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

[make_it_so]

The Chinese aren't dumb and have presumably forseen this issue as well. Their focus on Solar and Battery tech has likely been informed on the idea that Fossil Fuels will not be reliable. But you can even look at your graph and that is not going to cover the shortfall in the short term. Consequences for this type of action take months or years to start truly showing damage on the outside, But there is a fire in the boiler room you can be assured.

China's focus on solar and battery are make work projects aimed at artificially propping up sectors of their economy and serving as "techno nationalist" propaganda pieces that Westerners (particularly green energy worshipers) are all too eager to slurp up.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

The first Ukrainian contingent of anti-drone trainers will leave tomorrow to the Gulf to train Gulf nations on how to intercept drones.

USAF/IAF Fighter jets struck Police headquarter in Abdanan, Ilam.


"Sources" say that the Americans are pissed at the Israelis for blowing up so many fuel depots last night.


Two deaths and 12 residents injured in Saudi Arabia after an Iranian missile fell on a residential building in Al-Kharj province, Saudi Civil Defense announced.

Oil storage tanks in Shahran, northwest of Tehran, burning last night.

Wreckage of a U.S. AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile that was shot down by Iranian air defenses over Markazi Province. In recent days, B-52H Stratofortress bombers of the United States Air Force have carried out strikes using JASSM missiles.

 

[merpalerpaherp]

I wonder what would happen if we just started dropping pallets of M4's, ammo, body armor, and helmets onto Iranian cities. Since the kurds are out and the Iranian population isn't doing much, throw some spice in the mix. I'd say guns and ammo only but you give them the body armor and helmets to make them feel protected and more inclined to do something.

There needs to be movement on the ground to force IRGC into open conflict instead of hiding from bombs.

 

[StudMccool]

On of our biggest and most specialized radar arrays was hit


this is a 1.1 BILLION dollar system

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these super advanced systems need a lot of very critical components but one of the most important is Gallium


do you guys know who controls 98% of the worlds supply of Gallium?


just some food for thought.

 

[ur_mom_lmaoooo]

Militants calling themselves the 'Ahwazi Falcon Units' have skirmished with Islamist security forces in Khuzestan, SW Iran. As far as I can tell, these are Arab separatists, emphatically not royalists or any other kind of Iranian anti-Islamist force (those aren't supposed to be rising up just yet anyway, see below). On another note, these sandniggers could really use some editing tips from AJ's media division in Syria.

Does Iran have a history of Arab separatism? Would "Khuzestan" be its own Gulf state or join Iraq?

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I wonder what would happen if we just started dropping pallets of M4's, ammo, body armor, and helmets onto Iranian cities. Since the kurds are out and the Iranian population isn't doing much, throw some spice in the mix. I'd say guns and ammo only but you give them the body armor and helmets to make them feel protected and more inclined to do something.

There needs to be movement on the ground to force IRGC into open conflict instead of hiding from bombs.

All of it would be used against the upcoming ground invasion.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Half a million Lebanese citizens have been displaced since the start of hostilities with Israel.


Israel is prepping for another five weeks of fun according to Amit Segal.


U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed the death of another American service member linked to the ongoing conflict with Iran. ️The soldier had been critically wounded on March 1 and later died from those injuries, raising the total number of U.S. fatalities reported so far to 7.


Current US Navy deployments.

 

[The Great Ducktator]

best estimates, via Reuters, say china has about a 3 month stockpile
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Three months of imports does not mean three months of reserves. China has domestic oil production and Iranian oil imports are only a share of total imports. They import a lot from Russia for instance.

 

[Chuckwagon]

Does Iran have a history of Arab separatism? Would "Khuzestan" be its own Gulf state or join Iraq?

Yes, but the separatists have always been pretty weak. Most Khuzestani Arabs are Shiites and stayed loyal to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War, upsetting Saddam's strategy since he was hoping they'd rise up to support their fellow Arabs in Iraq. A theoretically independent 'Khuzestan' would almost certainly join Iraq in short order now that Iraq is no longer a Sunni minority dictatorship, there's not really any historical precedent for a Khuzestani state nor strong motivators for the Khuzestani Arabs to want such a state in perpetuity AFAIK.

 

[quaawaa]

The UAE released a video of one of their Apaches shooting down Iranian Shahed drones:

وزارة الدفاع ｜MOD UAE - لقطات تظهر اعتراض وتدمير الدفاعات الجوية الإماراتية طائرات مسيّرة إير....mp4
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Forgot to add this, but Iran is going to go bankrupt if they keep losing $35,000 drones to $10 bullets.

 

[Exegesis]

One reason I heard was that Iran was enriching Uranium as a bargaining ship to get the sanctions lifted.

