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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – While the Iranian Armed Forces have given the Zionist regime a taste of its own medicine by launching several rounds of retaliatory missile strikes against Israeli targets in recent days, experts believe that Iran has not still employed the new generation of its missiles.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2...l-on-the-shelf
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I am firmly on the people's side in Iran against both their (Obama/deep-state-influenced) leadership and the leadership of Zionist Israel and have been for decades. If only both sides could have their current leadership decapitated while the rank and file people are spared these horrors.
We just heard minutes ago from a neighbor who has family in Iran - Israel gave them 30 minutes to evacuate before the bombing started, and gas is rationed so you can't get very far away.
Meanwhile all the leaders hide in their bomb-shelters and Iranian folks will end up supporting leaders they hate because they are being bombed by the other side
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Sense of delusional irony?
I'm sure I'm not going to win a popularity contest with this post, but so be it.....
Isn't a
Sense of delusional irony also this????
Russia attacks Ukraine; The US must get fully involved and join Ukraine and destroy Putin and Russia.
Iran through it's well known proxies attacks Israel; The US must NOT get involved what so ever.
This is exactly what we've heard from many of these experts, analysts, and politicians. Perhaps it's not delusional, perhaps it's just simply insanity.
That was Putin's final analysis from trying to deal with the west: "I thought it was arrogance combined with a sense of impunity" was inadequate; it's literally insane.
It's the same in Israel and Ukraine.
You get this mentality of rabid nationalism mixed with a military doctrine that Does Not Work.
It's inoperable.
So it is being dis-assembled.
Effectiveness of these forces against peer rivals is the ability to inflict some damage while they, themselves, are annihilated.
In this case, it was a mis-calculation that Israel could attack Iran "impunitively" or, that is, without a serious peer-to-peer retaliation. Since then, in a few days:
Yedioth Ahronoth: Interior Minisry classified 5,110 Israelis as homeless since the outbreak of the war with Iran
Israeli media: Iranian missiles struck Israeli stock market building in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv
Israeli minister of energy announced that recovery of Bazan refinery in Haifa is impossible at least for the next one month.
Now if you go back to one of the Iraqi videos, notice we got that from a Chinese. This place that was supposedly being fixed by a western solution, twenty years later, is being built by Chinese and Indians out of a condition of widespread stagnancy. I would suggest that is the legitimate traffic on those railroads and in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the same twenty-year period in which it has been known that Iranian military might would crush the obsolete doctrine that was effective in places like Iraq.
It's the same twenty-year period in which the Brzenski Chessboard doctrine was refuted by no less than Henry Kissinger.
Therefor, both the actual military and the experienced statesmen have known that past this threshhold, this plan Does Not Work.
The people who guide themselves merely by ideas and words are delusional.
That plus power-mongering violent supremacism does not give you a "stripe of character", it's blind constant danger. That's why, from the Russian response, I have adopted Evil as something that is basically aggressive -- it has a survival instinct, you may be able to come to terms with it, you may be able to deal with it and handle it rather than "killing" it. On the other hand, the persona advanced in the current theaters is completely Stupid, that is, has no response to outer stimuli, is not capable of receiving and processing new information, and so it is unaware that its apparatus Does Not Work. That makes it far more dangerous, and it can only be destroyed.
Here's a few million shekels worth of strike:
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Israeli fighter jets struck on Thursday a number of sites across Iran, including the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, as it went ahead with the aggression on the Islamic Republic.
The partially built reactor was originally called Arak and is now named Khondab.
Iranian media reported air defenses were activated in the area of the Khondab nuclear facility and two projectiles hit an area close to it.
Officials told Iranian state TV that evacuations were made before the strikes and no risk of radiation or casualties was detected. There was no mention of any damage.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) condemned the Israeli attack, as it violated the international laws on prohibition of military action against nuclear facilities.
The AEOI also confirmed that the Israeli attack has not caused any causalities, assuring that it had took precautionary measures beforehand, preventing any threat or damage on the local people residing near the nuclear site.
The Iranian atomic agency announced it has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the attack on the Arak heavy water reactor.
