Personally I think both Iran and Russia are preparing much more devastating responses. Time will tell.
I could definitely be wrong, but I would also venture that Russia will not allow Iran to fall just as China would not allow Russia to fall, because they’re all too familiar with the domino theory. [Syria was a house of cards that couldn’t be saved.]
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 15:50 utc | 585
It would make more sense for china to make a move to support.
China needs iranian oil
China is not an iranian neighbor/quasi-rival
Big question, what and how (when, how soon is also a good question)
How, might/should include pakistan

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 13 2025 16:26 utc | 603

People have been chased off for saying that Putin is especially lenient on Israel because he is himself Jewish. They were laughed at or called trolls. Well the evidence was always there that his mother was Jewish even if his father may not have been. I still believe Putin has Jewish origins , but until now I always thought that -in at least matters of state-his Soviet Russian Nationalist Secular upbringing and values always prevented any emotional kneejerk instinctive sympathy for the Jews and Israel .
Well we will see.

Posted by: Mustee | Jun 13 2025 16:28 utc | 605

“Just release the Epstein files with Trump’s name in them.”
Posted by: Shahmaran
And then what? He will be replaced by another Zionist puppet.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 13 2025 16:29 utc | 607

MSM keeps pushing stories about Israel’s spy networks in Iran—using Iranian nationals. Look, I back Iran’s strength and actions here 100%. But let’s be real: if some Iranians are willing to sell out to Israel, it’s because they’re that fed up with the regime. No amount of bribes works unless people are already broken inside.
Posted by: Cable Guy | Jun 13 2025 13:02 utc | 389
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Iran has an extreme fringe of its minority fifth column types, who might be willing to take the proverbial 30 prices of silver.
Yet it’s the MIK types who are more obvious culprits, theres a reason why the USA has kept that deranged cult as per monsters.
The Kurds might also be suspects too, the US and Israel have been cultivating them for awhile.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Jun 13 2025 16:30 utc | 609

5thcolumn | Jun 13 2025 11:27 utc | 267
*** Once again, negligence, incompetence and relying on a “moderate” leadership on the part of Iran and others is doing the USUKIS’ work for them. NATO may be incompetent on their side, but they need not to worry if they always attack first and can expect little to no retaliation. Out of all the Chinese and Russian responses, Alaudinov is so far the only one who expressed something other than “deep concern”.
“I believe, of course, this is my personal opinion, that we need to declare mobilization. We need to prepare at least 500 thousand in advance, and in reality a million people. Call them up and start preparing them. Prepare them for the fact that the war has already begun, which we already know that it is going on, the Third World War. But it has already acquired new twists, new turns” (c) Apti Alaudinov ***
Strange to me how over quite some time now regular (self identified) Moslem posters on MoA don’t seem to approve of General Alaudinov — or at least tend to ignore him.
Why?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 13 2025 16:32 utc | 611

Anyone confirm these vids? On twitter maybe?
https://southfront.press/in-video-israeli-warplanes-mossad-commandos-destroy-iranian-missiles/

Posted by: drinky crow | Jun 13 2025 16:33 utc | 613

Harsh 443
” Most of the “regulars” are fucking old men who have nothing to do all day except “play war games”, in their living rooms.
Fucking narcissists, for whom the only thing that matters is whether they get their predictions right, and their ego, validated. ”
Projection , pure and simple. The war gamers on MoA have absolutely nothing either morally or intellectually significant to say about anything.
But when war starts, their moral and intellectual vacuums , their nihilist “I think therefore I am” smells death, and they suck on the smell of death like a swarm of green , shiny bluebottles on a plate of Catfood, laying eggs and squirting digestive enzymes into their dead prey.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 13 2025 16:36 utc | 615

“secretive”
https://southfront.press/israel-used-secretive-air-launched-ballistic-missile-in-attack-on-iran-videos/

Posted by: drinky crow | Jun 13 2025 16:39 utc | 617

Giyane | Jun 13 2025 16:36 utc | 621
I concurr.

