lol. Not Nazis, not Democrats and not Republicans either
His niche is probably some weird azov shills or unironic pro eu nationalist right wingers
>>2320714Okay but Richard Spencer was legit pro Putin. He would constantly go on rt when married to the Russian woman look
He even met dugin several times back then
>>2320691Their careers and power are tied to Iran surviving as a statel. It's got nothing to do with them having bleeding heart concerns about the welfare of Iranian proles.
>>2320707I think you underestimate the level of apathy even inside settler colonial states. You can argue this is a banal kind of evil,, but most Israelis, even zionists don't fantasize about Bucharest Pogromming the entire population of Gaza. (Contrary to some, not all Israelis are sadistic psychopathic freaks like Smotrich and Ben Gvir)
South Africa was a brutal settler colonial state which a stuffed people into open air concentration camps, and subverted and attacked countries in the region too. But nowadays the vast majority of white South Africans who stuck around are not nazi fanatics, but averages joes who just want to grill.
Thinking this wouldn't happen to Israel is essentialist nonsense.
Israeli public rattled by ‘extensive volley’ of Iranian missiles
This was an extensive volley of ballistic missiles, something that Tel Aviv is not used to.
Extensive damage was reported to buildings, but of course, because there was compliance with the instructions to head to shelters, to be in the safe rooms, the number of injuries among the residents was minimised.
For now, people have been told to stay close, but that they don’t have to be in shelters.
Psychologically, though, the site of damaged buildings, of emergency service providers trying to get people out of those buildings and out of the shelters, this is quite powerful for the Israeli public.
Tel Aviv is thought of as the jewel, if you will, among the cities in Israel. It is politically and economically significant, and it is not used to this kind of military confrontation.
The intensity of the fire, the number of missiles, the kind of explosions that they saw, the impacts, the effects on the buildings – this is new to the Israeli public.
>>2320714See this was Richard Spencer before. He was legit definition of a zigger
He would constantly go on rt as a guest to shill for Russia lol
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-us-quietly-sent-hundreds-hellfire-missiles-israel-iran-attack
>The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday, Middle East Eye can reveal.
>The US sent around 300 Hellfire missiles to Israel on Tuesday in a large-scale stock-up of supplies before its attack, and as the Trump administration was saying it was ready to continue engaging Iran in nuclear talks.
>The transfer of such a large quantity of Hellfires suggests that the Trump administration was well-informed of Israel’s plans to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran, two US officials told MEE on the condition of anonymity.
>The US’s delivery of Hellfires or other large quantities of weapons in the lead up to Friday’s attack has not been previously reported.
>The US military helped shoot down Iranian missiles that were headed towards Israel, two US officials told Reuters on Friday.
>Hellfires are laser-guided air-to-ground missiles. They would not be useful for Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, but for precision strikes.
>Israel’s military used more than 100 aircraft in its attack on Friday, which used precision tracking to target senior military officials, nuclear scientists, and command centres.
>“There is a time and place for Hellfires. They were useful to Israel,” one senior US defence official told MEE.
>Israel killed scores of senior Iranian officials and nuclear scientists on Friday.
>The dead include: the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami; Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces; and Ali Shamkhani, a close aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
>The Trump administration knew about Israel’s attack plans for months.
>MEE revealed earlier this month that the CIA was briefed in April and May on Israeli plans to unilaterally attack Iran’s nuclear sites. Israel’s Target Systems Analysis and battle plan for cyberattacks combined with precision strikes without any direct US involvement “impressed” the administration.
>But Trump’s behaviour in recent months gave observers, and potentially the Iranians, the impression that he would continue to resist Netanyahu’s very public lobbying to go along with strikes.
>Axios reported on Friday, citing two Israeli officials, that the Trump administration was only “pretending” to resist Israel’s attack plans, but privately did not resist them.
>Trump has since framed his approach as saying that he gave Iran a 60-day window to agree to a new nuclear agreement with his administration before launching strikes. Israeli media reported the 60-day deadline in March 2025.
>The Trump administration began talks with Iran on 12 April 2025, and the Israeli attack took place exactly 61 days later.
>The talks in recent weeks hit a wall over the US’s insistence that Iran agree not to enrich any uranium, while Tehran said that preserving its right to a low level of enrichment was a red line.
>Throughout the negotiations, the Trump administration continued a steady supply of arms and weapons to Israel in recent months, two US officials told MEE.
