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

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LateNightMuffin said:
A question for some of the military spergs here. What realistic strategic and tactical options were available to the Iranian military, faced with their overwhelming quantitative and qualitative inferiority, and the unpopularity of the regime? If any of you had been commander-in-chief of Iran, and had not been killed by either the US or Israel, and you couldn't surrender or defect, and your task was to do the best you could to "win" the war, however you define it, what would you have done? I'm asking in part because I'm not really seeing a lot of options, and I'm also not seeing that the options the Iranians are choosing are particularly helpful to whatever their endgame is. Attacking Azerbaijan? How does that help? Is their strategy just to take out as many of their enemy as they can on the way down? Or do they have something better in mind?
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Their only strategic option was to stop pissing off America by financing and arming Shiite militias to attack global shipping and Israel. Since they refused to do that, their next option was unconditional surrender. They refused to do that. Their final option is annihilation. They're attacking random neighbors because they were hoping that they'd all say, "Oh no, America, you're pissing off Iran, please stop!" Instead, they're saying, "WTF, Iran really is run by psychos. America, please destroy them."

They have no tactical options to win the war because America isn't trying to hold ground.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
Kanarab telegram:


Iran: So far, more than 12 hours after the announcement of the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei for the position of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, there has been no statement from Mojtaba, not even a written quote, and certainly no public appearance. [@SuleimanMas](https://t.me/SuleimanMas) reported a few days ago that Israel estimates he is seriously injured. It should be recalled that Zahra Haddad-Adel, Mojtaba's wife, was killed in the attack on Khamenei's office during the opening strike of the war.
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Ah, so he is a figure head for the IRCG.
 
StudMccool said:
so when you say go in to a trade its almost like saying pop down to hobby lobby and buy one of these back boys off the shelf.
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That advice was for you. You get a welding job and build the parts for this system like I did when I still worked. Then you might actually know what you are talking about. I spent 35 years on crossed-field amps, solid state capacitors and all sorts of other tubes and magnetrons as the company I worked for passed from one defense contractor to another and back again.

@StudMccool Take a step off the line and breathe. You start talking before you are ready.
 
Alphasnail said:
I sincerely hope this is the case. Brownoids and wignat anti-zog "resistance" ball washers like thomas777 have severely underestimated the decrepitude and malice in the Iranian state. I've known even traditionalist muslim Persians who seem quite content to be living in a "materialist Jewish playground" as opposed to the demented 7th century larp fair the ayatollah has kept up. The people are running out of water, the economy is dead and there's no excusing it. Sanctions can only do so much damage. Persia should be a rich and vibrant place, no matter the ruling party or ideology, but the irvc would rather play wily coyote games with the jews than do the bare minimum for their civilization. They sit at one of the most important straits in the world for God's sake. They couldn't put their fuck around games to rest for a decade and bide their time for a future conflict? It's pathetic that 90million people are living like mid century warsaw when they have so much to profit by. Ideals and religious war are no excuse. No sage worth his robes in the history of mankind would find the revolutionary regime acceptable if these are its fruits. Jewish subversion didnt miss spend all of the capital in Iran on fucking bunkers and speedboats. What were the kikes gonna do? Invade them? Put pork in the koobideh? Madness. People hate the jews so fucking bad they'd put their hand in a blender just to make Larry David grimace.
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Iran's autistic obsession with Israel really does make no sense, except in the context that the revolution always needs an enemy to fight against. The Jews quite literally did nothing to Iran. They are a thousand miles away ffs, and had more pressing concerns on their borders then to worry about Iran.
 
SaidNoOneEver said:
That is an option. If it were at all economical I have to believe they would've already done that at some point in the past 80 years.
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There is a long term, logical case for this, insane and disruptive as it is to pursue though. And it takes someone who truly doesn't give a fuck to pull off, too.

Iran's (and by extension Islamc "death to everyone except us retards) leverage has always been control of the Strait. They've saber rattled about cutting off global oil supply for decades every time someone gets serious about saying "You know what, fuck you and your shit stirring, Iran" Everyone has been worried about upsetting the global oil apple cart and meanwhile Iran has crept closer and closer to attaining nuclear arms which will remove ANY possibility of forcing the Strait open should they close it.

Sometimes ripping the bandaid off is the only solution to a festering problem. Prior to this, Trump flipped the table on the Venezuela oil supply to, in theory anyways, backfill it a little. I think it would have been smarter to develop that first, but I think that's his fault for listening to Bibi, who's been leaking precum since January 6th 2025 over the idea of flattening Iran.

Money and Corporate profits are like water. They will always seek the path of least resistance and if you put enough resistance in the Strait of Hormuz, the oil market will find a new path of least resistence. This new path will almost certainly be a little less cheap, no doubt, but it will also almost certainly put the pinch point of flow in the hands of another Gulf State.

