Anonymous wrote:Excellent.

The Israeli Air Force killed four senior Iranian intelligence officials who “played a central role in shaping Iran’s strategic assessments and planning terrorist attacks against Israel, the West, and countries in the Middle East,” the IDF announced Monday.

“Yesterday, IAF fighter jets, following precise IDF intelligence, struck a structure in Tehran where several senior officials from Iranian intelligence organizations were located,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. “In the strike, the Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization and his deputy, as well as the Head of the Quds Force Intelligence Department and his deputy, were all eliminated.”

The IDF said Mohammad Kazemi, the head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, held the position since 2022 and “was responsible for counterintelligence, espionage, and targeting opponents of the Iranian regime within Iran.”

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-iran-tel-aviv-tehran-airstrikes-middle-east-tensions-escalate

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Anonymous wrote:The Iranians bombed an Israeli nuclear facility and their defense headquarters in retaliation. Yikes

I think it is the other way around.

No. It’s true. Of course Israel doesn’t admit to having any nuclear facility but the talk on Twitter is Israel did hit one of their secret facilities implying Iran has inside intel or spies. Israel just arrested 10-15 people suspected of spying. Iran did the same in their country.

The Kirya, Israel’s Pentagon, was also hit.

The Kirya, often referred to as Israel's version of the Pentagon, houses the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) general staff, the ministry of defence, and critical military command and intelligence units.

Iran is definitely retaliating with the same force and hitting the same targets.

This will be a very long war

I want to understand what it is that you are saying. Are you saying that Iran struck an Israeli nuclear facility inside of Israel?

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Anonymous wrote:The Iranians bombed an Israeli nuclear facility and their defense headquarters in retaliation. Yikes

I think it is the other way around.

No. It’s true. Of course Israel doesn’t admit to having any nuclear facility but the talk on Twitter is Israel did hit one of their secret facilities implying Iran has inside intel or spies. Israel just arrested 10-15 people suspected of spying. Iran did the same in their country.

The Kirya, Israel’s Pentagon, was also hit.

The Kirya, often referred to as Israel's version of the Pentagon, houses the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) general staff, the ministry of defence, and critical military command and intelligence units.

Iran is definitely retaliating with the same force and hitting the same targets.

This will be a very long war

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Anonymous wrote:IDF official to WSJ: Natanz facility may have imploded. Yikes, if accurate.

Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by The Associated Press.

The photos and videos from Planet Labs PBC show Iran has been digging tunnels in the mountain near the Natanz nuclear site

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A different set of images analyzed by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies reveals that four entrances have been dug into the mountainside, two to the east and another two to the west. Each is 6 meters (20 feet) wide and 8 meters (26 feet) tall.

The scale of the work can be measured in large dirt mounds, two to the west and one to the east. Based on the size of the spoil piles and other satellite data, experts at the center told AP that Iran is likely building a facility at a depth of between 80 meters (260 feet) and 100 meters (328 feet). The center’s analysis, which it provided exclusively to AP, is the first to estimate the tunnel system’s depth based on satellite imagery.

The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nonprofit long focused on Iran’s nuclear program, suggested last year the tunnels could go even deeper.

Experts say the size of the construction project indicates Iran likely would be able to use the underground facility to enrich uranium as well — not just to build centrifuges. Those tube-shaped centrifuges, arranged in large cascades of dozens of machines, rapidly spin uranium gas to enrich it. Additional cascades spinning would allow Iran to quickly enrich uranium under the mountain’s protection.

“So the depth of the facility is a concern because it would be much harder for us. It would be much harder to destroy using conventional weapons, such as like a typical bunker buster bomb,” said Steven De La Fuente, a research associate at the center who led the analysis of the tunnel work.

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Such underground facilities led the U.S. to create the GBU-57 bomb, which can plow through at least 60 meters (200 feet) of earth before detonating, according to the American military. U.S. officials reportedly have discussed using two such bombs in succession to ensure a site is destroyed. It is not clear that such a one-two punch would damage a facility as deep as the one at Natanz.

With such bombs potentially off the table, the U.S. and its allies are left with fewer options to target the site. If diplomacy fails, sabotage attacks may resume

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-natanz-uranium-enrichment-underground-project-04dae673fc937af04e62b65dd78db2e0

Most analysts think the US could not knock out a site that deep and hardened. You need a heavy bomber like the B-2. The B-2 has a radar profile (0.05–0.75 square meters) greater vs f-35(0.001–0.005 m²). So if you are losing 3 F-35s attacking Natanz you will lose a lot more B-2s. Israel has no B-2s or planes that can carry a GBU-57(30,000 pounds). You can load a f-35 up with 6 2,000 pound bomb but your stealth will be compromised. Dropping 2,000-pound JDAM bombs on it will not do jack. Granite is really dense.

The only way to make something implode is to expose it to pressure. Like the submersible that imploded at the Titanic. How one would make a facility that is dug 250’-300’(most think it is deeper) in granite “imploded”. Maybe you could collapse part of the enter tunnel but the deeper areas will remain.

This claim by the Israeli seems pretty unlikely. Wonder why the WSJ would report it?

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Anonymous wrote:Israel bit off more than they chew. I mean if Gaza and Lebanon were a challenge and the Houthis were a challenge, I don’t know they thought cutting the head off the proverbial snake would be easy.

