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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇯🇴 NEW: About 22% of Iran’s missiles were intercepted by Jordan, 25% by the THAAD system and U.S. ships in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, and the remaining 53% were intercepted by Israel’s own defensive systems
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Simplicius has a good article out today about the conflict and puts forward an interesting counter-narrative to Israels claim about “total control of Iranian airspace”
he fact that Israel appeared to primarily rely on UCAVS to strike Iranian military targets means the attrition of these vehicles would essentially neuter Israel’s offensive capabilities inside Iran. It would also potentially require risking real fighter aircraft to incur deeper into Iran and be shot down.
Thus, Israel was slowly losing its capability to deal damage, and more importantly, rapidly losing its capability to reflect damage from Iranian ballistic missiles. Thus, a quick claim of “victory” was in order to wrap things up before the humiliation got too palpable for the general populace.
Through the end of it, there remains not a single shred of proof that Israeli (or American, for that matter) planes ever significantly overflew Iran at any time. Claims of ‘total air superiority’ have no grounds, and up until the final day Israel continued relying on their heavy UCAVs to strike Iranian ground targets.
The most significant proof is that Israel very enthusiastically released footage of their strikes—so how come not a single clip from that footage showed strikes from fighter-bomber jets? Every clip was from a UCAV, which is telling.
Only one clip released yesterday showed what was claimed to be a jet at night flying over an Iranian city and conducting strikes, but upon research the city turned out to be Bander Abbas:
We’re seeing reports, images and videos, coming in showing downed Israeli light and heavy drones from the conflict. But in all the video I’ve reviewed so far, I have not seen a single video of an Israeli fighter plane. I did see a lot of Iranian AD taking out waves of drones near cities, though. It comes as zero surprise that Israel’s claims of airspace control are bullshit, but it maybe there was actually very little manned aircraft penetration inside Iranian airspace.
It’s pretty interesting that Shitraels main strength being its airforce, might have performed so very poorly against a peer (or superior, really). If Israel is now reliant on drone warfare, and Iran is aligned with Russian and China, I’d say the “drone war” is already lost for Shitrael. As I’m writing this, Iran is out shopping
The rhetoric Israel is engaging in right now is some real fucking cope; a real red-shirt, brown pants moment. The shocking cost of Israel’s military adventurism is beginning to compound with what Israeli’s are calling a ‘shaky economy’ and the massive political corruption. It’s not looking optimistic.
Haifa is still on fire and the Knesset is howling for war again. The media can hide the destruction from the world, to some extent, but not from the colonists. Meanwhile the IOF provocations continue in Iran with spy drones invading Iranian airspace, despite very strong repeated warnings. It feels like things could get hot again at any moment and “punishment” will resume. Just the presence of these aggressions is fucking up the material stability for the zionazis, and there are some hard limits on how much ideological fluff can cover that up.
—❗️🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: Iran’s Minister of Defense, Aziz Nasirzadeh, landed in Beijing to meet with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Defense
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This is something you might find interesting @i_c_b_m@lemmygrad.ml @ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml
—❗️🇷🇺/🇮🇷/🇺🇳 Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov:
'I completely understand if Iran wants to suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Grossi is now insisting that Iran grant the agency immediate access to its nuclear facilities to verify the whereabouts of enriched materials and assess the situation on the ground.
But where are the assurances that this information won’t be leaked? I see no such safeguards. There is no confidentiality at all.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
Now even Israeli sources are admitting it was a total failure
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For all parents out there, be careful with the zionists when traveling abroad.
🇮🇷l🇮🇱 A Belarusian (Zionist) traveler at the Moscow airport, met an Iranian child, whose family left due to the Israeli war and brutally assaulted him
The child is in a coma and has serious injuries.
So this might be a stupid question, but I have still seen contradictory statements. Did Iran ever sign a cease fire? or was this a Cease fire Israel agreed to that Iran is following dispite it not being signed?
—❗️🇷🇺/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇺🇳 Russia at the UN Security Council: ‘It is very strange to us that Israel is sitting here. Israel is not a signatory of the NPT, why are they here? Hypocrisy.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
🇵🇸🇮🇷| Palestinian resistance groups have become stronger thanks to Iran’s attacks
In an article by Yedioth Ahronoth, it admits that Israeli forces have been weakened in the Gaza Strip and currently are on the defense rather than offense.
It says the Palestinian resistance are taking back momentum, especially in Khan Younis, as many Israeli brigades have been withdrawn from the Strip due to Iran’s attacks.
Gaza has regained strategic focus after Iran’s attacks, says the article.
@FotrosResistancee
🇮🇷🇮🇱| In an interview on the Israeli I24news network:
“The Iranian Fordow nuclear facility can only be destroyed from the inside. Let’s stop with illusions and fantasies—it can only be done from within, or with 100’s of bombs dropped one after another.
What’s troubling is this: We set a goal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program—but we failed to do it. Iran still has enriched uranium, and it still has key (untouched) active facilities.
And I say this with great caution: The Iranians have not said their final word. Those who don’t understand the Shiites, the Arab world, or the Iranians don’t realize that as the Bedouins say: Revenge is served cold.
This was a mistake. Trump truly made a huge blunder. I hope we won’t be the ones to pay the price for Trump’s blunder.”
@FotrosResistancee
The Iranian parliament is debating a bill to ban Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from entering Iran.
CNN:
"According to a preliminary assessment by US intelligence, the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy key components of the country’s nuclear program and likely set it back only a few months.
Two sources familiar with the assessment said Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was not affected. In fact, one of them said, the centrifuges used to enrich uranium were undamaged
Mission failed successfully moment
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Secretary of Defense: ‘The CNN report is stupid, it is false, it is absolutely made-up. America dropped its bombs perfectly, these were very big bombs, and the bombs hit their targets’
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