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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Paki FM reminds Iran that Pakistan has a defense pact with Saudi Arabia.

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Trump is insurgent group shopping.

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Israeli airstrikes have struck Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran.


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The IDF announced it completed another round of airstrikes against Iranian military targets in Tehran and Isfahan, hitting infrastructure and weapons-related sites, with particular focus on ballistic missile production and launcher/storage facilities.

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Civilians across the UAE reportedly received emergency phone alerts instructing them to take shelter.
 
Milles d'Allemagne said:
If you’re part of Iranian leadership, at what point do you stop showing up to these meetings?
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Look, they can't possibly get lucky a fourth time!
Captain Ahab said:
Iran also said that the ayatollah was hard at work leading the war.
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To be fair the Ayatollah has spent most of the war on-site with the majority of Iran's leadership and military.
 
Burnt Fish said:
Muzzie Martyr virgins stockpiles being depleted faster than US interceptor ordinance
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One must assume virgins are spontaneously generated in heaven to facilitate the extraordinary supply required. Obtaining 72 virgins of any sort from earth would require tapping into the emergency stockpiles of goats otherwise reserved for Pakistanis.
 
mango_reseller said:
The US does not have infinite munitions, and if I had to guess it's rapidly running out of stockpiles. You can have a strategy to blow through everything to keep bombing sand people, though, sure. And that's ignoring the economic shocks currently going through the economy.
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We make sure we have more naval tonnage than the 3 world's largest navies combined, only stockpiled enough munitions for a week of bombing? I don't know, with how neurotic the US is about maintaining a military edge in everything and how much we love throwing money at the MIC I think we have enough stockpiled to last us a good while.
 
BacklTrack said:
They've already abandoned the premise of this being a short conflict and trump + heg did not rule it out like yesterday. The end goal of this war has been complete regime change which you can't bomb your way to. Air only wars do not overthrow govts and they dont force surrender. Now that the Iranian people arent rising up to do the overthrowing part for us, whose going to do it? Israel is too chickenshit to sacrifice the thousands of men a traditional groundwar would take, so that leaves us.
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How many more fucking times must it be said, no revolution has started yet because Trump and their prospective leader Pahlavi have both literally repeatedly told every Iranian who can hear not to go out into the streets yet since it's still raining bombs, and to instead wait for their signal. At least wait until said signal comes out and see whether it's a dud or not before going 'haha neither Shahbros nor ZOG bombs can topple the Mullahs, Islam will reign over all Fars for another 1000 years'.
mango_reseller said:
I would not rule out the possibility that the US has contact(s) with the KDPI and other seperatist groups, but it IS very telling that the son of the last Shah has delivered at least 1 speech thus far. If they're propping him up to take over... good fucking luck lol
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DeeDee Megadoodoo said:
Didn't someone from the Administration state recently that he'd turned out to be an unviable option? I could swear there was an off the cuff remark to the effect during that air attack last year.
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The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
It's just Vanguardism 101. The Shah's son is equally impotent with his pipe dream of being made King again by American/Israeli force. The diaspora outside of the country are not inside of the country, nor are there any Royalist sympathising military members, or armed Royalist militias or any such ground support for a Shah who sold them out to Western Powers for who knows how many years and was so incompetent it started the Islamic Revolution. This is before the wishing to be King Pahlavi sympathised more for the American servicemen rather than his own countrymen and women who've been killed, which I'm sure only bolstered his popularity in Iran.

It needs to be said that the mass is passive, the mass is feminine, they are required to be lead.
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It made sense to dismiss Pahlavi as a useless nigger with zero support on the ground before January of this year. Now however he's successfully mobilized big enough protests that the IR had to break out machine guns to retake the streets, thousands or tens of thousands have died chanting his name, and still many thousands more were starting to protest again a week before the US & Israel made their big move. Everyone should be carefully re-evaluating their past assumptions about his ability & popularity or lack thereof for the past 2 months.

And again, he has specifically called for anti-IR Iranians in Iran to NOT do anything until the bombing campaign eases up. If he gives the greenlight for the great Iranian Counterrevolution and nobody shows up, then it'll be a great time to go back to dismissing him as the Iranian equivalent of those failtastic last couple Jacobite pretenders. Have a little patience, people.

