/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2874498
>MUHHHH DRUMPHF EXISTS OUTIDE OF HISTORY!!!1111
I know the mod team is all succdem burgers but can they practice revolutionary defeatism by range banning their shithole?

>>2874508
U SUCK UR A FASCUST STFU

Here’s what happened today
here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:
>The US military says it launched strikes on Iran for a 12th night in a row.
<The US house adopted a $1.15tn military spending bill that includes a provision integrating the US and Israeli militaries. It will now go to the senate.
>The UKMTO says an unknown projectile caused a fire on an oil tanker about 70 nautical miles (130km) from Saudi Arabia.
<Iran’s Health Ministry said that at least 53 people have been killed in US strikes on Iran since June 27, including three children.
>The United States announced a nuclear cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia.
https://aje.news/inpqpc?update=4797261

Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Saudi oil tankers in Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis say they carried out missile and drone strikes on two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea after declaring a maritime embargo on the kingdom.
In a statement posted on Telegram, the Houthis said that they “carried out a qualitative military operation targeting two Saudi oil tankers that violated the blockade”, naming the vessels as the Encelia and the Layla.
As we reported earlier, the UK’s Maritime Trade Operations centre said that it had received reports of a tanker being struck 70 nautical miles (130km) from Saudi Arabia’s town of Al Shuqaiq.
The Houthis announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
https://aje.news/inpqpc?update=4797241

Oil prices climb to $96 a barrel
Oil prices are extending their gains, with Brent crude futures rising $1.93 as of 00:11 GMT, or 2 percent, to reach $96 a barrel, marking their highest level since June 8.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude went up $1.44, or 1.7 percent, to trade at $88.27.
The increases came after US forces launched a new round of strikes on Iran and Yemen’s Houthis attacked oil tankers in the Red Sea. In the previous session, Brent had settled more than $3 higher at $94.07 a barrel, while WTI rose nearly 3 percent on Wednesday.
https://aje.news/84z1l9?update=4797440

Houthis claim attacks on 2 Saudi tankers in Red Sea
Two incidents have been reported in the Red Sea.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre said a ship was targeted 70 nautical miles (130km) off the Saudi coast, causing a fire on board. There is no mention of casualties among the crew.
The Houthis, meanwhile, claimed a major operation against two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. One is called “Encelia”, and the other is called “Layla”.
The Houthis said they targeted those two tankers with a number of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones at the same time, causing huge balls of fire on board those ships, and devastation, of course.
The Houthis framed the attack as part of a tit-for-tat campaign against Saudi Arabia. They’re calling it a “siege-for-siege”. They said it has been 12 years since Saudi Arabia has been imposing a siege on the Yemeni people, and that it is now time for Yemen and the Houthis to respond in kind.
This causes a major disruption to supply lines – this time, not in the Strait of Hormuz, but in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, another key route for global energy supplies.
https://aje.news/84z1l9?update=4797349

In spite of the Iranian government's anti-communism, past collaboration with the USA, and long term goals of the Iranian bourgeois it's an undeniable fact that this war is exacerbating the contradictions within the United States. The war is massively unpopular among Americans save for the few remaining loyal magacattle. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz proving a massive disruption to the global economy, in addition to the renewed blockade of the Red Sea by Ansarallah. The US military is exhausting itself and is being forced to redeploy assets from other theaters such as the THAAD batteries from Korea. The opportunity to turn the imperialist war into civil war is getting closer. And yes, this war will leave the Islamic Republic in a precarious position as well. I hope whatever revolutionary forces that survived the crackdowns in January will be able to seize the moment as well.

>>2874793
>The opportunity to turn the imperialist war into civil war is getting closer.
Please consult the graph

All nothing on the happening front

Brent oil prices are at $100.85 lol

Looks like another round of distractions is coming our way leftychuds. Tomorrow is Friday and you know what that means.
>old meme from a while back

>>2874796
>third world proles dying in the hand of third world capitalists is the fault of the western left
I would say it is the fault of all of humanity.

>>2875049
I was referring specifically to their deaths at the hands of western imperialism

What a coincidence that this war (and Ukraine war) started just as oil prices were settling down to levels where it was unprofitable for US wells…

>>2875173
it begs the question what the fuck the yanks plan to do when the instability drives renewable adoption and ushers in a post-oil global economy helmed by china and their enviable green energy tech sector.

even the organic chemistry is sewn up: we use oil because it's been artificially cheap for decades, there's nothing that can't also be synthesized from plant oils.

>>2875177
>even the organic chemistry is sewn up: we use oil because it's been artificially cheap for decades, there's nothing that can't also be synthesized from plant oils.
The USA is the top ethanol producer in the world.

>>2875180
the sun shines on the whole world anon.

>>2875177
Personally I think the long term "plan" is just to let millions of people die from climate change and let the resulting demand destruction be offset by diminished production.

>>2875181
Not if the Britoids have anything to say about it.

>>2874639
God I hope the US invades Iran and we get 4k killcams of yankee soldiers getting droned into paste.

>>2875333
>the US will hold Iran “responsible” for any attacks in the region after the Houthis struck Saudi vessels in the Red Sea.

Lmao how's that been working out so far?

Neocons must be exposed as they send America into another illegal war.

Zionist Jew YouTuber: "Claiming Jews were behind Iraq War is 'BLOOD LIBEL.'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUA2Sy3jAZE&t=6013s
(1:40:13)

>"oy vey goyim, let us lie and deceive the public and give us the oil and let us establish a rothschild bank"
They aren't even making an effort to hide it anymore.

Total neocon death.

PNAC was a terrorist group — “NEW PEARL HARBOR”

Neoconservatism = Jewish supremacy

>>2875177
There is no green energy economy. China relies on coal and oil, just like everyone else. The green stuff is just added on top.

Senior Iranian official responds to Rubio, threatens to escalate conflict
The chief of protocol in the Iranian president’s office has mocked comments by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and threatened to escalate the war on Tehran’s terms.
“Soon, it won’t be ‘an eye for an eye’ or ‘a head for an eye’, but ‘your whole damn body for an eye!’ This Isn’t Just Bluster,” Abbas Mousavi wrote in a post on X.
Earlier on Thursday, Rubio said the US military approach was “a head for an eye”, suggesting Washington would respond to any Iranian attacks by further escalating the conflict.
He made the comments after being asked about Tehran’s military policy, which Iranian officials have described as “an eye for an eye”, implying that Iran would respond to any US attacks in kind.
https://aje.news/84z1l9?update=4799696

US weapon stocks could take 5 years to recover: former Pentagon official
Mark Cancian, a former Pentagon official, has told Al Jazeera that the US has used so many arms in the Iran war that it may have left itself vulnerable elsewhere.
‘We looked at seven munitions that have been used heavily against Iran and that would be used in a war in the Western Pacific, and [the US has] used between a third and half of those munitions,’ he said.
Cancian, who worked on the Department of Defense’s budget strategy and war funding while at the Pentagon, said it could take two to five years for US stockpiles just to reach pre-Iran war levels.
That leaves a ‘window of vulnerability’ in the case that another conflict starts elsewhere, for example, in Taiwan. He also said the kinds of weapons that the US uses are changing.
The war has already cost the US $37.5 billion, and this week, Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, said he needs an extra $70 billion to pay for the Iran war and wider military readiness.
‘What you see in warfare is a move towards a high-low mix. There’s ballistic missiles, cruise missiles at the high end, and the low end is cheap drones. It’s a mix and they’re complementary,’ Cancian, who is now a senior adviser at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said.
This drone arsenal includes sea drones—remote-controlled boats armed with significant amounts of explosives—which have reportedly been used by the US to attack coastal targets in Iran.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4800054

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Iran: Revolutionary Guard announces destruction of US electronic warfare unit in Kuwait and warns Britain against using its bases for aggression.
The public relations department of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that its fighters, in the 26th wave of Operation "Nasr 2", destroyed the US special electronic warfare unit at the "Al-Adiri" base in Kuwait with joint attacks, and attacked a clinic belonging to it, resulting in the death or injury of a number of its members, in addition to damaging the air traffic control tower at the base and causing some damage to it.

The statement explained that this operation comes as a continuation of punishing the aggressor and responding to the crimes of the American army, which attacked the pilgrims’ route to the shrine of Imam Hussein at dawn on Thursday, where an American aggression on the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iraq had led to the martyrdom of two people and the injury of 11 others.

The Revolutionary Guard also pointed out that the United States is trying to create an opportunity to renew its forces through deception, evasion, and talk of returning to negotiations, stressing that the enemy must pay the price for breaking its promises, and the United States will not be allowed to replace its oil and ammunition reserves with a deceptive ceasefire and then resume its attacks.

The statement said the US military resorted to using B1 aircraft launched from the British Fairford airbase yesterday, after its ships in the Indian Ocean ran out of cruise missiles.

The Revolutionary Guard reiterated what Foreign Ministry officials had explained: that any base used to invade Iranian territory is a legitimate target.

The statement concluded by warning the British monarchy against bearing further responsibility, explaining that it is the main cause of the misfortunes of the peoples of the region, and has a dark record of dividing Islamic countries, committing massacres, imposing authoritarian governments, organizing and leading the occupation of Palestine and the establishment of the Nakba of "Israel," as well as its major participation in the recent aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime against Iran.

It is worth noting that earlier today, the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the decision of the new British government to allow the United States to use its military bases and facilities to prepare for and facilitate illegal military attacks against the Iranian people.

The ministry also noted that "any participation or cooperation in preparing and carrying out these illegal attacks is considered complicity in committing the crime of aggression and war crimes."
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86--%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83

Arab security sources told Al-Mayadeen that resistance factions targeted the ground forces command building in Kuwait.
High-ranking Arab security sources revealed to Al-Mayadeen that resistance factions targeted the ground forces command building in Kuwait on Thursday.
High-ranking security sources explained that these operations took place at 7:00 PM Kuwait time, and caused extensive damage to the building.
The sources indicated that the forces targeted in Kuwait had targeted the "Shalamcheh" border crossing between Iran and Iraq today, stressing that the resistance strikes came as a swift response to the aggression that targeted Iranian and Iraqi civilians at the crossing.
It is worth mentioning that on Thursday morning, an American attack targeted the "Shalamja" border crossing with Iraq, which resulted in the martyrdom of two people and the injury of 11 others.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86--%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%89-%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9

>>2875347
If as bad as he says and if they continue to lose aircraft and so on, then there has to come a time when a general will have to come in for self preservation reasons and beat trump at eating hamburgers in a display of dominance, becoming the master chief of the military and putting a stop to this, we all know that they will have long-term plans that have been built towards for very long times and JDPON Don is kneecapping all of them.

>>2875361
Even if the millitary tried to force trump out and did it they would still have to deal with the iran war it wouldnt end by any means

>>2875361
I think one of the big problems with that is anyone with the wherewithal to do so has either retired or forced out. The Pentagon has just become a pipeline for Raytheon board members.

>>2875371
There's that, too. The political class still has plenty of appetite for more and is the major weight keeping this going, and that probably won't change until economic effects come home and people start taking shots at them or their children.

>>2875364
>>2875381
>>2875371
Hows little marco feeling that they probably wont get to do Cuba and Nicaragua?
>>2875371
I do think that politically it would be much easier for anybody but trump to take a pretty bad deal, if dressed up a bit, just for the sake of ending it and mitigating losses. I feel like the Korean peninsula and Taiwan is more important to many.

>>2875384
>Hows little marco feeling that they probably wont get to do Cuba and Nicaragua?

The prospect of unleashing fascist violence on regular Americans is probably enough to keep his chub going for now.

>>2875384
>I do think that politically it would be much easier for anybody but trump to take a pretty bad deal, if dressed up a bit, just for the sake of ending it and mitigating losses. I feel like the Korean peninsula and Taiwan is more important to many.

I'm not so sure. I don't think Washington as a whole can take the prospect of an out and out defeat, which is what the result would be however its dressed up. It's particularly serious now that the Iranians are signaling they'll accept nothing less than total bugerreich capitulation, especially after going to all the trouble of signing the mou only for US to double cross them.

Now Iran is materially effecting the evacuation of the US from the Middle East. So for the US, the only choices are to give in to Iran's demands and leave the middle east, or keep fighting iran and be forced out. There might have been some possibility for compromise earlier in the war, but Washington blew it with their repeated acts of perfidy.

Taiwan and Korea are really important to the US's long term goals, but there is no Taiwan or Korea without Tehran first. Kiev is already a bust, and it's only a matter of time before that front folds. It looks like Nato was trying to do the prep work to continue that on the central Asian front, but that's dead in the water if Tehran is still independent. Worse yet for Washington, if they were to capitulate on Iranian terms, they'd basically be handing over control of the middle east to them, and with that war against China is a non-starter.

It's tragic, because surrendering now and giving Iran everything it wants would probably be best for everyone involved. As things are, there's no way out of this that isn't going to end in the suffering of millions of people on every side. I don't see it ending without the launch of one or more nuclear weapons, likely by Istael, which will be atrocities but not destroy Iran. Iran will destroy Israel for it though, and after that there's no telling what will happen.

haah
the sak facade is slipping. let's see, but I doubt it, if the sak will deny this.

>>2875415
Nothing like bombing our way to peace amirite

>>2875417
It’s WWII brain, specifically the wrong kind of WWII brain that makes you think terror bombing actually worked and didn’t rally people around their respective flags

>>2875417
the problem is that these government don't rally behind a flag, they rally behind money.
people? it's just a means to an end.

pic related to the thread.

>>2875415
>genocidal regime in Teheran
jews really just randomly accuse people of shit they are doing
who the fuck is iran supposed to genocide?

>>2875487
Umm ugh protesters, ughhhh kurds and balochis i think, arabs in kuzestan because i decided i agreed with saddam on that point 12 minutes ago

>>2875190
Brent's at $100
WTI's at $91

PJAK are happily twiddling their thumbs like Calvin

>>2875340
Antisemites get the wall.

US prepares potential escalation as Trump warns Iran ‘not ready for a deal just yet’
The US president is weighing his options for something even larger, given the fact that there have been 13 nights of consecutive strikes.
The question becomes whether this is going to be more of the same, or whether the United States is ramping up.
We know that there has been a surge of forces as well as weaponry into the region, and White House official telling me that talks are continuing with Iran, but at the same time, she says, that the cards are on the table for the president, and he has all the options at his disposal.
Now, what I can tell you is that it appears that the United States may be considering an escalation to force a negotiated settlement.
The US media reporting the President is close to a decision on a potential massive attack and military preparations are in place, but the US President also, with his words on Thursday, signaling that there is something potentially looming, given the fact that he said, Iran is not ready to make a deal just yet, but they may be soon.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4800293

Crude holds sharp weekly gains despite slight Friday dip
Crude prices were on track for weekly increases on Friday following Houthi strikes on Red Sea oil tankers, which raised fears over the potential closure of another key maritime passage.
The market was further tightened as Kazakhstan temporarily reduced production after its primary export pipeline was taken offline.

Brent crude futures dropped 72 cents, or 0.72%, to $99.97 a barrel as of 01:26 GMT, though the benchmark remained set for a 13.5% gain over the week. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude declined 70 cents, or 0.76%, to $91.49 a barrel, pointing toward a 10.9% weekly increase.
Both benchmarks surged during the previous session, with Brent settling 7% higher and WTI gaining 6.2% on Thursday.
It marked the first time Brent closed above $100 since May, following claims by Iran-aligned Houthi forces that they had targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4800319

One Israeli settler killed, three injured in West Bank clashes
At least one Israeli settler has been killed and three others injured in clashes with Palestinians near the settlement of Havat Gilad, in the occupied West Bank.
Two people who suffered serious injuries were evacuated by helicopter, Israel’s national emergency service MDA’s spokesperson said in a message on Telegram.
The Palestinian health ministry said four Palestinians were killed and four others injured in the shooting incident.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4800605

Iran attacks US bases in Jordan, Bahrain while US expands attacks across Iran
The Iranian army has just released a statement saying that they have launched drones over the US bases in Jordan and Bahrain in response to US attacks on targets in Iran.

