Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

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Ishtar said:
Forgive my ignorance here-but I have seen no evidence the Iranian state is collapsing, spawn camp as many leaders as you like I guess-but the actual organizational apparatus of the IRCG, the clerical body and the civilian leadership doesn't seem remotely destroyed yet.
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they are basically doing pahlavi's job easier.
 
Chuddha stocks on the come. Seems like a big ol' money dump of nothing happening.

Started a little spicy, but now we're ALREADY back to dropping million dollar bombs on hundred dollar houses.

My bloodgod pet is dying.

I guess I can take a tiny bit of solace in the fact that a bunch of other shitholes I been through are catching strays. But only a tiny bit.

All this inept and compassionate "warfighting" is so tedious.
 
Okay, I'll actually shit on Israel for one thing:

They've been purposely cutting the camera feeds Steve relies on whenever there is a missile attack on Israel.

STOP CUCKING STEVE LIKE THAT, YOU DAMN JEWS! HOW DARE YOU!!! 😡
 
Buzz Killington said:
The best case scenario for Iran at this point is they have enough idiots waiting in the wings to carry on the regime and the people are still too oppressed and afraid to fight back that they exhaust the Americans' attacks and hold out long enough for them to stop. Even if this happens, their military is crippled. The bigger issue is how they continue funding their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc.), or if this causes them to expand their proxies further.
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Without a military what stops India and the other Muslim from stealing all their copper to sell for scrap metal?
 
Buzz Killington said:
The bigger issue is how they continue funding their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc.), or if this causes them to expand their proxies further.
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Lebanon just officially banned the military arm of Hezbollah. I seriously doubt that is the final straw that will finally kick the UN, Lebanese into disarming them but I have to wonder why they finally did it today. I'd imagine it risks re-starting the civil war so maybe they're banking on the Israelis finishing them off once and for all.
 
Ishtar said:
Forgive my ignorance here-but I have seen no evidence the Iranian state is collapsing, spawn camp as many leaders as you like I guess-but the actual organizational apparatus of the IRCG, the clerical body and the civilian leadership doesn't seem remotely destroyed yet.
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Our focus is on making sure their force projection is crippled. We want regime change, but at this point I think we’d be ok another IRGC head as long as they don’t have access to nuclear materials.

Iran will not fall because of this unless it inspires an Arab spring style revolution.

It’s also not really in our interest to collapse it haphazardly. A civil war in Iran would have a lot of downstream consequences, and be a massive black eye for our global reputation.
 
Ishtar said:
Forgive my ignorance here-but I have seen no evidence the Iranian state is collapsing, spawn camp as many leaders as you like I guess-but the actual organizational apparatus of the IRCG, the clerical body and the civilian leadership doesn't seem remotely destroyed yet.
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I realize the churroing of Maduro might have raised expectations, but everyone expecting Total Mullah Death needs to relax just a little bit, it's literally only been 3 days since the bombs started falling (of which, Khamenei & potentially his entire family - so far a couple relatives have been confirmed, just not his son & blood heir yet - was killed on Day 1). Neutering the IRGC, Iranian police, etc. to make it as easy as possible for any prospective Iranian rebels to win is still a WIP, albeit one where the progress has been going pretty smoothly according to Trump.

And on that note Trump himself, Pahlavi & IIRC even the Israelis have all warned that it's absolutely not time yet for said revolutionary types to take to the streets & try to topple the IR gov't since the bombs are still raining heavily & they're liable to catch some strays themselves if they go right this second. At least wait for the bigwigs to give the all-clear for the revolution to kick off (which they've all said they will, when they judge the time is right) & see what happens then before you rush to denounce it as a dud.
 
Ishtar said:
An Iranian victory would look like something like mass revolutions in the Gulf States, US bases overrun, and Israel left defenseless as US forces were forced to evacuate the theatre-that's the fantasy third worldist media is pitching. I see no evidence anything like that is occurring.
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An Iranian victory will look like Iran still being a fundamentalist Islamic country. That's all they have to do and I see zero plan for preventing that.

GoGoNoJo said:
The regime won't collapse unless people start protesting it in the streets again.
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They have no weapons or even comms for that matter.
 
babyDunk said:
Its really interesting how different people perceive they reality they want
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Listen up, you zog baby, I like Rubio. I think he's a scummy fuck but I can respect him. He's not perfect but he's decent at his job. He sounds exactly as I said there. Almost nervous for some reason in a very defense way. Speculate why, I don't care. That's how he objectively sounds, which is out of sorts for his position.

Now, if you got something to say then tell us how you hear it, with orange-flavor.
 
Does anyone know if Iran’s government uses the Julian calendar or some version of a Persian or some Islamic calendar? I was looking at this (Archive link) but basically I’m wondering what day payroll should come through. Assuming payday is on the 1st and a monthly basis they’ll be 2 weeks out from missing a paycheck since today is apparently Ramadan 14th. If they’re on the Julian calendar they’d have missed their paycheck on day 2 of the war/military operation. I assume that’s going to be the tipping point for many of the current Iranian military/police/gov employees.
Someone way back in the thread said Feb 28 was actually 9/11 on their calendar and that does match up with this but I may just be completely mentally retarded and illiterate.
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inetsone said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ee8WIxGCnr0
Not sure if shared already.

Rubio sounding a little manic and nervous and looking a little sweaty. Interesting comments on "imminent threat." Wonder if we'll ever get more info on the  WMDs actual specific intel.
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This is what happens when you've been up for 3 days straight and are on a fuck ton of varying types of stimulants. I've done this before, in high stress situations (though definitely not on this magnitude), and it's a hellish experience.
I'm not kidding when I say that the journalists probably looked like actual demons while he was giving that press conference.
 
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