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

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

We know that Iran fired at Gerald. We know that it would be a colossal embarrassment if it got out that Iran managed to damage the pride and joy of the American Navy. We know that the ship is supposed to have fire suppressant systems that should be able to deal with a small localised fire in a laundry room.
Anyway, it looks like Old Gerald is leaving the area for repairs in Crete, so I'm sure some shipwatcher will be taking photos as it enters dock and any damage signs will be clear to see (or covered up)

Given that the ship is still capable of moving on its own power, given that clearly the command/personnel structure of the ship is fully intact and given that flight operations are still being launched, it just doesn't add up with being serious.

When you look at the Starke, the Sheiffield and the Moskova, you'll see three examples of ships that sustained serious damage and required intensive evacuation, firefighting and attempted tow efforts with assistance from other ships. Of the three, only the Starke managed to limp back to the nearby port of Bahrain.
Torpedoes are a bit of a different case but when that Iranian destroyer got hit it fucking nearly split in two and went under in minutes.

What's more likely?
Iran managed a hit on the positionally harder of the two carriers to hit and it just so happened to be a weak ass missile or drone and/or the Ford is built like a fucking floating tank?
Or that some seaman/ensign shidded and farded his pants and then fucked up the laundry for everyone?

Oh yeah its 100% embarrassing

It's super embarrassing.

Arguing that Iran is actually the one that damaged the Ford is like fighting with the ref for a free throw when the score is 97-1

Imagine your missiles finally manage to penetrate multiple layers of air defense and finally score an accurate hit on a major US asset just to do weak ass damage.

US has been raping your ships, blowing massive smoking craters in the ones they don't either immobilize at dry dock or outright 1HKO.
You finally land a hit on their capital ship, and what do you hit? Not the bridge. Not the fire controls. Not the flight deck. Not the hangars. Not the engines. Not the radars.
No you take out the fucking laundry and blow up some mattresses.

 

[Nice Stick]

Iranian speedboat attack (nitter).

Edit: "Iranian speedboats rush to attack a tanker today in the strait of Hormuz … when they left it was burning."

 

[Chuckwagon]

fixed

Yes, and? It's the Middle East, you're doing something wrong if you don't have a glowie militia or ten doing your bidding, as the Iranian Islamists themselves well know (since Assad went down, literally all other surviving members of the Axis of Resistance are Iranian-controlled glowing militias).

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Iranian speedboat attack (nitter).
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they actually did it the absolute mad men! they made water-based jihad jeeps!

but also isn't the strait mined to fuck and back according to doomers (and iran, whom they support)? why would the iranians ever send their guys out in boats that would immediately and completely be destroyed if they hit one of those dumb mines in the strait? it's all coming down fast, hormuzsisters...

 

[mindlessobserver]

Looks like Mossad is handling all the POI targets, while we focus on their ordinance infrastructure.
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Subtext. Mossad has penetration of Iran's government with its Agents and Israel does not want to share its info or assets with the USA.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

they actually did it the absolute mad men! they made water-based jihad jeeps!

but also isn't the strait mined to fuck and back according to doomers? why would the iranians ever send their guys out in boats that would immediately and completely be destroyed if they hit one of those dumb mines in the strait? it's all coming down fast, hormuzsisters...

I'm pretty sure with GPS, they can provide safe lanes of navigation to these little guys

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

I'm pretty sure with GPS, they can provide safe lanes of navigation to these little guys

it is extremely unlikely that iran has cyberpunk 2077 smartmines. they are probably, at best, local sensor mines that detonate when it detects water motion too close. unless they were taking extremely accurate maritime measurements while frantically laying mines, as everyone was being blown up, entire parts of their navy were being eliminated, and senior officials (whose job was to coordinate that info) were being bombed to shit.

