Bulletins and News Discussion from April 8th to April 14th, 2024 - First Iran-Israel War Megathread

Omg lmao this CNN guest saying “Israel has no choice but to retaliate for this. And we have to remember, this is what Ukraine has been dealing with every…single…night.” Just like, the fucking gall to say that about the entity that has been committing genocide with bombs against civilians every night for 7 fucking months

Times of Gaza: President of Columbia, Gustavo Petro: "We are on the cusp of World War III, and the United States’ support for genocide has set the world on fire"

good god, already seeing "well, shucks. we were THIS close to Holding Netanyahu Accountable and now Iran has done this and made people support him again" takes. there's eating from the trashcan of ideology and then there's going out to your nearest landfill and diving headfirst into it

Don't kill me for whatever source made this it's still funny.

Having John Bolton on the news to discuss how Israel should respond to Iran is a bit like having a pedophile on to discuss what should be done about the age of consent.

There's this fascinating contradiction that we've seen now in both Ukraine and Israel where they're simultaneously asserting that everything is good because their air defense systems intercepted everything, Iran/Russia is seething and coping because of it, etc etc; but also that this was a massive and brutal escalation and Iran/Russia must be punished for all the harm they've done to us. I can't personally say I care that much about whatever narratives that Israel produces to cope with their losses, and the last six months show well how Israel even more so than Ukraine is putting all their cards into propaganda in the hopes that it'll affect things in the real world somehow, as if saying that your military bases aren't being BTFO will un-explode them.

Last night really was a paradigm shift, which was easy for me to forget in the videos of drones and missiles smacking into Israeli installations. Israel's sense of invulnerability shattered on October 7th, and their operations and propaganda inside the Gaza Strip since then has been one big attempt to not just attempt the impossible task of destroying Hamas, but to rebuild that sense of strength in their society. When Hezbollah and Yemen joined in, it was two further blows to them. But one thing that Israel could tell itself while rocking back and forth in the fetal position was that there was still one last shield it possessed, one way in which it was still strong - it knew that Iran would never attack them directly. They simply would not dare. It would be too massive of a hurdle to jump, too dangerous for Iran to strike them, a nuclear-armed power. They would only ever act through resistance groups, they thought. And that has been more-or-less true for many decades now.

Until last night. The Rubicon has been crossed. There's now little left for Israel's sense of protection. Weeks where decades happen.

https://twitter.com/fadiquran/status/1779426300760850642

"On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid."

It's wild that Iran seems like it has entirely stopped caring about what The Great Satan thinks and will directly strike military bases if the US helps Israel. I kept thinking that after Oct 7th and Israel's response to it, that there would be no going back and the nature of the occupation of Palestine would change going forward. Now I know that the fascists really will suicidally destroy their own project and are willing to burn the entire middle east to ashes around them. We can't predict what will happen at this point. There truly is no way out but through.

To everyone in the middle east, stay safe.

wake up

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my pro-palestine lib friends support Iran holy shit

Bashar al-Assad is the only Arab president who is helping Iran bomb Israel tonight. Iranian UAVs & missiles are crossing Syrian airspace to bomb Israel while most of Arabs protect Israel, Syrian AD intercepted Israeli missiles that were trying to intercept Iranian UAVs & missiles

this is why they tried to foment regime change and support terrorists in Syria

I can't believe that Iran would commit such an unprovoked attack. Yes, history started on 24.2.2022 7.11.2023 14.4.2024.

I’m at a hotel and I threw on CNN, and they have on John Bolton lmao IRAN IS HAPPENING SOMEBODY GET BOLTON

Edit: Jesus Christ, he is calling for Israel to bomb any sort of nuclear facilities in Iran, and he said if there “happens to be a nuclear holocaust in the future, we’ll know who to blame”

Update: he’s bringing in North Korea now lol saying Iran and North Korea are working together to produce nuclear weapons for Iran

Western media is running zionist propaganda and making its viewers dumber by refusing to assign blame for the attack on the Iranian consulate. They're all "Iran attacked 'Israel' who they accuse of being responsible for attacking the consulate". Everything to make the Iranians look aggressive and unreasonable.

Who else would have attacked the consulate? Fucking Bolivia?

And of course they're humanising the Zionists and making their feelings relatable to viewers "Danish-'Israeli' in 'Tel Aviv': I haven't slept for 48 hours" reads the current headline on one news website, complete with a picture of a sad-lookibg white woman. The poor little settler went to get her Lebensraum and be the master race and now the subhumans are disturbing her sleep. The fucking tragedy.

Meanwhile when brown people gets murdered by the thousands all we get are statistics and even these statistics are being smeared as probably being unreliable by the "Hamas-controlled health authorities" bullshit.

I hate western journalists so much it's unbelievable.

Israel grouping together injuries and "people treated for anxiety" is just so funny. Not a serious country.

