Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
June 22, 2025
Tic-Toc No. 8 On The War On Iran

This report seems genuine:

Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off’Amwaj

US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.” This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with "most" of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.

The Pentagon claims that 30 cruise missiles were fired from submarines against Iranian nuclear sites near Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow. The main strike was allegedly by three B-2 heavy bomber which dropped six bunker buster bombs on the buried enrichment facility in Fordow. There are doubts that this indeed has happened:

My theory for the evening? I think this was a low-risk, low-impact attack entirely conducted using submarine-launched cruise missiles, and the DoD is simply lying about heavy bomber involvement for propaganda purposes.

We will have to wait for before/after satellite pictures and/or video from the ground before assessing the attack.

What we do know for sure is that the U.S. has launched an unprovoked, illegitimate attack against another country. The attack was also in breach of the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. Iran could, and now maybe should, resign from that treaty and reject inspections by IAEA personnel.

Comments

True Persian Democracy in play:
📷 A petition was signed in north-eastern city of Mashhad, demanding that the Iranian parliament vote to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
@PressTV
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 9:42 utc | 87

Operation True Promise 2 happened after Iranians went on the streets and demanded their government hit back. True Promise 3 happens because of evil colony’s attack. It seems the Iranian government has to be really pushed to do what everyone knows needs to be done. They should stop trusting international institutions like the UN, IAEA. Turkey and Azerbaijan are also not their friends. Neither is Pakistan which is a US puppet state.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 22 2025 10:01 utc | 101

Fordow

New high-resolution imagery, captured on June 21, 2025, suggests Iran was preparing the Fordow nuclear facility for a strike. T
The facility’s entrance tunnels were observed being filled with earth by trucks and diggers.

https://t.me/intelslava/76837
++++

Satellite imagery shows “unusual truck and vehicular activity” at the Fordow fuel enrichment facility two days before the strike, according to a senior analyst at the satellite firm Maxar.
On June 19, there were 16 cargo trucks along the access road leading to the underground military complex.
Imagery taken the next day shows that most of the trucks had moved about one kilometer northwest, farther from the facility.

https://nitter.net/Faytuks/status/1936689296209039816

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:01 utc | 102

scc | Jun 22 2025 8:18 utc | 23
“And Iran,
Drop your religious principle to not develop a nuclear bomb.
More than ever you need it.”
I don’t know why the Iranians haven’t built bombs, but I don’t believe it’s because of any “fatwa”. That’s getting cause and effect backwards. No modern society would let a cleric autocratically dictate to it on matters of national security, as if Iran really fit the Western liberal stereotype of a backward, medieval theocracy. That’s simply ridiculous. If the political and military leadership decided nuclear weapons were necessary they would build them.
No, for whatever reason the leadership, in stark contrast to Korea, has lacked the guts to take that step and has used this absurd “fatwa” as an excuse.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Jun 22 2025 10:03 utc | 103

Trump has delivered on his attempted “performative bombing declare victory and go home” to quell the Zionist pressure while not losing his base and the whole of his domestic agenda. The question is will Iran cooperate by not attacking US bases, or carrying out its own performative attack? The missile attacks on Israel continue, but now they can’t complain about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, otherwise they have to call Trump a liar.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jun 22 2025 10:05 utc | 104

Israel is getting hammered by missiles.
Do they now have a chance to save face, while stopping their attacks on Iran, by claiming that “the job is done”?
How does Iran react to that?

Posted by: Harbin | Jun 22 2025 10:06 utc | 105

I wonder when the Hollywood movie will be released? Surely Trump could be given a role flying a B2, like the president that saved the world in ‘Independence Day’.

Posted by: George | Jun 22 2025 10:06 utc | 106

TASS
Dmitry Medvedev:
What did the Americans achieve with their nighttime attack on three points in Iran?
1. The critical infrastructure of the nuclear cycle was apparently not damaged, or only slightly damaged.
2. Nuclear enrichment—and, as we can now openly say, the future production of nuclear weapons—continues.
3. Several countries are prepared to supply Iran with nuclear weapons directly.
4. Israel is under attack, explosions thunder, and people panic.
5. The United States is being drawn into a new conflict with the prospect of a ground operation.
6. The political regime in Iran remains intact and has most likely even grown stronger.
7. The population is rallying around the spiritual leadership, even those who did not sympathize with it.
8. Trump, who took office as the peacemaker president, started a new war for the United States.
9. The vast majority of countries in the world oppose the actions of Israel and the United States.
10. With this success, Trump will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, despite the corruption of this nomination. A good start. Congratulations, Mr. President! Welcome to the club of American presidents.

Posted by: Peeks | Jun 22 2025 10:08 utc | 107

// …
🔴The battle from Gaza to Iran is one, the cause is one, the nation is one, and the enemy is one—backed by a hostile front targeting our nations.🔴
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
https://t.me/theAxisofTruth/17924
// …

Posted by: Framarz | Jun 22 2025 10:11 utc | 108

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 22 2025 9:51 utc | 93
You couldn’t carry Mercouris’ intellectual jockstrap; your constant banal posting is, ” Intellectual Diarrhea” (TM)

Posted by: canuk | Jun 22 2025 10:12 utc | 109

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 9:44 utc | 89
Thanks, did not know that guy before but mentioning Brookings paper shows he is spot on. I mentioned that one in comment 7. It is decades old zio policy. Any elections, Trump, daily analysis of his lies taken seriously is nonsense.