i would be very, VERY apprehensive of hitting the iranian strait AS an iranian right now, because you have no idea where the mines are anymore, especially if they were not anchored correctly. if the mines gave off ANY kind of properly detectable signal that didn't require minesweeping equipment, such as a generic GPS ping, the US would be able to at least detect the ping, and i am truly doubtful that the iranian military kept accurate and detailed notes that were then properly shared with everyone else about mine locations... especially after the IRGC naval headquarters was turned into a fine gray mist a day or so ago.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I await footage of Predator drones and FA-18s sending those boats to go meet their 72 ayylmaos

 

[nelly98]

Genuine question - what should their strategy be then given their circumstances? There are 100 smart arse responses you could give for internet points, but what alternatives do they have if they want to fight? Remember this was the most heavily sanctioned country in the world for several years until Russia-Ukraine.

I'll bite.

Realistically? They have no options. They're hyper religious retards so they don't have the IQ to come up with an effective strategy. All they have is local power but no higher level thought is put to how to use it. Maybe if the higher IQ, non-religious Persians were allowed to have some say in things they could have had a chance. Instead Iran is ruled by muzzie retards, so what do you think you could get for a 'strategy'? That's why they just lob missiles/drones and fund terror proxies.

I'll give you a few thoughts/options though

• Don't concentrate critical leaders into a single place, along with their families
  • Literally every 1st world country already knows this, and it's an obvious policy if you have a brain
  • I commented on this like a year ago or whenever it was when Israel first attacked during peace talks, and now they repeat it again
  • Just because you're "in peace talks" doesn't mean you drop your guard
• Do targeted strikes against economic and high value targets
  • The Irish figured this out decades ago, make war extremely costly for the opposing side
  • Instead you fund terror proxies that slaughter a bunch of retards at a concert, fucking what?
• Play the long game
  • Trump is in office, you JUST saw him go around fucking up Venezuela and you're going to talk shit?
  • Why not just fucking wait 4 years, hey even 8 or 12 years if you have to?
  • Now they're set back fucking decades, how much of their shit took literal decades to accumulate and now it's all destroyed
• Use your now diminished money wisely
  • Do not fund retarded terrorist groups that provide virtually no value and give US/Israeli leaders an excuse to spend more on their military
  • Seriously, what did any of those stupid ass missiles Hamas/Hezbollah chucked into Israel do? Kill a few kikes that had zero value to Israel at large?
  • Learn how to manage your economy, are pistachios really what your retarded dune coon no water having country should be funding?
• Work for hearts and minds
  • Does killing some random kike win people over to your side?
  • Suicide attacks on niggas that have to take public transport?
  • Look at the people on your "side" now, do you really want people like Hasan as your "side"?
  • Seriously, the only people on Iran's side anymore are braindead faggots without a heart
• Look at others that were successful
  • "Successful" being relative here, but NK got nukes, maybe if that is your end goal figure out how they did that and copy/update that strategy

Seriously Iran is so fucking retarded it's why you have people who probably wouldn't give a shit if jews were actually being genocided saying they like it that Israel/US is fucking them up.

But they're retarded muzzies so I guess they get what they fucking deserve.

 

[FieldPiece]

Pro-regime channels post a photo of Larijani's hand, showing his ring still on.

Spoiler: Dude thinks he's Qasem Soleimani

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I hope he was wearing a respirator, with all that concrete dust he might get silicosis.

It is entirely possible, in fact, probable, that no footage was captured by Iran. Given the advanced tech of that Carrier, I am highly skeptical a dryer lint fire was capable of that kind of damage as well. Something doesn't add up here.

I don't know about on ships but dryer vents can catch on fire extremely easily if the vents aren't put together correctly. Something as simple as putting the wrong size screws in the pipe can make it a fire hazard.

