Bulletins and News Discussion from June 9th to June 15th, 2025 - Iran-Israel War Begins

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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How is the resistance so fucking penetrated all the time? All the senior Hezbollah leaders including Nasrallah were lost in the matter of days, and now some of the finest men in Iran were lost within minutes of each other.
- there is a virus that seemingly can only spread between people who are supporters of Palestine where, in direct contradiction of centuries of history and experience, you let down your guard or do not adequately prepare for a military response that literally every single person on the planet knows will come very soon, presumably because the US, your arch enemy who has repeatedly betrayed you, promised that this time they wouldn't betray you
  all I can really say is 1) thank Allah that they had the foresight to create militaries that aren't substantially damaged by such strikes whereby replacements can be rapidly put in place, and 2) Ansarallah clearly has some vaccine to the virus, probably because they've been at war for a decade now and have been forced at gunpoint to adapt or die
  
  well, it's at least nice to see that Iran is committing to that Russian and especially Resistance Axis diplomatic/military strategy where you get attacked and like ten of your top officials that you've packed into a clown car with the words "AIRSTRIKE ME" painted on the top get got, and then you make a threat to your enemy in response along the lines of "Oh boy, you're getting what's coming to you now! Just you wait!", and then proceed to not deliver on that threat before your enemy does the next attack, so now you just look more impotent than if you had said nothing at all
  if Russia wins in Ukraine and Iran wins against Israel, the lesson will still be to just never trust liberals to have efficient militaries. doubly so if either lose
  
  Isn't that the lesson already? And I am afraid we won't see Iran winning, but Israel.
  I'm going to buy some heroin today.
- Seems like we often underestimate the economic effect that sanctions has on certain portions of the population. Compradors, desperate opportunists, sectarians, embittered people who don't see the whole picture are all a fertile field for Mossad and CIA to sow. An economy doesn't have to fully collapse, just feel significant pain, for a portion of that population to be willing to sell out for cheap.
  This is what we didn't see about Syria. We felt relieved because the civil war had gone cold and ceasefires were in place and things seemed to stabilize militarily, but underneath it all sanctions were hollowing out the entire economy and creating an entire class of corrupt and bitter military officers willing to turn coat.
  I'm now convinced that this is one of the primary purposes of sanctions that often goes unstated. The imperialists are aware that sanctions rarely, if ever, bring about regime change on their own. They instead weaken a state and create divides in it, that they can exploit via covert and psychological operations. It creates a comprador class, the portion of society that would rather bend the knee and pay whatever tribute is necessary to get the sanctions lifted.

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