Posted by: Saraj | Jun 22 2025 10:13 utc | 110

Then why escalate in the first place, and go in at all? He could easily have said, “sorry, your problems are not our problems.”
Posted by: jure | Jun 22 2025 7:47 utc | 4
Trump probably squeezed another cheque from Mrs Adelson before his attack. Her money is even more important since Elon Musk’s departure. Also, he gets to play tough guy with the military, which always looks good to the base.
Iran gets to continue their progress with a few years delay, ensuring a weapon will be operational only after both Trump and Netanyahu are out of office or have shuffled off our mortal coil.
Netanyahu got to distract everyone from his failure in Gaza, the Zionists get to push Gaza off the front pages for a while, and Netanyahu poll numbers have increased.

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Jun 22 2025 10:24 utc | 111

// …
It seems this specific member of Epstein’s child trafficking network (Donald Trump) has lied to you: No more war, America First!”
// …

Posted by: Framarz | Jun 22 2025 10:29 utc | 112

// …
🔴The battle from Gaza to Iran is one, the cause is one, the nation is one, and the enemy is one—backed by a hostile front targeting our nations.🔴
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
https://t.me/theAxisofTruth/17924
// …

Posted by: Framarz | Jun 22 2025 10:11 utc | 108
I think the Muslims should stop playing this Sunni-Shiite game, and start hitting the US, and also UK, France and Germany!
Posted by: dodo | Jun 22 2025 9:22 utc | 1044
I read a recent interview with a Sunni commentator and he seemed more concerned with the proselytizing of the Shia faith that increased Iranian influence among Sunnis might bring, than he did by the genocidal actions of the Western proxy Israel on the Sunnis of Gaza and the West Bank.
Apparently he believes that Iran is a greater enemy to the Sunni than the genocidal pro-Zionist West is.
I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

Posted by: Delhiliterally | Jun 22 2025 10:29 utc | 113

Posted by: Suresh | Jun 22 2025 7:51 utc | 6 “Iran has warned any assistance to the Entity will be legitimate targets.”
They have been saying this all week.
And it has been reported here that the US, UK and Jordan have been helping Israel all along. And some report say Syria and Iraqi have also been helping. Plus all the aircraft and ships that the US operate out of the countries on the Gulf that do surveillance at, at least the edges of Iran?

Posted by: ed4 | Jun 22 2025 10:31 utc | 114

EXPOSED! Trump is a secret agent working for Iran!
A conspiracy between Iran’s strategically brilliant Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and their ultra top secret one-time-burnable secret agent Mr Donald Trump has won Iran a strategic check-mate against the US and their partners in genocide.
Before, to get out of the NPT required formal notice followed by a period of grace during which any work on nuclear bomb development would be prohibited. During that period of grace Iran would be exposed to a highly elevated risk of nuclear anihilation.
Since the US violated the NPT in [allegedly] bombing a peaceful nuclear power reactor that was operating in accordance with the NPT, that criminal action releases [MAYBE – I am not a lawyer!] Iran from certain obligations under the NPT.
What is certain is that Iran will strategically milk this for all the abundant diamond worth that it is – MASSIVE acceleration of the implosion of standing of the US in world view, massive enhancement of standing of Iran in world view …
AND Iran will exit the NPT …
AND Iran will LEGALLY blockade the Straits of Hormuz …
AND oil will shoot up to 200USD, 300USD, 500USD or whatever as the case may be …
AND the western economies will be anihilated …
AND the entire world excluding the west will resoundingly support Iran’s response especially Russia and China (latter can probably buy most of its oil at pre-war long term contract prices) …
AND Friendly countries will be allowed through the blockade …
AND Russia and China, and other long term contract buyers of Russian oil plus Venezuela will have massive advantages in energy prices hence manufacturing costs compared to most of the west …
AND AND AND … endless synergistic benefits to the New World Order …
Score at half-time:
US: a million tonnes of dog-manure
Iran: a million tonnes of diamonds

Posted by: BM | Jun 22 2025 10:31 utc | 115

New update on hits on Iran.
1. strike on Fordow (2 hits) MSM https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233459/VIDEO-Iran-state-TV-says-Trump-bluffs-about-hitting-Fordow (I’m going to count 2 hits because most reports say exitS (plural))
2. strike on Ishafan (2 hits) https://x.com/Mitch_Ulrich/status/1936600655936069776
3. strike on Natanz (1 hit) https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1936683096507629945
4. strike around Shiraz (2 hits) https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1936532217901060411 (or maybe 1 hit and a bushfire, who knows)
5. strike on Tabriz (2 hits) https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1936705004276265163
Furthermore, there are more reports on AD being active around Iran, but no corroboration.
There’s also a weird trend of Iranian athletes dying. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233436/Iranian-boxer-Rouhollah-Salek-killed-in-Israel-attack This says 26 of them died. That’s about 2-3 per day. That seems excessive. Maybe Israel is specifically targeting athletes?
In addition, there was a strike on Friday that I think I wasn’t aware of at the time: https://en.mehrnews.com/news/233444/3-members-of-a-family-killed-in-Israeli-strike-on-Andimeshk This is also interesting. It says here the family was guarding a well. I don’t really understand how were they doing it, with a 7-year child, but maybe Iran is weirder than I thought. Anyway, the understory here is that Israel targeted a well, apparently.
It also occurs to me it would be wise to dig up numbers of casualties in Iran, at least the official number, and track that too. Comparing that with the number of hits might give us additional intel. For example, did you notice how Israel has about 100 more wounded than dead? Ain’t that strange? Meanwhile, Iran claims 8 times more wounded than dead, which is also not in line with modern warfare, but nevertheless *much* closer to expectations than the fairy tale Israel spins.

