Analysis of the US attack on the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran. 6x direct impacts on the main enrichment halls, in 2 groups of 3. 6 large holes in the mountain. Likely targeted these halls at or near weak spots/ventilation shafts. The Fordow site is now covered in a large plume of blue/greyish ash, which was visible from space on meteorological satellites at the time of the strike. Damage underground is obviously unknown, but these were GBU-57 MOPs directly targeting the enrichment halls, not hitting entrances or exits, it looks like Iran already tried to block those before the attack. This wasn't cruise missiles or smaller bombs.

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Seeing posts sourced from Telegram claiming that the Iranian parliament has decided to close the strait. Any official confirmation?

Emad rocket motor ended up landing in Tel Aviv

Trump hosts Pakistan army chief Asim Munir

North Korea fired multiple-launch rockets from near Pyongyang

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Early on Tuesday morning in Israel, just after midnight, the Israeli police said that officers in Haifa were investigating after several people on the balcony of a hotel in the city were seen with cameras aimed in the direction of the city’s port. The equipment was confiscated and the photographers were summoned for questioning, the police said.

The police statement was notable because the Israeli military has been warning residents not to publish the locations of sites where Iranian missiles have struck in recent days, citing security concerns and warning that Iran uses the publicly posted information to refine its targeting. Early on Monday, Iranian missiles hit Israel’s largest oil refinery, in Haifa Bay in northern Israel, according to footage verified by The New York Times.

United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) has raised the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) from Alpha to Bravo for all bases across its Area-of-Responsibility.

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Is that Samson Doctrine publication post from Iran have any weight of truth to it? I know that Israel has it but I just thought it was a boogeyman that Israel let circulate

Does anyone have knowledge about how long it takes the Iranians to make a missile? What capacity do they have to keep this up?

Can we treat Iran as a big boy regional power with remotely competent leadership and long historical consiousness and agency, look at their choices and approachments regarding military partenerships and buildup and factor that in on the where China or russia are currently, regarding capability and willlingness to directly intervene in iran. As well as where Iran currently stands militarily. Instead of treating it like some big baby that is being let down by its bigger "anti-imperialist" daddies?

Sure China's willingness to intervene in military material, manpower and economic ways can be judged on its own but for that to even be possible we have to know the answer to some questions regarding Iran. Was iran ever open and ever attempted any level of meaningful military alliance with China? Even thought of hosting any military power or bases? Ever tried purchasing en mass any relevant Chinese systems and weapons? After the UN weapons sanctions/ limits or whatever ended in 2020?? iranian army and irgc generals and politcians visited China and Pakistan in official and unoffical capacities multiple times and inspected j-10c and JF-17s. Pakistan itself only procured them a couple of years before. After dragging their feet they made a su-35 deal with Russia AFTER the ukraine war started and have gotten ass as of yet. You cant actualy convince me with certainty that if they really wanted and were desperate for it that they couldnt have made some deals. We cant know details so its no use making accusations but its something to consider. Maybe it was distrust towards china and a pakistan like china dependency and "we got this" delusion, maybe to prioritize their proxies (keeping that bum assad in power and that state working probably cost them more than 100 j-10cs) in the region and domestic assymetric drone and missile capabilities. Maybe China said no no we cant cause US and israel said so but who knows.

What we do know is that Iran had its own views regarding own sovereignty, its military power and what and where it wanted to focus on and spend money and capital within its military strategism. And the urgency and type of approachments or proccurements it made regarding china and russia were a function of that as much as they were of what russia and china itself wanted or didnt want to do or give iran. Iran's view of itself, the west and russia or china along with the internal factions pushing in different directions forged today's Iran-Russia and Iran-China relations and relative standing just as much as China's and Russians foreign policies did. Even for non military, strategic partnership cooperation agreements like the one Iran fast tracked and signed today with Russia. They were literally dragging their feet until they were getting bombed and US tanker aircraft are flying over the Atlantic toward the Middle East. Who's to say irans government and strategism where not as much of a roadblock to some alt universe closer chinese relationship and cooperation that could have made a big difference in this scenario as China's non interverntion or do nothing brainworms or whatever we are calling them.