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Indeed what Pepe Escobar previously explained as pointed out by
Bill Ryan is that this is now a hot war on BRICS:
Yes, Pepe is sure of this. In his brief interview, which is packed with information he's aware of personally from his current position attending the major international SPIEF event in St Petersburg. (Putin is attending this also, and today or tomorrow will be answering questions in a long press conference.)
Pepe explained the following.
Everything here is important.- One of the key objectives of this war is to not allow Iran to be transformed and enhanced as a logistics hub in the middle of Eurasia. Te west has to prevent Eurasia integration connectivity corridors logistics, the international north south transportation corridor. If you look at the map, Iran :is at the center of everything.
- It was Russian technicians who so quickly fixed the Iranian missile defense blackout after the surprise Israeli cyberattack on their systems.
- The DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) is going to sign 10 deals with China tomorrow morning (meaning today, Thursday 19 June) in St Petersburg. The Chinese will start to invest directly in Donbas. This is enormous.
- Judge Napolitano asked Pepe the obvious question, about whether (or to what extent) Russia would step in to aid Iran directly. Pepe answered:
This is an immensely complex and very sensitive discussion to have in Moscow and in St Petersburg. I'm going to try to force it a little bit more tomorrow and Friday. But my interlocutors say: "Look, you cannot ask these questions, and you won't get a public answer." (BR comment: this means, of course, that the answer about Russian intervention or assistance is not 'No'. )
- There are Pakistani trucks with Chinese hardware crossing Balochistan (in SW Pakistan) into Iran.
- Napolitano asked whether the Pakistanis would help defend Iran by attacking Israel. Pepe answered:
They already offered help. But a very important element of this is that the Persians are extremely proud. Basically they are saying "We can do this by ourselves. If we need you we will call you."
This is what they told essentially Beijing and Moscow. And we had confirmation of that from the Iranian side and from the Russian side, their silence basically saying "Yes, that's correct."
I watched the Judge Napolitano interview with Pepe Escobar as soon as I woke up early this morning. And your useful key point summary is absolutely accurate to what I remember. :thumbsup: The Grand Chessboard instantly comes to mind.
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I am firmly on the people's side in Iran against both their (Obama/deep-state-influenced) leadership and the leadership of Zionist Israel and have been for decades. If only both sides could have their current leadership decapitated while the rank and file people are spared these horrors.
We just heard minutes ago from a neighbor who has family in Iran - Israel gave them 30 minutes to evacuate before the bombing started, and gas is rationed so you can't get very far away.
Meanwhile all the leaders hide in their bomb-shelters and Iranian folks will end up supporting leaders they hate because they are being bombed by the other side
Thank you for sharing. I know that is it quite common for Iranian families who live in city apartments (at least those I have met) to have small villas in the countryside that they travel to during holidays and I am sure that this is where some families will be attempting to flee to.
I will finish off with a video sent to me documenting an unusual sight and sound: An Iranian violinist standing and playing on an almost-empty city street whilst in the distance the sky is lit with air defense. 🎻🌃✨
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1J5...ibextid=wwXIfr
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Things are hotting up…
Iran Launches 2,000 km-Range Sejil Missiles at Israel for the First Time in History
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed today that it has launched Sejil medium‑range ballistic missiles—with a range up to 2,000 km—directly at Israel for the first time in recorded history.
This marks a serious escalation in the ongoing tit-for-tat conflict between the two nations.
The solid-fuel, two-stage Sejil—first tested in 2008—is highly maneuverable and difficult to intercept, strengthening Iran’s strategic posture.
Spokesmen from the IRGC proudly confirmed that three Sejils—each boasting a range between 2,000 and 2,500 km, Mach‑13 speeds, and a warhead capacity up to 700 kg—were launched deep into Israeli territory under the cover of Operation True Promise 3.
Further reading with images…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ssiles-israel/
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🚨🚨⚡ President vladimir Putin drops the truth bomb:
“Iran fulfilled the deal. The U.S. tore it up.
Trump walked away—yet Europe demanded Iran stay loyal.
