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

When Trump goes to war with Xi, we will bomb Beijing on a Tuesday Morning at 10am EST and they'll never see it coming.
Neither would I. All the pizza places near the Pentagon aren't open by then so the Pizza Index wouldn't even be active.

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Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:
The U.S. is the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers. Our ability to confront pirates is no less than our ability to sink warships.

Prepare to face a graveyard of your carriers and forces, just as the wreckage of your aircraft was left behind in Isfahan.



This footage, being circulated on Iranian channels, is from 15 years ago.

What you see moving hovering over water is not a motorboat… It’s an Iranian Army Phantom fighter jet.

Iranian pilots have been practicing low-altitude flying over the Persian Gulf for more than 30 years, in order to strike US bases and surprise them without being detected.
Who wants to tell them that we can see a F-4 even if it's 20 feet off the deck and that flying 50 year old aircraft with questionable maintenance histories at that low of an altitude is asking for trouble?
 
Neither would I. All the pizza places near the Pentagon aren't open by then so the Pizza Index wouldn't even be active.
BRB setting between 4 and 6 new poly market bets.

Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:
The U.S. is the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers. Our ability to confront pirates is no less than our ability to sink warships.

Prepare to face a graveyard of your carriers and forces, just as the wreckage of your aircraft was left behind in Isfahan.
> The U.S. is the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers.
And don't you fucking forget it, Sand nigger.

>Our ability to confront pirates is no less than our ability to sink warships.
Well, considering they have sun zero warships....

"Hey, I know what'll get Trump to agree to our terms. Let's trigger his autism about how he'll never accept a bad deal. He has no choice but to submit now."
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Or, this is going to blow your brown little mind, Trump can continue to stand there with his boot on Iran's neck until the country implodes.

Running out of physical currency made things so bad they had to gun down 40,000 of their own people. Imagine what rampant unemployment, hyperinflation rendering savings worthless, and spiraling food prices due to needing to import food and the costs of those imports spiraling as the currency devalues further will do to the country.

I got those 50lb sacks of rice like people were recommending.
How many Persian baddies you think I can buy with one sack of rice after two more weeks?

Who wants to tell them that we can see a F-4 even if it's 20 feet off the deck and that flying 50 year old aircraft with questionable maintenance histories at that low of an altitude is asking for trouble?
On hand, that is super baller and I imagine flying mach 2 in ground effect must be one hell of an adrenaline rush.

On the other hand:
15 years ago, those F-4s had 15 fewer years of "no spare parts" maintenance. And that's before we getting to, as you say, look-down radars means flying wave top doesn't do shit for you anymore.
 
Well it still looks cool.

also are we sure the iranians value their pilots and aicraft more than their rockets?
high speed, wave top direclty into a carrier could work
Maybe loaded with ordinance. But it would never get close.

So for civilianiggers:
Look-down RADAR (also called Look-down-shoot-down), exists on every modern fighter, US 4th genr and Russian current prodction. To put it simply, it turns every jet into an AWACS.

Flying low doesn't work when your adversary able to fly up to 10000 feet and just look down..


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MES admits the blockade is crippling Iran economically but it changes nothing! Iran will never give up it's nuclear ambition!
Hes also claiming a ship doing 10 kph was able to evade the navy's blockade. I'm not sure this fellow is trust worthy.....

Similar to their demand to only negotiate with Vance, Iran seems to believe they've found their Golden Sucker with the muzjeets being infinitely willing to keep ferreting their dogshit demands forever while constantly saying a breakthrough is "imminent."
Only in this case, I'm pretty sure both sides are playing each other for saps.
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I wholly agree with the Iranian negotiators.
The only way the US will get a break through is by changing our behavior from "Not bombing every surviving military leader, bridge, and power plant in the country" to "Total Infrastructure Death"
 
Reminds me of when @Ghostse described how war economies usually end up for countries that can't readily resupply their logistics.
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I just find it hilarious that they can quite literally say they plan to copy Nazi propaganda tactics and still have leftists shill for them
leftards don't care about parroting the evil heckin Naxis - that's because, the real, true and honest Nazis are the current Trump administation, with GEOTUS being the ultimate avatar of the Austrian manlet(he just is, OK?)
It is unlikely to have changed the ultimate outcome of the war, but would have definitely resulted the USSR getting its shit pushed in harder.
Pretty sure it would prolong the war by a year or so, perhaps USSR would have had a less grip on Europe and relevance after everything's over. (a good thing)
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LMAO the projection.
 
