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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They are so retarded it likely changed our combat objectives. If the US keeps the attacks going it now serves to create a codified coalition of gulf states agaisnt Iran. They are going to drag the bombing out as long as they can if it makes Iran keep attacking it's neighbors until those neighbors agree to invade with boots on the ground for us.
That is something that definitely wont happen. The Arab Armies are in no condition to invade Iran. What it will do however is give the USA an excuse to capture Qashm and Kharg Islands.

Since Iran is mad at the Gulf States for hosting US bases, the US can engage in a little territorial colonialism. Take the Persian Gulf Islands from Iran, and then we can put our regional bases there. Now the Arab states dont have to host the USA anymore.

Everyone wins!*



*except Iran.
 
Insane footage shows an Israeli airstrike impacting a bridge right next to RT journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.️ Russia Today says Steve and his cameraman are both conscious in the hospital.
Holy FUCK. Buddy was like 3 yards away from being turned into paste. Is this definitely real? I'm no military or medical expert, but I don't see how you could be that close to the impact with no cover and survive and be conscious. Like even if you somehow don't get hit by shrapnel, the shockwave would be brutal.

What was the target? He seems to be in the middle of nowhere, I don't see an obvious target. But the bomb seems to hit precisely in the crater where a previous bomb has damaged that road. So perhaps there was a target there a while before this RT crew arrived on scene?

If so I suppose this would be a "double tap" strike - they bombed something there, waited for what they thought were Hezbollah fighters coming to salvage gear/bodies, then hit the exact same spot again, mistaking these RT dudes as militants.

Pretty wild footage in any case, Steve and his cameraman are very lucky to be alive.
 
Iran's air defense is so fucked that we're flying attack helicopters over their country.
To be fair, helicopters are quite nifty against certain air defense.

Their ability to fly nap-of-the-earth (a.k.a. below radar) means that the big powerful long-range radar systems that are used to detect shit like ballistic missiles and bombers don't work against helicopters, and you need heavy short-range low-altitude air defenses to keep helicopters out.

That being said, it does still speak to a lack of Iranian SHORAD assets wherever those Apaches are operating.
Based Israel bombing Russian propagandists; here's hoping more journos get caught in airstrikes.
Damn I've been shitting on Iranian accuracy but that's visual evidence of an Israeli bomb clearly missing that journoroach and hitting a harmless bridge
So, full-disclosure: I am a brownoid, Islam is the religion I am most intimately familiar with
Thank you for admitting this.

It makes it easier to respect and understand your opinions than had instead tried to LARP as a white Christian.

I appreciate the honesty!
 
The IDF released footage showing an Israeli strike killing a single Basij soldier who was guarding a Basij camp entrance in western Iran
Israel is just engaging in psychological terror at this point.
"We're so petty that we'll drone strike you even if it's just you standing by yourself. You should really consider giving up."
A group of British military planners has traveled to the U.S. to assist in planning efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
I'm guessing their advice will amount to "Please let Iran do whatever it wants."
 
Better footage of the RQ-180:


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A mysterious stealth drone, the secretive U.S. RQ-180, has been spotted in Greek airspace in recent days.️ This is one of the clearest real-world sightings of the long-rumored program, which has never been officially confirmed.



$200 billion — that number could move.

It takes money to kill bad guys. We need to be properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future.

We're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was depleting those stockholds and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine.

Every time we reach back and look at any sort of challenge we have, it goes back to “send it to Ukraine.”

We think these munitions are better spent in our interest.



Reporter: Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they’re going to pursue their own objectives?

Pete Hegseth: We hold the cards. We have objectives. Those objectives are clear.

We have allies pursuing objectives as well.



The United States military controls the fate of Iran.



Iranian Forces released a new video showing Iranian Air Defense Systems shooting US / Israeli Drones. IRGC seemingly used several “Qaem-118” (Ghaem-118) Short-Range Surface-To-Air Missiles during the attacks; with messages written on them.
 
What was the target? He seems to be in the middle of nowhere, I don't see an obvious target. But the bomb seems to hit precisely in the crater where a previous bomb has damaged that road. So perhaps there was a target there a while before this RT crew arrived on scene?
I'm going to guess the target WAS that road. It looked like it had been struck on the left side previously, but was still passable on the right. The strike in the video appears to hit closer to the center of the pavement. So maybe that's a supply route for something.
 