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Anyway, have some more clips & news I've found over the past hour.

An IRGC grunt took off his uniform, calls for his peers to do the same & abandon the IR.



In spite of the obvious danger, some mountain nigga insisted on watching & cheering the local IRGC HQ get bombed from his rooftop.



Al-Arabiya reporting that Mossad & Israeli special forces conducted a ground operation of some sort in Iran last night. If it's not just unfounded cope then they might've had something to do with the hit on all those religious elders trying to elect a replacement for Khamenei, and/or the rumored rebellion brewing in the northwest.

Sources: Israel conducted a ground operation last night in Iran using Mossad and special forces.
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Times of Israel reporting that Qatar has bombed targets inside Iran and further claiming that the Saudis will soon be doing the same. (Archive - when it's ready, and if archive.is doesn't crap out on me)
 
FILTH Tourist said:
We make sure we have more naval tonnage than the 3 world's largest navies combined, only stockpiled enough munitions for a week of bombing?
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The 12 day war blew through 25% of the US entire stockpile of interceptors. I doubt they were 100% replenished since then. Even if production were to ramp up, if this lasts like 4-5 weeks we'd be buck naked after that, if not during it.
 
0713 said:
Yeah, something like that. Someone wrote about it earlier in the thread.
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I genuinely want to know if VR chat counts

Just fucking imagine. They're all boomers and there's only collection of lewd anime avatars and cartoon/game mascots.
 
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Dean Fischer reports on N12, this is how the plan for opening the skies for rescue flights will look: The skies will open in the early morning between this Wednesday and Thursday - in less than 48 hours. Ben Gurion Airport will operate on a 24-hour basis and will open gradually. On the first day, one plane will be approved every hour, and on the second day, two every hour - if everything works as planned and conditions allow. After that, a break is expected every few hours. This is only for arriving passengers - the flights will depart from Israel empty. The entry process will be swift with luggage collection from the conveyor belt only and without the collection of duty-free items in the 'Keep and Exempt' service.
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Israel is the only country in the world where rescue flights mean bringing citizens back into a war zone
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Israel spent years developing a deep intelligence network in Tehran ahead of the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Post the article nigger! Fine Ill do it:
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Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei​

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When the highly trained, loyal bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials came to work near Pasteur Street in Tehran — where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli air strike on Saturday — the Israelis were watching.

Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter.

One camera had an angle that proved particularly useful, according to one of the people, allowing them to determine where the men liked to park their personal cars and providing a window into the workings of a mundane part of the closely guarded complex.

Complex algorithms added details to dossiers on members of these security guards that included their addresses, hours of duty, routes they took to work and, most importantly, who they were usually assigned to protect and transport — building what intelligence officers call a “pattern of life”.

The capabilities were part of a years-long intelligence campaign that paved the way for the ayatollah’s assassination. This source of real-time data — one of hundreds of different streams of intelligence — was not the only way Israel and the CIA were able to determine exactly what time 86-year-old Khamenei would be in his offices this fateful Saturday morning and who would be joining him.

Nor was the fact, according to the people, that Israel was also able to disrupt single components of roughly a dozen or so mobile phone towers near Pasteur Street, making the phones seem as if they were busy when called and stopping Khamenei’s protection detail from receiving possible warnings.

Long before the bombs fell, “we knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem”, said one current Israeli intelligence official. “And when you know [a place] as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that’s out of place.”

The dense, so-called “intelligence picture” of the arch-enemy’s capital was the result of laborious data collection, made possible by Israel’s sophisticated signals intelligence Unit 8200, the human assets recruited by its foreign intelligence agency the Mossad and the mountains of data digested by military intelligence into daily briefs.

Israel used a mathematical method known as social network analysis to parse through billions of data points to unearth unlikely centres of decision-making gravity and identify fresh targets to surveil and kill, said a person familiar with its use. All this fed an assembly line with a single product: targets.

“In Israeli intelligence culture, targeting intelligence is the most essential tactical issue — it is designed to enable a strategy,” said Itai Shapira, a brigadier general in the Israeli military reserves and 25-year veteran of its intelligence directorate. “If the decision maker decides that someone has to be assassinated, in Israel the culture is: ‘We will provide the targeting intelligence.’”