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MES admits the blockade is crippling Iran economically but it changes nothing! Iran will never give up it's nuclear ambition!
Lame

I can't believe that the most powerful navy can't even complete the blockade, all that expensive taxpayer-funded hardware over in the Gulf of Oman and some Iranian tankers are apparently still managing to sneak by.
 
United States Air Force (USAF) is conducting a major outbound activity out of CENTCOM Area of Responsibility tonight. There's currently only two C-17s inbound to the Gulf:
Considering this account showed there were a whole bunch of people being brought in a few days ago, this looks like we're just taking advantage of the cease-fire to do a rotation of new guys into the AOR, and that it wasn't an actual buildup for a larger combat operation after all. Those C-17s wouldn't be flying out if we were getting ready for B&PD.

Another point of contention hes mad about is the blackout or blurring of American bases on Google Earth, Apple maps, Planet, Airbus and Maxar for damage assessments. This one I agree with because you cannot make the claim that it about preventing Iran from seeing things because the Chinese and Russia are more than happy to sell the IRGC high quality satellite images for cheap.
As one poster pointed out on this site several years ago, companies like these all have government sponsorship of some kind, particularly via CIA investment through In-Q-Tel and other funding streams. If the government tells them to turn their shit off, they're going to turn their shit off, for the same reasons they had to go along with the Biden administration jawboning them into declaring anything right-wing "misinformation." They're going to dance to the tune of their bandleader, regardless of which party is running things.

The amazing thing about Jimmy Stewart is that he only left the service when he reached mantiory retirement age.
I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Stewart would have been perfectly content to have remained an active duty bomber pilot if he hadn't been making such a good living from acting. The dude absolutely LOVED being in the Air Force.

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Another thing that leftists and their Third World pets have in common is their false dilemmas. If Iran thinks they can break the blockade and they have Allah on their side, why haven't they unleased the full fury of the Gayatollah's Strongest Rainbow Assaults?

I can't believe that the most powerful navy can't even complete the blockade, all that expensive taxpayer-funded hardware over in the Gulf of Oman and some Iranian tankers are apparently still managing to sneak by.
Even assuming that some ships have gotten through, 1) no blockade has ever been 100% effective, but I understand why the war's opponents want to frame it a failure for not doing so (to clarify, I'm not calling out you specifically here, this is other statements I've seen elsewhere); and 2) it's clearly not enough when even an IRGC-sponsored sperg account in Belgium is admitting that the Iranian economy is getting butt-fucked by it.
 
Shit, tell that the Euros who were alerted to the US's massive military build up but did nothing to try top up their strategic oil reserves or prepare for the Straight of Homoz to be blocked.
There's the other questions of even if they were alerted to the U.S. build up. Were the euros even capable of topping up in time with the "fossil fuel" infrastructure they have. Or not have the topping up operations repeatedly blocked by their ecoterrorists NGOs, domestic and EU bureaucracies.

I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Stewart would have been perfectly content to have remained an active duty bomber pilot if he hadn't been making such a good living from acting. The dude absolutely LOVED being in the Air Force.
Jimmy Stewart had retired as an USAF brigadier general in 1968.
 
You do realize google earth isn't live correct?
You can buy access to much more recent satellite imagery online through services such as the ESRI content marketplace. Commercial satellites are always taking pictures of something, so some of these images can be 24 hours old or less.

Commercial satellites can also be tasked to take pictures of specific locations for $10k - 30k per pass. S2 Underground has done custom taskings on planet.com for tracking the LA fires and seeing what planes and ships were at Diego Garcia before Midnight Hammer.
 
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The silver lining to this shitshow is that, provided the U.S. can't magically do in the next month what it hasn't managed for the prior two, the petrodollar is on its way out.

first of all, why on earth would that be a good thing.

second of all, the dollar is more secure as the global currency today than it was 3 months ago.
 
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