Posted by: Harsh | Jun 13 2025 16:43 utc | 619

Donald just smugly announced that all the hard liners are dead.
Does not bode well.
Posted by: ld | Jun 13 2025 15:53 utc | 584
What if Trump is lying? No longer can he pretend that he is being lied to.
Lying seems to be all that anyone affiliated with the Master Liars of the world squatting in Israel is good at.
Yes, let’s see how the actual Truth shakes out in the coming days, like it always does.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jun 13 2025 16:59 utc | 621

As we saw many times previously it is not really viable to plan to “bomb a nation into submission”. Yemen? Iraq? Afghanistan? Serbia? Ukraine? the Palestinians? Hezbollah? What happened in Syria and Libya is the only way to achieve this – and then you are typically left with a mess. Iran has a lot of resources and fairly advanced military technology. They likely could produce nuclear weapons in short order. They certainly have enough enriched uranium to do so. They are a major player in the world oil and gas markets, they can control the Strait of Hormuz.
Likely they will respond in a measured way, trying to do some visible damage without triggering an existential response from Israel.
Will the US overtly enter the conflict? This is a question.
We can assume no more talks, so what will the US response be to that?
Likely the US hopes to support Israeli attacks and avoid direct blame while hopping to either provoke an ‘over reaction’ that will justify further escalation, but ultimately they want regime change and de-facto surrender to US diktats. If Iran can tolerate what Israel dishes out while doing some damage in return, but resist demands to capitulate while maintaining general popular support then that will be success I think.
Will they start building nukes?

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 13 2025 17:01 utc | 623

So offline, not destroyed
“Air defences active in Tehran
Our colleagues in Tehran are reporting that Iran’s air defence systems are countering an attack on the capital.
We will bring you more information as we get it.”

Posted by: NewbieAir defences a | Jun 13 2025 17:07 utc | 625

Weird logic. Syria was “saved” by the United States as in they overthrew Assad and instated a regime loyal to them.
Posted by: Tichy | Jun 13 2025 15:57 utc | 586
Syria’s just another Afghanistan-like quagmire that the West can ill afford. Russia knew that and didn’t bother.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 17:12 utc | 627

Please ignore the accident with username @631, paste problem
Meanwhile, just read a phrase that reminded me of what I said earlier, namely
“Just heard a bit of bibi , he’s doing a Ukraine and betting the farm on regime change…
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 13 2025 1:07 utc | 188”
And the phrase
“But completely halting Iran’s nuclear program is likely beyond the means of the region’s only nuclear weapons power without the open support of its U.S. ally — and possibly even with it, security experts believe.
“Israel by itself cannot completely halt the program. Only toppling the regime can do that. Anything less achieves at most a delay for X number of years. X being dependent on the level of success of the strikes,” Eado Hecht, of the BESA Center for Security Studies in Israel, told Newsweek.”
So victory condition seems to be “regime change”
Tall order…

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 13 2025 17:16 utc | 629

Six pages of bollocks. US commentators on MoA have to understand how the world works. The bad and the Ugly , USUKIS , kicks the shit out of the world’s barflies drinking in the saloon bar.
They hand over their dollars.
Clinty is on their trail and will leave a pile of corpses. Pan pipes fade.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 13 2025 17:18 utc | 631

Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺
@ejmalrai
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38m
Israel is trying to degrade Iran’s stockpile of missiles but is failing to do so. It has destroyed several warehouses, but that is far from deterring Iran; this is why Benjamin Netanyahu is asking the Israelis to have patience. For the first time, the society and the op[postion are behind him and forgot about the Israeli prisoners in Gaza and the Gaza war. There is a greater objective to bring down the Iranian system.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jun 13 2025 17:20 utc | 633

Important to keep close watch on events in Gaza and the West Bank. This operation in Iran is also timed to coincide with severe deprivation/strikes on Gaza with the hope of rechanneling RoW attention to Iran. Could Netanyahu who has the complete backing of the country, use this as a means of distracting from the complete obliteration of Gaza and West Bank.

Posted by: abierno | Jun 13 2025 17:22 utc | 635

Israel’s operation against Iran’s nuclear program

Mary Rubio: “Daddy? I didn’t break the vase in the living room. No. It wasn’t me.”
Israel is just the bag man. The US has been planning this for decades, first pretending to negotiate, making sure the deal is turned down, and “Leaving it to BiBi”.
American planes, American ordinance, American controlled air space and territory.
– – – –
–Israel needs to fly over Jordanian & Iraqi airspace impossible without US permission.
–Israel needs refueling assets and flanking squadrons.
–They need permission to use American weapons & ordinance; the US has total leverage if it threatens to cut any off.
–They need ISR from American satellites, as well as real-time terrein reconnaissance, target selection, terrein mapping.
–Co-ordinates are vetted by US personnel; the notion that drones/missiles can be programmed to hug terrein, home in on targets, weaving between mobile AD assets to strike hundreds of kilometers deep without US programming based on US ISR assets is fanciful.
–They need AWACs and EW and refueling assets in the air.
–They need to configure decryption modules to process American signals for positioning and targeting.
»The American role in all this is active technical facilitation and hands-on action.
Any dissembling about American proxies doing their own thing and plausible deniability, pretending America is a neutral party above the fray, striving for peace, is entirely disingenuous, serving only marketing narratives in the sphere of public discourse, but entirely separate from any real considerations that guide action.

