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Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.


Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).

It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.

Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.


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[–] thirstyskyline@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (5 children)

—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: An Iranian official tells Fars News that Iran's attacks against Israel will continue and intensify, and American bases will be razed in the coming days in an 'extensive and decisive' response to the United States, which Iran considers jointly responsible

@Middle_East_Spectator

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[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A federal district court judge declined California’s request to issue an immediate temporary restraining order that would bar Marines and National Guard troops dispatched to Los Angeles from doing anything other than guardian federal buildings.

The judge, Charles Breyer, instead scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state’s request for a restraining order.

(Guardian)

Lmao he’s a Clinton appointee

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[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests-live-tensions-flare-trump-deploys-national-guard-troops

700 marines heading to Los Angeles.

Good luck idiots you're going to need it.

LA county is 9+ million people and San Diego is not very far. You want to be part of 3000 people trying to occupy that? Fucking have fun.

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[–] fever@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

A senior Mossad spy was caught while fleeing the Baneh border thanks to public vigilance and timely reporting. (Source)

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wait a goodamn minute, Iran's Fordow nuclear facility is 800 METERS underground???

lmao wtf was the worry about, there's no bunker buster in existence that can even get a quarter of the way through

The Israelis and Americans are delusional if they think they can take out Iran's nuclear program

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ultimate cringe would be if israelis and western media make you start saying June 13 like they did with October 7

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[–] thirstyskyline@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

that smoke rising out of many areas in Tel Aviv was a shitload of coincidentally timed gender reveal parties

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[–] fever@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Iran claims that:

A British spy destroyer in the Sea of Oman was stopped by the Navy of the Iranian Army and forced to change its course.

The British destroyer, which had entered the northern Indian Ocean last night with the purpose of guiding Israeli missiles into Iranian territory, was identified in a timely manner by the intelligence systems of the Iranian Navy. Combat drones of the Navy issued warnings, preventing the destroyer from continuing its path toward the Persian Gulf.

The destroyer was forced to alter its course.

Further details will be announced accordingly.

Source

Any info on NATO warships in Persian Gulf? Is Iran attempting a blockade against adversary warships?

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

UNRWA on bluesky two hours ago:

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off.

This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive".

We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (10 children)
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[–] thirstyskyline@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago

Iran's Mehr quoted an official: Military bases and ships in the Gulf region and the Red Sea will be the target of our forces if anyone intercepts our response

Source

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want this Friday the 13th to be a horror show for the zionist entity.

Please, Iran.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All this "deal" talk from Trump is bullshit.

There is no deal. There has never been a deal. The US has consistently used negotiations as a cover for upcoming attacks Israel carry out in Palestine. When Hamas have agreed to deals that the US thought they would reject the US has cancelled them and switched tracks because the deals were never supposed to succeed. They only exist to lull their opponents into false sense of security and to use for tricks and gambits.

That is what all this deal bullshit is about right now. Again. And I sincerely hope Iran do not fall for it. Again.

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

USS Nimitz cancelling it's port call in Hanoi. Likely headed to CENTCOM (Middle East)

China could do the funniest thing right now.

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Iranian security forces continued their important counter-sabotage and counter-terrorism work today.

Iranian security forces discovered a three-story building in Rey (south of Tehran) filled with Zionist drones and explosives: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433457.html

They intercepted another truck filled with Zionist drones in Tehran’s Tohid Tunnel (I believe this is either the third or fourth such detained ‘drone truck’): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433274.html

They also arrested another Mossad-linked truck driver in Tehran: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433563.html

[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

some contrasting on the deeds of the current al-qaeda regime in syria:

Nearly 8,000 killed in Syria within six months, 75 percent civilians: Report

Executions of Alawite civilians have continued to take place since the government-led massacres on the Syrian coast earlier this year

Syria welcomed back to SWIFT banking system

Damascus is overhauling its financial sector as part of efforts to revive the economy after US sanctions

looks like "free syria" referred to the price for American capitalists all along

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I'm guessing the airports in Israel are going to be crowded the next few days.

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Israel has the military support, radars, funding aerial fueling, propaganda of the entire west and the comprador regimes of the region all to fight a sanctioned third world country that got its independence in the 80s.

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (17 children)
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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

Maher and several dems, who call people who want to stop a genocide antisemitic, want to win nazi salute elon musk 'back to their side'. i-cant

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

Reports coming in that suicide drones have been launched towards Israel by Iran. Will take hours to arrive, timed with ballistic missile strikes once they do no doubt just like True Promise 1 and 2. Just a matter of how many missiles and what targets.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago
[–] thirstyskyline@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

Leaked documents released by Iranian media reportedly reveal that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi has been fully coordinating with Israel and carrying out its directives.

These files are part of the sensitive intelligence cache Iran recently seized from Israel.

Source

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

May the people of Iran stay safe from the increasingly likely Imperialist attack.

