🇮🇷 - Khamenei to lead Friday prayers in Tehran today.

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🇮🇷 🇮🇱 - Crowds in Tehran singing songs about the Battle of Khaybar, where an army led by the prophet Mohammed defeated a coalition of Jewish tribes.

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🇮🇷 - Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei is set to lead Friday prayers at the Khomeini Mosque today, marking his first sermon since 2020.

Anticipation is high in Tehran that Khamenei will address Israel in light of the recent missile strikes.

Iranians chanting "Death to Israel" ahead of Friday prayers.

— 🇮🇷 The Supreme Leader enters

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🇮🇷 — Imam Khamenei in his second part of the speech in Arabic:

➡️Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has left us in body, but his personality, spirit, approach, and resounding voice will remain present in us forever.

➡️The malicious and cowardly enemy failed to deliver an effective blow to the cohesive structure of Hezbollah, Hamas and the axes of resistance.

➡️The enemy wanted to achieve imaginary victories by assassinating resistance figures.

➡️The shameful entity will be removed from existence, God willing.

➡️We will eliminate the shameful entity, God willing.

➡️Defending wounded, tearful Lebanon is our duty and the duty of all Muslims.

➡️America's goal is to turn the Zionist entity into a gateway for exporting energy from the region to the West and importing goods from the West to the region.

➡️The entity's murderous and impudent behavior results from achieving this goal.

➡️Any strike against this entity is a service to the entire region.

➡️The entity is nothing but that evil tree that emerged from the belly of the earth.

➡️The entity will not survive, God willing.

➡️The main problem in the region is foreign interference in it.. The countries of the region are capable of achieving peace.

➡️May God’s peace be upon the martyred leader Nasrallah, Haniyeh and Qassem Soleimani.

— 📝| People wonder why some Iranian missile hits are very accurate some less so: Read all of this to understand

➡️ Iran used new generation Kheybar-Shekan-2 as well the one decade old Emad

The Emad is very useful with its heavy 900kg warhead, but its CEP of 30-50m means that it can't hit very small targets reliably

➡️ Its mission are larger objects

Iran displayed its capability to knock-out Israeli air bases in time of conflict.
Hence the Emads in the mix would have to be used on small or very hardened targets for which they lack the necessary precision and CEP of ~10m

Therefore:
➡️ If Iran hit a target like the hangar of Israel's AEW fleet, then it was likely a Kheybar-Shekan-2
➡️ If it hit precisely the middle of a runway or taxiway, then it was the KS-2
➡️ If it hits the street in front of the Mossad HQ, then its most probably a warning shot by the KS-2

➡️ If the missile hits just 10-30m away from the center of the target, its likely the Emad

Important:
People must bear in mind, that no soft defeat measure helped to prevent the strike:
- No GPS/GLONASS spoofing and jamming helped, whether by 🇺🇸 or 🇮🇱
- No sabotage asset
- No secret space-based counter system

In the last strike in April, Iran avoided the use of Kheybar-Shekan-2 and resorted to older missiles

➡️ In a real war scenario, Iran would use its high-precision missiles against the hardened and small targets.
While the less accurate ones would be used against various large targets

➡️ Iran did show its "mercy" by hitting runways and taxi-ways. If maximum pain at the airbases was the goal it would not have done so
➡️ It was a capability display for a high-intensity war scenario in which the loss of the runways for just 1-2 days could decide the war.
➡️ Israel is highly depending on its air force. The degradation of its power for just 1-2 days, can allow for heavy exploits by its adversaries

In summary: Even the one decade old Emad with its 30-50 CEP is for 98% of the worlds nations an almost mystical capability, they lack

(Repost from Patarames on X)

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 - Israel's Defense Minister, 'Yoav Gallant', states that "Israel has more surprises in store for Hezbollah".

He also states that the Command and Control generals of Hezbollah have been severely degraded, where strikes have killed the entire first, second and third levels of Command, moreover, the entire leadership of the 'Ridwan' SOF has been killed.