Iran Crisis & the 2026 War between Iran and the United States, Gulf States, and Israel - Please focus on news and coverage, not argumentation.

Technically the six day war but it was one of those "bomb them the day before they bomb us" sorta deals. And I think the second half of the independence war Israel started. So yes Israel was attacked first but then there was a cease fire and then Israel I think broke it.

It was a pre emptive strike but arguably more than justified given the mass build up of Arab forces seeking to crush them.
 
Technically the six day war but it was one of those "bomb them the day before they bomb us" sorta deals. And I think the second half of the independence war Israel started. So yes Israel was attacked first but then there was a cease fire and then Israel I think broke it.
Egypt started it by imposing a blockade on Eilat via closing the Strait of Tiran to Israeli ships. A blockade is an act of war
 
The Ayatollah is arresting anyone who is at all critical of the regime:
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"Wah, wah America, save us!!!" This isn't a fucking Marvel movie, we can't just send in Captain America to casserollah the Ayatollah on a moments notice. This is the first time in over twenty years we didn't have a carrier in the Gulf because we were busy putting America first. Give us time and maybe read up on how to be an insurgent so you can do something more useful than kill yourself. If you Persian camel fuckers act ungrateful after we free you I will go over there myself and burn all your fucking rugs.
 
The only negotiations with Khomeini should be Trump holding ayatollah's disembodied head and nodding it after making a statement.
Still, it's retarded for this guy to kill himself.
Yeah, like I get feeling helpless, but wouldn't the better move have been to have done a final act of insurrection against the oppressors?
 
True, but then maybe Trump shouldn't have given the impression that that was about to happen, or give the appearance of being prepared to make a deal with radical Islamists.
If that was all it took to push dude over the edge he wasn't built for revolution.

Unless you're Putin, In any conflict there is always at least the attempt to make it look like you negotiate first so that when the global community asks for justification for your actions you can say "well we tried to talk but they just couldn't be reasoned with" If he's got the network connection to get that video out to the world, he's got the information at his fingertips to see the obvious situation setting up around the country.
 
I heard the part of Tousi saying he's in contact with the guy's family but without confirmation I'm extremely skeptical.

Maybe it's the Reddit autist energy or the long dramatic pauses. The hand motions are almost Chris Chan tier.

His fellow dissidents are out there blowing up buildings finding gas leaks but instead of say, ambushing a Basiji and taking his machete to help the insurgency, he just an heros? Seems like a pointless waste.
 
MedMan continues to be the most based Middle Eastern news channel on Telegram:
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Nothing of interest is happening. Mostly cargo planes flying about. There's a KC-135 flying off the coast of Qatar.
 
Nothing of interest is happening. Mostly cargo planes flying about. There's a KC-135 flying off the coast of Qatar.

Today I have seen a real focus on picking up cargo from Fort Hood and hopscotching it across the Atlantic into theater.

Specifically, the C-5 traffic has focused on Fort Hood. I find that of particular note because we typically don't move stuff via C-5 unless we have to because of the size, weight, or re-assembly requirements (there are a lot of things that could be broken down to fit on other aircraft but the time to re-assemble would be too long for mission requirements).

We have over 200 C-17s between all the Air Force active and reserve components and approximately 50 C-5s. C-5s notoriously break down so the number of mission capable C-5s is some fraction of that.

What they're picking up from Hood, I'm not sure. Fort Hood has some amount of about anything the Army has to offer -- armor, aviation, artillery, air defense, medical, logistics, etc. They also have the busiest railroad terminal in the Army so it might not even be equipment maintained by a Fort Hood unit but shipped there from other installations.

I also just saw one of the C-17 RCH flights departing Fort Huachuca which would probably be some kind of SIGINT or other ISR equipment.
 
Specifically, the C-5 traffic has focused on Fort Hood. I find that of particular note because we typically don't move stuff via C-5 unless we have to because of the size, weight, or re-assembly requirements (there are a lot of things that could be broken down to fit on other aircraft but the time to re-assemble would be too long for mission requirements).
IMO a lot of the C-5 traffic my guess would be are moving THAAD and Patriot defense systems and setting them up at our other bases in the region around Iran.

Iran is promising to fire at every US base in the region if we do anything to them, and we'll want to be maintaining defense at those bases both for ourselves and to keep good relations with those countries that are as of now still wishy washy on supporting us taking action against Iran. Putting more missile defense systems in the region and preventing any Iranian shots from landing on their soil (and keeping them from hitting any of our assets obviously) will go a long way in keeping them on board with us taking action and operating out of the bases on their soil.
 
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