Also, I guess if after the smoke clears Israel is seriously listing cases of anxiety, the damage wasn't that bad and Iran's response was pretty calculated. Switching my brain to nothing ever happens mode until the morning.

US trade representative says China's economy is a system “that we’ve articulated as being not market-based, as being fundamentally nurtured differently, against which a market-based system like ours is going to have trouble competing against and surviving”.

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Amongst the mixture of dread and anticipation of tonight's events grumpy comedy man Dave Anthony's tweet got a laugh out me with a tweet directed at the libs on his timeline:

As i see the mushroom cloud over Los Angeles. "If Trump was president there would be two mushroom clouds."

IRAN JUST HIT THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ACROSS MY VILLAGE IN HEBRON. THESE SETTLERS KILLED MY COUSIN IN 2017. FOR THE FIRST TIME WE FEEL REVENGE. 🇮🇷🇵🇸🔥

From a Palestinian

The West is LOSING in Eastern Europe.

The West is LOSING in the Middle East.

The West will LOSE in Asia.

What a time to be alive

When the Zionists carpet bombs civilians by the tens of thousands the so-called civilized west does jack shit except giving a half-hearted performance of asking the Zionists nicely to perhaps not be as murderous the next time.

When Iran retaliates for an illegal and unprovoked terrorist attack by the zionist entity against a diplomatic mission the west sends planes and missiles and hangar ships to defend the zionists.

No wonder the rest of the world hates the west.

Palestine Square in Tehran:

Your next mistake will be the end of your fake state.

Israeli war room right now doing a powerpoint presentation on all the schools, orphanages, and hospitals in Tehran trying to pick their target.

RIP Gaddafi, if I could bring you back to witness any event since your death, it would be missiles raining down on Israeli military targets

Trump chuds chanting "Genocide Joe" and Trump says "they're not wrong".

what have you done @mkultrawide@hexbear.net

how 🇨🇳 is reporting this: Due to the intl organizations' failure, especially the UNSC, to condemn #Israel's attacks on Iranian diplomatic facilities, #Iran retaliated with strategic intelligence, missiles and drones, successfully destroying key military targets in Israel.

Meanwhile in Gaza: For the first time since the war on Gaza, there are no Israeli planes over the Strip due to Iranian strikes

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I wonder how many Israelis are going to move out, back to the US or Europe or wherever because of this, since a lot of them are capable of doing so. Can't be good for the settler-colonial project.

i gotta stop hitting f5, shit will happen whether or not im awake for it

I linked someone to the un report on xinjiang and was accused of genocide denial.

Tanks aren't enough. I'm becoming a battleshippie.

Just as shocking as watching China go from war torn backwater to industrial hub of the planet in the last 70 years is watching the UK go from the globe spanning empire to... whatever the fuck it is today. Didn't those guys used to be a major world power at some point? What happened to them?

holy shit lmao, the Zionists released images like this as proof that their airbase is fine:

extremely obvious that they quickly dug a hole in a ground and they're so stupid that they forgot to not include the mound of material that they unearthed. I guess this is indirect proof that the airbase truly has been fucked or they'd release something of substance instead

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Now that Iran actually retaliated, western media is now running alternating articles that say Israel is preparing to immediately strike Iran and that Israel is actually not going to do anything further. This makes the week-to-decade conversion rate very unstable for now.

For any of you confused as to why Trump supporters were changing "Genocide Joe" at a Trump rally, some of that is just wanting to meme on the libs, but a lot of that is also the Tucker crowd. He's been dishing out some criticism of Israel, specifically around it's treatment of Christians, that has pissed a lot of the Republican neoliberals off. Also Fox News has been using the moniker more lately.

Palestinians tearing apart the apartheid wall following Iran's strikes against occupied territories

Mr. Khamenei, tear down that wall

jesus I should not have looked at reddit. even /r/thedeprogram is full of people from the /r/newiran hitler praising subreddit, people concern trolling, people going "ummmm don't you know Iran is reactionary and therefore bad", and "ummm actually Iran doesn't actually care about Palestinians"

fuck offfffffffffffff, what a cesspool

This headline made me laugh.

US wants advanced notice should Israel attack Iran – report

CNN reports that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has asked his counterpart Yoav Gallant to give Washington a heads up before Israel attacks Iran, should it go that route. The request was made when the two spoke Saturday evening, CNN reports.

Source timesofisrael.com. That's the entire "article". I love how they used "CNN reports" twice.

Israelis react after Iran launches drone and missile strikes

every single "Israeli" in this video has either a NY or English accent. one guy is named Jeremy Smith. just incredible stuff.

Impacts in the Ramon airbase near Eilat, in southern Israel, which is protected by patriot defense systems. Israel has called for an emergency meeting of the UN

Iran's retaliation is now over, damage assessments will show the real extent of the destruction. Iran has made it clear: If Israel responds, they will receive an attack much larger and more powerful than this.

