Brace Yourselves For War Between Iran and Israel

[lilies]

Iran claims it forced US aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to retreat (RT)

“It, along with its accompanying destroyers, left the area and has so far moved more than 1,000 km away from the region,” the official said.

So this confirms Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's INTEL - insider military - from yesterday that indeed Iran is perfectly able to hammer risible sitting duck US Navy aircraft carriers and kill them any time.. they just maybe were called by Team Xi and Team Putin to exercise restraint toward unstable cannibal psychos governed US for now.

 

[lilies]

That's why I think that Israel has already lost. And they lose the war the moment they killed those girls in the school and Khamenei. And Khamenei obviously knew what he was doing by sacrificing himself. There is no American, Israeli or Kurd in the world that can defeat Iran now.

Exactly! Especially if US Israel dares to bomb the three day funeral procession of Khamenei. 95 million unified Iranians, if they start to pray, their human creative energies may generate a strike from Heaven on the school bombers, just like how prayers saved Trump. I think prayers have the movement freedom to go both ways. Save or punish. Team Archangel Gabriel for example might step in?

US behind strike on Iranian school – NYT​

Death toll was already 171 yesterday.

Evidence suggests American forces likely bombed a girls elementary school in Minab, killing at least 168 children and staff.

Looks like somebody deliberately placed that girl's school right near INTO THE VERY MISSILE STRIKE RANGE! Tomahawk has a claimed 10 meter CEP:
5-10 meters ..... 10 meters ...... 100~300 meters
Missiles are known world-wide by military professionals to have a WIDE target strike circle and they can hit anywhere within that designated circle. And the school was commissioned to be placed right there, inside that rocket guidance error-allowance circle. This is not a coincidence, I think. Its like building a nursery or a maternity ward on top of an
active volcano and then mourning the dead when the volcano kills most mothers and infants housed there deliberately.
Who the HELL was the psychopathic idiot in Iran, who allowed that school right there??! Didn't US Drone Operators teach The People of the Middle-East that Americans love to strike weddings, funerals and the rescue teams rushing there?? After the original drone-rocket strike to kill the rescuers too??
Look at this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2029855291521601680

Wes J. Bryant, a former US Air Force targeting expert, told NYT the strikes were “picture perfect” target hits, suggesting the school was either a “target misidentification” or struck based on outdated intelligence.

The BBC published a similar analysis on Thursday, noting that satellite images suggest the school was hit multiple times judging by the burn marks around the building and that the close proximity of the impact sites between the IRGC base and the school suggest “it was intentional to hit the area.”

 

[Laurentien2]

Related to the above, hearing the stuff that comes out from leaders of the West makes me think of this concept that comes up at least three times during the sessions:

March 13th, 2021https://cassiopaeatranscripts.org/session-13-march-2021

Q: (Pierre) ...Years ago, you referred to a triple bad day for the Rockefellers. In light of the recent revelation about pandemics and the real plague, that for those like the Rockefellers it will be a triple bad day: health-wise (real plague), finance-wise (real crisis), and social-wise (because they'll be hunted by the people when they finally figure out what is being done to them). Is it the meaning of Triple Bad Day?

A: Close. But, not only. Frequency mismatch will lead to many "smashing" events.

Q: (L) In other words, the frequency, the cosmic ray environment, or the frequency of the planet and our area of space-time is changing and they'll have like soul smashing events because they no longer fit?

A: Close.

Could explain what will happen to the undergrounder as well.

Cassiopaean Session Transcripts Search

cassiopaeatranscripts.org

Are they going to haul out those soldiers from all eras in storage underground, since they wouldn’t have to arrive from the sky, but from under our feet?

(L) That was from an old session when they were talking about underground bases and so forth.

A: That is for fourth density, assuming they survive!

Q: (L) So in other words, there's a chance that all of those soldiers they've been creating and storing up could be wiped out, too?

A: Yes

Q: (L) Would that be by virus?

A: Some.

Q: (L) How about earth changes?

A: Some.

Q: (Pierre) Cometary impact?

(L) Well, that goes with earth changes.

A: Some.

 

[taratai]

US behind strike on Iranian school – NYT​

Death toll was already 171 yesterday.

Just a thought, but it looks like Israel might be trying to shift the blame away from themselves.

First they pretended nobody destroyed the school, then they tried to blame it on the AI targeting the school (and since it's AI, then nobody is to blame!), and now it looks like blaming the US for it.

