Internet shutdown in Iran has been going on for more than 24 hours now.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 16th to June 22nd, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Heart
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Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran's leadership must - if they haven't already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
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We also have word that they are removing babies from incubators within the Fordow facility
ripping babies out of incubators is fine, it's only when you don't let the Zionists do it that they get cranky and shaky with withdrawals
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"close conversation" yet this hearsay is now being spread around? Okayyyy.
Fordow will be attacked, the question is by who, and how?
I half expect the Israelis to try to nuke it but Trump steps in because he wants to be the one to get to use a nuke instead
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Looks like the american right are capitulating to the idea that Bluesky is going to be the next big platform and realising they need to be on it to reach people.
Yeah Elon has crashed and burned so it's the inevitable outcome.
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I just saw this at Bluesky.
Prediction: Trump TACO’s on Iran.
The OP doesn't want Trump to attack Iran so a Trump TACOing would be good. But the OP, like so many other libs, can't seem to resist the mesmerizing power of a TACO joke.
I've told so many libs to shut the fuck up with the taco stuff when they've been things like "Trump isn't doing really stupid international tariffs because he's a CHICKEN!"
Like... Are you trying to get him to do the stupid tariffs? Because that's what you're doing when you scream chicken at him for it. They legitimately do not realise it.
Liberals are the true accelerationists.
Some US anti war demonstrations are firing up quickly, good to see.
I can hardly imagine there being much support for US involvement in this dumb war to begin with.
Other than just generally being racist, I don't see how Americans are supposed to be fired up for a war that was started by a cheap shot missile attack by an ally they're already sick of hearing about acting up all the time.
when was this?
Last night. This is 
work.
It's getting increasingly harder to find a protest in the US that isn't being organised by the PSL or an affiliate organisation
Proper vanguard party with democratic centralism at work. If the entire US protest movement is directed by the party, that puts us in a very powerful position to rapidly grow a revolutionary organization capable of taking on far greater and more impactful work at large scale.
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International Atomic Energy Agency:
IAEA has information the Khondab (former Arak) heavy water research reactor, under construction, was hit. It was not operational and contained no nuclear material, so no radiological effects. At present, IAEA has no information indicating the Khondab heavy water plant was hit.
No heavy water leakage and no radiation according to the IAEA. Should be safe.
The Cradle: 'Cancer-like entity': North Korea slams Israeli war on Iran
The article quotes the DPRK statement, which I'm just going to reproduce in full below, instead of the partial quotes.
The illegal act of state-sponsored terrorism by Israel which launched a reckless large-scale military attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran at dawn of June 13 is sparking off strong denunciation and concern of the international community, raising the danger of a new all-out war in the Middle East region. The daily-escalating Israel's reckless military attack on civilians in wanton violation of international law and the basic principle of the UN Charter is a hideous act of aggression wantonly violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign state and an unpardonable crime against humanity.
The DPRK expresses serious concern over the Israel's military attack and resolutely denounces it.
The present grave situation witnessed by the world clearly proves that Israel, supported and patronized by the U.S. and the West, is a cancer-like entity for the peace in the Middle East and a chief culprit of destroying global peace and security. Israel has steadily expanded its territory through four Middle East wars and tens of military invasions in the past. In recent years alone, it has escalated military attacks on the Gaza Strip of Palestine, the West Bank of the Jordan River, Lebanon, Syria and other regional countries step by step, thus massacring tens of thousands of civilians and creating a serious humanitarian crisis.
The international community is strictly watching the U.S. and Western forces fanning up the flames of war, taking issue with the legitimate sovereign right and exercise of the right to self-defence of Iran, the victim, far from condemning Israel for getting frantic with the territorial expansion, pushing the situation in the Middle East to an uncontrollable catastrophic phase. The Zionists who brought a new war to the Middle East and the behind-the-scene forces who zealously patronize and support them will be held totally responsible for destroying international peace and security.
The Cradle continues:
Pyongyang and Tehran have enjoyed close ties for many years. Iran and the DPRK have for many years been suspected of engaging in close cooperation on missile development. In 2012, the two countries signed an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation. According to analysts, both have since mutually benefited from one another’s missile programs and collaborated in staving off sanctions targeting their proliferation of weapons, particularly the procurement of specific missile components.
Last year, a South Korean newspaper said that Pyongyang’s technology may have aided the first Operation True Promise, during which Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in response to Tel Aviv’s destruction of the Iranian consulate in Damascus in April 2024. The US and NATO have also warned of increased military cooperation between DPRK, Iran, and Russia – specifically in the wake of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Other allies of Tehran have weighed in on the current war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the phone on Thursday. Both condemned “Israeli actions which violated the UN Charter and other norms of international law,” a Kremlin aide told reporters. Putin said on 18 June that he has offered to mediate an end to the war. It is a “delicate situation” but a “solution can be found,” he told reporters. “I do not even want to discuss this possibility. I do not want to,” he said in response to a question on Trump’s threat about assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He also said that Iran has not asked Russia for military assistance. A strategic partnership agreement does not include such assistance, Putin affirmed.
“We see that today in Iran, with all the complexity of the internal political processes taking place there … that there is a consolidation of society around the country’s political leadership,” the Russian president added.
Iranian Ministry of Health: 224 martyrs and 1800 wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against the country
