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A federal district court judge declined California’s request to issue an immediate temporary restraining order that would bar Marines and National Guard troops dispatched to Los Angeles from doing anything other than guardian federal buildings.

The judge, Charles Breyer, instead scheduled a hearing for Thursday on the state’s request for a restraining order.

(Guardian)

Lmao he’s a Clinton appointee

Minnesota, U.S.:

A man described as impersonating a police officer has apparently shot state senator John Hoffman (D) and state representative Melissa Hortman (D) at their homes overnight. Their spouses were also shot. ~~Condition unknown for all victims.~~ See update.

Suspect impersonating police officer is still at large - notably before planned protests today. On the off chance someone here lives in northern Minneapolis, avoid cops with extra fervor today.

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Of course white supremacist settler states stick together.

KKKlanadian foreign affairs minister says "Israel has the right to defend themselves" after bombing Iranian cities

—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: An Iranian official tells Fars News that Iran's attacks against Israel will continue and intensify, and American bases will be razed in the coming days in an 'extensive and decisive' response to the United States, which Iran considers jointly responsible

@Middle_East_Spectator

Wait a goodamn minute, Iran's Fordow nuclear facility is 800 METERS underground???

lmao wtf was the worry about, there's no bunker buster in existence that can even get a quarter of the way through

The Israelis and Americans are delusional if they think they can take out Iran's nuclear program

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests-live-tensions-flare-trump-deploys-national-guard-troops

700 marines heading to Los Angeles.

Good luck idiots you're going to need it.

LA county is 9+ million people and San Diego is not very far. You want to be part of 3000 people trying to occupy that? Fucking have fun.

Iran claims that:

A British spy destroyer in the Sea of Oman was stopped by the Navy of the Iranian Army and forced to change its course.

The British destroyer, which had entered the northern Indian Ocean last night with the purpose of guiding Israeli missiles into Iranian territory, was identified in a timely manner by the intelligence systems of the Iranian Navy. Combat drones of the Navy issued warnings, preventing the destroyer from continuing its path toward the Persian Gulf.

The destroyer was forced to alter its course.

Further details will be announced accordingly.

Source

Any info on NATO warships in Persian Gulf? Is Iran attempting a blockade against adversary warships?

Lmao

All this "deal" talk from Trump is bullshit.

There is no deal. There has never been a deal. The US has consistently used negotiations as a cover for upcoming attacks Israel carry out in Palestine. When Hamas have agreed to deals that the US thought they would reject the US has cancelled them and switched tracks because the deals were never supposed to succeed. They only exist to lull their opponents into false sense of security and to use for tricks and gambits.

That is what all this deal bullshit is about right now. Again. And I sincerely hope Iran do not fall for it. Again.

A senior Mossad spy was caught while fleeing the Baneh border thanks to public vigilance and timely reporting. (Source)

Ultimate cringe would be if israelis and western media make you start saying June 13 like they did with October 7

I want this Friday the 13th to be a horror show for the zionist entity.

Please, Iran.

Iran's Mehr quoted an official: Military bases and ships in the Gulf region and the Red Sea will be the target of our forces if anyone intercepts our response

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USS Nimitz cancelling it's port call in Hanoi. Likely headed to CENTCOM (Middle East)

China could do the funniest thing right now.

I'm guessing the airports in Israel are going to be crowded the next few days.

Iranian security forces continued their important counter-sabotage and counter-terrorism work today.

Iranian security forces discovered a three-story building in Rey (south of Tehran) filled with Zionist drones and explosives: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433457.html

They intercepted another truck filled with Zionist drones in Tehran’s Tohid Tunnel (I believe this is either the third or fourth such detained ‘drone truck’): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433274.html

They also arrested another Mossad-linked truck driver in Tehran: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/15/1433563.html

Leaked documents released by Iranian media reportedly reveal that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi has been fully coordinating with Israel and carrying out its directives.

These files are part of the sensitive intelligence cache Iran recently seized from Israel.

Source

New wave, Haifa got it. Half of Haifa plunged into dark

May the people of Iran stay safe from the increasingly likely Imperialist attack.