Also, since that info comes from NY Times, it might also be Democrats trying to stick that one to Trump before the incoming midterm elections (better Trump to blame than Israel, no?).

 

[MJF]

They say that truth is the first casualty in war so we need to be careful of all claims coming out from the parties involved in this conflict. I abandoned watching the BBC news service some years ago owing to its bias and misreporting. In recent times I have chosen to watch GB News instead and especially enjoyed Neil Oliver's Sunday show until he was sidelined and left to do just podcasts. However, their unalloyed support for Israel and the USA in this conflict has led me to turn away from the channel and I find myself now watching TRT the Turkish English language news service.

TRT has news reporters (of different nationalities) embedded in Tehran, Beirut, the West Bank, Tel Aviv and the Gulf States. It has been particularly interesting getting the on the ground reports from their Tehran correspondent since he paints a very different picture of what is happening in Tehran from reports emanating out of Tel Aviv and Washington. He does not pretend that the waves of airstrikes the city is experiencing is not causing extensive damage and that people are fearful for their lives (they have few if any bunkers to shelter in compared to say Tel Aviv, Gaza or Beirut). However, he has noted that the people are also showing resilience and whether or not they are supporters or detractors of the regime, they are now pulling together since at the end of the day they are all Iranians and their city and country is under attack from two hostile powers who are seeking to destroy them (sorry did I mean liberate them ).

There are, of course, precedents for this type of response most recently seen in the Ukraine where people have become used to constant air and missile attacks over a period of years. Indeed, my own elderly mother is a survivor of the London Blitz where life for several years revolved around sirens wailing, air attacks, both night and day, and spending large periods of time down air raid shelters. London was, of course, the first city to experience cruise missile attacks as well. The point is that the British people (like the Ukrainians today), especially Londoners, became used to this kind of existence and just got on with things as best they could (the motto being "Keep calm and carry on"). In fairness, Britain had much better air defences and had prepared for such aerial warfare but even so, I hope the Iranians will show similar resolve and endure - they showed such endurance during the long and protracted war with Iraq. It may be that the US and Israel will start running out of munitions soon and will need to scale back their attacks, having relied on a short sharp shock and awe strategy to bring around regime change. Anyway, we shall see.​

 

[luc]

The post about the Shahed-136 has not only already been posted, but it been discussed by us and established by mainstream media that didn’t actually come from Iran. So it’s not an ‘Iranian drone’ and is therefore fake news. You’re literally putting false info into our reality and increasing that frequency by doing so.

Also, please everybody consider the huge amount of fake news and clickbait slop that's being constantly produced on ALL SIDES. It's easy for grifters to tap into the pro-Iranian sentiment of many and make a buck with wild claims about the latest Iranian super-victory-miracle, written by AI for punch, complete with pictures nobody knows what they are. Then of course you have the Zionist types muddying the waters, etc.

So if the news aggregation on this thread should be useful, then we must try our best to vet those claims, or at least trace the source ("Iranian minister claims XY, the NYT reports this, anonymous account posted a video but I don't know if it's true" etc.)

This also keeps the noise level down so that actual discussion doesn't get drowned, especially for those of us who don't check this thread constantly.

 

[Liliea]

Here are Max Blumenthal and Judge Napolitano, with some common sense from the USA, in an analysis of “a delusional Vietnam-style project for Israel and the Epstein class, with the Kurds as the Trojan horse and US soldiers as expendable ammunition,” in Blumenthal's words.

How a Terror Cult, Zionist Oligarchs, and a Fake Pentagon Tough Guy Led Trump’s March into Hell​

Max Blumenthal goes on Judging Freedom and basically rips the mask off Trump’s Iran adventure as an MEK–Netanyahu–Epstein production, run through a bought Pentagon and a captive Senate. He walks Judge Napolitano through his confrontation with MEK‑payrolled General Jack Keane gloating that sanctions are “choking” Iranians, then shows how Netanyahu, Adelson cash and a network of Israel‑aligned handlers rewired Trump from “anti–regime change” candidate into the president who literally opened the gates of hell by killing the Ayatollah.

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Gaza-like Horror in Tehran​

Max Blumenthal: How a Terror Cult, Zionist Oligarchs, and a Fake Pentagon Tough Guy Led Trump’s March into Hell

Max Blumenthal goes on Judging Freedom and basically rips the mask off Trump’s Iran adventure as an MEK–Netanyahu–Epstein production, run through a bought Pentagon and a captive Senate.

thegrayzone.substack.com

 

[Windmill knight]

The Duran had a couple of guests today who made some very interesting observations on the consequences of the war for the global economy and energy. Later in the discussion they focus a lot on China, and while that's not the war properly, it's still very interesting. They have an insider view of China and lots of data - China sounds like a place I could move to!

