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[📹 Scenes of Iranian missiles flying into Israeli cities tonight after Iran launches a major combined drone and missile strike and several targets in occupied Palestine, coinciding with rockets launched from southern Lebanon.]

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IRAN LAUNCHES MASSIVE COMBINED MISSILE AND DRONE STRIKES ON ISRAEL, US INTERCEPTS OVER 100 DRONES

Israeli media is reporting the arrival of dozens of missiles and drones fired from Iran, most of which they claim were intercepted.

According to the Zionist media, while no one was killed in the Iranian strikes, at least one young girl was wounded by shrapnel from an intercepted drone and was taken to a nearby hospital.

Already, Israeli officials are calling for counterstrikes, while the American media refuses to acknowledge the attack on the consulate building of the Iranian embassy that led to the current round of attacks.

The strikes represented the first time Iran has launched direct strikes on "Israel".

Occupation authorities claim that none of drones launched by the Iranians made it through the occupation's air defenses, some missiles succeeded in hitting their targets, while at least 20 missiles never made it to the borders of occupied Palestine.

According to one Israeli official, more than 200 drones and missiles were fired into the occupied Palestinian territories in all.

For now, while the Biden administration continues to reaffirm public support for the Israeli occupation, privately, the President has told Netanyahu he won't back an Israeli counter to the counterstrikes.

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Islamic Republic Will always Humiliate the Enemy

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. fighter jets launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against U.S. bases and personnel in the region that began early last week.

The strikes reflect the Biden administration’s determination to maintain a delicate balance. The U.S. wants to hit Iranian-backed groups suspected of targeting the U.S. as strongly as possible to deter future aggression, possibly fueled by Israel’s war against Hamas, while also working to avoid inflaming the region and provoking a wider conflict.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that the strikes near Boukamal by F-16 and F-15 fighter aircraft targeted a weapons storage facility and ammunition storage facility used by the IRGC and affiliated groups. “Both facilities were destroyed,” he said. “We currently assess there were no casualties in the strikes.”

A senior U.S. military official said there had been Iranian-aligned militia and IRGC personnel on the base and no civilians. The official would not say how many munitions were launched by the jets.

A senior defense official said the sites were chosen because the IRGC stores the types of munitions there that were used in the strikes against U.S. bases and troops. The two officials briefed reporters after the strikes on condition of anonymity to provide details on the mission that had not yet been made public.

Syrian opposition activists confirmed the U.S. strikes in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour. Omar Abu Layla, a Europe-based activist who heads the Deir Ezzor 24 media outlet, said the main target was an area known as “the farms” outside the town of Mayadeen. He said it is an important transit site where weapons from Iran are stored before being shipped to Lebanon.

He said the second strike hit an area known as the “green belt” in the Boukamal area that borders Iraq. According to Abu Layla, some people were evacuated before the strikes because the retaliation was expected. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said ambulances were seen rushing to the area but it wasn’t clear if there were casualties.

Meanwhile Friday, an Iranian semiofficial news agency, Tasnim, said gunmen in east Syria fired 10 rockets on a base housing American troops in retaliation for the U.S. airstrikes. A U.S. official confirmed the rocket attack and said there were no reported casualties.

And the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group for several Iran-backed groups, said fighters attacked al-Assad airbase in western Iraq with a suicide drone. U.S. officials said it was shot down a few kilometers away and did not hit the base.

According to the Pentagon, as of Friday there had been at least 20 attacks on U.S. bases and personnel in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17. Ryder said 21 U.S. personnel were injured in two of those assaults when drones targeted al-Assad airbase in Iraq and al-Tanf garrison in Syria.

In a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the “precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17.”

In a letter sent Friday to congressional leaders, President Joe Biden wrote: “The strikes were intended to establish deterrence and were conducted in a manner to limit the risk of escalation and avoid civilian casualties. I directed the strikes in order to protect and defend our personnel, to degrade and disrupt the ongoing series of attacks against the United States and our partners, and to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting further attacks on United States personnel and facilities.”

The senior defense official told reporters that the airstrikes will have a significant impact on the ability of Iranian proxy groups to continue to attack U.S. forces. Asked what groups were targeted, the official said there are several that can have different names, but the U.S. holds Tehran responsible for funding, arming, equipping and directing the proxies. The official said the airstrikes were not designed to expand the conflict in the region, but to compel Iran to direct the militia groups to cease the attacks on American bases and personnel.