And when/if that happens, eventually the Strait will reopen by one means or another. And now the oil from that area will have two established routes to the global market instead of one, removing the monopoly from Iran's power.

Am I happy Trump has landed us in another "we're done when we say we're done" military campaign in the MIC's litterbox? No. But I think I understand the reasoning for it.
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Let routes correct around Hormuz and leave it closed. Problem solved.
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I swear some people in this thread are so fucking retarded it makes me question what warranted them to have a confident opinion of Middle Eastern geopolitics without knowing the importance of the Persian Gulf oil trade is to the global economy at large.
 
namvata said:
Ok and why are the Iranian people supposed to be fine with that? They don't want a persian rump state surrounded by a bunch of ethnic enclaves, they want to get rid of their government. Seriously if you said that this was for sure gonna be the concrete result of this war to any Iranian monarchist or other dissident against the regime I guarantee they'd be strapping on those fucking martyrdom headbands before you could finish saying "MARG BAR AMRIKA" because you're effectively pledging to end Iran as a nation, which none of them want.
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Ok, and?
Why do browns think anyone owes them anything? Last time I checked, it wasn't my grandfather that marched to put goatfuckers in their government in the 70s. It was theirs.
This delusion the sandnigger diaspora in LA has where the West will basically kickstart their megachud nuclear zoroastrawhateverthefuck ethnostate is genuinely making me hope the heebs just fucking take the land.
Like I saw a post last week where they were whining in r/PERSIAN that reza promised he'd give up the nuclear program, because "we need nukes so no one can fuck with us", completely ignoring that if this nigga ever sits his ass on the throne it will be because the US fucked with them. Yeah, we should just let you have nukes, so that in a few decades, when you reislamize at the slightest loss of izzat, like turkey and every other brown shithole before you, you can just get a head start at rekking kafirs.
No, khazeem, you lost. Kurdistan will be free now.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
Cirnosad melting down and arguing that 4 of those systems have been taken out is some of the best content I've seen

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He's making up stories about how he knows where exactly every THAAD battery is and in what operational mode it's in:

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I remember when he was a tiny schizo account but he's gotten tons of followers all egging his egoistical posting on proclaiming him a prophet and he believes it.
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All the comments are anime pfp and pro Gaza fags. It's delusional.
StudMccool said:
south Korean news reported that THAADs and patriots were being moved out about 6 days ago
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Sir are you esl?
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
It is less profitable than the Strait, but entirely feasible. Once product gets moving again and we move past the aftermath of the stoppage, things will return to normal.
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No it's never going back to normal. We would all just have to get used to immediate doubling (minimum) of gas prices as the new normal floor. If it wasn't prohibitively expensive they would've already done it and removed Iran from the equation decades ago.
 
BigJoey41X said:
I swear some people in this thread are so fucking retarded it makes me question what warranted them to have a confident opinion of Middle Eastern geopolitics without knowing the importance of the Persian Gulf oil trade is to the global economy at large.
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It's going to be depressing, the next few weeks. Every strategic objective that's been stated will likely be achieved, but the retard corps will keep braying about a loss or a betrayal because they only decapitated the regime, buckbroke the missile, enrichment, and IRGC paramilitary programs, also the navy, basij, police, and drone industry, and reduced a nation state to the threat level of the Houthis, basically something you can ignore or keep swatting down as necessary. The Straits will reopen, but literally no one will learn what the difference between straight and strait. The right wing retard corps is influential, since so much of the right is anti-literate and anti-strategic in its orientation. They simply refuse to accept thought that's not serving their inner toddler. It would be sad if the narrative manages to sustain itself for any length of time into the summer.
 
Scale Smerch said:
Only TES niggers typically engage in such pathetic behaviour and are only second to those restricting their profiles. Such brown behaviour, many such cases.
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Thanks for spelling that out for everyone, McBain...
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Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
Ah, so he is a figure head for the IRCG.
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So was his dad in the final year of his life (if not longer).

Reports are that Khamenei (the dead one) largely lost power during the 12-day war to Ali Larijani and a junta of IRGC generals.

The IRGC has become so powerful they are a total law unto themselves and answer to no one. It makes ending this war quite difficult really. The government could be like "ok, we give up" but the IRGC would keep firing off it's rockets and drones regardless.
 
The official account of AyatollACK'd Khamenei I posted this (probably AI generated) illustration of him handing over the Iranian flag to Khamenei II. They won't post a picture or a video showing that Khamenei II is alive though.
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https://archive.ph/GVZUI

More ChatGPT propaganda created to make the kuffar shit their pants out of pure fright. This is North Korea tier.
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https://archive.ph/43GYi
 
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