Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
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.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. 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.
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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.
So the squirrel is doomer posting about Iran
– they are going to destroy the Iranian state, nation and people. Khamenei and others in the political leadership are going to be killed soon. Iran has failed to establish deterrence
Can someone more knowledgeable than me weigh in here?
/c/slop tier analysis. This is just orientalism.
“The Persian Mohammedans, on the death of their beloved mullah, quickly fall into disarray. Truly, the orientals lack the je ne sais quoi that allows the maintenance of a modern nation-state.” This is the tldr of their trash tweet.
It’s hard to call it pure orientalism when we literally just saw the same thing happen in Syria. We know the playbook works.
except assad didnt die and was just betrayed by his generals (+it seems he kinda gave up lol)
Syrian economy and agriculture was held for years by the Rojava shitheads, people were hungry and broke soldiers were getting 40 dollars per month or something crazy like that.
yes i think in hindsight the collapse of syria makes sense but at the time everyone was in disbelief they were collapsing that fast
also yeah fuck those Rojava shitheads, they struck a deal with that terrorist jolani, will never ever beat the dog of us empire allegations
I want to just put out there that I can see Iran being successfully destroyed. Done Syria/Libya style.
The west has moved a lot of things into position for this.
And frankly, let’s recall Iran isn’t run by pragmatic, thoughtful people who grew up in the USSR education system like Russia, it isn’t run by Marxists like China or the DPRK. Iran is run by theocratic, reactionary, religious fundamentalists. Many of their religious policies like the mandatory hair-covering are unpopular with much of the younger society. That is an inherent, deep, deep, deep disadvantage in short and long-term planning, it is a problem because it makes them unpopular with their people because of their hard line on certain things. And given many young people in Iran have grown up never knowing the Shah it’ll be very easy for them to slip into thinking they can make peace with the west, or that they should join the west or at least not defend the current rulers of their country. Add on the fall of Syria, the amount of jihadists they can deploy as in ISIS puppet groups, kurds, etc into Iran as their proxies to carry out assassinations, to carry out attacks, to demoralize the society and gather intelligence, it’s a really sticky situation.
Fact is the zionists have been murdering a lot of top people in Iran very successfully. Their intelligence and likely penetration of the Iranian military is extreme and an extreme problem. They seem to know where to hit down to the day or time of day to kill these people and the Iranian air defenses are not stopping them. They don’t have control of their airspace, they don’t have air dominance like Russia does.
Given that and nothing else besides the recent string of victories of the zionists and the US need to cement complete control of the middle east/west Asia for their coming confrontation and cold war against China I think it’s very plausible. It’s depressing to think about but I think they’re not as strong as they present themselves as. That doesn’t mean they’re as weak as the zionists or US present them as but people trot out the Millennium challenge thing and that was back in 2000, Iran has suffered a lot under sanctions since then and the doctrines of warfare have changed a lot, drone warfare for example including on the seas has matured and evolved and it’s possible NATO capabilities in that area plus area denial weapons would be enough to destroy Iran in a naval fight and negate the advantage of all their small swarms of missile boats. You have to remember that challenge was in an era where it assumed old school 90s carrier battlegroups with a carrier or two, destroyers, various support ships, and a few helicopters and planes. Not with that plus tons of drones operated by people in pajamas in Germany and Tel Aviv all coordinated together.
The whole “the zionist entity is on the verge of collapse” thing so repeated here honestly comes across as copium/hopium blend based off propaganda and what we would rather be true. Objectively they’ve scored so many geopolitical and strategic wins from Syria falling to western puppets to Nasrallah’s assassination, Hezbollah’s stand-down (because Syrian supply lines were cut), the pager attacks, the Gaza genocide carried out so far and opposition to that viciously crushed all across the west, etc.
Ultimately most people here are hope-casting, or doom-casting. There is the fog of war that will not lift until the smoke has cleared and by that time the situation will likely have been decided in one direction or the other. The Iranians are likely to lie about successes and downplay failures. The zionists are likely to hide the Iranian successes and downplay their own failures. I don’t pay any attention at all to western imperialist propaganda “reporting” on this and haven’t since the genocide flared up really as I can’t stand them so I’m not really influenced by zionist claims just by the alleged facts on the ground, the history of who momentum is with (the zionists sadly), and other factors like that.
Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. The west still has a lot of strength and I fear I see a grander plan unfolding successfully. China’s long-game approach to non-interventionism for example means tons of western interventions and securing the rest of the world against them by coups, wars, color revolutions, “moderate rebels”, etc early on in the game right now might blunt their ability for success by the time they are ready to do that and strong enough to do that. I don’t know the right moves, I just know we shouldn’t underestimate them and their power at this point.
I of course hope Iran brings the entity to its knees but hope does not reality make as I hoped Assad would prevail against the west and that Nasrallah would teach the zionists a bitter lesson and we can see how those things went.
This is what doomposting actually looks like, and not the generally reasonable criticism of the IRI/it’s actions that some people label as doomposting. I don’t know exactly what level of “intel” zei squirrel has access to, but I doubt it’s at the level where this would be more than speculation.
I don’t know that I can personal say that Iran has failed at deterence, given that I haven’t seen much in the way of Israeli strikes recently. However, there are people here who are more knowledgeable than me in those matters.
Will Israel try to assassinate Khamenei if they can? Possibly yeah, although there are wider regional/religious implications to killing Khamenei than their were to killing Nasrallah, given that he’s somewhat equivalent to the Shia pope.
In terms of “Khamenei hasn’t established a successor”, that’s hard for any of us to say since no one here is likely privy to that level of palace intrigue in Iran. I’ve seen some experts speculate that he’s been setting up his son to take over, but again that’s speculation. I don’t have and really haven’t had a problem saying that he should have stepped down years ago and that he’s too old to be leading in this moment, though.
Al-Sistani
I understand that Sistani is the prime marja of Twelver Islam, but Khamenei is essentially the head of the Axis of Resistance, or at least the Shia portions of it. If he is assassinated by Israel or NATO, I frankly expect to see responses from multiple fronts. Not that such a response wouldn’t happen if Sistani were assassinated, but their power is kind of different. Perhaps it’s better to compare Khamenei to the “popes of old” back when the popes were kingmakers and could actually start wars. And he’s still fairly important spiritually, even if he’s not as important as Sistani in that regard.
Are they high or something, Iran is winning solidly
I dont know who this person is so the first question that comes to mind is who are they and what do they know about the internal workings of the Iranian state?
I’m just some internet asshole, I don’t know shit. I can hope for the best but at the end of the day I don’t know what the death of Khomeini might mean. Or whether the CIA will simply be able to activate some terrorist groups and it’ll cause Iran to fall apart the way Syria and Libya did. Is this person actually more knowledgeable than your average internet asshole, or just more verbose?
just dooming, probably due to the sudden and shocking collapse of syria + the seeming hezbollah capitulation zeisquirrel is now just probably things to work out perfectly for the zionists out of no where like it did in syria and lebanon