The Biden administration has not accused Iran of having a direct role in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and has said it appears so far that Tehran was not aware of it beforehand. But the U.S. has noted that Iran has long supported Hamas and has raised concerns that Iran and its proxies could turn the conflict into a wider war.

Austin said the U.S. does not seek a broader conflict, but if Iranian proxy groups continue, the U.S. won’t hesitate to take additional action to protect its forces.

According to the Pentagon, all the U.S. personnel hurt in the militant attacks received minor injuries and all returned to duty. In addition, a contractor suffered a cardiac arrest and died while seeking shelter from a possible drone attack.

The retaliatory strikes came as no surprise. Officials at the Pentagon and the White House have made it clear for the past week that the U.S. would respond, with Ryder saying again Thursday that it would be “at the time and place of our choosing.”

The latest spate of strikes by the Iranian-linked groups came in the wake of a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital, triggering protests in a number of Muslim nations. The Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in retaliation for the devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel nearly three weeks ago, but Israel has denied responsibility for the al-Ahli hospital blast and the U.S. has said its intelligence assessment found that Tel Aviv was not to blame.

The U.S., including the Pentagon, has repeatedly said any strike response by America would be directly tied to the attacks on the troops, who are focused on the fight against Islamic State militants in the region. They said the strikes are not connected to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Such retaliation and strikes against Iranian targets in Syria after similar attacks on U.S. bases are routine.

In March, for example, the U.S. struck sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after an Iranian-linked attack killed a U.S. contractor and wounded seven other Americans in northeast Syria. American F-15 fighter jets flying out of al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar struck several locations around Deir el-Zour.

U.S. officials have not publicly tied the recent string of attacks in Syria and Iraq to the violence in Gaza, but Iranian officials have openly criticized the U.S. for providing weapons to Israel that have been used to strike Gaza, resulting in civilian death.

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Iran vows ‘decisive action’ as Mahsa Amini protests continue | Protests News

Iran vows ‘decisive action’ as Mahsa Amini protests continue | Protests News

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has pledged to deal “decisively” with the protests that have swept the country since the death of a woman who was detained by Iranian morality police. Raisi’s comments on Saturday came as protesters took to the streets for a ninth consecutive night, defying a crackdown that state television said has killed at least 41 people. It said that toll was based on its own…

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T-Ment targets Iranian drone procurement network

By Harold W. Reid, The Chicago Times April 25, 2024 WASHINGTON – In a move to disrupt Iranian military capabilities, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against a network facilitating the illicit trade and transfer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL). The…

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Iran Morality Police Abolished

Iran Morality Police Abolished

The Guidance Patrol of Iran’s Law Enforcement Command will be shut down, the country’s prosecution authorities announced. This may be the first step leading to an even more important decision on lifting the mandatory wearing of hijab. Meanwhile, Tehran’s foreign policy, influenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains inconvenient for the US, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes. The current…

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Stalked, tortured, disappeared: Iranian authorities have a playbook for silencing dissent, and they're using it again | CNN

Stalked, tortured, disappeared: Iranian authorities have a playbook for silencing dissent, and they’re using it again | CNN

CNN  —  Arman doesn’t sleep much anymore. “In my nightmare, I see someone is following me in the dark, ” he said. “I’m alone and no one is helping me.” He says his life was forever altered in early October, when he was arrested on the streets of Tehran for joining anti-government demonstrations, and then tortured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – known as the Sepah – for four…

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WHAT WAS INVOLVED IN IRAN'S ASSAULT ON THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES?

What we know:

💣 85 tons of explosives fired into Israeli-occupied territory

🛩️ 170 Drones fired by the IRGC

🚀 10 Ballistic missiles penetrated the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system

☠️ No deaths resulted from the strikes

🚑 32 Israeli casualties in total

💰 Over $1.2 Billion in Israeli air defense interceptors were used

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Excerpts from Abrahamian, E. 1999. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley:  University of California Press.

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Iranian charged in alleged plot to kill ex-Trump advisor, John Bolton

We're not Bolton fans, but we're incredibly grateful they nabbed this plotter.

And, yes, we're going to preach.

If you want to be exceptional, you don't pull crap like this. You don't openly endorse it, and you don't give it a passive-aggressive okay with some smart-aleck comment.

Looking at you, Chip Roy. We like our Americans exceptional.

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a commercial ship in international waters in the Gulf on July 6, the U.S. Navy said, adding that the vessel was possibly involved in smuggling activity.

"U.S. naval forces deployed maritime assets to closely monitor the situation," U.S. Fifth Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins said.