>The US did not have to provide public notification of the transfer because it was already approved as part of a $7.4bn arms deal that included bombs, missiles, and related equipment that Congress was notified of in February 2025. >>2320764yes, just like capitalism has been in its 'inevitable collapse stage' for a gazillion years now
we are the eternal losers, face reality
Zion has won
>>2320807Matt Agent Kochinski.
>>2320811That implies the US is a lil baby victim and not an enabler they are.
>>2320798Planning an op like this took years. And Netanyahu wanted to do this all the way back during Obama's first term.
His recent vid after the retaliation strikes shows the real goal is regime change. That's an even bigger reason for why they want senior leadership: Their expertise can be replaced, but not the authority and reputation they've build up over decades of service.
Kill them all they hope, and Iranians will do the rest. Topple the "regime", and ensure it's successors are aligned with Washington and Israel.
Iran needs to be wrapped up right now, because the main act (China) is growing ever closer.
>>2320812It's like Hannah Reitsch put it: After the war, somehow no one could be found who had voted for Hitler.
If you want to inflict revenge after Israel falls for sadistic reasons, fine, but don't go peddle this essentialist nonsense about how some people are just "innately" racist and will always be so even when conditions change.
Most people are simply suggestible and outright craven when it comes to these issues. "Everyone" supported Hitler, Communism and Apartheid, until the war lost, the USSR was dissolved and apartheid was abolished.
>>2320872Firework display is more than enough for the ummah to goon in admiration
Can’t blame the sloppy writing when the fan base are retards
how long until HTS/ISIS enter the war and start attacking Iran to help Israel?
>>2320822>>2320774if they haven't intervened to turn israel into a parking lot by now then they are useless and i don't care what they think
<Macron defends Israel's military strikes on Iran
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>French President Emmanuel Macron defended "Israel's right to protect itself," even welcoming the "effects" of Israeli strikes against Iran's nuclear capabilities, AFP reported on Friday.
>"Iran has continued to enrich, and is close to a critical stage" that allows "the production of nuclear devices," the French president declared during a press conference convened at the Elysée Palace after the bombings carried out overnight, and again in the afternoon, by Israel against Iranian nuclear and military installations.
>This "move towards nuclear weapons by Iran threatens the region, Europe, and collective stability more generally," he said.
>"We do not share this approach and the need for a military operation. However, when we look at the results of these strikes, they have made it possible to reduce uranium enrichment capacities, "they have made it possible to reduce ballistic capacities, and they therefore have effects that are in the desired direction," he argued.
>During his press conference, the French president also announced the postponement of the international UN conference scheduled for next week in New York, to relaunch a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, which he was due to co-chair with Saudi Arabia.
>Macron considered recognising a Palestinian state as early as April, although he has since stalled on this move
>He said the postponement was due to "logistical and security reasons" which prevent several Arab leaders and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from traveling to New York, due to Israel's attacks that have led to the closure of airspace in several Middle Eastern countries.
>>2320931It was paradise
High speed internet and smartphones ruined the world
>>2320930boo hoo
now she has to move to her NYC penthouse
>>2320931Life was way more interesting back then.
News traveled slowly and people relied on sharing stories and connecting with those around them until the internet ruined everything.
>>2320950Operation Sephiroth Omega
Operation Naruto Running
Operation Bussy Blaster
Operation Limp Bizket
Operation Roranorah Zoro
Operation Mortal Kombat
Operation Wombo Combo
>>2320867Who said anyone should act sadistically to the Israelis?
Anyone who cares about this issue needs to know what you're dealing with. This is a profoundly deranged society that won't just give up when Tel Aviv is occupied.
>>2320977Hope the good goym of argentina gets hit.
>>2320978damn.
>>2320990That's what all of this is for
Steadily removing anti-American nations with war and regime change in the region to develop US bases near China
Iran is next on the list
>>2321013It's a stepwise process
Afghanistan was a failed attempt
>>2320994I know what you're getting at but
>imagine if Nazi Germany was Nazis for as long as Israel has been a stateMight as well describe South Africa or the Jim Crow era south.
And both were resolved without massacring the entire (settler) population. One could even include places like Cuba.
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/lions-courage-versus-true-promiseLion’s Courage” versus “True Promise 3”Israel attacked Iran, using disarmament of Iran’s nuclear program as an excuse. But this attack isn’t about enrichment. It’s about regime change. And there can only be one winner.