Algeria praised Iran for its attack, and pledged its support. Iranian Media: 'The myth of the invincible Zionist entity has been shattered, and with this, we have only showed them a fraction of our might'

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24357

According to Yemeni sources, behind closed doors the US has offered Ansarallah everything they could possibly ask for if they drop the embargo and stop supporting Gaza/attacking Israel.

“The sources further reveal that the Americans pledged to immediately release withheld Yemeni public sector salaries from the National Saudi Bank, lift the country’s siege entirely, reopen Sanaa Airport, ease restrictions on the port of Hodeidah, and facilitate a comprehensive prisoner exchange agreement with all involved parties.” They also offered to recognize Ansarallah as the legitimate government of Yemen and to remove Ansarallah from the US terrorist list.

That’s how much the Biden government wants this genocide to happen, they’re willing to give up all of their imperialist ambitions and investments of the last decade against Yemen. They could have done all of the things above at any time, but they don’t, they hold it back as leverage. This is how US does its foreign policy, they sanction nations and hold their economies hostage and then make them bargain and haggle back to neutrality by giving up all of their sovereignty.

They do the same shit with Iran, sanctioning them into the ground so that Obama and the EU can do an “Iran deal” where Iran gives up a bunch of concessions in exchange for the US to end its sanctions. Basically, the US never has to give up anything they just hold everyone at gunpoint as their leverage

Reason - FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts [29/03/2024]

The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity. Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents. "Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

Abdeljawad's Facebook timeline is public, so the FBI agents could have found it themselves. For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.

NHS just announced the cancellation of all trans healthcare appointments for under 18s and it's putting over 18s "under review". Given the context I expect this to be a build up to trying to cancel all trans healthcare.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-englands-response-to-the-final-report-of-the-independent-review-of-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people/

7. NHS England has already announced that it is bringing forward its review of the adult service specifications, and we have written to the Chief Executives of the organisations that host the GDCs to inform them that this will be undertaken in the context of a broader, systemic review of the operation and delivery of the GDCs. NHS England will provide more detail very soon, but we envisage it will be informed by the deployment of external quality improvement experts into the services. In view of your advice about the need for caution in the initiation of medical interventions for young people under 18 years of age, our letter instructs the adult gender clinics to implement a pause on offering first appointments to young people below their 18th birthday.This letter also makes clear that NHS England expects full cooperation from the GDCs in the delivery of the data linkage study, on which we have corresponded separately.

CNN, citing an American official: US President Joe Biden informed Netanyahu that the United States will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran Biden told Netanyahu that he should consider tonight's events a 'win' for Israel – CNN

Biden told Netanyahu that he should consider tonight's events a 'win' for Israel – CNN

the DoD pulling an all nighter

Israeli Channel 12 indicates that Israel will respond militarily to Iran in the next 24 hours.

Iran had every reason to act. Attacking an embassy and acting like it's no big deal sends a bad message to everyone. Genghis Khan wiped out Central Asia for killing his diplomats—it shows how seriously countries take diplomatic rules. It's basic respect between nations.

⚡️BREAKING: ABC News per U.S. officials on Iran’s attack:

🔻4 ballistic missiles hit Ramon Air Base

🔻5 ballistic missiles hit Nevatim Air Base

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1779617878762729660

Couple of thoughts about what happened (and happens):

1 - "Israel" is open to attacks. Not only they'll have to be careful with Hezbollah in the north and they fully understand Iran is capable of striking them at any time. Their false sense of security is going to slowly fade away, which in turn might probably make their leadership and radical elements of society even more unhinged. Here is when the internal contradictions within the Zionist entity are going to show themselves.

2 - Iran successfully struck "Israel" despite the absolute lack of the element of surprise. "Israel" had plenty of time to prepare for any scenario, and still they failed to fully protect their assets. Despite their "Iron Dome", all the support they get from the comprador countries around them and of course, the US and the UK -- Iran still managed to sneak through and score numerous hits.

3 - Iran announced their attack and delivered an attack. They gambled, they knew if their attack was stopped they would have been ridiculed. But they went forwards with it and delivered an iconic missile and drone package on "Israel".

4 - Speaking of iconic. Pro-"Israel" and pro-genocide fucks are too quick to jump into the "let's look at the numbers" course to minimize Iran's assault. And yes, while material damage doesn't seem to be too big, it doesn't really have to. You just have to listen to the people cheering on the missiles as they flew past to understand the nature and effect of this attack, it is there to make people understand Iran can strike back. You got the pictures, you got the videos, such as the one where you hear the sirens and see the missiles flying above Al Aqsa Mosque and descending to strike at the Zionist targets, that is going to circulate through the Muslim World over and over again, it's their own Epic is in the making. As excessively white westerners say: It's a propaganda victory. If Iran wanted to do some real damage, a huge (and I mean HUGE) coordinated attack between Iran and it's regional allies would have been carried out instead, however, Iran has to be wary. They know crippling "Israel" with just missiles and drones is going to prove difficult, and the number required is huge. To deplete your entire stock (and the one of your allies) leaves you without deterrence against the other, much bigger genocidal entity -- The United States. And that's the one parking their aircraft carriers, missile destroyers and submarines in front of your home.