Posted by: rert | Jun 22 2025 10:31 utc | 116

UK govt says B2s weren’t launched from Diego Garcia. Where would they have been launched from then?

Posted by: NoCope | Jun 22 2025 10:35 utc | 117

Iran is preparing to close the Strait of Hormuz in order to ban the movement of oil tankers through it, said the commander of the Iranian Naval Forces (IRGC) Alireza Tangsiri.
According to the commander, the strait could be closed “within a few hours.”

Posted by: Strait of Hormuz | Jun 22 2025 10:36 utc | 118

“Trump warns Iran of further attacks if Tehran does not ‘make peace’” was then “Hitler warns Poland of further attacks if Warsaw does not ‘make peace’” .
take the deal
we need that central bank in Tehran
you need to rid yourselves of that china train line.
the beating will continue until oded yinon is achieved

Posted by: richard roma | Jun 22 2025 10:37 utc | 119

There was no American attack. It was an Israeli attack with a narrative that enables all three to claim victory and take their marbles home with whatever narrative they need to tell their respective populations. Everyone must eat some humble pie: the United States does not get regime change and Iran will keep its nuclear program and enrichment. Israel must deal with the fact that the supposed head was not cut off the snake. Iran will have to bury its dead and accept the damage and the violation of international law. Israel is the big loser as it receives virtually nothing from this prescriptive outcome. I predict a cease-fire within about 24 hours after a few more mutual exchanges to enable plausible deniability. If a single American dies, there goes my theory. I don’t think I’m wrong though. The implications of this are many, but the primary takeaway for me is that after 45 years Iran finally stood directly up to the imperial bullies and stood its ground. Iranians rallied behind the government. Regime change is over.

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:38 utc | 120

I see a long war ahead.
Maybe not all kinetic.
S/A-Turkey-Egypt-Mexico response= Appalling, not unexpected, but ridiculous nonetheless.
Iran will go through all the legal motions first.
Parliament meeting will reveal a lot.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 22 2025 10:39 utc | 121

Posted by: Peeks | Jun 22 2025 10:08 utc | 107 “3. Several countries are prepared to supply Iran with nuclear weapons directly.”
“Several” generally means more than two?
Anyone have a list?

Posted by: ed4 | Jun 22 2025 10:39 utc | 122

Netanayhu is already claiming that what “he” promised has happpened (destruction of Iranain nuclear “efforts”). So the way is now open to call it “victory” and de-escalate?
**
Oh but…. the straits of Hormuz?
A UK tanker(s) has already turned back to avoid entering, and there is what seems a panic by others to leave while they still can.
The US is planning a massive “show of air-force” PR stunt.
***
PS. to all posters in EU and UK, you HAVE filled up the petrol tanks on your cars, haven’t you?

Posted by: Stonebird | Jun 22 2025 10:39 utc | 123

George @ 106

I wonder when the Hollywood movie will be released? Surely Trump could be given a role flying a B2, like the president that saved the world in ‘Independence Day’.

I see him more like Slim Pickens riding a nuke to Doomsday.
https://www.metaflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Slim-Pickens-Riding-Bomb-in-Dr.-Strangelove-Movie.jpg
Instead, of course, waving that stupid red MAGA baseball hat.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 22 2025 10:40 utc | 124

Should have read pre-scripted outcome, not prescriptive.

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:40 utc | 125

Do the moderates in Iran have any hawks because this current group is lost. Talking about international laws, the UN and now the foreign minister will meet with Putin. Iran needs to understand that Russia is pro-evil Israeli colony. North Korea and Venezuela are better friends to Iran than Russia. You can not trust Russia if the colonial state of Israel is involved. Look what they did to Assad. Iran should never have gone along with Russia to throw Assad under the bus for Turkey and Qatar.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 22 2025 10:43 utc | 126

Saraj | Jun 22 2025 10:13 utc | 110
Brian Berletic?
Oh we are have a huuuge fanboi club for Berletic here at MoA.
He’s probably genuinely the best analyst on U$ wars of imperialism.
Check his YouTube The New Atlas. https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
He’s been writing for years.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:43 utc | 127

If my theory above is accurate, Iran will not leave the NPT, it will not go for nukes, it will not close the straight of Hormuz.

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:44 utc | 128

UK govt says B2s weren’t launched from Diego Garcia. Where would they have been launched from then?
Posted by: NoCope | Jun 22 2025 10:35 utc | 117

If (big IF, as Starmer is a notorious liar) the UK is not lying, then they could have been launched from Guam.

Posted by: jure | Jun 22 2025 10:44 utc | 129

“UK govt says B2s weren’t launched from Diego Garcia. Where would they have been launched from then?”
Posted by: NoCope | Jun 22 2025 10:35 utc | 117
Much of the news media said the B2s had been sent from Diego Garcia to Guam this morning! Funny place to go if you wanted to bomb Iran. It seems the media is making it up as they go, especially Donald’s glorious victory that seems also to be Kabuki theatre.