In Bahrain, fuel storage tanks, large equipment warehouses, hangars and living quarters are being targeted at Sheikh Isa Airbase, which Iran describes as a “terrorist” US army base.

Iran has also attacked the aircraft shelters, maintenance hangars and living quarters at the Al-Azraq US Airbase in Jordan.

It says these attacks were launched in response to the overnight US attacks.

The US has targeted seven Iranian provinces, including the southern provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan and Khuzestan. Four people were also killed in the city of Ahvaz, in Khuzestan.

The US is expanding its attacks beyond the southern provinces, targeting the central Markazi, Yazd and Isfahan provinces, as well as the western Lorestan and southern Fars provinces.

Basically, the Americans are shifting from the southern part of the country to Iran’s central, inner lands.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4800605

You should all start calling American troops as Amerimacht, a play on Wehrmacht, which both have a "clean" myth.

>>2875340
>PNAC
Doesn't exist anymore.

Also:
>video
>responding to a Jacobin article
Dropped

Why has the American left not simply overthrown the global hegemon?? Clearly this is some sort of moral failing on their part.

>>2875340
he's right

>>2875533
The wehrmacht were conscripts capable of revolutionary defatism, not the case with the US.
>>2875548
>sucks third world bourgeoisie cock 24/7
>votes for succdem parties at home
>regurgitates empty slogans like "death to amerika" as the ultimate praxis
You're just annoying babies, no one takes you seriously.

>>2875491
The oppression and ethnic displacement of Iranian Arabs took place after they collectively fought against Saddam and the Iraqi invasion ironically enough. It's one of those trusting your bourgeoisie cases that like to repeat.

>>2875340
>Israel forced us to invade Haiti in 1916 o algo
kys americunt chauvinist

>>2875173
The war started for both Iran and the US to externalise its internal tensions.

>>2875533
That gives them too much aura. Mutt/Burger is more funny and accurate.

>>2875573
What does this have to do with the Iraq War?

>>2875361
The nasty truth is that despite some shortages here and there the US still has an extremely vast and potent military force, and they can really fuck up Iran. It's well within their ability to topple Tehran if they accept a relatively high amount of losses, and the chuds in the white house are signaling that they just might with the crazy amount of stuff they're shipping to the middle east at the moment.

It will fuck up the world economy and lower their readiness in the pacific and elsewhere sure but they produce oil themselves, China showed 0 apetite for any kind of military action and Russia has their hands full… so they probably feel they can get away with a huge op

>>2875587
We all know this but:
>if they accept a relatively high amount of losses
And they wont.

>>2875580
Iran and Gulf states did more tangibly to facilitate the invasion of Iraq than Israel ever did

Idealist brainlets seethe and moan about this fact

>>2875589
A lot of the mass media already kneeled to the white house and the maga rulets showed complete disregard for american lives or laws. They are sociopaths who control the narrative and have a firm hand on power, the situation is even worse than in vietnam war times when they got away with conacription and tens of thousands dead burgers

>>2875587
>It's well within their ability to topple Tehran if they accept a relatively high amount of losses
Is it? They won't be able to do it with air power alone, and a serious ground operation would require millions of troops that they don't have.

>>2875340
Go to bed, Shadia Drury.

>>2875618
They have the troops although they'd need to do a coalition. Between UAE, Israel, Saudi Arabia they can bring some force to bear. Then UK, Australia, Canada, maybe Germany could be willing even.
If that brinkmanshit escalates Iran might overplay their hand by destroying too muvh infrastructure and invite many more countries to join an action against them. China and Russia won't be there to indefinetly supply them either and it must be remindedthat Iran's economy is isolated and generally bad while their popular support is low which makes them weak

>>2875533
Sorry to burst your bubble leftychud.
Wehrmacht is in vogue now. They fought against the judeo-bolsheviks and everyone on twitter is ranting about judeo-bolsheviks.

Gotta hand it to the feds. They simultaneously made the nazis the forbidden fruit while forcing negative selection on the leftists so they repel the average burgermutt.

>>2875665
This is why I keep ranting about the serpent race and the demiurge and shit. I am convinced that at some point, planet earth was sold to some despicable alien race that treats humans like loosh farms in much the same way angola or vietnam or some other colony switched hands from europe to the usa. This is why evil is winning all the time. I hate the serpent race. I want to learn how to astrally project so I can defeat those demons. There must be some way to liberate humanity. Everything is a controlled opposition, everything is a psyop and those that are not are totally demoralized.

Has multipolar nationalism and class collaboration abolished the present state of things (imperialism) yet?

>>2875681
see >>2874490

We are in the process of building productive forces by inviting American investors in

>>2875665
>>2875667
You are a retard lmao

>>2875755
I also thought that way, then I realized David Icke was based and correct.

There is no materialist explanation for the sheer depravity and retardation of the big other.

>>2875496
>PJAK are happily twiddling their thumbs like Calvin
Of all the factions PJAK is the only one with a real presence in Iran, both civilian and armed, they have the most to gain by letting the regional powers+USA fight between themselves and the least to gain from involving themselves.

Kek, love how they're barely even bothering to keep up with the charade anymore.
Kuwait says air defences intercepting ‘hostile drones’
Kuwait’s air defences are confronting “attacks by hostile drones, following the sinful Iranian aggression,” the army has said in a statement.
The army said that “any explosion sounds, if heard, are the result of air defense systems intercepting the hostile attacks”.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4801689

A breakdown of the most recent attacks on countries in the region
KUWAIT
Iran’s army says it launched projectiles towards the Ali Al Salem Air Base, which is used by US forces, claiming to have destroyed an ammunition depot and inflicted casualties among US personnel.
It added that it also launched drones at US equipment warehouses in Camp Udairi and the site of US military personnel in Camp Doha and Camp Arifjan.
Kuwait’s military says its air defences are actively intercepting Iranian drones and missiles.

<BAHRAIN
Iran’s army says it launched drone strikes on Sheikh Isa Air Base, as well as several of the US army base’s facilities, including the fuel storage tanks. It added that it also targeted the country’s Amazon data centre, though neither Bahrain nor Amazon have confirmed this.
Bahrain’s defence forces say their air defence systems have intercepted several Iranian attacks.

<JORDAN
Iran’s army says it launched drone strikes on Muwaffaq Salti/Al-Azraq base, as well as several of the US army base’s facilities, including maintenance facilities and accommodation sites.
Jordan’s army says it downed seven missiles and six Iranian drones that entered the kingdom’s airspace, adding that no deaths or injuries had been reported.

<IRAQ
A drone crash near Iraq’s Erbil International Airport forced the temporary suspension of flights, which resumed shortly afterwards, according to two security sources. The suspension followed a drone attack on the city.
No casualties were immediately reported.

<IRAN
The US Central Command says it has concluded air attacks against Iran, with Iranian media reporting four injured in blasts across several cities, including Khorramabad, Jask, Ahvaz and Bandar Abbas, as well as Qeshm Island.
A US missile strike near Ahvaz left four people dead and five injured, while additional strikes on Khorramabad and the port city of Bandar Abbas resulted in two injuries at each site, according to Iranian media.
Iran’s West Azerbaijan crisis management organisation says a site in the city of Piranshahr, near the border with Iraq, was struck in a morning US air attack.
https://aje.news/qknv84?update=4801354

==why doesnt iran invade kuwaitt

>>2875681
We're in the middle of that process lmao, compare the US right now to even ten years ago

>>2875804
>compare the US right now to even ten years ago
bombing productive forces like always?

>>2875587
>It's well within their ability to topple Tehran
short of multiple nukes I just don't see how? Even if they manage to shut down all oil exports, it's not like the Islamic Republic will fall immediately
>>2875632
>UAE
sure, but they don't have significant military and mostly can only throw money at non-state actors
>Israel
Not sure how able they actually are, isn't the domestic situation getting pretty dire for the IDF after years of conflict?
>KSA
I kind of doubt they can domestically handle being in a coalition with Israel for long after the genocide.

As for America's westoid allies, their leaders also face low popular support tbqh. Some of the smaller EU countries could be press-ganged into it, to try to keep NATO together in the face of Russia.

Ive always wondered why the UAE with all their wealth never built/hired a merc army like in MGS. You'd think they have use for that right now.

>>2875842
Russia is a non factor, they burned themselves out against Ukraine, their military is a corpse EU lawmakers find useful to make up as a bogeyman to push their imperial ambitions. The ME countries - who already normalized their relations with Israel - will handle just about anything if infrastructure destruction from Iran and Houthis passes a certain threshold. Stuff like the US offering a nuclear deal to KSA are merely sweeteners. And I have little doubt that if Iran really bombs out oil production and particularly desalination plants the west won't have too much issue selling a "security intervention" to the plebs. Even China and Russia might balk at the idea of vetoing a UNSC vote like they often do when the US really wants to invade something.

The IRGC also might have ironically created a political vulnerability in Iran by ousting civilian power, in the case of a ground war if the US plays well they have a next friendly and subservient rulling class made up from civil servants unhappy of having been left on the bench. Just like Venezuela, no need to regime change to really change the regime.

>>2875632
>They have the troops although they'd need to do a coalition
No they don't
>Between UAE, Israel, Saudi Arabia they can bring some force to bear
Dogshit militaries reliant on Indian labor, Israel won't do shit but let Americans die in a sandbox while gleefully grabbing more land in Palestinian
>UK, Australia, Canada, maybe Germany
Half of these are busted after selling their equipment to Ukraine.

>>2875855
they do hire mercenaries, specially colombians

and iran has yet to retaliate against the uae since the war restarted

>>2875955
because they paid them $3 billion in cash

>>2875955
That might have been impressive 3 weeks ago, yea.

>>2874490
What of the Arak soviet?

>>2875340
>”Straussian cabal”
2005 called, they want their scapegoat back.

>>2875988
Israel to build base in Somaliland to target Houthis, says report

Somaliland will allow Israel to gather intelligence on and conduct operations against the Houthis, two Somaliland officials speaking on condition of anonymity told Bloomberg.
Israel has laid the groundwork for a possible base in the region: in June, a group of Israeli security officials visited the Somaliland coastline, people familiar with the matter said.
There they surveyed the beaches, in search of a potential site for a base or installation to fight the Houthi movement, which is officially known as Ansar Allah.
The site would be around 260km from Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-build-base-somaliland-target-houthis-says-report

Is there any good reason for Houthis not to be bombarding Somaliland?

>>2876108
Didn't mean to reply to that post

>>2876122
Desert storm 2

Speaking of hecking based Iran freeing gulf slaves by bombing them, reports on the high mortality rates amongst workers in the lead up to World Cup 22 was dismissed by Iranian media who cited official Qatari "cause of death" certificates as refutation.

Iran’s Islamists don't even recognize the migrant labor slavery in the gulf lmao

>>2875632
>UAE, Israel, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Military is incompetent. Emirati military is tiny and incompetent. Both have barely shown a willingness to retaliate to Iranian attacks, there's no way they would contribute to a proper invasion. Israel is exhausted from years of fighting and currently tied down in Lebanon, plus they have made it clear that they aren't even willing to participate in the current phase of the air war. They're slimy fucks who cajoled the Americans into starting this conflict and are now content to sit back and let the goyim do all the fighting.
>UK, Australia, Canada, maybe Germany could be willing even
These countries have expressed zero interest in participating at all. Any country that won't even participate in bombing can't he relied on to participate in an invasion. A ground operation would require millions of troops, last for years, and most likely fail. The US alone doesn't have the manpower, none of their allies are so suicidal as to sign on to something like this, and America's own military leadership knows it would he a huge disaster.

iranian diasprea cry about being oppressed meanwhile i just saw some guy from khuzestan debut a picture of himself with an american flag tattoed on his body and a christcuck cross on ig lmao

>>2875632
>They have the troops although they'd need to do a coalition.

Then they don't have the troops.

>>2875858
>Russia is a non factor, they burned themselves out against Ukraine, their military is a corpse EU lawmakers find useful to make up as a bogeyman to push their imperial ambitions.

The Russian military is larger and better equipped than its been in decades.

>The ME countries - who already normalized their relations with Israel - will handle just about anything if infrastructure destruction from Iran and Houthis passes a certain threshold.

How are these countries going to handle anything when their essential infrastructure is destroyed, they have no means of generating revenue, and their primary military patron is so denuded of material that it can't supply the means to prevent that destruction via AD or destroying Iran in the first place?

>And I have little doubt that if Iran really bombs out oil production and particularly desalination plants the west won't have too much issue selling a "security intervention" to the plebs.

What good is Saudi Arabia's security if its oil infrastructure is already destroyed? Why would people be convinced to throw more good money after bad when if things got to the point you describe, if Trump was able to defeat Iran the very next day production would take years to begin again, and many more to restore to pre war levels? People are already against the war, so why would they change their minds about supporting it just because the gulf states fucked around and found out?

>The IRGC also might have ironically created a political vulnerability in Iran by ousting civilian power, in the case of a ground war if the US plays well they have a next friendly and subservient rulling class made up from civil servants unhappy of having been left on the bench.

The regime seems like it's not going anywhere. They not only just had the biggest funeral ever for their murdered leader and his family, but they're bodying the terrorist state that has terrorized them for decades. Even if these civil servants tried to seize the government, why on earth would the irgc just allow them to do so? Why would the people support it when they're in a strong position, are arguably winning the conflict, and their enemy's stated goals are nothing less than their total subjugation and dismemberment as a state and civilization?

Revolutionary Guard: We targeted the American base in Azraq and destroyed a Patriot missile system and a spy balloon in Erbil.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Friday the execution of the 27th wave of Operation “Nasr 2”, which included an attack on an American military base in Jordan and the destruction of an American air defense system in Erbil, northeast Iraq.
The Public Relations Department of the Revolutionary Guard said in a statement: "O great and sacrificing sons of Islamic Iran, your exceptional steadfastness makes the truth shine brighter in the world every day, and increases the isolation of injustice and arrogance. It also makes the fighters more hopeful of final victory, and instills despair in the hearts of the enemies of humanity."
She noted that the Aerospace Force of the Guard launched another "crushing attack" on the American base in Azraq, Jordan, inflicting serious damage on several warplanes and destroying a residence for American military personnel, resulting in the death and injury of a number of them.

In this context, the Public Relations Department of the Revolutionary Guard confirmed that "the child-killing American regime is clearly lying to its people and to others about the number of deaths," calling on research centers and media outlets to conduct a field investigation into this matter.
In another operation, Revolutionary Guard fighters destroyed a Patriot air defense system and a spy balloon belonging to the American regime in Erbil, and targeted the residence of American soldiers, according to the statement.
The Revolutionary Guard stressed at the end of its statement that "if the arrogant and illegitimate American regime continues its aggressive actions, it will face different responses."

<Iran's Revolutionary Guard is urging civilians to stay away from secret US troop residences in the area.
Earlier, the Revolutionary Guard warned "the general public in the countries where American soldiers are stationed to stay away from them," after "many officers and soldiers of the aggressor American army left their bases for fear of Islamic fighters' fire, and took up buildings in the cities as places to commit their crimes."
In a statement, the Guard urged people in those countries to "immediately move away, within a radius of 500 meters, from their places of deployment, in order to preserve their safety."
He called on them to report new locations of US occupation forces via the official public relations account of the Revolutionary Guard.
Iran has been experiencing daily American attacks for about 13 days, with renewed aggression. The attacks have focused on the western and southern parts of the country, and have affected many vital ports and bridges.
In response to renewed American aggression, the Iranian armed forces are launching attacks on American bases and interests in several Gulf states, as well as Syria and Jordan.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9--%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%88

Al-Quds Brigades: The occupation's aggressive measures will only bring it further escalation and resistance.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, confirmed on Saturday that "the increase in the pace of heroic operations in the occupied West Bank is a natural and deterrent response to the ongoing Zionist violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, our prisoners and our people in the West Bank and Gaza."
In a statement, the Brigades said, "The aggressive measures announced by the criminal enemy government, including demolishing the homes of martyrs' families, expanding military operations, and accelerating settlement expansion projects, will only bring them more escalation and resistance."
She also pointed out that "choosing the appropriate place and time remains a valid decision for every Palestinian fighter to respond to this criminal enemy and its settler gangs."

