This video provides a glimpse of Iran’s weaponry and how it has been used against Israel. During the current ceasefire, it is a sure thing that both Israel and Iran will rearm. Whether they continue fighting or not, this video shows that Iran does have serious military capabilities. Is it in their interests to keep fighting? I doubt it. My understanding is Iran is going to allow a GCC-led coalition to become the region’s collective hegemon. The world is on the verge of becoming 100X wealthier due to tech improvements. All players in this and other conflicts must reassess their reasons to keep fighting old battles. Sometimes the smartest military option is do nothing. ABN
UPDATE: This talk provides good information about the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the consequences therefrom. To me, it seems clear Trump made the right move by taking out Iran’s main threat. Israel has no reason to keep fighting and neither does Iran. The deeper story that now the Gulf Cooperation Council and other countries in the region will form a collective hegemony over the Middle East should become more apparent in the weeks to come. We should see signs of this happening and signs that the Gaza slaughter will slow down, if not stop altogether. Trump played a strong Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK) move which apparently killed few if any people, while destroying Iran’s main threat. In this sense, Iran was ‘killed’. Overall, at the same time it looks like Israel’s Jewish Supremist fantasy of a ‘Greater Israel’ becoming the regional hegemon has also been ‘killed’. Trump killed two birds with one stone. ABN
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog group revealed even more damage from the US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites after taking a closer look — including possible chemical contamination at one facility.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said Tuesday that the latest satellite images from the Fordow and Natanz facilities showed additional damage, beyond what the agency found in the first-pass review of the sites.
At Fordow, the mountain fortress just south of Tehran, officials identified additional strikes at the road leading up to the facility, as well as one of the entrances.
An Iranian army sniper and a suspected terrorist with ties to Hezbollah are among illegal migrants living in the US who have been arrested by ICE since Sunday.
Ribvar Karimi, who served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021, was arrested in rural Alabama, where he has been living with his American wife.
When ICE agents found in him in the town of Locust Fork Sunday, he had an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card, DHS claimed.
Karimi entered the country legally on a K-1 visa, for foreigners engaged to be married to Americans, in October under the Biden administration.
He married his bride, Morgan Gardener, in January this year. However, Karimi failed to adjust his status, making his presence in the US illegal.
In Minnesota, agents nabbed Mehran Makari Saheli, 56, a former member of off the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with admitted connections to Hezbollah, according to the Department of Homeland Security today.
He already had a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm and served 15 months in prison.
This story can be read as mind-control preprogramming for a series of false flag attacks inside USA; possibly leading to open USA war with Iran. There are a number of actors that might do false flags; those associated with Jewish Supremacy being the most likely. That being said, there surely are many hostile sleeper cells inside USA, including Iranian ones. ABN
The U.S. Air Force has revealed new details regarding its first offensive operation against Iranian targets, Operation Midnight Hammer, which in the late hours of June 21 saw seven B-2 Spirit intercontinental range stealth bombers used to target the Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities.
B-2s took of from Whiteman Air Force Base with a flight plan that indicated Guam was their destination, fuelling speculation that the aircraft were intended to be forward deployed to be able to generation sorties against Iranian targets more quickly.
This ruse appears to have been intended to reduce the possibility of Iran preparing its defences to intercept the targets.
Elaborating on the operation, and the support which the B-2s received from other American assets, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine reported: “As the Operation Midnight Hammer Strike package entered Iranian airspace, the U.S. employed several deception tactics, including decoys, as the fourth-and fifth-generation aircraft pushed out in front of the strike package at high altitude and high speed, sweeping in front of the package for enemy fighters and surface-to-air missile threats.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23 confirmed that serial production of the Oreshinik intermediate range ballistic missile is beginning, and that the missile has been assessed to have performed well when combat tested. “Volume production of the newest intermediate-range missile system Oreshnik, which has proved itself very well in combat conditions, is being started,” he stated, providing an update on the highly secretive weapons program.
The missile’s service entry marks a turning point for the capabilities of Russia’s ballistic missile forces, which were previously comprised solely of short ranged Iskander-M systems, and intercontinental range systems such as the Sarmat.
This left little capability for launching tactical conventional or nuclear strikes on closer targets, such as American military facilities on Guam or in the United Kingdom, or personnel concentrations across the European continent. The Oreshinik is estimated to have a 4000km range, and carries multiple independently re-targetable warheads with hypersonic reentry vehicles. These vehicles can carry either nuclear or conventional warheads.
Trump has added a strong sign to the conflict. If Ritter is right that what was hit is a ‘nothing burger’, that only qualifies the sign that Trump is willing to use USA’s most powerful weapons. It was a measured sign. Interpretation and response is Iran’s choice. Russia. China and world have been given notice. Trump sent a strong signal. Does anyone believe he will back down? This is KOBK loud and clear, not an empty sign. ABN
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon who was spot-on with his prediction that the president would strike Iran on Saturday is now warning that it could spark World War III.
Bannon, who served as Trump’s chief White House strategist during his first term and continues to be an influential voice in the MAGA movement, referenced the looming attack on his ‘War Room Pandemic’ podcast hours before U.S. bombers carried out the strike.
‘I’m just reporting what I’m hearing from pretty good sources. The party is on,’ Bannon said on his podcast.
‘So another big weekend in this unfolding aspect of the Third World War – and no, anyone that’s telling you that the Third World War is not here, is absolutely, does not understand the development and evolution of kinetic energy,’ he said.
Hours later, Trump surprised the world a little before 8 p.m. ET Saturday by announcing on Truth Social that he had given the go-ahead to attack Iran.
Trump used six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to destroy Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.
Trump addressed the nation, calling the strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear sites a ‘spectacular military success.’
‘Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.’
He also gave a stark warning to Tehran that more attacks would be coming if the regime didn’t make peace.
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