Posted by: Webej | Jun 13 2025 17:23 utc | 637

Posted by: chunga | Jun 13 2025 16:21 utc | 602
A major cyber attack wiped out all their defensive system communications plus all electronic personal communications all night. The pilots scrambled, but were flying blind, so couldn’t see targets. Utter chaos.
They are now communicating strictly by landline & courier. Commanders are geographically distributed in pairs.
This clearly will slow down planning.
I wish they’d shut up (actually wish they had long ago), but now they have to keep talking about coming major retaliation because the people are actively demanding it.

Posted by: Mary | Jun 13 2025 17:25 utc | 639

Shock and Awe worked, Israeli media is playing the effects to the max. First news are arriving that the impact may not be so deep at a second look.
The bar responds emotionally, from fear “o what have they brought on themselves” we swing to “Iran are bumbling fools”.
Some things will happen now – Iran will transition from pre-war army to a war army. Israel spent a shot that took them years to prepare at a moment when Iran is more or less at one of the low points of the nuclear program. The question is, does that take out Iran’s will (ignore the loud mouth statements from IRGC) or the capability? Iran is a large country and the attacks all just hit the west.
I think Iran was deeply coopted, let’s see if that card can be played again.
As to Trump’s threats to Iran it is questionable if more attacks can be pulled off at the same scale.
Iran is shellshocked now and has to purge and tighten up security before any other steps are taken.
They would be well advised to only use mobile hypersonics launchers for now. They may want to bomb places like Jordan for punishment, that could backfire though if that drives the country to the US side.
Iran will have to wisen up – ask Russia for EW hardening, maybe some Gerans and Lancets.
AD probably was blown up to a large extend, those security failings need to be worked through. 99% this was lazy commanders not moving their hardware, neglecting borders and perimeters.
Iran also rests on the Syrian and Yemeni proxies, this also led to some laziness.
They may have to think about the ground war aspects of this now and how to go more asymmetrical.
Taking attacks in fortress mode sounded nice on paper. Maybe a few containerized drones and missiles and some AD close to Cyprus on civilian ships would look different.

Posted by: SOS | Jun 13 2025 17:26 utc | 641

@610
Putin is not Stalin.
You are wrong on the Korea police action of 1950.
Stalin supported Grandpa Kim of NK from the start in June 1950.
Mao came in at Nov 1950, with order of battle provided by USA through taking it from Chiang. Stalin was not consulted by Mao who had to get his arms from Chiang in the revolution.

Posted by: paddy | Jun 13 2025 17:30 utc | 643

So offline, not destroyed
“Air defences active in Tehran
Posted by: NewbieAir defences a | Jun 13 2025 17:07 utc | 631
A cyber attack took out all their defensive & private communications throughout the attack. They couldn’t see incoming. Pilots scrambled but couldn’t see targets.

Posted by: Mary | Jun 13 2025 17:33 utc | 645

“Donald just smugly announced that all the hard liners are dead.”
Because Trump isn’t constantly tweeting stupid shit and absurd nonsense all the time.
The only question would be: Why?
Is this some strategy of him to post a lot of chaotic BS without sense.
Is he really believing all this?
Or is he simply just that ‘reddit kid’.
Of course the first question would be, if that is really him posting there or some social media team – in which case the ‘strategy’ part would likely be close to the truth. Poker face by acting deranged.

Posted by: Beatrice | Jun 13 2025 17:49 utc | 647

Pepe Escobar’s comment on X:
“Russia will continue to contribute to the de-escalation of the conflict between Iran and Israel.”
That’s as lame as it gets. “Conflict”? This is a bloody WAR.

Posted by: spudski | Jun 13 2025 18:01 utc | 649

Israel firing interceptors, gave warning a couple minutes ago missiles incoming to tel aviv.
According to live reporter for NewsMax.
Dont expect much from Iran.
Definitely dont expect Russia to intervene. They have their hands full and this isnt much their fight.
And China? Forget it.