In this context, the Al-Quds Brigades saluted the sons of the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank who are bravely confronting the Zionist attacks, affirming their unwavering will to protect their land and property and preserve their existence. They also offered condolences for the martyrs whose blood stained the land, foremost among them the martyr Sheikh Farouk Ramadan.
The Brigades called on the sons of the Palestinian people in all places where they are to "strengthen national unity and intensify efforts to confront the Zionist enemy's plans and ambitions in every inch of Palestine, until God fulfills His promise of victory and imminent conquest."

This came after a shooting near Nablus on Friday in the West Bank, which killed a major who commanded a battery in the 411th Battalion of the 282nd Fire Brigade of the Artillery Corps, and a soldier in the 8119th Battalion of the 16th Jerusalem Brigade, according to Israeli media.
A young Palestinian man managed to seize an officer’s weapon and open fire during a settler attack on the town of Tell, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, killing two Israeli soldiers. Four Palestinians were reported killed and four others were wounded by Israeli and settler gunfire.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%B3--%D8%A5%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A8-%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7

Sanaa: "Escalation for escalation" is the theme of the next phase after the Saudi aggression on Hodeidah
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Sana'a government confirmed on Saturday that the "escalation for escalation" equation will be the title of the next stage, after the Saudi regime targeted Hodeidah Governorate.
The Foreign Ministry in Sana'a held the Saudi regime responsible for any developments that would result from this criminal step.
She said that "instead of complying with the legitimate and just demand to lift the blockade on Yemen, the Saudi regime committed a major folly that will cost it dearly."

<Ansar Allah: The recent crimes will not go unanswered.
For its part, the political bureau of the Ansar Allah movement stressed that “the Saudi enemy’s targeting of civilian facilities in Hodeidah and Kamaran Island is a dangerous escalation and an extension of the siege policy.”
The office added that "the Saudi enemy tried to compensate for its military and political failures by targeting the essentials of life for the Yemeni people," stressing that "targeting civilian objects is a blatant violation that places the international community before a moral and legal responsibility."
While affirming that "the recent crimes will not go unanswered," he reminded everyone that "the deterrence equation established by our people, leadership, and armed forces has become clear and firm."
He continued, threateningly: "A siege for a siege, ports for ports, escalation for escalation, and the continuation of aggression will only bring more losses to the aggressors."

<Saudi aggression on Hodeidah
This came after Saudi Arabia launched an attack on several vital and service sites in Hodeidah Governorate, western Yemen, on Friday evening.
Al-Mayadeen's correspondent reported that the Saudi aggression targeted the port of Hodeidah and facilities belonging to the Telecommunications Corporation in the city of Hodeidah, resulting in the injury of a worker in a building belonging to the Ministry of Communications.
The Saba news agency in Sana'a also reported that a Saudi aggression targeted Kamaran Island in Hodeidah Governorate, resulting in the injury of a woman.
In this context, Saba quoted a source in the Ministry of Defense in Sana'a as saying that the air defenses forced a number of Saudi military formations to leave the airspace.
In addition, the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition announced that it had carried out a "proportionate military response operation against legitimate military targets in Hodeidah Governorate."

The Joint Forces Command of the Coalition stated that "the port of Hodeidah was not targeted, and all Yemeni ports are open to maritime navigation," adding that it "will continue to take the necessary operational actions and measures to protect ships, the Kingdom's interests and assets."
A few days ago, the Yemeni armed forces announced the end of the 2022 truce, after Saudi aircraft launched an attack on Sana'a International Airport while an Iranian civilian plane was attempting to land there in order to break the blockade on Yemen.
Following this, and after a large popular mandate announced by the million-strong marches in Sana’a and a number of governorates a week ago, Sana’a announced the imposition of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia , within the equation of “blockade for blockade”, which resulted in targeting ships belonging to Saudi companies in the Red Sea.
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The tit-for-tat strikes between Washington and Tehran… are they paving the way for a different military course?
The confrontation between the United States and Iran is witnessing a new phase of military escalation, with an exchange of strikes and an expansion of operations, at a time when field objectives are overlapping with political and strategic messages.
While Washington asserts that its operations aim to "undermine Iran's military capabilities," Tehran maintains that its responses are intended to maintain deterrence and prevent a shift in the balance of power. Against this backdrop, questions arise regarding the military messages conveyed by the nature of the targets, the limits of the airstrikes' effectiveness, and whether the confrontation paves the way for a broader escalation or remains within calculated parameters, potentially leading to a return to the negotiating table.

<Southern Iran: Target of US Strikes
In an interview with Al-Mayadeen Net , retired Brigadier General and military and strategic expert Ali Abi Raad believes that the American strikes did not achieve the results that Washington aspired to, but rather complicated the field scene and expanded its repercussions on maritime navigation security and energy lines.
Abu Raad believes that the Iranian responses were more extensive, and this was directly reflected in the movement of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, which put the American administration in front of two options: either to look for a political way out, or to move to a more escalated stage by expanding military operations to impose new equations.
He points out that the field indicators tend towards the second option, citing the strengthening of the American military deployment, the movement of cargo and refueling aircraft, in addition to the Israeli statements that confirmed Tel Aviv’s readiness for direct military intervention if Washington requests it.

He adds that Washington focused its strikes on Iran’s southern coasts, stretching from the port of Chabahar to the Strait of Hormuz, given their strategic importance, in an attempt to seize control of one of the most important maritime passages in the region.
According to Abu Raad, the continuous American bombing during the confrontation, which employed highly destructive bombs, targeted command and control centers, radar and air defense systems, as well as logistical infrastructure in Bandar Abbas, where the naval command of the Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian army is based. However, he asserts that these strikes did not achieve the results Washington had anticipated.

<US bases are within range of Iranian retaliation
In contrast, Abi Raad believes that Iran has succeeded in expanding the scope of its operations against the American military infrastructure in the Gulf, after initially focusing on targeting radars and early warning systems, before moving on to targeting command and control centers, interceptor missile launch platforms and ammunition depots.
He notes that the Iranian strikes targeted defense systems that protect the Al Udeid base in Qatar, the Al Dhafra base in the UAE, the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, as well as the HIMARS systems in Kuwait.

He confirms that field data and satellite images indicate the evacuation of large parts of the “Al-Udeid” base and the “Arifjan” base, and the reduction of the American military presence in Kuwait and Bahrain, noting that the targeting of American bases in the Gulf has increased the importance of the “Al-Azraq” base in Jordan, which includes “F-35” and “F-16” aircraft, which prompted Washington to redeploy a number of its aircraft.

<Air strikes: a tool of pressure or a means to win the war?
Abi Raad emphasizes that air strikes alone have never decided any war in history, considering that military resolution remains linked to ground operations, which makes the current strikes, despite their intensity, insufficient to achieve the political and military goals that Washington seeks.
He believes that the continued reliance on air strikes reflects an attempt to impose new realities on the ground, but it is not enough to achieve a strategic victory, given Iran’s ability to absorb the blows and continue to respond.

<What about the upcoming scenarios?
Regarding future scenarios, Abi Raad believes that the American strikes will continue and expand to include deeper infrastructure inside Iran, and he warns that any escalation targeting energy facilities will be met with an Iranian response whose limits are difficult to predict, given that Tehran possesses military capabilities that it has not yet fully used.
Abi Raad largely rules out the scenario of a US ground intervention, noting that the airborne and paratrooper forces that Washington mobilized at the beginning of the crisis have returned to their bases in the United States.
He believes that the most likely scenario is limited airborne operations via two routes; the first towards the Iranian islands overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, and the second via Bubiyan Island to the Iraqi border and the Kurdistan Region, considering that this scenario explains, in part, the Iranian strikes that targeted Sulaymaniyah.

Amidst the ongoing airstrikes and escalating military rhetoric, the confrontation appears poised for further intensification, though there are no definitive indications of a full-blown ground war. With the interconnected battlefields and the proliferation of pressure tactics, the region seems to be entering a new phase of redrawing the rules of deterrence, while the course of the confrontation remains open to multiple possibilities, governed more by the realities on the ground than by political calculations.
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Yemenis are bombing Saudi oil terminals atm.
I don't think this war is quieting down soon.

>>2876568
LMAOOOOOO

>>2876568
Are the Saudis just retarded? Why would they bomb the Houthis during this contlict?

>>2876957
>Why would they bomb the Houthis during this contlict?
Houths started a blockade in the sea and probably Saudi was bombing airports in the name of the puppet Yemeni government.

>>2877020
UAE and South Yemen secessionists guys could have just won if they waited some months, i don't know why UAE told them to rush Saudi border

IRGC says US warplanes destroyed on the ground
A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Iranian attacks destroyed US aircraft on the ground at bases throughout the region.
https://aje.news/avpieu?update=4804158

“Furthermore, 17 reconnaissance and operational drones, one F-15 fighter jet inside a hangar, one P-8 aircraft, one C-17 transport aircraft and 8 refuelling aircraft were also destroyed”, the spokesman said in a statement published by Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.
https://aje.news/avpieu?update=4804158

Iran says it sold $18 billion worth of oil during war and ‘ceasefire’
Iran’s oil minister said it has sold $18 billion worth of oil during the war and “ceasefire” with the United States.
Mohsen Paknejad said sales generated more than 60 percent of the oil revenue forecast in Iran’s annual budget.
Lower risks to tanker traffic helped increase exports and enabled the sale of some of the 100 million barrels of Iran’s stored crude oil and gas condensate.
https://aje.news/avpieu?update=4804169

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-israelis-4-palestinians-killed-in-gunfight-sparked-by-settler-raid-of-palestinian-town/

Look at the comments and tell me civil war in Israel isn't inevitable

saw it so why not post it here

US military leaders believe ‘effectiveness’ of attacks has peaked
It’s being reported by Axios that the US president was given a plan for what would have been a 14th night of airstrikes on Iranian targets, but instead did not order them.
Instead, he indicated that he wanted to give renewed diplomatic efforts a chance to work.
It’s also being reported that perhaps the 14th night of airstrikes was put on hold because there is a growing belief among military leaders that the effectiveness has reached its peak and that there wouldn’t be anything more to be gained by targeting more Iranian facilities.
https://aje.news/avpieu?update=4804219

>>2877108
Fucking hell. :(

>Statement | Iran condemns Ukrainian strike on its commercial ship, calls it a “dangerous widening the conflict”

>Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of a military attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea early Saturday, saying an explosion killed 1 sailor and wounded another.

>In a statement, the ministry called the strike a violation of the UN Charter and “a clear instance of an act of aggression” that it said could further inflame the conflict. It noted that the attack had been “explicitly acknowledged” by Ukraine’s leader President Volodymyr Zelensky, and described it as evidence of the “hostile and irresponsible” approach of Kyiv toward Iran.

>Stating that Iran “has had no involvement” in the Russia-Ukraine war, the ministry said the strike showed Ukraine had committed an international violation and dangerously widened the conflict. It called on the UN Security Council, European states and the international community to take a responsible position, and said Ukraine’s “governing body” must answer for what it described as a criminal and provocative act.

>Tehran said it reserved the right to defend its national interests and security under international law, and that responsibility for the consequences of the Ukrainian leadership’s “adventurism” would fall on Kyiv and “its supporters and instigators.”

>The statement followed Zelensky’s announcement Saturday that Ukraine had struck Russian warships and cargo vessels in the Caspian that Kyiv said were carrying military cargo between Russia and Iran. Ukraine’s Security Service named two ships sanctioned by the US, the Port Olya 2 and the Begey, and said it also hit a Lukoil oil platform, according to RFE/RL. Neither government’s account has been independently verified.

from Dropsite.

is the nato clown in ukraine urged to get praised by trump, to get praise from trump?

US faces limited choices in Iran standoff as Strait of Hormuz remains under Tehran’s control
With additional financial sanctions on Iran unlikely to have an immediate impact, US faces limited options to break the stalemate in war with Iran.
Michael Mulroy, a Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, and a Retired CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer says there’s three options the US could take.
“One is that the US could capitulate with the Strait still closed. I don’t see that happening with the nuclear programme still up in the air, that would be viewed as a strategic failure for the United States.”
Mulroy says US “can either have a stalemate or essentially have a naval blockade with the Strait of Hormuz is closed, but that would cause issues all around the world and of course that would only compound over time as oil reserves dwindle and that really would turn this crisis into a catastrophe.”

“If US thinks they could work, and there’s some indication from the US intelligence community in the US that it won’t, increasing the size and scope of the target militarily could put pressure on the regime that would have them come back to the table with something that’s more on the line of what the US would accept. So it seems to be one of the latter options that the President is going to choose.” Mulroy told Al Jazeera.
“It doesn’t look like there’s any type of breakthrough in negotiations and Iran seems perfectly happy to keep controlling the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is still making billions of dollars on the sale of their energy but I do think that what US is going to focus on now is how to stop that, how to build an international coalition for secondary sanctions, there’s more that can be done, there’s more assets that can be frozen. But it’s not likely to have an immediate impact.” Mulroy said.
https://aje.news/avpieu?update=4804325

The Revolutionary Guard announces the destruction of 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground during 15 days of fighting.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hossein Mohebi announced in a statement to Tasnim News Agency that Iranian armed forces destroyed 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground while they were inside American bases during 15 days of fighting.
The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard added that 17 reconnaissance and operational drones were destroyed, noting that among them were 8 new drones that had not been used previously.
In detailing the equipment losses, the Revolutionary Guard confirmed the destruction of an American F-15 fighter jet, a P-8 aircraft, a C-17 military transport plane, and 8 aircraft designated for aerial refueling.

In a related context, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr, said on Saturday that any column of smoke that appears in the region indicates that a US military, security or financial site has been targeted.
In response to the ongoing American aggression against southern Iran, the commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced yesterday, Friday, the adoption of a fixed and declared equation on the battlefield against American forces, which is that “for every martyrdom of a dear citizen of Islamic Iran, the fate of one American element will be destruction.”

This comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Friday “the general public in countries where American soldiers are stationed to stay away from them,” after “many officers and soldiers of the aggressor American army left their bases for fear of Islamic fighters’ fire, and took up buildings in cities as places to commit their crimes.”
In a statement, the Revolutionary Guard urged people in those countries to "immediately move away, within a radius of 500 meters, from their places of concentration, in order to preserve their safety."
He called on them to report new locations of US occupation forces via the official public relations account of the Revolutionary Guard.
These warnings come in the context of renewed American aggression against Iran, with attacks concentrated on the southern regions, which prompted Iranian responses with operations targeting several American bases in the Gulf, Syria and Jordan.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1-11-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%AE%D9%84

Iranian Army: We have destroyed almost all US infrastructure in Erbil, Iraq
Iranian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akrami Nia announced that almost all US infrastructure in the Iraqi city of Erbil has been destroyed.
Brigadier General Akrami Nia confirmed that the anti-revolutionary forces present in Erbil no longer have the ability to carry out operations against Iran.
Earlier today, Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman Hossein Mohebi announced that Iranian armed forces had destroyed 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground while they were inside American bases during 15 days of fighting.
The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard added that 17 reconnaissance and operational drones were destroyed, noting that among them were 8 new drones that had not been used previously.
In detailing the equipment losses, the Revolutionary Guard confirmed the destruction of an American F-15 fighter jet, a P-8 aircraft, a C-17 military transport plane, and 8 aircraft designated for aerial refueling.
This comes in the context of renewed American aggression against Iran, with attacks concentrated on the southern regions, which prompted Iranian responses with operations targeting several American bases in the Gulf, Syria and Jordan.
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The election of Haniyeh as head of Hamas: Implications and priorities
Hamas has chosen Dr. Khalil al-Hayya as head of its political bureau, succeeding the late Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh. Al-Hayya won the confidence of the movement's Shura Council by a narrow margin over Khaled Meshaal, the movement's leader abroad.
The internal election system stipulates that a candidate must obtain 50% + 1 as a condition for winning the presidency, but none of the candidates obtained the required percentage in the first round, which necessitated a re-election.
The current election scenario brings to mind a similar scenario in the previous elections, which were repeated several times at the leadership level in the Gaza Strip, between Dr. Nizar Awadallah and Yahya Sinwar, with the latter winning by a small margin of votes over Awadallah.