Posted by: George | Jun 22 2025 10:45 utc | 130

Parliament meeting will reveal a lot.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 22 2025 10:39 utc | 122
I hope they don’t congregate in one building …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 10:45 utc | 131

Posted by: Strait of Hormuz | Jun 22 2025 10:36 utc | 118 “According to the commander, the strait could be closed “within a few hours.””
Still looks busy on the AIS sites. But traffic is sticking to the UAE and Omani side of strait.

Posted by: ed4 | Jun 22 2025 10:48 utc | 132

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 22 2025 10:43 utc | 127
To the man who’s only tool is diplomacy every problem looks like a negotiation.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 10:48 utc | 133

An extremely song sign for me that this was all theater were Trump and Netanyahu’s speeches given and last time than the voyage of the SS Minnow, proclaiming, without bomb damage assessment, complete and total destruction of the sites and glorious future for humanity. They were both so over-the-top that I smelled bullshit instantaneously. I don’t suppose I am alone here at the bar because many of you people think/interpret like I do, but I also know that this is totally lost on 90% of the American population. Hence, Trump’s speech gave me great hope, but not in the way he would’ve intended.

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:49 utc | 134

… “Several” generally means more than two? Anyone have a list?
ed4 | Jun 22 2025 10:39 utc | 123

Pakistan and Best Korea.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:49 utc | 135

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 22 2025 10:40 utc | 125
Good choice, Trump would suit a MAGA Stetson too, but he’d have to audition along with with Lindsay Graham to get the role for Slim, or maybe they could both ride the bomb down together.

Posted by: George | Jun 22 2025 10:50 utc | 136

Given in *less* time than the voyage of the SS Minnow

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:51 utc | 137

Pakistan and Best Korea.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:49 utc | 136
Under certain conditions:
+ China, Russia.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 10:51 utc | 138

One of the effects of the WISP (wireless internet smart phone) that everyone carries around with them is the erosion of memory. In Marshall McLuhan’s words, we have ‘outered’ our memory to our WISPs, and those memories have atrophied as much as muscles did in North America in the 50s and 60s, when everyone was in their car, and no one cared about fitness. How many phone numbers do you remember these days?
All of which to say that this act of bombing by Trump is *exactly* what he did in Syria in his first term. He talks tough, but he warns the people ahead of time, and the bombs don’t really hit the important targets. Yes, he is ‘beholden’ to his donors to some small extent, so he gives them this sop, while his back channel efforts are all about de-escalation.
As I said yesterday, I think Trump equates Bibi with Z – jumped up little punks who act tough because they think they’ve got the big guy behind them. I expect Iran to continue to pummel Isreal and ruin their civil society, and as long as they don’t get too crazy about it, I think Trump will let it run on for a few months, until Bibi is a little more conciliatory, or dead

Posted by: FrankDrakman | Jun 22 2025 10:52 utc | 139

Based on the attendees at the latest G7 in Canada’s Kananaskis, I think this may be about the BRICS bank. And, the host, Canada’s PM, is former governor of Bank of Canada and England so he’d probably think to ask Lula or someone else about it.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Jun 22 2025 10:52 utc | 140

No official Iranian media outlet has issued any statement quoting the commander of the Navy regarding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
For now, these are all rumors and/or fake news spread on social media.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/153037

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 22 2025 10:52 utc | 141

One Congressman and Bernie stand against this unconstitutional offense. Schumer asks for War Powers Act, too late. This is America, bought and paid for. Any bets on how Democrats will suppress calls for impeachment, being the fake opposition here?
Israel is the key, the weak spot. Iran has to attack in force unless this whole thing is fake and Netanyahu asks for a ceasefire after his “victory”

Posted by: Eighthman | Jun 22 2025 10:57 utc | 142

RE: Pakistan and Best Korea.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:49 utc | 136
Under certain conditions:
+ China, Russia.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 10:51 utc | 139
Ground help at borders: Taliban
Afghanistan will play crucial role. IMO…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 22 2025 10:57 utc | 143

As a young Israeli she won clicks and clout for her parody of Palestinians in grief and shock as their homes were bombed.
And then karma paid a visit.
https://nitter.net/Ashok_Kashmir/status/1936056084621410757#m

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:01 utc | 144

@131 George, @117 NoCope
The story (so far) is that they were the bombers flown from Whiteman afb in Missouri and reported by US Fox news media to be on their way to Anderson in guam as part of the deception. (Flights Mytee 11 & 21).
Instead of landing in Guam they were cunningly redirected all the way to Iran, got refuelled a few times with no one noticing, then successfully ran a linear co-ordinated bomb run in the middle of the country.

Posted by: S.O. | Jun 22 2025 11:02 utc | 145

Posted by: HD | Jun 22 2025 10:38 utc | 121
Exactly!
All three parties get to save face and continue in power.
We’ll know fairly quickly if that’s not the case.
If missiles are still falling on Tel Aviv by say Thursday, and with intensity, then it’s not over.
I’m surmising that nobody minds a few more missiles from Iran.

Posted by: Harbin | Jun 22 2025 11:02 utc | 146

@Posted by: Georgie | Jun 22 2025 10:43 utc | 127
Well… “Israel is almost a Russian-speaking country and Moscow takes this into account” ( tass.com/politics/1977955 )
“Not that there is anything wrong with that!” (c)
For the man who has no leverage, pretending to make deals is the only option ( tass.com/politics/1977973 )

Posted by: rk | Jun 22 2025 11:03 utc | 147

I wonder when the war in Ukraine is going to be finished? – didn’t Trump say he would stop it first day? Then he went off on another war.
I wonder when the war between Iran and USrael will be over? – didn’t Trump say……………….?

