The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread

[spike]

Even on RM.

[simple schoolboy]

US pulling non-essential personnel out of the Middle East and closing the Iraq embassy. We gonna be rioting for Mexican revanchism and Iran this weekend?

[dimejinky99]

Israel has hit Iran and already screaming it’s the victim of the assumed retaliation which hasn’t manifested. No backing from the US on this one and that’s a relief.

Israel has launched what it calls a pre-emptive strike on Iran. [Updated]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6 ... in-advance

[dimejinky99]

Israel has launched widescale strikes against Iran, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0613/1518219-middle-east/

[dimejinky99]

‘We weren’t involved’ - US Administration

‘The next attack will be much much bigger!’ - Donald Trump

[Cairn_Away]

I wonder if Iran’s strategic response is finished (drone strikes), or if more ordnance will be dropped.

[dimejinky99]

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem currently being bombarded by missles from Iran.

Fuck sake

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i just read that, its going to be a hard weekend.

[dimejinky99]

yeah, i just read that, its going to be a hard weekend.

That being so you have time to watch Andor. At last.

[VinylGuy]

[dimejinky99]

Who’d thunk it?
The people that said Hamas have military bases under every hospital, school, house and chicken coop in Gaza and are using Palestinians as human shields, actually have their own main military HQ underground in the very center of downtown Tel Aviv. Right in the middle of a cbd and residential area.

Well I for one am shocked to learn this. Shocked I tells ya

[dimejinky99]

Americans head to Middle East to participate in their national sport: dying for Israel

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/americ ... medium=web

[dimejinky99]

That’s new. Also the Iranians are saying Israel will not be habitable when they’re finished.
So no sign of calmer heads prevailing any time soon.

In an indication of how far Israel was prepared to go amid fears of all-out war, a US official told The Associated Press that President Donald Trump in recent days vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international ... 369_4.html

[Bi_3]

Fox reported that Trump summoned the NSC to the Situation Room for tonight when he arrives back from leaving the G7 meeting early

[96583UP]

having spent the day in an unpleasant room full of people not required to grovel at him (the G-7); he needed the urgent attention of a room full of ass-kissers and thought the NSC would be the fastest way to get back on track

[spike]

having spent the day in an unpleasant room full of people not required to grovel at him (the G-7); he needed the urgent attention of a room full of ass-kissers and thought the NSC would be the fastest way to get back on track

[BurtReynolds]

There's always a tweet.

[dimejinky99]

China have told their citizens in Israel and Tehran to get to Jordan as soon as possible.

And there’s nuke ‘sniffer’ planes in the air

[BurtReynolds]

Leeeeerroy jeeeeenkiiiiins

[E.H. Ruddock]

Trump just warned Iranians to leave Tehran