<Elections amidst assassinations and war
The current elections are of particular importance, given the changes that have accompanied the Palestinian cause, the resistance, and Gaza in particular since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.
The movement is credited with its institutional cohesion and its ability to conduct internal elections in its three regions: Gaza, the West Bank, and abroad, despite the repeated assassinations that targeted the majority of its political, security, and military leaders.
The specter of assassination continues to haunt the leaders and cadres, including al-Hayya himself, who survived an assassination attempt in Qatar. This will remain a major challenge facing the movement and its political and organizational stability.
However, this reflects an Israeli failure to undermine the movement's institutions and create internal chaos and confusion. The selection of Haniyeh also reflects the movement's reaffirmation of the Gaza Strip's continued leading role, status, and ability to influence the directions, decisions, and policies it will adopt in the coming period.

<The continuity of the paths of Haniyeh and Sinwar
The selection of Khalil al-Hayya, in its strategic dimension, reinforces the continuity of the paths drawn by the two former leaders of the movement, Haniyeh and Sinwar, which were linked to close relations with Iran and the axis of resistance on the one hand, and maintained special relations with Qatar and Turkey, and succeeded in building relations with influential countries, such as Egypt, Algeria, Russia and China, on the other hand.
These approaches have also garnered the trust of various actors and entities, and Khalil al-Hayya's election will strengthen the balance in foreign relations. Conversely, al-Hayya's defeat would have meant, for some parties, a departure from the principle of balance.

On the national level, Haniyeh was one of the most prominent leaders who supported the paths adopted by Haniyeh and Sinwar, which led to an unprecedented revival in joint national action, especially in the Gaza Strip.
The movement presented a unique model of national relations, reflected in joint national action at various stages, most notably the 2018 Return Marches, the joint political stance on elections, reconciliation and the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the unified and coordinated military resistance through the formation of the Joint Operations Room, which included 12 military wings of resistance factions.
These factions participated in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, defended Gaza during the war of extermination, and presented an exceptional model of resistance, sacrifice, and steadfastness.

<The snake and the Gazan symbolism
The election of Khalil al-Hayya is not without symbolism that is difficult to ignore. He is from Gaza, which has been and continues to be subjected to genocide, and has become the center of the universe and events, and a standard for morals and values.
This man represents a microcosm of Gaza within the movement's leadership ranks; his family was wiped out, and the survivors were displaced within Gaza, moving from tent to tent in displacement camps, enduring hunger, thirst, heat, and cold alongside the rest of the population. Under the current circumstances, it is difficult for the people of Gaza to comprehend any other option.

In the public consciousness, Khalil al-Hayya is seen as an extension of the "flood" and its ongoing trajectory and repercussions, which remain unresolved. He also leads the negotiations in all their details, and his election signifies their continuation, given the anticipation of Gaza's citizens regarding their outcome and the hopes that these negotiations will protect them from plans of annihilation and displacement, alleviate their suffering, and rescue the humanitarian situation.

It is also believed that al-Hayya will seek to develop and revitalize the work in various arenas in support of Gaza, in light of what he perceives as its feeling of being let down by its surroundings.
The people of Gaza feel that the vast majority have abandoned them, leaving them in the clutches of a brutal enemy, including their brothers in the occupied West Bank, their families from the Palestinians inside Israel, and a quarter of them in exile and the diaspora.
On the other hand, they believe that the greatest hope was in countries friendly to or supportive of the Palestinian people, such as Turkey, Qatar and Algeria, while the people of Gaza look with all respect and appreciation to Yemen, which threw all its military, popular and geopolitical cards, especially Bab al-Mandab, for the sake of Gaza, and paid a heavy price in lives, money and property.
They also appreciate the positions of the resistance in Lebanon and Iran, while they had hoped that Gaza would be included in the latter's negotiations with the United States.
Al-Hayya will take into account all the positions expressed by the people of Gaza from the depths of their suffering, in light of his realization that the first priority is to save and support Gaza, after it has done all it can and more, and that national action requires the efforts of all components and arenas, and that everyone should stand to help Gaza, as it is still picking up its wounds, so that they may atone for part of their shortcomings and betrayal.

<Cairo negotiations and the urgent challenge
The urgent challenge facing Khalil al-Hayya is the course of the Gaza negotiations in Cairo, in light of the recent understandings with the mediators regarding various items, including the issue of weapons and the proposed formulas regarding the restriction, collection and storage of heavy weapons in Gaza.
This file still needs agreement with the Peace Council, and then the approval of the Israeli government, which requires Trump to personally play his role, as head of the council, and impose the agreement on Netanyahu, in light of the latter’s fear of the agreement’s impact on his electoral prospects.
This is the role that mediating countries should play, especially Türkiye, whose president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has close ties with Trump.
There is no doubt that the Gaza Strip, its suffering, and its fate will be Khalil al-Hayya's primary focus in the coming period. The greatest challenge is halting the genocide and the plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza, addressing their humanitarian needs, strengthening support for them, and alleviating their suffering through a comprehensive national and humanitarian mobilization.

>>2877146
Yea, maybe they're finally telling him 'No. We need those fucking weapons for our other imperial adventures.'.

>>2877150
There isn’t going to be any other imperialist adventures. It’s over…for them.

vidrel shows some pretty serious fires in Saudi.

Iran threatens to retaliate against Ukraine's attacks on its cargo ships by launching a formal complaint at the UN

>>2877175
Since Zizterland is so bad at war, its enemy has the capabilities to start another one against another nation.

>>2877175
when will people realize ww3 already started

>>2877165
Zionist Occupied Arab Monarchy

>>2877231
Yeah it started in Febraury 2022 just like how WWII already started in Asia years prior and eventually hit Europe and became an international conflict

>>2877231
nuh uh, that was the cold war. we're in ww4 now.

>>2877501
Iran is winning

> In Yanbu, Saudi Arabia’s principal west coast export gateway, two ballistic missiles aimed at oil installations were intercepted by a Patriot battery operated in Saudi Arabia by the Greek military under an agreement ‌with Riyadh.
common greek L

Syrian government willing to engage in peace talks with Israel – with conditions
The Syrian president had very strong words to say about Israel’s actions in the south of the country. Israel continues to carry out almost daily violations beyond the border zone in Quneitra province as well as in southern Deraa province, which is causing a lot of concern here in Damascus.
He said in his interview with Al Jazeera: “If the security agreement succeeds and Israel commits to the security side and Syria does as well along with all the conditions of the agreement that may be concluded later, this would qualify the situation for a second stage of talks about a comprehensive peace without conceding Syria’s right to the occupied Golan Heights.”

The Syrian president is saying something very dramatic – being open to further peace talks with Israel if they commit to an agreement that took everything back to the 1974 disengagement line. For now, Israel remains in areas that it calls temporary security zones beyond the Bravo line on the Syrian side of the buffer zone, and there’s no sign of them leaving anytime soon.
But the Syrian government says it’s willing to engage in further talks that might achieve a lasting peace between Syria and Israel.
https://aje.news/17jfvn?update=4806880

here are some of the latest developments:
<Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Ukraine of carrying out an attack on an Iranian merchant vessel in the Caspian Sea that left a sailor dead, warning that the incident “cannot go unanswered”.
>Iranian media report that an oil tanker has exploded after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.
<The Israeli army says it has killed Hamas commander Hamam Eid in an attack in central Gaza. The army says he was responsible for the production of drones.
>Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it’s moving to “nip in the bud” separatist and opposition groups it accuses of trying to infiltrate the country’s northwest, casting recent military operations there as a preemptive strike against US-backed unrest.
<Israeli media report that Israel’s security cabinet has approved a pilot project enabling the multinational Board of Peace to launch its efforts in the southern Gaza Strip.
>The Lebanese army has accused Israel’s army of continuing to breach agreements by destroying and bulldozing homes and carrying out attacks on southern Lebanon.
https://aje.news/17jfvn?update=4806711

Tanker explodes in Hormuz as Iran demands ‘full coordination’
Iranian officials are confirming that an oil tanker attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz exploded after hitting naval mines.
They said that the reason the explosion occurred was that this ship was not following the designated lanes by Iranian authorities.
Iranian authorities are warning that any ship that attempts to pass through the strait needs to be in full coordination; otherwise, Iran cannot guarantee the safety of that ship.
This is coming after two days of calm. In the last two days, we have seen no attacks on Iran, and no response from Iran.
https://aje.news/te4toc?update=4807159

‘A chance for diplomacy’: US and Iran suspend strikes for second day
The US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, confirmed on Sunday what had been widely reported: that after 13 straight nights of US strikes on Iranian military targets, the Trump administration has decided to take a pause of indeterminate time in order to allow diplomacy to take effect.
This is because, even though the US says that Iran broke the terms of the memorandum of understanding by striking at least two or three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz just three weeks ago, there has been concern from interlocutors, like Pakistan and Qatar and other countries in the Middle East, that there could be the risk of a wider regional war if diplomacy is not reinstated.
These countries have been working to get the US and Iran to back away, speak about their problems, and restore the ceasefire that was the centrepiece of the memorandum of understanding signed in the middle of June.
These interlocutors have been working towards this, and this has now been confirmed by the US president, Donald Trump, as well as by Iranian officials, but it’s not clear yet if these conversations will lead to a resumption of the memorandum of understanding.
https://aje.news/te4toc?update=4807173

>>2878114
Eventually we’ll say no and the whole affair will fall apart

The threat to take the Kuwaiti military bases worked and I think that's hilarious

New casualty figures for Operation Epstein Fury
>Combined with the updated Operation Epic Fury totals, the new Pentagon figures show that 18 US troops have been killed and 624 wounded since the US launched its war against Iran on 28 February.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/pentagon-iran-war-troop-deaths-casualty-report

>>2877175
Wow… the UN protest… this is ww3.

>>2878140
what threat

>>2877501
All of these installations are still fucking standing and functional
>>2877637
You bots post this about any and all Iran news
How is Iran winning if it's still surrounded by the same fucking US military bases as last year?
Guess they'll just let the US troops return again in a week after their complain campaign at the UN has percolated through the mass media

>>2878211
>How is Iran winning if it's still surrounded by the same fucking US military bases as last year?
Iran went from destroying radars in Bahrain and Qatar to destroying military bases in Jordan with personnel still on the bases, because American early warning systems are no longer functional due to Iran destroying irreplaceable American radars.

Israel is right next door to Jordan.

>>2878174
Iran threatened to start taking offensive actions if hostilities continued signaling they would sieze two military bases in Kuwait. Trump realized how bad it would look if Iran succeeded and clearly the administration came to the conclusion that it was more likely than not that Iran would succeed.

Ammo status?

>>2878326
>Iran threatened to start taking offensive actions if hostilities continued signaling they would sieze two military bases in Kuwait.
link to official statement?

does anybody have a video where you can see the Iranian missiles juke the interceptors? I know I've seen at least one that was high quality enough that you can see it shift position mid-air with a little puff of smoke to avoid interception

Syria’s Sharaa: Working on security pact with Israel, could lead to comprehensive peace deal

Syrian leader tells Al Jazeera that Damascus has no interest in conflict with Israel; again rejects Trump’s urgings for him to send troops to deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview aired Sunday that his country is working toward a security agreement with Israel, which he said could eventually pave the way for comprehensive peace between the two neighbors.

In excerpts from the interview set to air on Al Jazeera later in the day, Sharaa said that several countries are involved in the negotiations between Damascus and Jerusalem, which he said is focused on reaching an arrangement that would see the Israeli military leave the buffer zone it seized after the 2024 ouster of Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

The two countries, which have no formal relations and are officially in a state of war, have since been engaged in several rounds of US-backed talks, and in January agreed to establish an intelligence-sharing mechanism, as well as encouraging diplomacy and commercial opportunities between them.

Talks for a wider security deal, aimed at reviving a 1974 disengagement agreement that established a UN-monitored buffer zone between Israel and Syria after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, are ongoing.

Sharaa said that he hoped such an agreement would lead to comprehensive peace talks with Israel, without Syria relinquishing its claim to the Golan Heights, which Israel captured during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed in a move that Syria and most countries don’t recognize.

He further told the Qatari outlet that Syria had no interest in a confrontation with Israel and was seeking to avoid one.

Again rejects Lebanon intervention
Turning to US President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestions that Syria could intervene militarily in Israel’s conflict against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, Sharaa again said that his country had no intention of launching any such operations.

Damascus would instead look to support the Lebanese government in its attempts to disarm Hezbollah, he said, adding that his cabinet was currently discussing ways to help Beirut without military intervention.

He also declared his firm backing for Beirut to restrict weapons and decision-making power to the state, in an apparent dig at Hezbollah, which again dragged the country into war when it joined the US-Israeli war with Iran earlier this year by firing rockets and drones into northern Israel.

Trump has repeatedly pushed Syria to intervene militarily in Lebanon, saying that Israel does not know how to fight the Iran-backed terror group “without knocking buildings down,” and that “I’m close to giving it over to Syria.”

But Sharaa, who has been focused on rebuilding Syria and gaining domestic and international legitimacy since his Islamist forces ousted Assad in late 2024, has consistently rejected the idea of Syrian forces going to war against Hezbollah, a former Assad ally.

In his Sunday interview, he said that any eruption of conflict in Lebanon would necessarily impact Syria, and that any expansion of war could lead to a major regional collapse.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrias-sharaa-talks-with-israel-ongoing-could-lead-to-comprehensive-peace-deal/

Update

Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his meeting with Trump in the White House was “excellent”. The White House says the meeting was “positive and productive”.
<Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, warns that Tehran will consider “any action” to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz, including the resumption of war.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he has been reassured that Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship “was unintentional, and Ukraine seeks no escalation”.
The US military says it has redirected 18 commercial vessels as part of its renewed blockade of Iranian ports.
<Saudi Arabia’s air defences have intercepted and destroyed several drones launched from Iraqi territory targeting its oil facilities.
>Oil prices have dropped 5 percent to reach a two-week low as markets react to the ongoing pause in hostilities between the US and Iran.
<The Israeli army has attacked the Lebanese border towns of Majdal Zoun and al-Mansouri, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports.
>In Gaza, Israeli attacks have killed four people and wounded 14 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.https://aje.news/yquyij?update=4812310

Tanker in Red Sea reports hearing explosion: UKMTO
A tanker has reported hearing an explosion while crossing the Red Sea, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a maritime security monitor, says.
It says the crew is safe and no environmental damage was reported.
https://aje.news/yquyij?update=4812360

Iran launched ballistic missiles on US forces in region, US says
US Central Command (CENTCOM) says Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched multiple ballistic missiles in an “attempted surprise attack on US forces based in the Middle East”.
All of the missiles were intercepted, and “US forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness”, the statement added.
https://aje.news/yquyij?update=4812449

Saudi Arabia condemns drone attacks on oil facilities
The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the latest attack targeting oil facilities in the Eastern province. Saudi Arabia blames Iran-backed militias in Iraq for the attack.
“The kingdom reiterates its determination to safeguard its security and sovereignty, and affirms its legitimate right under international law to take all necessary measures to respond to the sources of the aggression and deter the perpetrators,” said the Foreign Ministry in a statement.
Saudi Arabia also calls on the Iraqi government to “take all necessary measures to prevent its territories from being used as grounds from which acts of aggression are launched”.
https://aje.news/yquyij?update=4812407

Strikes are back on:
US forces claim intercepting Iranian missiles targeting bases in Jordan
CENTCOM has confirmed that a number of missiles were launched just more than an hour ago in what it believes was an attempted surprise attack on bases in the Middle East, which we now know to be in Jordan.
It said all missiles were intercepted, and that US forces remain on alert.
They could be waiting for a message from Trump, who has left the Oval Office for the evening, but no doubt has been informed about what is going on in the Middle East.
Just days ago, he described the talks with Iran as being very friendly, but also warned that he didn’t believe the Iranians were serious about discussing peace and that the US would take very strong military action if he felt that was the case. This has, of course, raised concern that the US may well respond militarily to what has happened in the last hour.