Why the hell should Iran comply with a deal the West abandoned?”
-: A brutal reminder of who really broke the agreement.
Did Putin really refer to Trump as the "former President" or is this just a typo/mistake?
Good question. :)
I checked the translation of the Russian audio via
https://openl.io/translate/speech. It instantly gave this translation:
Iran fulfilled all its obligations under the well-known agreement we just mentioned. All of them. No claims can be made against Iran. Then the United States unilaterally decided to withdraw from this agreement, while the Europeans continued to demand that Iran fulfill its obligations. This, you better ask me, but this is some kind of nonsense. As soon as the United States withdrew from this agreement, former President Trump made the decision to exit the agreement, and the Europeans said, yes, it's not very good that the Americans withdrew, but you Iranians are still complying. What the hell, Iranians, excuse me, that sounds a bit rude in Russian.
"Former" President Trump appears to be what was said — if indeed those were Putin's real words, and there's no AI trickery in the video. (What I've NOT yet seen is a report of when and where he is supposed to have said this, though it's been widely shared on social media.)
Yes President Trump abandoned the deal in 2018
According to this old BBC report,
Under a landmark 2015 deal with six world powers, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities and allow continuous and robust monitoring by the IAEA's inspectors in return for relief from crippling economic sanctions.
Iran also committed to help the IAEA resolve outstanding questions about the declarations under its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement.
However, US President Donald Trump abandoned the agreement during his first term in 2018, saying it did too little to stop a pathway to a bomb, and reinstated US sanctions.
Since 2019, Iran has increasingly breached restrictions of the existing nuclear deal in retaliation, particularly those relating to production of enriched uranium.
Iran's supreme leader criticises US proposal for nuclear agreement
Article here,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3v6w2qr12o
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Here is a detailed information article from 2023[ from the Council On Foreign Relations, CFR, in regards to Iran’s nuclear deal
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-iran-nuclear-deal
What Is the Iran Nuclear Deal?
Diplomacy to revive this arms control agreement has faced multiple stumbling blocks, including Iran’s nuclear advances and its links to conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.
Introduction
The Iran nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is a landmark accord reached between Iran and several world powers, including the United States, in July 2015. Under its terms, Iran agreed to dismantle much of its nuclear program and open its facilities to more extensive international inspections in exchange for billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions relief.
Proponents of the deal said that it would help prevent a revival of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and thereby reduce the prospects for conflict between Iran and its regional rivals, including Israel and Saudi Arabia. However, the deal has been in jeopardy since President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018. In retaliation for the U.S. departure and for deadly attacks on prominent Iranians in 2020, including one by the United States, Iran has resumed its nuclear activities. UN inspectors reported in early 2023 that Iran had enriched trace amounts of uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, sparking international alarm.
President Joe Biden said that the United States would return to the JCPOA if Iran came back into compliance, but after more than two years of stop-and-go talks, the countries are nowhere near a compromise, and as of late 2023, provisions of the agreement have started to expire.
Who are the participants?
The JCPOA, which went into effect in January 2016, imposes restrictions on Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program. At the heart of negotiations with Iran were the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and Germany—collectively known as the P5+1. The European Union (EU) also took part.
Some Middle Eastern powers, such as Saudi Arabia, said they should have been consulted or included in the talks because they would be most affected by a nuclear-armed Iran. Israel explicitly opposed the agreement, calling it too lenient.
What were the goals?
The P5+1 wanted to unwind Iran’s nuclear program to the point that if Tehran decided to pursue a nuclear weapon, it would take at least one year, giving world powers time to respond. Heading into the JCPOA negotiations, U.S. intelligence officials estimated that, in the absence of an agreement, Iran could produce enough nuclear material for a weapon in a few months. Negotiating nations feared that Iran’s moves to become a nuclear weapons state risked thrusting the region into a new crisis. One concern was that Israel would take preemptive military action against suspected nuclear facilities in Iran, as it had in Iraq and Syria, perhaps triggering reprisals by Lebanon-based Hezbollah or disruptions to the transport of oil in the Persian Gulf. Additionally, Saudi Arabia has since signaled a willingness to obtain a nuclear weapon if Iran successfully detonates one.