That's still an act of preparing to make nuclear weapons (contradicting the Ayatollah's statements) and warrants a direct intervention.

 

[StudMccool]

Wow under reported huge loss, one of the THAAD radars was hit yesterday

The USA only has 7 TOTAL THAAD systems


in case you dont know how THAAD works here is a great picture break it down


So this system has a radar so big it is its own "component" completely separate from the launch vehicle

So now one of our 7 critical missile defense battery's is little more than a paperweight until we can rush a new radar system out there

 

[Salty Potatoes]

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NDTV Profit News is an Indian news network. I'll take anything they report with a grain of salt.

Wow under reported huge loss, one of the THAAD radars was hit yesterday

Now a video from "OneIndia" with an AI voiceover. Nice.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed the death of another American service member linked to the ongoing conflict with Iran. ️The soldier had been critically wounded on March 1 and later died from those injuries, raising the total number of U.S. fatalities reported so far to 8.

The tweet you posted said it was the 7th death.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

You're ignoring the fact that Iran had hundreds (or was it thousands?) of kilos of uranium at over 60% enrichment. Commercial grade only ever goes up to 3-5% at the absolute most. Why the fuck would the Iranians enrich Uranium well beyond the point of commercial use if it weren't as part of a preparation to make nuclear weapons? You can bring up all sorts of statements made by the Iranian government and officials but that doesn't mean shit when there is physical evidence stating otherwise.

Most nuclear power reactors run at 5-6% enriched uranium. Chernobyl only used 2% enriched uranium. For special research reactors making medical isotopes, you're allowed up to 20% HEU and even thats looked at carefully. Iran wasn't a world leader in medical supplies or selling them to prop up their shitty Islamic republic. It was all being used to save as much HEU as possible to cut down on centrifuge time to speed run building a weapon.

You don't build nuclear facilities shielded under mountains that no conventional bomb can reach with such secrecy and dance around the nuclear weapon issue. They never wanted to negotiate their proxies or the ballistic missile program either and reject the offer of free nuclear plant fuel for life. All signs point to them continuing to build a nuclear bomb.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

so somehow CNN has gotten a reporter on the ground of Tehran and is able to interview people

first thing I noticed is there is NO signs of civil strife, you guys remember how fucked Minneapolis was, all the bushinesss broken and graffiti and trash? Well there is clearly missile damage but nothing else.

just also VERY curious to me we can get a reporter in NOW during an undeclared war with missiles activity still falling but could not during the alleged 20-40 thousand protesters being killed

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3vQl30OfRhs
@Al from Dadeville its called Fordow

stud you are a fucking retard

the CNN reporter let into Iran is a shill for the regime. why do you think he's allowed in and given internet access??

he's Frederik Pleitgen, nortorious IRGC shill who has a history of laundering shit for the regime. guy is RTing the head of the Iran lobby in the US:

 

[Soycast II]

Ayatollah Khamenei, who the chosen murdered along with his 14 month old granddaughter

Always gotta mention the granddaughter who was unintentionally killed but makes for some good ol’ Iranian propaganda. Feel bad for her, but do you know how war works?

Iran would've turned into an Islamist shithole regardless because Islam itself is a backwards religion that only barely manages to be reasonable when the people who move into the west adjust to be more like their Christian counterparts. Liberals are so afraid to admit that some religions are just straight up awful and have to make a million excuses for the people who practice them. These are the same people who feel bad for the fucking Aztecs. You know, the people who started up nationwide human sacrifice rituals and colonized their neighbors. If anything, the Spaniards were being merciful once you compare what they did to what the Aztecs did to their neighbors.

This is something a lot of people don’t understand in general about the Middle East. As long as Islam is present, it’ll always be a shitheap. They go around destroying art, architecture, and so much more all because their pedophile prophet tells them to. They rape men, women, children, and even animals. They kill all who refuse to believe unless they are “people of the book”, and then those people have to pay the Muslims to keep their heads. They’ll keep trying to spread as long as they exist. They’ve attacked Europe in the past. They are a completely backwards people.

 

[Meriasek]

Chernobyl only used 2% enriched uranium.

I think until the accident it even ran on natural uranium. With graphite (or heavy water) moderation you can do that, but after the big badaboom they increased enrichment levels since it's more stable.
Hey, maybe Iran just wanted to build naval reactors or just not bother with all the problems low enrichment levels have in small reactors. They just wanted to build safe SMRs all over the place you guys!

 

[StudMccool]

Israel is using chemical weaponry

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Israel is using chemical weaponry
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp9Xfess3Q

Ball of absolute steel to climb into a single prop and fly around an area known to have combatants and AA equipment just to cropdust. You can down those things with good ol Type 56's and other carbines easily enough because they move so slow and low.

Again, absolute balls of steel (and not very worth it) if true.