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Having lived in Qatar and knowing many people there, kind of insane to see first hand accounts and videos of the missiles.

Mashallah. I support the Islamic Republic against the US and Zionist imperialists.

Israel has closed its airspace until further notice.

-Telegram (DDGeopolitics)

Mass wave of Israeli airstrikes just took place in Tehran. Over 50 aircraft dropped over 100 munitions/bombs and missiles. Large explosions all over the city.

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I have a question regarding the wests ultimate goals in Iran and how they don't really make much sense in regards to regional and worldwide safety from nuclear threats.

Let's say that Iran hadn't evacuated their 60% enriched stockpile from Fordow, and these strikes were a complete success. There is now half a ton of enriched uranium buried at the site.

And let's also say that a successful decapitation strike occurs. Iran is thrown into civil war with many factions. Some have extreme ideologies, maybe more extreme than the regime ever was.

Now obviously this would not result in a nuclear weapon, assuming the country is fractured and unstable. But whoever ends up controlling the fordow site now just needs to do a bit of excavation and we are looking at material to make dozens of dirty bombs, potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS. How is burying half a ton of nuclear material and destabilizing the country at all going to lead to safety for the world?

Fire erupts at the World Heart Hotel in the Iraqi city of Baghdad.

Russian forces liberated eight more settlements over the past week (Novaya Kruglyakovka and Petrovskoye in Kharkov oblast; and Dyleyevka, Novosergeyevka, Zaporozhye, Perebudova, Shevchenko and Yalta in the Donetsk People’s Republic): https://tass.com/politics/1982135

SouthFront has another big collection of recent Russian combat footage: https://southfront.press/summary-of-russian-combat-footage-from-june-27-2025/

A Russian missile strike destroyed a Kiev regime ammunition depot (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/27/1474304.html

Just a small update on the Bolivia General Elections, the current VP, David Choquehuanca is not going to run for President. Instead he started his campaign to become general-secretary of the UN.

Does anyone here know the Iranian born western academic Vali Nasr? He wrote "The Shia Revival" a while back and also a book titled "The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism" (just so you know where he stands).

Anyway he put out a book written right before the Assad government fell called "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History", it's what it says on the tin. I think for anyone confused about why the fuck Iran does what it does and what its leaders think, usually in their own terms and not the author's, this is a good read.

But before reading just listen to that episode of about the terms "proxy" and "backed" because the author views Iran's "Forward Defense" strategy of supporting these organizations as reprehensible, while no doubt he would not say the same about whatever NGOs the US literally funds. Despite that, it's not too axe-grindish a read I think he did a good job of relaying what the hardliners and reformists believe and why, and any sensible reader will read this and note how in plenty of matters the hardliners are correct.

There's lots of good stuff about Khamenei too, like how he was influenced by new left theories of anti-imperialism and dependency theory. Also explains why Iran for a long time (and even until today) is very reluctant to join a Russia-China axis (the iranian foreign minister literally has "neither east nor west" on its entrance)

At the end he puts out a warning to the regime that basically there's a chasm forming between its commitment to its strategies for resisting the united states as a means of becoming a regional power and the wishes of many iranians to adopt a more """""pragmatic""""" approach (like nuclear negotiations). This was obviously all before the recent missile lobbing war so I hope that chasm as been reduced in favor of the regime.

It's on the audiobook torrent site too

EDIT: Found the guy's twitter and he seems to understand that Iran is not just going to return to the negotiating table after one happens, and it may have only hardened Khamenei's already incredibly hard will to resist the US

Prominent donors are gunning to get Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in the Trump Administration in hopes of pushing him out of New York City’s mayoral race, sources told me. The aim is to open up the GOP nomination — and the nearly 30% of the vote someone running in that lane is expected to get — for current mayor Eric Adams.

IAEA chief Grossi gave an interview on French radio today, link here. What I find most interesting is this statement:

Yes, and the knowledge we have of the facilities and capabilities, for example. I'll give you an example: Fordow, the major underground facility that everyone's talking about. It's almost like a movie script. We've seen the images of the perforations from these high-penetration bombs. Obviously, we can't assess the degree of damage. But given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational, because they are fairly precise machines: there are rotors, the vibrations have completely destroyed them. There couldn't have been any nonsense about significant physical damage. So, we can draw a fairly precise technical conclusion. I know the Fordo facility. It's a network of tunnels where different types of activities took place. I can also tell you that what we saw in the images and analyzed more or less corresponds to the enrichment hall.

So that's all the centrifuges at both Fordow and Natanz gone according to the IAEA. Over 15 000 of them were in active operation, 13 000 at Natanz and 2000 at Fordow, with Fordow being especially costly as the advanced IR-6 centrifuges were located there. So the blast pressure and overpressure through the ventilation shafts directly into the enrichment halls destroyed the centrifuges, according to Grossi. Also pretty clear why Iran no longer want to co operate with the IAEA.

: "Why would the so-called “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war torn Country of Iran, say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie, it is not so. As a man of great faith, he is not supposed to lie. His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, “THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!” In fact, in the final act of the War, I demanded that Israel bring back a very large group of planes, which were heading directly to Tehran, looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout! Tremendous damage would have ensued, and many Iranians would have been killed. It was going to be the biggest attack of the War, by far. During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery - The sanctions are BITING! But no, instead I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more. Iran has to get back into the World Order flow, or things will only get worse for them. They are always so angry, hostile, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them - A burned out, blown up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get worse! I wish the leadership of Iran would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!"

