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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mindlessobserver said:
the USA needs to move for a more final end game that will change the dynamics of Iran's ability to remain functional and threaten global trade. And that means Qashm and Kharg Islands need to be captured. Yes, this means "boots on the ground", but its limited in that a couple thousand marines is more then enough and if any local residents on the Islands get uppity they can be put on a log raft to the mainland. No need for hearts and minds operations.
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Starting to see more evidence pointing towards your theory.
Combined with his post earlier today, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump has completely lost his patience with NATO and is figuring that people care more about oil prices than they do about muh boots on the ground, at least in a limited capacity.
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Catch The Rainbow said:
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So there is a bit of semi-dishonest reporting here.

The "fired 8 missiles at a single target" and "even using them to hit cheap drones" are juxtaposed as if it was 8 missiles to hit a single drone.

What's more likely is the 8 Patriot were fired at a ballistic missile, and the use of the Patriot to intercept a cheap drone were two separate events.
Alternatively Arab armies are Arab armies, even when our side so anything is possible.

For context, the Ukrainian crews are also coming from a long war (4 year SMO) context where Patriot interceptors are a finite resource to be (ideally) saved for shit like Iskanders and Khinzals, and sometimes manned aircraft like Su-34 and that one A-50 lmao.
Ukraine can't just make more Patriots like the US can, so watching Kuwaitis and Saudis burn them off like they're infinite is probably a shock.
 
JayseeDenton said:
>Firing 8 rounds at a single target

Many such cases
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It really is the poster child as to why democrat-ran cities are a terrible idea. It's the bluest spot of Kentucky and it fucking shows. Highest taxes, highest cost of living, highest crime, shittiest streets, etc.

On my cemetery trip I drove through Frankfort and I was like "Damn, I need to move down here." I saw 1 old black guy sitting on a bench with a old white guy and saw precisely 0 mexicans. It was beautiful.
 
Fanatical Pragmatist said:
Ukraine can't just make more Patriots like the US can, so watching Kuwaitis and Saudis burn them off like they're infinite is probably a shock.
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Sure, the US, Saudis and gulf oil empires can piss aways billions on missiles, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Besides money, it also takes a lot of time of skill to make these missiles. A factory can only crank out say 100 a month. The US is burning that many in a night. (No these are not accurate numbers, Im just trying to illustrate a point). We may have big stockpiles, but everything's infinite til it isn't. There are other bottlenecks besides money. Id say the US military still has a long way to go with learning drones and cheap warfare like it. This conflict is a good exercise to learn, a trial by fire.
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Sure, the US, Saudis and gulf oil empires can piss aways billions on missiles, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Besides money, it also takes a lot of time of skill to make these missiles. A factory can only crank out say 100 a month. The US is burning that many in a night. (No these are not accurate numbers, Im just trying to illustrate a point). We may have big stockpiles, but everything's infinite til it isn't. There are other bottlenecks besides money. Id say the US military still has a long way to go with learning drones and cheap warfare like it. This conflict is a good exercise to learn, a trial by fire.
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IIRC I read somewhere that Raytheons production capacity has been like 700 a year. I don't know how old that figure is, and if they have stepped up their production, but gives you an idea. Let's say they produce 1000 a year. That means you can shoot 3 Patriot missiles a day, and that goes for every single user in the planet.
 
aphaln said:
A missile launched from Iran's shrapnel nearly hit the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the last barrage.
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Maybe the reason Israel shut down the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Asqa earlier was because they got intel that this strike was about to happen?

Catch The Rainbow said:
that's for purifying ashes and it's currently impossible to
1. have such a cow be eligible
2. sacrifice it in the way that's needed
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IIRC none of the red heifer candidates from Texas in 2022 ended up passing rabbinical inspection, so that ended up being a nothing burger.

JayseeDenton said:
Literally hitting random chunks of empty Highway while the US puts dozens of bombs on the same hair pin spot 5 times in a row from near orbit.
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Bunker too deep underground?
Step 1: Create hole with Bunker Buster
Step 2: Drop second Bunker Buster into hole
Problem, Ayatollah?
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Myrtle the Turtle said:
Sure, the US, Saudis and gulf oil empires can piss aways billions on missiles, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Besides money, it also takes a lot of time of skill to make these missiles. A factory can only crank out say 100 a month. The US is burning that many in a night. (No these are not accurate numbers, Im just trying to illustrate a point). We may have big stockpiles, but everything's infinite til it isn't. There are other bottlenecks besides money. Id say the US military still has a long way to go with learning drones and cheap warfare like it. This conflict is a good exercise to learn, a trial by fire.
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Yeah I agree.