[–] thirstyskyline@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago

Cuba has more doctors posted around the globe than the World Health Organisation, despite sanctions

While the United States continues to impose sanctions against Cuba, the tiny island continues to send tens of thousands of its medical workers to at least 60 countries around the world to aid disadvantaged communities in the Global South

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (5 children)

New wave, Haifa got it. Half of Haifa plunged into dark

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago

NYT

The Israeli military says 200 warplanes participated in the overnight attack in Iran, dropping hundreds of bombs across the country and striking over 100 targets. The attack on Tehran was the biggest since the Iran-Iraq war decades ago.

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

IOF issuing some untypically... stoic statements? definitely a more grim tone

Israeli military chief of staff Eyal Zamir:

“People of Israel, I can’t promise absolute success. The Iranian regime will attempt to attack us in response. The expected cost will be different from what we are used to,”

Meanwhile Iran has implied they will attack US targets

Foreign Ministry of Iran:

“The Zionist regime’s aggressive actions against Iran cannot have been carried out without the coordination and authorization of the United States. Accordingly, the United States government, as the main supporter of this regime, will also be responsible for the dangerous effects and consequences of the Zionist regime’s adventure.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/13/live-explosions-reported-in-iran-amid-israel-tensions

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

And to just briefly talk about the Freedom Flotilla at the start of the thread before things rev up - I don't really have any take that hasn't already been expressed in the previous megathread; it was obviously a symbolic mission and I imagine everybody taking part in it is and was aware of that. Obviously the incident isn't totally over and there's plenty of opportunities for Israel to do despicable things to those who took part, so there's no real conclusions for me to draw yet.

My expectation is that Israel treating them "well" (as opposed to doing what they usually do to civilians and bombing them to pieces, at least) will only be a "propaganda W" for those who are already convinced that Israel is good and Muslims and Arabs are subhuman - that is, most Western governments - and that everybody who actually opposes Israel will maintain their opposition. If anybody is brought over to the pro-Israel side because they gave sandwiches to Greta Thunberg (while, miles away, people are starving to death in concentration camps) then they a) have the brain of an actual two-year-old infant and b) were not remotely committed to even symbolic resistance to Israel, let alone material resistance.

And to be honest, even if everybody on the ship was killed, I still wouldn't have expected that there would be a meaningful, long-term change in policy by any Western government. They'd have acted as if they were very angry at Israel and "consider if they should keep sending aid" and then keep doing it anyway in a few weeks once most of the immediate emotion had died down. Israel is just way too important to the imperial core for the deaths of their own civilians to matter to them much. That is not to say that I think the mission was a bad idea, because it wasn't. It was another little vector of pressure onto Israel, and lots of little vectors (and a few big ones, courtesy of Hamas, Ansarallah, Hezbollah, and Iran) can combine into some massive constraints, even if the impact of each individual vector is hard to quantify in the eventual result.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Israeli Foreign Minister: France had offered to participate in our attacks on Iran.

https://t.me/farsna/377265

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haifa is home to Israel's largest port, Israel's largest refinery, and is generally the most important industrial city in Israel. The majority of its domestically produced jet fuel comes from the BAZAN refinery in the port.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm amazed at the Dune-like strangeness of modern interstate warfare

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Iranian MP Shahriari:

We urge the Supreme Leader to authorize the production of nuclear weapons.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (37 children)

Doomers on Hexbear really don't seem to understand just how massive Iran and it's military are, it's inventory alone is massive

Iran is not Syria, it's not Libya, not Lebanon, not 2003 or 1991 Iraq, if it was, we'd be seeing hundreds of explosions like Baghdad in 2003, not a 'maybe kinda sorta' a dozen single strikes here and there that may or may not have hit their target

Calm the fuck down, this is not a failed Arab comprador state, this war is just starting

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A rumour flying around. Can not confirm, potentially untrue:

Hebrew media now confirms what we published hours ago.

Pakistan informed the United States that any nuclear attack on Iran would be met with a Pakistani nuclear attack on Israel.

Pakistan informed France and the United States that if any country directly intervenes in a war against Iran and Israel, the Pakistani army will enter the war against Israel on Iran's side.

It is definitely reported by some hebrew news. But I don't know whether I believe it.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Sources confirm that the Basij, Iran's paramilitary volunteers, have now been deployed in checkpoints in Tehran and other large cities. Netanyahu says Israel attacked Iran because Ayatollah Khamenei was planning to carry out another 'holocaust' on the Jewish people.

Tomorrow, in an urgent convention, the Iranian parliament will very likely vote to invoke Article 10 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which allows signatories to withdraw from the treaty in case of extraordinary circumstances or threats to a nation's most vital interests.

Israel begins withdrawing forces from Gaza to reinforce the Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian fronts

  • Telegram
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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

over the course of israel's last 20 months of rabid attacks, have they struck targets in iraq? I think so but I don't recall. I'm trying to figure out if they've hit 7 countries or 8 since oct 2023. I count palestine, lebanon, syria, jordan, egypt, iran, yemen and maybe iraq also?

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