Posted by: UWDude | Jun 13 2025 18:10 utc | 651

remain in shelter order indefinitely given to all Israeli citizens

Posted by: UWDude | Jun 13 2025 18:18 utc | 653

russia too late in offering nuclear power stations to Iran that might have diffused the situation likethey assisted Assad by dealing with their chemical weapons?? Though the Infiltrated OPCW and UK were involved in their upsetting this scheme.
Should OPCW and IEAEinftratedand perverted by Isr, be targeted by Iran?
As USA said to Iran surrender back to the stone age or die,should Russia now say to USA liars ( we know you knew about the nuclear triad attack on russian bases in conjunction with Mossad and UK) no more delusional peace talk swith Ukraine negotiations, Ukraine must surrender or be sent back to the stoneage?

Posted by: Jo | Jun 13 2025 18:25 utc | 655

the absolute hypocracy that the west ie supporters themsselves bought and sold to Isr. are asking Iran to stay calm not escalate…return to diplomacy-yeah just like Iran in good faith negotiations was total subterfuge.

Posted by: Jo | Jun 13 2025 18:34 utc | 657

Putin is not only correct but strategic in his efforts to restrain Netanyahu and to advise constrained response by Iran. This comes from the same playbook that has allowed Russia to not only win remarkable territorial gains in the Ukraine but also maintain the moral high ground which is critical to international narrative and support. His position is strategic insofar as Israel is crumbling – it is an international pariah, distrusted by all but neoZionists running UK/US/EU; many, many of the professional class (which are significant contributorts to the country) have fled, leaving the Haredi (who do not work) and the rabid settlers; kibbutzim have not returned to either the north or the south; opposition to the Netanyahu government are not only at a cacophony of the people, but also highly capable military/intelligence leaders whom he has sidelined for disagreeing with his engatement in multi front wars which have essentially bankrupted Israel. Iran et al win by drawing out the conflict as long as possible, and directing their efforts to not only military action but in the diplomatic realm and most important the economic realm, especially as regards disruption of energy markets.
Not the least of the narrative – while Israeli citizens huddle in bomb shelters, worry about surviving an intense Iranian response – he is reported to have left the country, sheltering in the highly protected Akrotiri military base in Cypress. Just like his son who is basking on the beaches of Miami. Nuff said.

Posted by: abierno | Jun 13 2025 18:39 utc | 659

Putin is a complicit collaborator with baby killers, no less than SA and rest are.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 13 2025 18:48 utc | 666
Oh yes, keep piling on Putin when the likes of Bibi, Zelensky, Biden and now sadly Trump have been stacking the bodies ever higher. How many kids did Bush & Obama drone, too? Your PDS is on full display.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 18:54 utc | 661

Regarding the role of Russia in all this mess.
Russia is a State that has only one purpose ahead. Exist and persist for its citizens, people or whatever…
Russia has no obligations to assist others Nation-states, except in the case there is one signatured treaty of mutual compromise.
You are very wrong when you write about the Russia’s betrayal of Syria.
Russia was telling Asad that the Syrian military was a mess. The military in Syria were sleeping in the ground, without basic wages, without equipment, because the Syrian government was wasting the input of Russian’s money, assets & HELP, without measurement
Russia has many contracts with Iran, but no one of them says Russia must assist Iran in the case of a military conflict.
It’ evident. There are 2 million Russian people in Israel whith Russian passports.

Posted by: Harsh | Jun 13 2025 19:04 utc | 663

RE: Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 18:54 utc | 667
I don’t have PDS, am fully aware of who is stacking bodies up. But not interested in the slightest in hearing Putin dribble the same BS garbage the US does about “returning to the negotiating table”.
You like him? Fine… IMO, he’s a double faced, self-interest serving fuck off, like Erdogan.
Nuff said.
Back to Iran.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 13 2025 19:11 utc | 665

RE: Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 19:17 utc | 672
Agreed. Did anger me. The read out I mean.
I would rather the conversation as an “ally” to Iran had been:
“What do you need?
Planes? missiles? Radar systems? Drones?
How can I assist you to defeat your enemy?”
I’m stupid enough to still hope that an “off record” call like that may have taken place.
But that “hope” is dimming.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 13 2025 19:26 utc | 667