Another video of missiles striking the center of Tel Aviv

https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1933599985481773089

Maher and several dems, who call people who want to stop a genocide antisemitic, want to win nazi salute elon musk 'back to their side'.

some contrasting on the deeds of the current al-qaeda regime in syria:

Nearly 8,000 killed in Syria within six months, 75 percent civilians: Report

Executions of Alawite civilians have continued to take place since the government-led massacres on the Syrian coast earlier this year

Syria welcomed back to SWIFT banking system

Damascus is overhauling its financial sector as part of efforts to revive the economy after US sanctions

looks like "free syria" referred to the price for American capitalists all along

Cuba has more doctors posted around the globe than the World Health Organisation, despite sanctions

While the United States continues to impose sanctions against Cuba, the tiny island continues to send tens of thousands of its medical workers to at least 60 countries around the world to aid disadvantaged communities in the Global South

AES to establish a Sahelian Criminal and Human Rights Court https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/07/aes-to-establish-a-sahelian-criminal-and-human-rights-court/

Israel has the military support, radars, funding aerial fueling, propaganda of the entire west and the comprador regimes of the region all to fight a sanctioned third world country that got its independence in the 80s.

Reports coming in that suicide drones have been launched towards Israel by Iran. Will take hours to arrive, timed with ballistic missile strikes once they do no doubt just like True Promise 1 and 2. Just a matter of how many missiles and what targets.

Doomers on Hexbear really don't seem to understand just how massive Iran and it's military are, it's inventory alone is massive

Iran is not Syria, it's not Libya, not Lebanon, not 2003 or 1991 Iraq, if it was, we'd be seeing hundreds of explosions like Baghdad in 2003, not a 'maybe kinda sorta' a dozen single strikes here and there that may or may not have hit their target

Calm the fuck down, this is not a failed Arab comprador state, this war is just starting

I can't shake the feeling that Israel/US/Russia/China are all operating on the basis of super tight deadlines. It feels like they all believe WW3 is right around the corner, which means it probably is.

IOF issuing some untypically... stoic statements? definitely a more grim tone

Israeli military chief of staff Eyal Zamir:

“People of Israel, I can’t promise absolute success. The Iranian regime will attempt to attack us in response. The expected cost will be different from what we are used to,”

Meanwhile Iran has implied they will attack US targets

Foreign Ministry of Iran:

“The Zionist regime’s aggressive actions against Iran cannot have been carried out without the coordination and authorization of the United States. Accordingly, the United States government, as the main supporter of this regime, will also be responsible for the dangerous effects and consequences of the Zionist regime’s adventure.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/13/live-explosions-reported-in-iran-amid-israel-tensions

So what the fuck did the Israeli government think was going to happen? Whatever the result this is going to be ruinous to both countries, they're just pounding each other.

You can't just eat city blocks being destroyed and continue. Populations get mad, building is easier at peace, soldiers want to help their families etc.

I mean ww2 showed that bombing campaigns don't win wars but they do beggar nations. Are they banking on a martial plan style bailout? The usa is not in the same position economically but I suppose the damage is relatively limited vs Europe.

After October 7th 2023, half a million Israelis left. Likely dual nationals, those people are not likely coming back. Over the course of that time, Israel has escalated against Gaza and the West bank with impunity, with a periodic moment when Iran would strike military targets within Israel. This iteration of strikes by Iran would likely extend further than the previous iteration to restore a sense of deterrence.

This act against Iran by Israel, in the pursuit of its own goals in Gaza & the West Bank, seems like an action counter to its own goals of fulfilling its genocide. I recall Chris Hedges detailing how the desire and will to annihilate the other is also one of self-annihilation.

This entire conflict and violence seem lend credibility to the notion that Israel was relying on being fettered by the US. Left to its own devices, Israel chooses self-annihilation because it knows no other way nor does its legal system allow for checks, balances, and restraints on its ideology. Perhaps, that is in part why the US and other British colonial projects were successful in its designs for the continent in ways that Israel can not be.

Israel trying to decapitate the Iranian armed forces is probably a sign that they're no longer playing slapfights. This is the real fucking deal now, and either Iran submits or they make a fucking mockery of this world order.

over the course of israel's last 20 months of rabid attacks, have they struck targets in iraq? I think so but I don't recall. I'm trying to figure out if they've hit 7 countries or 8 since oct 2023. I count palestine, lebanon, syria, jordan, egypt, iran, yemen and maybe iraq also?

I'm amazed at the Dune-like strangeness of modern interstate warfare

Quick thoughts on the conflict so far:

Iranian ballistic missiles and their response is about expected. The ballistic missiles with the range to hit Israel have a large variance in accuracy, and have to be launched in large numbers to saturate the Israeli/US Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD). Of these missiles with the range to hit Israel, those solid fueled ballistic missiles with advanced Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (Fattah 1/Kheibar Shekan series) are a minority of the arsenal, and those with dedicated electro optical terminal guidance (Qassem Basir), are an extreme minority. The majority of the arsenal is their liquid fueled Qadr/Emad/Shahab-3, and solid fueled Sejjil missiles, and Haj Qassem missiles with less sophisticated MaRVs. Because of the variance in accuracy and saturation required to defeat BMD, counterforce targeting (targeting military assets) is not possible. We saw this during Operation True Promise II. So Iran has made the expected move up the escalation ladder and switched to countervalue (civilian) targeting, bombing targets in Tel Aviv, Haifa, etc.