Trump has often talked about how he would like to see a deal with the Iranians, but this is a reminder from the Iranians that they are there; they know that Trump spoke to Netanyahu about the situation in Iran in the last few hours here at the White House.
This is Iran sending a message that they need to be involved in all discussions.
The US also has more than 20 Navy vessels in the region at the moment, many of which are involved in the blockade of Iran, stopping ships getting in and out. We know that the Iranian side sees this as an act of war. So it could well be that they have launched the first attack on a US base since Trump stopped the 13 days of attacks, and this could well bring a reaction from the US.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4812495

A recap of recent developments
>US Central Command says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched multiple ballistic missiles “in an attempted surprise attack” on US forces in the Middle East. All missiles were “successfully intercepted”.
<Saudi Arabia says its air defences destroyed several drones targeting its oil facilities in the Eastern Province, launched from Iraq by Iran-aligned groups.
>Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, warns that Tehran will consider “any action” to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz, including the resumption of war.
<US President Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and held “positive and productive” talks, according to the White House.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Kyiv has reassured him that its attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea “was unintentional, and Ukraine seeks no escalation”.
<Israeli forces have launched a new wave of attacks on Gaza, killing at least one person and destroying a mosque as well as dozens of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4812503

>>2879514
>CENTCOM has confirmed that a number of missiles were launched just more than an hour ago in what it believes was an attempted surprise attack on bases in the Middle East, which we now know to be in Jordan.
any word on the casualties yet?

>>2879389
>The US military says it has redirected 18 commercial vessels as part of its renewed blockade of Iranian ports.

Own goal

Saudis attacking Iraq, w. americans.
Saudi Arabia confirms strikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq
Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry says its armed forces, in coordination with US Central Command, conducted targeted strikes against Iranian-backed militia targets in Iraq following drone attacks on Saudi petroleum facilities.

Spokesman Turki al-Maliki referenced two earlier statements, from Monday and Tuesday, in which the ministry said air defences had intercepted drones targeting petroleum facilities in the Eastern Province and Riyadh regions, in attacks it said were launched from Iraqi territory by Iran-backed militias.
He added that based on the “inherent right to defend itself” and international law under Article 51 of the UN Charter, joint operations were launched against “targets belonging to those militias present on the territory of the Republic of Iraq and linked to the targeting of petroleum facilities in the kingdom”.
The ministry said Saudi Arabia “does not seek escalation”, but warned that it “will respond to any aggression it is subjected to”.

US, Saudi forces launch attacks on ‘Iran-aligned’ groups in Iraq
US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it carried out precision strikes with Saudi Arabian forces against “Iran-aligned” groups in Iraq that had allegedly attacked US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure on the orders of the IRGC.
US and Saudi fighter jets “struck multiple terrorist logistics and weapons sites across eastern Iraq in a strong response to over 30 IRGC-directed aerial drone attacks in the last 72 hours”, CENTCOM said in a statement.
It said the IRGC attacks were “unwarranted” and “not successful”.
CENTCOM added that between February and April, Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq attempted more than 600 attacks on US citizens and facilities. It warned that the IRGC and its proxies “must cease these attacks to avoid further US military response”.

Explosion hits Iraqi paramilitary force’s headquarters in Basra
A security source has told Al Jazeera that there’s been an explosion at the headquarters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in the southern Basra province.
The source did not provide immediate details on what caused the blast or if there were any casualties.
The PMF, which is also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, is an umbrella of armed groups, many of whom are aligned with Iran.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4812568
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4812605
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4812588

>>2879461
>Iran launched ballistic missiles on US forces
iran has done more to harm amerikkka than china ever has. xibros, what is our new cope?

>>2879524
BRICS bros…

>>2879690
You're not funny. Get better material or fuck off to another thread.

>Iran to get Chinese shoulder-launched missile systems in weeks, sources say

>July 29 (Reuters) - Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told ​Reuters, as it rebuilds its defences amid war with the United States.

<The contract covers the purchase of between 300 and 400 man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS), including Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 missiles, the sources said.
China selling Iran a bunch of MANPADS now

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iran-get-chinese-shoulder-launched-missile-systems-weeks-sources-say-2026-07-29/

>>2879930
Hehe reverse operation cyclone the world is a beautiful place and allah it’s greatest poet and comedian

>>2879930
how are they going to arrive in the country? i can't imagine america is so incompetent that they'd let an msm publicized shipment go though the blockade

>>2879949
the fuck trumpy gonna do

>>2879949
Land corridors through pakistan, they don’t need to go by boat lol

>>2879953
Piss and shit himself. Also start ww3.

>>2879974
Stupid, naive question, why doesn’t this count as WWIII?

>>2879983
the world wars were named retroactively

Cope levels: maximum

I'm experiencing happening withdrawal

>>2879983
was the korean war ww3,

>>2880072
>Iran said it can shut down the straight for years
>US fails to decapitate strike Iran
>Iran blocks straight
<US zionazi pundits: damn Iranians how could they do this!!!!
I personally feel there was a call to all US backed "media" to try and paint Iran's ability to block the straight as some "deranged" unrealistic move rather than a calculated strategic move that was well within thier power to do.

>>2879983
the cold war was ww3, the world at that point had a bazillion proxy wars. This is ww4.

>>2880165
This is a shitty netflix spinoff that gets cancelled before anything happens

Resistance status?

>>2880183
Israel is getting destroyed in 2 weeks trust the plan

>>2879983

ww1 and ww2 were wars between huge global empires directly attacking one another using all the weapons and resources and technology at their disposal, so it is generally agreed that ww3 would be the same thing and would be a thermonuclear war which would destroy all of human civilization.

25:50, a lawyer refutes Mamdani's assertion that he lacks the authority to arrest Netanyahu.

>>2880196
>thermonuclear war which would destroy all of human civilization.
bad for profit, wont happen

A drone hit a U.S.-owned gas storage ‌tanker at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/drone-hits-gas-storage-tanker-egypts-mediterranean-port-2026-07-29/

The ship is the Energos Winter with a storage capacity of 138,250 m³ which my AI tells me has the energy equivalent of 700 kt of TNT.

Iraqi retaliation status?

>>2880072
I could beat up 1960s Mohamed Ali if not for his ability to punch me.

Trump pausing diplomacy to impose a ‘heavy price’ on Iran for strike on Jordan base
Trump started the day with a TV interview here, and he used a number of expletives to explain what was going to happen next to Iran, not language you’d use in front of your mother.

He then was in the Oval Office, perhaps a bit more sedate, a bit more respectfully said that they were going to attack Iran, that they had attacked the base in Jordan and it was now the United States’ turn. He said they are expecting it, but … and he let that hang.

He’s made it clear that they’re going to pay a heavy price for Wednesday’s attack in Jordan.

Of course, just a few days ago he was talking about how there were very powerful discussions ongoing with the Iranians, how they were asking to make a deal, how they were “very friendly” discussions.
But he did carry that with a caveat, saying that if there were no deal, then they would go back to a very heavy military operation.

Now he met with advisers at the White House on Friday to discuss exactly what the next stage of the operation could look like, what targets they could hit and what exactly they will do, but he decided instead to order a five-day pause in attacks on Iran.

And now it looks as if in the next couple of hours we might see some sort of attack on the Iranians.

It’s clear that for the time being, he’s decided to shelve any discussions and look for a military response to what has happened in the last 24 hours.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4815022

>>2880183
link?

>>2879933
are those legit journalism numbers. or vibes and feels estimates?
I don't believe the number if the number comes from 'unnamed anonymous officials' within the 'trump administration'.

>>2875496
>PJAK are happily twiddling their thumbs like Calvin
>>2875774
Their current stance is "We will not permit the political future of the Kurdish nation to be sacrificed to the destructive ambitions or adventurism of any power."

>>2879389
>>2879461
>>2879514
>>2879524
as always, thanks.
i got you one:
>An American gas carrier was attacked by drones in the Egyptian port of Damietta, Reuters reports.
>Another vessel and a gas loading terminal were also damaged.
>The American gas carrier was on Iran's potential list of targets for retaliation for the Ukrainian attack on its own vessel.

>>2880275
From previous round of US/Israeli strikes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/europe/israel-iraq-iran-bases.html

>>2880280
noice.

Lack of viable military options likely to force Trump to return to negotiations
Harlan Ullman, a former senior US naval officer, says Washington has no good military options in Iran and must return to the negotiating table.
“As the CENTCOM commander and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs here have said, we’re running out of military targets,” he told Al Jazeera. “That gives Trump four options, all bad.”:
• The first is “to increase attacks,” but the lack of military targets means hitting civilian targets instead, he says.
• The second is to use ground forces to attack Iran’s Kharg Island, but such a “very dangerous” operation could end in “potential disaster”.
• The third option would be 'a “demonstrative” shock of a nuclear weapon, “which in my mind would be rather extreme, for no other reason than if it were an airburst, the electromagnetic pulse would fry anything with a computer chip for a hundred miles”.
“The fourth option is the most sensible, which is negotiation through diplomacy,” he said, adding that despite the slow pace of talks, exhaustion is likely to lead both sides to that outcome eventually.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4815034

>>2880196
>would be a thermonuclear war which would destroy all of human civilization
We can have tactical nuclear strikes, as a treat.

>Iran Considered Retaliatory Strike on Ukrainian Seaport

>A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.
The poly-crisis has almost arrived

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/iran-ukraine-tensions.html

https://archive.ph/nrqTm

nytimes runs on article on evil houthis trying to bring war to innocent saudis even though saudis are the ones that fired first
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/world/middleeast/houthis-saudi-arabia-iran-war.html
krazy how propagandized american cattle is

>>2880360
Holy shit the streams are crossing

>>2880287

absolute cuck moment

>>2880248
I wonder who could be behind this? Who would profit from the escalation of the conflict, drawing in Egypt? Attacking US assets in Egyptian waters? By attacking gas storage that is bound to Europe on top of that? I guess we'll never know.

>>2880287
Trump is a fucking pussy.

LAUNCH THE GROUND INVASION ALREADY ITS A EASY VICTORY FOR US IMPERIALISM

>>2880401
Tbh I would assume Iran is hitting it as a response for Ukraine hitting their ship in the Caspian sea.

>>2880280
>American gas carrier
Lol, lmao even

>DESTROYS Iranian theocracy by bombing by poor workers
>DESTROYS US imperialism by bombing poor workers
Sorry guys but the rate of profit dropped again :[

>>2880590
Hard to believe Mahmud from Kuwait is a treatlerite who had it coming like Vile Schlomo, the Israeli gambling junkie living in the Bronx

IRGC says attack on Jordan’s al-Azraq airbase destroyed 3 US F-35s
In a statement directed to Jordan, the IRGC says in response to a US attack on Qeshm island that killed two parents and their child, aerospace fighters targeted a ramp and maintenance shed at the al-Azraq airbase, which hosts US F-35 fighter jets, with several ballistic missiles, state news agency Fars reports.
The IRGC said that it had completely destroyed three F-35 aircraft and caused “heavy damage” to three others.
“A number of enemy officers and technical and maintenance personnel were also killed in this attack. Our region is no place for the infanticidal army that cruelly slaughters innocent families in the middle of the night while they sleep,” the IRGC said.
They added that their struggle, along with Jordan’s, will continue until “the last American occupier is expelled from the Islamic lands”.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816513

appearently some guys in jordan are getting scared because people realized their country is essentially a military base

>>2880622
lmao

>>2880609
Some of the statements by Iran seemed to imply that they were getting intelligence from random Jordanian soldiers and civilians.

IRGC says attack on Jordan’s al-Azraq airbase destroyed 3 US F-35s
In a statement directed to Jordan, the IRGC says in response to a US attack on Qeshm island that killed two parents and their child, aerospace fighters targeted a ramp and maintenance shed at the al-Azraq airbase, which hosts US F-35 fighter jets, with several ballistic missiles, state news agency Fars reports.
The IRGC said that it had completely destroyed three F-35 aircraft and caused “heavy damage” to three others.
“A number of enemy officers and technical and maintenance personnel were also killed in this attack. Our region is no place for the infanticidal army that cruelly slaughters innocent families in the middle of the night while they sleep,” the IRGC said.
They added that their struggle, along with Jordan’s, will continue until “the last American occupier is expelled from the Islamic lands”.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816513

Everyone regional is condemning this attack so i'm assuming it was something serious.
Qatar condemns Iranian attacks on Jordan and Kuwait
Qatar strongly condemned renewed Iranian attacks on Jordan and Kuwait on Thursday, describing them as a “flagrant violation” of both countries’ sovereignty and territorial integrity and a breach of international law and the UN Charter.
In a Foreign Ministry statement, Qatar warned that the attacks risked widening regional escalation and undermining diplomatic efforts to contain tensions. It called for an immediate end to all military actions and a return to dialogue and negotiations.
“The continuation of these attacks constitutes a dangerous escalation that will complicate efforts to contain tensions and undermine political and diplomatic endeavours aimed at achieving security and stability in the region,” the ministry said.
Qatar reaffirmed its full solidarity with Jordan and Kuwait and its support for measures taken to protect their sovereignty and security.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816524

>>2880627
implied? they were claiming it outright

>>2880633
Real? Or a psyop to make Jordanian intelligence run around chasing phantoms?

>>2880651
seeing as how how IDF agents keep getting busted for spying for Iran I'm going to guess statistically there are a lot of jordanians (a chunk of whom are palestinian) willing to engage in espionage especially if there's financial incentive behind it

>>2880735
>>In a statement directed to Jordan, the IRGC says aerospace fighters targeted a ramp and maintenance shed

WAIT WTF, IT WAS ANOTHER PLANE BOMBING RAID HOLY FUCK LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>2880736
Ah probably not, the "aerospace force" is how they refer to their missile units. It's air / space / strategic weapons (ballistic missiles) combined in a single service branch.

Also "fighters" is not necessarily fighter jets, but "fighters" as in soldiers. Like aerospace troops. But "fighter" gives it an ideological edge, like mohajedan. Fighters/strugglers.

>>2880751
Sounds a little weird in English though because using "fighters" to refer to soldiers is usually reserved for non-state actors like Hezbollah.

>>2880768
also people like peter hegseth and delta force operator bro-culture like to call them war-fighters

>>2880768
AJ cited Fars which said they used ballistic missiles. But yeah. I think it's used in an Islamic revolutionary sort of context given the IRGC.

>In response to the US crime, the IRGC said its Aerospace Force fighters attacked the deployment ramp and maintenance hangar of the enemy's American F-35 warplanes at Al-Azraq Air Base with several ballistic missiles.
https://farsnews.ir/Qaysar/1785414222379101799/Three-F-35s-at-Jordan-Base-Destroyed-Several-US-Military-Servicemen-Killed-in-IRGC-Attack

>>2880787
Reminds me how there's the Kurdish peshmerga which is sometimes reported in English as "Peshmerga" like it's a formal military unit when it really just means "fighters" iirc.