Posted by: George | Jun 22 2025 11:04 utc | 148

@131 George, @117 NoCope
The story (so far) is that they were the bombers flown from Whiteman afb in Missouri and reported by US Fox news media to be on their way to Anderson in guam as part of the deception. (Flights Mytee 11 & 21).
Instead of landing in Guam they were cunningly redirected all the way to Iran, got refuelled a few times with no one noticing, then successfully ran a linear co-ordinated bomb run in the middle of the country.
Posted by: S.O. | Jun 22 2025 11:02 utc | 146

This seems very plausible as well, thanks!

Posted by: jure | Jun 22 2025 11:04 utc | 149

Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo
Mehdi and Iran expert Trita Parsi
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-trump-attacks-iran-live?utm_medium=web

Posted by: Menz | Jun 22 2025 11:07 utc | 150

Under certain conditions:
+ China, Russia.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 10:51 utc | 139

Nah. Russia is firmly nuclear NON proliferation. They don’t like that the norks or Pakistan have the bomb…
They will help Iran with nuclear energy and other uses, but not bombs.
China. Nah.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:07 utc | 151

Trump Dick Sucker fanboi c1ue has disappeared. We await his world-class dissembling, hemming, hamming and hawing about how this really doesn’t mean anything and the strikes on Iran – in whatever capacity they occurred – were ordered by Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Billy Clinton. Trump is absolved of any responsibility.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 22 2025 11:09 utc | 152

The moments the Americans wish they would have some Hazelnuts in their weapon inventory.

Posted by: Rudi Ruessel | Jun 22 2025 11:11 utc | 153

rert @ 116

There’s also a weird trend of Iranian athletes dying… This says 26 of them died. That’s about 2-3 per day. That seems excessive. Maybe Israel is specifically targeting athletes?

Good observation, nice MOA tidbit.
Reading through TG I noticed this too but didn’t put 2+2 together. With Russia USA/NATO didn’t have the bravado to systematically target for murder Russian cultural figures and athletes as part of their regime change terror campaign, but they did so more haphazardly, philosopher Dugin (missed and killed his daughter) and writer Tatarsky, and rather grandly with Crocus, and let’s not forget to add the 2002 Dubrovka Theater massacre, and, the crown jewel of USA/NATO terrorism, the 2004 Beslan school siege with 777 children taken hostage and 186 killed.
BTW Lavrov at the start of the SMO said that they expected the sanctions blitz and a broad NATO/Ukraine attack on the Donbas, but that they never expected the sanctioning, isolation, and campaign of hatred against Russian cultural figures (living and dead) and athletes.
So, I think you are correct with your observation. People adore their athletes more than their politicians and regions leaders, killing athletes really hits “the street”. The dimness and heinousness of Anglo-Zionist crimes against humanity is unbounded.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 22 2025 11:13 utc | 154

If there were six B-2’s in Iranian airspace the Russian S-400 stationed around the nuclear plant they own probably have a lot of track data for use when they want. Probably share with PRC.

Posted by: paddy | Jun 22 2025 11:15 utc | 155

Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 22 2025 11:09 utc | 153
You’re back at the bar.
I’m still here. Long lazy Sunday… just posting….
We’re going full circle here, with new arrivals hoeing ground we covered 12 hours ago…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:16 utc | 156

While waiting for the dust to settle, as usual.
USA attack had inflicted limited if any damage on nuclear facilities that constitute an eventually treat in the future but no treat at present.
No appereant damege inflicted or claimed to tel that keep targeting Israel.
Opening a new pool of opportunities for Iran, retreat from NPT, hiring Dimona, let Houtis target USA bases in the ME, if not the oil rigs.
Great success for USA.
Meanwhile Putin and Xi, while sipping on their favorite drinks while discussing about Trump and concluding.
We told him to not play with fireworks, it’s time to let the boy teach himself a lesson, if he is going to loose a couple of fingers or an eye so let this happen.

Posted by: Mario | Jun 22 2025 11:18 utc | 157

Posted by: Rudi Ruessel | Jun 22 2025 11:11 utc | 154
Plenty of nutz in the government and congress but luckily no Oreshniks in their mad and belligerent hands.

Posted by: George | Jun 22 2025 11:19 utc | 158

Flying the B2s directly from Guam or Missouri or whatever likely wasn’t subterfuge, it was a way to not involve Gulf states, or Mediterranean states directly, at least at this point in time. Part of a deescalation, or the latest provocation in the relentless escalation is yet to be revealed.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 22 2025 11:21 utc | 159

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:16 utc | 157
I’m just checking all the TG channels and MoA for any updates. Nothing much to see for now. I’ll probably sign off again and come back later when it’s night time in Tel Aviv hoping for some fireworks.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 22 2025 11:24 utc | 160

Berletic: 45mins ago
“We Will be going LIVE on The New Atlas covering US strikes on Iran (8pm Bangkok, 7am New York 2pm London)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:27 utc | 161

An interesting aspect is by using B-2s (if they did) and submarines is that no other countries were directly involved. I wonder if the lovely line-up of USAF at Prince Sultan base is intended to be a honeypot for Iran – if attacked, Muslims are split and US gets its Pearl Harbour.
Related, it seems to me that a simple step for Iran is to block US warships from entering the Persian Gulf.