Iran had previously agreed to forgo the development of nuclear weapons as a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which has been in force since 1970. However, after the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979, Iranian leaders secretly pursued this technology. (In 2007, U.S. intelligence analysts concluded that Iran halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003 but continued to acquire nuclear technology and expertise.)
Prior to the JCPOA, the P5+1 had been negotiating with Iran for years, offering its government various incentives to halt uranium enrichment. After the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, who was viewed as a reformer, the parties came to a preliminary agreement to guide negotiations for a comprehensive deal.
For its part, Iran sought the JCPOA for relief from international sanctions, which starved its economy [PDF] of more than $100 billion in revenues in 2012–14 alone.
Does it prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons?
Many experts say that if all parties adhered to their pledges, the deal almost certainly could have achieved that goal for longer than a decade. Many of the JCPOA’s restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program have expiration dates. For example, after ten years (from January 2016), centrifuge restrictions would be lifted, and after fifteen years, so too would limits on the amount of low-enriched uranium Iran can possess. Some of the deal’s opponents faulted these so-called sunset provisions, saying they would only delay Iran building a bomb while sanctions relief would allow it to underwrite terrorism in the region.
What did Iran agree to?
Nuclear restrictions. Iran agreed not to produce either the highly enriched uranium or the plutonium that could be used in a nuclear weapon. It also took steps to ensure that its Fordow, Natanz, and Arak facilities pursued only civilian work, including medical and industrial research.
The accord limited the numbers and types of centrifuges Iran can operate, the level of its enrichment, as well as the size of its stockpile of enriched uranium. (Mined uranium has less than 1 percent of the uranium-235 isotope used in fission reactions, and centrifuges increase that isotope’s concentration. Uranium enriched to 5 percent is used in nuclear power plants, and at 20 percent it can be used in research reactors or for medical purposes. High-enriched uranium, at some 90 percent, is used in nuclear weapons.)
Monitoring and verification. Iran agreed to eventually implement a protocol that would allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, unfettered access to its nuclear facilities and potentially to undeclared sites. Inspections are intended to guard against the possibility that Iran develops nuclear arms in secret, as it has allegedly attempted before. The IAEA has issued quarterly reports to its board of governors and the UN Security Council on Iran’s implementation of its nuclear commitments.
A body known as the Joint Commission, which includes representatives of all the negotiating parties, monitors implementation of the agreement and resolves any disputes that arise. A majority vote by its members can gain IAEA inspectors access to suspicious, undeclared sites. The body also oversees the transfer of nuclear-related or dual-use materials.
What did the other signatories agree to?
Sanctions relief. The EU, United Nations, and United States all committed to lifting their nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. However, many other U.S. sanctions on Iran, some dating back to the 1979 hostage crisis, remained in effect. They cover matters such as Iran’s ballistic missile program, support for terrorist groups, and human rights abuses. Though the United States committed to lifting its sanctions on oil exports, it kept restrictions on financial transactions, which have deterred international trade with Iran.
Weapons embargo. The parties agreed to lift an existing UN ban [PDF] on Iran’s transfer of conventional weapons and ballistic missiles after five years if the IAEA certified that Iran only engaged in civilian nuclear activity.
How is the Iran deal enforced?
If any signatory suspects Iran is violating the deal, the UN Security Council can vote on whether to continue sanctions relief. This “snapback” mechanism remains in effect for ten years, after which the UN sanctions are set to be permanently removed.
In April 2020, the United States announced its intention to snap back sanctions. The other P5 members objected to the move, saying the United States could not unilaterally implement the mechanism because it left the nuclear deal in 2018.
Did Iran comply initially?
The agreement got off to a fairly smooth start. The IAEA certified in early 2016 that Iran had met its preliminary pledges; and the United States, EU, and United Nations responded by repealing or suspending their sanctions. Most significantly, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration dropped secondary sanctions on the oil sector, which allowed Iran to ramp up its oil exports to nearly the level it reached prior to sanctions. The United States and many European nations also unfroze about $100 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets.