[…]
>For the past few months, Iran has been posturing itself as a nuclear threshold state. While Iran has every right, as a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT), to possess the ability to enrich uranium as part of a peaceful nuclear program monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it does not have any legal right to pursue a nuclear weapons capability so long as it remains a signatory to the NPT. Iran’s accumulation of uranium enriched to 60%, for which there was no legitimate purpose linked to Iran’s declared nuclear activities, was a deliberate act by Iran to position itself to be within one enrichment cycle of possessing uranium enriched to around 92%, which would be usable in a fission weapon.Iranian IR-6 centrifuges
>Iran likewise has been installing advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades, which are orders of magnitude more efficient when it comes to the enrichment of uranium, at its underground enrichment facility at Firdos. These cascades would be able to convert Iran’s 60% enriched uranium to weapons grade uranium within a matter of days, providing Iran with fissile material sufficient for 3-5 nuclear weapons.
>Iranian military industry has, over the course of the past decade, mastered all the technologies necessary to produce a warhead possessing advanced electronics and other heat-sensitive properties that can withstand the heat of hypersonic re-entry. These warhead design characteristics are an essential part of any viable nuclear weapons delivery capability—simply producing a fission device is not enough; one must be able to deliver it to the intended target.
>The one thing which held Iran back was the official decision taken by the Iranian leadership that nuclear weapons were forbidden under existing Islamic jurisprudence, namely a fatwa, or edict, issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, which deemed nuclear weapons incompatible with the principles of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
>But Iran has made this principled stance meaningless in recent months as statements from senior Iraqi officials, advisors, and politicians have made it clear that this fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons could be reversed if the Islamic Republic were to be faced with an existential threat from a nuclear-armed Israel.
>In short, Iran has positioned itself to be a nuclear weapons threshold state.
>And this would never be allowed to stand, a reality Israel’s ongoing strikes have emphatically punctuated.
>What next?
>The escalation genie, unfortunately, is out of the bottle.
>Iran is now in a “use it or lose it” reality, where the nuclear weapons threshold capacity it has acquired will either need to be rapidly converted into a viable nuclear weapons capability, or else it will be diminished and/or eliminated through the ongoing attrition of Israeli strikes.
>Having promised that it would withdraw from the NPT if its nuclear facilities were attacked, Iran has no choice but to now follow through on this threat.
>Failure to do so would be seen as an act of surrender by the Iranian regime, something which could serve as the predicate for regime change.
>The question then is whether Israel’s attacks have achieved the requisite level of destruction necessary to prevent Iran from rapidly acquiring nuclear weapons. The key for Israel at this juncture is to provoke Iran into withdrawing from the NPT and beginning the process of acquiring weapons capability. This act by Iran will trigger the United States, which has distanced itself from Israel’s initial airstrikes, and Europe, whose major nations (Great Britain, France, and Germany) have articulated that Iran will never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons, to become involved in the military strikes against Iran.
>To do this, Israel must delay the Iranian move toward building a bomb. This is done not by destroying the deeply buried enrichment facilities—a task beyond the conventional capabilities of both Israel and the United States—but rather by killing senior leadership and management in Iran’s military and military industry upper ranks, and destroying critical infrastructure used by Iran to manufacture the various components essential to the manufacture of a nuclear weapon and its ballistic missile delivery systems.The Natanz enrichment facility
>The combination of such attacks would logically be designed to sow chaos and uncertainty in an Iranian nuclear weapons program that had, because of the political atmosphere that existed prior to the Israeli attacks, not yet come together as a viable, formal entity. Had Israel waited another week, the Iranians would likely have been able to pull the disparate parts of their threshold nuclear weapons program together into a formal structure possessing resilience, redundance, and reliability.
>It seems that Israel has targeted and killed many of the senior Iranian officials who would have been at the center of the coalescing effort needed to bring a nuclear weapons program to manifestation. Iran will need to regroup from a technical standpoint, even as its leadership creates the political foundation for the existence of a nuclear weapons program to be formally instituted.
>If Israel achieved the desired results from its strike on Iran, this regrouping will take time, and time is not on Iran’s side.
>Iran has promised a massive retaliation against Israel and any nation which supported an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
>If Iran fails to launch such an attack, for whatever reason (lack of capacity, lack of political will, or both), then it creates a window of opportunity for diplomacy to rear its ugly head and impose a ceasefire which locks in Israeli gains while opening Iran up to international inspections of both its nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile production infrastructure—in short, a huge Israeli victory and devastating Iranian defeat.
