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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Boingboingboingboi said:
Honestly, I am not sure how to read this threat. A few posibilities:
  1. Trump is serious. The Pentagon is serious. This is par of the plans/operation. It's been simulated, as well as Iran's response, which is so far expected, and fresh hell will be rained down upon Iranian power plants (neutral on whether they'll use graphite bombs or whatever), and Gulf States will have to just deal with whatever the Iranians do, responding in kind, to the best of their abilities.
  2. Trump is shooting from the hip and will probably chicken out because TACO and the blowback he will receive particularly from Gulf allies. If we knock out a power plant for 24 hours and Iran responds by taking out a desalination plant for good with a handful of kamikaze drones then, well, maybe that possibility is real enough to get trump to re-think going after Iranian infrastructure.
  3. Utter bullshit/smokescreen/bluster designed to get a rise out of Iran and figure out how they would respond (see this, for example, where Nour News listed exactly where they would attack if Trump follows through).
Personally, I think 1 is most likely, though i's still hard to believe. I can't imagine trump making a threat like that and not knowing exactly how Iran would respond, meaning he made the threat with the intent to follow through, unless the goal was to figure out iran's next targets upon further escalation (but again, how would they not already know that?).
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I don't know that Trump is particularly listening to advisors. It doesn't help that DOGE fired all the gas and oil experts from the Bureau of Energy Resources back in July, who would have simulated impacts from this military action, and Kash Patel fired Iranian specialists back in February to punish them for investigating him. I suspect advisors would probably have recommended that Trump didn't continually insult Iran on his social media site if they were looking at the best tactical approach.

With regards to TACO, I don't know that Trump could really back down from such an explicit deadline. But it looks like Israel's hedging their bets. Israel announced they'd start targeting Iranian infrastructure 6 hours ago, and as of 5 hours ago there's been multiple strikes in Tehran and blackouts. So it seems like Israel ignored the deadline and began the escalation that Iran said would result in them attacking infrastructure across the region and mining the entire Gulf, to avoid Trump backing down, because Israel can do what it wants.
 
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I love TACO! the eminent Destruction of Iran's Power plants have been postponed 5 Days! My FX plays in the futures market are printing Trump Bucks! I am going to Make Taco's tonight
 
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
If Xi ends up losing power, how much chaos would that bring in China and for how long?
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Everything depends on the CCP hanging onto power. And as much as I would love to see all those old tiny dong communist cunts being hung by their own people, I doubt it would ever happen.

There is too much control and wealth in that system, albeit declining. And even in the unlikely event of CCP collapse, I highly doubt a stable democracy or alternate all-controlling regime would emerge.

So, Winnie Pooh gone changes nothing (besides for a few hundred and adjacent brown nosers getting gulaged). CCP gone will likely be a near total collapse and all encompassing chaos.

Dammit Mandrake! said:
I get the feeling that they have never really liked us that much and they don't hide it well
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Zoobles said:
People in every western European country seemed to hate me for no reason other than being American.
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Europeans don't even like each other. If anyone would actually spend some time in any of these countries, they would realise very fast, that regional differences are huge in Europe (doesn't matter if said differences are real or imaginary). Europe and the EU isn't a homogeneous landmass, it's deeply divided in every part.

Americans just have a very bad reputation. Entitlement, stupidity, obesity, being uneducated, loud and so on... These are all stereotypypes for you guys. And we know that stereotypes mainly exist for a reason.

I don't say it's fair or good. Just explaining it. I really like some Americans and made amazing friends (and still have some, that didn't blow their brains out) - but I despise the stereotypical American. Same goes for most nationalities thoigh and most people think that way. It just feels different when you are actually confronted with it.

And lastly, a sperging European rant:
You can even see in this thread why Americans aren't liked. Some people here write like Europe ows them the "freedom" they have now. You obese fucks cannot even walk a mile with your own bodyweight. No one respects you, should respect you and ever will.

The people dying in wars weren't you. And if it was your relative I feel sorry for them being related to you stupid fucks. Go and serve yourself, but you can't. Even with your immensely low standards of joining the US army, you cannot even pass them. Just drown in corn syrup, please.

(Love to all the real Americans with a brain contributing to this thread and forum in general. You are great and funny guys. And if you have served, please don't kill yourself).
 
I think there's a very high probability that one day in the future it will be found that an AI was used to plan the communication and broad military strategy of this conflict.
 
diroama said:
I think there's a very high probability that one day in the future it will be found that an AI was used to plan the communication and broad military strategy of this conflict.
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If AI was used to plan what has been one of the most successful successful conflicts in human history, as a metric of high value targets hit versus casualties taken, then I fully submit to Skynet.
 
Fascist Kirk said:
Lol my question is who is he talking to? I mean if you beleive the narrative the entire leadership was decapitated day one, so is he talking to a headless chicken running around with blood gushing out of its neck, Or The Shah? can we get any information its 2026
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Iran is supposedly still launching missile/drone strikes against Israel as of 20 minutes ago...
 
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Iranian backed Shi'ite militias have agreed to a 24 hour ceasefire to allow all US and NATO forces to leave Victoria Base.



Iraqis record and celebrate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq into Jordan this morning.

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Crude oil prices are tanking after President Trump said he would postpone strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure.

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Babak Taghvaee, Former Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) officer and now Defense Analyst exiled in France, claims that some friend of his (implying Artesh/Regular Air Force officers) tried to free former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from House Detention and place him as Leader of Iran during the opening strikes. According to such claims, Ahmadinejad and this clique of officers had promised to re-open ties with United States and Israel, with support of "some people in the west", but that however this chance is now "impossible". Initially claimed as dead or even in House arrest over a supposed Coup plot against Khamenei, Per Ahmadinejad's team he is said that to be, supposedly, is alive, but in an undisclosed location.

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CENTCOM tells Iranians to keep waiting for the signal.

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Initial report of targeted assassination with 4 killed in Tabriz, Iran.



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This morning, around 5h30 am local time, the Israeli Air Force has targeted the Electronic Industries Corporation of the Iranian Ministry of Defense and Logistics of Armed Forces—one of Iran’s key defense infrastructures with roots dating back to the 1960s. It has suffered extensive destruction following the sortie. Its factories in Shiraz were completely destroyed, and its central buildings and main site on Sayyad Shirazi Highway in Tehran were also bombed last night by the Israeli Air Force. Coords: 35.7960813, 51.4891927

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A Targeted assassination was carried out by Israeli Air Force, reportedly at 13th street of South Makran, northeastern Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran. It was bombed around 5:10 am local time

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Earlier today, a Targeted Assassination, Chizar, northern Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran around 5:15 am local time.
 
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