However, the deal has been near collapse since President Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018 and reinstated devastating banking and oil sanctions. Trump said the agreement failed to address Iran’s ballistic missile program and its proxy warfare in the region, and he claimed that the sunset provisions would enable Iran to pursue nuclear weapons in the future.
Iran accused the United States of reneging on its commitments, and faulted Europe for submitting to U.S. unilateralism. In a bid to keep the agreement alive, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom launched a barter system known as INSTEX to facilitate transactions with Iran outside of the U.S. banking system. INSTEX was used only once before France and Germany announced its dissolution in 2023, citing Iranian obstruction.
Following the U.S. withdrawal, several countries—U.S. allies among them—continued to import Iranian oil under waivers granted by the Trump administration, and Iran continued to abide by its commitments. But a year later, the United States ended the waivers with the aim of halting Iran’s oil exports completely.
What is Iran’s current nuclear activity?
In response to the other parties’ actions, which Tehran claimed amounted to breaches of the deal, Iran started exceeding agreed-upon limits to its stockpile of low-enriched uranium in 2019, and began enriching uranium to higher concentrations (though still far short of the purity required for weapons). It also began developing new centrifuges to accelerate uranium enrichment; resuming heavy water production at its Arak facility; and enriching uranium [PDF] at Fordow, which rendered the isotopes produced there unusable for medical purposes.
Iran’s Major Nuclear Facilities
In 2020, Iran took more steps away from its nuclear pledges, following a series of attacks on its interests. In January, after the United States’ targeted killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, Iran announced that it would no longer limit its uranium enrichment. In October, it began constructing a centrifuge production center at Natanz to replace one that was destroyed months earlier in an attack it blamed on Israel. And in November, in response to the assassination of a prominent nuclear scientist, which it also attributed to Israel, Iran’s parliament passed a law that led to a substantial boost in uranium enrichment at Fordow.
Tehran has increasingly limited the IAEA’s ability to inspect its facilities since Washington withdrew from the nuclear deal, though it pledged in March 2023 to boost cooperation with the agency. The commitment came months after IAEA inspectors detected uranium particles enriched to 83.7 percent at Fordow, prompting international concern.
How has the deal affected Iran’s economy?
Prior to the JCPOA, Iran’s economy suffered years of recession, currency depreciation, and inflation, largely because of sanctions on its energy sector. With the sanctions lifted, inflation slowed, exchange rates stabilized, and exports—especially of oil, agricultural goods, and luxury items—skyrocketed as Iran regained trading partners, particularly in the EU. After the JCPOA took effect, Iran began exporting more than 2.1 million barrels per day (approaching pre-2012 levels, when the oil sanctions were originally put in place). However, these improvements did not translate to a significant increase in the average Iranian household’s budget.
The end of sanctions waivers on oil exports and the restoration of U.S. sanctions in 2018 cut deeply into a vital source of national revenue: that year, oil and petroleum products accounted for 80 percent [PDF] of Iran’s exports. By 2020, exports of Iranian crude had fallen as low as one hundred thousand barrels per day. Since then, sales to China have helped boost crude exports, which averaged 1.1–1.2 million barrels per day by the end of 2022. Additionally, in October of that year, the United States imposed sanctions on eighteen major Iranian banks, causing the Iranian rial to fall further against the U.S. dollar.
Meanwhile, the wide range of U.S. sanctions unrelated to the nuclear program have added to the damage. Multinational firms fear being punished by the United States for transacting with sanctioned Iranian entities associated with, for example, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which holds sway over many industries. With sanctions deterring international trade, black markets have boomed, enriching the IRGC at the expense of the regular economy.
What is the outlook for the agreement?
JCPOA signatories have struggled to revive the essentially defunct deal. The countries began talks to bring Washington and Tehran back into the agreement in April 2021, but negotiations have since been off and on, complicated by developments such as Iran’s election of conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi as president, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Iran’s apparent involvement in the two conflicts even earned it additional sanctions. Just as certain UN-mandated provisions of the JCPOA were set to expire in October 2023, the Biden administration imposed new sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs, and the EU refused to terminate the sanctions on its end. Moreover, Washington and Tehran still disagree on several issues related to rejoining the agreement, including the IRGC’s designation as a terrorist organization, and U.S. officials say further nuclear advances by Iran could make returning to the original deal impossible.