Posted by: Rahul | Jun 22 2025 11:28 utc | 162

The response from Iran to yet another US war-criminal act – an act which would, if Nuremberg actually meant anything other that just a show trial for the defeated Nazis, result in ICC indictments of the current US regime – could be best used as part of the cognitive war against the enormous, but faltering, pro-Zionist agenda of Western media.
Rather than resort to tit-for-tat bombing of US assets, they could use their media response to this attack to highlight the fact that the liar and buffoon at the head of the US criminal regime was simply doing what his boss in Tel Aviv ordered him to do – with the support of the entire corrupt Zionist-paid political class (using funds bilked from US tax-payers, of course) in the US ensuring that Tel Aviv’s orders were carried out.
It might be best for the moment at least, for Iran to simply keep bombing the shit out of the genocidal Zionist colony in Palestine.

Posted by: Kaos Butters | Jun 22 2025 11:29 utc | 163

…… As a young Israeli she won clicks and clout for her parody of Palestinians in grief and shock as their homes were bombed.
And then karma paid a visit.
https://nitter.net/Ashok_Kashmir/status/1936056084621410757#m
Posted by: Melaleuca…….
Thanks M. most illuminating. The split screen is a powerful indictment of these genociders.
Barfilies worth a watch.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 22 2025 11:30 utc | 164

Looks a bit like the Shayrat missile strike against Assad (Syria) under Trump I in April 2017. The pretext was a chemical attack against civilians a few weeks earlier, probably staged by jihadists. 59 Tomahawks were fired from war ships. The Shayrat base however was largely empty, the Syrians had been briefed through the Russians. So Shayrat was mainly about optics. Now of course there is a much bigger build-up….

Posted by: Teraspol | Jun 22 2025 11:30 utc | 165

childmurderer, genocider, and warcriminal (backed by statesponsors of terrorism uk/eu):

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated US President Donald Trump on the attack on Iran:
Congratulations, President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the fearsome and righteous might of the United States will change history. In Operation Rising Tide, Israel did truly incredible things. But in tonight’s action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, America was truly unmatched. It did what no other country in the world could do.
History will record that President Trump acted to deny the most dangerous regime in the world the most dangerous weapon in the world. His leadership today has created a turning point in history that can help the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace. President Trump and I often say peace through strength. First comes strength, then peace. And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with great strength.
President Trump, thank you. The people of Israel thank you. The powers of civilization thank you. God bless America. God bless Israel.
And may God bless our unwavering alliance, our unbreakable faith.

“powers of civilization”. uhuh…

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 11:33 utc | 166

Clash Report
U.S. GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) strike reportedly hit the “centrifuge halls” at Iran’s Fordow facility, precisely as indicated on the object’s schematic.
However, it remains unclear whether the munition successfully penetrated the tens of meters of rock overlying the facility.
If it did, the extent of the damage is unknown, especially given the Iranians’ hasty evacuation of the site.
(With pics)
https://t.me/ClashReport/48683

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:34 utc | 167

@63
America, what little left of Lincoln’s hollowed out rhetoric, died with JFK in 1963.

Posted by: paddy | Jun 22 2025 11:35 utc | 168

This was a cosmetic attack, instead of a nuclear attack or a serious land invasion. Now we know that the USA does not have the strength or the stamina to fight Iran. It is open season on Israel, a country that may become a liability rather than an asset. Maybe, even for the ruling class, Gaza is too much to stomach, no decent person wants to come close to Nety or Smotrich.

Posted by: Biochar | Jun 22 2025 11:36 utc | 169

Hey Ed4
Good to see you clicked on my Ship Tracker links and finally discovered what AIS is.
Welcome back ! It good to see the Likud sending us their A-team Hasbarats.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 22 2025 11:39 utc | 170

Just why would Washington notify Iran that it was going to strike its nuclear facilities – did it do this to try and prevent any wild recriminations on its ME bases or if Iranian missiles could reach, elsewhere.
Or did the Washington notify Tehran of the strikes to allow personnel to evacuate the area, as there was the possibility that Russian personnel were working in the area – Iran certainly has the miliary capabilities missile wise, to do some damage, so maybe Washington thought it would be better to notify Iran of the strike – and was the strike on the nuclear bases a successful as Trump has been boasting about in press conferences – surely not if advance warning was given to Tehran – was this just a token gesture bombing of the nuclear facilities by the US to appease Israel.
For now Iran’s real attacks appear to be focused on Israel – now that Netanyahu has drawn Trump in to bombing the Iran’s nuclear facilities will he pressure Trump to attack Iran elsewhere, as Israel cannot defeat Iran alone in a prolonged war of attrition.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jun 22 2025 11:41 utc | 171

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 10:43 utc | 128
Berletic also posts his content on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheNewAtlas
Whenever anyone can avoid yt, they should do so. The monopoly of that imperialy owned platform is highly problematic.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jun 22 2025 11:43 utc | 172

A prior agreement for domestic political reasons. The real question is whether it placates AIPAC.
Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 22 2025 8:02 utc | 13
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Exactimundo.
What I am wondering: Could Trump make a deal with Iran to sort of support Israel (performance of same) but throw Occupied Pal under the bus by letting Iran continue to pummel in return for Iran’s not closing Hormuz and tanking US + world economy?
When does Iran start to bomb the Gaza Wall so that Gazans can escape and food can get in? Is this outside the realm of the possible?