All in all, Iran comes out on top. They told "Israel" that they were going to strike, they launched their strike knowing "Israel" was prepared for it, the strike went through, "Israel" despite it's apparent strenght then presents itself as the victim but was unable to fully protect itself and now they have the ball. Now they have to either strike back at Iran, provoking further escalation, or take the L and probably listen to those few in the US who are telling them to stay put for a while. Meanwhile, more and more arabs are probably looking at Iran as the only one doing something about "Israel". It is a measured response of course, go way over the line and you have two genocidal entities unleashing nuclear hell over you. For us Global South peoples who oppose the US and it's allies, survival comes off as the first priority. And when we respond, we have to do so in a clear and efficient way, because our enemies are absolutely barbaric and will stop at nothing.

A long war has just started (resumed?), and it's one of attrition and of multiple fronts. Let's see if "Israel" can keep up with it, now you will see why settler-colonialism projects are completely unviable and are enemy of time itself. Can Zionism still be "Israel's" way of thinking? Can they continue to feed their "Lebensraum" at the expense of others? Or soon it will reach a breaking point from external pressure plus internal contradictions? Remember Nazi Germany and Rhodesia, both completely unviable projects. The Nazi project was doomed to fail because Fascism and Nazism are lost causes, they eventually grow so big they eat themselves. Rhodesia as in the settler-colonialism sense, can't have a minority ruling a majority in the way they ruled, through segregation and violence. Colonialism is a doomed project, read serious colonial studies and you will find out. The only peculiar thing it has is that it probably lasts for more time than expected, but overall it's just doomed to fail. We just gotta give it a small push, though, especially to secure a better outcome after it's downfall.

can we start doing this every night?

Nicaragua v. Germany #ICJ #Germany Germany’s agent weakens case by admitting that Holocaust guilt is the overriding consideration in putting Israel’s security beyond other normative imperatives. This “raison d’etat” (her words) of Israel’s security above all else vs intl law.

https://x.com/howserob/status/1777609769861136652

something has to be done about deutSSchland, this is insane

Pretty good footage of missile impacts on the Nevatim military airport

This base has F35s and is protected by Patriot systems. East of Beersheba, in the occupied Palestinian Negev, direct hits.

https://streamable.com/abihqz

i will rest assured tonight that Ukraine will never see another patriot missile

they're actually running '99%' of Iran's munitions got intercepted, lmao. IOF's new interception criteria includes when one of their facilities intercepts munitions before they hit the ground

Miami Herald - Have more Palestinians or Israelis died in war? Half of Americans don’t know, poll says [22/03/2024]

About 32,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, marking a casualty ratio of roughly 26 to 1, according to officials from both governments. But despite this massive disparity, half of Americans do not know which side has had a higher death toll, according to a March 21 poll from the Pew Research Center. The poll, conducted in February, sampled 12,693 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. When asked via a “basic knowledge” multiple choice question whether the death toll was higher among Palestinians or Israelis, 48% of respondents did not select the correct answer. One-third, 34%, selected “not sure,” while 7% chose “higher among Israelis” and 7% chose “about the same.” A slim majority of respondents, 52%, correctly reported that more Palestinians have died.

US has seen no evidence that Israel has committed genocide, Defense Secretary Austin says

Money from Burisma Holdings, the company Hunter Biden worked with, was used to help fund the Moscow terror attacks several weeks ago

“‼️🇮🇷🇮🇱Urgent convening of the UN Security Council. Biden asks Israel not to respond to Iran strike

▪️The telephone conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Biden has ended. As a result, the US President asked Israel not to respond to Iran’s attack in order to prevent escalation in the region.

▪️Israel has requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the attack by Iran.

▪️The Chairman of the UN Security Council plans to hold an urgent meeting on April 14 due to Iran’s attack on Israel, the Permanent Mission of Malta reported.

▪️Saudi Arabia is monitoring the military escalation in the region and calls on the parties to show restraint, the Foreign Ministry said.

▪️Israel was attacked by Iran because the US under the Biden administration is showing its weakness to the world - Donald Trump.

▪️The head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense informed the Pentagon chief about defensive operations during an attack on Iran.

▪️If Israel attacks Iran, Tehran will respond with redoubled force, one of the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told the state television channel Press TV.

RVvoenkor (Russian Z reporters channel)

So I dunno if this counts as news but it's funny.