Reports say Trump declined to assassinate ayatollah or invade Iran.

More yikes

One political analysts take:

The problem is that Iran is responding with relative restraint and proportionality, which makes it difficult for Israel to formally draw the US into war.

Their entire goal seems to be to try and bait Iran into using excess force putting them in a disadvantagous position so that the US has no choice but to help intervene. Notable is that the US has the bunker buster bombs that Israel requires to attack installations deep within mountainous areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Reports of 3 f-35 shot down with two pilots captured.

source?

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of these strikes on Iran is that Iran needs a nuclear bomb in order to prevent the bombing of their country. Iran has always said they did not want uranium for nukes, they should reconsider and do a Pakistan.

Because Iran would only ever use nuclear weapons in self-defense, and never to advance its clearly stated goal of annihilating Israel, the Great Satan, and other Western countries which fail to accept its vision of Islam uber alles, because infidels deserve only death in their worldview? Right, great idea.

And Israel would never advance its clearly stated goal of annihilating Gaza, the Great Amalek, and other countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, etc etc) which fail to accept its vision of Zionism because anti-Zionist deserve only death in their worldview? Right, great idea

More fabricated nonsense, with no basis in reality. Israel has zero expansionist ambitions, beyond those well justified as needful to provide border buffers from entities which attacked first. It has been that way since 1948. Attack Israel, lose territory. Stay put and behave yourself, and Israel leaves you alone. Iran, on the other hand, funds and encourages Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others, as proxies for terror they pretend to deny stimulating, letting their Muslim "brethren" take the heat for them. Those days are finally over.

How can one reconcile your false claims regarding Israel’s expansive intentions in light of the actual statements made by its government officials?

What such statements? Asserting they exist doesn't make them happen. Hamas anbd Iran, on the other hand, have been clear forever about their ambitions towards Israel.

Honestly, if you are insistent on playing dumb and pretending that it’s not clearly documented what Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and many other high level Israeli officials have brazenly said on the record, I’m disinterested in this game.

It’s fact. You are knowingly making false claims to mitigate Israel’s abhorrent policies and actions. You are no less evil.

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of these strikes on Iran is that Iran needs a nuclear bomb in order to prevent the bombing of their country. Iran has always said they did not want uranium for nukes, they should reconsider and do a Pakistan.

Because Iran would only ever use nuclear weapons in self-defense, and never to advance its clearly stated goal of annihilating Israel, the Great Satan, and other Western countries which fail to accept its vision of Islam uber alles, because infidels deserve only death in their worldview? Right, great idea.

And Israel would never advance its clearly stated goal of annihilating Gaza, the Great Amalek, and other countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, etc etc) which fail to accept its vision of Zionism because anti-Zionist deserve only death in their worldview? Right, great idea

More fabricated nonsense, with no basis in reality. Israel has zero expansionist ambitions, beyond those well justified as needful to provide border buffers from entities which attacked first. It has been that way since 1948. Attack Israel, lose territory. Stay put and behave yourself, and Israel leaves you alone. Iran, on the other hand, funds and encourages Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others, as proxies for terror they pretend to deny stimulating, letting their Muslim "brethren" take the heat for them. Those days are finally over.

How can one reconcile your false claims regarding Israel’s expansive intentions in light of the actual statements made by its government officials?

They'll pretend that illegal settlements don't exist, or that Israel never annexed the territories of other sovereign nations, or Zionize aka gaslight you into believing that Israel never wanted to ethnically cleanse and genocide Gaza to occupy and settle it.

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Anonymous wrote:Scott Horton has said he has reliable sources inside the Beltway that say the decision has been made to enter the war against Iran. US aerial bombing of Iran could begin as soon as Monday.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/15/sources-us-will-enter-israels-war-with-iran/

Great. We will weaken and exhaust ourselves for Israel’s sake, so that China can later attack and we will have nothing left.

I hate Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:The Iranians bombed an Israeli nuclear facility and their defense headquarters in retaliation. Yikes

I think it is the other way around.

No. It’s true. Of course Israel doesn’t admit to having any nuclear facility but the talk on Twitter is Israel did hit one of their secret facilities implying Iran has inside intel or spies. Israel just arrested 10-15 people suspected of spying. Iran did the same in their country.

The Kirya, Israel’s Pentagon, was also hit.

The Kirya, often referred to as Israel's version of the Pentagon, houses the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) general staff, the ministry of defence, and critical military command and intelligence units.

Iran is definitely retaliating with the same force and hitting the same targets.

This will be a very long war

Anonymous wrote:Scott Horton has said he has reliable sources inside the Beltway that say the decision has been made to enter the war against Iran. US aerial bombing of Iran could begin as soon as Monday.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/15/sources-us-will-enter-israels-war-with-iran/

Anonymous wrote:Scott Horton has said he has reliable sources inside the Beltway that say the decision has been made to enter the war against Iran. US aerial bombing of Iran could begin as soon as Monday.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/15/sources-us-will-enter-israels-war-with-iran/

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Anonymous wrote:The Iranians bombed an Israeli nuclear facility and their defense headquarters in retaliation. Yikes

I think it is the other way around.