 

[Onepumpplumpchump]

I await with anticipation for operation praying mantis part 2.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

I don't know about on ships but dryer vents can catch on fire extremely easily if the vents aren't put together correctly. Something as simple as putting the wrong size screws in the pipe can make it a fire hazard.

something as simple as leaving it uncleaned for 5 days in a row is enough. the ford's laundry facilities work 24/7, meaning that they are probably one of the largest producers of dryer lint in the entire world, and dryer lint is actually a gigantic firestarter. they are estimated to cause over 15,000 fires a year on mainland america, where they can be easily cleaned by people who run them maybe once a day at most. with the toilet troubles the ford has, it's no surprise a dryer caught on fire, one of the nogs doing laundry must not have been paying attention.

https://www.envistaforensics.com/knowledge-center/insights/articles/dryer-fires-common-causes-and-prevention-tips/

 

[BacklTrack]

they actually did it the absolute mad men! they made water-based jihad jeeps!

but also isn't the strait mined to fuck and back according to doomers (and iran, whom they support)? why would the iranians ever send their guys out in boats that would immediately and completely be destroyed if they hit one of those dumb mines in the strait? it's all coming down fast, hormuzsisters...

Partially mined. Less than 20 dropped iirc.

 

[Goku 1000000 O]

"Successful" being relative here, but NK got nukes, maybe if that is your end goal figure out how they did that and copy/update that strategy

Iran probably had enough missiles to have a MAD strategy through conventional means. Similar to how NK had MAD before Nukes, they just had to hold a gun against Israel’s head.

They can’t prevent internal subversion/dissent (legitimate or otherwise), but they could’ve put up enough of a guard/failsafe to make large scale strikes untenable.

 

[Nice Stick]

"We all agree the strait has to open up again" -- NATO's Mark Rutte.

Funny how there's no diversity or girl bosses when it's time for kids to go die somewhere.

 

[autistic dog]

Which war game involved the elected leadership insisting that they had no power and begging not to be killed?
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This is just a distraction while his motorcycle messengers deliver their attack orders to the swarm boats.

 

[Unredacted TND]

According to Israel's Channel 13, Iran is preparing to begin negotiations with the United States soon. The Iranians are discussing the outlines of the agreement, what their conditions are, and what they are willing to discuss. The assessment in Israel is that this will become an official event with the US and an official request soon.

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Last night, there was a drive-by on an IRGC checkpoint, but Israel has said they still need to wear down their on-the-ground security forces before they feel confident the populace won't just get mowed down in the streets.

It seems like both of these happening close, and Israel killing de facto leader and forcing president to run off, and us being ahead of schedule... What do you think? Is it gonna end soon?

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

It seems like both of these happening close, and Israel killing de facto leader and forcing president to run off, and us being ahead of schedule... What do you think? Is it gonna end soon?

Yeah, probably. Depends on what you mean by "soon." I'd say it still likely falls within the four to six week timeframe we were told it would be from the start.
May go a little longer, may go a little shorter. Getting bogged down with hard timelines is how you let the enemy know how long they need to hold out before they "win."

 

[Chuckwagon]

Latest video from Pahlavi. He praises the turnout for Chaharshanbe Suri & popular defiance of the Islamists' order to not celebrate last night, now calls upon Iranian dissidents to go to the graveyards tomorrow (last day before Nowruz, making it basically Persian New Year's Eve) in order to pay their respects to the fallen from the January massacres & renew their commitment to overthrowing the Islamists. Last time something like this happened (the end of the 40-day mourning period for said January casualties), it sparked a renewed wave of demonstrations in the last week before the US & Israel started bombing, so tomorrow is doubtless intended to be another step towards the big call to arms if not its immediate prelude (if Pahlavi intends to issue that call on Nowruz, this Friday).

Another look at the building where the Iranian intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, was killed in the early morning hours.

Speaking of which, I haven't seen this posted in the thread and it's not too important given that Pezeshkian is a powerless figurehead currently begging for mercy from the coalition, but the Iranian president has officially confirmed that yes - dat nigga dead fo sho. (Archive - when it's ready)

 

[JeanRob1]

It seems like both of these happening close, and Israel killing de facto leader and forcing president to run off, and us being ahead of schedule... What do you think? Is it gonna end soon?

I feel like US feels almost ready to go home with a Islamic regime complying, but Israel won't accept anything but a new regime.