For context, Ben Brody is a Jewish dude who Elon accused of being a neo-Nazi because he looked vaguely like some fascist from Portland. Brody got the same lawyer that reamed Alex Jones a while back, hopefully the actual trial gets filmed

full deposition

So, Israel bombed a foreign embassy, yet the news all week has been about how scared poor Israel is about a possible attack from Iran

I don't think Israel is a rational country run by rational people and I do believe Israel will respond to this. It's not going to end with this.

Simplicius's latest piece is on the Iranian strike on Israel. It's pretty long so here's my summary of the thing:

Iran has stated that its goals for the attack were to strike the Ramon and Nevatim airbases, which have both strategic and symbolic significance as they are the attacks from which the Israeli attack on the consulate was conducted from. They also wished to hit the Israeli Air Force intelligence HQ where the attack was planned. More generally, they wanted to understand and degrade their air defence.

Both the airbases are in the south of Israel. The HQ is in the north of the Golan Heights.

The Intelligence HQ was hit and seemingly levelled. Ramon was "badly hit", Nevatim was hit by over 7 missiles. There is probably more damage to other installations but their distance from civilians who could record them means that the extent of the damage is only something the military commands know via satellite images. In short, Iran was very successful in their strikes.

This attack was historic because it was an attack directly from Iran, but also because it was the most advanced and longest range peer-to-peer exchanges in history, crossing several countries over 1000-2000 kilometers with not only hundreds of drones and missiles, but also hypersonic weapons possibly involved in some capacity. This attack seems to have drawn inspiration from Russia's campaigns in Ukraine, first sending in drones to be shot down and deplete Israeli air defense and then sending in low-flying cruise missiles, and then finally the ballistic missiles - all timed such that they would arrive at the appropriate time to best exploit Israeli defenses.

The US scrambled the combined power of themselves, Israel, the UK, France, and Jordan to try and intercept as many drones and missiles as possible. This seems to have not been successful, with several images online of "intercepted" ballistic missiles actually just being the ejected booster stages of two-stage rockets. There is evidence that the ballistic missiles were largely not shot down and sliced through the dense Israeli defenses like butter. The videos that suggested interceptions were occurring may have in fact been the stage separation of Israel's Arrow missiles. As Iran's ballistic missiles hit their targets, they seem to have been moving at approximately Mach 3.5 to 5.

While Iran has definitely hit the airbases, it's not terribly clear what precisely on those airbases they hit, with satellite images being unclear, though a hangar may have been directly hit. Israel has coped by releasing images and footage that are meant to imply (but don't really show) that the airbase was unharmed; at least one of these videos (of an F-35 landing) is possibly old footage based on reverse searching, and Israel more generally released confirmed old footage (from 7 years ago, even) throughout the attack.

There is controversy about whether the Iranians used hypersonic missiles - there is no definite proof that they did, but there is some speculation for the missile nerds in the piece.

Iran has warned that they will respond to further Israeli attacks in a similar and expanded manner; even 10 times more than the previous level of strikes, which would be about a thousand ballistic missiles at once.

This failure of Western interception demonstrates that the excuses made during the Ukraine War about how Russian strikes were only getting through due to Ukrainian inexperience were false. Iran penetrated several layers of the absolute cutting edge of Western interception technology and made them spend over a billion dollars, with Iran spending ten times less or even less than that. It demonstrates that Iran is indeed perfectly capable of hitting any target they wish in the Middle East, and Iran actually has an advantage that they alone hold in the world. Russia and the US were beholden to the Intermediate Ballistic Missile Treaty until 2019 when Trump withdrew from it (and Russia did in turn), meaning they have less experience in creating the kinds of ballistic missiles that Iran possesses; Russia has instead generally focussed their cutting edge on cruise missiles, which are more expensive and slower.

The main problem that Iran might now experience is accuracy, depending on their technology. They have demonstrated they can get missiles through Israel's defenses, but due to a lack of real evidence (which Israel will obviously never release unless somehow forced), it's hard to say how precise Iran's missiles truly were either way. It's entirely possible that they hit every single target exactly, but it's entirely possible that only a few managed to hit something of value. We simply do not know, beyond vibes. Israel has leaned into that with their propaganda, which is neither here nor there as Israel is a compulsive liar.

https://archive.is/ugLqb

White House condemns ‘Death to America’ chants at rally in Dearborn, Mich.

Iranian missle juking to dodge IOF Aries defense system: https://streamable.com/gvxsrs

US Sees Missile Strike on Israel By Iran, Proxies as Imminent
Is this it?

At least 9 Iranian ballistic missiles hit Israeli strategic airbases

The Nevatim airbase in the Negev was struck by 5 ballistic missiles, damaging the main runway, a C-130 transport aircraft, and several storage facilities.

Ramon airbase, also located in the Negev, was struck by at least 4 ballistic missiles, causing unspecified damage.

