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Image is of a Quds Day march in Bandar Abbas, Iran.


It now seems likely that, very soon, the US and the Zionists will attempt to bomb Iran. Compared to the buildup to the Iraq War, the stated goals of such a move are being kept a little more generalized - some say the point is to overthrow the government for "humanitarian" purposes (others are more honest and want to partition Iran into a dozen powerless statelets). Some people instead say the point is to get rid of the ballistic missile program, which is synonymous with outright surrender, as no matter the deal, bombers would be en route within 10 minutes of the last batch being handed over.

Still others say that the goal is to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, which, as the thread title implies, is now in a bizarre propaganda superposition: it is apparently simultaneously true to the Trump administration that the US obliterated the nuclear facilities and set back Iran's nuclear program years, if not decades, but also that Iran is mere days away from finishing a nuke and a new round of bombing is urgently required. This obviously casts newfound doubts on how effective US weapons even are at penetrating Iran's underground facilities (though it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't breach them, as Iran was almost certainly moving nuclear material out of Fordow and other sites in the days before the Twelve Day War). The sheer quantity of US anti-air defense equipment they're shifting into position also casts doubts on whether Iran's air defense was mostly destroyed during that conflict, as those who assert that the Zionists had total air supremacy over Iran seem to be implying.

I'm not a military guy, and so I have no novel insights on how such a war is likely to go, nor do I feel confident predicting either side's victory. I'm looking at most of the same sources that you're all looking at. Some confidently boast of the total destruction of Iran's air defense within hours, allowing US planes to fly directly over Iranian cities and drop bombs en masse; others cast doubts on whether this will ever occur, and say that the US's limited supply of Tomahawk missiles is the only major firepower they will be able to safely unleash. Some say this war will last mere days before state collapse; others say months, maybe even years. I have no idea.

I do at least feel somewhat bolstered by the fact that Russia and China finally appear to be pouring in meaningful information and matériel to help Iran this time around, though of course, one can still debate whether it's enough. I feel like we are at the culmination of decades of war planning by both the US and Iran, and the result could have deep ramifications indeed.


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https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

Featured post by user oliveoil on a request to residents in the agressor nations to attempt to assist in anti-war efforts through economic actions

Reply to this post with additional material on how to participate in the anti-war movement.

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

new newsmega up

that'll do, Feb 23 newsmega, that'll do

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 92 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

As the US was readying its planes to bomb Iran, the Defense Secretary of the United States was deeply concerned, advocating that the Scouts evict the 200,000 girls who are Scouts, because some teenage girls learning to tie ropes and doing camping shit is “an insidious, radical, woke ideology that is anti-America and anti-American”

Like in the 24 hours before kicking off a war against Iran, igniting the Middle East, the Defense Secretary of the United States had, as his priority, demanding that some actual children cease undermining the patriarchal order of the United States.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was apparently not invited to the Mar-a-Lago command room.

Instead he was ranting in twitter about girls being in Scouts.

What is going on?

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[–] Staines@hexbear.net 92 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Listening to the UN Security Council meeting.

The US just called it the United States Security Council and continued as if it wasn't a mistake.

Freudian slip, but entirely correct.

Fuck China.

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[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 weeks ago

Sayed Mohammed Marandi: tw for footage

The number of schoolgirls murdered by the Epstein regime at their elementary school in Minab city has reached 115. They rape and murder girls. Now they bomb them.

I want every single person to remember that the very first wave of attacks on Iran the US-israeli death cult massacred over 100 little girls. Read this sentence out loud to yourself and sit with this. 115 little girls killed in an instant in a elementary school by a US missile.

This should be the first thing that you say to anyone you talk to who even hints that they support "overthrowing the regime." There are many worse words that I want to write now but it is Ramadan.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 91 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

To anyone wondering, this was the end of the last Shah of Iran:

Mohammad Reza wanted to go back to Mexico, saying he had pleasant memories of Cuernavaca, but was refused. Mexico was a candidate to be a rotating member of the UN Security Council, but needed the vote of Cuba to be admitted, and the Cuban leader Fidel Castro told President José López Portillo that Cuba's vote was conditional on Mexico not accepting the Shah again.

