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
https://x.com/mog_china/status/2033902056642384361?s=61&t=E1gQAc3TCEBxsPy-sKkhjg
And this appears to be a Chinese X account. So he isnt dead.
This is a Russian account.
https://x.com/m0sc0w0/status/2033950173420802522?s=61&t=E1gQAc3TCEBxsPy-sKkhjg
add dialogue what is the image showing? A aircraft carrier who just experienced a 30’ hour fire won’t have its AIS on
Either way , it’s out of action and off for repairs.
FWIW I've just seen a clip of him, or something purporting to be him, on RTE claiming Larijani is dead. He looked thin but definitely alive.
What sort of nonsense are you reading to make you believe he's dead?
A 100000 ton aircraft carrier, mission kill via a laundry fire. The more this story develops the more and more I wonder if Navy was playing with RDX in an industrial tumble dryer 👀🤔 The 30hr fire and the fact it mission killed a carrier just doesn't make an iota of sense.
With the clear sky this evening, noticed about 15 Star-like lights move in South-East direction one after the other. Last time I saw this was after Oct 7th 2023.
Who knows what they are, high altitude bombers or something? I wonder if things are escalating further...
SpaceX had a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral earlier today.
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-log/
What you described sounds like Starlink satellites after separation from the launch vehicle. Bombers, even high altitude ones, wouldn't normally be visible like that, they're far too low to reflect the sun, not to mention that their paint schemes are designed to be non-reflective anyway.
Other countries in the middle East not allowing themselves to get drawn in to the conflict must be very frustrating for Israel.
Hard to play the victim when nobody taking the bait.
probably a Starlink train
We have to believe Netanyahu is alive until we get confirmation otherwise. Though I have to say the releasing of AI videos featuring Netanyahu as a rebuttal to speculation about his demise is utterly bizarre. Fars news agency in Iran is reporting that a high level security figure has been assassinated in Israel but no name is mentioned.
Not much sighting of Ben Ghvir either in the past week or so. Looks like Katz chairing security meetings. Ali Larinjani just confirmed assassinated by Fars news. It will be interesting to see how the Israeli system holds up if Iran manages to take out key personnel. Iran's is designed to withstand decapitation strikes.
After not tweeting since the USA began bombing Israel Tulsi Gabbard finally adressed the situation. The replies and quote tweets are exactly what you would expect
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/2033989780116033948
Trump goes from talking about Iran to talking about ballroom design.
I have enough understanding of Israel's capabilities and strategic posture to know that your map of "Greater Israel" is Mein Kampf-esque bollix, so bad it doesn't even belong in the Conspiracy Theories forum. Mike Huckabee's position is well known - he is an American Christian evangelical. As such, he represents precisely 0 Jewish people and has no connection whatsoever with Israeli decision making.
How many attacks did Hezbollah carry out on Israel between the start of the ceasefire in November 2024 and the Israeli killing of Ayatollah Khamenei?
You claim that not only have Hezbollah been attacking Israel but “attacking Israel with impunity”, ie exempt from punishment, harm or consequence. This is completely detached from reality. In reality Israel has killed 331 during the ceasefire. Including 13 children. Since Hezbollah commenced rocket attacks on Israel in response to the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei. Israel has killed over 800 people including over 100 children. Israel have killed more civilians and more children in Lebanon than were killed on October 7th. A scale of death which was avenged by Israel by utter obliteration, starvation, torture, rape and genocide.
Israel is invading Lebanon yet again to attack an organisation created in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 44 years ago!
An invasion in 1982 that was knowingly based on an Israeli lie. Yet posters clutch their pearls at Israel being cast as the aggressor!
There was no fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on the 6th of October 2023 … who broke that ceasefire?
Iran don't seem to have any kind of real capability to get at senior US/Israeli officials in the way that the US and Israel can get at theirs. I'm not sure if Iran have managed a single high-profile assassination of an Israeli since the revolution. So, this is to say that getting the very top Israeli official would be hard to believe, by definition.
They just don't have the intel, ordinance or assets.
Hezbollah broke that ceasefire Sean. You claimed “with impunity”. Do you consider the killing of thousands of people, forced displacement and massive destruction “impunity”? The November 2024 ceasefire was broken by Israel, according to Lebanon, France and Hezbollah. They first broke the ceasefire by attacking that favourite target of theirs, no not children or medics, but journalists.