– U.S. Officials to ABC News

The heaviest damage of Iran's ballistic missile attack occurred on a secret intelligence base in the Golan Heights, for which the IDF has imposed a media ban, so the damage cannot be assessed – Hebrew Sources

Iran in the UN Security Council: 'We have no proxies in the Middle East' :troll

The Axis of Resistance is a system of carefully funded and crafted allies, based on a common ideology and common political goals, despite the fact that there are slight differences.

Hezbollah, Ansarullah, Hamas, PIJ, Syria and the PMU all have their own domestic interests, but they work together in a wider framework to achieve common goals, in this case the resistance against Israel, which is seen as a fundamental threat to the region.

The only country that has proxies is the United States, which uses young Ukrainians as meat shields against Russia, and funds extremist groups with totally different ideologies to carry out its dirty tasks.

Iran: 'Israel does not exist'

Biden told Netanyahu US will not participate in offensive operations against Iran, US official says

From CNN's MJ Lee

The US will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran, US President Joe Biden has made clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior administration official told CNN. The comments were relayed during the phone call that the two leaders shared in the aftermath of Iran's retaliatory strikes against Israel.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-13-24/h_9af74a4dbc6d0137a9a2597bd1f5e2a6

lol. beware of dumbass misinfo tonight.

Turkey has finally imposed export restrictions on Israel.

In response Israel says it will ask the US to impose restrictions on Turkey lol

The IDF have stated that they and their partners have intercepted over 200 munitions so far, mainly drones and cruise missiles, and that the Iranian attack is ongoing as we speak, and the Israeli Air Force is still intercepting drones and missiles.

What we can deduce from this message is that ballistic missiles fired from Iran are likely connecting with their targets and Israel is struggling to intercept them.

cybertruck accelerator pedals are getting stuck. just incredible design.

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Just wanna say Fuck Jordan and their white guy British cuck-king

from al jazeera's live coverage (14 apr 2024)

Zeenskyy condemns Iranian attack, says Ukraine needs help, like Israel

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated in a post on X that “Iran’s actions threaten the entire region and the world, just as Russia’s actions threaten a larger conflict, and the obvious collaboration between the two regimes in spreading terror must face a resolute and united response from the world”.

Speaking later in his nightly video address, the Ukrainian president said the world had seen that “Israel was not alone in its defence – the threats in the sky were also destroyed by its allies”.

“And when Ukraine says allies cannot turn a blind eye to Russian missiles and drones, it means that it is necessary to act, and act strongly,” Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine’s skies, he added, were “not protected by rhetoric”.

Zelenskyy has urged Ukraine’s Western allies, particularly the United States, for months to summon the “political will” to provide Ukraine with sufficient air defences and weaponry.

In September 2022, Zelenskyy said he was “in shock” at Israel’s failure to give Kyiv anti-missile systems to help counter Russian attacks.

The Ukrainian government has been a strong supporter of Israel during its war in Gaza, despite many critics pointing to what they perceive to be the hypocrisy of decrying Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory while supporting Israel as it occupies Palestinian territory.

https://twitter.com/ArmchairW/status/1778682534123172215

The MV Dali collided with the Key Bridge in Baltimore three weeks ago and so little has been done for remediation that if this was happening in Russia or China we'd have people writing Ph.D dissertations on this website about poor state capacity and shaken trust in "regimes." ⬇️

Let's look at the current status of things three weeks in:

• M/V Dali remains aground and has not been freed from bridge debris, let alone unloaded, refloated, and evacuated to drydock
• Practically no progress has been made clearing debris, because:
• The handful of small floating cranes on site are obviously not up to the task, because:
• Apparently the Biden Administration decided this would be an ALL AMERICAN salvage effort and refused to bring in foreign crane ships with far greater capacity, thus:
• Workers are being endangered by being ordered to cut the bridge debris into small chunks manageable by the low-capacity cranes on site, complicated by the fact much of this work must be done underwater
• The Port of Baltimore remains closed to all heavy traffic and authorities expect it to remain closed through at least May, which is very optimistic
• Officials expect a replacement bridge might be inaugurated in a decade, which could itself be optimistic

Let's be real - if this had happened in China the port would have been open in days and construction on a replacement span would be underway as we speak. This incident is beginning to illustrate the decline in the real state capacity of the United States of America in the starkest possible terms.

Iran signals it will limit response to Israel attack to avoid escalation

Incredible how responding to an attack on your consulate and the assassination of a senior official is painted as a serious escalation but the actual incident is just cool and good de-escalation and part of the Rules-Based Order^tm

Hebrew Media: Today marked the largest aerial attack on the 'State of Israel' since its inception

President Biden has privately expressed his concern that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is trying to 'drag' the U.S. more deeply into a broader conflict – NBC News

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welp, looks like we've got a decade happening

Death to America

tabloid frontpage this morning procaimed "expert opinion: here's how Putin can be pressured with new sanctions"

what's even left to sanction? the world? an iron curtain of sanctions dividing the world in two would certainly do wonders

Is there any chance this doesn't escalate to a regional conflict now? Iran's retaliation seemed quite a bit more than posturing, and Israel doesn't seem very interested in deescalating at the moment (read: ever) either.