>If Iran does seek to finalize a nuclear weapons program, then it invites participation by both the United States and Europe.
>And this may have been the Israeli objective all along.
>Moreover, while President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have tried to distance themselves from this act of Israeli military aggression, there are elements within the Trump administration and the US Congress (Senator Lyndsey Graham for one) that are openly supportive of the Israeli actions against Iran.
>The fact of the matter is that the United States has provided Israel with tacit permission to strike Iran, both in terms of helping shape the geopolitical reality necessary to deem the Israeli action reasonable (uniting the Gulf Arab nations in the face of perceived Iranian aggression, and getting the IAEA Board of Governors to pass a resolution accusing Iran of violating its safeguard obligations under the NPT), and buying Israel time to perfect its target deck by engaging Iran in nuclear negotiations. These negotiations were presented as legitimate, but were little more than a effort on the part of the United States to provoke Iranian behavior that would be monitored by US and EU/NATO intelligence assets to generate targets to be struck by Israel.
>Regime change, not disarmament
>Current reporting suggests Iran may declare war on Israel.
>Such a declaration would transform this conflict into an existential struggle between a nation, Israel, which has been sold to the American public as a staunch ally of the United States, and another, Iran, which has from the very inception of the Islamic Republic been viewed as a mortal enemy.
>There is no doubt as to which side the US will take.
>This means that eventually—sooner rather than later—the United States will throw its military might in with Israel to achieve the strategic defeat of Iran.
>“Strategic defeat” is a euphemism for regime change.
>Iran had one opportunity to prevent this inevitable, and predictable, outcome—to negotiate a new nuclear deal with the United States that verifiably eliminated Iran’s status as a nuclear weapons threshold state.
>Rather than locking the US into a deal, however, Iran allowed the process to be dragged out, thereby allowing itself to be trapped by a process that was never intended to produce a finalized deal, but always to buy time for Israel to be able to deliver its knockout blow.
>Today Iran has only one chance at survival.
>It must be understood that Iran will never be permitted to possess a nuclear weapon.
>Should it now seek to do so, Iran will be physically destroyed.
>The solution to Iran’s nuclear program, however, cannot be allowed to be provided through military intervention by Israel and/or the United States.
>Instead, Iran must deliver extremely harsh blows against the state of Israel, strikes so utterly devastating that Israel has no choice but to plead for the United States to step in a broker a peace deal.
>And the foundation of this peace deal must be the normalization of Iran’s nuclear program within the framework of the NPT.
>Is such an outcome possible?
>Yes.
>But it will require the near destruction of Israel by Iran.
>True Promise 3, the long awaited Iranian ballistic missile assault against Israel, has been threatened by Iran for many months now.
>Iran must now execute this operation with perfection and decisiveness if it wants to survive.
>Anything less will spell the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran. >>2320990SDF bros I kneel
You were right all along, the struggle for national liberation continues. Only when every enemy of the USA has been replaced by neoliberal wreckers, when every parcel of the periphery has been set on fire and every bit of
UNSANCTIONED, ILLEGAL, AUTHORITARIAN economic development has been rolled back to it's proper place in the neoliberal order, will Kurds get their nation state. Surely.
>>2321096>backstabbed???
If they actually trust either, they deserve it.
>>2320655Is Bernie anti-Semitic??
Hold me bros… Can't be true
>>2320655finally the old man isn't cringe again
>>2320663his position on immigration was always trash and adopted right wing framing so of course he just cried about burnt waymos or some shit
>>2321093underrated post.
of course the US will give them
socialism democratic confederalism.
>>2321092>they have so many American and British "analysts" that say shit like "Iran's large response signals they are panicking, and also the IDF's failure to intercept most of the missiles indicates that they aren't afraid of Iran" or other retarded psyop bullshit.It's the same with Ukraine, Russia is always losing, no matter whether it's losing a village, in the midst of a stalemate, or capturing a major city. Ukraine is always winning (somehow) even when they're on the retreat across multiple areas.
At least Jihadi Julian is willing take the L.
>>2321072Besides a report of Dimona having been hit hours ago (though no confirmation) it appears other Israeli nuclear infrastructure is being targeted as well. One of the latest hits appears to be a nuclear research institute in Tel Aviv, as well as the Ministry of Defense (again?).
Also additional air strikes reported in Tehran too.