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NOW - Trump on U.S. military action against Iran: "I will make my decision whether or not to go, within the next two weeks."
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1935753377385689389
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NOW - Trump on U.S. military action against Iran: "I will make my decision whether or not to go, within the next two weeks."
In two weeks, Tel Aviv is going to look a lot more like Gaza. Not sure when exactly they will run out of defensive weapons, but when they do, the level of destruction will accelerate and people are going to be pretty tired of living in bomb shelters. My guess is that the neocons are going to put a gun to Trumps head and say "bomb Iran now, or else ..."
Here are some more pictures of damage in Tel Aviv that I have not seen any place else. The claim here is that Israel is attempting to prevent news reporters from filming the destruction in Tel Aviv.
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He’s too late. He tore up the JCPOA in 2018 and Iran became much more limber in making a bomb
His biggest blunder EVER just to poke Obama in the eye. And now look at the mess Trump has us in
More proof that his ego is a threat to our national security
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-nuclear-deal/
https://x.com/TheJoeyMama/status/1935004541470285950
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This attempt to relieve the current US government of responsibility is also a sick use of fascist tropes.
Trump and his cabinet have all previously campaigned on intensifying prospect of a war with Iran.
One of his first moves as president was to abandon the JCPOA back in 2018.
https://x.com/socpartyamerica/status...60720069796175
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin Speaks with Xi Jinping — Key Points
🔸The conversation between the leaders of Russia and China was mainly focused on the escalating situation in the Middle East;
🔸The next meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping will take place in China at the SCO summit in late August or early September;
🔸Full-format talks between Putin and Xi Jinping will be held on September 2 in Beijing during the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan;
🔸In the conversation, Putin confirmed Russia’s readiness to carry out mediation efforts regarding Iran;
🔸Russia and China are ready to coordinate their approaches in Central Asia;
🔸Putin and Xi discussed the results of the G7 summit in Canada, noting the “rough edges” that emerged there;
🔸The conversation lasted about an hour; the leaders parted warmly and in a friendly manner.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935643758533423256
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- Chinese Businessman Flees Tehran in Panic, China-Iran $400 Billion Deal Falls Apart:
On June 16, Israel announced it had taken control of the airspace over Tehran, the capital of Iran, and issued an emergency alert telling people in the city to evacuate immediately. That same day, US President Trump posted on social media urging everyone to evacuate from Tehran. After Trump's message, traffic leaving Tehran came to a complete standstill. Millions of people rushed out of the city overnight. A trip that normally takes two hours turned into a seven-hour nightmare. It reminded many of the scenes right before the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
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🇮🇱💥☢️🇮🇷 BREAKING! Israel Claims Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites in Bushehr, Isfahan, and Natanz
Israeli officials announced that strikes were carried out against nuclear facilities in Bushehr, Isfahan, and Natanz.
Bushehr is home to a major civilian nuclear power plant, constructed and operated with Russian assistance. The Bushehr-1 reactor, built by Rosatom, has been operational since 2013 and is under IAEA oversight. Additional reactors at the site are also being developed by Rosatom.
Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev issued a stark warning earlier today:
“If the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran is struck, the resulting disaster would be comparable to Chernobyl — this must not be allowed.”
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935652017831047222
🇷🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING! Russia Warns U.S. Against Intervening Against Iran
Russia is warning the United States against getting involved in military action against Iran, saying it could lead to uncontrollable consequences, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935653600132297193
🇷🇺🇮🇱🇮🇷 Russia Demands Israel Immediately Halt Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities — Maria Zakharova
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935661888974582140
🇷🇺🇮🇱🇮🇷 An Israeli military source told TASS that the army spokesman "mistakenly" listed Bushehr as one of the sites hit by Israeli strikes.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935666478981800320
🇮🇷 Israeli Airstrikes Hit Incomplete Iranian Nuclear Facility in Arak
Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian heavy water reactor in Arak early this morning.