Looks like Hezbollah firing some rockets too, hell yeah

Turkey imposes export restrictions to Israel over Gaza invasion (MME, 9 apr)

Effective immediately, the ministry has restricted the export of 54 products to Israel, encompassing items such as aluminium wire, steel, cement, construction materials, granite, chemicals, pesticides, engine oils, jet fuel, and bricks.

Iranian State Media IRNA News agency: The Zionist Air Base in Negev Desert (Ramon Air Base) was successfully targeted. This is the base through which the Iranian consulate in Damascus was targeted.

The telegraph posting in all the fash subs directly pisses me off. Only thing worse is all the fashy shitlings clamoring in the comments for the fashy subjects of these fashy posts

After Iran's attack, Netanyahu has decided to postpone the planned Israeli operation in Rafah

Idk if this is true, anyone can confirm this? I saw a reuters article saying the exact opposite.

Jordan summoned the Iranian ambassador, telling Iran to 'stop insulting' Jordan and to 'stop criticizing its foreign policy decisions'

All schools will be open in Israel starting tomorrow – IDF

Milei impresses me with somehow making Argentina more cucked than Guatemala. I thought we and Panama had it bad, but Argentina has been putting us to shame.

300 drones and missiles. I reckon that air defences uses two missiles per target. According to Google iron dome missiles are USD 100.000 a pop. That's 60 million dollars just for last night's strikes. I don't know how many of these missiles they have out this fast they can produce them but I reckon it takes some time to do. On top of that comes the cost of the disruption caused by grounding air traffic, cancelling school, settlers not going to work etc.

I'm sure a prolonged war is sustainable for the illegal zionist entity.

A shower thought on "Chinese vassalage":

The DPRK, whose dependence on China is extensive and extremely well-documented, still has an absurd amount of flexibility, self-determination, and independence from Chinese policy. It's essentially the "worst case scenario" in terms of Chinese influence... And the DPRK was still allowed to develop it's own nuclear weapons despite Chinese opposition. What are the odds that Canada would be allowed to develop an independent nuclear weapons program today? Cuba? Mexico?

Zero.

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Mahmoud Reza Aghamiri, president of Iran's prestigious Shahid Beheshti University, said: "According to the fatwa of the Leader of the Revolution, building an atomic bomb is religiously forbidden, but if his opinion and fatwa change, we also have the capability to build an atomic bomb. With the capabilities we have in the nuclear field, building an atomic bomb is much easier for us than not building it."

Israeli media: Pivatim military airport was completely destroyed

something ever happened

wishing joe's brain will fall out due to lack of sleep or met overdose or whatever he does

Does anyone have a qualified idea of how much damage Iran's retaliatory strike did?

The zionists are claiming that nothing happened but I feel that's a little optimistic on their behalf just like their official casualty numbers are.

Small bloomer news incoming:

A swiss organisation called 'Climateseniors (f)' (Klimaseniorinnen) won a case in front of the European Court of Human Rights, they argued that because Switzerland is not doing enough against climate change their human rights have been violated. Women seniors are especially at risk during heatwaves and are much more likely to get sick or even die, so they argued Switzerland was putting their lives at risk. The ECHR agreed with the Climateseniors and now Switzerland has to 'do more'.

Some background info on this group, it was funded in 2016 with around 150 members but has since attracted up to 2500 members, they were contacted by Greenpeace who saw a legal argument that climate policy that harms people be brought in front of the court of justice.

4 Individuals also brought their forth but were denied by the court.

This thing is somewhat historic and opens up a path for similar arguments in the other 46 countries that are party of the European Council.

Apparently Iran spent 35 million yesterday while Israel spent 1.35 billion, not including all the support from US, UK, France, and Jordan ofc

Source is the Resistance News Network Telegram. Communists seem to widely it's a good source

Ofc, USD is somewhat infinite for the US but the important thing here is that Iran can produce these missiles and drones way faster than the West can produce the AA missiles

do you guys remember when Bernie Sanders called the king of Jordan a "hero"?

As part of that network, Army long-range Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense surface-to-air missile batteries have been deployed in Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and at the secretive Site 512 base in Israel. These assets — plus American aircraft based in Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia — are knitted together in order to communicate and cooperate with each other to provide a dome over Israel (and its own regional bases). The United Kingdom is also intimately tied into the regional war network, while additional countries such as Bahrain have purchased Patriot missiles to be part of the network.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/14/israel-iran-regional-war/

they need air defense missiles in 7 different countries just to get hit by Iranian missiles anyway

begging Khamenei to stop edging me and launch missiles at tel aviv already

Iran's operation against Israel went better than expected — IRGC commander

"Our reaction to any aggression from Israel will be more severe," Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami said. Iran carried out a successful operation against Israel; missiles and drones were able to penetrate the missile defense systems of the Zionist entity [correction], Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami said.