You would be shocked if you knew the truth about israel and most other nations. England, vikings etc.. I could go on for ever. They are cowards is all they are. I know the truth and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you.
I could think of many words to describe the English, Vikings and Israelis. Cowards is not one of them.
I don't remember the Vikings ever calling in targeted airstrikes…
Yes, Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel the day after the 7/Oct/23 attacks, and did so continuously without response for a considerable period of time.
As usual, nobody cared until Israel responded.
The World knows about the Greater Israel colonial intentions.
https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-backs-idea-of-greater-israel-which-includes-parts-of-jordan-egypt/
You should embrace your history. The very first Viking attack claimed to have sheets of light flying through the air and fiery dragons (M-47s?) in the sky, before leaving a monastery in ruins. There were no reported strikes on girl's schools though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Lindisfarne
What are you talking about “without response for a considerable period of time”. Israel returned fire the same day. Injuring children.
Israel then went on to kill 4000 people in Lebanon. You are right that nobody cared. Nobody cared about the thousands of civilians killed by Israel in Lebanon. Israel had actual impunity. No consequences, no sanctions, no bans from Eurovision. Instead Israel’s killing of civilians was given unequivocal support by the US and EU.
8 October
“In the morning, Hezbollah fired rockets and shells at the Shebaa Farms region; in response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired artillery shells and a drone into southern Lebanon.[1][2][3] Two Lebanese children were reportedly injured by broken glass.[4]”
Heres a simulation I made if people want to see how different options might play out
https://ww3.gamer.gd/
Yeah sure. You just have to ignore the strategic analysis I posted clearly detailing Israel's current position, territorial aims and the reason for them. As for the Greater Israel conspiracy theory, even if they wanted that, Israel is a tiny country with horrifying geography and a shrinking Jewish majority and its unlikely that most of those have even heard of this "Greater Israel" plan, let alone be willing to start a World War over it. Because that's what it would entail: first they'd need to attack two the few Muslim countries they have relations with (Jordan and Egypt) and then go after another (Saudi Arabia) with whom they had been trying to improve ties. Your map also includes them attacking Turkey, which is a NATO member and would immediately invoke Article 5 of the NATO charter.
And even if the 7.2 million Jews in Israel have heard of this conspiracy theory (which most likely they haven't) and were willing to fight a World War to achieve it (they're not) and somehow succeeded beyond their wildest dreams (they wouldn't), all they'd accomplish is becoming an empire of 7.2 million people controlling at least 100 million people who absolutely hate them.
In what alternate universe would this make any sense at all?
OpEd in Al Jazeera. Much of what he says makes sense, especially if the campaign continues.
The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
I would remind folks that the Air Campaign of 1991 was over a month long before anything happened anywhere else, there is precedent for such.
You weren't there, Briany. It was a dark and savage time.
But they didn't go all out against Hezbollah for about a year, IIRC, during which time Israel had to evacuate its Northern border areas and Hezbollah had more-or-less a free hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/trump-intelligence-iran-school-strike
US intelligence initially thought the missile was Iranian until they saw more videos and immediately knew it was a Tomahawk missile. Trump doubled down on the lies instead of admitting this and tried to say it was an Iranian Tomahawk missile.
With the UK being in the final meeting and confirming that talks were going well, it is clear the initial attack on Iran was not an act of war but simply a massive terrorist attack. That's not hyperbole or me being overdramatic. If you bomb a school on day one of a "war" and you kill 160+ people in that school in the middle of negotiations, that does not fall under "bad things happen in war" like so many posters here glibly like to claim.
Had Iran done that to America out of nowhere two weeks ago, would posters be trying to discern whether or not Iran did it on purpose or just because of old intel? No, of course not. If you bomb a country, you are responsible for what you target, especially on the first day when people are still going about their daily lives and your own country is under no threat whatsoever. Like really, can you imagine Iran bombing a school full of American kids out of nowhere in the middle of negotiations and the discourse around it being about whether or not it was intentional or just an honest mistake?
That one attack on the school killed more people than the nine deadliest American school shootings combined, and this is coming off the back of tens of thousands of children murdered in Gaza and now more in Lebanon. The lies and trying to blame Iran afterwards just makes it worse, and this pretending to care about Iranians so you can go to war and kill them is like something out of a satire.