The Navy's central command "assessed the circumstances of this event did not warrant further response," he added.

The U.S. Navy said on July 5 that it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

It said that, in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels backed off after the U.S. Navy responded to distress signals, and that both commercial ships continued their voyages.

“The Iranian Navy did make attempts to seize commercial tankers lawfully transiting international waters,” said Hawkins. “The U.S. Navy responded immediately and prevented those seizures.”

Iran said it had obtained a court order for the seizure of the Richmond Voyager tanker after it collided with an Iranian vessel.

It was the latest in a series of attacks on ships in the area since 2019.

The U.S. Navy said in a statement that the first report came at 1 a.m. when one Iranian naval vessel approached the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker TRF Moss. The Iranian vessel departed the scene when the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul arrived, it said.

About three hours later, the U.S. Navy received a distress call from the Bahamian-flagged oil tanker Richmond Voyager while the ship was about 30 kilometers off the coast of Oman. Another Iranian naval vessel had closed within 2 kilometers of the Richmond Voyager while hailing the tanker to stop.

The McFaul directed course toward Richmond Voyager at maximum speed as the tanker continued its transit, the Fifth Fleet said.

"Prior to McFaul’s arrival on scene, Iranian personnel fired multiple, long bursts from both small arms and crew-served weapons," the statement said. "Richmond Voyager sustained no casualties or significant damage. However, several rounds hit the ship’s hull near crew living spaces. The Iranian Navy vessel departed when McFaul arrived."

U.S. oil company Chevron confirmed to Reuters that it managed the Richmond Voyager, that its crew was safe, and that the vessel was operating normally.

Iran’s state media cited the Maritime Search and Rescue Center of Hormozgan Province in the country’s south as saying in a statement that Iran had obtained a court order for the seizure of the Richmond Voyager after it collided with an Iranian vessel carrying seven crew members.

Five people were seriously injured in the collision, the IRINN news agency said, citing the statement.

The United States in May increased the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling the Strait of Hormuz with its partners following an uptick in Iranian merchant vessel seizures, the Fifth Fleet said.

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US targets companies selling Iranian petrochemicals in fresh sanctions

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US targets companies selling Iranian petrochemicals in fresh sanctions

Washington (The Times Groupe)- The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on Chinese and Emirati companies and a network of Iranian firms for helping export petrochemicals from Iran.

On June 16, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed penalties on two Hong Kong-based companies, three Iranian companies, and four UAE companies, as well as two Chinese and one Indian company.

The Treasury Department attributed the moves to negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

“The United States is seeking to achieve a mutual return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action through meaningful diplomacy,” said Brian Nelson, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

“Without a deal, we will continue to impose sanctions on Iran that limit the export of petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemicals,” Nelson said.

In exchange for relief from U.S., European Union, and United Nations sanctions, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program.

In 2018, then-U.S. president Donald Trump pulled out of the deal and restored U.S. sanctions, causing Iran to begin violating the restrictions. Efforts to revive the agreement have so far failed.

It was reported in March that a revised deal was close, but talks in Vienna abruptly stalled in April as Iran and Washington blamed each other for not taking the necessary political decisions to settle remaining issues.

There were disagreements over whether Washington would remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from its list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has long denied attempting to secretly develop nuclear weapons. It claims its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. Despite the collapse of the deal, Tehran has vastly expanded its nuclear work. iranian petrochemicals

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It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

Iran's ambassador to Syria said the strike hit a consular building in the embassy compound and that his residence was on the top two floors. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon

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SCENES FROM U.S. STRIKES LAUNCHED AGAINST IRGC TARGETS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA

📹 Footage from missile strikes launched by the United States Armed Forces against IRGC-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

After the landing of a barrage of missiles, misfires can be seen crashing to the ground after hitting an ammunition depot in Al-Qaim and causing several explosions which burn near the bottom of the scene.

The United States says it targeted IRGC Quds Forces and allies in response to the recent deaths of three U.S. service members in a drone strike by Resistance forces in the west of Iraq which targeted Tower-22, an illegal U.S. outpost on the border of Jordan and Syria which overlooks the refugees of American-sponsored wars.

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Humour In The Snippets!

Humour In The Snippets!

Sometimes snarky snippets can be humorous, too. A bit of a disappointment, I guess A man named Shahram Poursafi started planning to murder former national security advisor John Bolton in October in likely retaliation for his involvement in a drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani.  Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, attempted to pay people in D.C. or Maryland up…