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya (Armed Forces) says:
wait am I wrong or didn't the shiites start blasting their neighbors energy first? Whats unbelievable about this is that nobody seems to be watching this war in good faith. Partisan hacks of all stripes have muddied the waters so much that theres scarcely and "neutral observers" online who say much beyond "the fog of war is crazy I hope the strait opens". I want to be clear that I didn't want this war to happen, so I can say that if what I've been seeing this whole time is really true, I'm shocked and impressed. I'm not a big milfag, but I like to collect wargames, and have passing familiarity with the concept of Joint All Domain Operations conceptually. Essentially our mechanisms of command and control precipitate very rapidly from our extensive faculties of sight (planes satellites glowies social media footage radars and other beep boop stuff) directly to relevant parties (contractors glowies airbases explody things and beep boop explody things). Like in an accelerated way beyond what has been seen before. This condenses what i think they call the ooda loop (observe orient decide act?? idk for sure) and decentralizes the operation of the us/juden coalition in a lot of ways. Now if I'm not mistaken, the much lauded Iranian doctrine was to turtle and follow orders of last resort, or to operate in a cellular fashion based on judgement and a kind of established algorithm of priorities or goals. For the most part people in the media have been commenting on american doctrine as if it was inflexible or rigid, as if this were the morale bombings over the third reich or some reagan era fireshitting on muzzies and their stupid toys and claiming that cheap drones and mountain holes are a more flexible and cost effective means of waging war, as if to say the american military is outmoded. Now I'm a retard and all but from where I'm sitting, the permeation of joint surveillance on iran, combined with jado doctrine has utterly shattered any semblance of command and control in iran since day 1. Not just killing king raghead, but countless strikes from the jews and america are literally elicited and summoned by their attempts to communicate and assume command and control again. This would explain the glaring disparities in their statements regarding strikes on their neighbors versus their actions. I'm literally just a dweeb who bought Littoral Commander The Baltics at a board game store and never played it, but this is what I think I might know here. Has anyone got a better rundown or anything to clarify this for me? If this is truly what has been happening, we may not achieve our stated goals, but I promise there are no contenders on earth and multipolarity is cancelled for the time being. I guarantee china is shitting in its pointy rice man hat right now if what ive described is even halfway true.
 
Its almost as if Iran wants to draw the Arabs into the war. I am not entirely sure what they hope to accomplish by doing so.
They want them to tell the US to knock it off by involving them in the war. They have shown restrain by not hitting their desalination plants, presumably so as to keep that threat as a lever.
 
They want them to tell the US to knock it off by involving them in the war. They have shown restrain by not hitting their desalination plants, presumably so as to keep that threat as a lever.
For as over-quoted as that "Bold strategy, Cotton" reference is, this really is the perfect situation for it.
 
What happens when there deity does not show up for them. Do we get a new all time low for mudslimes worldwide?
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"Sorry I’m a bit late, had a terrible time... All sort of things cropping up at the last moment. Uh, how are we for time?"
God I hate when people decide that "nuclear energy BAD" after there have been incidents that could've been entirely avoidable.

1. Don't let Soviets and Russians handle nuclear energy
2. Don't build a nuclear power plant at an earthquake/tsunami risk zone.
the plant wasn't even that bad at handling it, keep in mind it was one of the oldest operating plants on the planet, it took TWO 100 year disasters in rapid succession, the quake, THEN the wave, and really the only people who died from the plant (iirc) was those Madoka nerds who didn't tell the boss that either the radiation meters were broken or the radiation was so much they couldn't even measure it (turned out the latter)
 
Insane footage shows an Israeli airstrike impacting a bridge right next to RT journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.️ Russia Today says Steve and his cameraman are both conscious in the hospital.
Bro must have puckered his anus hard enough to keep his soul from escaping out of it. What an absolutely amazing video. Man is lucky to be alive
 
Its almost as if Iran wants to draw the Arabs into the war. I am not entirely sure what they hope to accomplish by doing so.
Protect their egos by claiming they were defeated by a coalition of their fellow Muslims those damned Sunni heretics, not the Great Satan and Little Satan they've been shittalking and belittling for 47 years.
 
What was the target? He seems to be in the middle of nowhere, I don't see an obvious target. But the bomb seems to hit precisely in the crater where a previous bomb has damaged that road. So perhaps there was a target there a while before this RT crew arrived on scene?

The target was the bridge he's standing on, Israel's been targeting bridges connecting south and northern Lebanon for the last day to halt Hezbollah's infiltration of Radwan cells southwards to attack IDF troops. They provided an evacuation warning for the bridge and the area surrounding it hours prior but this idiot decided to stand on the still-intact bridge (meaning it needs a couple more bombs to be closed off) after Israel already warned everyone to fuck off away from it.
 
The target was the bridge he's standing on, Israel's been targeting bridges connecting south and northern Lebanon for the last day to halt Hezbollah's infiltration of Radwan cells southwards to attack IDF troops. They provided an evacuation warning for the bridge and the area surrounding it hours prior but this idiot decided to stand on the still-intact bridge (meaning it needs a couple more bombs to be closed off) after Israel already warned everyone to fuck off away from it.
They learned from Vietnam what happens if you let the bridges remain intact.
 
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