Apparently Israel’s getting a bit of payback now. Let’s see how round 1 goes.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jun 13 2025 19:43 utc | 669

IIRC Israel destroyed all of Iran’s air defence sometime last year (but never pressed subsequent attacks).
Now they destroy it all over again.
Today it is working.
The Iranians should christen it Lazarus.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jun 13 2025 19:47 utc | 671

Skimming the comments, it seems useful to hark back to some basics.
1)Strategic air attacks do not win wars. Tactical air attacks win battles. Turning battles won into a war won is what strategy is about.
2)Neither the Zionist enterprise (and its US funder) can defeat Iran with air war. Unfortunately, the reasons for this are the same reasons Iran cannot defeat the Zionist enterprise with air war either.
3)No aid defense system will ever stop air raids. All they can do is keep attrition from air raids at a rate low than the recovery rate, which depends on recovery rate. The ability to restore after depends on population, industrial resources, raw materials and political will—none of which can be obliterated by strategic air war.
4)Neither the US nor Israel can rationally contemplate land operations in Iran. Again, for the same reasons, Iran cannot rationally contemplate a march to the Mediterranean.
5)It is almost certain the US’ fundamental strategy for regime change is premised on punishing the people of Iran with economic sanctions, while hoping the local wealthy will turn to a so-called bourgeois democratic solution. The so-called theocracy is blended with the old Iranian ruling class, thus eager for compromise. At this point, it appears that the theocracy proper is still intent on ruling over the mass of the population with their oppressive and reactionary ideology, hence there is in fact a widespread resentment among large strata and non-Persian nationalities of the population at large. Hence hopes for some variant of a color revolution or a simple comprador coup (more like what seems to me to have happened in Bangla Desh not so long ago?) are not completely delusional, merely completely ruthless. The likelihood that a carrot-and-stick policy would pay off for them better however has the problem that the decaying US has fewer carrots to offer…and its domestic politics orient to intimidation, punishment and violence too.
6)Russia is tied down with the SMO. PRC/CPC is tied down by its apparent commitment to a capitalist world economy? It doesn’t want to hopes for alliance with its own nascent bourgeoisie in the mainland proper, much less in Hong Kong and Taiwan?
7)It’s not over till its over. The Zionist campaign isn’t over yet. The only thing to say for certain yet, is Iran has been hurt. It is highly doubtful that IRI had a weapons program, but it seems likely enough that enough damage has been wrought that even if they were to switch gears, it would be delayed for months. I think IRI could in fact restore sufficient operations, since the Zioniists cannot use strategic air war to stop it. If that was the goal, the Zionists have been defeated. Either regime change in alliance with local Iranian factions or escalation to nukes. Those underground sites are only temporarily crippled by damage to the surface parts of the nuclear industrial system.
8)The hunger plan extermination of Gaza Palestinians will not I think be impaired. Nor will further operations in Lebanon and Syria. The Houthis are reliant on strategic air, therefore they cannot win.
9)Noting that this is a reverse for Iran is not trolling. For that matter, neither is pointing out that adulation of a personal hero, whether Putin or Xi or the Revolutionary Guard Corps has been embarrassed. This shouldn’t even be an issue, counting on some Hero from somewhere else to save us, always has a lot of childishness to it. Childishness helps no one. For MoA, with its large contingent of Trump cultists, trying to reduce this to, are you for Trump or against him, is simply virtue signaling, of the MAGA variety. That’s as use less as all virtue signaling.
10)The world is already in hybrid WWIII. Just as the old fascist onslaught of WWII had years to play out, including very dark years where the fascists seemed to be winning, so too it can be for the US empire’s attempt to re-divide the world under its new, leaner, meaner hegemony. Final despair is unwarranted.
11)Just as IRI and the Zionist enterprise, domestic politics matters.
12)Everybody loses in a general exchange of nuclear weapons. There is no radioactive mode of production.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jun 13 2025 20:19 utc | 673

Posted by: Chrissie | Jun 13 2025 20:13 utc | 678
Probably better if North Korea did it, not just said, but did give them a few. Kim would probably get a kick out of blowing a raspberry at the West.
North Korea is not part of NPT.

Posted by: saner | Jun 13 2025 20:28 utc | 675

Isr Ambassador at U.N.
We must take action against a genocidal regime.

