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VIDEO | US President Donald Trump calls Iranians “bad people,” and blames it on their genetics.
Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/54206
You really gotta appreciate how mask off these ghouls are now.
The Zionists are having a meltdown.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19632
Zionists when they “suffer” 0.0001% of what Palestinians have to suffer on a daily basis
Oh nooooooo! Anyway
Isn’treal seems like they forget that they’re not shooting barefoot refugees.
LOL, the US through Lindsey Graham just threatened the Saudi regime. 😂
I can’t stop laughing every time they put “the Kingdom” and followed up by “the Iranian regime”.
“Capable” and “Saudi military” should never be put together by a serious person
If the Gulf monarchies began expanding and empowering their militaries they would be couped in a heartbeat. A national army of citizens would dispose them for being the traitors to their own people that they are.
Like any defense agreement is for Saudi benefit and not the US’s
Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has addressed the people of Iran.
“Negotiations with wolves do not lead to the salvation of the herd - they merely set the date for the next hunt,” she stated. According to her, the West assured her father that if he gave up on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, the world would open its doors to him. “He believed it, made concessions… And NATO’s bombs turned Libya into ruins”. She urged Iranians not to make concessions to the enemy, as they do not lead to peace, but only to destruction
https://xcancel.com/Eliseevanews/status/2032123384419553553#m
People are bypassing the Israeli censorship by posting Iranian missile strike footage on Chinese social media:
A lot of these are posted by Chinese workers in Israel.
EDIT: Sorry, I just figured out how to share links of the actual videos. Previous links where showing only search results. Here you go:
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615107566356815545 - Missile strikes on Israel, no visible Iron Dome interception going on
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615517561044745721 - Israelis panick as Iranian MIRV is heading to their general direction
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615201732238395322 - Iron Dome battery firing an entire load of missiles within a few seconds, showing how quickly Israelis are burning through their interceptors
https://www.douyin.com/video/7613240029700162995 - Two interceptors completely miss an Iranian sub-missile that uses thrusters to quickly change direction before successfully striking its target.
https://www.douyin.com/video/7613191966024650011 - Another Iranian missile just casually strolling through 2 interceptors and then hitting the center of Tel Aviv.
https://www.douyin.com/video/7612896684313680875 - Compilation of strikes, showing the intensity of the missiles barrage, and again how ineffective Israeli interceptors at defending against the strikes, or how inexistent the air defenses are.
https://www.douyin.com/video/7613092147235266292 - Compilation of strikes
https://www.douyin.com/video/7613205280117466533 - Missiles fly overhead, no interception at all
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615507378556898587 - Immigrant workers reportedly not allowed entrance into shelters during a bombing.
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615589336066883450 - Compilation of strikes, very little interception. The video’s audio is heavily edited and touched up.
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615576338094722330 - Strikes on Haifa
https://www.douyin.com/video/7615657713213104305 - Compilation of strikes, one shows a string of MIRV sub-missiles dropping on a facility very close.
🎥 BBC reporter in Tel Aviv: Israel is semi-shutdown and the streets are empty out of fear of Iranian attacks; shops are closed and this situation has become unbearable for the people.
Kasra Naji: 🔺Even the large Hezbollah missiles hit Tel Aviv without the warning sirens being activated, and this is unprecedented.
Video link -> https://t.me/sarbazane_g/122526
🇮🇶🇮🇶🇱🇧🇮🇶🇮🇶❌🇸🇾 — Iraqi Resistance Coordination:
We warn the so-called “Abu Muhammad al-Julani” that any hostile move towards Lebanese territory, in coordination with the Zionist-American enemy and under any pretext whatsoever, will be considered a declaration of war against the entire Resistance Axis.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which inflicted heavy losses on the American occupation forces and left the bodies of IS fighters to the wolves of the valleys, is capable of crushing your movement should you attempt to undermine the Resistance or Hezbollah.
We see the treachery of the new regime in Syria and are monitoring its coordination with the enemy. We say unequivocally:
If you dare to violate the sovereignty of Lebanon and its patient, resistant people, we will turn your land into an open battlefield.
Let this be a warning.
@SimurghRes
🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
To all neighboring countries and Islamic peoples in the region:
The enemy, defeated on the military battlefield and in forming a political alliance against the Islamic Republic of Iran, is resorting to cunning and deception.
They have replicated the Shahed-136 drone under the name “Lucas” to target illegitimate targets in the region.
With this diabolical act, the enemy aims to direct accusations against Iran and incite discord between the Islamic Republic and neighboring countries, with the goal of distorting the defensive and legal actions of the Iranian Armed Forces.
@SimurghRes
🔥 Why do we see so few images of the impact sites of Iranian missiles?
A Spanish reporter based in the occupied territories: We can show where the missile hit, but only on the condition that we show civilian buildings.
If, behind a bombed building, for example, there is the Mossad headquarters or a government building, the Israeli military censorship office does not allow us to broadcast those images or report on them so that Iran does not realize it has hit an important target or discover their vulnerability.
The censorship office requires everyone to send videos to them before publication, and if we do not follow the rules, our license to operate will be revoked.
