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Image is of an Iranian Qadr-110 missile.
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.
An Iranian response is en route to Israel. 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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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
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.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Hezbollah will not attack Israel in response to Israeli attack on Iran
A Hezbollah official said on Friday the group would not unilaterally launch its own attack on Israel in response to Israeli strikes on Iran.
"Hezbollah will not initiate its own attack on Israel in retaliation for Israel’s strikes," the official told Reuters. A public statement from Hezbollah condemned Israel’s strikes and expressed full solidarity with Iran.
DEATH TO ISRAEL MORE THAN EVER
Welp, just caught up with news. We should stop thinking that Israel bluff, Israel have not bluffed a single time since Oct7th.
Trump being a zionist dipshit.
so like what are the chances we see a carrier kill within the next couple years?
Depends whether the US deploys in range tbh. The signs so far are that they'll deploy outside missile range.
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.
The Cradle, quoting the Times of Israel:
Mossad operatives built drone base inside Iran, Israeli official reveals
Israel spent years laying the groundwork for an operation targeting Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure. Mossad operatives constructed a drone launch site near Tehran. These drones were activated overnight to strike surface-to-surface missile launchers directed at Israel.
Additionally, weapons-carrying vehicles were covertly brought into Iran.
These systems "took out" Iran’s air defenses, allowing Israeli aircraft to practice "supremacy and freedom of action" within Iranian airspace.
A third covert operation involved Mossad commandos placing precision missiles near anti-aircraft installations in central Iran.
The official says the operations were made possible by “groundbreaking thinking, bold planning and surgical operation of advanced technologies, special forces and agents operating in the heart of Iran while totally evading the eyes of local intelligence.”
I was wondering what Iran's version of the Lebanon pager attack + Nasrallah assassination was gonna be - Israel's big, flashy, opening move to a war that embarrasses their enemy and shows a major intelligence failure on their part. This seems like it might be it?
Though, to be fair to Iran, it seems like both countries are pretty highly infiltrated. Like, Israel can somehow covertly create a drone base near Tehran, while Iran can seize from Israel the greatest intelligence trove in decades that seems to have revealed their nuclear secrets and locations. Both countries seem to be bad at defense and good at offense in an intelligence sense.
How do you build a whole ass drone base inside another country, next to their capital city, without alerting them? That sounds so ridiculous.
Sounds similar to the spiderweb attack that recently hit Russia
drone base
I think this phrase plays on your imagination. It's likely much smaller than you imagine. With proper opsec anyone can do it.
Iranian media says Israel is still attacking Iran and it just have hit around the city of Tabriz.
Yes, attacks are still ongoing. The airbase/airport at Tabriz is currently under attack, and missile production, launch and storage facilities in Shiraz. Lots of secondary explosions at Shiraz, which is where some of the missiles used in Operation True Promise II were launched from.
Israel has also released more videos of daytime airstrikes on Khordad-3 air defence systems.
The missile silo base near Khorramabad is now apparently being hit.
Even more strikes on Natanz.
This sure feels like Blitzkrieg strategies
Where is Stalin when we need him?
In pictures: Intercepted Iranian projectiles land in Syria's Daraa -Middleeasteye What does anyone make of this?
Iranian Khordad-3 Air Defense system armed with Sayyad 2C missiles targeted by some sort of man in the loop/operator guided munition. This was the same system that shot down the US RQ-4 Global Hawk drone a few years ago.
Pictures for identification
Again, I'm not posting this because I'm some fed/sicko, I'm just trying to figure out exactly what happened to Iran's air defences. The Khordad-3 is a capable combat proven domestically produced Iranian system, so it's surprising to see it taken out like this.
As for what exactly happened to the Iranian missile cities, Israel did manage to hit some ballistic missiles that were getting ready to launch, which caused some of the secondary explosions.
I'm sorry that happened comrade, you're cool as hell. peeps can't even accuse you of being a doomer or anything, your analysis is pretty sound.
You are amongst friends, we are all sickos (affectionate) here.
Also your posts are very informative. Thank you for your service in the posting mines.spoiler
And feds.
nobody thinks you're a fed, thomas just gets a little excited and carried away sometimes
Israelis have been told by their official air raid warning service (Homefront Command) that they no longer have to stay near bomb shelters and can leave home. However missile attacks still possible.
I guess that means all drones have already been shot down.
When I read that Iran had launched 100 drones in retaliation for the unprovoked US-zionist terror attack I thought that was a really low number, far from enough to have any impact against an enemy like the US and the illegal zionist entity. Are the Iranians scared of a full-scale war and trying to deescalate by only doing a symbolic retaliation but otherwise taking yet another brazen terrorist attack on the chin?
Stay in there, we all need you!
I only read the first message lol, we've had Iranian posters here before!