https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live
Reports stating that Israel have launched an attack against Iran
What objectives?
Iran's response has been pathetic
Go for a walk and look at up at the forecourt prices.
The pressure to end the attack will ramp up in the next fortnight.
price of fertiliser soaring in china
Iran war hits China’s sulphur imports as economic fallout from conflict grows
Supplies of sulphur – a key fertiliser ingredient – are tightening in China just as the spring planting season begins
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3345761/iran-war-hits-chinas-sulphur-imports-economic-fallout-conflict-grows
Why would the US be worried about a few random missiles getting through? Most are getting intercepted. Iran's response has been pathetic and absolutely nothing in comparison to the damage they are taking.
The US and Israel will continue attacking until their objectives are met. There is nothing Iran can do about it.
Your understanding is incorrect. Iran is targeting civilian infrastructure all over the Gulf States.
iran now threatening to target and take out oil infrastructure throughout the gulf if israel keeps hitting their oil - comments implied keep playing this game if you want to see oil at 200 dollars a barrell
One commercial ship just transited
https://atlas.flexport.com/
Edit;
https://www.news18.com/world/plan-is-to-get-oil-flowing-us-energy-secretary-says-large-tanker-passed-through-hormuz-ws-l-9949133.html
I've seen multiple similar reports and a former colleague working in Rammstein as a contractor has confirmed same to me. There was also a very short lived as for a "Personal Effects return coordinator" that apparently was active for short while. There's IMHO zero possibility that the US have taken the hits to the radars, SATCOM & other facilities that have been reported & confirmed with only the 8 or so casualties so far reported. The damage confirmed and the casualties reported via US & Israeli officialdom just don't tally.
As I said last night, the endless lying is astonishing.
Just like the babies in the incubators in Kuwait from Iraq War 1 all bullshite. I really can’t believe people believe this shitè.
Trump saying the Iranian's beheaded babies and cut women in half. Maybe he is having flashbacks from the island or something. Sound's like not the most trustworthy person to listen to when even his pal gives his damning thoughts on his character
He is just that f*cking thick! There was no thought given to the possibility of retaliatory strikes by Iran, or indeed consequences for US personnel. I’m still trying to get an independent source, but several social media accounts that I consider to be reliable have stated that the US have stopped all maternity services at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany in order to free up capacity at the facility. That shows you just how little forethought went into this attack.
Just to clarify, Landstuhl offers this services because it also acts as a the hospital for Kaiserslautern Military Community, which includes Ramstein Airbase, so there are plenty of dependents there that rely on those services. I guess those dependents will now have to deal with the horrors of Germany’s “socialist” healthcare system (yes, that was sarcasm!)
I think they are also attacking the Gulf states in order to try and inflict enough economic pain so that they and those around Donnie will put pressure on him to seek an off ramp. What seems clear is the Iranian President is not in charge now, it's clearly the Revolutionary Guards after the death of Ayatollah Khamenei
My understanding of Iran's attacks is that they are retalilating and their attacks are on American bases in countries in the middle east.
Surely that should be enough of a warning to Trump to stop what he is doing or is he that f*cking thick?
One way or another Trump will grasp any lull as vindication of job done. He simply doesn't have the attention span for asymmetric war, which is why he attacked Zelensky with his "you don't hold all the cards" prompt to cede to Putin.
Iran never needed Russian help with intel, bonds of kinship spread across the entire region, those gulf state borders were written by Europeans in a different era.
They carpet bombed Hanoi to no effect, Saigon still fell. Another round of inflation and currency devaluation and US voters, including Trumpers will ask what are they getting for all the military presence in the gulf when their domestic oil needs are now being met, unlike during the first oil shocks in the 70s.
Oil production in Iraq has now declined by 3 million barrels per day. Production has declined from 4.3 million barrels per day to 1.3 million barrels per day.
Buyers China & India 2 mb/d. Next main buyers South Korea & US
Total oil exports account for over 95% of total export earnings and roughly 45%–50% of the country's GDP.
Yeah, well your last sentence sums it up well.
Sand, mountains and rubble by the looks of things…. just call them bunkers.
What are they going to bomb? Styrofoam and plywood drone production which sounds like a cottage industry in a country of 90 million the size of central Europe.
There must some really bad pedo stuff about Trump about to be released from the Epstein files soon.
The US has attacked more countries, than the Soviet Union/Russia, China and Iran have combined. China can play a positive role in international relations such as their role in the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The US response to 9/11 was a catastrophic and costly disaster. One that Biden urged Netenyahu not to repeat in the wake of October 7th.
The “war on terror” is still ongoing, a quarter of a century, hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars later.
Technically, that was a possibility. Enriching Uranium is a dual use technology…. only difference is speeds and time doing it. With 60% enrichment, you can have enough for a bomb in 1 more cycle through the centrifuges. Depending on how many you have working in parallel, that can be as little time as 1 week.
On a separate note, 5 x B-1 Bombers now in Fairford with 3 others diverted Ramstein and in later on. B-52's looking like they will be in soon also. Also a massive build up of SOF kit in UK and Europe.
How about Yugoslavia earlier, that set the precedent. Did not Nato do the exact same thing ?
Also set the precedent for bombing of energy facilities when NATO official Jamie Shea said in 1999 " Yes, I'm afraid electricity also drives command and control systems. If President Milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity all he has to do is accept NATO's five conditions & we will stop this campaign."
This was in the Unipolar age when they could just act with impunity because no one could stand up to them.
Also the thirty years of Bibi warning that Iran will get the bomb by tea time next Tuesday.
Blair and Bush Jr should be in jail for their wmd fabrications.
We'll just forget the half ton of Uranium that hasn't been seen in over a year.
John Cena Uranium.
Historians will cite the invasion of Iraq without a UN mandate as the day that institutions law lost any real world meaning.
The sinking of the iranian ship hosted in Indian waters confirmed that the UN may as well leave the USA.
Before that the USA at least did that type of thing covertly. Gradually lost all inhibitions they don’t even bother making. up justifications now . They probably spent more time thinking up the operation name “operation fury” this time than anything else.
Yes the Americans overreacted to a bunch of cave dwellers and then their rage got hijacked and redirected by the neocons to their adventures in Iraq
So instead of using the UN etc to work on preserving post WW2 peace likes of Iran and Russia and China decided to double down and help bring down faster the world order that gave us 70 years of peace and prosperity for most of the population of the planet that rapidly grown in that time
And now that that is backfiring and they waking up to the fact they are not the largest bully on the street, they screeching “but but whatabout…”
I recommend you listen to Mark Carneys recent speech it cuts straight through a lot of bullcrap
The Iraq war is seen by many in the international relations/geopolitics sphere as the beginning of the end of the rules based order. An illegal invasion based on a lie, torture, extraordinary rendition. The US was the architect of the rules based order and they then decided to expediently abandon their own creation.
Water treatment facility in Bahrain hit by drones from Iran according to it's ministry.
I dont cheer on 911 , im saying we dont cheer on 911, even though America doesn't respect international law. Like I dont cheer on illegal attack on lran because they break the same laws.
Unless you were being sarcastic in your reply there, which is hard to tell.
