This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
The biggest mistake people make when looking at war is assuming the objective is to hit the enemy’s capital as quickly as possible. That’s political theater, not military strategy.
If you look at the strike map, Iran isn’t behaving like a country trying to maximize headlines but like a military attempting to shape the battlespace.
The targets are not random or insignificant. Iran is dismantling the entire American military ecosystem in the region:
Early warning radar sites. Air defense systems. Aviation facilities and hangars. Logistics hubs. Fuel and ammunition storage. Forward operating bases. CENTCOM support infrastructure. Bases supporting operations in Syria and Iraq. Naval and maritime surveillance assets. Intelligence collection and communications nodes.
Look at Jordan as an example. Most people couldn’t point to Tower 22 or Muwaffaq Salti Air Base on a map, yet they’re arguably more important militarily than firing a few missiles at downtown Tel Aviv.
Tower 22 supports operations at Al-Tanf. Muwaffaq Salti hosts American aircraft and coalition operations. Erbil supports intelligence and special operations. Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Kuwait is a massive logistics and staging area. Qatar hosts the forward headquarters of CENTCOM and the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East. These are the eyes, ears, and connective tissue of American power projection in the region.
From a military perspective, you don’t begin by punching the strongest part of your opponent. You isolate him.
There are several principles of warfare being applied here:
- Suppression of enemy support infrastructure.
- Degradation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
- Attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories.
- Disruption of logistics and sustainment.
- Political pressure on host nations.
- Shaping the operational environment before attempting anything larger.
The United States does not fight Middle Eastern wars from Washington or even from aircraft carriers alone. It fights them from an interconnected network of bases stretching from Jordan to Qatar to Kuwait to Bahrain. If that network becomes degraded, every sortie, every intelligence feed, every resupply mission, and every interceptor launch becomes more difficult and more expensive.
People screaming “just bomb Tel Aviv” fundamentally misunderstand what modern warfare looks like. Destroying a radar site that enables coalition air operations can be militarily more valuable than causing superficial damage to a symbolic target.
There’s another aspect people are missing: INTERCEPTOR ECONOMICS.
Every Patriot interceptor fired costs millions of dollars. Air defense inventories are finite. Sustained operational tempo places enormous strain on maintenance crews, missile stockpiles, and logistics chains. If an adversary can force you to defend a dozen locations simultaneously, you’ve already begun winning the resource allocation battle.
Historically, successful military campaigns begin with degrading command-and-control, communications, air defenses, and logistics before moving to decisive operations.
Whether one agrees with Iran politically is irrelevant to the military analysis. What we’re witnessing is not random retaliation, it is a deliberate campaign aimed at systematically degrading the regional architecture that allows the United States and its allies to project military power across the Middle East.
Jordan is the key, the last & most important layer defending Israel.
The increasing rate of direct hits is a direct result of Radars & other U.S. equipment destroyed in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar … added to the depletion of air defense interceptors, something that couldn’t have been achieved in a few days.
During 20 years CENTCOM turned Arab countries into a dome protecting Israel, and Iran is now methodically dismantling it.
https://xcancel.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2079271166972166234
🇯🇴Dozens of Jordanian national, political, cultural, and tribal figures issued a joint statement calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country and emphasizing the necessity of upholding national sovereignty.
The signatories urged the Jordanian government to revoke the security and military agreement concluded with the United States and to submit it to Parliament for annulment or restriction.
@SimurghRes
⚡️🇾🇪🇸🇦 Reuters reports that an effective blockade against Saudi oil exports from Saudi Arabia to Asia will reduce global oil supplies by 7%, leading to a catastrophic economic crisis that will pile alongside the blockaded Hormuz strait.
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🇮🇶🇾🇪 Official Support from Iraqi Resistance for Saudi Arabia’s Naval Blockade
Kata’ib Hezbollah of Iraq, in an official statement, expressed solidarity with the people and leadership of Yemen, and supported the decision of the country’s armed forces to impose a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia.
The statement described the naval blockade of Saudi Arabia as a reciprocal response to the twelve years of unjust blockade against the people of Yemen, and a step towards defending national sovereignty.
Kata’ib Hezbollah, emphasizing the strategy of blockade in response to blockade and escalation in response to escalation, presented this action by Yemen as a manifestation of a strong will to reclaim the rights of the Yemeni people.
🇮🇷🇾🇪A Yemeni child weeps on Mahan Air flight back home to see his parents after three years. Faced with the gutting of its economy via the recently declared Ansarallah blockade of the Red Sea to Saudi ships, Riyadh is looking the other way as Iranian airlines begin to challenge its illegal 11-year siege of Yemen.
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Video: https://t.me/SimurghRes/7758
Personal Experience with Yemen
I’ve mentioned this memory of mine before as something that was instrumental to my development but this video caused me to reminisce on it.
During a visit to Iran while I was a child, my family took me to an amusement park. At one point when waiting in line for an attraction, we spotted a group of young men, younger than I am today if I were to guess, who were given permission to bypass the line.
They all wore beige military uniforms and all had an amputation of sorts, a missing arm, a missing leg, parts of the hand. They were also covered in bandages and multiple used crutches to walk.
My mother then explained to me that they were from the front lines of Yemen, and were being given a few privileges due to coming back from the war, which by this point would not have ended until years later.