Posted by: Jane | Jun 22 2025 11:50 utc | 173

🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 A series of explosions rocked Bushehr, Iran — home to the country’s Rostec operated nuclear power plant — according to reports from Nour News.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 11:50 utc | 174

@osc_london Open Source London
Posts include pics:

On 21 June 2025, President Trump announced the US had struck Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility with GBU-57A/B MOP bunker busting bombs. High-resolution imagery taken on 22 June 2025 shows the site after it had been struck.
Comparison of imagery before and after the strikes reveal changes to the terrain above the Fordow Nuclear Facility.
Including subsidence, or the collapse of earth, along the ridgeline above the site and possible missile entry points on the side of the mountain.
The strike appears to have targeted parts of the facility that Iran had constructed into the mountain and then later covered.
Historical imagery from 2009 shows these buildings under construction at these locations.

https://nitter.net/osc_london/status/1936716587085762986

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:53 utc | 175

@145
Perhaps Hinduism would suit her better.

Posted by: Fred777 | Jun 22 2025 11:53 utc | 176

see the 11-second video at the first/second link
see the 49-second video at the third link
https://x.com/IranNuances/status/1936685676684009558
Iran Nuances @IranNuances
IRGC Statement: #Iran launched 40 solid & liquid-fuel missiles. For 1st time, multi-warhead Kheibarshekan ballistic missile was used for precise, devastating strikes on Ben Gurion Airport, #Israel’s biological research center & command centers. Main capacities not yet operational
https://x.com/IranNuances/status/1936667413585527269
Iran Nuances @IranNuances
IRGC Statement: #Iran’s new (20th) wave of attack, using a mix of long-range liquid & solid-fuel missiles with devastating warheads, targeted: 1- Ben Gurion Airport, 2- #Israel’s Biological Research Center, and 3- Support bases & various command and control centers.
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1936697748474208302
Arya – آریا @AryJeay
Haaretz:
After Iranian missiles hit “Israel,” the Israeli army separated foreign journalists from Israeli journalists so that they could not cover the site of the missile strikes.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 22 2025 11:54 utc | 177

Some thoughts:
Trump has now made it easy for Israel to back out by claiming to have destroyed the Iranian nuclear programme.
Israel claims that it attacked Iran because the country was close to finalising a nuclear bomb.
Israel could now stop all attacks because the reason for them no longer exists. Iran has said that if Israel stops attacking, it will stop too.
This would provide Israel with a reasonably face-saving way of ending the war.
A few other issues would remain, but this would be an exit strategy for Israel in the short term.

Posted by: Overwatch | Jun 22 2025 11:55 utc | 178

Hamburger | Jun 22 2025 11:43 utc | 173
Agree but rumble loads like shit for me and then crashes way too much for my razor thin tolerance
I don’t have a yt account, and have as much tracking as possible turned off…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 22 2025 11:56 utc | 179

Waiting for the insurance declaration that will close the straits of Hormuz to vessels using Western insurance. Iran is probably now on the phone with Lloyds of London. Lloyds is now responsible for pulling the insurance. Or, it’s liable for the damage. It’s played out like this several times but I wonder who notices.

Posted by: Ralph Conner | Jun 22 2025 12:00 utc | 180

series of explosions rocked Bushehr, Iran — home to the country’s Rostec operated nuclear power plant — according to reports from Nour News.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 11:50 utc | 176
These people are really pushing their luck.
I hope Putin stops fellating the “Russian speaking people” of occupied Palestine in light of this.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 12:03 utc | 181

statesponsor of terrorism, uk, has spoken:

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇬🇧 BREAKING: ‘If Iran attacks U.S. personnel we will consider it an attack on a NATO country’ – United Kingdom

we attack you, and if you retaliate, we consider this an attack. sounds like the eternal victim.
western values.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 12:05 utc | 182

we attack you, and if you retaliate, we consider this an attack. sounds like the eternal victim.
western values.
Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 12:05 utc | 184
The mouse will consider an attack on the elephant as an attack on himself.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 12:07 utc | 183

Posted by: paddy | Jun 22 2025 11:15 utc | 156 “If there were six B-2’s in Iranian airspace the Russian S-400 stationed around the nuclear plant they own probably have a lot of track data for use when they want. Probably share with PRC.”
Evidently there were 7 B-2’s in Iranian airspace.
The consensus seems to be that Iran never got the S-400’s. And the IDF has been destroying the Iranian air defense radars with both manned and unmanned platforms. So there was likely no track data recorded.

Posted by: ed4 | Jun 22 2025 12:09 utc | 184

Iranians are very wise, and they are continuing to pound Haifa and the port, Lod airport and IDF command and control centers in their counterstrikes……
The US and the IDF have failed in the latest adventure – Kordow is still operational and the Iran’s strategic missile forces are intact as shown in the counterstrike today…
All this nonsense has accomplished is to spike world oil prices and bring on a world recession.

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 22 2025 12:10 utc | 185

Posted by: Overwatch | Jun 22 2025 11:55 utc | 180
I think that would be an excellent idea but I doubt Netanyahu will take it.

