Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran’s leadership must - if they haven’t already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Washington Post: ‘Israel will only be able to maintain shooting down Iranian ballistic missiles for 10 or 12 more days, then they will need to start rationing munitions’
This could explain why Iran is opting to launch small but consecutive waves. Iran is likely using up some of their older / less sophisticated missiles to deplete Israeli defenses, to make way for the ‘real’ stuff later on. This is attritional warfare.
In most cases, a small wave of 3-5 Iranian ballistic missiles is enough to prompt the launch of about 10-15 Israeli interceptor missiles, with each one costing at least $12 million dollars (in the case of THAAD).
In contrast, even Iran’s most modern missile, the Fattah-1, only costs about $200,000 to produce. If we assume 12 interceptors for one Fattah-1 missile (as seen in a video today), that means Israel is spending $144 million dollars to ‘intercept’ (or not) a single Iranian hypersonic missile.
This is simply not sustainable. Within about two weeks, if Iran keeps up the current pace of fire, Israeli airspace will be at the mercy of Iran’s far larger and more destructive solid fuel missiles. Unless, of course, the U.S. intervenes directly.
From @Middle_East_Spectator, good analysis that lines up with a lot of what we’ve been saying here.
CNN
WhatsApp responds to Iranian government’s warning to residents to stop using the app
WhatsApp is concerned by the Iranian government’s warning to residents to stop using its app, a spokesperson for the company said in a statement Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, Iran’s state-run news agency IRIB reported that the Iranian regime warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other “location-based applications,” saying that they are some of Israel’s “main methods to identify and target individuals.”
“We’re concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most,” a WhatsApp spokesperson said The spokesperson stressed that WhatsApp does not track users’ precise location and that all messages are end-to-end encrypted.
“All of the messages you send to family and friends on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, meaning no-one except the sender and recipient has access to those messages, not even WhatsApp. We do not track your precise location, we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging, and we do not track the personal messages people are sending one another,” the spokesperson said.
“We do not provide bulk information to any government,” the spokesperson said. “For over a decade, Meta has provided consistent transparency reports that include the limited circumstances when WhatsApp information has been requested.”
Macron fears regime change chaos as Trump ups threats on Iran https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/fearing-chaos-macron-opposed-using-military-force-against-iran-regime-change-2025-06-17/
But he was cheering “Israel right to defend itself against Iran” even though they struck first. Wtf did he think was the goal
If the Fattah-1 can just dance though an entire barrage of AA missiles, then Israel and US military bases/carriers in the region are in deep shit
bro THIS is the guy leading the war evangelicals think will cause the third impact or something
Instead of war with Iran, Trump posts about two new flag poles that will be installed
: “It is my Great Honor to announce that I will be putting up two beautiful Flag Poles on both sides of the White House, North and South Lawns. It is a GIFT from me of something which was always missing from this magnificent place. The digging and placement of the poles will begin at 7:30 A.M. EST, tomorrow morning. Flags will be raised at approximately 11 A.M. EST. These are the most magnificent poles made - They are tall, tapered, rust proof, rope inside the pole, and of the highest quality. Hopefully, they will proudly stand at both sides of the White House for many years to come!”Meanwhile, in Kiev… (Russian missiles striking Kiev regime military industrial targets).
Kabooms: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Kyiv-1.mp4?_=1
Cruise missile zooms overhead into a nearby target: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Kyiv-3.mp4?_=3
Strikes on military industrial targets: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Kyiv-7.mp4?_=7
Aftermath of strikes, a military industrial zone on fire: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Kyiv-6.mp4?_=6
Trump has an update on… his two beautiful Flag Poles.
It is my Great Honor to announce that I will be putting up two beautiful Flag Poles on both sides of the White House, North and South Lawns. It is a GIFT from me of something which was always missing from this magnificent place. The digging and placement of the poles will begin at 7:30 A.M. EST, tomorrow morning. Flags will be raised at approximately 11 A.M. EST. These are the most magnificent poles made – They are tall, tapered, rust proof, rope inside the pole, and of the highest quality. Hopefully, they will proudly stand at both sides of the White House for many years to come!”
Source: The Guardian
If the poles aren’t gold - I’m gonna be disappointed. Very, very disappointed.
Jordan shooting down drones.
Fuck Jordan.
first Fatah -1 usage by Iran - going unbothert through 12? interceptors in the footage.
A large batch of Operation True Promise III videos for today.
A news article containing many impressive videos of the Mossad headquarters and the Glilot military intelligence Unit 8200 base getting pounded today: https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-targets-israels-unit-8200-near-tel-aviv
The Iranian defense ministry released a video showing its air defenses recently shooting down a Zionist F-35: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1440392.html
One of today’s Iranian missile waves flying into Tel Aviv: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1440959.html
Another Zionist air defense missile flew back into itself: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1440942.html
And another Zionist air defense failure: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1441014.html
Zionist air defense missiles keep detonating too soon (more failures): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1441021.html
Haifa’s industrial zone on fire: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1439336.html
Chaos is breaking out in the underground Zionist bunkers: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/17/1439506.html
Khojir Aerospace complex was just hit near Tehran, a key ballistic missile production and research facility, and next door to the Parchin nuclear facility. Both sites were protected by S-300PMU-2 and HAWK air defence systems, likely destroyed by previous Israeli airstrikes in October of last year or just before this current attack for some of the HAWK batteries, Iran has a ton of those.
I said something to this effect yesterday, but it’s pretty incredible how as soon as there’s a chance of war, the news media gets in line and never questions whether the US should get involved in the first place.
An Iranian missile that paid no attention to 12 Israeli interceptor missiles https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1935129577770152064