The thing I remember about those young men more than anything else, is the fact they were all smiling. Not just polite small smiles for the sake of cordiality, but real bright and wide smiles. These men who were missing limbs and had to hobble everywhere they went as if they were scrap put together haphazardly smiled more genuinely and cheerfully than I think I’ve ever seen in my life. I couldn’t understand a word they said but their demonor was enough to tell me how polite they were as well when conversing with the staff and passersby.
That was my first impression with people from Yemen and with the physical remnants of the Saudi genocide against them. It’s stuck with me all these years later and I can never really forget it, nor would I want to.
The Saudi genocide of Yemen has become a mainstream conflict that most politically engaged people are at least somewhat aware of. I’m glad that more and more people are aware of the Yemeni plight and many people have expressed their condemnation to the Saudi regime. However, I’ll admit that I feel a little frustrated at times, because so many people treat the experience of Yemenis as just another part of geopolitics and don’t go deeper to understand the nature of the Yemeni people.
They are a brave and wonderful people, who deserve more than every bounty of the world. If there were a place that holds the heart of the world it would in Yemen.
I will never forget those young men and their smiles. Till the day I die, their image will remain on my head.
Of all the nations in that region, Yemen is the one I’m most excited to see liberated from imperialists. And Yemen is the reason why I see the Arab monarchs as a threat that must be destroyed after the zionists for any justice to exist in the region.
Thanks for sharing that story. Its a beautiful memory.
—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Two Israeli soldiers, Sergeant Benyahu Melat and Major Yuval Ezra, were eliminated in the West Bank
Palestinians took the gun from one of the soldiers and managed to kill them both in Havat Gilad.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35397?single
Trump’s MAGA base turns against war on Iran as costs mount: Poll
Support for the war among Trump’s voter base collapsed by 13 points in two months
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Nearly 100 US troops wounded in Iranian strikes on Middle East bases in July — Pentagon, via CBS News.
Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell says almost 100 service members “were determined to have sustained injuries of varying degrees” since July 7, 2026.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s Central Military Command (Khatam al-Anbiya) in reaction to Trump’s threats:
“The criminal US has threatened to attack the nuclear and other sensitive facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is hereby declared that, should the aggressive and terrorist military of that country enter such a phase, we will regard it as an expansion of the war throughout the region.
All interests belonging to the US, its allies, and the supporters of that rogue and hostile state will then be targeted by powerful attacks from the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
@FotrosResistancee
🇮🇷🇺🇸It appears that Iran has also put the electrical substation that supplied the “Amazon AWS” out of commission. If so that data centre has had a meltdown and is history as its crucial coolant flow was powered by the station.
@SimurghRes
I should have probably mentioned this yesterday but I’ll be unable to provide updates today due to prior obligations. I should be back tomorrow or the end of the day.
— 🇺🇸 NEW: Trump has started a posting spree on Truth Social
Among the posts are AI images of strikes on Kharg Island, an imaginary movie poster starring Trump called ‘Cosmic Commander’, and other things.
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More images: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35485?single
Usually I don’t post about the clown emperor’s mad ramblings, but this felt somewhat more important than usual.
—❗️🇮🇷/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a Russian military cargo vessel bound for Iran
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35470
Commentary by MES:
A gentle reminder to Mr. Zelenskyy:
All of Ukraine is within reach of Iran’s ballistic missiles, including super-heavy Khorramshahr-4.
Although it would be a waste of good missiles.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35471
Missile Range Image: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35471
Within one day I received more death threats from Ukrainians than from Israelis in the past 3 years combined.
All due to a single post.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35473
I can’t lie I just found the commentary funny which is why I attached it with the actual post
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump announces he will use Iran’s frozen funds to pay for war damages
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35385
—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇦/🇷🇺 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemns Ukraine’s attack against an Iranian cargo ship, which killed one sailor
The Foreign Ministry states that in accordance with international law and the UN charter, Iran reserves the right to legitimate self defence if such actions continue.
‘Iran will never hesitate to defend itself and its national interests. Responsibility for the consequences of the adventurism committed by the Ukrainian regime’s leader [Zelenskyy] will lie with that regime and its supporters and instigators’.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35476
If only New York currently had a mayor that promised to arrest Netanyahu… oh wait. Can’t wait to see how the demsocs cope with Mamdani breaking another campaign promise. I don’t even dislike the guy much for what he is but the uncritial support institutionalists give him is nauseating.
Doesn’t he mean the Islamic Republic of Japan?
52K? I love how the protests were 2 days in january and yet the death toll is still going up over 1000 a week. Its just absurd.
It gets higher every time, and westerners will look at you like your a monster for saying it’s utter bullshit. The amount of times I see people say “The Islamic Republic executed communists” without interrogating that piece of history more is maddening as well.
A part of me wants to make a post about the Iran-Iraq War execution of Communists on GenZedong, but I never have had enough motivation to do so. I’ve commented on the MEK before, but I think it would be prudent for people to understand that period of the Iranian revolution more.
Even the lowest figure of 20K is absurd. Even the nazis with 10 times the man power, and all their victims locked up in camps and shipped by rail, didn’t kill 10,000 on their bloodiest days using industrialized murder contraptions. If the IRGC could hunt down wild protestors and kill 10k in a day with small arms they could have taken over the whole world by now.
