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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 9th to June 15th, 2025 - Iran-Israel War Begins
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Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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On the AJ broadcast the two flares on the right have massive flames coming out of them that weren't there before
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but what does pissrael's choice not to nuke / try to nuke Iran in the midst of all this say about the efficacy of nuclear deterrence, if it says anything?
Nuclear deterrence is basically why Israel exists, that's pretty much the gist of it.
Where it for the entity not having nukes, all Arab states would have probably formed a new coalition and took it out in a parallel universe.
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Haifa POV
No hostile fighter jets have entered Iranian airspace since Saturday, military sources confirm. Israel enjoyed a short window of 'operational freedom' in Iran after the initial paralysis of AD, but have not entered Iran's borders since. This is also proven by the total lack of jet footage, and the fact that all of the AD activations are light air defenses (like ZSU style pea shooters).
Although, some airstrikes are still being carried out from Iraqi airspace. Israel's main bet was on internal chaos immediately following the opening blow, which did not happen, despite a massive network of internal collaborators that was prepared for years by the Mossad. The Israeli operation, at least the 'planned' phase, has come to an end, and they now have to adapt and improvise.
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Going to be honest that's just factually not true, we have images and videos of JDAMs and SPICE bombs being used to bomb Tehran on Sunday afternoon, which requires Israeli aircraft to fly hundreds of kilometres within Iranian airspace to drop said bombs on Tehran.
I still worry that they or the US will simply drop nuclear bunker busters on Fordow which will detonate underground. Nobody will care. They will just say they got intel that Iran made their first nuke, so they had "no choice".
Big doubt that no one would care. I think that a covert or overt op to attack Iran's nuclear sites in a way that actually destroys them is going to push the russians and chinese to more action IMO.
Who is this from?
Middle East Spectator – MES
Snn.ir seems to be Iranian tv.
I'm amazed at the Dune-like strangeness of modern interstate warfare
What’s dune like about it to you?
We even have our own God Emperor 
Tel Aviv impact
touches the lathe
Israel is going to do an USS liberty and say it was Iran
I believe you don't use "an" when the pronounced sounds is that of a Y, even when it's a vowel at the start of the word
Example: A unicorn, a Ukelele, a USS Liberty
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More Tel Aviv impacts
Honestly... not even close. The settlers can come back with this one when Iran bombs all their hospitals and prevents essentials good from entering their "country" of Israel.
Oh did someone feel the consequences of their actions? 
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For anyone wondering about the reported earthquake in Qom near Fordow. It looks like a munitions dump/storage facility was hit, setting off powerful secondary explosions. So not an attack on the nuclear facilities at Fordow, and not a nuclear test.