I'm definitely sensing a decrease in smugness among Zionists online.
https://www.intellinews.com/lebanon-walks-tightrope-as-escalation-tests-regional-alliances-385978/Lebanon walks tightrope as escalation tests regional alliances
>Israel's massive airstrike on Iran involving over 200 aircraft has placed Lebanon in a precarious position, with Hezbollah's response—or deliberate restraint—emerging as a critical factor in determining whether the Middle East slides into wider conflict.
>Though Hezbollah issued a strongly worded condemnation of the Israeli strikes, calling them "a blatant act of aggression backed by the United States," the group has notably refrained from military retaliation. A senior Hezbollah official confirmed to BNE IntelliNews that the organisation "will not initiate an attack on Israel," signalling deliberate intent to avoid immediate regional escalation.
>This restraint appears driven by both strategic calculation and mounting domestic pressure. Security sources in Beirut report that the Lebanese government has privately urged Hezbollah to avoid any action that could provoke Israeli retaliation on Lebanese soil. This approach reflects Hezbollah's pragmatic reading of Lebanon's internal fragility, in the face of economic collapse, political paralysis, and widespread public opposition to another devastating war.
>According to Dr Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Centre, Hezbollah's hesitance stems directly from Israel's targeting of Iran's missile deterrence infrastructure. "The operation struck at the core of Iran's deterrence capability," he told our correspondent, adding that Tehran's post-strike priority has turned inward—undermining its capacity to finance and coordinate its regional allies, including Hezbollah. He noted that the Israeli approach mirrors its longstanding playbook in Lebanon: paralyse the command structure, then neutralise the operational arm.
>Despite the scale of the Israeli operation, Iran's ballistic missile arsenal remains intact, according to retired Brigadier General Hisham Jaber. Speaking to BNE IntelliNews, Jaber explained that while Israel inflicted significant damage on Iran's air defence systems, its missile stockpiles remain operational and distributed within fortified infrastructure deep inside Iranian territory. "Iran maintains a highly accurate target bank, and if it chooses to respond, ballistic missiles are the most likely tool," he stated.
>However, Jaber warned against a rushed retaliation. "A symbolic response will not suffice. The magnitude of this strike requires a reply that redefines the deterrence equation." He further noted that although the Trump administration might hesitate to engage in direct warfare due to concerns over American casualties, Iran has demonstrated readiness to target U.S. bases in the Gulf if hostilities escalate.
>Dr Sadeq Al-Nabulsi, a political analyst specialising in Hezbollah and the so-called "Axis of Resistance," believes the confrontation has entered a new phase in which Israel no longer holds exclusive initiative. He argues that a "reverse deterrence" framework is emerging, as the resistance axis recalibrates its responses through asymmetrical and unconventional tactics tailored to specific theatres—from Gaza to Sanaa and Beirut.
>Al-Nabulsi rejects the notion that Iran dictates instructions to its allies, asserting that decisions are decentralised and responsive to local conditions. "This is no longer just an Iran–Israel confrontation," he says. "It has become an existential struggle for the entire resistance axis—from Beirut to Baghdad, from Gaza to Sanaa—the stakes are now about survival."
>Dr Amehzeh Hakim, an expert in Iranian strategic affairs, places the Israeli strike within a broader geopolitical context. He argues it forms part of a long-term American-Israeli project aimed at consolidating regional hegemony and preventing Iran from developing peaceful nuclear capabilities. "This isn't about nuclear weapons," Hakim tells BNE. "It's about denying Iran access to clean energy sovereignty, which would grant it strategic and economic independence in the post-oil era."
>The implications are grave. While officials have reiterated the state's commitment to neutrality and sovereignty, deep internal divisions over Hezbollah's armament and allegiance to Tehran have plunged the country into a complex political and security dilemma. The Israeli strike has revived unresolved tensions over the state's monopoly on arms—tensions that now threaten to unravel Lebanon's already fragile political structure. >>2321182Chuckled at this one. Some still posted it as real.
>No impact crater>Windshield intact and attached to the cockpit>Star of david near the engine nozzle>Diagonal reverse mounted vertical/horizontal stabilizerKek
> 🚨🚨🚨⚡️ URGENT & UNPRECEDENTED:> Iranian missiles have targeted the headquarters of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber intelligence division, in Tel Aviv.video
https://x.com/SilentlySirs/status/1933617031594618932I guess that explains why the post quality suddenly jumped between threads.
>>2321327I will never die. That's why a
spectre is
haunting.
>>2321371if you were going to the mall but instead went somewhere else for the day did you survive the mass shooting that happened there?
no
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