You know how it is hard to find footage of missile strikes or the damage on Israel because of censorship, and then you need to decide if it's AI or not or an older video of last year's war? I found this account which appears to be from a local resident and as far as I can tell the videos look genuine: Misa Roumi

By they way, I came across many of last night's images and videos of the Iranian 'cluster bomb' missile on X, but I found it curious that none of them showed the moment of impact. Some because the cluster would go behind a building, but others clearly because the video was cut early. Is that some sort of censorship as well? Or were those not really cluster bombs but a fragmented missile with no significant damage on the ground? Or decoys not meant to explode?

Finally, remember the insane aspirations for a 'Greater Israel'? Well, Pete Hegseth is now talking of 'Greater North America'. Totally crazy language. The US admin people have lost touch with reality, and that includes Trump, who clearly wanted a weekend-war as in Venezuela, and from there he went to 4-5 weeks, several months, talking about ammo available for an eternal war, and now only accepting 'unconditional surrender' from Iran. A bad case of sunken cost fallacy?

Here's Hegseth:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2029813888859132081

P.S: I love how many on the Internet are calling US-Israel the 'Epstein Coalition' in the context of the war. Very clever and I hope it sticks.

 

[mabar]

Just a thought, but it looks like Israel might be trying to shift the blame away from themselves.

First they pretended nobody destroyed the school, then they tried to blame it on the AI targeting the school (and since it's AI, then nobody is to blame!), and now it looks like blaming the US for it.

Also, since that info comes from NY Times, it might also be Democrats trying to stick that one to Trump before the incoming midterm elections (better Trump to blame than Israel, no?).

On the other hand, as Geopilitics Prime TC points out, it is much better to blame Trump/US but not for the midterms instead try in vain to clear Israel's reputation.

This is how the US media are whitewashing Israeli war crimes

The New York Times ran this way: “The US appears to have carried out the strike on the school in Iran.”

But Iran has already identified pilots and the airbases involved in a war crime.

Hours after the bombing, the deputy governor of Hormozgan province confirmed it was an Israeli strike on a school in Minab, according to IRNA.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman echoed that, speaking about an "attack by the Zionist regime."

The same day President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the "act of barbarity" as yet another crime by aggressors on Iranian soil.

In response, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed the Pentagon was investigating—while insisting America "never attacks civilian targets."

Then, on March 1, IDF spokesman Nadav Shoshani said Israel was "unaware of any Israeli or American strikes" on the school in Minab.

Israelis typically make such statements only when they are implicated in incidents.

Geopolitics Prime previously revealed that Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir was accountable for striking on that very school.

Yet American media seem willing to tarnish their own military’s reputation to shield Israel.

The motive is clear: after Gaza, where Israeli strikes killed thousands of children, US public opinion turned sharply against Israel.

Mass pro-Palestinian protests erupted.

Now, if the media were to openly report that Israel is continuing its campaign of civilian slaughter—this time in Iran—the backlash could reignite.

Protests could return. Demands to cut ties with Israeli aggression could grow.

But frame it as a US "miscalculation"? The public shrugs.

This isn’t about defending American interests.

It’s about protecting Israel—and the political interests of its backers inside the US.

US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime

 

[luc]

By they way, I came across many of last night's images and videos of the Iranian 'cluster bomb' missile on X, but I found it curious that none of them showed the moment of impact. Some because the cluster would go behind a building, but others clearly because the video was cut early. Is that some sort of censorship as well? Or were those not really cluster bombs but a fragmented missile with no significant damage on the ground? Or decoys not meant to explode?

Noticed that too, and read somewhere that it was actually decoys - but I don't know, maybe someone has found a source that makes sense of it?

 

[sToRmR1dR]

The US is preparing Ukrainian troops for a ground operation in Iran.

[...]

Ukrainian troops at US bases​

Ukraine is expected to start protecting US military bases in the Middle East in the next few days, Reuters reported, without specifying exact dates or details of the Ukrainian military’s role. On March 5, Vladimir Zelensky said Ukraine had received a US request for air defense support in the region and that he had instructed the provision of necessary resources and personnel.