He left the United States on 15 December 1979 and lived for a short time in the Isla Contadora in Panama. This caused riots by Panamanians who objected to the Shah being in their country. General Omar Torrijos, the dictator of Panama, kept Mohammad Reza Shah as a virtual prisoner at the Paitilla Medical Center, a hospital condemned by the former Shah's US doctors as "an inadequate and poorly staffed hospital", and in order to hasten his death allowed only Panamanian doctors to treat his cancer.

General Torrijos, a populist left-winger, had only taken in Mohammad Reza under heavy US pressure, and he made no secret of his dislike of Mohammad Reza, whom he called after meeting him "the saddest man he had ever met". When he first met Mohammad Reza, Torrijos taunted him by telling him "it must be hard to fall off the Peacock Throne into Contadora" and called him a chupon, a Spanish slang term for "someone who is finished".

Torrijos added to Mohammad Reza's misery by making his chief bodyguard a militantly Marxist sociology professor who spent much time lecturing Mohammad Reza on how he deserved his fate because he had been a tool of the "American imperialism" that was ostensibly oppressing the Third World, and charged Mohammad Reza a monthly rent of US$21,000, making him pay for all his food and the wages of the 200 National Guardsmen assigned as his bodyguards.

Torrijos is underrated af lmao

President Carter did not wish to admit Mohammad Reza to the US but came under pressure from Henry Kissinger, who phoned Carter to say he would not endorse the SALT II treaty that Carter had just signed with the Soviet Union unless the former Shah was allowed into the United States, reportedly prompting Carter more than once to hang up his phone in rage in the Oval Office and shout "Fuck the Shah!".

On 22 October 1979, President Jimmy Carter reluctantly allowed the Shah into the United States to undergo surgical treatment at the Weill Cornell Medical Center. While there, Mohammad Reza used the name of "David D. Newsom," Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at that time, as his temporary code name, without Newsom's knowledge. Mohammad Reza's time in New York was highly uncomfortable; he was under a heavy security detail as every day, Iranian students studying in the US gathered outside his hospital to shout "Death to the Shah!", a chorus that Mohammad Reza heard.

The former Shah was obsessed with watching news from Iran, and was greatly upset at the new order being imposed by the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Reza could no longer walk by this time, and for security reasons had to be moved in his wheelchair under the cover of darkness when he went to the hospital while covered in a blanket, as the chances of his assassination were too great.

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[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 88 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (34 children)

Genuinely what calculus went into operation Epic Fortnite Chungus that made the US decide it was a good idea? They ignored every single war game scenario where Iran regularly fucks them up with drone and missile swarms to the point that the teams representing Iran are given special rules against using obviously plausible Iranian strategies to allow the U.S. to win. Did they seriously think a decapitation strike on an 80 year old man would topple a nation like Iran?

Now there’s a near constant barrage of not just missiles, but slow ass Shaheds turning US bases into cinders? This is so fucking funny. Where is the “superior” air defense? Iran hasn’t even brought out the big guns yet.

The PRC better have finished taking notes and started preparing its reunification with Taipei. The U.S. is completely ineffectual against a regional power everybody assumed it dwarfed immensely. At this point you’d have to imagine that the PRC would face essentially zero challenge to achieving its regional goals

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 84 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

IRGC is promising their biggest attack yet very soon. Please, Iran. Sink an aircraft carrier.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 84 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

President Trump: 'The entire Iranian military command is gone, and the rest wants to surrender'

"All the military command wants to surrender, they're right here, just out of frame." This is 100% something you say when you're winning, in fact when you're tired of winning.

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[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 84 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Recent poll found that Canadians consider the U.S. to be a far greater threat to Canada's security than China and Russia combined.

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Baghdad Airport has been struck by the Iraqi resistance due to the American presence there. Super surreal to see the airport in flames, I flew out of there just a few months ago.

We also have unconfirmed reports of some kind of incident at the British Akrotiri Base in Cyprus. Might be an Iranian strike, might be some kind of British incompetence thing.