Iran isn't a revolutionary state anymore. They are just pretending now. Khomeini would be rolling in his grave rn. All these people do is tit for tat strikes then feign talks and then more meaningless strikes. You are at war. Go to fucking war. Go all out and stop pussying out. IRGC are a bunch of cowards.

>>2880821
Outing myself as a big dumb baby but has this been a known motivation for Israel? Is the whole offensive against Iran just to try and gain control of the flow of ME oil to enrich themselves?

Iran signalling it will continue targeting US assets
It appears the Iranians are going to continue with their strategy of asserting their right to respond while also trying to penetrate air defences. In Kuwait, the attacks have had an impact, with one Chinese worker killed.
These attacks are becoming more frequent, more brazen and are increasingly taking place during daylight hours rather than under the cover of night. It appears the Iranians want to send the message that they are still standing and will continue to target US interests, not just in Kuwait, but in Jordan as well.
But the difference between these and previous attacks is the type of munitions being used. While the majority have been intercepted over Jordanian skies, they have shown they have the capability and capacity to strike Jordanian air bases as well, as demonstrated by the killing of US service members.
This is becoming the new normal. But it is also a measured response rather than an all-out war, with attacks that remain calibrated against targets and are still being predominantly intercepted.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816919

Why did Iran reject Oman’s Hormuz proposal?
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, weighed in on Iran’s rejection of Oman’s plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
“I think it was a mistake to reject it outright,” Barakat said. “They should have taken their time and used it as an opportunity to deepen negotiations with Oman — and by extension, with the Gulf states, many of which have already endorsed the Omani proposal, which is an important step.”
Barakat explained that Oman’s plan proposed two routes, each usable for inbound and outbound vessels, with optional payments to be set by shipping companies themselves.
Because ship owners would naturally gravitate towards the free route closest to the coast of Oman, traffic would be pulled into Omani territorial waters over time.
“That’s what Iran objected to,” he added. Tehran wants a system with a separate inbound and outbound route, and wants control specifically over the inbound lane — allowing it to monitor military vessels entering the strait.
Barakat said that the recent US-Iran strikes have made the conflict more dangerous, pointing to the last three weeks as evidence of “bad implementation of what was a vague understanding”.
Oman’s proposal would have split transit routes evenly between Iran and Oman, funded by voluntary shipping fees.
Iran instead countered with its own plan giving Tehran control over one full transit lane and part of the return route, arguing the 50-50 split failed to address its security concerns.
Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said the strait would stay closed if Oman rejects Iran’s counterproposal.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4817166

Iran says it urged Bulgaria to review reported US airbase access
Iran says Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has spoken with his Bulgarian counterpart, Velislava Petrova, criticising Sofia’s reported approval for the United States to use Bezmer Air Base for military purposes.
According to the Iranian government on X, Araghchi urged Bulgaria to review the decision, while it added that Bulgaria’s foreign minister said the country “will not take part in the conflict” and supports diplomacy and de-escalation.
The reported exchange comes as Iran continues to warn countries against facilitating US military operations amid its attacks on US assets in the Middle East.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816992

Iran’s army says it struck US assets at Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa base
Iran’s army said it launched an attack on US assets at Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa airbase, according to state media.
Sheikh Isa hosts key facilities for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and has been repeatedly targeted by Iranian forces during the war.
There’s still no independent confirmation yet from US or Bahraini authorities on this latest claim.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4817364

>The Iranian and Ukrainian FMs spoke directly. Araghchi said Ukraine’s FM assured him that the strike on the Iranian vessel was unintentional and that Kyiv did not seek escalation
<Iran said it also did not want escalation, but demanded compensation for the ship and the martyred sailor
Ukraine WINNING yet again in the free market place of ideas

Breaking points, although they tend towards the sensationalist, did a piece about the numbers of interceptors being dangerously low.

Iran strikes pierce US missile defenses, with Jon Elmer - The Electronic Intifada
<vidrel
latest developments:

>Iran’s IRGC said it targeted US bases in Kuwait and Jordan after US forces bombed a building on Qeshm Island, killing a couple and their two-year-old child. Explosions were also reported on Kish Island, in Bushehr and across four locations in Khuzestan; Iran said three IRGC members were killed in a separate US strike on Zanjan province.
<Iran’s army said it also struck US assets at Bahrain’s Sheikh Isa base. One worker was killed in an Iranian strike on a Chinese company’s building in Kuwait’s north.
The Iraqi military stated there’s no evidence recent regional attacks were launched from its territory, following joint US-Saudi strikes on Iran-aligned groups in the country.
>Senate Republicans blocked an effort to limit Trump’s ability to continue military action against Iran without congressional authorisation.
<The US Treasury also sanctioned entities it says are linked to Iran’s Mahan Air.
>Fourteen states backed Saudi Arabia’s proposed multinational maritime defence coalition.
<Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least four Palestinians, including two children, and wounded dozens more. UNRWA reported that Israeli forces have advanced the “Yellow Line” across eastern Deir el-Balah, Gaza City and Khan Younis.
https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4817501

>>2880794
>Reminds me how there's the Kurdish peshmerga which is sometimes reported in English as "Peshmerga" like it's a formal military unit when it really just means "fighters" iirc.
Yes but it's a bit more complicated because there are many formalized peshmergas with differing party affiliation, including the smaller parties, for example there is Peshmerga Roj attached to ENKS, who are famously fucking useless, didn't get to Kobani, did get to Sinjar but ended up getting in clashes with (and loosing to) the Yazidi instead. When used often externally i think it's specifically references the forces of the PUK/KDP. There also has to be some level of bureaucratic formalization for practical reasons, there is the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs which is a cross party thing for handling a lot of things.

>>2881041
I wish that in these analysis they would try to get some realistic estimate of Irans remaining drones and ballistic missiles as well as their capacity to produce them. I understand the USa is running out of certain munitions and they are really slow at producing them but it doesn't matter much if Iran is in a similar situation. And Iran is also being restrained with their launches and many of their launch sites, bases, warehouses, roads, bridges and production facilities have been bombed. That must have had some effect on their capability to fight back.

Mr. Al-Houthi warned: We will respond to the comprehensive Saudi escalation with a comprehensive escalation.
The leader of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, Mr. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, affirmed his country's readiness to confront the comprehensive Saudi escalation, as revealed by current indicators, with a comprehensive escalation.
In a speech on Thursday, Mr. Al-Houthi said that Saudi Arabia’s insistence would be met with dire consequences, warning that any country that gets involved in selling its aircraft to Saudi Arabia “will ultimately lose.”
Therefore, he said that the aircraft that Türkiye sells to Saudi Arabia and presents as "the pride of Turkish industry" will turn into "a worthless commodity when it is shot down in Yemen."

He pointed out that the outcome has been good since the establishment of the "siege for siege" equation in targeting Saudi oil tankers, preventing their movement, returning 16 ships, and shooting down spy planes.
Mr. Al-Houthi warned Saudi Arabia, saying that the United States, Britain, and the Israeli occupation will not benefit it no matter what they do, and that if they participate in aggression and crime, "our people are steadfast, relying on God and trusting in Him."
Accordingly, he said that “a serious move was necessary in response to the Saudi blockade,” stressing the need to establish the “blockade for blockade” equation, adding: “This does not mean that we have ignored the reality of our nation around us or the Palestinian cause,” but rather that “our move in confronting Saudi aggression is in the same direction as the issues of our nation.”


<For the million-person march tomorrow, Friday
Mr. Al-Houthi called on the Yemeni people to participate in the great million-strong demonstrations and marches tomorrow, Friday, in Sana'a and the governorates, saying that this is a confirmation of the steadfastness of the position and support for the great step in establishing a "siege for a siege" and preparing to confront the comprehensive escalation with a comprehensive escalation.

<"The Saudi regime plays a major role in serving Zionism."
Mr. Al-Houthi considered that cooperation with the Israeli entity falls within an escalating path targeting the Islamic nation, the Palestinian people, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Lebanese people, noting that “the Saudi regime, with its capabilities, is playing a major role in serving Zionism,” as this regime presents itself as “concerned with the issues of the nation,” but it “operates under the American-Zionist umbrella.”
As for the Yemeni people, “they are among the most suffering and targeted peoples by the Saudi regime within the American scheme and in service of the Israeli enemy,” according to Mr. Al-Houthi.
Mr. Al-Houthi said that "Saudi Arabia is quick to finance any project of sedition in the region," as "any sedition that leads to bloodshed and the tearing apart of the nation is something that Saudi Arabia seeks to finance."

He added that the confiscation of the human rights of the Yemeni people is not a right belonging to anyone, but rather rights recognized in international charters and laws, and the Yemeni people can never accept the confiscation of their freedom, because "they realize that targeting them is targeting their dignity and pride."
Mr. Al-Houthi described the aggression against his country as "using American tactics to burn and completely destroy Yemen in order to break the will and steadfastness of the people."
He said that "the de-escalation phase requires that the process lead to the complete end of the Saudi occupation of Yemen," because "the Saudi enemy continues its aggressive policy towards the Yemeni people by tightening the siege on them," as "there is a continuous deprivation of the Yemenis of the national wealth, which is the wealth of the people and the Saudis do not have an atom's weight in it."
Furthermore, he pointed out that "the revenues that could have been for basic services for the Yemeni people have been denied to our people by Saudi Arabia under American supervision."

<"The Saudi enemy wants to impose on Yemen a situation like that of the Palestinian people in Gaza."
Mr. Al-Houthi described the Saudi blockade of Yemen as an "unjust practice," saying that it is causing immense suffering to the Yemeni people, noting that "Yemen's economic resources are available, but they are under the control of the enemies."
Mr. Al-Houthi pointed out that the Saudi regime was tightening the siege measures against the Yemeni people at the same time that Sana'a was supporting the Palestinian people in the "Al-Aqsa flood," as when the Yemeni people moved in support of Gaza, "Saudi Arabia suddenly and strangely turned to confronting the drones."
He said that "the Saudi regime was shooting down some of the missiles and drones that were targeting the Zionist entity."
Thus, he said that “the Saudi enemy wants to impose on our people a situation similar to that of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” considering that “the Saudi regime is a partner with the United States, Israel and Britain within the Zionist trends in the region.”
Mr. Al-Houthi added that "the practices of the Saudi regime towards Yemenis represent a violation of the rights of neighborliness and have caused great suffering."

<The Zionist plan targets the entire nation.
Mr. Al-Houthi stressed the continuation of "Zionist brutality and American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic nation," coinciding with the escalation of aggression against Iran.
He reiterated that "Zionism and its followers are targeting the Islamic nation, even though their danger extends to the entire human society."
Thus, he pointed out that the goal under which the enemies are operating at this stage is "changing the Middle East" and "establishing Greater Israel".
He said that the goal of the Zionist plan is not just to change Iran or change Lebanon, but to change the "Middle East" under the title of "establishing Greater Israel".
Mr. Al-Houthi added that "Zionist tendencies and American-Israeli moves are in a heated conflict with the nation," noting that they "are showing a degree of aggression that exceeds what has happened before."
He said that the Zionist plan "represents a comprehensive danger to the nation, and does not exclude anyone, even those who have ties or positions that support Washington."
Therefore, Mr. Al-Houthi stressed the need for the nation to be aware of the exposed Zionist scheme that targets it with its aggression.
He pointed out that "the American is moving within the framework of the Zionist plan and with a colonial tendency and an orientation to plunder resources and control the region," considering that the aggression against Iran, Lebanon and Palestine "comes within a path aimed at removing the obstacles that prevent the achievement of his goals in the region."
Mr. Al-Houthi pointed to the existence of American-Israeli cooperation to "control and dominate the nation and obliterate its Islamic identity," regretting that "some regimes are moving in a deviant direction that serves the enemies of the nation."

<Continued crime in Palestine
On the Palestinian side, Mr. Al-Houthi said that “there are dangerous indications confirming that the Israeli enemy is preparing to destroy part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in an indirect manner through excavations,” stressing that the occupation continues its crimes, aggression and various crimes against the Palestinian people.
Mr. Al-Houthi said that "the Zionist entity, from the occupation of Palestine until today, has adopted a path based on expansion and control over more countries in the region."
He offered his condolences and sympathy to the Iraqi people, its security establishment, and the families of the martyrs who died in the American-Saudi aggression against the country, condemning it and declaring his country’s solidarity with Baghdad at all levels.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A--%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84

hamas has surrendered
now what

>>2881284
pathetic cowards, cucking out when trump feels the heat. they say its just the political wing (aka the bureucucks) but i dont hold my breath

>>2881340
also another l for vietnamese cucks and their board of cucks

Hamas’ agreement to Trump’s disarmament plan ‘calls Israel’s bluff’
Julie Norman, an analyst with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, has said “Hamas’s reported agreement to Trump’s disarmament plan essentially calls Israel’s bluff.”

“For the past nine months, Hamas’s refusal to disarm has been held up as the primary obstacle to unlocking other elements of the ceasefire plan, including the entry of the technocratic National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) and the International Security Force,” the analyst told Al Jazeera via email.

The announcement that Hamas has agreed to a roadmap for its disarmament can now shift that dynamic, yet it is unlikely things will change on the ground anytime soon. “The last thing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants going into October’s elections is US pressure to withdraw from Gaza, and it’s likely he will foot-drag any further negotiations as much as possible,” Norman said.

“Slow-walking the process also suits Hamas. It’s a pragmatic move by new Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya that keeps the group in the conversation and improves their positioning with the Board of Peace. But they know that actual decommissioning will not be immediate.”
https://aje.news/wkrwxs?update=4819306

>>2881284
Israel doesn't want this deal and is rejecting it. Seems like a good deal for Hamas

>Another statement has been issued to Israeli reporters by a “senior Israeli official” indicating Jerusalem’s opposition to the Trump-feted disarmament proposal that Hamas approved on Thursday.

>The “senior official” had issued a statement on Thursday that more explicitly rejected the Board of Peace’s disarmament proposal, asserting that it didn’t meet Israel’s demands for Hamas’s full disarmament, which the official said was a precondition for IDF withdrawal.

Also this:

>Trump will be ‘very disappointed’ if Israel obstructs his Gaza plan, US official warns

>Responding to reports of a breakthrough in talks between the Board of Peace and Hamas in Egypt earlier Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement pouring cold water on the optimism by claiming that the disarmament proposal did not meet Israel’s demands for a full demilitarization of Gaza in exchange for any withdrawals from the Strip.

>The statement apparently irked the Trump administration, prompting the senior US official to tell reporters, “We’re not asking Israel to do anything that isn’t in the 20-point plan that they agreed to initially, and so we’re very confident they will adhere to it. If they don’t, President Trump would be very, very disappointed.”

>“We just need them to keep to the original agreement that got their hostages home and ended the war. Gaza was the biggest thorn in their side for many years,” the official continued. “With all of the different issues they have going on right now, this is not something they want to escalate as an issue right now.”

>"There was a lot of criticism, particularly in Israel, when we invited Turkey and Qatar to join the Board of Peace Gaza Executive Board, but they’ve been essential partners along with Egypt in helping keep this ceasefire together,” he said. “Israel has its own craziness with their politics, and Palestinian aspirations are important. But we’re trying to put that to the side and constantly push forward.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/31/israel-us-iran-blockade-economy-trump-netanyahu-middle-east/

We actually are governed by the dumbest people alive holy fuck

Pakistan, a country famously known for being able to control its borders. Afghanistan, a country that famously loves American troop presence and doesn't have a psychotic death cult in charge What could possibly go wrong

>>2881680
>Block the land
What could this possibly mean?? Like what do you even have in mind when you say this

This article is so fucking funny

>Iran shares borders with Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, meaning the leaders would have to persuade these countries, many of which they are not allied with, to co-operate.

