The current Iranian attack seems to be a combo of two different Shahed variants and cruise missiles according to nerds on Arab twitter. They’re saying that Iran is probably preparing a big ballistic missile attack, but the weaker initial package will keep Israeli air defences busy until the ballistic missiles are launched in an hour or so. I don’t know much about the logistics of missile attacks, but the logic sounds reasonable to me.
I will not accept any shittalk towards my beloved King Von posters, their skillful photoshops and Quran-posting has turned half of Egyptian youth into Shias and even Saudi uncles can’t withstand their powerful energy
Ya Khamenei, by Ali ibn Abi Talib, remove any doubts from our hearts and strike as hard as you can tonight.
If I’m running a dysfunctional threatened African or Asian state now, what would the point of being allied to China or Russia? Iran is probably the 3rd most valuable state in the anti-Western camp after China and Russia, and now they’re actively suffering in a existential war and the Russians and the Chinese are just allowing Iran to get ran over while having phone conversations with Netanyahu about mutual trade. They let Syria fall while Russia was too busy elsewhere, they didn’t lift a finger to help Armenia, and now they’re just watching Iran fight alone. They’re probably the shittiest military allies you can have, there’s literally 0% chance that they pull off something like Desert Storm to help you out. Russia helped out in Syria, but they’re basically too busy with their own stuff, but China’s anti-interventionist stance is actively harmful right now.
This is not good. If the Iranian government want to limit internet access, then they’re probably doing it for a very good reason. Why does this rat think that he has the right to “help” bypass that.
Palestinian poet Tamim Al Barghouti on the current situation:
Netanyahu was betting on a military coup in Iran, relying on those who facilitated the killing of all the martyrs there some time ago: Raisi, Abdollahian, and others… This explains the violence of the strike. He hoped he wouldn’t have to bear its consequences. Of course, the coup failed… Netanyahu got involved, asked for help from the United States, but they refused. Now he wants to back down. Let’s be clear: no one should allow the situation to return to what it was before the Israeli aggression against Iran… If the war stops before the fall of the regime in Israel, then that Israeli regime will seek to topple the Iranian regime by other means after the ceasefire. The model of the ceasefire in Lebanon is clear, and before it the successive truces in Gaza… Therefore, the only path for Iran, and with it the entire Levant, is complete victory over it… The equation is zero-sum and there is no room for compromise, neither now nor later… Oh God! I hope this opinion is heard this time and is useful… because all the advice before it was appropriate, and if it had been heeded, people dear to us would still be with us now…
Judging by the timeline of the True Promise 2 and yesterday’s first missile salvo, we should see Iranian missiles airborne in around 1.5-2 hours.
فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ ۚ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمَىٰ ۚ وَلِيُبْلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَاءً حَسَنًا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ
And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
Surat Al Anfal, 17
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Lebanese dudes are doing live reactions to the Iranian missiles.
Beautiful scenes from Tel Aviv
Yemenis are watching the strikes on Israel on a big screen.
Iran’s lib president is doing Quran-posting
It’s crazy how much the mood improves whenever Israel gets owned. May Allah grant us the honor of witnessing the total destruction of the Zionist Entity.
SECOND WAVE
اللهم سدد رميهم
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It’s precisely this
Iranian missiles have been LAUNCHED
YA ALLAH YA MOHAMMAD YA ALI
Iranian officials are still a talking about a “response”, this is war and the Israelis are treating it as such. Come on brothers.
Was some of the euphoria manufactured? Absolutely
Was everything manufactured? Absolutely not, go look at pictures from Ummayed Square from Dec 9th, or from the Aleppo Citadel, or from the Clock Square in Homs or even Latakia. There were massive celebrations across all major cities in Syria. I don’t think it’s beneficial for us as leftists to deny that most Syrians were happy to see Assad gone, instead we should analyse and understand why the idea of resistance was unpopular in Syria unlike South Lebanon or Gaza. Calling everyone CIA or a doomer for just transmitting the news is not a good mentality.
Iran as an inactive deadbeat father of the resistance?
Isn’t there a degree of truth in that statement? Iran’s active support after Soleimani’s death has been drastically reduced, and they let both Assad’s government and Hezbollah get completely eaten by the wolves.
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