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

As a former resident of that shithole nest of imperialism it would give me great pleasure to see their bases up in smoke. Especially the ones that have been doing recon for genocide out of cyprus.

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[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No statements to press expected from Trump today

The White House called a travel and photo lid at 4:22 p.m. ET on Saturday, signaling that President Donald Trump is not expected to make any in-person appearances before reporters at all today.

The press pool has not seen Trump in person since Friday, ahead of his early morning video announcement revealing US military strikes on Iran.

While a lid typically indicates no further public events, the president usually communicates through posts on Truth Social regardless of a lid. Trump has also been holding phone conversations with members of the media as developments unfold Saturday.

I think this is a sign things are going bad. If he had something to shout about he’d shout about it.

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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2027873748020301883

In a matter of hours the Iranians have imposed a total air blockade and partial naval blockade on half a dozen countries. All it takes is a missile or Shahed once a day to keep every airport in the region closed. How long will the Gulf states be willing to tolerate this?

It's well within Iranian capability to keep every international airport in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel closed indefinitely.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

They really did believe there would be an internal uprising, they were honestly that delusional

Free from constraints Iran can begin to slowly pulverize US imperial infrastructure across the region; every base degraded is another year ticked off on the lifespan of the comprador regimes

Every hour the US and Israel wastes expending hundreds of tons of resources on interceptions adds hundreds of future new recruits to the ranks of anti-American groups

They stumbled into imperial catastrophe because to them the whole world is Gaza, that's all they can see now

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 81 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)
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[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 81 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

8+ Pakistani protestors martyred by alleged US Marines after protestors attempted to break into the American consulate in Karachi. This used to be called a massacre, now it’s business as usual for the bloodthirsty empire

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/56262

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

So the gloves are off, the Gulf is burning, the dream of the UAE as a tourist hub is in shambles, many American troops are likely dead, Trump has been stunned into silence. All we're missing is a carrier kill and some Saudi oil fields burning. What a difference in vibe from the opening of the Twelve Days War.

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[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Now that the entity has attacked Iran, my dear friends - for the well being of my people - I have a request for all of you.

But first some Context:

  • A lot of diaspora Iranians protested in order to legitimize an operation against Iran.
  • A lot of people don't care about world events unless it affects them personally.
  • An immediate and punishing hit to people's material conditions could spark serious anger and political action against this war from all sides.
  • The media will manufacture consent, and defame and hide anti-war protestors.
  • Even those in favour of a war - and vulnerable to hating anti-war protestors - will malleate in the face of actual consequences.
  • This war will destroy the global energy market, and Dr. Roy Casagranda has predicted that hundreds of millions will die globally as a result.

Request: Please make sure you have the essentials to be able to take care of yourself:

  • cheap staple carbs: bags of rice
  • cans of nonperishable protein: beans
  • cooking oils
  • water - if your local municipality doesn't provide enough or clean water
  • hygienic products
  • full tank of gas (if applicable)

If you live in the imperial core, and if it does not put you in danger to do so: As you make your purchases, be loud about how you are panic buying because this Iran war is going to hit harder than both Covid and the Ukraine war.

If you can purchase these items with a partner or friend - you can be loud by talking to your friend about this issue and let others overhear you.

If you have successfully organized a community of people, please activate your groups to engage in this operation. Pretending to be independent couples and engaging at one popular supermarket (I.e. Trader Joe's, Costco) simultaneously will much more likely trigger the panic wave that is required. Or to stretch your numbers further - have one couple talking, and everyone else buying a lot of items independently in a line - make it visible that large numbers of seemingly unassociated people are engaging in this panic.

If you have not successfully organized a community of people and are intending on attending an anti-war protest. Inform your fellow protestors of the seriousness of the economic consequences of this war. They are already primed to listen, so make the rounds and tell them to buy nonperishables like rice and beans as a matter of their own wellbeing.

Please do not instigate panic buying if you do not live in an imperial-core nation.

Outside of a successful operation, it will take months for prices to rise and consequences to settle in. You can turn every grocery run into praxis by engaging in repeats of this operation.