>>2881694
they'd have to find out a way to shut down the caspian sea too. its so dumb, everyone involved is dumb. the sooner normies realize the people in charge have no clue what to do with no long term plans, the better

>>2881685
Easy, just have a ring of soldiers and tanks and mechanized infantry all around Iran's land borders. Obviously everyone in the region will be thrilled to have a massive display of American military force sitting on their borders making a nusiance of themselves

>>2881694
I think they honestly still don't know how large Iran is or where it is exactly.

>>2881680
>“There are gas shortages. You’re aware of that. Very severe gas shortages inside Iran. There are queues at gas stations that have run out of diesel fuel,” the Israeli source added.
is this true tho? how can that be possible

Explainer: IRGC strikes on US targets in Kuwait early on Friday
Iran announced in the early hours of Friday that it had targeted United States military assets at Kuwait’s Ahmad al-Jaber airbase, describing the attack as retaliation for US strikes a day earlier.
Here is a recap of that and a look at how the war could be expanding within the region.

>Where has Iran attacked?
The Iranian army said early on Friday that its forces had targeted strategic US military facilities at Kuwait’s Ahmad al-Jaber airbase in a drone attack, describing the operation as retaliation for recent US strikes.

In a statement reported by Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency, the army said it had targeted hangars, satellite communication systems and equipment warehouses using drones.
<….
Full article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/31/irgc-strikes-us-targets-in-kuwait-a-day-after-us-hits-iran-latest-events

>>2881875
Probably not, but it really depends on what they're talking about when they say "gas." Like, iirc you need "light sweet" to make car fuel and "heavy sour" to make diesel, and the facilities for manufacturing one can't necessarily make the other. So it's not impossible that Iran is facing some sorts of shortages, but from what I've read they spent the bulk of the MOU ceasefire stocking up on essential shit.

So is this recent flurry of us news articles predicting an 'escalation' this weekend a crock of shit? Or are we actually going to see USrael escalate to energy infrastructure?

>>2881976
I'm sure they have plans drawn up, but he is such an all around pussy bitch that I doubt he will do it now that he seems to comprehend it won't fix his problem.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-israel-iran-war-energy-related-targets-trump/
incoming large scale bombing spree on Iran infrustructure leaked

Washington Post:
>U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel

>The top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon this week that he lacks sufficient naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, officials said, illustrating how the ongoing Iran war has imposed constraints on the military.

>Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, sent written notification to senior Pentagon officials saying that without another Navy destroyer he will be forced to choose defense of the United States “homeland” over that of Israel, said the officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the correspondence.

https://archive.ph/tMWI5

>>2881976
always bet on nothing

>>2881976
Honestly from the sounds of things American stockpiles are getting dangerously low. The Iranians should be intensifying their attacks not pulling back.

the latest developments:
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has praised the Iranian people as “heroes” for enduring the US-Israeli war on the country.
The US Department of State issued a travel warning for the entire Middle East region, saying “Americans in the region should consider departing, or be prepared to depart should there be escalation.”
An Israeli drone strike struck the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army claimed its troops killed several Hezbollah fighters in the Ali al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Israel killed 152 people, including 21 children, last month, marking the highest number since the beginning of the year.
At least four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza since the morning, medics working at hospitals in the enclave told Al Jazeera.
Israeli settlers have continued their attacks in the occupied West Bank and assaulted a Palestinian couple in the village of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah and attacked Palestinian homes in the town of Tal, southwest of Nablus.
https://aje.news/pzbadi?update=4822122

Reports of attacks on energy infrastructure in Iran have increased the likelihood of the confrontation encompassing global energy security.
Nournews Agency says that US media reports about attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure have increased the likelihood of the confrontation expanding to include global energy security.

The agency stated that attacking energy infrastructure is a direct targeting of national security, deterrence, and the strategic equations of the parties involved, not merely an economic measure.

The agency noted that Tehran’s interpretation of attempts to create sustained economic disruption could alter deterrence calculations and raise costs for Washington.

Earlier today, a senior Iranian security official confirmed Iran’s readiness to implement a broad plan to target vital infrastructure of the Israeli occupation and American energy infrastructure in the region, in response to any aggression against Iran’s energy facilities.

American media outlets had reported that the United States and Israel were preparing to target facilities linked to the energy sector in Iran.

US officials also told CNN that "the scope of the attacks and the targets in Iran are still unclear," noting that there is "a possibility of cancelling the strikes."
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2---%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84

‘Iran has taken its war with the US to the next phase’
Abas Aslani from the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies has told Al Jazeera that Iran has not changed its course of action.
“Iran’s actions are the extension of the 40-day campaign [of its war with the US and Israel] in a more limited and calibrated manner,” he said.
“They’ve so far escalated vertically in order to raise the conflict to a new level and taken it into a new phase. But at the moment, in the current geopolitical climate, there is a striking resemblance to the periods immediately preceding the two past conflicts. So that is likely to see an Iran escalation,” he added.

Trump could opt for large-scale attack in bid to ‘get Iran to stand down’
Amid reports on US media of a possible imminent large-scale attack on energy facilities in Iran, former US ambassador to Oman Richard Schmierer tells Al Jazeera that Trump may opt for further military action “to get Iran to stand down from its current approach to the conflict”, which includes attacking targets in the Strait of Hormuz.

“As long as President Trump believes escalating military activity might get to that goal, which is to change Iran’s behaviour, he will consider doing so,” Schmierer said. “We’ll see if that comes to pass – and if it does come to pass, we’ll see if it has the effect of getting Iran to change its approach.”

The former ambassador said “escalation would bring escalation” and that he expected Iran to similarly target energy facilities in neighbouring Gulf countries. “That would be devastating, as that would really effectively change the international energy market, [as well as affect] the people in those countries,” Schmierer concluded.
https://aje.news/pzbadi?update=4822140
https://aje.news/pzbadi?update=4822278

Iranian Foreign Ministry: We have detected CENTCOM exploiting oil and gas tankers to pave the way for hostile acts against us.
Iranian parliamentarian Ebrahim Rezaei warns of a response that will target all enemy bases outside the Gulf borders, in parallel with the Iranian Foreign Ministry's confirmation that Tehran will continue its defensive strikes and exercise its legitimate right to self-defense against American breaches of promises and military actions.
Ibrahim Rezaei, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Parliament, confirmed that the response to any potential attack from enemies will not be limited to the Gulf region, but will extend to all enemy bases and the launching points of attacks wherever they may be.



For its part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed its appreciation for the outstanding efforts undertaken by the armed forces in defending the entity of Iran with full force, stressing the Islamic Republic’s determination to continue the approach of resistance and steadfastness until the complete defeat of the enemies’ evils.

She also stressed that the armed forces' defensive strikes continue at full capacity under conditions in which the United States continues to break its promises.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry explained that the country will use all its tools to exercise its inherent right to legitimate self-defense against attacks, noting that the new round of American military aggression is a continuation of the 75-year-long hostility, and that the only reason for this military aggression is the Iranian people’s insistence on their independence, sovereignty, and resistance.

"Washington exploited commercial vessels on the southern route as cover for military movements."
In this context, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that the insistence of the United States and some of its regional partners on passing ships through the southern route was a cover for military movements, explaining that several cases were observed from June 26 to July 8 of American frigates passing alongside floating vessels loaded with oil or liquefied gas.



She confirmed that the US military has repeatedly used commercial vessels to transport military personnel, equipment, and war machines, and that the main reason for the vessels crossing the southern route with their tracking devices turned off was to avoid monitoring Iranian forces.

In detail, the Foreign Ministry noted that on July 8, a warship belonging to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) was seen taking cover behind a giant floating vessel loaded with liquefied gas on the southern route, stressing that the frigate's hesitation showed Washington's intention and hidden purpose to exploit the understanding to end the war in order to pave the way for hostile acts against Iran.

She pointed to clear indications of Washington’s premeditated plan to break promises, violate Iran’s sovereign rights over the Strait of Hormuz, and escalate tensions.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also stressed that the American acts of aggression fall under the description of "threatening and violating international peace and security" and "acts of aggression," descriptions that call for the intervention of the Security Council to stop them and hold the aggressors accountable.

She pointed out that the Security Council has not yet taken any effective action to assume its legal responsibilities regarding the attacks by the United States and the Israeli entity.

Araqchi warns against any adventurous action by the US military.
On the diplomatic front, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi discussed regional developments in two separate calls with the Pakistani army chief and his Turkish counterpart.

During the two calls, Araqchi discussed the repercussions of the aggressive actions by the United States and the risk of escalating tensions in the region, decisively warning against any adventurous action by the US military, and emphasizing Iran’s readiness to defend its sovereignty.

Araqchi also discussed with his Saudi counterpart the continued conspiracies and acts of aggression by the United States and Israel in the region, noting Iran’s complete readiness to protect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security of the country.

Araqchi stressed that any aggression by the United States and Israel, or any involvement by countries in the region, would be met with a decisive and proportionate response.
https://www.almayadeen.net/news/politics/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9--%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84--%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85--%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84

Tldr today:
Israel has amped up in Gaza.
Iran is signaling if US does a new escalationary strikes they'll broaden the target bank.
US allies are urging it to wind it down.

Israel on alert as Trump weighs attacks on Iran, media report says
The Israeli military has raised its defensive readiness as Trump considers whether to intensify attacks on Iran, the Israeli outlet Ynet has reported.

The move came after Israeli planners assessed that Iran could retaliate against Israel if the US targets Iranian infrastructure, even if Israeli forces do not participate in the attacks.

No new restrictions have been issued by Israel’s Home Front Command, while Ben Gurion Airport continues to operate normally, the report said.

Top Iranian official warns of closure of ‘other straits and chokepoints’
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says Tehran will “tighten” its closure of the Strait of Hormuz if the US continues its threats and naval blockade of Iran.

“The continuation of the US regime’s maritime blockade and warmongering will further tighten the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and also close other straits and chokepoints,” Zolghadr said, according to the IRNA news agency. He warned that “the global economy, energy markets, and American voters will pay the price” of the closure.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz hours after the US and Israel launched the war on February 28. More than five months later, the waterway – through which about 20 percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas once passed – remains closed, disrupting supplies and driving up prices.

Last month, Iran’s ally in Yemen, the Houthis, announced a blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, disrupting shipments diverted there because of the closure of Hormuz. Riyadh exported 4.1 million barrels of oil a day via the Red Sea in June.
https://aje.news/rlfmko?update=4822674
https://aje.news/rlfmko?update=4822641

<No tangible indication’ of US attacks on Iran despite Trump’s threat
President Trump posted several pictures of fighter aircraft on his Truth Social page, but had no comment on what they meant. We simply do not know [whether it was directed at Iran].

The president has been at his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, and unusually, a “lid” was called in the early morning, before 10 o’clock, which means he will not be leaving that particular location.

We heard from Trump on Friday at a cabinet meeting at Camp David, where he said that “we will be striking them very hard”. He was speaking in the future tense but we’ve had no tangible indication that this is in fact going to be the case.

The normal indicators – such as the US Air Force base in the United Kingdom, where B-1 bombers are based – there’s been no reports of any unusual activity there. There are some 20 B-1 bombers at that base in Gloucester and that is the total number of B-1 aircraft that the US have available at any given moment.

There’s also been a travel warning from US embassies in the Middle East warning of a possibility of an imminent escalation in the conflict.

This is, however, rewording a reiteration of what the State Department has been putting out on virtually a daily basis in the recent months of this ongoing conflict. So, there is no real indication yet from Trump or others that any action is going to happen, but we did hear the president say at that cabinet meeting that he will be hitting Iran hard
https://aje.news/rlfmko?update=4822680


<Iran’s defence minister outlines priorities, warns against complacency
Iran’s caretaker Defence Minister Majid Ebn al-Reza has outlined the country’s top priorities for preparing for future conflicts, in a speech to defence industry scientists, according to the IRNA news agency.

Ebn al-Reza identified four main priorities for Iran’s defence industry: space-based technologies, intelligence superiority, the “defence economy” – described as the production of effective, low-cost, agile, and mass-producible equipment through indigenization – and the resilience of industrial infrastructure.

He also warned against complacency, despite the US failing to achieve its military objectives.

“Many analysts may today speak of the enemy’s confusion, strategic deadlock, and narrowing options as a result of the success of our armed forces and its failure to achieve its objectives,” Ebn al-Reza said.

“However, such assessments must not lead us to complacency or inaction. The defense industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran must continue its path of progress, innovation, and preparedness with even greater momentum than before.”

Despite decades of crippling sanctions, Iran has developed the ability to produce missiles and drones cheaply, allowing it to overwhelm air defences at a relatively low cost while forcing its adversaries to spend millions of dollars intercepting the projectiles. Ebn al-Reza highlighted the importance of expanding indigenous production.
https://aje.news/rlfmko?update=4822600

Lmao Trump already TACOed

>>2882504
Yeah well you might think soyfacing isn't cool either but you might not be able to resist when you see this meme

>>2882504
On what? Can't keep track of this thing anymore.

Christ it must be embarassing to be an American at the moment.

>>2882537
Everyone around hom who's a career politico have been cajoling him into this.

>>2882537
Congratulations to Iran on their historic victory over the Great Satan

>>2882546
Also has. His brain is fully melting at this point.

>>2882546
Man, even NYPost is like, this motherfucker is sooooo dumb. 'Perimeters'

>>2882569
So when is the US going to break ths ceasefire in three days

>>2882569
>>2882577
There is no ceasefire deal and nothing was signed. That anon just likes posting bullshit he makes up in all red for some unknown reason.
This is the latest:
>>2882537
Trump unilaterally calling off his attack he just promised yesterday. TACOing if you will.

>>2882597
lol no

Anybody else fucking bored with this weekly ceasefire market manipulation shit

Nothing ever happens

>Iraq is facing public-sector salary delays driven by a severe cash liquidity crunch, a multi-billion dollar funding shortfall, and declining oil export revenues.
lol this shithole is so collapsing soon what are irgcucks and amerisharts doing to prepare? ;)

So Iran's plan is to do America's plan? RIP BRICs you were just a kid.

Hormuz Strait remains contentious issue as Trump holds off on attacking Iran
Donald Trump has once again held off on launching an attack against Iran, but no resolution appears in sight on how to manage traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Fars news outlet affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said numerous ships were stuck in the northern corridor of the strategically vital waterway in Iranian waters on Sunday at noon – and they could only pass if Iran’s armed forces allowed.

Iranian authorities have said the same will remain true for a southern sea corridor passing through Oman’s territorial waters.

Announcing his decision not to go ahead with the threatened attack, Trump said it followed a request from Iran and other regional countries after the “perimeters of a deal” had been agreed upon.

Iran’s acting Defence Minister, Majid Ebn-e-Reza, said Trump’s pullback comment was made “within the context of psychological operations and a war of calculations”.
<…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/2/no-breakthrough-on-strait-of-hormuz-as-trump-halts-attack-on-iran

Turkey urges Iran to halt attacks on Kurdish groups
When Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz landed in Tehran earlier this month to attend the funeral of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, he received a warm welcome from officials of the Islamic Republic.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also hosted Yilmaz and his delegation during the visit.

Pezeshkian thanked Turkey for helping to prevent an Israeli plan to foment an armed insurrection by Kurdish groups in western Iran, a source familiar with the visit told Middle East Eye.

Senior Turkish officials had sought to convince their US counterparts that the plan, devised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was unrealistic and could threaten Turkey’s national security.

US President Donald Trump indirectly suggested on several occasions that Ankara had even considered entering the war to prevent the emergence of another Kurdish separatist entity on its borders, following its experience in Syria.