 

[Nathan]

Another quick report from Simplicius. Here are some key points:

In particular, NYT and other outlets have now confirmed total attrition of US’s irreplaceable AN/TPY-2 radars meant for THAAD and other high end systems. This radar has an upwards of $1 billion dollar price tag and numbers only in the dozen range total. Only one or two units of these can be built per year at the very most. Iran just potentially destroyed 50% or more of the US’s entire global stock of this rare and irreplaceable system.

The shock of the outcome cannot be understated: Iran is literally blinding the US in the region. And following that, it is launching its most advanced hypersonic Khorramshahr-4—also known as the Kheybar—ballistic missiles at Israel, which are now impervious to interdiction. They are said to release upwards of 80 submunitions in a tight pattern.

Two separate new reports of shot-down American F-15s hit the waves today as well, despite US denials. Again even top pro-American OSINT accounts were forced to admit their ‘trustworthy’ sources had confirmed at least one of the shoot-downs.

And this gem:

WaPo writes that US may be “days away” from having to literally allow some missiles to pass through.

I must say, this reminds me just a little of Russia in Ukraine:

Iran has uncovered a kind of escalation dominance over the US and its allies given that it’s able to produce cheap and ‘precise-enough’ weaponry much faster than US and its allies can restock their prestige systems, which puts them all in a major bind.

Simplicius report in full:
Iran Blinds US With Unprecedented Campaign of Strikes on Region's Strategic Radars

I have to agree with Simplicius here that, at least currently, Iran’s strategy is winning out, and time is on their side. As for Israel, well, this might be their last chance to secure their future dominance. We’ll see where their desperation takes them (if anywhere at all).

 

[ra888]

Middle East Spectator — MES

News & Analysis on Middle East Independent, but not unbiased, striving for a multipolar world. Mainly focused on Iran & Resistance Axis. Ads: @Zhr_aaa22 Owner: @Hajj_Khomeini Introduction: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/4 X: @spectator_mena

t.me

There was a surprising post in the above tg channel which was deleted after a few minutes, not sure if it was a gag or not.

'''
Need help identifying a jet urgently. dm @hajj_khomeini
'''

I am paraphrasing, as by the time i copied the link, and wanted to screenshot it, it was deleted. Middle_East_Spectator is a resistance, biased channel with about 0.35 million subscribers.
"Independent, but not unbiased, striving for a multipolar world. Mainly focused on Iran & Resistance Axis."

If this is indeed legit, crowdsourcing of knowledge in a war, is quite risky but rewarding if it pans out.



Somewhat of a tangent topic alert:
I did a forum search on this topic and it does not seem to be covered. A nation state based in UTC+02:00 timezone tried to put a backdoor in linux and was thwarted. And we all know our favorite psychopathic nation, Israel, is in that timezone.


The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

AI Summary:
The Linux XZ Utils backdoor attempted hack in march 2024 (CVE-2024-3094) was a sophisticated supply chain attack that secretly embedded malicious code into a foundational Linux compression library. If successful, it would have granted attackers a "master key" to a vast number of Linux servers worldwide.
What the Backdoor Did

* Targeted SSH: The backdoor specifically hijacked the sshd process, which handles secure remote logins.
* Authentication Bypass: It allowed anyone possessing a specific private encryption key to log in without a valid password.
* Remote Code Execution (RCE): Beyond just logging in, it enabled attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges (complete control) on the infected machine.
* Stealthy Execution: The malicious commands were executed directly by the SSH daemon, making them difficult to distinguish from normal system activity.

Potential Gains for the Attacker
The long-term nature of the operation—spanning over two years—suggests a highly motivated actor, potentially state-sponsored, seeking strategic advantages.

* Global Infrastructure Control: XZ is installed on billions of machines. Gaining access to these could have allowed for large-scale disruptions of critical infrastructure.
* Persistent Espionage: The backdoor provided a silent, long-term entry point for data exfiltration from governments and high-profile global companies.
* Lateral Movement: Once inside a single server, attackers could move through entire internal networks to compromise sensitive data or deploy ransomware.
* Strategic Sabotage: The ability to execute code at the root level means attackers could have altered system integrity, tampered with data, or performed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks at will.
* Exclusivity: The use of a specific private key ensured that only the original attackers could use the backdoor, preventing other hackers from stumbling upon and using the same exploit.


Massive disaster avoided just cause a developer was obsessive about half a second of time wasted.