Because something like bags of rice is:

  • cheap
  • big
  • able to sustain you calorically for months

Assuming you are not broke and/or in financial trouble, buy a shit ton and make a show of it. Please prioritize your own plans and well-being first.

This is our protest to the war.

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dr. Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, told Drop Site that Trump’s stated objective of regime change is unrealistic and will fail. Speaking separately to Al Jazeera, he said a new generation of Iranians will now come to understand their parents’ hostility toward the United States.

They will realize, he said, that **“we are fighting the Epstein class that either ra-es little girls or bombs little girls.” **

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2027895516164751685

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has spoken at the UN Security Council and warned that today’s strikes by the US and Israel, as well as Iran’s retaliation, pose a “grave threat to international peace and security”.

He said, “military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region in the world”.

WHY GUTERRES? WHY IS IT THE MOST VOLATILE REGION IN THE WORLD?

[–] TransWalterKronkite@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Crowd in Tehran watching the official announcement of the death of Khamenei

AP

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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 79 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

https://xcancel.com/RWApodcast/status/2026019890721624206

There have been three anti-police attacks in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Last night, an IED killed and wounded police personnel in Lvov. Earlier tonight, police were blown up in Nikolayev (7 wounded). Just now, another IED exploded at a police station in Dnepropetrovsk.

cop explosion

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 77 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Judging from my previous experiences with resistance channels and their dramatic interpretations of important situations, I believe that Khamenei has indeed been martyred. I hope I'm wrong, but there an eerie silence and I'm feeling the same type of cope that preceeded Nasrallah's martyrdom.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

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[–] videogame@hexbear.net 77 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Iran needs to kill more Americans

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

HEZBOLLAH HAVE ENTERED THE WAR

Ya Allah I'll never sleep at this point

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[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Reports that cops and/or the american imperialists have shot and killed at least ten protesters who were storming the amerikkka embassy in Karachi

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/3821962-turmoil-in-karachi-protesters-storm-us-consulate

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[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 75 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Remember to steal the zionists' favorite line that actually makes sense when we use it: Iran has the right to defend itself!

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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 75 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2028184507711377912

https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/entreprises/defense/info-bfmtv-frappes-sur-l-iran-le-porte-avions-francais-charles-de-gaulle-envoye-en-mediterranee-orientale_AV-202603010357.html

France's aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle is deploying to the eastern Mediterranean due to the current Middle East conflict, according to BFM TV report.

It would be truly incredible if an aircraft carrier does get hit but it's the fucking Charles de Gaulle

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[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Twitter post linking a declassified CIA document

By 1964, the Agency wasn't just nudging foreign elections, they were fully manufacturing them, even going as far as funding the "opposition" just to make the rigged outcome look plausible to the world. The real "smoking gun" is where they casually admit the Chief of Station had the "official" results in his hands four days before anyone had actually cast a vote.

archive.gov Document

General Alfredo Ovando Candia, supported by the army; and the Connunists and leftists, sup- ported by tough mine and factory workers. To have Barrientos elected, CIA first had to pronote a credible election by underwriting the campaigns of both the selected winner and his token opposition at the polls.

The real question was whether elections would be held at all. In 18 months the La Paz Station spent $585,000, first to persuade the armed forces to clamp down on the leftists, then to persuade Barrientos to run, then to convince Ovando he should not interfere, and finally to promote enough politi- cal opposition to make the election plausible. In a genuine tour de force, COS Lawrence M. Sternfield produced what AS observers called a democratic and honest election--and got the results from the elec- toral tribunal four days before the election 905g

CIA funding the leftist opposition, after killing the real opposition, in order to orchestrate a fav case of democracy.

With the results known four days before the election.

Every conspiracy theory except flat earth is real and verified.

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

If this all backfired and turned into a wave of Arab republican revolutions that would be fucking absolute-cinema

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (18 children)

Absolutely brilliant move by Amerikkka to evacuate the barracks on a base to a hotel only 500 meters away, and then allowing service people to post pictures from their balconies. i-cant It's like asking to be hit by missiles. They got what they asked for.