I just mean like the culture shock.
California can be in a drought where water needs to be aggressively conserved, but dumping a 5 gallon jug on dirt isn't going to cause the same level of "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!!" as it would doing the same thing in front of some Berber tribe in the Sahara.

Also from a strategic level, the US running up the tab of interceptors results in an "ouch" when reading the bill.
Ukraine running out of interceptors means more Russian hits on infrastructure and presumably military targets.
Foley said:
IIRC I read somewhere that Raytheons production capacity has been like 700 a year. I don't know how old that figure is, and if they have stepped up their production, but gives you an idea. Let's say they produce 1000 a year. That means you can shoot 3 Patriot missiles a day, and that goes for every single user in the planet.
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I'm also interested in what the actual cost is as a percent of both military spending and GDP of how much of the US budget a single Patriot (yes, I know, different PACs) THAAD, RIM-174 and RIM-161 interceptors versus what percentage of the Iranian budget and GDP their various ballistic missiles cost.

A $12 million Patriot missile versus a $8 million Korramshar or a $20 million RIM-161 versus a $10 million Sejjil might sound like a bad trade off on the surface, but as a percentage versus percentage it might be closer to 1:1.
 
Salty Potatoes said:
I choose to believe, because it's 100% fact, that the image from the Iranian State TV's twitter is AI to cover up how insane it is that they used a cardboard cutout of the gayatollah.
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I'm an open minded guy and I'm happy to agree with you if you can find an instance of the cardboard video posted by anybody on Twitter that was posted before the video of the framed picture, but the earliest I can find is the 9th, while the framed photo video was posted on the 8th.
 
Grotesque Bushes said:
Return of shorad is the best thing that could happen to combat footage. Nothing beats a stream of tracers cutting through a dark sky, ripping apart a flying object.
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What most people don't realize is that CRAMs aren't firing only tracers. For every tracer you see, there's four ball rounds being fired. I'm not sure how true it is but I've heard stories from grunts that the Iraqis thought the miniguns on hummers were lasers because there were so many tracers.


A single Iranian ballistic missile fell in the sea off Netanya, central Israel.

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Photos of the building on Felestin Street in Tehran that was targeted by Israeli airstrikes overnight.

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A wave of unauthorized, sophisticated drones operated over Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana between March 9–15, raising major security concerns at a key U.S. nuclear command site, according to ABC News.️ The drones, appearing in groups of 12–15 at a time, flew for hours over sensitive parts of the base like areas where B-52 bombers are stationed, used advanced signals resistant to jamming, and showed signs of deliberate probing of base defenses.️ Their activity forced temporary shutdowns of operations and was considered a serious national security threat.

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CENTCOM:
The Esfahan Khomeynishahr Drone Production Plant produced Shahed one-way attack drones that have been used by the Iranian regime to attack targets across the region.

The photo dated March 3, 2026, shows the plant before U.S. strikes.

The photo taken on March 12, 2026 shows the same site following a barrage of U.S. precision weapons strikes — another major blow Iran’s defense industrial base.
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Trump: "We don't use the Strait [of Hormuz], the United States, we don't need it."

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Scottish Police have arrested two individuals — a 34-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman — who allegedly attempted to enter the Royal British Navy's Clyde nuclear submarine base near Helensburgh. Authorities have not disclosed their nationalities, but British media reports suggest the man is an Iranian citizen, while the woman's identity remains unknown.



A Rainbow is seen on the skies of Tehran as Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, takes place today.

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United States State Department's Rewards for Justice (RFJ) announces 5 new bounties for tips on 5 Iranian Officials, each valued on 10 Million USD:
General Ahmad Vahidi, the new Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
Ali Abdollahi, Chief of Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters
Said Aghajani, IRGC Aerospace Force UAV Commander
Hamidreza Lashgarian, IRGC Cyber Electronic Command Chief
Majid Khademi, IRGC Intelligence Office Commander
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Earlier, another targeted assassination took place in Mehrvilla, Alborz Province, Iran. Coordinates: 35.81688, 50.96695
 
Zoobles said:
the original video from March 8th featuring the framed photo is still on Iranian state TV's twitter.

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The cardboard cutout video is AI satire.
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Regardless of whether or not the cardboard ayatollah was AI generated satire, we must force the Iranians to recreate the scene as part of the post war humiliation ritual.
Getting the last laugh on those clowns should be a national priority.
 
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