💬 "There is no thought process into what any of this means long term. It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat,’" one of the officials quoted by the outlet said.

💬 "They [Israel] are getting absolutely pummelled. I think [Netanyahu is] on a plane 90% of the time… He’s flying around the Mediterranean. He's staying out of the fray as best he can, because he knows that he is the number one target," retired US colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says.

"There was a time when, on the battlefield, in terms of munitions, we could produce only two types of artillery shells. Now our ballistic missiles can reach from long distances — about 2,000 km. I myself said 2,000 km; otherwise, they wanted to extend it to 4,000-5,000 km. I did not allow it," Ayatollah Khamenei said in footage shared by Iranian expert Mohammad Marandi.

"Trump made a big mistake," the analyst concludes.

💬 "This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down," US Central Command quoted Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

"And these were just things people say, that bunkers [in Israel] are very good. We saw that people died in 100-foot deep bunkers there, and you are not being told the reality of what’s happening… And when an incident happens, we don’t even know what the location is," an Indian journalist who visited Israel during the ongoing war says.

"Over the last six days, Iran has destroyed 40% of the total number of THAADs, our defense systems, in the US inventory," Johnson says. "We don't have that many."

"We've been through this so many times, and it's like nobody learns a thing!"

"You know what? Israel controls the skies over Gaza. Two and a half years they have failed to defeat Hamas. We controlled the skies over Iraq – but insurgency went on, we couldn't do a thing about it. We controlled the skies over Afghanistan – for 20 years and billions of dollars – and we had to fly out."

💬 "Now this war of aggression against Iran is also something I would call highly unlikely to make America great again — it will only drive the American empire further towards collapse," Zhang Weiwei concludes.