"We know that our operation was more successful than expected. <…> Our reaction to any aggression from Israel will be more severe," the Iranian state television channel Press TV quoted him as saying.

TASS (Russian state media 😈)

This is old but relevant again with the news about Israel-Iran escalations.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/01/michael-hudson-on-russia-iran-and-the-red-sea-natos-war-economy-collapses.html

America controls oil. Not only does it produce its own oil, but it’s just been able to block the rest of the world from importing Russian oil, and it’s been able to blow up Nord Stream. And now it’s pushing Israel to essentially act as another Ukraine. It’s pushing Israel to incite Lebanon and Iran into a provocation, into a military response to the Israeli attacks that is going to enable Israel to do what a Senate majority leader, the Republican leader, has been pushing for, and what Biden is pushing for, and what the neocons have been pushing for for 20 years, war with Iran to grab the oil reserves of what were Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Libya. And if it can control the oil reserves of the Near East and be able to block off their energy exports to all the other countries, just as it’s been able to block Russia’s oil exports to Europe, then it can control the industrialization of other countries because industry basically runs on oil and gas. Industry is energy, and without energy, you’re not going to be able to have your own industrialization independently of the United States. So the U.S. foreign policy, as we’ve talked before, I think, in our last show, for 100 years, the United States has used oil as an attempt to control the world’s economy.

I guess Hezbollah was restrained enough they went right for the throat.

Scoop: Biden told Netanyahu the U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran. My story on @axios

Of course on the one day I'm not on Hexbear, which is rare, shit happens.

You can usually tell how right-wing a country’s population is by how batshit their reactions to anything China-related is

I can feel another crisis-news session coming.

Feels like it might come in the next 48 hours, maybe up to 7 days? Definitely feeling it though.

CENTCOM commander General Kurilla is expected to go to Israel Thursday to coordinate around a possible attack on Israel by Iran and its proxies.

how come not a single left party in europe far away from russia makes an argument "nobody can attack us, fuck your defense spending". I can sort of get like baltics and poland, but why spanish or french parties (british are cursed by definition) not say we will spend 0 on defense, you can donate to our military through charity (form attached)

Rows of abandoned ambulances because the Zionist drivers all fled to some bomb shelter:
https://nitter.poast.org/revolutionaryem/status/1779343261204918586

The talk on some specific amateur us-biased "analysis spaces" in the Internet is "iran did this to save face and hit nothing". Please explain to me then how are you able to record stuff flying above historical and key buildings and be having a success rate on intercepting things? Curiously and with no coincidence, the same who say this believe the Israeli army is amazing and the referential NATO army, that Russian an Ukrainian armies are weak, and that Iran has a weak army.

How to take it seriously? Anyone who is informed by analysis, including from military analysts, be them amateur or from some military who is not completely submissive to NATO bullshit propaganda talk and who knows how wars and military strategy and tactics work for more than 10 years, how missiles hit things, how air raids happen, and how propaganda in the Web and in TV works and live in a relatively non-natosphere Web, know that this has likely been controlled by a propaganda harm reduction effort inside Israel, the ue and the US to reduce the number of hits which really happened and the number of people killed, and to pave way for media.

Wikipedia or whatever other liberal and Anglocentric entity to fabricate the real story (or, historical revisionism in the present). For no coincidence, they did the exact same propaganda tactics in Syria, Ukraine and against Hamas. This trick ain't gonna work for everyone for the fourth time, it didn't even work for the second.

From Middle East Eye:

• US President Joe Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will not take part in any counteroffensive against Iran
• Following the Iranian attack, Biden is also urging congress to pass a bill that includes over $14 bln in security aid to Israel

UPDATE - White House now says Biden not to speak.

is he asleep already, or is there not enough time to get him out of the cryochamber and drug him for him to seem alive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgAc_oJ6DY

Zizek is such a social-fascist joke. "I think we must do everything to stop Russia"

Who's WE motherfucker? You identify with the western imperialists?

Pro-western analysts act like Iran is unaware the Iron Dome exists, example #334:

The Danish Navy shooting down a Yemeni drone from a month ago:
https://nitter.poast.org/Malrahabi6/status/1777138994796441786

The thing I can't get over is them yelling out random English phrases. Is this how Danes talk irl?

Biden is currently meeting with his national security team at the White House

This is kind of a silly question but are these drones/missiles from Iran actually being launched from Iranian soil, then flying over two countries to hit israel? Is that like, a thing you can do? That feels illegal (not that I care).

From the BBC. If Israel doesn't do anything stupid this might be over.