Interesting analysis:

THREAD: It seems a ceasefire has been achieved in what US President Trump is now calling the “Twelve-Day War” between Israel and Iran. What motivated the parties involved to accept it?

they were talking about regime change yesterday day i ain't buying the "it's time for peace thing".

im not a geopolitical analyst (thank god) but imo there's two possibilities:

1. they're gonna keep violating the ceasefire and when iran responds trump can justify a full scale invasion to his base on the account of "they took away muh nobel peace prize".

2. the more likely scenario, it's there to buy time for another surprise attack like the first day/launching a civil war. im not saying israel was in a worse position than iran, but the fact is that they were running out of interceptors. they believe (and unfortunately im inclined to believe as well) that they have done enough damage to iran's missile program to stop us from replenishing our missile stockpile, while they fill up their interceptors, re-establish bases and contacts inside iran and gather intel for another attack or even attempt an uprising.

there's already reports of light weapons being smuggled into iran and there's ongoing talks with shah's failson. climate change ain't making the weather any cooler and there's an eerie sense of anger hanging in the air. the last large scale protest was 3 years ago and looks like we have those every couple of years now.

islamic republic has failed to establish deterrence and now the only path forward is to both change domestic policy and root out corruption to appease the populace, and to get a nuclear weapon to establish real deterrence. and I'm sad to say but seeing our geriatric and libbed out leadership (with a huge portion of them being outright assets) i don't have high hopes. i hope im wrong but it looks like iran is on the path to become the next libya.

Looks like Israel have responded by launching a symbolic airstrike targeting a radar in Tehran.

trump announced a ceasefire to begin in 6 hours, no mention of gaza

details are odd tho, seems iran ceases fire in 6 hours and then 12 hrs later the entity will.

FUCK THIS NO CEASEFIRE TIL THE ZIONIST REGIME IS FINISHED

Juan Shaihdo has just declared himself interim president of Iran

Gang I think it's true, getting that same impending sense of doom from the resistance infosphere that I felt after the strike on Nasrallah and before Assad's fall...

As communists, we gotta get our money up. What Ws have we got since 1991? Don’t say China, we just spent a week shitting on them for sleeping through any chance at saving themselves from western domination

🚨🇮🇱 Channel 12: Israel Braces for Major Iranian Response Tonight — Home Front Command Maintains High Alert ⚠️🛡️

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The Parliamentarian has decreed that Mike Lee's provision to sell off millions of acres of federal land out west should be struck from the Big Beautiful Bill. Lee wants to bring it back, but this time only selling BLM land, not Forest Service land, and only within 5 miles of cities, but i guess we'll see.

The ceasefire took place a few minutes ago, Iran is still sending missiles

Okay now let's step back and see what was the goal of all this, my guess is that it's a psyop to get the hardliners against Iran, trick the Iranians into thinking the country got sold for them to rise up and get hijacked by the U.S.

I suspect that we're going to see a rather massive exodus of settlers from The Genocidal Entity in the wake of True Promise 3. Pissrael's sense of invulnerability has without a doubt been absolutely shattered, regardless as to who "won" this recent flare up.

They're wanting to expand to "Greater Israel" while simultaneously having fewer and fewer settlers to actually make that happen. Burning the candle at both ends, as it were.

With the exception of the truly rabid / extreme Zionazi settlers that are absolutely committed to the project I would think a lot of them are probably realising that they'd be best advised to get the hell out of dodge.

Canadian PM Mark Carney says what’s needed is a “Zionist Palestinian state” - Video

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ISNA, an Iranian state news agency, is also reporting President Trump’s comments about the United States holding talks with Iran “next week.”

Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has issued a fatwa against the enemies of God. (Grand Ayatollah is the highest ranking title in Twelver Shiism)

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Any individual or regime that threatens the Islamic Ummah and its leadership, the Rahbar, or Marjaiyyah, or – Allah forbid – attempts any aggression against them, is classified as a Muharib (one who wages war against Allah).

Any form of cooperation with them or strengthening them is Haram (religiously forbidden) for Muslims and Islamic governments.

It is incumbent upon all Muslims across the world to make such enemies regret their words and actions.

And if they (the Muslims) endure hardships or incur a loss while doing so, they shall – Allah willing – have the rewards of a Mujahid on the path of Allah.

May Allah protect the Islamic community from the evil of its enemies and hasten the reappearance of the Master of the Age and the Time (Imam Mahdi).

May you always be successful.

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi; 8 Tir 1404; 29 June 2025

The White House has released a video of Trump's visit to the NATO summit in The Hague accompanied by the song Hey Daddy. The footage is accompanied by the caption "Daddy's home" - "daddy is back" or "daddy is home".

Let us recall that at the summit, Secretary General Rutte called Trump "daddy". Although he later stated that he was misunderstood. "I didn't call him 'daddy'. I just said that sometimes in Europe I hear some countries asking: 'Hey Mark, will the US stay with us?' And I said that it sounds a bit like a little kid asking his daddy: 'Hey, are you still staying with your family?' So in that sense I used the word 'daddy' - not that I called President Trump daddy," Rutte said.