—❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 IRGC Statement:

‘The criminal U.S. regime, once again, in the midst of negotiations and the illusion of Iran's weakening, officially resumed the war that it had never truly ended.

After several days of fighting against our Armed Forces and receiving crushing responses to Trump’s aggressions, and realizing that the Iranian Armed Forces had become much stronger than the first day of the war, instead of honorably accepting defeat and admitting to his repeated miscalculations, he took a new approach by fleeing the battlefield and attempted to hide his defeat in the military confrontation by committing war crimes.

The U.S. tried to maintain its position by carrying out destructive attacks on hospitals, bridges, railways, airports, ports, telecommunications centers, and so on, killing civilians, instead of fighting on the battlefield like real men.

Since there is no international institution to prevent these barbarities of the U.S. military, there is no other way than to implement the Quranic command:

‘So whoever attacks you, attack him in the same way as he attacked you’ (Holy Quran 2:194)

Therefore, it is appropriate for the countries hosting the aggressor U.S. military, who have made their territory available to the U.S. to attack Iran, to be prepared to receive a corresponding response and activate their civil defense units to protect the lives of citizens and keep them away from possible targets.

However, in order to give the American enemy a chance to change their cowardly approach, last night we decided to choose military targets for the time being.‘

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🇨🇳🛢 Looks like China starting to ramp up oil imports.

The number of supertankers headed to China advanced to the highest since Apr 24 reports

🔗 Dan Tsubouchi

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇯🇴 Iran successfully chased away the USAF's MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone from the Middle East.

With daily missile attacks on Jordanian bases, the $240 million drone was sent running to the Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella in Sicily, too far for the drone to be able to make surveillance flights on Iran.

The last time the drone was seen on aircraft tracking sites like FlightRadar24 was on July 14th when it was flying towards NAS Sigonella from the Prince Hassan airbase which was attacked multiple times since.

With the erosion of air defenses in Jordan, the U.S. will become even more reliant on bases in Israel and Saudi Arabia which will become crowded meaning in case of an attack, a large portion of these assets will be destro

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Iran’s Health Ministry says 50 people have been killed and 500 injured in U.S. attacks over the past three weeks.

🛢 Department of Energy total crude oil inventories including the SPR as of this week's EIA report

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📝: Kuwait is a logical target for Iran to escalate against.

Of all the Gulf states it seems to be the most willing to allow the US to conduct attacks from its soil, and pre-war it hosted more American forces than any other GCC country.

The Kuwaitis seem less willing than Qatar and the UAE to work with/bribe the Iranians, and Kuwait is a larger threat than Bahrain. It's the logical staging ground for an airborne operation against targets in the Western end of the Persian Gulf, like Kharg.

It should be possible for the Iranians to destroy its power grid, desalination plants, and oil infrastructure, and render any American bases there useless in a reasonable timeframe while only expending SRBMs and drones.

If you wanted to categorize Gulf states into tiers based on their posture towards Iran you could break it down like:

Friendly to Iran: Oman

Willing to cooperate in a limited way, willing to restrain the US in some capacity or bribe Iran: Qatar, UAE, KSA (maybe)

Outright hostile, totally subservient to the US/Israel: Kuwait, Bahrain

Iraq is its own special case and Jordan could go in the hostile category if you consider it a "Gulf state"

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