Video link -> https://t.me/QODS_COM/179027
A missile destroyed Israel’s SES Satellite Station Ha’Ela Valley, just south of Beit Shemesh.
@FotrosResistancee
❗️NEW footage shows moment when the US launched surface-to-surface HIMARS missiles towards Iran, from Kuwaiti soil.
The myth that Persian Gulf countries aren’t helping the US is officially over.
@FotrosResistancee
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s FM, Araghchi, in reaction to CENTCOM publishing HIMARS systems in an Arab country:
“Thank you CENTCOM for admitting that you are using our neighbors’ territory to deploy HIMARS systems against our people, apparently including a desalination plant.
Nobody should complain if our powerful missiles destroy these systems wherever they are in retribution.”
@FotrosResistancee
Source -> https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/19624
It’s so nice seeing a country actually standing up to imperialists with force.
Now is the question to ask, what does Iran expect out of this. At this point, I believe they are looking for nothing short of complete US withdrawal from the Gulf.
It is also possible that they will start charging for passage through the Strait of Hormuz after this - it’s currently free to navigate.
Regardless, the most telling sign is that they are explicitly saying they are refusing to negotiate. At this moment, Iran is setting the pace and the US can only follow.
It’s a risky move normally, but Iran is protected by the Zagros mountains to the west, and their rocketry tech against incursions. They may or may not have started to mine the Strait, it’s not clear yet, but I saw a video of how they do it: it’s just more missiles.
An invasion + subsequent occupation of Iran would require something like 1 million boots on the ground at the very least. We are looking at a nation that is a peer or near-peer adversary, not a paramilitary group. On top of which, the population is now even more united behind the islamic revolution. Completely unfathomable to send that many troops even with a draft, and that’s just for a blitz-type occupation (go in, decapitate government, install puppet like Iraq). Iran controls its territory and the population would be hostile to soldiers at every turn. A more realistic number is 2 million soldiers on the ground to more fully occupy the territory. If they can even get through the Zagros Mountains or navigate the Strait.
What Iran is lacking is a navy and air force but their rocketry more than makes up for it. We saw the refueling airplane that was taken down over Iraq.
Likewise both the Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln, the two biggest aircraft carriers, turned tail and ran as soon as IRGC missiles showed up on their radar. They report no damage but it doesn’t even matter - a salvo of four missiles, likely to test response, managed to get them to fuck off and out of range.
The Brent futures index is essentially a piece of paper that says “you have a proof of purchase for crude oil at this price”. You don’t actually get it delivered (that would be very difficult), it’s a future. Unless you don’t sell for a while, then yes they will deliver. This is how the Brent briefly went under 0$ during the COVID lockdowns: without buyers, people were going to get the oil delivered which is a very bad idea, and they needed to offload it any way they could.
The highest the index has been, adjusted for inflation, was in 1980 at 157$ per barrel. In the US, inflation reached 13.5% in 1980. The shock was caused by the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iraqi invasion. US unemployment peaked at 10.8% in 1982. The central bank sharply raised interest rates - the modern mechanism to control inflation - higher central interest rates = banks raise their interest rates as well = people and businesses borrow less = banks generate less new money (yes that’s really how new money is created nowadays). But it also means fewer investments, fewer job creations (that was a thing that still happened in the 80s), etc. People were barred from driving on certain days or for non-essential reasons.
It was bad, basically. The US Bourgeoisie would indeed be fools to want another oil crisis… except fossil fuel majors and banks, of course, who made a lot of money on the crisis in the past. But everyone else would rather the barrel go back down to a more reasonable price.
As things continue, expect the oil barrel to jump up to 150$, maybe even more. It is at around 100$ currently, spurred by empty promises from Trump to try and contain it. He said US ships would start escorting tankers through the Strait, then the Navy said “what are you talking about we literally can’t do that”. Doesn’t matter, price went down briefly. You can follow the price here: https://www.investing.com/commodities/brent-oil (pick the 1D graph). The markets are closed on the weekend so we’ll have to see what it opens at on Monday.
But it’s only been
a decadetwo weeks, give it more time. Expect Iran to make more announcements over time - they probably have them all planned out already on a schedule. Recently, they said that any country that kicks out US bases and embassies would be allowed to cross the Strait again. Their tactics are rocketry and taking out intel capabilities, but the strategy seems to be to try and cause an oil crisis. At that stage, other countries will jump in and likely tell the US to just cut their losses and abandon the Gulf.Iran is continuing to strike at “Israel”, though with the media censorship in the entity you wouldn’t necessarily know it, but it is unclear to me what exactly they are trying to achieve there. They are striking “Israel” plenty, and vary their targets from what little information filters out, but Iran also hasn’t really announced any goals in regards to the entity. Time will tell I suppose.
Now, remember three things:
- we are more intelligent together than individually,
- nobody is ever an expert,
- don’t hang onto someone else’s words, because they will change their mind in the future while you will still be hanging onto what they said months or years ago, and then you will look like a fool.
Also time to revive the !zhukovacademy@lemmygrad.ml for military theory, Marshal Zhukov is waiting for new pupils 🫡