Israeli military capabilities are about as expected, but the scale of the assault is unexpected. We knew that Iran's air defence was comprised by previous Israeli attacks, and we knew that the integration of all the various systems into one network was not as good as previously thought. We knew that Israel could use Syria and Iraq as a staging ground for air attacks after the fall of Assad. We know that Israel has advanced aircraft and stand off and stand in munitions. However the scale of Israeli incursions into Iranian airspace, without direct US involvement, is surprising. Establishing air superiority 150-200km inside of Iran (with reference to the Iraq border) within 48 hours, and then attempting to open a permanent corridor to Tehran, with no known losses in aircraft so far, is unexpected.

However, neither side is really winning on a strategic level. Without direct US involvement, it will be very difficult for Israel to establish air superiority over all of Iran and hit the second and third lines of missile bases that launch missiles at Israel. It will also be very difficult to damage underground nuclear facilities via conventional means. Both Israel and Iran know this. This is why Iran has not struck US military bases. This is why Israel is desperate to get the US involved. If Israel cannot hit the second and third line of missile bases, Iran can continue to launch missiles at Israel. If the US gets involved, this will change, and Iran's safe zone of operations in Eastern Iran will be comprised.

And to just briefly talk about the Freedom Flotilla at the start of the thread before things rev up - I don't really have any take that hasn't already been expressed in the previous megathread; it was obviously a symbolic mission and I imagine everybody taking part in it is and was aware of that. Obviously the incident isn't totally over and there's plenty of opportunities for Israel to do despicable things to those who took part, so there's no real conclusions for me to draw yet.

My expectation is that Israel treating them "well" (as opposed to doing what they usually do to civilians and bombing them to pieces, at least) will only be a "propaganda W" for those who are already convinced that Israel is good and Muslims and Arabs are subhuman - that is, most Western governments - and that everybody who actually opposes Israel will maintain their opposition. If anybody is brought over to the pro-Israel side because they gave sandwiches to Greta Thunberg (while, miles away, people are starving to death in concentration camps) then they a) have the brain of an actual two-year-old infant and b) were not remotely committed to even symbolic resistance to Israel, let alone material resistance.

And to be honest, even if everybody on the ship was killed, I still wouldn't have expected that there would be a meaningful, long-term change in policy by any Western government. They'd have acted as if they were very angry at Israel and "consider if they should keep sending aid" and then keep doing it anyway in a few weeks once most of the immediate emotion had died down. Israel is just way too important to the imperial core for the deaths of their own civilians to matter to them much. That is not to say that I think the mission was a bad idea, because it wasn't. It was another little vector of pressure onto Israel, and lots of little vectors (and a few big ones, courtesy of Hamas, Ansarallah, Hezbollah, and Iran) can combine into some massive constraints, even if the impact of each individual vector is hard to quantify in the eventual result.

Very worrying Israeli airstrike in Iran: Israel either hit a refueling or transport aircraft parked on the runway in Mashhad Airport, Iran. The 747 appears to have been spared, for now. The fire next to it still might damage or destroy it.

Why is this worrying? Mashhad is deep in Eastern Iran, this is the longest range attack so far. The distance from Tel Aviv to Mashhad is 2330km, or 1450mi.

If Iran starts to lose control of the airspace in Eastern Iran, the ability for Iran to operate safely there will be comprimised.

Geolocation of the airstrike

Apparently Iran has 747 boom refueler aircraft, so that could explain it too

Iranian MP Shahriari:

We urge the Supreme Leader to authorize the production of nuclear weapons.

Sources confirm that the Basij, Iran's paramilitary volunteers, have now been deployed in checkpoints in Tehran and other large cities. Netanyahu says Israel attacked Iran because Ayatollah Khamenei was planning to carry out another 'holocaust' on the Jewish people.

Tomorrow, in an urgent convention, the Iranian parliament will very likely vote to invoke Article 10 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which allows signatories to withdraw from the treaty in case of extraordinary circumstances or threats to a nation's most vital interests.

Israel begins withdrawing forces from Gaza to reinforce the Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian fronts

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