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Iran’s Khatim al-Anbiya headquarters spokesman announces that if the United States bombs Iranian energy infrastructure, Iran will respond by:
➡️ Completely closing the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic; a change to the current policy of only restricting it to countries Iran is at war with
➡️ Targeting the energy infrastructure of Israel and Arab countries that host American bases
➡️ Targeting information technology centers of Israel
➡️ Targeting property belonging to American companies in the Middle East
🇹🇷🇶🇦| 1 Turkish military officer & 2 Turkish technicians died in the Qatari helicopter crash.
Iran got that Messi missiles, dodging defenses like it’s nothing
The American political class believes everyone is secretly as cowardly as they are.
That deep down, every people will eventually choose comfort over honor, safety over sovereignty, appetite over principle.
Iran is the recurring proof that this assumption is false.
That is why they cannot leave it alone.
It is not just a geopolitical rival.
It is a metaphysical insult to their anthropology.
It proves that human beings can still be organized by faith, memory, sacrifice, and destiny.
Trump cannot understand any of this because he cannot even understand silence unless it is flattering him.
🇮🇷 Spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al‑Anbiya Central Headquarters warns:
Following previous warnings, any attack on Iran’s fuel or energy infrastructure will trigger strikes on all U.S. and Israeli energy, IT, and desalination facilities in the region.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz within 48h.
Wow… Trump is really desperate it seems!
The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes
Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now.
“In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare,” Bolton posted.
Can you believe this shit? Dude’s like “Hey, Trump should have known this war would be hard because people tried to warn him not to listen to me!”
Motherfucker THIS WAS YOUR WAR. You were THE “bomb Iran” guy! You made it your entire personality for DECADES. Over the years I’ve used your name God knows how many times whenever I needed an example of a Beltway swamp monster who’s got a throbbing hard-on for war with Iran. Now you’ve finally got it and it’s going exactly as badly as everyone said it would, and you’re like “Yeah well he should’ve known better, people tried to warn him about the Strait of Hormuz”? Fuck you.
These professional warmongers never, ever learn from their errors. Many years after the Iraq invasion turned out to be a disaster, John Bolton was still out there telling the media he believed it was a “resounding success,” conceding only “mistakes that were made subsequently” to the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
They never admit they were wrong. They never admit that their war was a bad idea. They only ever acknowledge that it didn’t happen in exactly the way they imagined it happening in their minds. They live in this fantasy world where all their war agendas would unfold beautifully so long as they could personally control every molecule of matter involved in how it happens, completely ignoring that this is impossible and any war is always going to have an unfathomable number of moving parts you can’t control.
In their eyes the wars are never wrong, they’re only ever executed incorrectly. US military interventionism can never fail, it can only be failed.
Bolton doesn’t even seem to have any idea what Trump could have done differently to stop Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz. I listened to an NPR interview the other day where he slammed Trump for not having “done the planning in advance” to prevent the Iranian blockade, but he never at any time outlined what Trump could have done to accomplish this. He just said there was “a huge hole in the planning” and that “they apparently didn’t take as seriously as they should have the potential to mine the Strait of Hormuz,” without ever saying what they could have done.
He doesn’t know. He himself, Mister Iran War, had no plan for how to carry out this war without disastrous consequences for the US and its allies. He’s spent his entire blood-soaked career pushing for a war he never had any idea how to actually carry out.
These are the kinds of minds they have spearheading the US empire’s wars.
All the worst people are getting exactly what they want, and it turns out they don’t even want it, like Elon Musk tweeting “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about” last month. They’re getting everything they asked for and it’s making everyone miserable, and it’s not even making THEM happy.
The imperial status quo elevates the worst among us. The least wise. The least insightful. The least compassionate. The least deserving. The least qualified.
We need drastic revolutionary change, and we need it now.
Another great piece by Caitlin Johnston.
Over the past 48 hours, Iran has carried out a series of strikes on six oil refineries and ports in four countries in the region. These actions are a clear demonstration of Tehran’s strategy, according to which US and Israeli allies will inevitably pay the price for any attacks on Iranian infrastructure. The main targets were facilities in Qatar (Ras Laffan), Saudi Arabia (Yanbu), Kuwait (Mina Al Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah) and the UAE.
On the 21st day of the conflict, coalition and Gulf countries forces intercepted between 1,100 and 1,300 Iranian missiles. Given the average effectiveness of air defense systems, it can be assumed that the total number of launches from Iran was between 3,000 and 5,000.
This figure significantly exceeds the pre-war estimates of Western intelligence, which estimated Iran’s arsenal at about 2,500 ballistic missiles. Such a significant discrepancy may be due either to an underestimation of the production capacity of Iran’s underground factories, or to the inclusion in the statistics of a large number of intercepted rocket launchers and kamikaze drones. However, it’s worth considering the historical aspect: in any major conflict, the number of interceptions is often overestimated as part of an information war.
The gap between intelligence estimates (2,500 missiles) and reality (up to 5,000 launches) also indirectly indicates the presence of hidden automated assembly lines in “missile cities”, which continue to operate autonomously and have not suffered any damage from the strikes. Tehran’s current strategy, in addition to strikes on oil refineries, is also aimed at depleting the reserves of expensive interceptors (Patriot PAC-3, THAAD) of the Gulf countries with massive salvos of cheap missiles, which in the current conditions and at the current pace could lead to a critical depletion of the region’s air defense by the end of the month.
The videos of the Iranian missile hits on Dimona are incredible!
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159358
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159359
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159360
Dimona is getting rocked 🎆
The UAE has published a joint statement alongside 21 other countries condemning Iran’s attacks on commercial vessels and civilian infrastructure in the Gulf.
Other Muslim and Gulf countries that joined them were:
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Romania, Bahrain, Lithuania, and Australia.
@Slavyangrad
Just another pathetic list of Western puppets and their Gulf lapdogs acting like they have any moral authority.
