Attack on Iran Underway || Bonus Video

Peter’s face on the thumbnail kinda says it all.

The entire regime has been incredibly brutal, amputating “criminals” fingers and hands as punishment and providing no follow up care. And on and on on. So while it’s good to see some of the power structure destroyed, some other barbarian sadist will rise to their place. Unless Israel or America is willing to occupy the internal workings of t is count try will never change.

I don't particularly like using our military to take out Israel's enemies, but if the Iranian drone manufacturing capacity is crippled, that aids Ukraine. I also hope that the attack on the elementary school in Minab is a false story. If it's true, will the US and Israel blame each other?

Thank you, Peter! Though this appears to be just the beginning, you’re very informative as always!

There are valid reasons to destroy the Iranian regime simply for the sake of future peace in the region, let alone their own people’s freedom. Here, however, I focus on previous US and British leaders’ failure to address Iranian attacks on US/UK troops: Throughout the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, Iran’s IRGC-Quds Force waged a systematic shadow war against coalition forces. In Iraq, Tehran armed Shia militias with EFPs that killed over 600 American and numerous British troops, trained insurgent cells, and orchestrated attacks through proxies including Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Mahdi Army. In Afghanistan, Iran supplied weapons, funding, and training to Taliban and other insurgent groups despite ideological hostility, purely to bleed the coalition. Across both theatres, Soleimani’s network treated American and British servicemen as legitimate targets while Tehran maintained plausible deniability, a sustained campaign of state-sponsored killing that was never meaningfully answered.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ The regime deserves to be destroyed. This is payback time.

Seems Trump regards bombing, shelling and missile attacks as something completely different to boots on the ground. As long as relatively few, if any, bodies come back bagged, he's not starting a war, it seems. Trouble is I don't think bombing alone has never made regime change happen. Of course, boots on the ground rarely does either...

I live in Abu Dhabi and we intercepted a missile today.

I heard the supreme leader had a come to Jesus meeting. Too soon?

Trump and Netanyahu want war to stay in office. Both are wanted by international courts. Extending their time on the throne keeps them out of jail. Finally, Cheeto's oil donors are a bit wealthier as another oil producer is compromised.

"Bored of Peace" was the correct spelling all along

Can we finally say WW3 has started?

Of course, by now, we all know Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in the first strike. Apparently, the attack was led and coordinated by Israel, which, according to them, was aided by "exquisite" intelligence as to his location (suggesting an insider). Besides the Ayatollah, Google says the following are dead, also: Aziz Nasirzadeh: The Iranian Defense Minister. Mohammad Pakpour: The Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Ali Shamkhani: Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and a close personal adviser to Khamenei. Mohammad Shirazi: Head of the Supreme Leader's military bureau. Saleh Asadi: A top intelligence official. Alishadmani: Described as Iran's wartime chief. Mohammad Kazemi: Head of the IRGC’s intelligence organization. And, that's on...day one. Regime change much? (yes) It appears Pezeshkian, the President, and Araghchi, the Prime Minister, have been spared or at least very lucky. Possibly, they will be offered an opportunity to "negotiate". Meanwhile, the appointment of the next Ayatollah will move fast, according to their law and tradition. Some of the contenders aren't much better, and likely worse, than Khamenei, BTW. One possible outcome is that the IRGC will take over ...not necessarily a good thing at all. Day two starting soon.

There are a lot of frightened children right now. Again. Shame on all of us.

So much for trusting the US or Israel in any diplomatic negotiation going forward. This was the height of bad faith.

Overthrew a middle eastern government and install a leader we prefer.. what could possibly go wrong?

Peter, I can't say whether the multiple source reporting I've seen is accurate, but there are indications that Iran helped stand up Russian production of Shahed-136 drones at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan well over a year ago, with many hundreds of units now reportedly produced there each month.

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Pretty sure the us nor Israel came claim moral high ground for this action seems trump was pushed by b b beezlebub useful idiot or stable genius ? Another thing thats being left out is the lives that are being lost across the globe this just cannot be justified,,,shame.

"Operation Epstein Fury"

Thanks for the update PZ. This has drawn in do many countries around the middle east... Saudi, Jordan, Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, etc. How would the US possibly declare it finished in a couple of weeks and say to them all (who host US bases) "I know we've kicked the hornets nest, but you're welcome, now you take over, we're out". That is, how to de-escalate this situation?

Question now is what happens to a broken Iran, does Azerbaijan eye the northern ethnically Azeri regions, Turkey is another neighbor there that doesn’t like Iran, ethnic kins to Azeris and could very well aid them.

The Israeli media is saying they have killed and recovered the body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The burj khalifa was hit by an Iranian missile. Theyre killing Gulf state civilians.

Iran made the mistake of firing on US-friendly Gulf states. Gulf states are dogpiling on Iran now.

Good thing we didn't elect that warmonger Kamala Harris. It's always been reasonable that in an emergency, the President would act without a formal declaration of war. But that power has been gradually expanded to the point that, under Trump, the Executive branch has erased the Constitutional provisions that place the power to declare war in Congress's hands. Effectively, Trump has amended the Constitution. If he can amend the Constitution unilaterally in this matter, is there any limit to his power to reinterpret other parts of it, such as the limit on the number of terms a President can serve? Maybe attacking Iran is a good idea. Maybe not. But will US democracy be collateral damage?

Weapons of Mass Distraction

If we do this and leave the the drone production intact this will have been a complete waste.

Peter. Thank you so much for being straightforward with your commentary. I know (actually, I don't KNOW) that you don't like President Trump. But, as you mentioned, this problem with Iran has been around through multiple presidents. This may be the only time in our lifetimes that we can stop, or at least stall, this mess in Iran. I was stationed there briefly in the '70s during the Shah fiasco and followed by my boss trying to get hostages out. The Iranians in charge had no feeling for human lives! It was despicable. I think you are actually giving Donald a little credit that he is finally doing something meaningful to stop or slow these horrible human beings! Will it stop? Probably not. Will it slow? Maybe. But, we can't continue to let these animals hold the rest of the world hostage... on and on and on.

Full throated

Without ground troops it is not a war! Maybe a police action?!

A little humor? https://x.com/litcapital/status/2027772217560309949?s=48

Thoughts on Israeli news reporting Khamenei's death? https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-tv-report-citing-unnamed-israeli-sources-growing-indications-that-khamenei-killed/

https://abc7ny.com/live-updates/iran-live-updates-trump-says-major-combat-operations-have-begun/18660347/entry/18661154/?utm_source=copilot.com

I do not understand why you say Trump gave Congress no notice. There was a well publicized meeting with 8 bi-partisan senators last week, was there not?

Great we’re at war. Terrific 🙄

President nobel prize 🏆 Right

Did they close the straits of Hormuz ? Would that have any impact on the US economy or oil prices ?

Some serious dog wagging going on here it seems to me...

October 7th really was the worst strategic mistake of this century

Peter says if we hit the Shahed production in Iran, Russia's use of the Shahed will be curtailed. I thought I read elsewhere that Russia is producing its own version of the Shahed under license from Iran?

Aren't the Russians building their own shaheeds from Iranian designs?

Defeating not defending.

There can't be regime change in Iran without boots on the ground. Airstrikes alone won't accomplish that. And boots on the ground there would require 250K+ troops.

Cheese Burger

I called this video about three hours ago in the other video posted today about a different war… There seems to be a lot of wars around the globe right now!