Unable to hit the main nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordow, Israel is targeting peripheral parts of Iran’s nuclear program.
Satellite images show damage to the reactor site. The facility was only partially built and, according to Iran’s report to the IAEA, was not scheduled to begin operation until 2026
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935711751619973252
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 "WE WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE WORLD." — Netanyahu, escalating openly:
"Changing or overthrowing the Iranian regime is not a goal, but it may be a result.
The issue of regime change or downfall in Iran is a matter for the Iranian people.
My instructions are that there is no immunity for any figure in Iran.
It is clear that the regime in Iran is being affected because we are targeting the regime’s symbols.
We have already struck half of Iran’s missile launchers.
Gaza no longer exists, nor does Lebanon, and it will be the same with Iran. The Iranian axis has been broken.
The United States is helping us at the defense level through the THAAD system and their pilots are helping us intercept drones.
Ben-Gurion decided to establish the state, I decided to ensure its existence.
We will change the face of the world.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1935740422938411049
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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱This morning's launch of ballistic missiles into Israel resulted in the destruction of a number of targets, including a buried command center in Tel Aviv.
https://x.com/dana916/status/1935762334447743352
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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 An awl in a bag
Or what Israeli targets did Iran attack?
Since the escalation, Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles (including hypersonic Fateh missiles) and Shahed kamikaze drones at Israel, with the main targets in the center of the country: the Tel Aviv and Central Districts.
Objects hit by Iran in Israel:
▪️ Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv: Impacts near the facility, causing a fire, caused temporary disruptions to services.
▪️ Nevatim airbase near Beersheba: hits were recorded according to air defense calculations, as well as at least four strikes in the administrative zone.
▪️ Tel Nof Air Base: landings in the technical area near hangars and maintenance shops, one of the strikes presumably hit an air defense position.
▪️ Palmachim Air Base: Traces of hits were observed on four air defense positions, and hits were detected on buildings in the technical zone and on a parking lot with trucks in the industrial zone.
▪️ The buildings of the Mossad foreign intelligence service and the AMAN military intelligence service in Herzliya and Tel Aviv were partially damaged.
▪️ Israel Defense Forces Cyber Command (IDF C4I) headquarters and intelligence center at Gav Yam Technology Park: Part of the infrastructure was destroyed, but the facility's functionality was preserved.
▪️ Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot: Iran 'called it a strike on nuclear infrastructure', several buildings destroyed.
▪️ The military factory of the Rafael arms company in Haifa: the workshops were partially destroyed, but the production of missile defense systems, drones and missiles has not been stopped.
▪️ Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva: The emergency room and other buildings sustained minor damage, but remain operational.
▪️ Haifa Oil Refinery: Multiple signs of fire, one unit burned, facility stopped operating.
Moreover, Israeli military censorship works quite well, journalists are brought to the landing sites en masse, politicians visit them. In short, the authorities do everything to create a picture of strikes exclusively on civilian objects.
However, the Iranians’ statements about the “paralysis of Tel Aviv,” complete control of Israeli airspace, and the destruction of entire military bases (which have appeared more than once) have little in common with reality.
🏳️ Also, many of the declared targets remained completely untouched: despite the loud reports, there is no confirmation of the Iranians damaging the nuclear research center near the city of Dimona in the Negev desert.
❗️ Taking into account all the "subtleties" and apart from the statements of both sides, the IRGC was able to partially damage Israeli infrastructure, including at military strategic sites. However, this cannot be compared with what is happening in Iran.
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https://x.com/dana916/status/1935763578449281028
Re: Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War
❗️Iran and the United States held direct talks for the first time since the escalation with Israel - Reuters
"Araghchi said that Tehran will not return to negotiations until Israel stops the strikes that began on June 13," the agency reports.
In addition, according to Reuters, the parties reached a preliminary agreement: Iran is ready to discuss the nuclear deal, but only after the Israeli attacks stop.
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1935732845969871025