Even right now as we speak, should China be more desperate to provide militarily help to Iran than Iran is desperate to seek that very same help from China. Are people really sure that the latter condition exists right now, let alone 2 or 5 years ago to a sufficient degree and that the former condition was the issue? What exactly people think Iran's outlook and trust and effort for closer military and political alliance was towards China in recent years ? Their strategy and willingness to use and accept Chinece force and influence for their protection and regional aspirations?

And i repeat this should be judged irrispectively of China's willingness or strategy to do the regional moves or alliances or sell the things iran did or did not, would or would not ask? And where one side stands is directly related to where the other choses to, it goes both ways

USS Nimitz still near Malaysia, do we think US will strike before their third carrier group arrives?

An Iranian official have claimed another F-35 have been shot down over Tabriz and more details will emerge. (Source)

The Cradle: Iran’s ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel

The latest barrage of ballistic missiles fired by Iran at Israel early on 16 June caused widespread destruction in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and elsewhere, video footage and images from after the strikes revealed. Entire buildings have been destroyed, while others have been severely damaged by the Iranian strikes. One video shows a house in Petah Tikvah, east of Tel Aviv, almost completely destroyed from the Iranian missile attack on Monday morning. A fortified room in another building in Petah Tikvah, serving as a shelter, was destroyed by one of the missiles, resulting in the deaths of five Israelis who were hiding inside.

Three were killed in Haifa and one was killed in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. In total, nine Israelis were killed during the overnight Iranian strikes, bringing the total number of settler casualties up to 24 since the start of Operation True Promise 3. Nearly 600 have been injured.

“Our operation proved that the Zionist enemy's calculations regarding Iran were completely wrong,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said early on Monday after the latest barrage of around 100 missiles. “Our missiles successfully hit their targets despite US support and the enemy's possession of modern defense technologies,” the IRGC added.

In Tel Aviv, multiple sites were hit, including a sensitive strategic building and several residential towers.

The Haifa power station was also struck by hypersonic missiles, as well as other major electricity and oil infrastructure, the Bazan Chemicals Complex, and the Haifa refinery. Power outages in the center of Israel were reported. Nevatim airbase in the Negev desert was also hit, as well as an army camp in the Galilee and other military installations. Strict Israeli military censorship has been imposed.

“We are still exercising restraint and have not deployed all our capabilities to avoid global chaos. However, we may reach a point where we use new weapons,” Iranian Major General Mohsen Rezaei told Iranian media on Sunday night.

Tehran’s morning strikes came after barrages on Sunday evening and afternoon, and coincided with the continuation of Israel’s massive war on Iran. Israeli strikes have hit both Iranian military sites and civilian infrastructure, including ports, airports, hospitals, and a civil defense site. At least 224 Iranians have been killed and around 1,000 injured since Israel launched the US-backed war against Iran.

UK Maritime Agency 'Ambrey' Confirms: 'We are aware of an incident occurring 22 nautical miles East of Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman'

Trump is about to severely miscalculate, the dumb fuck

May they sink a fuckin whole ass carrier

So no American involvement yet?

trump said they hit iranian nuclear sites? reported by barak ravid

ok he posted it on his truth social

I recently saw a person who's very much on our side, another member of the LGBT (Let's Go Bomb Tel Aviv) movement, and he was talking about how bombing the Dimona plant would actually be a very bad idea for everyone, not just for pissrael. It's an outdated facility where isn'treal does a lot of uranium enrichment and exploding it might lead to the equivalent of dropping like half a dozen dirty bombs, which would contaminate not only Israel, but a huge region around the plant.

Is there any truth to that?

Malaysia’s current geopolitical trajectory

Sitting at one of the most important waterways in the world - the strait of Melaka, the country hosts the 2nd largest Chinese diaspora, 3rd largest Indian diaspora and largest Indonesian, Bangladeshi and Nepali diaspora. One thing to know is that Malaysian foreign policy never strays too far from home.

It has now been a few years since the 2022 General Election, where a lot of the foreign alternative media was highlighting US influence in the opposition coalition and a potential westward turn. But unfortunately to them, lacking in dialectical materialism and influenced by Eurocentrism, they never actually understood the material and historical contexts that shape Malaysian politics.

US airforce just conducted an evacuation flight from Basra, Iraq; to Amman, Jordan. 350 people on board a single C-17 transport aircraft, possibly including third country nationals.

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Iraq to Jordan sorry I'm super tired