Top comment from that video:
Alternate title - 'Guy pissed off at a 0.5 second login delay ends up saving the world'

 

[ra888]

Nevermind, its neither a gag or anything legit. Its just the tg channel owner asking for journalistic help in identification.

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

Noticed that too, and read somewhere that it was actually decoys - but I don't know, maybe someone has found a source that makes sense of it?

Here's the longest video I could find. At first, I thought, because of the speed of the incandescent objects, that it was some kind of decoy missile, but no other nearby missiles or parallel ammunition can be seen (someone said that the brightest light was the missile that shut down the engine, but no impact can be seen or heard and its speed is the same, so I think it's just material or other ammunition that, for various reasons, shone brighter).

https://twitter.com/x/status/2029666127509381504

I found this news report stating that Khorramshahr 4 missiles were indeed used in retaliatory attacks last night, and that at least one was targeting Ben Gurion Airport. It also says that observers on the ground identified damage typical of cluster munitions.

Former IRGC commander Hajizadeh mentioned that this missile could carry cluster munitions:

Iran fires Khorramshahr-4 missiles at Tel Aviv, causing chaos​

Iran launched a fresh wave of ballistic missiles toward Tel Aviv late on March 5, with images and videos captured by residents pointing to the use of the Khorramshahr-4, one of the heaviest and most advanced weapons in Tehran's missile arsenal. Fires and damage were reported in at least three locations in and around Tel Aviv as the conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition entered its sixth day.

Observers tracking the strikes said evidence of submunition impacts across central Israel indicated the Khorramshahr-4 had been deployed, a finding consistent with the missile's known capability to carry a cluster warhead that disperses multiple smaller explosives over a wide area. The identification was based on the distinctive pattern of scattered damage visible in images circulating from the scene, a hallmark of the weapon's design.

IRGC claims 19th wave targeted Ben Gurion Airport​

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the deployment in a statement, saying the Khorramshahr-4 missiles were launched during the 19th wave of what it calls "True Promise Operation," with warheads weighing 1,000 kilograms aimed at central Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, and what it described as the 27th Airbase of the Israeli Air Force.


Israel's military disputed those claims, stating that all Iranian ballistic missiles launched overnight were intercepted by air defenses, though one missile fired in the morning struck an open area in a central town. The IDF also pointed out that no 27th Squadron exists in the Israeli Air Force, and the IRGC's reference likely points to Airbase 27, also known as Lod Airbase, which was permanently closed in 2010.

Analysts noted that by claiming to target Ben Gurion Airport, the IRGC appeared to be signaling an effort to disrupt Israel's main international gateway, mirroring the impact that Western airstrikes have had on Iranian airports and civilian infrastructure inside Iran.

Tehran's heaviest warhead in action
The Khorramshahr-4, also known as Kheibar, stands as the most powerful confirmed ballistic missile in Iran's inventory. First unveiled in May 2023, the missile has a reported range of approximately 2,000 kilometers, measures 13 meters in length, and carries a warhead weighing about 1,500 kilograms. Iranian officials claim it can reach speeds of Mach 16 outside the atmosphere and Mach 8 within it.


What makes the weapon particularly challenging for defenders is its cluster munition configuration. Previous IDF assessments have established that the Khorramshahr-4's warhead can open during descent at an altitude of roughly 7 kilometers, releasing approximately 20 submunitions, each carrying about 2.5 kilograms of explosives, across a diameter of some 16 kilometers.

It is this wide dispersal pattern that observers identified in the aftermath of the March 5 strikes on Tel Aviv.

The missile is also equipped with maneuverable reentry vehicles featuring control fins and satellite navigation, and its hypergolic fuel system allows launch preparation in under 12 minutes, significantly reducing the window for pre-launch detection.

IRGC Aerospace Division commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh has previously claimed a single Khorramshahr-4 could strike up to 80 separate targets through its submunition capability.

The Khorramshahr missile family traces its origins to North Korean Hwasong-10 technology and has been developed through four successive generations since its first test in 2017. The name "Kheibar" references the Battle of Khaybar, a seventh-century military engagement that carries pointed historical symbolism in the context of the Israeli-Iranian rivalry.

Iran fires Khorramshahr-4 missiles at Tel Aviv, causing chaos - Türkiye Today

Iran reportedly launched another ballistic-missile attack on Tel Aviv, possibly using the Khorramshahr-4 missile

www.turkiyetoday.com

An old photo of the missile with its two cluster munition options, one with about 80 rounds and another with 20: