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Independent, but not unbiased, striving for a multipolar world.

Mainly focused on Iran & Resistance Axis.

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท One of Ansarullah's weapons:

The Iranian 'Tankil' (๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช Yemeni-designation 'Zoheir') anti-ship ballistic missile, which was exported to Yemen several years ago.

This missile is known to be in Ansarullah's arsenal & will be an extremely useful asset in Bab Al-Mandab, with its specifications:

- Approximately 500km range
๏ปฟ๏ปฟ- Skip-trajectory, evasive-MaRV (hard to intercept)
๏ปฟ๏ปฟ- Mach 3 impact velocity
๏ปฟ๏ปฟ- Quite small, easy to transport (mobile)
๏ปฟ๏ปฟ- Relatively low-cost

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท/ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท IRGC Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri: 'We have sucessfully established a rapid naval mobilization force (Basij) in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz'

'Thousands of small to medium sized local merchant vessels, fishing boats and speedboats have been converted and outfitted with 107mm rockets and various other weapons.

This newly formed rapid naval volunteer force is an assymetric paramilitary force, consisting of 33.000 vessels in the Persian Gulf and 55.000 local volunteers among the fishermen and merchants. It also contains large ships that can sail as far as Tanzania.'

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท/ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท IRGC Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri: 'We have sucessfully established a rapid naval mobilization force (Basij) in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz' 'Thousands of small to medium sized local merchant vessels, fishing boats andโ€ฆ
โ€” This is actually huge. If the U.S. Navy is ever at war with Iran, thousands of local fishermen loyal to the regime will get in their boats mounted with rockets and dushkas and simply swarm the warships.

Only one of those ships has to get close enough to place a limpet mine on the hull to potentially sink a warship. Iranian volunteers used to do this in the 'tanker war' of the 80's against Iraq.

Iran is really masterful at creating advantages through the use of assymetric warfare / guerilla warfare, despite obvious qualitative disadvantage against a vastly superior enemy.

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ NEW: Israel claims they are rapidly closing in on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar; according to military sources, he has not left the Gaza strip

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ NEW: Netanyahu went to visit wounded IDF soldiers at Sheba Hospital, but several patients refused to meet him - Israeli Channel 13

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ BREAKING: IDF obtains video footage of shadowy Al-Qassam commander Muhammad Deif, footage shows him in better health condition than estimated & he's walking despite past injuries - Maariv

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ CNN: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot over US Capitol attack based on the 14th Amendment insurrection clause

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ CNN: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot over US Capitol attack based on the 14th Amendment insurrection clause @Middle_East_Spectator
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Senior, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, etc. all equally suck.

I just hope whoever wins is dumber than his predecessor, which has been the case so far. Every election has given the U.S. an objectively more retarded President.

As Ayatollah Khamenei said: 'Thank God that He has created our enemies as idiots'.
Btw, I will probably lose some Trump-supporters for that last post of mine, and on this one certainly.

But come on, Trumpists are legitimately some of the dumbest people ever. They constantly call Democrats 'brainwashed' by the fake news media, but they're literally the exact same on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Anything Biden says, Trump will simply oppose it and his supporters will say 'omg so true!' and start sperging about some random stories like how Biden is actually a corrupt child-sacrificing Ukrainian-backed maffia boss with a coke-addicted son. Then the Democrats will shout that Trump is secretly a fascist dictator who will suspend the constitution and put Mexicans in Auschwitz together with the trannies.

My point is, it's just a bullshit political game where both parties pretend to disagree. Unless it's about Israel of course, that's a subject that both parties interestingly never disagree on, and I implore you to question why that is.

Anyways, if you want to vote for Trump because he's the lesser of two evils and is slightly less satanic and degenerate than Biden on social issues for example, then I get it, but you cannot legitimately support that guy and actually believe he's different from the rest of the corrupt clique, same goes for Biden.

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ/๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ NEW: Malaysia bans Israeli-based ZIM shipping company from entering the country's ports or docking in its territorial waters in the strategic Malacca Strait

The ban also applies to other Israeli-linked ships or vessels headed towards Israel.

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Ben-Gvir: 'Now is the time for decisions' (regarding war against Hezbollah) - Twitter

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ/๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช NEW: Today, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff will present several options to President Biden for military action against the Houthis in Yemen - Informed Sources

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ NEW: Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian met with Hamas' political chief Ismael Haniyeh in Doha

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ/๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ/๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ BREAKING: Chinese President Xi Jinping recently informed Biden that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China, but the timing has not yet been decided, according to U.S. Officials - NBC

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ/๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ/๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช Leader of Ansarullah, Abdul Malik Badr Al-Deen Al-Houthi: 'Since the very beginning we have been wishing for a direct war against the U.S. and Israel, this is a beloved thing for us and we have been dreaming of it, to fight them directly instead of fighting their mercenaries'

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๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโšกSeyyed Badruldeen: If the US attacks our country, we will target American battleships with our missiles.

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๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโšกSeyyed Badruldeen: If the Americans want to fight our people, they will face a harsher situation than what they faced in Afghanistan and Vietnam.

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ NEW: Israeli Far-Right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has written an appeal to Israel's National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi, calling on him to immediately convene the cabinet to stop the inflow of Palestinian workers from the West Bank into Israel

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โ€” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ/๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช NEW: Initial reports of two Israeli-linked ships having been struck by Yemeni ballistic missiles in the Red Sea

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