Israel has assassinated hundreds of people overseas, including militant leaders, nuclear scientists, chemical engineers — and many innocent bystanders. But even with the killing of as prominent a political and religious leader as Khamenei, how much this aggressive, decades-long use of its technological and technical prowess has paved the way for major strategic gains is fiercely debated both within and outside Israel.

The country’s intelligence superiority was on full display in the 12-day war last June, when more than a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists and high-ranking military officials were assassinated within minutes in an opening salvo.

That had been accompanied by an unprecedented disabling of Iran’s aerial defences through a combination of cyber attacks, low-range drones and precise munitions fired from outside Iran’s borders, destroying the radars of the Russian-built missile launchers.

“We took their eyes first,” said one current intelligence official. Both in the June war and now, Israeli pilots have used a specific kind of missile called the Sparrow, variants of which are able to hit a target as small as a dining table from more than 1,000km away — far from Iran and the reach of any of its aerial defense systems.

Not all of the details of the latest operation are known. Some may never be made public, in order to protect sources and methods still being used to track down other targets.

But killing Khamenei was a political decision, not simply a technological achievement, said more than half a dozen current and former Israeli intelligence officials interviewed for this story.

When the CIA and Israel determined that Khamenei would be holding a meeting on Saturday morning at his offices near Pasteur Street, the chance to kill him alongside so much of Iran’s senior leadership was especially opportune.

They assessed that hunting them down after a war had properly begun would have been much harder, since the Iranians would quickly embark on pre-arranged evasive practices, including heading underground to bunkers immune to Israeli bombs.

Khamenei, unlike his ally Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, did not live in hiding. Nasrallah had spent years of his life in underground bunkers, dodging several Israeli assassination attempts until September 2024, when Israeli fighter jets dropped as many as 80 bombs over his hide-out in Beirut, killing him.

Instead, Khamenei had mused in public about the possibility of being killed, dismissing his own life as inconsequential to the fate of the Islamic republic — in fact, some Iran experts have said he expected to be martyred.

But during wartime, one of the people interviewed said, he did take some precautions. “It was unusual for him to not be in his bunker — he had two bunkers — and if he had been, Israel wouldn’t have been able to reach him with the bombs that they have,” the person said.

Even in June 2025, in the throes of a full-blown war, Israel made no known attempts to bomb Khamenei. It had instead targeted mostly the leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, missile launchers and stockpiles and Iran’s nuclear facilities and scientists.

While Donald Trump had repeatedly threatened to attack Iran in recent weeks, building up an “armada” off its shores, negotiations between the US and Iran over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme were meant to continue this week.

The mediator Oman said Iran was willing to make concessions that might help stave off a war, and described the most recent meeting last Thursday as fruitful.

In public, the US president grumbled that things were moving too slowly. But a person familiar with the matter said that, in private, Trump was “dissatisfied with the Iranian responses”, paving the way for war.

A person briefed on the operation said the attack on Iran had been planned for months, but officials adjusted their operation after the US and Israeli intelligence confirmed that Khamenei and his senior officials would be meeting in his compound in Tehran on Saturday morning.

Tracking individual targets used to be laborious work, requiring visual confirmations and parsing false confirmations, but Israel’s vast algorithm-driven data collection had automated that task in recent years.

But for a target as high value as Khamenei, failure was not an option. Israeli military doctrine requires that two separate senior officers, working independently from each other, confirm with high certainty that a target is in the location that is to be attacked and who he is accompanied by.

In this instance, according to two people familiar with the matter, Israeli intelligence had information from signals intelligence, such as the hacked traffic cameras and deeply penetrated mobile phone networks. One of the people said it showed that the meeting with Khamenei was on schedule, with senior officials heading to the location.

But the Americans had something even more concrete — a human source, both people familiar with the situation said. The CIA declined to comment.

That allowed Israeli jets, which had been flying for hours in order to arrive on time at the right location, to fire off as many as 30 precision munitions, the former senior Israeli intelligence official said.