Posted by: ed4 | Jun 22 2025 12:11 utc | 186

see the photo at the first link
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1936740699929514221
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman
WHEN ISRAELI TERRORISTS PUT MY NAME ON A MISSILE FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST GENOClDE
All I have to say is…
BOOM BOOM TEL AVIV
https://x.com/IranNuances/status/1936735103658422601
Iran Nuances @IranNuances
#Iran FM: While dialogue is accepted in our logic, we’re currently not in a position to decide on returning to talks or starting new ones with Western parties. We must wait, be patient, & respond proportionally to aggressions. Only when these actions stop we’ll consider diplomacy
https://x.com/MFA_China/status/1936746209764643166
CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 @MFA_China
China strongly condemns the U.S. attacks on Iran and bombing of nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the IAEA.
The actions of the U.S. seriously violate the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law, and have exacerbated tensions in the Middle East.
China calls on the parties to the conflict, Israel in particular, to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible, ensure the safety of civilians, and start dialogue and negotiation.
China stands ready to work with the international community to pool efforts together and uphold justice, and work for restoring peace and stability in the Middle East.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 22 2025 12:12 utc | 187

Playing along with American deception is the fastest road to death.
First you’re the player, then you’re the game.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 8:41 utc | 38
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It seems to me that Iran can “play along with the deception” while still pursuing its own aims and continuing to hammer Israel.
After all, it’s what people do, not what they say, that counts . . .
I should think that chess-inventor Iran/Persia could figure out how to do so without outright lying.
(Aside: I wonder whether Trump ever gets a mental workout by playing any board or card games at all, like, with his grandchildren . . . Even “Go Fish” requires some concentration and focus . . . )

Posted by: Jane | Jun 22 2025 12:13 utc | 188

The 20 US bases in the region are actually there to protect the various regimes from their own people. As quid pro quo, the regimes pegged their currencies to the dollar and supply oil and gas to keep the West running smoothly. Iran will not likely attack those bases, otherwise people may rally ’round their rulers’ flags. Focus on the fragile Zionist entity, building consensus within OIC, while cooking up genuine Islamic Revolutions among the masses. NO KINGS, remember.

Posted by: Taliwang | Jun 22 2025 12:17 utc | 189

I’d imagine Iran is wasting its time here – the UN is a captured body.
“Iran submitted an urgent letter to the United Nations Security Council condemning the US attack on its facilities.”
Read the letter here.
https://nitter.poast.org/GlobeWarReport/status/1936681908412493869#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jun 22 2025 9:03 utc | 55
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I very much doubt that Iran is “wasting its time.”
There is always value in dotting the i’s and cross the t’s.
Get it in writing, follow the rules, create a record.
One never knows what the future will bring.

Posted by: Jane | Jun 22 2025 12:21 utc | 190

international community to pool efforts together and uphold justice, and work for restoring peace and stability in the Middle East.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 22 2025 12:12 utc | 187
Yeah. Exactly as they did for Gaza.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 12:23 utc | 191

“Leave it to Bibi” (Brookings, Chapter 5):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
I’m calling it “Project 2009”.

Posted by: bill wolfe | Jun 22 2025 12:30 utc | 192

osted by: tobias cole | Jun 22 2025 12:10 utc | 185
I have become a bit obsessive watching marine tracker. No tankers going to Israel – all departed. Haifa is not operational.
There is a massive build up of anchored tankers near ports in Oman and UAE. I assume they are waiting to know what will happen before heading elsewhere

Posted by: watcher | Jun 22 2025 12:30 utc | 193

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The Iranian parliament has unanimously reached the decision to close the Strait of Hormuz
Now, the final decision rests with the Supreme National Security Council and the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
@Middle_East_Spectator

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 12:33 utc | 194

Pentagon news conference over….pure Bs…..the IDF now dictates all US armed forces operations.
Bibi in control of the US military….we relied on fake IDF intell, just like the fake WMD intell in Iraq….so predictable…..so fake…..
Bibi the madman runs the show….that alone should caution any sane governmental official in the US…..

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 22 2025 12:34 utc | 195

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 22 2025 11:50 utc | 176
The Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan horse will do absolutely NOTHING of course…It is quite the opposite: In his mind the evil clown and his Bagage like Lavrov is celebrating right now.
The evil clown is on a direct way to fulfill his mission, which he received over 30 years ago…
One only has to look again at the interview of Lavrov on an ARAB TV channel, in which he said “our first priority is the security of Israel”…
The Russian population is in a state of collective mental paralysis that they are unable to recognize the hard simple truth.
Otherwise, the Jewish-neoliberal clown would have been hanging from the arm of Mother Russia in Stalingrad long ago, along with his bagage!
I hope that at least ISLAMIC Russia will wake up now. First of all, the Achmat special forces should refuse to continue fighting and return to their homeland! That would be a first important sign!

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Jun 22 2025 12:37 utc | 196

bigdick 191 – back to Lod airport with you, or what is left of it…..IDF troll !
Kordow is still operational…….

Posted by: tobias cole | Jun 22 2025 12:37 utc | 197

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jun 22 2025 12:33 utc | 195
Please show the documentation of your assertion about closing the Strait of Hormuz

Posted by: canuk | Jun 22 2025 12:38 utc | 198

“Bibi the madman runs the show…”
Posted by: tobias cole
If that were the case, Tehran would look like the Gaza Strip.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 22 2025 12:38 utc | 199

Why can you not accept that Trump is a raving zionist lunatic and a con-artist?
Posted by: jure | Jun 22 2025 8:05 utc | 17
So let it be written, so let it be said.
Did Jared say that or did I?
Open secrets hiding in plain view?
You bet your life!

Posted by: elmagnostic | Jun 22 2025 12:40 utc | 200