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The second day of the America-Iran war has ended. Some interesting points:

1) Iran has continued its counterattack and has even intensified it. After Khamenei's death, their war leadership is now decentralized. This was planned before the war started. That is, if Khamenei or the central command structure is destroyed, they will continue the war in a decentralized manner. It is always seen that command structures are decentralized to prolong the war, making it very difficult to stop.

2) In this war, Iran has attacked the UAE the most. Iran has launched 137 missiles and 209 drones targeting the Emirates. The reason Iran targets the UAE the most is that the UAE is Israel's closest Arab ally, the first to sign the Abraham Accords in 2020, and hosts the US F-35 fighter jets at Al Dhafra Air Base, which Iran believes have been used against it. Additionally, Iran symbolically attacks Dubai's Burj Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah, airport, etc., as symbols of Western wealth. This has caused flight suspensions in the UAE and damage to businesses including AI data centers.

3) Israel is the second most targeted by Iranian attacks, with Iran launching 150–200 missiles and just a dozen drones targeting cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa. Several Iranian missiles have hit their targets.

4) Bahrain ranks third, with Iran launching about 61 missiles and 34 drones targeting it. The US Fifth Fleet headquarters, the center of American military power in the Middle East, is located here. Iran claims to have destroyed this headquarters. Bahrain also signed the Abraham Accords and is a close ally of Israel.

5) After the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Hezbollah retaliated with missile and drone attacks on Israel. However, the Houthis have not yet directly engaged in this war. It is worth noting that although there is a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has never stopped attacking Lebanon.

6) To stop Iranian drones and missiles, Middle Eastern countries have to use 2-5 intercept missiles for every incoming missile. This reduces their capacity to stop incoming missiles and drones if Iran continues its attacks, causing significant defensive losses.

7) Although there are reports that America has requested a ceasefire from Iran through Italy, this has not been verified. In my opinion, Iran knows well that a ceasefire means America will resupply and attack Iran again. Iran's current goal is the departure of America from the Middle East and for other countries to remove American bases from their lands.

8) Continuous attacks and counterattacks are ongoing. America has officially acknowledged the death of 3 American soldiers in a drone strike at a Kuwaiti base. Unofficial numbers are claimed to be much higher but are unconfirmed. So far, in Iran's counter missile attacks, a bomb shelter in Beit Shemesh in central Israel was hit, killing 9 Israelis and injuring over 121.

9) Israel is mainly attacking with F-35 and F-15 jets, while America is attacking mainly from ships with Tomahawk and other missiles.

10) In the first two days, Iran targeted American surveillance equipment like radar systems in various Middle Eastern countries. These are early warning systems for America and Israel. If these warning systems go offline, Iran's chances of hitting its targets will increase. Iran is moving in that direction.

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🇧🇭 Bahrain is in revolution. Saudi armour is rolling in to crush it. You will not see this on CNN.

For three decades Washington told you the missiles are for the people (we have to commit mass murder to save them!) — for the oppressed, the voiceless, those living under theocratic tyranny. It funded colour revolutions. Cheered manufactured protesters in Iran. Ran Farsi-language CIA social media accounts urging Iranians into the streets. Every last word of it in the name of freedom. But where is CNN and the BBC demanding freedom and liberty for this popular uprising in Bahrain? Fecking hypocrites.

The majority Shia population of Bahrain are in the streets. Saudi tanks are crossing the King Fahd Causeway. Again. Where is the White House statement cheering on this popular uprising for liberty and freedom? Where is the State Department’s grave concern? Silent — because Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet, and the Al Khalifa family are the right kind of autocrats. The kind that price their oil in dollars. The wrong kind of autocrat is simply the one Washington doesn’t own. Washington loves brutal dictatorships and the feeling is mutual for the Sunni monarchs that are loyal to the empires exporting of actual terrorism.

Now watch the boomerang.

The regime change virus they launched at Tehran is airborne and unguided. Bahrain shaking. Saudi Arabia’s Shia Eastern Province — sitting on top of the kingdom’s oil fields, furious for forty years — watching every frame of this. How stable is Kuwait? Qatar’s LNG offline. Every Gulf monarch who rented their soil to Washington is now a target not of Iran’s choosing but of America’s regime change boomerang.

And Israel. When historians go looking for what Operation Epic Fury actually produced, they may well find the regimes that fell were not in Tehran. The Likud fantasy of a redrawn Middle East may yet arrive — just not in the direction anyone promised the Israeli public.

They wanted regime change in Iran. They may have lit the fuse on everything else.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Darwinian level arrogance and incompetence.

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⭕️ Escalation in Lebanon continues
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The Israeli army said its occupation forces are deployed at multiple points inside southern Lebanon, with Division 91 operating in what it described as a “forward defensive operation” near the northern border.

Overnight, Israeli forces also carried out multiple airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, while drones targeted Jibchit and Kafr Tibnit, artillery shelled Aita al-Shaab and Yohmor al-Shaqif.

The Blida municipality was reportedly threatened with bombing via a phone call, as the escalation unfolded alongside renewed Hezbollah drone and rocket launches toward several Israeli sites.

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Israeli War Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the military to advance further into southern Lebanon and occupy additional strategic positions following an attack by Hezbollah.

Israeli occupation forces have already occupied five positions in southern Lebanon since November 2024. The military described the move as defensive, aimed at protecting Israeli border communities and key strategic sites from potential Hezbollah attacks.

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According to MRFF President Mikey Weinstein, service members report “unrestricted euphoria” among segments of the chain of command portraying the assault on Iran as biblically sanctioned and tied to end-times prophecy in the Book of Revelation. One NCO wrote that such rhetoric is eroding morale and violating constitutional oaths, particularly for troops in Ready-Support status who could be deployed at any moment.

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