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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 16th to June 22nd, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Heart
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Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran's leadership must - if they haven't already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
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As an Iranian it is really heat warming watching all of humanity come together with great joy in seeing us bomb the shit out of the zionist regime. Never in my life have I ever seen so many people united and so happy in seeing anyone get bombed, really goes to show how fucking hated zionists are throughout the world.
You can only be a cry bully so long before everyone despises your ass. Iran has a right to defend itself.
i love how international this site is despite it's tiny size, honestly amazing how often we will have multiple perspectives from any country that's currently involved in some geopolitical crisis despite not even having 2k users/month
yesterday I was in this thread watching the videos people were posting of fires and bombs and thinking "what the fuck is wrong with me". I'm not a weapon/gun/explosion/war/strategy kind of person; I don't even like movies about that stuff. it made me wonder if I'm being brainwashed or something to find any enjoyment in civilians being bombed.
but the israeli project is just so pervasively evil and so acceptable to its citizens and supporters. the response to various attempts to reform or reign it in has been to fortify itself in brutality. with such little internal resistance. the only issues these people have is that the state isn't going far enough or fast enough.
i feel a little bad that the people who are the real backbone of israel, most of whom are evangelical christians, and most of whom reside safely in the USA or its allies, will not get any of it. but israelis have signed up to be the foot soldiers for imperialism and served so enthusiastically, even taking the initiative. they offer their entire population to be implicated in various crimes against humanity via mandatory military service, which has a practically 100% compliance rate (excepting a few culty groups). they use residential settlements as tools of military aggression. so now residential, and ostensibly civilian targets, are completely legitimate. I think this is a big reason for the world rejoicing at violence. in israel the boundaries between civilian, soldier and criminal are so porous. their literal homes are criminal structures.
israel's enemies continue to model discipline and mercy. i only hope that when the offer of mercy is definitively rejected, and withdrawn, they can still maintain discipline.
emotionally i'd rather be a pacifist but it's politically unjustifiable. so i am with the rest of the humans. being happy that someone has the gonads to do it. I hope.
This reaction wouldn't even happen for DPRK. Israel are at the bottom of world opinion by far.
I think if Americans got bombed a lot of people would be into it
I'm American and I'd be into it lol
It's too bad the internet wasn't that big during 9/11
I would be roaring with joy
i would be dancing in the street
I hope you're safe.
o7 may the zionists reap what they sow.
Please be safe over there
Stay safe, death to the zionist entity o7.
I don't think your government is perfect or even good. I'm proud of your government and I'm jealous that I'll never be as proud as you can be now.
No one besides the akhonds really do, but they are better than a) the Shah and his worm family who are the greatest example as to why the Bolsheviks were right, b) being a western puppet, or c) being thrown into chaos and run by warlords like all our neighbors after the great satan violently over threw their governments.
I wouldn't say I'm filled with joy but Iran cannot not retaliate against Israeli attacks. The Israeli government won't accept any sort of negotiation that isn't unilateral demands that leave them in a superior military position and free to continue genocide.
I doubt it will, but I hope this is a wake up call that Israelis need to stop electing theocratic racists fascists and participating in the state's program of genocide.
Fuck around, find out as it were. I'm sorry your homeland is under attacks, and I think it's fucking disgusting that the west paints Iran as some rogue secret isolationist state and Israel as the heavy hearted noble soldier defending themselves from the rabid masses that hate them for just no reason at all.
Israeli Obama incoming
Bashir Obama: let me be clear, if you like your kibbutz you can keep it. If you like your settlements you can keep that too.