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War On Iran: – U.S. Provocation Towards Further Escalation
The war on Iran continues to escalate.
Yesterday a U.S. Apache helicopter went down in the Strait of Hormuz near the coast of Oman. The pilots were saved. The U.S. at first did not claim any external influence for the incident. Only hours after it happened it claimed that an Iranian Shahid drone had hit the helicopter.
That claim is not plausible at all.
Shahid are point to point kamikaze drones. They get their target coordinates before they are launched. They are not radio controlled. They do not have the capability to maneuver against a moving target. They explode when they hit something.
Whatever happened to the downed helicopter it wasn’t a hit by a Shahid drone that took it down.
After the U.S. had suddenly claimed that Iran had caused the incident it announced to strike on Iran. Some 10 targets were bombed including radar, communication equipment and, in the port of Sirik, a desalination station.
Iran responded by firing some 20 missiles and drones against U.S. installations in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain.
Neither side has claimed casualties so far.
Today the U.S. hit an Indian vessel near the coast of Oman. One sailor was killed. India condemned the attack.
About an hour ago U.S. President Donald Trump announced more strikes against Iran.
In unconfirmed news Israel just mobilized some 280,000 reservists. Together with already mobilized forces that sums up to be near its full potential.
The situation is going to escalate. Tomorrow the region may well again be in a full fledged war.
Per al Mayadeen:
‘The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon released footage of an operation targeting Israeli military positions in the towns of #Naqoura and #Qantara in South Lebanon using one-way attack drones.’
https://nitter.poast.org/MayadeenEnglish/status/2064706276563529824#m
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2064702547865010176/vid/avc1/1920×1080/fF5GnkGYMrQDK80K.mp4
‘The moment Iranian missiles impacted the US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain, with an explosion seen in the background’
https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/2064539206085390666
Of course these videos show nothing substantive which is par for the course with very few exceptions when it comes to the resistance.
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US bombs Iran’s water facilities: Why that’s so significant
‘Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said US strikes, which hit targets including Sirik, Jask, Minab, Qeshm Island and the port of Bandar Abbas, had caused major damage to a telecommunications tower in the town of Sirik and destroyed two water reservoirs there.
Iran’s West Asia News Agency (WANA) news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing “available reports”, that two concrete water storage reservoirs in the Bamani district in the Sirik County of Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran, 1,012km (629 miles) from the capital, Tehran, had been hit in the US attacks.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/us-bombs-irans-water-facilities-why-thats-so-significant
Iran’s lakes are vanishing: Satellite images show a deepening water crisis: Years of drought, falling rainfall and unsustainable water use have been worsened further by the US-Israel war
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/9/irans-lakes-are-vanishing-satellite-images-show-a-deepening-water-crisis-2
Posted by: Agonizing Reappraisal | Jun 10 2026 17:41 utc | 18
psychohistorian @ 34
Is this what is going on? I have a hard time believing that Iran is letting ships slip through Hormuz at night like being postulated.
I Googled it: ~140 ships a day pre war, so if half got through that would be 70 ships and half the pre-war supply of oil, gas, and chemicals and still critical, but, half are not getting though, not even close, so even if a big number like 14 ships get “escorted” through a day that would be 10% of pre-war supply and insignificant. And, then where are they going? To the golden billion or the RoW? Split that in half, 5% of pre-war supply to the vassal states. The USA either gets the Strait fully open or it’s pissing in the wind.
Doctor Eleven @ 48
The reason oil and gas doesnt reflect actual prices is massive unprecedeneted manipulation of the oil futures market, just like precious metals. Wonder why that is? The Empire has suborned private banks to the task of bailing out the USD.
Exactly. Iran, Russia, China are buying time but to what end? To break the western economies, at least enough, to bring them to their senses, this is the resistance’s response to the hybrid war part talked about by Putin and Lavrov at the start of the SMO, a valiant attempt to prevent WW3, Russia and Iran are paying a high for it.
The USA response is to fudge the numbers and hope nobody notices, neoliberalism is all about fudged numbers, four decades of it, bullshit honed to deindustrialization cum asset inflation perfection, so the resistance is making a big play, and its patience and resources and populations’ fortitude will be severely tested. The USA economy despite the reality behind the bullshit will prove as resilient as Russia’s, China’s, and Iran’s, economies have a lot of inertia and the USA population already has 30ys of negative expectations and has gotten used to living in their cars and working for nothing.
USA figured Russia and Iran would collapse easily from the hybrid war, the resistance shouldn’t make the same mistake, meanwhile in the hot war thousands of good people die. Michael Hudson back in 2022 predicted 20ys, I hope he’s wrong but I think he’s right. Lot’s more death and destruction to come before the USA are economically exhausted, like Germany and Japan in the last war it might have to find itself crawling out of the still smoldering rubble before it figures out attacking Russia, China and Iran was an epochally bad idea.
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Looks to me like the USA made up the story of the downed Apache helicopter to renter the war, who is going to say otherwise? But, what do I know?
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 10 2026 20:00 utc | 68
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