Posted by: Jo | Jun 13 2025 21:04 utc | 677

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 13 2025 21:43 utc | 684
shut the fuck up.
Shadowbanned was all bullshit and senantic tricks. His “analysis” was a bunch of hypotheticals, accentuated by a buch of exaggerating adjectives and adverns. analysis of his own hypotheticals, and a bunch of false mutually exclusive “choices” of his own design.
And you have to be an idiot not to recognize he still socks here, since all his dire predictions came to shit.

Posted by: UWDude | Jun 13 2025 21:55 utc | 679

Iranian Ambassador to Russia: Iran has become the first country in the world to shoot down an F-35 fighter jet.

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 13 2025 21:59 utc | 681

To all those who believe otherwise —
BRICS IS NOT A MILITARY ALLIANCE so its members have no obligation to buy into this fight either way, and
Bilateral “security arrangements” between nations DO NOT OBLIGATE THE PARTIES TO ENTER INTO FIGHTING ON THE OTHER’S BEHALF.

Posted by: UK Geoff | Jun 13 2025 22:24 utc | 683

Iranian Missiles Strike Tel Aviv: 63 Injured, 100 Homeless in Ramat Gan, Residents Trapped in Collapsed Building

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 13 2025 22:33 utc | 685

abierno | Jun 13 2025 18:39 utc | 665
*** Not the least of the narrative – while Israeli citizens huddle in bomb shelters, worry about surviving an intense Iranian response – he is reported to have left the country, sheltering in the highly protected Akrotiri military base in Cypress. Just like his son who is basking on the beaches of Miami. Nuff said.***
Did he take Miss Piggy’s ugly sister with him?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 13 2025 22:50 utc | 687

Israel’s attack followed the lopsided UN General Assembly vote on a Gaza ceasefire:
In favour 149
Against 12
Abstained 19

Posted by: jayc | Jun 13 2025 23:01 utc | 689

Here’s what I really think.
I hate Zionists, Israelis, Judaism, Jews, Islam, Muslims, Ayatollahs, all the Middle East antagonists. The whole fucking lot of them. No sympathy for either side. Because of their 5,000 year old religious perspectives, they deserve each other. I couldn’t care less if they wipe each other off the map. In fact I hope they do.

Posted by: True Feelings | Jun 13 2025 23:07 utc | 691

Amir Mousawi: One of the Iranian missiles struck the nuclear research center in Tel Aviv.
Iranian military spokesperson “Our next missile salvo will include almost 2000 missiles, at least 20x the size of the last salvo”
Egypt’s oil ministry has activated a contingency plan to ensure uninterrupted gas supplies and the power grid.
Egypt’s move comes after Israel shut down its largest natural gas field, cutting off gas supplies to Egypt and Jordan – Washington Post
The shockwave caused by the Iranian missiles in Tel Aviv
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1933667871055335556
Fox News has confirmed that Iran has struck the Israeli Defense Ministry.

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 13 2025 23:50 utc | 693

And the gay Khameini and his fatwa against nuclear weapons are also to blame for this…
And anyone who has one and would never allow its use, like gay Putin, will also be attacked again and again.
Shame on the Iranian counterattack – too weak, too little, too gay, like all those who believe they can defeat the West.
joe911 | Jun 13 2025 11:30 utc | 278
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Fixation on gaiety? Not to worry, some time ago, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured an interviewer “we don’t have that problem here.” And so far, Mossad has been kindly keeping that fraught closet door closed.

Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Jun 13 2025 23:51 utc | 695

It’s too bad that shadowbanned was chased off this site, as his analysis against weakness is now completely vindicated. I wonder what he thinks about these developments.
Posted by: Afro | Jun 13 2025 16:14 utc | 597

You can go back and read his analysis anytime you want on earlier pages right here. It’s not like it ever changes. His strategy was simple … always escalate faster and harder in every situation. Strangely enough, no one can point out a case where this method works, but every time someone has a problem you hear at least one moron saying, “Ahhh see you didn’t escalate enough”.

Posted by: Tel | Jun 14 2025 0:17 utc | 697

Nobody actually goes back and reads threads from five years ago. Situations change in a chaotic manner and it’s trivial to see that everybody was wrong on a regular basis.
Posted by: Afro | Jun 14 2025 0:33 utc | 706
I havent been.
I also dont go into hysterics over every single tiny thing that happens like he did.
Big Serge, like me, takes a very pragmatic view of the war, and has been right on just about everything.

Posted by: UWDude | Jun 14 2025 0:40 utc | 699