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Israel Will Confront Russia and China

by Oui Wed Jun 18th, 2025 at 05:12:02 AM EST

A promise made six years ago ...

Donald is not much of a cultural person with appreciation for world's oldest empires of Mesopotamia and the Persian nation. Will deface the Persian culture.

Borzzikman reports that Russia is supplying Iran with intelligence and satellite gathered imagery (possibly from their recently installed new satellites that see through any weather). I suspected this might be the case yesterday. He also verifies that two military cargo planes arrived in eastern Iran from China with air defence systems and "thousands of missiles".

h/t george @MofA

Recent days there were more reports and video Chinese cargo planes in Iran ... transponder turned off approaching Iranian territory even under Israeli attack.

US ally Israel will be confronting serious anger from a united 2 billion Muslims, or 25% of the world. An adversary capable of a Long War.


Iran's Fattah-1 Hypersonic Missile

Unleashed Destructive Force of Israel's War

Israel on burns┃ Fattah-1 Hypersonic Missiles Turn Israeli Cities to Ashes┃US Prepares to Enter WAR w/o the power from U.S, Congress |

Why Iran's Fattah-1 Hypersonic Missile Is a Disaster for Israeli Security | April 2025 |

Even though the U.S. and Israelis could obliterate Iranian nuclear weapons capabilities through air strikes, Iran's possession of missiles like the Fattah-1 means that Iranian retaliation is a significant threat to the region.

Did Russia Give Iran a Hypersonic Weapon?

Fattah-1 is described as a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with a reported range of around 870 miles, capable of targeting multiple locations across the Greater Middle East, notably Israel. Iranian officials claim it can achieve speeds between Mach 13 and Mach 15, which is well above the Mach 5 threshold for hypersonic weapons classification. 

Trump going ass first into escalation to save Israel ... may result in utter devastation on both sides.

STOP WAR ... STOP NATO

G7: German Chancellor Merz Praises Israel

Bundeskanzler Merz im ZDF-Interview zur Rolle der G7 im Nahost-Konflikt | ZDFheute

(Extract w translation “drecksarbeit” or “dirty work” for all of us.)

Germany’s Merz says Israel is doing the ‘dirty work for all of us’ by countering Iran | TOI |

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expresses strong support for Israel in its attacks on Iran, speaking on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada.

“This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us. We are also victims of this regime. This mullah regime has brought death and destruction to the world,” Merz says in an interview with the ZDF broadcaster.

Speaking to broadcaster Welt, Merz says the leadership in Tehran has been weakened by Israel’s attacks in the past few days.

“This regime is very weakened and will probably not return to its former strength, making the future of the country uncertain. We will have to wait and see,” he says.

He adds that the Europeans’ offer of diplomatic assistance, should talks resume, still stands as it did before the attacks.

“If a new situation were to arise, Germany, France and the United Kingdom would again be prepared to provide diplomatic assistance, as they were until last Thursday,” he says.

Probably reading the same intelligence estimates the BND has copy-pasted from U.S. or Israeli counterpart.

Never ever read such utter nonsense.

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NATO Splits as Turkey's Erdogan Fuels Fire Over Israel | Times Now World |

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Iran Has More Missiles Than Israel Has Interceptors. Now What? | WSJ |

IRGC: Mossad, A’man Military Intelligence Centers Hit in Tel Aviv Missile Strikes

[Location of image cannot be independently verified - Oui]

Iranian Missiles Strike on Israeli Intelligence Sites | TeleSUR |

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it had launched missiles at a military intelligence center and an operations planning facility belonging to Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

According to a statement from the Tasnim news agency, the targets included the headquarters of Unit 8200 — responsible for signals intelligence — and the Glilot complex, located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Military censorship was swiftly imposed on coverage of that location, though images published by Israeli outlets suggest a large warehouse or command center was hit.

The announcement followed Israeli reports of a missile strike in Herzliya, a coastal city north of Tel Aviv, where a “sensitive site” was allegedly hit.

In a phone call with President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of the unpredictable consequences of an open conflict between Iran and Israel.

IRGC targets Mossad headquarters, Israeli military intel buildings in missile strike | TASS |

As previously reported, Israel’s Glilot military intel base near Tel Aviv was hit by IRGC’s missile strike

DELETED VIDEO OF AFTERMATH

Video of an Iranian attack on and near Israeli intelligence buildings near Tel Aviv has been circulating online, despite restrictions by the Israeli military censor.

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Benjamin Netanyahu's 33 years of Iran nuclear warnings | Al Jazeera |

Posted earlier : 22 Years' Desire to Bomb the Ayatollahs

Have a peaceful cultural summer

by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 18th, 2025 at 10:47:54 AM EST


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