Several people familiar with the matter told MEE that Ankara had also conveyed another message to Tehran: stop attacking Kurdish groups in the region.

They said Ankara was concerned that, following the failure of the Kurdish insurgency plan, further Iranian action against Kurdish groups in Iran and Iraq could push them into Israel’s arms.

It was relatively easy for Turkey to convince Washington that arming the Kurds was a bad idea.

Senior Trump aides were highly sceptical of Netanyahu’s regime-change proposal at the White House, including the notion that Kurdish forces could mount a ground invasion of Iran.

The CIA director reportedly used one word to describe Netanyahu’s regime-change scenarios: “farcical”.

“In other words, it’s bullshit,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly said.

But now, Ankara is deeply invested in its peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and further Iranian action in Iraq where the group is present could undermine the sensitive process.

Fears of Iraqi Kurdistan spillover
The Turkish government plans to introduce draft legislation in parliament on Monday that would pave the way for former PKK militants to return to Turkey within six months.

The partial pardon would offer non-violent PKK cadres an opportunity to reintegrate into society.

Maintaining calm across the region is essential to implementing this roadmap peacefully.

When the US reached out to Iraqi Kurdish leaders earlier this year to join an armed insurrection against Tehran backed by Mossad and the CIA, they found themselves in a quandary.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, is led by the Barzani family and has a sister organisation in Iran, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), which was reportedly set to lead the proposed effort.

However, Kurdish leaders had little reason to trust Washington after what had happened to the Kurds in Syria, who were abandoned by the US in favour of a new Damascus government earlier this year.

Kurdish sources told MEE that the US-Israeli plan also envisaged the Peshmerga, military forces of the autonomous region of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional National Authority, joining the uprising because Washington did not trust the PDKI’s capabilities. Erbil, however, was not enthusiastic.

Mehmet Alaca, a prominent Turkish expert on Iraq, said increased Iranian military pressure could inadvertently push Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, such as the PDKI, Komala and the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), closer to the West, particularly Israel.

“The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which has hosted these groups for many years, would bear the greatest cost of such a development,” he told MEE.

“Besides risking the transformation of the region into a new front in the Iran-Israel rivalry, this scenario could make the balance between the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) [in Iraq], the party led by the Talabani family, even more fragile. It could also provide Tehran with a justification for further expanding its influence in the region on security grounds.”

Iran has bombarded PDKI camps in northern Iraq since the war began in late February.

Alaca said Turkey had sought to minimise the destabilising impact of Iranian influence in northern Iraq by courting the traditionally pro-Iranian PUK, which normalised relations with Ankara earlier this month through an official visit to Turkey.

“Following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, the KDP and PUK, despite their intense rivalry on numerous issues, adopted a common position that Iranian Kurdish opposition groups should not become involved in the Iran conflict,” he told MEE.

“For Turkey, the most critical dimension is the peace process and the new security architecture it is seeking to build for the post-PKK era.

“The extension of the Iran-Israel rivalry into Iraqi Kurdistan and the re-emergence of the Kurdish card at the centre of the regional power struggle would directly undermine Turkey’s long-term security calculations.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-urges-iran-halt-attacks-kurdish-groups

here’s a look at the day’s main developments:
>US President Trump says negotiations with Iran, likely via intermediaries, are set to begin on August 3 and that a deal is likely on the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearisation.
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says negotiations between Oman and Iran on the future management of the Strait of Hormuz are in their “final stages”.
<Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says the Memorandum of Understanding signed in June with the US “will be the centre of gravity” of Iran’s “foreign relations in the future”.
>The crew of an Iranian commercial ship that was hit in a Ukrainian attack last week, along with the body of a sailor who was killed, have returned to Iran, reports Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency.
<Gaza Board of Peace chief Nickolay Mladenov says mediators working “around the clock” to start implementing Phase 2 of the ceasefire deal, as Israeli attacks have intensified over the past few days, killing dozens of Palestinians.
https://aje.news/rlfmko?update=4824826

How long till Trump realized he got played and starts bombing again?

>>2883444
Lmao he genuinely doesn't know how to solve this, does he?

>>2883492
Nope, they're snookered. GGs.

>>2883433
Incoming
Trump says Iran’s choices limited to ‘a Deal, or Total Surrender’
The US president slams Iran on Truth Social for not agreeing to “any discussions”, saying “they’re only dealing with ‘Oman'”.

“Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say “beg,” talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with “Oman”,” he says.

“They then go on to give their usual blather in saying, the Strait of Hormuz will be operated powerfully by them, when it is already completely controlled by the United States Navy and our “Blockade” or, as some say, “The United States Wall of Steel!”

“Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished. Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades. It is very simple, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” he concluded.
https://aje.news/mcmsi9?update=4826490

>>2883518
>Iran’s choices limited to ‘a Deal, or Total Surrender’
technically TRVKE i guess

>>2883518
>>2883642
Iran only has 3 options, win the war, lose the war, or negotiate and win the war in some ways and lose the war in other ways

>>2883632
Amazing source

>>2883703
i believe everything i see on twitter

>>2883632
american farmers are already making their own diesel like they did in the 70s

>>2883703
Adhom

>>2883712
Do you think they're going to be able to many their own phosphate fertilizers and groundwater too

>>2874490
So the situation is 2 more weeks there will be a peace deal?

>>2883752
The situation is the US has already lost but doesn't know it yet

Hezbollah just blew up a 1000 year old crusader castle. The VVest has fallen…………….. the islamo communiststs horde is detsroying the huwhite heritage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

actually it was israel
https://nitter.poast.org/sahouraxo/status/2083212759311736940#m

Question to the actually intelligent and informed people ITT (Not butthurt tankiddies and multiLARPolaroids):
Did Iran lost or wonned the war?

>>2883791
I dpubt it is close to over yet. We just keep repeating the exact same chatade week after week. If I had to put my bets on it, I think Yrump will not TACO at some point. He delusionally thinks he can just tweet Iran into submission and walk away looking like a victor. They don't seem to be going for thay, so one day he will have to follow through. That is the only power he has, despitr whatever supposed deal-makimg and tweeting ability he had.

>>2883792
Either that or Iran caves and gives him such a concession on the uranium or whatever, Trump can say he got something out of this. But they don't seem willing to do that and instead they are insistent on getting something out of it themselves. Completely irreconcilable. No DEAL posdible.

>>2883791
If you asked the left and dissident media if Syria had won, they would've said of course, until a few days before it collapsed.

>>2883791
Iran won. Iran won BIGLY. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed and the mainstream media just covered it all up through censorship and pretending they died in accidents or were re-assigned somewhere else to a base with spotty internet connection.

>>2883925
It did though, before it was betrayed from within

>>2883791
Has the US achieved their objectives?

>>2882537
>at the moment
Has there ever been a point in time where being an Amerikkkan wasn't actually deeply embarrassing

>>2883791
Look at the oil prices and see who keeps saying that he won until the next week

>>2883791
>Question to the actually intelligent and informed
>not 'tankiddies'
>using unironically a term coined to mock people who understood cia/mi6 interventionism in Hungary.
>even after de-classified documents show that indeed the 'freedom fighters' were under the cia payroll
whatssup, cia? to who exactly are you going to ask? to the cia?

The US is clearly WINNING

>>2883989
USSR wasn't lib enough

USSR status?

>>2884078
Eternally based

>About a week into the campaign, the American president halts the Kurdish plan. It is reported that Turkish President Erdoğan intervened and called Trump. Erdoğan later said that a Kurdish invasion of Iran could have provoked a Turkish response severe enough to slide into a conflict between Turkey and Israel. Three days later, Israel understands that America has closed the door.
Very juicy article on the Israeli/american decisional timeline of the war @gaynazi might interest you

https://www.nadaveyal.com/p/exclusive-the-warning-netanyahu-got

All is not well in the retarded ape enclosure.
White House denies report of Trump-Hegseth clash over missile stockpiles
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has denied a Washington Post report that Trump had confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over shortages in US missile stockpiles during a meeting at Camp David.
The newspaper reported that Trump had demanded answers over why he had apparently been misled about shortages of long-range guided missiles and air-defence interceptors. It said the depleted stockpiles had influenced his decision not to launch additional large-scale attacks on Iran.

Leavitt, who said she attended the meeting with Trump and Hegseth, called the report “fake news”.
“This literally never happened, and we told the Washington Post that repeatedly,” she said, adding that Trump “loves the Secretary and thinks he’s doing a tremendous job”.
https://aje.news/o3g16a?update=4832725

>>2885192
>This isn't true
>t. Leavitt

So it's super true

>>2885574
Isn't that the pedo guy who predicated fall of Ukraine within two weeks and victory of Baathist Iraq?

Happening cancelled, everypony go home.

>>2885557
Wrong. Things are going very well.
Trump claims Iran war is ‘going very well’
Trump has said he’s “extremely happy” with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and defended the war on Iran.
“Everything has been extraordinary,” the US president wrote on his Truth Social platform, referencing the abduction and arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro before turning to Iran.
“Iran, where the country has been decimated for the purpose of NOT ALLOWING IT TO EVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, is going very well!” the president added.
https://aje.news/o3g16a?update=4834511

>>2885801
This is just bullshit of the "ooh, I am in your head, I know what you will do!" sort. Like a lot of American "news" saying what foreign countries will do.

>>2885814
i remember how wrong the ukraine thread was in assuming russia wasn't about to invade just because america was saying it, i was there

>>2885849
The intention is to scare the opponent away. Effectiveness is questionable.

>Oil prices jump after Iran publishes restrictive draft plan for Strait of Hormuz

>Under the apparent draft, Iran would ban U.S. and Israeli ships from transiting the strait. Other nations that have harmed Iran would not be allowed to transit until compensation is paid, according to the draft. Tehran would impose penalties on violators equivalent to 20% of the value of cargo aboard a ship.
very based

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/oil-price-iran-war-strait-hormuz-oman-deal.html

>>2885914
And just like that profitability collapses as an imperialized nation says "pay reps".

>>2885849
There were lots of reasons to believe Russia wasn't about to invade, particularly because the US said it was.

>>2885849
“Ukraine” invaded Russia in 2014 with its initiation of the genocide in Donbas

Latest Yemen escalation could spark new civil war
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis say they’ve killed at least 45 people in an attack that targeted three military bases in Yemen’s eastern province, considered a stronghold of the internationally recognised Yemeni government backed by Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition said at least 11 civilians were wounded in the attack on Najran airport.
This is perhaps one of the Houthis’ biggest military operations against the Yemeni government.
The Houthis’ war strategy, which is now taking the fight to areas in the east of the country, is driven by a belief that the Saudi-backed government is planning pre-emptive strikes against the Iran-backed group.
Many experts and analysts say that violent escalation could be the spark for another civil war in the country.

Trump will not accept joint Iranian-Omani control, analyst says
Here is more analysis from University of Chicago political science professor Robert Pape in his interview with Al Jazeera, as he says US President Trump will not accept any deal that leads to Iran and Oman jointly controlling the Strait of Hormuz, given his backtracking following the June 17 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran.
“Trump will oscillate back and forth,” Pape said, adding, “I don’t think Trump will be able to accept Iranian and Omani control of the Strait of Hormuz for more than a day or two.”
“As we head to the midterms, President Trump will want a symbolic victory. It may be taking an island, taking a beachhead on part of Iran’s coast. That is the kind of symbolic victory that Trump may be able to make use of as we get into the midterms,” he added.
https://aje.news/3oyeks?update=4835104
https://aje.news/3oyeks?update=4835115

>>2885914
OOOOOF
this means they are winning, or won already.
you simply don't impose newer, more restrictive demands otherwise.

>>2883791
If this was the 60s and 70s you would be saying without asking the tankies if the US is winning Vietnam

>>2886005
>Latest Yemen escalation could spark new civil war
Hecking based anti imperialism heckin wholesome I love starting wars for foreign capital

>>2886102
Middle Eastern monarchies can stop being American military bases any time.

>>2883925
Syria did won the war litteraly, but they have lost the peace.

>>2885849
conveniently memoryholing the 3-4 times they said it before without anything happening

>>2886103
I can't wait for the nato left to talk about these 'monarchies' self-determnation' right to host us bases, lmao.

>>2886219
>forgetting they already took crimea prior
Russia invading ukraine was obvious to anyone with half a brain. fortunately leftypol has gotten a lot less contrarian after getting badly embarrassed in early 2022

>>2886264
(This is fucking nuts btw I did not see this coming at all lmao)

This essentially means that Saudi and Pakistan are NATO now (kind of)

>In a video carried by Iraqi media, al-Amiri called on fighters of the group to postpone any attacks in response to what he called “American-Saudi” aggression on Iraq and to overlook the wounds for the “sake of Iraq’s highest interests”.
It's cucked

>>2886264
Lol whut

>>2886264
as soon as the saudis finish enriching for their civilian nuclear program all three of them will have nukes alongside iran (who would have to acquire them when the saudis do)

>>2886264
What does Turkiye and Pakistan get out of this?

>>2886375
Probably a bigger pie out of whatever resources they want to extract from Yemen

>>2886375
>>2886264
Pakistanis are already the foot soldiers of Saudi Arabia.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-deploys-jet-squadron-thousands-troops-saudi-arabia-during-iran-war-2026-05-18/

Turykiyay and KSA are already on the same sside fighting a cold war against Israel and UAE on a number of fronts so it's not that strange.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/saudi-arabia-uae-rivalry-wars

>>2886375
>What does Turkiye and Pakistan get out of this?
For Pakistan, the future conflict with India will now involve NATO, and for Turkey, Pakistans nuclear umbrella is extended to them if america ever decides to de-station their nukes there OR if israel gets into a fight with them over hegemony over the middle east. biggest losers here are UAE and Israel

>>2886264
Why doesn't Iran use the Shias in Pakistan to keep the country under control? Seems like a wasted opportunity

>>2886449
Iran isn't that powerful of an imperialist state

>Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey pact
You just know regional states are falling into camps in preparation for the war to end all wars

>>2886491
>You just know regional states are falling into camps in preparation for the war to end all wars
Inshallah.

The Unraveling of US Regional Primacy

>The announcement that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact marks a watershed moment in Middle Eastern security politics. For the first time, the three largest Muslim-majority powers—each with distinct geopolitical weight, military capacity, and ideological orientation—have placed themselves under a single collective defense umbrella. The agreement, signed in Mecca by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, stipulates that an armed attack on any one of the three states will be treated as an attack on all. This is Article V language in everything but name.

>The pact links three states with complementary strengths: Saudi Arabia’s status as a G20 economy and guardian of Islam’s holiest cities, Pakistan’s position as the Muslim world’s only nuclear-armed state, and Turkey’s standing as NATO’s second-largest army and a rising defense-industrial power. This combination is unprecedented. It creates a bloc capable of projecting deterrence across the Middle East, South Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean, and it creates a counterweight to Iran’s regional network and a buffer against US unpredictability. The pact will not alter existing alliances, but it will reshape the strategic environment in which those alliances operate.

Conclusion: The Beginning of a New Era

>Saudi Arabia is signaling that it will not trade a longstanding position on Palestinian statehood for security guarantees that have grown less reliable, not more. Turkey is signaling that it will not rely solely on NATO. Pakistan is signaling that it seeks a larger role in regional security, on terms it has not yet fully clarified even to its own partners.
israeli media taking it well

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-turkey-saudi-arabia-pakistan-mutual-defense-pact/

>>2886264
saudi arabia and pakistan already had defense agreements, and when iran started pounding the saudis it clearly appeared it was "yeah we will defend you but not if its in a war caused by the USA using your territory"

>>2886529
Yea, this stuff doesn't really mean a lot. I remember when UK, Ukraine and Pooland were making all these kind of pacts and it didn't amount to much ultimately.

>>2886500
I live in the region doe feel free to green card me outta here

>>2885801
it's over
they're scared of being bombed by turkey