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

'Return of all Ukrainian land' has consistently been the narrative, but I'll stop dereailing. I don't disagree re: Putin FWIW.
Yeah, let's not derail the thread any more but I will want to say my final piece:

That demand of returning to 1991 borders hasn't been on the agenda from the Ukrainian side at any point during the negotiations. The negotiations from the Ukrainian side have been very simple for the last year: stop the conflict at present front lines, implement security guarantees for Ukraine that prevent Russia from attacking again. They have gone to great lengths of negotiating different forms of security guarantees, from joining EU, to what countries would send troops to peacekeeping etc.

And the negotiations have constantly fallen apart, because Russia won't budge on their demands for Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Russia currently controls like 40% of the land that they are demanding.

Sorry for the offtopic.
 
RaceWar please don't copy-paste claims made by Iran's strongest shill on xitter which they're writing from under Mojtaba's hospital gown, they hit a random home and the only part intact was the bomb shelter part of the home.
So that's where Fotros Resistance is getting their info?
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Sorry about that, I didn't read the post close enough.



Drone footage of the destruction at the impact site in Arad, southern Israel.



Israeli Minister of National Security Ben Gvir has arrived at the impact site in Arad, southern Israel.

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The number of injured in the Iranian missile attack on Arad, southern Israel, has risen to 88, including 7 in serious condition, according to Israeli Channel 12.

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Scenes from Rafsanjan, southeastern Iran. Reports indicate a warehouse has been struck and has been burning for hours.
 
the risk of catching nuclear counterfire would make an attack on Iran potentially too costly for the US to dare
iran could not reach the US with nuclear counterattacks, and it could certainly not overcome US missile defense capabilities

nuclear retaliation was a real concern with the soviet union because they actually had a massive nuclear arsenal and a large submarine fleet, so in case of nuclear war they could have hidden subs emerge everywhere around america and quickly launch loads of multi-warhead missiles at the US from relatively short range, from all possible directionss, making it very difficult for US missile defense to handle everything all at once, in addition to the road-mobile missiles and missile silos they had scattered all around the vast expanses of soviet territory (the USSR/russia is the largest country in the world by land area)

iran could at most hope to achieve a small number of land based ICBMs, with no hopes of concealing them, and virtually zero chance of successfully landing a hit on american soil.
 
iran could not reach the US with nuclear counterattacks, and it could certainly not overcome US missile defense capabilities

nuclear retaliation was a real concern with the soviet union because they actually had a massive nuclear arsenal and a large submarine fleet, so in case of nuclear war they could have hidden subs emerge everywhere around america and quickly launch loads of multi-warhead missiles at the US from relatively short range, from all possible directionss, making it very difficult for US missile defense to handle everything all at once, in addition to the road-mobile missiles and missile silos they had scattered all around the vast expanses of soviet territory (the USSR/russia is the largest country in the world by land area)

iran could at most hope to achieve a small number of land based ICBMs, with no hopes of concealing them, and virtually zero chance of successfully landing a hit on american soil.
There's always the non-zero chance they could build a suitcase nuke, or get a surface vessel close to CONUS and launch one from that.
 
Question for those far better versed in desert people politics- Why does Lebanon tolerate Israel bombing them on a whim all the fucking time? Does the country not have a unified government or any kind of military to tell them to fuck off or to retaliate?
because they can't do shit about it. lebanon has an extremely weak central government, the country is almost a failed state.
the lebanese army is smaller and weaker than hezbollah, hezbollah operates outside the law and independent of the lebanese government.

basically a big chunk of the country is controlled by a militia that ignores the government and constantly gets into slapfights with the jews down south, which results in the jews slapping them all the time. the leb government is too weak and inept to do anything about either of them.
 
The screeching from brownoids and lefties has convinced me that, after all is said and done, it must become legal in the West to hunt turd worldists like game animals. Whoever gets the kill shot receives all of his victim's assets.
 
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President Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum to open Strait of Hormuz or else the U.S. military will "obliterate" various power plants.

Trump needs to threaten Europe too. tell Macaron he's a cuck and his wives a troon. Also he needs to call Starmer a little bitch boy, and the cherry on top is when he tells Zelensky he's a pigroach beggar like DSP
 
There's always the non-zero chance they could build a suitcase nuke, or get a surface vessel close to CONUS and launch one from that.
I've always wondered about the feasibility of a suitcase nuke because it's a completely different thing than a raped suicide bomber with a barrel of TNT in their ass. An actual suitcase nuke is theoretically possible but highly infeasible because the technological difficulty in building one makes it a pointless endeavor to pursue.

A 'dirty bomb' is not a nuclear weapon. It's a conventional weapon with radioactive materials. It would cause a huge explosion and the radiation emitted would make it deadlier than the conventional munitions alone but the amount of damage it can actually do is far below a nuclear warhead. Dirty bombs are possible but luckily, no one's attempted to detonate one yet so it's still theoretical speculation at this point.
 
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President Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum to open Strait of Hormuz or else the U.S. military will "obliterate" various power plants.
We'll see. I have doubts that the regime is going to budge. Will Trump follow through? Because that will definitely cause unrest in the country if they hit some of those plants.

I wonder how serious this threat is, or is it simply trying to threaten Iran because sending in the additional ships to actually open the strait by force will take weeks.
 
We'll see. I have doubts that the regime is going to budge. Will Trump follow through? Because that will definitely cause unrest in the country if they hit some of those plants.

I wonder how serious this threat is, or is it simply trying to threaten Iran because sending in the additional ships to actually open the strait by force will take weeks.
At this point, he just needs to communicate to the Iranian people that their regime has put them all in a no-win scenario where there are going to be unfortunate casualties no matter what.
At least with Trump, they have a chance of being able to take down their foreign occupiers before their occupiers kill them all anyway.
 
Option 1: Strike energy infrastructure

Option 2: Seize Kharg Island and the Straits’ chokepoint

Option 1 is being signaled by Trump through that last tweet, and matches some of the talk of starting a draw down of forces. Bombing the infrastructure would probably doom the state, not much more to do at this point if thats the next target.

Option 2 is signaled by marine forces being sent over in recent days. And would align with talk earlier this week about finishing the job.

Trump could be sending out mixed signals to confuse the enemy or keeping his options open.
 
Option 1: Strike energy infrastructure

Option 2: Seize Kharg Island and the Straits’ chokepoint

Option 1 is being signaled by Trump through that last tweet, and matches some of the talk of starting a draw down of forces. Bombing the infrastructure would probably doom the state, not much more to do at this point if thats the next target.

Option 2 is signaled by marine forces being sent over in recent days. And would align with talk earlier this week about finishing the job.

Trump could be sending out mixed signals to confuse the enemy or keeping his options open.
Anyone hoping to predict what Trump is going to do based on what he tweets is going to be sorely disappointed.
 
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