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[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Larry Johnson's analysis of the situation:

Trump and the neocons continue to believe that the support for the Islamic Republic is shallow and fragile. But judging from the reaction of the Iranians to the murder of the Ayatollah, I think Iran is now fully committed to a war of attrition. The advantages the US currently enjoys are likely to dissipate if this war continues for several weeks. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic will inflict severe economic harm to the global economy if the IRGC is able to keep it closed.

The odds are high that the Iranian attacks on US military installations and Israel will escalate in coming days. The US airbase in Erbil is under attack; the CIA station in Dubai has been hit with a missile as well as a Kuwaiti air base that is hosting US aircraft. Let’s see what the next 24 hours brings.

https://sonar21.com/killing-the-ayatollah-khamenei-will-inflame-the-shia-world/

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago

https://xcancel.com/moi_bahrain/status/2027745563865681942

MOI affirms that anyone who films, post or repost videos from the scene of events is subject to legal accountability, as this constitutes a legal violation that could harm security and public order.

Bahraini regime panicking at sights of its citizens cheering Iranian missiles slamming into US bases on its soil.

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Trump was warned by the deep state this would go badly.

Trump did it anyway and it’s going badly.

The deaths of US soldiers are very very very clearly his fault.

US public opinion is for the first time ever a plurality against Israel.

Trump gets impeached for this lathe-of-heaven

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[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A report on US ships and naval bases getting struck during the retaliatory strikes:

In this phase of the operation in the Indian Ocean, American vessel MSP, tasked with transporting ammunition for American ships, was struck by four drones while anchored at Jebel Ali port, according to a statement by the IRGC’s public relations department.

After sustaining heavy damage and successive explosions during the latest wave of the operation, the vessel has been completely put out of service, it added.

The American naval base in the Abdullah Mubarak area of Kuwait was also hit by four ballistic missiles and twelve drones. All main infrastructure was destroyed, and a large number of American forces were killed and wounded, the statement noted.

Additionally, an MST-class combat support ship, assigned as a fuel tanker supplying American vessels in the Indian Ocean region, was struck by Iranian Qadr-380 missiles.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/02/28/764843/irgc-launches-new-waves-true-promise-pummeling-occupied-territories

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[–] RobnHood@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Ansar Allah will resume the Red Sea blockade and missile and drone strikes on the entity as soon as tonight according to the AP

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Al Jazeera put out this graphic. When you realize most of Iran's casulties was that girl's school sadness-abysmal

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

terror bombings have started with another elemtary school (school was closed) and a children hospital hit in teheran , they are indicative of failure & frustration and a lack of Targets.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Video of the Epstein Coalition strikes on the residence of Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran earlier today.

https://tankie.tube/w/ejC1t68TWccQkmzEWhmAJj

Can I just add that calling the US+Israel the "Epstein Coalition" is funny af

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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

https://xcancel.com/junshiguancha1/status/2027785111991984304

A Chinese tourist in Tel Aviv captured footage of a U.S. military support ship being hit by an Iranian missile, with thick black smoke billowing out, confirming rumors from Iranian military reports of strikes concentrated on American vessels.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I am begging Iran not to convene the 80 odd senior clerics all in one place to decide the next Ayatollah.

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago

Hezbollah have released a statement, they have officially joined the war. Entity is now smashing up beirut (just another day for the zionist death cult)

[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We already have clashes between Bahraini protesters and Bahrain's Zionist security forces. This could really snowball with how Khomeinist the Bahraini Shia population is. (More on that in my long ass Khomeinist revolution essay back in Sep 2024)

https://xcancel.com/Qa11am/status/2028225303215005710

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1 star? Have you ever heard of "unique experiences"!?!?

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[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

An IRGC missile strike destroyed an expensive US radar in Qatar:

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that it destroyed a sophisticated American radar system stationed in Qatar as part of its retaliatory attacks targeting US bases and assets in the region.

A Saturday statement from the IRGC said the FP132 radar system, which was targeted in the attack, had a range of 5,000 km and had unique equipment to counter ballistic missiles. According to a report by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency in 2013, the radar system was worth around $1.1 billion.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/02/28/764835/iran-retaliatory-attack-completely-destorys-sophisticated-us-radar-system-qatar

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