The Israeli military added that striking in daylight provided an advantage. “The decision to strike in the morning rather than at night allowed Israel to achieve tactical surprise for the second time, despite heavy Iranian preparedness,” it said.

The tactical success was the culmination of two separate events, more than 20 years apart, said Sima Shine, a former official at the Mossad who had a focus on Iran.

The first was a directive given in 2001 from former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Meir Dagan, the then-head of the Mossad — preoccupied with Syria, Palestinian militants, Hizbollah in Lebanon and others — to make Iran a priority.

“‘All the things the Mossad is doing is well and fine,’” Sharon told Dagan, according to Shine. “‘What I need is Iran. That’s your target.’”

“And since then, that is the target,” she said. Israel had sabotaged Iran’s nuclear programme, killed its scientists, fought back its proxies and even destroyed the military infrastructure of its crucial ally Syria in the days after dictator Bashar al-Assad was ousted.

But Iranian intelligence agencies were formidable adversaries.

In 2022, a group tied to Iranian security services released data purportedly siphoned from a phone belonging to the Mossad chief’s wife. Iran also hacked CCTV cameras in Jerusalem during the 2025 war to get real-time damage assessments that the Israelis had censored from broadcast; it bought photographs of missile defences; and even mapped the jogging route of a major politician by bribing Israeli citizens, according to Israeli prosecutors.

The second event, Shine added, was the October 7, 2023 cross-border attack from Hamas, which Israel claims was backed by Iran and changed a longstanding calculus in Israel: that despite having penetrated the circles of several enemy heads of state, from Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser to Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, their killings were off-limits even at times of war.

Killing foreign leaders is not just taboo but operationally fraught. Failure only adds to their stature, as it did following the CIA’s many botched attempts to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro, while success can set into motion unpredictable chaos.

But, said Shine, Israel’s string of intelligence coups — including the 2024 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and a $300mn multiyear clandestine project to booby trap thousands of Hizbollah pagers and radios — has its own seductive powers.

“In Hebrew, we say, ‘With the food comes the appetite’,” she said. “In other words, the more you have, the more you want.”
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Will they now need another council to decide on the assembly of experts to decide on the new Supreme Leader? Really going for every last one of them like they did to Hezbollah.
 
Maori Kiwifruit Growers said:
wow gg iran. lol

Also, do you think Pakistan would just redeem itself and civil war?
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Yeah. You got a good chunk of their population hopped up on jihad mad at the US for their actions in Iran and also the marines gunning down the embassy stormers, you got war with the Taliban keeping their army busy. Also because they are handling a geopolitical tightrope right now, they can't side with the jihadists to shun the US or aid Iran. I hope they take India down with them.
 
RodgerDodger said:
This is in no way true. We put 6 pairs of boots on Hokkaido. They were crew from the USS Barb. A Gato Class Sub commanded by Eugene "Lucky" Fluckey. Who may have been the craziest mother fucker to ever be given the keys to a US boat.

After 4 patrols of sinking everything in his path Fluckey asked for an unprecedented 5th patrol. They never let Sub Commanders have a 5th patrol. My theory is they let Fluckey have just to see exactly what he was going to do. And ideally whatever he did would be happening to somebody else on the far side of the Pacific. Flukey said "Thanks! Can I borrow a few rocket launchers? Just 100 or so." Yep! Better to let him happen somewhere else.

The Barb's last patrol was insane. He put every torpedo into Japanese ships. Exhausted all of his 5" deck gun ammo sinking the Japanese fishing fleet and smaller transports. He staged a Rocket Artillery Barrage against Saporo on par with an Iowa Battleship. The first time in history a sub took on a true land attack role to devastating effect.

The sub was empty. The only things left were the ammo from the chiefs sidearm and the 2 or 3 rifles they had. Plus the ships scuttling charges. "Time to go home... oh look there's an ammunition train that runs along the coast!". So in the dead of night they paddled ashore and rigged the scuttling charges to the train tracks. The crazy mother fuckers sank a train. The only US combat forces to touch Japanese soil during WW2.

Fluckey retired as a Rear Admireal. 2 stars. 4 Navy Crosses and the Medal of Honor. A man who had truly mastered the art of Blowing Shit Up.
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USA USA USA
 
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